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A Conversation With Eric Pratt: Why Sales Playbooks are a Necessary Complement to Inbound Marketing Plans

Costello

For Eric Pratt, more than thirteen years in the sales and marketing industry taught him a few things about how these teams can work together. This understanding led him to found Revenue River in 2009, a digital marketing and sales innovation agency. How can sales enablement complement inbound marketing efforts?

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. Sales Enablement Ineffectiveness? So why are the sales enablement investments not paying off?

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Sales does not use our Marketing Assets

The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

This is probably not a wise thing to do when CMOs are increasingly held accountable by CEOs about their contribution they make to the business In my Masterclass “Why do Salespeople Make Little Use of Marketing Assets” on August 20, 2009 at 11 a.m. That is also when I started to use the term Marketing Assets instead of Marketing Collateral.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

According to SiriusDecisions, focusing on marketing costs per sales person indicates that on average companies invest a significant $43,011 / salesperson, an estimated 3%-7% of the opportunity value of the sales pipeline. Surveys reveal that buyers are not satisfied with the value sales professionals are delivering to engagements.