Struggling to get your sales and marketing teams to work together? Are arguments of lead definition and hand offs causing you to lose deals? You're not alone. Get our top 9 recommendations for aligning your sales and marketing teams for efficient lead generation, prospect nurture, and revenue growth. Learn more at www.clarityqst.com
Rethinking Sales and Marketing alignment: [How Marketing will help close deals]CRMT Digital
Better Marketing and Sales alignment improves profits, customer services and internal relationships. Most organisations have already realised that traditional business unit divisions hinder more than they help and are now seeking to improve internal relationships between departments. For successful alignment between Marketing and Sales, employees need to be empowered by technology.
The 2017 Salary & Market Survey provides clarity on new roles; employee sentiment and career expectations of New Marketers. Charley Stoney, Group MD at Alternatives, spoke at the Marketing Institute's CMO Summit on Wednesday 8th of November.
7 Methods to Get your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned InfographicInsideView
Learn what separates leaders from laggards. Then discover 7 best practices these leading B2B businesses follow to achieve sales and marketing alignment.
We’ve gathered the most surprising, horrifying and enlightening sales statistics on cold calling, social selling, sales training and much more.
Whether you are a sales rookie or an experienced veteran, these 21 sales stats will knock your socks off and perhaps inspire you to improve the way you sell.
In this on-demand seminar HubSpot and BrainSell provide actionable tips to create a Smarketing (Sales + Marketing) approach to automating your business and revenue growth.
Rethinking Sales and Marketing alignment: [How Marketing will help close deals]CRMT Digital
Better Marketing and Sales alignment improves profits, customer services and internal relationships. Most organisations have already realised that traditional business unit divisions hinder more than they help and are now seeking to improve internal relationships between departments. For successful alignment between Marketing and Sales, employees need to be empowered by technology.
The 2017 Salary & Market Survey provides clarity on new roles; employee sentiment and career expectations of New Marketers. Charley Stoney, Group MD at Alternatives, spoke at the Marketing Institute's CMO Summit on Wednesday 8th of November.
7 Methods to Get your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned InfographicInsideView
Learn what separates leaders from laggards. Then discover 7 best practices these leading B2B businesses follow to achieve sales and marketing alignment.
We’ve gathered the most surprising, horrifying and enlightening sales statistics on cold calling, social selling, sales training and much more.
Whether you are a sales rookie or an experienced veteran, these 21 sales stats will knock your socks off and perhaps inspire you to improve the way you sell.
In this on-demand seminar HubSpot and BrainSell provide actionable tips to create a Smarketing (Sales + Marketing) approach to automating your business and revenue growth.
Meagen Eisenberg, VP of Demand Generation at Docusign and Robert J. Moreau, CEO, Zyphias Group discuss sales and marketing alignment, the customer journey and key best practices with Docusign client examples and tips. Moderated by Chanin Balance, CEO of Mobilepaks.
Sales + Marketing Alignment: Breaking Down Silos for SuccessClevelandHUG
Cleveland HubSpot User Group's May 7, 2015 presentation on how alignment sales and marketing (Smarketing) can delight customers and drive performance. Tips include how to restructure and communicate between teams, rely on data and utilize technology to achieve organizational goals.
Modern marketers aren’t content to just create leads. They play a critical role in driving sales. Not just in the top of the funnel, but the middle and below. Learn the 4 secrets that leading marketing teams — and KnowledgeTree customers — have learned to help drive revenue to close.
Sales enablement technology has been making big waves in the B2B space recently. But do you know how to get the most ROI from your investment? Learn 10 ways that sales enablement can add value to sales and marketing processes and impact the bottom line!
Strategies To Support The Consensus Sale: New Survey DataG3 Communications
The model for the “Consensus Sale” was a game changing concept for marketing and sales organizations when covered in Harvard Business Review in 2015. Now in 2018, as ABM becomes the main driver for B2B revenue creation, marketing and sales teams are still refining their approach to building consensus among multiple buyers within an organization.
This session will brand new research highlighting the tools and tactics B2B organizations are prioritizing to better engage and track interests and activities within buying groups at key accounts
Get Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned
Lack of alignment between sales and marketing is an age-old problem, frequently lamented yet rarely addressed. Conquering this issue requires a fresh approach and better understanding of both sides of the relationship. But where to start?
This report is designed to shed a light on the obstacles to sales and marketing alignment, but also show teams where to start, how to collaborate, and how to set aligned goals.
We've gathered the most surprising, horrifying, and enlightening sales statistics on cold calling, social selling, sales training, and much more.
Whether you are a sales rookie or an experienced veteran, these 21 sales stats will knock your socks off and perhaps inspire you to improve the way you sell. Enjoy and share!
Is you’re social media marketing working out?Isaac La Buguen
Measuring the success of Social Media marketing can be a daunting task, as business owners and CFO's at large are not accustomed to spending money because you have too, or because everyone else is doing it. In a dollars-in and dollars-out world, its imperative to correlate activity to value and understand how your influence on the web translates to transactions at the registrar.
Flying blind will either keep you on the sidelines with other ole timers who are still debating the power of the web or prevent your company from taking advantage of opportunities to engage prospects at every stage of your pipeline. Find out how to effectively measure the success of your social media marketing initiatives by viewing this presentation today.
SMARKETING presented by Bill Faeth, CEO of Inbound Marketing Agents in Nashville, TN
At it's core, Smarketing is fairly simple. It is the alignment of Sales and Marketing around common goals like pipeline and sales quotas which require's visibility into each other's goals and progress. Bill Faeth, founder and CEO of Inbound Marketing Agents, will walk you through the 5 Steps to Integrate Smarketing into your business.
