The B2B marketing world has changed dramatically. Today's marketer must be technically proficient, possess strong analytical skills and be innovative in their approach to aligning effectively with their sales counterparts. They must determine how they will increase demand creation through effective lead generation, inbound marketing and more impactful sales enablement with the sales organisation.
In his keynote, John Neeson will review five best practice strategies that are leveraged by high growth organisations for better alignment and effectiveness. Specifically, he will address the following:
•A best practice demand creation framework
•Strategies that best practice organisations are using to effectively align marketing and sales
•A marketing model for inbound, outbound and sales driven demand creation
•Best practice demand creation for the channel
•Identification of buying cycle phases and alignment of marketing activities and budget according to sales requirements in each phase.
Looking to scale something up? Depending on how you're going after your market/ acquiring users, you may need to build a sales organization that's optimized for a top-down or bottom-up sales process (or perhaps both).
Watch the video overview at http://a16z.com/2015/03/06/go-to-market-bootcamp/ and then check out this slide deck, which shares some concrete tips and tools for accelerating time to market -- from the go-to-market experts at a16z, led by 'sales savant' Mark Cranney.
Because selling to enterprises is a lot like getting a bill passed through Congress: it can get stuck. And getting stuck -- or going down the wrong path -- can mean death to startups in a competitive market. Here's how to avoid that.
The purpose of this deck is two-fold:
1. provide key insights on how to build a highly effective and predictable demand gen engine
2. provide a template for a monthly demand gen dashboard that tracks the value/ROI of your actions
There are numerous other key metrics that are essential for marketing to track but are not represented in this template such as customer experience [NPS, CSAT, etc.], brand recognition & affinity, website analytics, email analytics, PR share of voice, ad campaign effectiveness, and so on and so on.
Additionally, this dashboard is not intended to replace a full sales pipeline dashboard but rather to provide insights on how marketing is contributing to sales effectiveness and revenue.
Success in the Cloud requires 3 things:
1) A Compelling Value Proposition
2) Creating Competitive Separation
3) Strategy vs Execution. Making it happen requires execution
Our Sales Enablement Plan Playbook is a planning methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to help you develop a sales enablement plan that increases your win-rate, deal-size and % reps attaining quota.
Looking to scale something up? Depending on how you're going after your market/ acquiring users, you may need to build a sales organization that's optimized for a top-down or bottom-up sales process (or perhaps both).
Watch the video overview at http://a16z.com/2015/03/06/go-to-market-bootcamp/ and then check out this slide deck, which shares some concrete tips and tools for accelerating time to market -- from the go-to-market experts at a16z, led by 'sales savant' Mark Cranney.
Because selling to enterprises is a lot like getting a bill passed through Congress: it can get stuck. And getting stuck -- or going down the wrong path -- can mean death to startups in a competitive market. Here's how to avoid that.
The purpose of this deck is two-fold:
1. provide key insights on how to build a highly effective and predictable demand gen engine
2. provide a template for a monthly demand gen dashboard that tracks the value/ROI of your actions
There are numerous other key metrics that are essential for marketing to track but are not represented in this template such as customer experience [NPS, CSAT, etc.], brand recognition & affinity, website analytics, email analytics, PR share of voice, ad campaign effectiveness, and so on and so on.
Additionally, this dashboard is not intended to replace a full sales pipeline dashboard but rather to provide insights on how marketing is contributing to sales effectiveness and revenue.
Success in the Cloud requires 3 things:
1) A Compelling Value Proposition
2) Creating Competitive Separation
3) Strategy vs Execution. Making it happen requires execution
Our Sales Enablement Plan Playbook is a planning methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to help you develop a sales enablement plan that increases your win-rate, deal-size and % reps attaining quota.
Slides David Shoenberger recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
Is your sales team ready to tackle a new fiscal year? Follow The Startup Seller's guide to Sales Planning to ensure you're ready to hit the ground running next year!
Sales Impact Academy Coach, Mark Walker gives a preview of this foundational course.
You will learn:
1. How to identify the real pain points in your target market.
2. Which go-to-market model is best suited to your businesses.
3. Learn about the key success metrics you need to track.
Key Points:
1. Don’t be a solution in search of a problem - Consider the demand in the market first and then build a product for that pain.
2. Frame your key competitors as villain’s - it is a great way of identifying a problem and rallying people behind your product.
3. Be a pill not a vitamin - Is your product a ‘must have’ or a ‘nice to have’?
4. Your ICP should be narrow enough that you are able to streamline your entire operation and make your capital more efficient - you will have to say no to people.
