#2 Creating a formalized lead gen & marketing we’re tentatively calling a Building a Revenue Engine. The focus is on articulating the processes, metrics, roles and responsibilities to get technology marketers aligned with sales and undertaking marketing activities closely linked to revenue production.
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#5 Typical issues faced by these types of companies are...
#10 All marketing activities have to be linked to revenue. Thus the traditional lead waterfall becomes part of a larger set of marketing tasks such that L to R the corporate revenue goal informs the lead waterfall (thus, number of leads needed for marketing and sales based on their conversion rates). Marketing then needs a campaign calendar to drive the lead generation activities, this informs marketing spend and then with other branding and conference activities informs the whole marketing budget.
Any marketing activity without specific lead goals is considered branding and becomes part of the overall marketing budget. Thus, some conferences fall into the campaign calendar and others are branding.