1. Speak the same language
2. Set up a closed-loop reporting
3. Implement a service level agreement
4. Maintain open and consistent communication
5. Rely on data
InsideView Sales and Marketing Alignment - InsideView DriveInsideView
The ultimate, some might say only, goal of sales and marketing leaders is to grow revenue.
Whether you are talking about generating bigger and better pipeline, crushing your quota, or driving better lead- to-close rates...the end goal is always MORE REVENUE.
Marketing Content that Drives Sales: Getting More Content Used to Drive RevenueKnowledgeTree Inc.
Do you know what marketing content actually drives revenue? More than 80% of marketing content goes unused by sales teams. Discover how to get more marketing content used by sales and see what the data tells you about content performance, including which content types win in different sales situations and stages of the sales funnel. Learn how to measure marketing content ROI, and triple the content usage in your sales organization.
How the sibling you never wanted, but grow to love: How Sales and Marketing Alignment can make or break your customer experience.
Jeff Marcoux, CMO Lead, Microsoft
Meagen Eisenberg, VP of Demand Generation at Docusign and Robert J. Moreau, CEO, Zyphias Group discuss sales and marketing alignment, the customer journey and key best practices with Docusign client examples and tips. Moderated by Chanin Balance, CEO of Mobilepaks.
Sales + Marketing Alignment: Breaking Down Silos for SuccessClevelandHUG
Cleveland HubSpot User Group's May 7, 2015 presentation on how alignment sales and marketing (Smarketing) can delight customers and drive performance. Tips include how to restructure and communicate between teams, rely on data and utilize technology to achieve organizational goals.
Modern marketers aren’t content to just create leads. They play a critical role in driving sales. Not just in the top of the funnel, but the middle and below. Learn the 4 secrets that leading marketing teams — and KnowledgeTree customers — have learned to help drive revenue to close.
Sales enablement technology has been making big waves in the B2B space recently. But do you know how to get the most ROI from your investment? Learn 10 ways that sales enablement can add value to sales and marketing processes and impact the bottom line!
Strategies To Support The Consensus Sale: New Survey DataG3 Communications
The model for the “Consensus Sale” was a game changing concept for marketing and sales organizations when covered in Harvard Business Review in 2015. Now in 2018, as ABM becomes the main driver for B2B revenue creation, marketing and sales teams are still refining their approach to building consensus among multiple buyers within an organization.
This session will brand new research highlighting the tools and tactics B2B organizations are prioritizing to better engage and track interests and activities within buying groups at key accounts
Get Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned
Lack of alignment between sales and marketing is an age-old problem, frequently lamented yet rarely addressed. Conquering this issue requires a fresh approach and better understanding of both sides of the relationship. But where to start?
This report is designed to shed a light on the obstacles to sales and marketing alignment, but also show teams where to start, how to collaborate, and how to set aligned goals.
We've gathered the most surprising, horrifying, and enlightening sales statistics on cold calling, social selling, sales training, and much more.
Whether you are a sales rookie or an experienced veteran, these 21 sales stats will knock your socks off and perhaps inspire you to improve the way you sell. Enjoy and share!
Is you’re social media marketing working out?Isaac La Buguen
Measuring the success of Social Media marketing can be a daunting task, as business owners and CFO's at large are not accustomed to spending money because you have too, or because everyone else is doing it. In a dollars-in and dollars-out world, its imperative to correlate activity to value and understand how your influence on the web translates to transactions at the registrar.
Flying blind will either keep you on the sidelines with other ole timers who are still debating the power of the web or prevent your company from taking advantage of opportunities to engage prospects at every stage of your pipeline. Find out how to effectively measure the success of your social media marketing initiatives by viewing this presentation today.
SMARKETING presented by Bill Faeth, CEO of Inbound Marketing Agents in Nashville, TN
At it's core, Smarketing is fairly simple. It is the alignment of Sales and Marketing around common goals like pipeline and sales quotas which require's visibility into each other's goals and progress. Bill Faeth, founder and CEO of Inbound Marketing Agents, will walk you through the 5 Steps to Integrate Smarketing into your business.
1. Speak the same language
2. Set up a closed-loop reporting
3. Implement a service level agreement
4. Maintain open and consistent communication
5. Rely on data
InsideView Sales and Marketing Alignment - InsideView DriveInsideView
The ultimate, some might say only, goal of sales and marketing leaders is to grow revenue.
Whether you are talking about generating bigger and better pipeline, crushing your quota, or driving better lead- to-close rates...the end goal is always MORE REVENUE.
Marketing Content that Drives Sales: Getting More Content Used to Drive RevenueKnowledgeTree Inc.
Do you know what marketing content actually drives revenue? More than 80% of marketing content goes unused by sales teams. Discover how to get more marketing content used by sales and see what the data tells you about content performance, including which content types win in different sales situations and stages of the sales funnel. Learn how to measure marketing content ROI, and triple the content usage in your sales organization.
How the sibling you never wanted, but grow to love: How Sales and Marketing Alignment can make or break your customer experience.
Jeff Marcoux, CMO Lead, Microsoft
Welcome to our annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America report. We’re excited to present you with the findings from our latest content marketing survey.
Content marketing has changed a lot since we launched this research nearly a decade ago. We marketers are still focused on content creation, but our thinking about the audiences for whom we create that content has evolved. So, too, have the ways we distribute, measure, and improve upon our content marketing. Technology has played a big role, along with the knowledge we’ve gained through our content marketing experiences.
As you’ll see in this report, some organizations are more developed than others with their content marketing. But you’ll also recognize your own practices reflected in many of the findings. Where does your company stand? What do you need to get to where you want to be? If you need help, let us know!