5. A genuine go-to-market model considers every stage of the funnel.
Do you want to create product demand and pass on leads to sales? Of course you do, but you’ll need a demand generation strategy to do it right. Learn what sets demand generation apart, how to build and optimize your strategy, and the importance of paid marketing. Download the full Demand Generation Strategy Playbook on our website: https://hubs.ly/H0bvjyy0
Developing your go to market strategy by Kris Konrath, Convergent Digital Ignition
Learn about developing your go to market strategy. We’ll take a look at the five key components to developing a go to market strategy including your target market, marketing channels, messaging, pricing & packaging and customer acquisition cost. By Kris Konrath, Marketing Director at Convergent
The Annual Planning Process & Social/Digital MediaGemma Craven
To help plan appropriately for increasing digital and social activities within your 2014 programs, learn more about effectively planning your marketing budgets.
Our Sales Enablement Maturity Model was designed to help organizations with a roadmap for improving their sales enablement capabilities. The model provides 4 stages of organizational maturity, which are:
Undefined
Progressive
Mature
World-Class
Additionally, it evaluates 8 components of Sales Enablement, as follows:
- Orientation
- Leadership
- Technology/Infrastructure
- Alignment
- Sales Support Tools
- Processes
- Metrics
- Results
To obtain this document, visit us at http://www.demandmetric.com/register
Lead scoring is a shared sales and marketing process for identifying the hottest leads for sales-readiness. It is an invaluable tactic that most companies are struggling with. Watch this 30 minute, fast-paced webinar to get the latest and greatest tips on lead scoring whether you are setting up scoring for the first time or you are looking to optimize your current model.
Presentation for MBA students at Southampton University about what is to do Digital Marketing for B2B today...it is mainly lead generation: Connect, Engage, Monitor and Convert
A Go to Market Strategy is a strategic plan that organizations use to outline how they will bring a new product, service, or business model to market. This strategy is created with the intention of attaining competitive advantage in the industry by improving the overall product experience of the customer (e.g., reasonable price, high quality materials, etc.). While creating an enticing value proposition is a commonly used strategic plan of organizations, the Go to Market Strategy is unique in that it specifically highlights how the company will use internal and external resources to differentiate and establish itself to succeed in a new market segment or geography.
Fill out the template on the next page with ideas related to your Go to Market Strategy.
Slides David Shoenberger recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
Is your sales team ready to tackle a new fiscal year? Follow The Startup Seller's guide to Sales Planning to ensure you're ready to hit the ground running next year!
Sales Impact Academy Coach, Mark Walker gives a preview of this foundational course.
You will learn:
1. How to identify the real pain points in your target market.
2. Which go-to-market model is best suited to your businesses.
3. Learn about the key success metrics you need to track.
Key Points:
1. Don’t be a solution in search of a problem - Consider the demand in the market first and then build a product for that pain.
2. Frame your key competitors as villain’s - it is a great way of identifying a problem and rallying people behind your product.
3. Be a pill not a vitamin - Is your product a ‘must have’ or a ‘nice to have’?
4. Your ICP should be narrow enough that you are able to streamline your entire operation and make your capital more efficient - you will have to say no to people.
5. A genuine go-to-market model considers every stage of the funnel.
Do you want to create product demand and pass on leads to sales? Of course you do, but you’ll need a demand generation strategy to do it right. Learn what sets demand generation apart, how to build and optimize your strategy, and the importance of paid marketing. Download the full Demand Generation Strategy Playbook on our website: https://hubs.ly/H0bvjyy0
Developing your go to market strategy by Kris Konrath, Convergent Digital Ignition
Learn about developing your go to market strategy. We’ll take a look at the five key components to developing a go to market strategy including your target market, marketing channels, messaging, pricing & packaging and customer acquisition cost. By Kris Konrath, Marketing Director at Convergent
The Annual Planning Process & Social/Digital MediaGemma Craven
To help plan appropriately for increasing digital and social activities within your 2014 programs, learn more about effectively planning your marketing budgets.
Our Sales Enablement Maturity Model was designed to help organizations with a roadmap for improving their sales enablement capabilities. The model provides 4 stages of organizational maturity, which are:
Undefined
Progressive
Mature
World-Class
Additionally, it evaluates 8 components of Sales Enablement, as follows:
- Orientation
- Leadership
- Technology/Infrastructure
- Alignment
- Sales Support Tools
- Processes
- Metrics
- Results
To obtain this document, visit us at http://www.demandmetric.com/register
Lead scoring is a shared sales and marketing process for identifying the hottest leads for sales-readiness. It is an invaluable tactic that most companies are struggling with. Watch this 30 minute, fast-paced webinar to get the latest and greatest tips on lead scoring whether you are setting up scoring for the first time or you are looking to optimize your current model.
