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Mission Impossible: Making Hard Choices as a First-time CMO (Part 2)

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Having a Service-Level Agreement (SLA) in place between sales and marketing teams helps both sides of the house. DiscoverOrg, we did this by getting sales and marketing in the same room to “whiteboard” the lead process. This is primarily because they lack formal practices to drive the ideation process. Social listening.

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BEYOND IT: The Breadth of DiscoverOrg’s Sales & Marketing Intelligence

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According to Gartner, in 2007, spending on software rose 13% and overall IT spending grew 11% worldwide. In late 2016, Gartner confirmed a widely held belief that CMOs are expected to spend more on technology than CIOs in 2017. Well, IT budgets were still pretty big back then, so that’s one simple reason. Why so high?

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4 Sales Team Weaknesses that Inhibit Revenue Growth

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Evaluating and hiring a winning Sales Team is not unlike the process of evaluating character attributes in a video game. Many organizations, administer cognitive aptitude tests to gauge incoming sales reps’ ability to quickly consume and process information as a barometer for their learning ability.