Greetings Marketers,
Welcome to B2C Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America. This is the companion report to the B2B research we released in September 2017. The data presented in both reports was generated from our eighth annual content marketing survey. One of our key observations this year is that while B2C marketers reported slightly higher levels of overall content marketing success compared with last year, there was a decrease among those who agreed their organization has realistic expectations about what content marketing can achieve. A documented content marketing strategy can help, as it sets expectations for what teams should prioritize; yet, only 38% of B2C marketers reported having one.
Our annual research has consistently shown that those who document their content marketing strategy get better results than those who don’t. Another important key to success is an efficient workflow process (page 4 shows how top-performing B2C marketers rate their project management flow and other distinguishing characteristics that set them apart from their peers). We hope these research findings will be helpful as you consider which content marketing priorities to focus on in the year ahead.
B2C Content Marketing 2018 - Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends - North America MarketingProfs
Our annual content marketing research with new insights useful for 2018 budget planning and benchmarketing. This new report focuses on business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers and their content marketing benchmarks, budgets, and trends.
The days of casting marketing dollars into the abyss and hoping for the best are ancient history. Marketing analytics has transformed from a nice-to-have into an absolute necessity for businesses. As we step into the marketing landscape of 2024, this report is your key to unlocking the secrets, strategies, and trends that will shape the… Continue reading The Future of Marketing Analytics 2024 Predictions Unveiled
When it's time for that conversation to get buy-in on your content marketing ideas and initiatives, how do you proceed? Do you have all of the resources you need? The research and support to justify your programs? We're here to help. Download our "Mastering the Buy-In Conversation on Content Marketing: The Essential Starter Kit" now to help you. We've done the legwork so you can focus on your content marketing. Good luck, and let us know how else we can help.
CEO Insights: Anticipated Selling Trends for 2020Richardson
These tips will teach effective leaders about strong sales enablement strategies, sales culture, sales execution, and how they can create competitive advantages by improving their analytics.
B2B Content Marketing 2018 - Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends - North America MarketingProfs
Our annual content marketing research with new insights useful for 2018 budget planning and benchmarketing. This new report focuses on business-to-business (B2B) marketers and their content marketing benchmarks, budgets, and trends.
Greetings Marketers,
Welcome to B2B Content Marketing 2018: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America. Our latest research indicates B2B marketers are finding content marketing success as they explore ways to work more creatively and build their audiences.
Content marketing is no longer the shiny new object. Those who have caught on are no longer asking “should we do this,” but rather “how do we really dig in and get results?” One of the most convincing pieces of evidence of this maturation? We saw an 18% year-over-year increase in respondents who say they are focused on using content marketing to build their audience (one or more subscriber bases). And that’s what differentiates content marketing from other forms of marketing – its intent is to offer valuable information so people want to hear from your business ... so they subscribe to your content because they are interested in it.
Read on for all the findings from our annual survey and consider how your organization stacks up against your peers. To take your content marketing to the next level, check out the resources on the last page of this report.
The most wanted content marketing research fruitful for every B2B marketer to effectively develop a budget plan and benchmarking strategies. Full insights in to leading B2B marketer's budgets, trends and benchmarks.
A strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience—and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action
When Content Marketing Institute (CMI) first reported on manufacturing in 2014, we noted that manufacturers were later to adopt content marketing than other industries we studied. They’ve certainly come a long way since then.
As you’ll see in this report—based on the results of our 10th annual content marketing survey—manufacturing marketers have become more strategic with their content marketing and are feeling less challenged with communicating complex content. Many are reporting success with their overall approach to content marketing. The ability to craft content for different audiences across various stages of the buyer’s journey—and distribute that content with precision—will be important to continued success in 2020.
Introduction
Content is a nexus between the sales and marketing functions in most organizations. The traditional content model calls for marketing to produce content assets and sales to use them. Having this model work well requires a great deal of intentionality on the part of both functions: marketing must endeavor to understand customer content needs and how well the assets they produce engages those customers. Then, the sales team must diligently provide feedback to marketing so that content quality and effectiveness rises.
While this model is conceptually simple, there are challenges related to alignment that impact content effectiveness in the form of visibility, communications, feedback, process, tools and even culture. The statistics tell the story: when the level of sales/marketing alignment is high, 81% of study participants report that marketing content meets sales’ needs well. However, when alignment is poor or non-existent, the content effectiveness percentage drops to 35%.
Quality content that is easy for sales to find and use is a critical success factor in sales interactions. The dynamics of the content process are not difficult to understand, but the content creation, deployment, usage and feedback loop is often a point of friction between sales and marketing. This friction is not one-sided; marketing is frustrated when it has limited feedback and visibility into the use of content assets. The sales team gets frustrated when content assets don’t meet customers’ need, or those assets are hard to find and use. This frustration is more than just an inconvenience: 70% of sales teams acknowledge that the lack of effective content negatively impacts the outcome of a sales conversation.
Since content is so often the key to successful sales interactions, it merits constant attention and improvement efforts. Demand Metric and Showpad together conducted research to understand the sales-marketing relationship around content, and how it affects sales interactions. This research shares key insights, such as when marketing has little or no visibility into sales conversations, only 32% of the content produced meets the needs of sales team well. This research will help organizations understand how to get better results from their marketing content.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Executive Summary
- The Content Process
- Content Process Success Factors
- Content Use
- Content Impact on Revenue
- Analyst Bottom Line
- Acknowledgements
- About Showpad
- About Demand Metric
- Appendix - Survey Background
Data That Supports True Sales and Marketing AlignmentMarried2Growth
Sales and marketing alignment is elusive but worth it. In our Nashville Analytics Summit presentation, we share the business metrics and initiatives that drove 30% decrease in CAC and 20% increase in LTV.
