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3 Ways to Find Budget for ABM in an Economic Downturn

Engagio

During these uncertain times, putting your limited marketing budget to the best use to stimulate revenue growth and form better relationships with your best customers becomes even more important. Now more than ever, getting hyper-targeted using ABM / ABX as your go-to-market (GTM) approach is critical.

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What I Learned Rebuilding My Company’s Lead Qualification System

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

We spent hours manually qualifying every lead, determining which ones were worth more attention in the sales cycle. On the sales side, the problem was even worse. This focus on intro calls meant that 90% of the time, the sales team couldn’t focus on down-funnel activity. What is this lead’s marketing budget? (0–4

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Why VP Sales Leaders Need Social Media Engagement, Too

Oktopost

It’s of the utmost importance that sales leaders open the communication channel with marketing , in order to have a good understanding about the processes and tools marketers use to generate high-quality leads, especially when it comes down to a VP Sales managing the full sales process from qualifying leads (MQLs) to closing business.

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Why Elevating Your Metrics’ Sophistication Matters

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

To effectively project these kinds of statistics, B2B marketing teams need to look at a marketing analytics solution that provides features including: - Forecast deals and bookings before they enter the sales cycle. - Create analytic models that predict conversations between funnel stages over time.

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Sales and Marketing Alignment: Best Practices and Tips to Drive Revenue

DealSignal

When sales and marketing alignment is in place, the results are higher-impact marketing activities, increased sales productivity, faster sales cycles, higher win rates, and rapid top-line revenue growth. Initiating Sales and Marketing Alignment. Strategize together from the start.

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Opportunity Knocks! -Three Tips for Talking About More Than Just Leads

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

How and when did marketing engage with these opportunities? Oftentimes by downloading content from a website or by attending a seminar during the sales evaluation process. Especially in companies with longer sales cycles, marketing plays a key role in influencing these opportunities and moving them down the sales pipeline.

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Demand Generation Tips: Thought Leadership With Sean Donahue of MarketingSherpa

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Blogs, LinkedIn groups, Twitter feeds, and the like don’t replace workhorse tactics like email marketing or webinars, but those channels increasingly are where your customers and prospects spend time online. With marketing budgets under pressure, marketers may have to do more with less. Optimize what’s working now.