Bridging the Gap: 6 Steps to Seamless Sales & Marketing Alignment - Slides

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Bridging the Gap6 Steps to Seamless Sales & Marketing Alignment

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1 Can’t We All Just Get Along? Understanding the Rift Between Sales & Marketing

2 6 Steps to Seamless AlignmentTeam Up to Drive More Sales-Qualified Leads

3 Live Q&AHave Questions? Ask Away!

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/ Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Source: Hubspot

According to a Corporate Executive Board study, 87% of the terms Sales and Marketing leaders use to describe each other are negative.

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“Sales reps ignore 50% of marketing leads.” - Reachforce

“Only 30% of CMOs have a clear process or program to make marketing and sales alignment a priority.” -CMO Council

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“B2B companies’ inability to align sales and marketing teams around the right processes and technologies has cost them upwards of 10% or more of revenue per year.” -IDC

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/ Can’t We All Just Get Along?/ Can’t We All Just Get Along?

When unlikely friends get along everyone wins. Companies with aligned Sales and Marketing generate 208% more revenue from marketing.

Source: MarketingProfs

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/ 6 Steps to Seamless Alignment

1 Make sure marketing can measure ROI.

Lead volume is up by 50% and cost per lead is

down 25%!

I’m totally getting a raise this quarter.

Here’s the scenario. Marketing is overwhelmed with data and KPIs.

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Sure, those marketing metrics are nice, but can you tie it to revenue?

Lead volume is good but what about quality?

Joe from Sales says we need more tradeshow

leads.


Make sure marketing can measure ROI.Then the CEO enters the picture.

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Make sure marketing can measure ROI.B2B marketers still name “proving ROI” as their #1 digital marketing challenge.

Source: Webmarketing123, 2015 State of Digital Marketing

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Make sure marketing can measure ROI.Where does it all breakdown? Data silos are often the culprit.

SEO data is in Google Analytics

Social data is over here in Hootsuite.

Email performance is over here in Marketo

Ad data is over here in Marin.

CRM

Out of the box, Sales will most likely see

each lead attributed to “Web”.

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Make sure marketing can measure ROI.Here’s where cross-channel attribution comes in.

Let’s say Suzie searches for “marketing automation software”.

Google serves an organic listing for your site linking to your latest eBook.

Suzie clicks on the link, but then decides to go to lunch.

While she’s at lunch, browsing the NY Times on her phone, she sees a display ad for your eBook.

Suzie clicks on the ad and downloads the eBook.

Sales gives Suzie a call a few hours later, and sets up a demo appointment.

A month later Suzie buys your software!

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Make sure marketing can measure ROI.Close the loop directly within your CRM so it’s visible to Sales.

Opportunity Name

Revenue Commitment

First Touch

$100,000 Source: Organic SearchLanding Page: /webinar

San Francisco Startup – SEO Opportunity

Last Touch Source: Event - TradeshowLanding Page: N/A

Suzie’s Software- Demand Gen Opportunity

$75,000 Source: Organic SearchLanding Page: /new-eBook

Source: Paid SearchLanding Page: /new-eBook

Now you can truly optimize for ROI.

Plus, you can tell Joe from Sales his tradeshow leads actually came from digital.

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Calculate the funnel to define common goalsSales always has a quota. Marketing should have a lead quota, too.

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If you have this data, you can calculate the number of leads you need at each stage of the funnel to hit your revenue goal.

% converted to sales opportunities

% convert to proposals

% converted to closed-won deals.

Average closed deal size.

# of Marketing Qualified Leads

% converted to Sales Qualified Leads

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Calculate the funnel to define common goalsSales always has a quota. Marketing should have a lead quota, too.

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% converted to sales opportunities

% convert to proposals

% converted to closed-won deals.

Average closed deal size.

# of Marketing Qualified Leads

% converted to Sales Qualified LeadsIncentivize Marketing &

Sales to work together.

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Build a clear lead hand-off process.Define the difference between MQLs and SQLs.

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Efficiency is key. 61% of B2B marketers send all leads directly to Sales, however, only 27% of those leads will be qualified.

-MarketingProfs

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Build a clear lead hand-off process.Build a nurture track for leads that aren’t ready to buy, yet.

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Email

Social

SEO

SEM

Awareness

Evaluation

Purchase

BU acquires Marketing Qualified Lead via email.

BU determines lead as Sales Qualified.

BU qualifies the lead for direct follow up or forwards to field sales.

Field sales calls directly or sends the lead to distributor.

Kick back to nurture if not ready for Sales.

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Create an SLA and report on it. Define a Service Level Agreement between Marketing & Sales. This holds both sides accountable for concrete, numerical goals.

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Create an SLA and report on it. Marketing should report on leads acquired over time.

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Source: Hubspot

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Create an SLA and report on it. Sales should report on both follow-up speed and depth of follow-up (# of attempts to contact).

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Source: Hubspot

Sales Follow-Up Speed

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Build an effective feedback loop.Sales needs to be able to speak to the latest Marketing collateral.

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Build an effective feedback loop.Marketing needs to adjust campaigns quickly to facilitate methods that bring in the most sales-qualified leads.

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Opportunity Name

Revenue Commitment

First Touch

$100,000 Source: Organic SearchLanding Page: /webinar

San Francisco Startup – SEO Opportunity

Last Touch Source: Event - TradeshowLanding Page: N/A

Suzie’s Software- Demand Gen Opportunity

$75,000 Source: Organic SearchLanding Page: /new-eBook

Source: Paid SearchLanding Page: /new-eBook

Again, attribution is key!

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Invest in top-notch marketing technology.Make sure your marketing automation platform integrates seamlessly with your CRM, otherwise you could be in for quite a headache.

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