Sales & Marketing don't really get on... or do they?Catalyst
Alignment between marketing & sales is potentially the largest opportunity for improving business performance today. So, how can you make them work together?
Similar to Sales and Marketing Alignment: Collaborate or Die Trying (20)
The PESO model, a framework created by SpinSucks in 2014, is used to build rock-solid content plans. When used correctly, these four parts should come together like slices of a pie to build awareness, authority, thought leadership, and expertise, while simultaneously boosting other initiatives like SEO, sales, or larger organizational goals.
Which wire service is best for business press release distribution?
Like many things in healthcare marketing, it depends on many factors. This post includes our review of the top wire services and the best use for each.
At Clarity Quest, the future of biotechnology is more than just a few industry buzzwords—we live and breathe this stuff—and have for more than 20 years.
From brand awareness to lead generation, our experienced life sciences marketing agency can help your company build a strategic marketing plan to meet your organization’s goals and reimagine your success.
Visit us at https://www.clarityqst.com/
This year at the Health IT Marketing and PR Conference (HITMC), Clarity Quest CEO Christine Slocumb presented on the how to shorten sales cycles - and she wasn't monkeying around.
The majority of email-driven revenue, 75%, comes from desktop sources. View our latest infographic to learn more differences between desktop and mobile email marketing.
Learn 3 ways to strengthen B2B buyer-vendor relationships! A recent study revealed, 48% of buyers think their vendor relationships are growing stronger.
Men and women practice different search behaviors online. Women typically use more specific search queries for more focused results. View our infographic to learn more!
Are you prepared for your next trade show? Check out our infographic to learn more about The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference!
Predictive lead scoring can help marketers identify strong leads through marketing automation. 90% of current users think predictive lead scoring is more valuable than traditional lead scoring!
In order to successfully promote IT products and services, marketers must understand how buyers research and select vendors. Technology decision makers often utilize peer consultation, reviews, videos, and search engines for their research process.
Check out these statistics on average webinar attendance! Learn tips for improving webinar attendance including the recommended program length, the optimal time for holding webinars, and interactive tools to engage your audience.
http://www.clarityqst.com/ Looking to boost registration and attendance for your next webinar? Learn more about optimal promotion and timing for your next event.
Breaking down HIMSS' record-breaking attendance and what types of booth visitors this year's 1,400 exhibitors can expect. Also some other fun facts about HIMSS!
From budget setting and content marketing to social media and local search, get our technology and healthcare marketing agency's marketing stats and tips.
http://www.clarityqst.com
Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?Cut-the-SaaS
Discover the transformative power of AI in content creation with our presentation, "Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?" by Puran Parsani, CEO & Editor of Cut-The-SaaS. Learn how AI-generated content is revolutionizing marketing, publishing, education, healthcare, and finance by offering unprecedented efficiency, creativity, and scalability.
Understanding
AI-Generated Content:
AI-generated content includes text, images, videos, and audio produced by AI without direct human involvement. This technology leverages large datasets to create contextually relevant and coherent material, streamlining content production.
Key Benefits:
Content Creation: Rapidly generate high-quality content for blogs, articles, and social media.
Brainstorming: AI simulates conversations to inspire creative ideas.
Research Assistance: Efficiently summarize and research information.
Market Insights:
The content marketing industry is projected to grow to $17.6 billion by 2032, with AI-generated content expected to dominate over 55% of the market.
Case Study: CNET’s AI Content Controversy:
CNET’s use of AI for news articles led to public scrutiny due to factual inaccuracies, highlighting the need for transparency and human oversight.
Benefits Across Industries:
Marketing: Personalize content at scale and optimize engagement with predictive analytics.
Publishing: Automate content creation for faster publication cycles.
Education: Efficiently generate educational materials.
Healthcare: Create accurate content for patients and professionals.
Finance: Produce timely financial content for decision-making.
Challenges and Ethical Considerations:
Transparency: Disclose AI use to maintain trust.
Bias: Address potential AI biases with diverse datasets.
SEO: Ensure AI content meets SEO standards.
Quality: Maintain high standards to prevent misinformation.
Conclusion:
AI-generated content offers significant benefits in efficiency, personalization, and scalability. However, ethical considerations and quality assurance are crucial for responsible use. Explore the future of content creation with us and see how AI is transforming various industries.
Connect with Us:
Follow Cut-The-SaaS on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Medium. Visit cut-the-saas.com for more insights and resources.
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
Financial curveballs sent many American families reeling in 2023. Household budgets were squeezed by rising interest rates, surging prices on everyday goods, and a stagnating housing market. Consumers were feeling strapped. That sentiment, however, appears to be waning. The question is, to what extent?
To take the pulse of consumers’ feelings about their financial well-being ahead of a highly anticipated election, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey. The survey highlights consumers’ hopes and anxieties as we move into 2024. Let's unpack the key findings to gain insights about where we stand.
Come learn how YOU can Animate and Illuminate the World with Generative AI's Explosive Power. Come sit in the driver's seat and learn to harness this great technology.
How to Use AI to Write a High-Quality Article that Ranksminatamang0021
In the world of content creation, many AI bloggers have drifted away from their original vision, resulting in low-quality articles that search engines overlook. Don't let that happen to you! Join us to discover how to leverage AI tools effectively to craft high-quality content that not only captures your audience's attention but also ranks well on search engines.
Disclaimer: Some of the prompts mentioned here are the examples of Matt Diggity. Please use it as reference and make your own custom prompts.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.\
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
SEO as the Backbone of Digital MarketingFelipe Bazon
In this talk Felipe Bazon will share how him and his team at Hedgehog Digital share our journey of making C-Levels alike, specially CMOS realize that SEO is the backbone of digital marketing by showing how SEO can contribute to brand awareness, reputation and authority and above all how to use SEO to create more robust global marketing strategies.
