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Do CMOs really understand how their teams use martech?

Martech

When shiny object syndrome strikes, the world is full of possibilities, if your team can just invest in a few tools to improve engagement, identify in-market buyers or send that right message at the absolute right time. For a lot of marketers, especially in the B2B sector, that time is not now.

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Why B2B Marketers are Critical to Revenue Operations

Marketing Interactions

While the events I’ve attended and material I’ve read tend to apply the focus on sales as the central pivot for RevOps, I find that approach distracting for sales and a discredit to B2B marketers. But in a market driven by subscription business models, CS plays a key role in onboarding, retention, and expansion.

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How Planful uses customer intent to speed up the B2B buying cycle 

Martech

When Rowan Tonkin joined Planful as CMO three years ago, he faced two main challenges. Tonkin needed more reviews in more places, but he also wanted to streamline Planful’s marketing strategy to focus on in-market buyers — the people who had done their research and were close to making a purchase.

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The Big Shift: How the Economy, AI, and Privacy are Changing Everything We Know About Marketing

Act-On

For marketers across virtually all industries, but especially those working in SaaS, this cut-mode mentality has led to fewer in-market buyers. How are you driving high performance and high ROI work out of marketing?’ If you’re not ready as a CMO, you’d better get ready.” It’s just going to happen.

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How To Get The Handoff To Sales Right: Why First-Party And Validated Buyer-Level Data Is Essential For Effective Qualification

NetLine

The pain B2B demand gen marketing pros experience whenever sales fails to act on leads or dismiss them prematurely can be quite painful. Sales, conversely, pulls its collective hair out whenever marketing overpromises and underdelivers on quality buyer-level information. But not any content or messaging will do.

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Attention B2B Marketers: 4 Things Your Sales Team Wants

6sense

The best B2B marketing teams all have­ one thing in common: they treat the sales team as one of their clients. This view makes marketing qualified leads not a metric for measuring campaigns, but a product delivered to sales development reps and executives. Find in-market buyers and connect them with sales.

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How Today’s Changing Market Is a Golden Opportunity for Marketers

Terminus

Terminus CMO, Natalie Cunningham , recently gave a keynote address at B2BSMX in Boston. We’ve taken her talking points and spun them up into this blog to talk about how this time of change is a real opportunity for marketers. Every marketer is scrambling. It’s the price of entry in today’s changing market.”.