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...
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...
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...