Presentation for MBA students at Southampton University about what is to do Digital Marketing for B2B today...it is mainly lead generation: Connect, Engage, Monitor and Convert
A Go to Market Strategy is a strategic plan that organizations use to outline how they will bring a new product, service, or business model to market. This strategy is created with the intention of attaining competitive advantage in the industry by improving the overall product experience of the customer (e.g., reasonable price, high quality materials, etc.). While creating an enticing value proposition is a commonly used strategic plan of organizations, the Go to Market Strategy is unique in that it specifically highlights how the company will use internal and external resources to differentiate and establish itself to succeed in a new market segment or geography.
Fill out the template on the next page with ideas related to your Go to Market Strategy.
Four Public Speaking Tips From Standup ComediansRoss Simmonds
How do you give great presentations? How do you captivate an audience? How to you tell a story on a stage? This deck is filled with a handful of insights that answer these questions using inspiration from studying a handful of successful comedians.
The world of SEO as we know it is drastically changing. The rise of content marketing, the new consumer decision journey, and Google's ever-evolving landscape are changing the way we think about search, social, content, and consumers. Check out this look forward into the future of SEO and content marketing.
Networking Tips for Introverts (and Shy Folks): Visual SketchnotesMarketingProfs
Feel too overwhelmed by networking? Are you an introvert in need of networking tips? On a Marketing Smarts podcast, we talk to Jill Foster, founder and blogger for LiveYourTalk, coaches executives, entrepreneurs, and others in public speaking and storytelling. She's also one of four fantastic keynote speakers who will present at the MarketingProfs B2B Forum in October. Jill provides simple, easy to remember tips for establishing genuine relationships at industry events. We covered how long to wait before reconnecting after an event, what to do when you hit one of those awkward pauses, and much more.
Here is our annual piece - 50 Content Marketing Predictions for 2014. Produced by the Content Marketing Institute.
See if the following predictions come true at
Content Marketing World 2014
contentmarketingworld.com
#cmworld
To heck with the vague predictions...here’s three specific predictions:
- Microsoft will buy one, maybe two, media companies in certain industries. The outcome will pave the way for further media purchases throughout the year by non-media companies.
- Red Bull will announce a series of daredevil movies to be produced by Amazon.com.
- At least three Fortune 500 brands will hire a Chief Content Officer.
JOE PULIZZI
@JoePulizzi
FOUNDER
CONTENT MARKETING INSTITUTE
The 3 Secrets of Highly Successful GraduatesReid Hoffman
Today's graduates don't feel ready for the new world of work. I share three things that successful professionals eventually figure out about their careers. http://www.startupofyou.com
It’s impossible to communicate the value of social media efforts when you’re using a metric like follower count. It’s easy to measure, but it doesn’t mean anything. You’ve got to put in the work to measure the right things so that you can determine whether your efforts are actually making a difference.
Congratulations Graduate! Eleven Reasons Why I Will Never Hire You.Mark O'Toole
Over the past 20 years, I’ve been in hiring roles and have received thousands of resumes from new college graduates. I’ve interviewed many for real jobs and done my share of informational interviews. Sometimes I’ve hired people into entry-level positions. More often though, I haven’t.
Those who did not get the job were sometimes just not the right fit. Other times, they were trumped by a more impressive candidate or victim to some other random event mostly out of their control.
Too many had the background to make the cut or at least garner a second interview. But disastrous interviewing skills brought you down.
Here are my top reasons why I will never hire you.
The attention of the consumer has changed, so why hasn't the attention of the marketers? Learn to communicate with your consumers like the year that it actually is...
40 Tools in 20 Minutes: Hacking your Marketing CareerEric Leist
Marketing today requires doing a little bit of everything from creative writing to HTML to light Photoshopping. There are a ton of free tools to make those tasks easier and scalable.
Originally presented at Suffolk University's Bridging the Gap Conference--April 18th, 2014.