5 big bets to drive growth in 2024 without one additional marketing dollar AND how to adapt to the biggest shifting eCommerce trend- AI.
1) Romance Your Customers - Retention
2) ‘Alternative’ Lead Gen - Advocacy
3) The Beautiful Basics - Conversion Rate Optimization
4) Land that Bottom Line - Profitability
5) Roll the Dice - New Business Models
Mastering Local SEO for Service Businesses in the AI Era is tailored specifically for local service providers like plumbers, dentists, and others seeking to dominate their local search landscape. This session delves into leveraging AI advancements to enhance your online visibility and search rankings through the Content Factory model, designed for creating high-impact, SEO-driven content. Discover the Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy, a cost-effective approach to boost your local SEO efforts and attract more customers with minimal investment. Gain practical insights on optimizing your online presence to meet the specific needs of local service seekers, ensuring your business not only appears but stands out in local searches. This concise, action-oriented workshop is your roadmap to navigating the complexities of digital marketing in the AI age, driving more leads, conversions, and ultimately, success for your local service business.
Key Takeaways:
Embrace AI for Local SEO: Learn to harness the power of AI technologies to optimize your website and content for local search. Understand the pivotal role AI plays in analyzing search trends and consumer behavior, enabling you to tailor your SEO strategies to meet the specific demands of your target local audience. Leverage the Content Factory Model: Discover the step-by-step process of creating SEO-optimized content at scale. This approach ensures a steady stream of high-quality content that engages local customers and boosts your search rankings. Get an action guide on implementing this model, complete with templates and scheduling strategies to maintain a consistent online presence. Maximize ROI with Dollar-a-Day Advertising: Dive into the cost-effective Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy that amplifies your visibility in local searches without breaking the bank. Learn how to strategically allocate your budget across platforms to target potential local customers effectively. The session includes an action guide on setting up, monitoring, and optimizing your ad campaigns to ensure maximum impact with minimal investment.
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
AI-Powered Personalization: Principles, Use Cases, and Its Impact on CROVWO
In today’s era of AI, personalization is more than just a trend—it’s a fundamental strategy that unlocks numerous opportunities.
When done effectively, personalization builds trust, loyalty, and satisfaction among your users—key factors for business success. However, relying solely on AI capabilities isn’t enough. You need to anchor your approach in solid principles, understand your users’ context, and master the art of persuasion.
Join us as Sarjak Patel and Naitry Saggu from 3rd Eye Consulting unveil a transformative framework. This approach seamlessly integrates your unique context, consumer insights, and conversion goals, paving the way for unparalleled success in personalization.
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
The Secret to Engaging Modern Consumers: Journey Mapping and Personalization
In today's digital landscape, understanding the customer's journey and delivering personalized experiences are paramount. This masterclass delves into the art of consumer journey mapping, a powerful technique that visualizes the entire customer experience across touchpoints. Attendees will learn how to create detailed journey maps, identify pain points, and uncover opportunities for optimization. The presentation also explores personalization strategies that leverage data and technology to tailor content, products, and experiences to individual customers. From real-time personalization to predictive analytics, attendees will gain insights into cutting-edge approaches that drive engagement and loyalty.
Key Takeaways:
Current consumer landscape; Steps to mapping an effective consumer journey; Understanding the value of personalization; Integrating mapping and personalization for success; Brands that are getting It right!; Best Practices; Future Trends
Videos are more engaging, more memorable, and more popular than any other type of content out there. That’s why it’s estimated that 82% of consumer traffic will come from videos by 2025.
And with videos evolving from landscape to portrait and experts promoting shorter clips, one thing remains constant – our brains LOVE videos.
So is there science behind what makes people absolutely irresistible on camera?
The answer: definitely yes.
In this jam-packed session with Stephanie Garcia, you’ll get your hands on a steal-worthy guide that uncovers the art and science to being irresistible on camera. From body language to words that convert, she’ll show you how to captivate on command so that viewers are excited and ready to take action.
2. Sales & Marketing Alignment:
Collaborate or Die Trying
Presented at HITMC 2016 by
Brian Shilling, Christine Slocumb
Clarity Quest Marketing
@CQMarketing
19. They will never get
my leads.
Both sides want to
keep leads to
themselves.
20. If you think alignment is hard among
internal teams, just wait until you add in
an external agency.
21. If you think alignment is hard among
internal teams, just wait until you add in
an external agency.
Outsourcing magnifies the complexities
around trust and remote coordination.
29. #2 - Agree on a Single View of the Truth
Allocadia
Implement a shared sales and marketing
dashboard with detailed lead, conversion,
opportunity and revenue metrics.
40. For some great advice on
setting expectations for sales
and marketing and defining
your custom funnel, read
Revenue Disruption by
Marketo CEO Phil Fernandez.
45. #9 - Bond
Informal team building
outside of work gives new
perspective and appreciation
for each other as individuals.
