2024 has been a super challenging year for acquiring net new revenue. Consequently, many Sales and Marketing teams are experiencing exceptionally slow revenue growth 1H of year, and missed revenue numbers on revised quotas, Consequently, a number of Sales team members...
What is the #1 mistake that B2B Sales teams make with ABM/ABX based on our experiences and conversations at B2B Fusion with GTM teams? (Lessons learned over years in ABX/ABM, a LinkedIn series, see comments) 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝...
9 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 non-Marketing execs and Board members make in marketing discussions (based on my last 4 years of 💯s of conversations): 1️⃣ Not having a clear understanding of marketing terminology, KPIs, metrics, and objectives 2️⃣ Viewing marketing solely as a cost...
A common question we get in our ABM/ABX enablement engagements is, ‘who owns what in an ABX environment?’ Let’s use a RACI framework – for definition sake, a RACI framework is a responsibility assignment matrix used in project management and business process...
10 top themes at Pavilion CMO Summit this week (too many for one post). 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬: Alignment, Revenue, AI, Buyers Committee expanding, Process Building on yesterday’s thread (in comments if you missed it), the second top 3 moment was the community as a...
“10 things I learned about CMO/Board relationships via Pavilion CMO Summit. Keywords: 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭. 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲. 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞. 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬. 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩. (This was 1 of 3 top presentations which I’ll summarize later on LinkedIn.) Kathleen Booth moderated an excellent...
