In this exciting episode of the Selling in Asia Podcast, Tom sits down with Andy Culligan, chief marketing officer at Leadfeeder – The web app increases your sales intelligence by integrating sales and marketing data. Don’t miss out on this episode as they discuss the importance of marketing and sales working in tandem to improve prospecting, set up revenue targets, and how they interlink to foster this alignment. As well as key insights into:
- How can sales reps elevate the customer or prospect touchpoint, and why is this crucial?
- What you should avoid when using an omnichannel approach.
- Essential sales tools you need right now
Aligning Sales & Marketing
The most crucial element in a marketing organization at the moment is revenue. You won’t be aligned with your sales team if you’re not thinking of revenue. If they’re not aligned with your sales team, then the marketing team won’t be taken seriously, and both will go off to do their own thing. It’s just a waste of resources; now you’ve got this gap in the middle. Therefore, you end up confused, and the customer doesn’t benefit.
Ultimately, you’re bringing the two departments together as one organization rather than two separate entities moving differently. Therefore, the alignment starts to trickle down, so you’ll have people in the marketing team going back to the sales with questions and vice-versa.
Setting Revenue Targets With Sales & Marketing
When aligning your sales and marketing team by setting revenue targets together, start by considering your goals for the year. Then, further break that down into how many new customers you need to hit the target. Which ultimately helps your marketing team create content, optimize relevant landing pages, and manage campaigns.
Essential Sales Tools
Customer Relationship Management Software
You could use Salesforce, Zoho, or Microsoft Dynamics. Whatever you’re using, make sure you’re using it. What’s the best CRM platform? The answer is the one that your team actually uses.
They’re all great; they all have great features and limitations and some customization elements but don’t get fixated on that. Just make sure that you’ve got buy-in to use the CRM at the highest levels to show your reps how they can actually save time and close more deals faster by entering their notes in there and setting follow-up action items and reminders and tasks so they can stay on top of their sales pipeline.
Social Media
Ensure you’re using LinkedIn as a minimum in your sales tech stack. Sales teams need to be using social media platforms. If you’re in B2B sales, ensure your team is active on LinkedIn and use it for prospecting, researching customers and nurturing leads for those not yet ready to buy.
Website Monitoring for Sales Teams
While marketing teams have analytics tools like Google Analytics and Facebook, sales teams can get intelligence on website visitors that helps them fill their pipeline with tools like Leadfeeder. Leadfeeder and the like allow teams to identify which companies visit their website and get email alerts when a certain company visits. This allows them to know which companies they should follow up with and when.
Also read:
- The Increasing Importance Of Digital Tools with Carol Fong of Salesforce
- Asynchronous Team Communication – The Future Of Managing Remote Sales Teams
More About Leadfeeder
Leadfeeder is a buyer intent data tool that turns anonymous web traffic into actionable data. Leadfeeder identifies the companies visiting your site, how they got there, their behavior, and their intent to purchase.
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