46. Sales and Marketing Alignment Checklist
Define shared metrics,
processes, rules and
objectives
Agree on a single view of
the truth and embrace
quality data
Partner together to deploy
and use content effectively
Use and share technology,
but only after laying a solid
foundation
Appoint separate departmental
leaders with equal power
reporting to an objective CEO
Engage sales when building
personas
Respect sales and marketing
quotas for mutual accountability
Trust outsource agencies
Encourage sales and marketing
team bonding
47. Reference Statistics
Companies with good sales and marketing alignment generated 208% more revenue from marketing
efforts. (HubSpot)
When sales and marketing teams work together, companies see 36% higher customer retention, 38%
higher sales win rates, and 27% faster three-year profit growth. (HubSpot)
52% of businesses with a strong sales and marketing alignment strategy surpassed average market
growth, compared to only 20% without a collaboration strategy. (Deloitte)
Only 2.8% of marketing automation users believe they are actually achieving their demand generation
goals. (Annuitas)
Only 45% of businesses have a company-wide definition of a sales-ready lead. (HubSpot)
61% of marketers think their sales tools and content are being used in the right way. But only 28% of
salespeople agree. (KnowledgeTree)
84% of best-in-class organizations empower marketing with access to their CRM. (Aberdeen)
Our agency is so happy to be speaking here at our 3rd HITMC. For those of you Tweeting today, our Twitter handle is @CQMarketing and don’t forgot to use the event hashtag #HITMC.
Our agency is so happy to be speaking here at our 3rd HITMC. For those of you Tweeting today, our Twitter handle is @CQMarketing and don’t forgot to use the event hashtag #HITMC.
What if one action could increase revenue by over 200%? And what if that same action could help you close 40% more deals this year?
In 15 years of running a marketing agency, we look for commonalities among companies that succeed in meeting growth goals and those that fail. And we’ve found one correction that can actually help you achieve these growth numbers.
What if one action could increase revenue by over 200%? And what if that same action could help you close 40% more deals this year?
In 15 years of running a marketing agency, we look for commonalities among companies that succeed in meeting growth goals and those that fail. And we’ve found one correction that can actually help you achieve these growth numbers.
That corrective action is sales and marketing alignment.
That corrective action is sales and marketing alignment.
I was recently on a prospecting call with a midsized medical device company and an executive from the company actually said “I believe in big S for sales, and small M for marketing.” These are the folks Don Draper of Mad Men referred to as “nonbelievers”. That company is never going to have sales and marketing alignment until that nonbeliever leader is replaced.
But there ARE plenty of companies outside of this extreme example with a strong C-level belief in the power of marketing that still fail.
I was recently on a prospecting call with a midsized medical device company and an executive from the company actually said “I believe in big S for sales, and small M for marketing.” These are the folks Don Draper of Mad Men referred to as “nonbelievers”. That company is never going to have sales and marketing alignment until that nonbeliever leader is replaced.
But there ARE plenty of companies outside of this extreme example with a strong C-level belief in the power of marketing that still fail.
The fact is over half the companies we engage with have ZERO sales and marketing alignment. That’s 50% of companies missing an opportunity that can be fixed relatively easily and inexpensively.
Compared to other programs you are hearing about at the conference this year, sales and marketing alignment is not glamorous, and honestly the concept has been around since way before I was born.
52% of businesses with a strong sales and marketing alignment strategy surpassed average market growth compared to only 20% without a collaboration strategy.
52% of businesses with a strong sales and marketing alignment strategy surpassed average market growth compared to only 20% without a collaboration strategy.
Organizations with good sales and marketing alignment achieve 27% faster three-year profit growth and see 36% higher customer retention rates.
Organizations with good sales and marketing alignment achieve 27% faster three-year profit growth and see 36% higher customer retention rates.
Marketing automation is only meeting the goals of 2.8% of the companies that use it. I believe one of the reasons for this disconnect is that companies first integrate sales CRMs and then try to bolt on marketing automation processes instead of taking a holistic view of the entire funnel and how technologies can support it. We’re starting to see a trend toward holistic integration such as the acquisition of Pardot by SalesForce but for many companies the two systems are hooked together in ways that are not optimal or not connected at all. Some of the problem is process and some of it is the technology integration has not caught up to what’s actually needed.
Marketing automation is only meeting the goals of 2.8% of the companies that use it. I believe one of the reasons for this disconnect is that companies first integrate sales CRMs and then try to bolt on marketing automation processes instead of taking a holistic view of the entire funnel and how technologies can support it. We’re starting to see a trend toward holistic integration such as the acquisition of Pardot by SalesForce but for many companies the two systems are hooked together in ways that are not optimal or not connected at all. Some of the problem is process and some of it is the technology integration has not caught up to what’s actually needed.
As the manager in charge of online marketing at our agency, I have access to certain conversions that can be tracked digitally (such as complete e-commerce transactions or demo requests) but the vast majority of health IT companies don’t sell online and have very long sales cycles. It takes real discipline and cooperation to track a lead that came from SEO 12 months ago all the way through conversion and many companies don’t have standardized processes. A typical scenario is a salesperson leaves, and unless the sales transfer process goes smoothly, we lose the insight. In these situations, tracking the original lead source is like finding a needle in a very large haystack of data, emails and lost conversations.
As the manager in charge of online marketing at our agency, I have access to certain conversions that can be tracked digitally (such as complete e-commerce transactions or demo requests) but the vast majority of health IT companies don’t sell online and have very long sales cycles. It takes real discipline and cooperation to track a lead that came from SEO 12 months ago all the way through conversion and many companies don’t have standardized processes. A typical scenario is a salesperson leaves, and unless the sales transfer process goes smoothly, we lose the insight. In these situations, tracking the original lead source is like finding a needle in a very large haystack of data, emails and lost conversations.
Another issue is centered around trust. Departments want to keep leads to themselves. Let’s face it, unless your marketing processes around how leads are handled are rock solid, sales is going to see marketing as a black hole. There needs to be a way for sales to check on the status of every lead, say collected at a tradeshow, even if it’s only to see that lead went completely dead.
And since most customers are not ready to buy for 9-12 months in this industry, marketing needs to get every name and every email in order to properly nurture leads that aren’t ready to purchase in the short-term.