WEB APPS
http://zapier.com
https://ifttt.com/
http://twitterfeed.com/
http://gaggleamp.com
http://landerapp.com/
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en
http://99designs.com/
http://visual.ly
http://www.alexa.com/
http://www.hubspot.com/blog-topic-generator
http://www.wordle.net/
www.inboundwriter.com
http://litmus.com/
http://www.inboundwriter.com/
https://www.optimizely.com/
http://thenounproject.com/
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
https://www.facebook.com/help/459892990722543/
http://ads.twitter.com
https://plzadvize.com/
DESKTOP APPS
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/caffeine/id411246225?mt=12
http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gifgrabber.com/
http://www.gimp.org/
EMAIL TOOLS
http://getsignals.com
http://www.yesware.com/
http://www.boomeranggmail.com/
http://rapportive.com/
http://www.wisestamp.com/
http://verify-email.org
MOBILE APPS
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xuchdeid.clear
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cardmunch-business-card-reader/id478351777?mt=8
BROWSER PLUGINS
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/omnidrive/gpnikbcifngfgfcgcgfahidojdpklfia?hl=en-US
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/klout/
LEARNING PLATFORMS
http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/
http://www.codecademy.com/
http://teamtreehouse.com/
https://generalassemb.ly/
http://www.intelligent.ly/
http://smarterer.com/
VFM Leonardo has just released the results of its first Hotel E-Business Survey which provides a revealing look at what hotel e-business professionals are spending their online marketing budgets on. The survey unveiled some fascinating trends. Interestingly, the features that many e-business professionals are currently using do not align with those that they believe to be most effective.
64% of respondents believe that “hotel tours (combinations of guided spin, zoom imagery, videos or animation)” are very effective yet only 41% have deployed this tactic.
At a glance, the most effective rich media merchandising and social media tactics include:
* User ratings and rankings: 67%
* Hotel tours (combinations guided spin, zoom imagery, videos or animation): 66%
* User comments and reviews: 64%
* Videos for merchandising, advertising and demonstration: 60%
* 360 degree spins/panoramas: 49%
Stay Relevant: Map Your Interactive White Papers to the Buyer's JourneyAlinean, Inc.
The basic white paper is still one of the most important pieces of marketing content used and trusted as the key buying decision tool by over 60% of IT buyers (SiriusDecisions 2010).
iStrategy Melbourne - Customer Relevance: The Next Frontier for Competitive A...iStrategy
The volume and complexity of digital data today often paralyses companies. With so much to be observed and so many insights to be generated, where should strategic marketers start? According to Jason Juma-Ross, Accenture's Australian Interactive lead, success lies not in generating the 'best' answer, but in getting to a better answer faster than your competitors. Here, he explains how customer relevance, delivered at scale and speed, is the next frontier for competitive advantage.
Digiday Mobile with Nielsen: Measuring the Effectiveness of Advertising withi...Digiday
Mobile apps have overtaken browsing on the desktop Web, and consumers are spending nearly two times more time in mobile apps than on the Web. It’s now critical for marketers to have relevant metrics on the branding impact of their mobile in-app marketing campaigns. Learn about Nielsen’s solutions for quick and cost-effective mobile brand advertising effectiveness measurement and optimization to help advertisers maximize their mobile ROI and understand how to best take advantage of this growing medium.
Presenter: Jeff Smith, svp, solution marketing and account activation, Nielsen
Conferencia impartida durante el Congreso CRM + Social Media + Centros de Contato México 2011 organizado por Mundo Contact a cargo de Larry Augustin, CEO de Sugar CRM
Rohit Talwar's presentation to ICCA Leipzig on the future of the corporate events and conventions, and the emerging findings from the latest Convention 2020 study.
Interactive White Paper Webcast: Increase content marketing effectivenessAlinean, Inc.
White papers remain the most important content to help buyers make purchase decisions – helping buyers to understand opportunities, understand solution options and understand the competitive differences of your solution vs. others.
However, in today's world of information overload, white paper download rates have declined, and your investment in traditional white paper marketing campaigns is not as effective as it used to be.
Demand Generation Tools Webcast: Drive more leads with Alinean value-marketin...Alinean, Inc.
Generate more demand.
- Personalize to connect better with overloaded / skeptical buyers
- Engage better with diagnosis and value quantification
- Drive 50% more leads than traditional content marketing
- More quickly advance prospects through buying lifecycle
- Double number of visitor to buyer conversions
Sound impossible?
It's not with Alinean Demand-Gen Tools.
At MREC 2012, LinkedIn’s Leela Srinivasan presented observations from data and surveys on the movement towards mobile recruiting.
Read Leela’s blog post, “3 Reasons You Can No Longer Ignore Mobile Recruiting” http://linkd.in/GzWEOL
Learn more about LinkedIn Talent Solutions: http://linkd.in/18uJpZ1
Follow the LinkedIn company page: http://linkd.in/1f39JyH
Tweet with us: http://bit.ly/HireOnLinkedIn
The Top Reasons Enterprises Outsource IT to MSPsCA Nimsoft
Half of Executives Say They Foresee Moving Toward 100 Percent MSP Engagement
The survey, conducted in association with Enterprise Management Associates™ (EMA), collected responses, experiences and opinions from executives, mid-level managers and individual IT contributors from mid-sized and large organizations. All participants were currently engaged with an MSP, planning to engage and MSP, or had used MSP services in the past.
Visit www.nimsoft.com for more information.
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