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Demand Generation Advice for the CEO

SBI Growth

This post is written for CEO’s who need to increase demand for their products. Demand generation is the science of stimulating latent demand. A definition of latent demand is a prospect is unaware of a problem. Your marketing department must be skilled at stimulating latent demand.

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Six Clues Your QBRs are Box-Checking Exercises … and How to Fix Them

Emissary

How to fix it: Work with marketing to create templates that are rich in value messaging, and which force customization to the specific client and the state of your relationship. For example: QBRs that occur right before a renewal should have different content and a different tone than those that happen after kicking off. .

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How to Assess and Sequence Your Sales Initiatives

SBI Growth

For example, you may recognize that you have a massive demand generation problem. Will it strengthen your position in the market? Dan cites the example of a sales VP facing a decline in revenue. Fixing the compensation plan first was incorrect. Probability of Success. Possible Return. Will it take too long?

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Nelson Gilliat , Demand Generation Manager at Brantr Media and Author of Death of the SDR , a book whose controversial central philosophy we discuss. A better way to compensate instead of commission. One it’s a marketing thing, and the second thing is a sales thing.

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Executive Recruiting Strategy: 9 Steps for Success

Zoominfo

Some examples of the questions Marchewitz asks: Where will the role be located? Say, for example, that I’m working with a series B startup, making their first big VP of marketing hire with just a couple other people on the team. Do they want someone with a strong product marketing background? Who does the role report to?

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What the Fortune 500 List Teaches the Sales SVP

SBI Growth

For example, how long is your sales cycle? Compensation Planning. Demand Generation and Lead Management. Don’t skip this topic assuming that it is “marketing’s job.” To capture these lost opportunities, you’ll need to reach across the aisle to marketing. Appointment must occur in the next 3 weeks.

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How Giving Money to Your CMO Will Save Your 2013

SBI Growth

Translation: Even if the CEO/CFO allocate more money to you (the CSO), you should allocate some of those dollars to Marketing. Never before has the linkage between Marketing and Sales become more important. Sales and Marketing Teamwork = Success. Perhaps you need to look no further than your marketing compatriot.