Another issue is centered around trust. Departments want to keep leads to themselves. Let’s face it, unless your marketing processes around how leads are handled are rock solid, sales is going to see marketing as a black hole. There needs to be a way for sales to check on the status of every lead, say collected at a tradeshow, even if it’s only to see that lead went completely dead.
And since most customers are not ready to buy for 9-12 months in this industry, marketing needs to get every name and every email in order to properly nurture leads that aren’t ready to purchase in the short-term.
If you think alignment is tough with internal teams, just imagine how difficult it is to manage if you use external marketing agencies. Outsourcing magnifies the complexities around trust and remote coordination.
If you think alignment is tough with internal teams, just imagine how difficult it is to manage if you use external marketing agencies. Outsourcing magnifies the complexities around trust and remote coordination.
If you think alignment is tough with internal teams, just imagine how difficult it is to manage if you use external marketing agencies. Outsourcing magnifies the complexities around trust and remote coordination.
Unfortunately, these misalignment scenarios are all too common. Why? One reason is personalities. By the nature of their job responsibilities, the personalities of sales and marketing people are very different. These are generalizations, of course, but sales people tend to be direct, routine-oriented (selling is selling), and of the moment. We have to hurry up and wait…going through short spurts of crazy amounts of activity followed by slower periods. We have to be able to meet quotas and bring in the bucks.
And marketing people tend to be more creative and more concerned with esoteric concepts such as brand. We are focused more on the long-term, and are really comfortable with constant changes…in technology, in trade show tactics, in PR strategy. Just look at how social media has changed the entire marketing landscape in the last 10 years.
We have a constant hum of activity as our campaigns are planned out over months or even years.
But in the end, sales and marketing have one common goal and that’s to grow the organization. So whether you’ve had marketing and sales alignment programs in place and need to evaluate their effectiveness or you’re starting from scratch, we’d like to share our proven recommendations for aligning sales and marketing.
Recommendation #1: Definitions are your friend. Sales and marketing alignment begins with shared definitions. What is a contact? A sales qualified lead? An opportunity?
Recommendation #1: Definitions are your friend. Sales and marketing alignment begins with shared definitions. What is a contact? A sales qualified lead? An opportunity?
Would you believe only 45% of businesses have a company-wide definition of a sales-ready lead? That’s the case, according to a recent Hubspot survey.
At a minimum make sure sales and marketing define funnel stages, target market segments and your buyers’ sales process. Also agree on how you are going to track and measure conversions from one funnel stage to the next. And revisit definitions annually to make sure they’re still relevant.
This is an example funnel we developed for one of our clients. You can see that each stage is clearly defined and expected conversion rates are used to determine how many total touches we need at the top of the funnel to meet the specific revenue goal.
Recommendation #2: Agree on a single view of the truth. Data is the great equalizer here. Sharing facts takes the emotions out of the blame game and holds people accountable. Embrace quality data that’s combined with intelligence and analysis from both sales and marketing.
A shared sales and marketing dashboard is vital because it enables your organization to understand the velocity and shape of the sales pipeline and make real-time adjustments if you see opportunities or roadblocks.
This particular funnel comes from our Allocadia marketing budgeting system that adds detailed lead, conversion, opportunity, and closed revenue metrics to the marketing and sales funnel to provide a holistic view to both sides.
Recommendation #2: Agree on a single view of the truth. Data is the great equalizer here. Sharing facts takes the emotions out of the blame game and holds people accountable. Embrace quality data that’s combined with intelligence and analysis from both sales and marketing.
A shared sales and marketing dashboard is vital because it enables your organization to understand the velocity and shape of the sales pipeline and make real-time adjustments if you see opportunities or roadblocks.
This particular funnel comes from our Allocadia marketing budgeting system that adds detailed lead, conversion, opportunity, and closed revenue metrics to the marketing and sales funnel to provide a holistic view to both sides.
Recommendation #3: Partner with the sales team on how to deploy and use content effectively. 61% of marketers think their sales tools and content are being used in the right way. But only 28% of salespeople agree. (KnowledgeTree)
Recommendation #3: Partner with the sales team on how to deploy and use content effectively. 61% of marketers think their sales tools and content are being used in the right way. But only 28% of salespeople agree. (KnowledgeTree)
As you can see in the diagram, it’s most effective when marketing understands how sales is using content. When sales understands how customers are using content. And finally, when marketing understands how customers are using content to close the loop.
Credit: http://blog.trap.it/blog/why-your-sales-content-may-not-be-working
As you can see in the diagram, it’s most effective when marketing understands how sales is using content. When sales understands how customers are using content. And finally, when marketing understands how customers are using content to close the loop.
Credit: http://blog.trap.it/blog/why-your-sales-content-may-not-be-working
As you can see in the diagram, it’s most effective when marketing understands how sales is using content. When sales understands how customers are using content. And finally, when marketing understands how customers are using content to close the loop.
Credit: http://blog.trap.it/blog/why-your-sales-content-may-not-be-working
Recommendation #4: Use and share technology, but only after doing the hard work already mentioned. I will let you in on a little secret: 84% of best-in-class organizations empower marketing with access to their CRM. Shocking, I know.
Marketing automation capabilities such as lead generation, lead scoring, and nurturing are important drivers of marketing and sales alignment. Marketers – don’t let the sales department hide conversion metrics or lost deal data from you. And sales – request to see marketing program plans, spend, competitive analysis, and corrective actions. Transparency is key.
Recommendation #4: Use and share technology, but only after doing the hard work already mentioned. I will let you in on a little secret: 84% of best-in-class organizations empower marketing with access to their CRM. Shocking, I know.
