Sales & Marketing Alignment
- Less than half of BMR respondents said they had shared goals between Sales & Marketing
- Own one number between teams – a single source of truth
- Revisit alignment regularly (at least every six months) to allow for the business to evolve and mature
- Work on both transactional and cultural alignment solutions
- Important to celebrate successes together
- Everyone must co-own customer experience, enshrined in a series of relevant metrics for it to be successful.
- Must look at end-to-end journey, including customer service. Everyone in the org must be on board.
- Stop thinking in terms of B2B – it’s human-to-human and it’s always about real people.
- Automation isn’t a magic bullet, it takes effort.
- This feels like the year marketing automation finally comes into its own.
- Still a gap between having the tools and knowing how to use them – integration with CRM and whole of business goals is critical.
- Businesses should roll out automation as an internal communication piece with a clear vision and …