Category: Sales alignment
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Ending the sales–marketing stalemate: why tech alone is not the answer
Attitude, Biz Tech, Change, Collaboration, Lead management, Marketing automation, Sales alignment, TransformationRead more: Ending the sales–marketing stalemate: why tech alone is not the answerI recently had a fascinating discussion with the product manager of a promising account-based marketing (ABM) startup that intends to take targeted B2B marketing to the next level. Their approach?…
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Catching B2B buyers as they fall
Read more: Catching B2B buyers as they fall95% of B2B buyers are not in market at any one time, the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute’s John Dawes stated in 2021, citing his research. The Marketoonist Tom Fishburne highlights this assertion.…
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Reprioritise Point of Sale and focus on Point of Value
Change, Collaboration, Customer experience, Engagement, Experience, Sales alignment, To be defined, Transformation, TrustRead more: Reprioritise Point of Sale and focus on Point of ValueOrganisations must rebalance away from sales and prioritise value delivery, according to CX guru Bruce Temkin. Temkin says too many organizations overly focus on selling their products and services, but…
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Slow progress is not good enough
Attitude, Biz Tech, Change, Collaboration, Content Marketing, CRM integration & utilisation, Customer experience, Data, Digital marketing, Engagement, Experience, Lead management, Marketing automation, Marketing ROl, Mindfullness, Sales alignment, To be defined, Transformation, ValueRead more: Slow progress is not good enoughNow into its second decade, the survey by leading Australian B2B marketing agency Green Hat shows that marketers are achieving only slow progress in digitising and driving commercial outcomes.
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Few are genuinely “customer obsessed”: Forrester
Attitude, Change, Collaboration, CRM integration & utilisation, Engagement, Experience, Sales alignment, Trust, ValueRead more: Few are genuinely “customer obsessed”: ForresterExperiences are the fundamental basis for how we compete and win. Whether in B2C or B2C, today differentiated experiences drive growth. Forrester Research recently used the results of a survey…
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Customer first: why is it so hard to walk the talk?
Attitude, Change, Customer experience, Engagement, Experience, Marketing ROl, Sales alignment, Trust, ValueRead more: Customer first: why is it so hard to walk the talk?It is amazing how little discipline companies have in their approach to their business technology, whilst at the same time acknowledging that their sales & marketing tools are critical but…
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From campaigns, to journeys, to commerce
Artificial Intelligence, Attitude, Change, CRM integration & utilisation, Data, Digital marketing, Engagement, Experience, Lead management, Marketing automation, Marketing ROl, Numbers, Sales alignment, Transformation, Trust, ValueRead more: From campaigns, to journeys, to commerceTraditional IT (Information Technology) is over. Today’s conventional IT organisations spend far too much time in conflict with “the business”. Risk adverse, legacy IT bureaucrats and their legacy systems are…
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Behind marketing automation’s magic curtain
Biz Tech, Change, Collaboration, CRM integration & utilisation, Data, Marketing automation, Marketing ROl, Numbers, Sales alignment, Transformation, ValueRead more: Behind marketing automation’s magic curtainA catalyst for sales alignment and a key ROI enabler, marketing automation holds great promise, but it is still a relatively new space. To help smooth out the inevitable speed…