Marketing automation capabilities such as lead generation, lead scoring, and nurturing are important drivers of marketing and sales alignment. Marketers – don’t let the sales department hide conversion metrics or lost deal data from you. And sales – request to see marketing program plans, spend, competitive analysis, and corrective actions. Transparency is key.
Recommendation #5: OK it wouldn’t be a Clarity Quest presentation without a bit of controversy. We really like separate departmental leaders with equal power that both report to a CEO who strongly believes in the power of sales AND marketing. It’s more common to see both departments reporting to the same person, a VP Sales & Marketing for example, but this scenario only succeeds in rare cases and usually involves an exceptional leader that has held both sales and marketing roles. If that person is really good, she’s usually the CEO. I’ve met 2 VPs of Sales/Marketing over my 25 years in business that excelled in this role.
More often, a dual marketing-sales leader has a bias towards sales OR marketing. Even if they try, they cannot be objective. Remember the guy with the “big S, small M syndrome”?
As part of our services we perform competitive analysis of marketing programs and we can tell within minutes of looking at a company’s website if they have a Chief Marketing Officer. As an example, go look at Rackspace.com versus their competitors. You can immediately tell they have a CMO before you see the leadership page. If your company can only support one person, try to hire one that has equal belief in sales and marketing.
Recommendation #6: Engage sales when building personas. Persona definition is critical to developing marketing messages that resonate with your target audience. Too often marketing defines personas in a silo and then they gather dust on a server. Salespeople have the most visibility and insights into how your customers and prospects think, behave, and respond to marketing and sales materials.
When building personas, engage your sales team. They will be more than willing to talk about their experiences and share what’s working and what’s not. Don’t stop at persona development. Keep the communication open and run your messaging concepts and collateral by the sales team. They will make sure it resonates with your targets and should be excited to use the new materials.
We have a client that’s developing a patient flow optimization solution and since that field and hospital IT leadership roles are evolving quickly, it was super important to bring in the sales team for persona development. It was really refreshing to work with a team in which the CTO, Director of Marketing and VP Sales were all involved with defining the personas and funnel stages from day one. We continue to have great alignment between sales, internal marketing and our agency on this account and it makes a world of difference. We just changed the tact of an email campaign based on input sales received on a series of prospecting calls.
Recommendation #7: Give quotas to sales AND marketing. Sales quotas are a common measure of sales team success, and work well to motivate salespeople and keep the company geared towards financial growth. While conversion quotas alone work well for sales, marketing needs a different set of metrics. Holding marketing accountable for revenue conversions is indeed one required element, but we believe marketing needs additional success metrics as well.
Giving marketing reasonable quotas and targets is very doable if you properly defined your sales funnel. Run the numbers to see how many marketing qualified leads you need to generate enough sales qualified leads, opportunities, and closed deals to support your revenue goals. Hold marketing accountable for generating the right number of marketing qualified leads, and hold sales accountable for converting those leads into customers. Well-defined sales and marketing quotas - and respect for each - will lead to mutual accountability.
Take a look at Revenue Disruption by Marketo’s CEO Phil Fernandez if you haven’t read it. It has some great advice on how to set expectations for sales and marketing along with recommendations for defining your custom funnel.
Recommendation #8: Unless you have full trust and transparency with outside agencies helping you with PR, lead generation or content, you’re not going to get optimal results. If you need exclusivity in a market sector or product category to feel completely comfortable, mention that from the outset of your sales engagement with agencies.
Don’t be afraid to air your “dirty laundry” under non-disclosure. Believe me, every company has its dark sides and as agencies we’ve heard it all. If we know what’s truly going on and where the challenges lie, we can team with you to address them.
Recommendation #8: Unless you have full trust and transparency with outside agencies helping you with PR, lead generation or content, you’re not going to get optimal results. If you need exclusivity in a market sector or product category to feel completely comfortable, mention that from the outset of your sales engagement with agencies.
Don’t be afraid to air your “dirty laundry” under non-disclosure. Believe me, every company has its dark sides and as agencies we’ve heard it all. If we know what’s truly going on and where the challenges lie, we can team with you to address them.
Recommendation #9: The fun one… BOND. Have beers, or coffee, or chocolate together. Do a March Madness bracket together. Informal team building outside of work gives new perspective and appreciation for each other as individuals. I love the sales and marketing interactions I often see at HIMSS because everyone on the team HAS to come together to make that show floor and dinner meetings a success. But this alignment has to happen more than once or twice per year. We have a client that invites the sales and marketing teams, including us as their agency, to baseball or hockey games before or after every event. Believe me, once you’ve had your butt frozen to a seat in Wrigley Field alongside a colleague you are bonded for life.
Recommendation #9: The fun one… BOND. Have beers, or coffee, or chocolate together. Do a March Madness bracket together. Informal team building outside of work gives new perspective and appreciation for each other as individuals. I love the sales and marketing interactions I often see at HIMSS because everyone on the team HAS to come together to make that show floor and dinner meetings a success. But this alignment has to happen more than once or twice per year. We have a client that invites the sales and marketing teams, including us as their agency, to baseball or hockey games before or after every event. Believe me, once you’ve had your butt frozen to a seat in Wrigley Field alongside a colleague you are bonded for life.
Recommendation #9: The fun one… BOND. Have beers, or coffee, or chocolate together. Do a March Madness bracket together. Informal team building outside of work gives new perspective and appreciation for each other as individuals. I love the sales and marketing interactions I often see at HIMSS because everyone on the team HAS to come together to make that show floor and dinner meetings a success. But this alignment has to happen more than once or twice per year. We have a client that invites the sales and marketing teams, including us as their agency, to baseball or hockey games before or after every event. Believe me, once you’ve had your butt frozen to a seat in Wrigley Field alongside a colleague you are bonded for life.
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