5 common missed revenue reasons related to Sales and Marketing

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...

Mistakes with Sales Teams – ABM

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 make

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...

ABM Marketing and the Role of Customer Support

When adding an Account Based motion to a lead based go-to-market motion, a common question is, ‘what will be our organizational impact – specifically to the Customer Support/Service function in working with Marketing?  What could be different from what we do...

What is a RACI framework for ABM?

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...

My takeway learning from CMO Conferences in 2024

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...