In Deloitte: The Future of B2B Sales is “Experience Selling, Bob Thompson relates a discussion he had with Harry Datwani, a Principal at Deloitte Digital about his company’s research on the B2B buying experience. According to Datwani, the study was conducted because the B2B buying process is changing rapidly — driven by customers/buyers. The report notes […]
A Survival Guide for Marketing Execs – Part 2 of 3 Many companies go through a growth phase when they become sales-driven, resulting in a very strong sales culture from the top down. If not carefully balanced, that culture can become so dominant that it hinders the development of other functions which are essential to […]
In two previous posts, I covered the first two steps in driving B2B revenue growth, assessing your current state, and achieving marketing and sales alignment. Both articles, and this one, are based on the BrightTALK Sales Expert Channel webinar, Assess, Align and Accelerate – 3 Steps to Power Revenue Growth that I did last month with […]
Last month, guest expert Ron Friedman and I presented a webinar on the BrightTALK Sales Expert Channel, titled Assess, Align and Accelerate – 3 Steps to Power Revenue Growth. You can listen to the on-demand version here. In just 45 minutes, we covered a lot of ground regarding our experiences in helping B2B companies boost their revenue. […]
I am a big fan of the integrative medicine movement. As Duke Integrative Medicine describes it: Integrative medicine is an approach to care that puts the patient at the center and addresses the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual and environmental influences that affect a person’s health. It uses the most appropriate interventions from […]
One of the advantages of a long career in any discipline is the ability to look back and see lessons learned over many companies, initiatives and projects. This is why you want to hear your surgeon say that this is their 400th similar procedure, and not: I just graduated and this is my first procedure. […]
I was delighted to spend about 30 minutes doing a video interview with John Golden from Sales POP! Online and Pipeliner CRM. We had a great conversation about marketing and sales alignment and some of the things I’ve learned about how to improve this for B2B companies. You can watch the interview here, or read […]
Big league pitcher Lefty Gomez is more famous for saying, “I’d rather be lucky than good”, than for the quality of his pitching. Unfortunately, many marketing and sales professionals have this same attitude. More than once, I have succumbed to the wish for more luck when in truth, it was something else I needed. A […]
The relationship between marketing and sales is so crucial to a company’s success yet it is often less than ideal. In my company, we get to work with a fair number of CMOs and CSOs and while they are usually great at their individual jobs, they need to work together well to drive the revenue […]
The leads and customers you get this month may not come from something you did this month, but rather something that you did last month, last year or even five years ago. Our expectations are that our marketing and sales efforts will be rewarded in a timely fashion. But the reality is quite different. The […]