This is an expansion of an earlier post of the process steps involved in tying marketing investment to revenue and is a viewpoint from someone with real operational experience as head of marketing. Get CEO/GM and head of sales buy in to your objective which is to tie...
I recently met with a Field Marketing leader for a successful B2B company recently and she had echoed a similar concern that is common in our industry  –  her concern was as follows: “The marketing leads we give to sales aren’t being worked by sales, so it’s...
SaaS – software as a service is a business model that was pioneered in the early 2000s to eliminate the costly software license model. There are now a handful of global public company comparables with metrics that are published on the performance of these SaaS...
I just read an interesting post from a fellow EMEA CMO/head of marketing @JWATTON with a thought provoking viewpoint that marketing automation for SaaS (software as a service) US headquartered companies would have less need for heads of regional marketing in locations...
If you are a marketer (or any professional in a company that is non-sales oriented), how do you get informed of your buying cycle in a B2B sale and map your buying process to make sure your tools and messages fit with their needs? At a recent Sales2.0 conference in...
There are several challenges to establish ‘board level’ dashboards that report on marketing activity that tie directly to revenue generation. Here are 5 tips that I’ve used in creating dashboards for executive level reporting. (NOTE – LETS TALK REAL TIME IF...
