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...
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...
Increasing Productivity through Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) My experience in this post comes from implementing MAPs in 3 different companies – in one of those companies, the MAP providers (Eloqua, Marketo, Aprimo) were a channel of distribution for us, so I...
This is the first in a series of posts of tying B2B marketing result to revenue. This is the framework for the discussion on how marketing drives revenue for their enterprise organization. A key aspect for business to business marketing to focus on is delivering...