Service level agreements
A healthy relationship between sales and marketing starts with the creation of a formal service level agreement (SLA) agreement between sales and marketing to define their responsibilities to each other.
Content Strategy Alignment
Your sales team has a deep understanding of your customer's challenges and pain points; armed with this knowledge your marketing team can help create relevant content that your prospective customers will find exciting and useful.
Demand Metrics Waterfall
Creating a shared model or demand generation waterfall allows sales and marketing to focus on key performance indicators or KPIs such as conversion rates, velocity, and volume.
Program Performance Review
Once your sales and marketing teams are appropriately aligned, it's essential to ensure that you keep that momentum going by getting sales and marketing to collaborate on a consistent and ongoing basis.
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Pillars of a Strong Sales and Marketing Alignment
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Aligning your sales and marketing teams isn’t easy; however, organizations that have proper alignment between sales and marketing teams achieve 20% revenue growth on average annually. Ideally, your cost of customer acquisition will continue to drop as your organization develops more efficient sales and marketing processes while increasing the lifetime value of your customers. How? By aligning your marketing and sales teams, you’ll uncover new ways to achieve scalable and predictable revenue growth.
Content Strategy Alignment
Creating helpful and relevant content is the key to a robust inbound marketing strategy. However, you may wonder what content will move the needle and give your sales team that final push across the finish line. Fortunately, your sales team talks with prospects all the time and have a keen understanding of their top challenges and what gets them excited about your product. Gather your sales and marketing teams for a content brainstorm session to discuss what content your sales reps would like to have to share with their prospects or attract more leads
Demand Metrics Waterfall
A strong sales and marketing alliance is increasingly becoming more of a necessity rather than merely an organizational pipe dream. The demand generation waterfall strongly aligns with modern marketing automation and CRM technology beginning at the top of the marketing funnel and moving down to the bottom of the sales funnel
Program Performance Review
Unifying your sales and marketing team will help you build a predictable pipeline to help fuel growth for your company. However, aligning both sales and marketing departments requires a sound strategy that includes developing a plan, creating an alignment process, and most importantly setting aside time to review program performance. Once your sales and marketing teams begin working together on a consistent and ongoing basis, you’ll start to see the significant impact alignment can have on your bottom line.