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How do you balance demand gen targets against sales quotas and company-wide revenue goals?

Related to demand gen / sales alignment, specifically thinking about aligning quarterly targets and demonstrating Demnad Gen's contribution to revenue

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  1. Sheena Sharma
    Sheena Sharma

    JumpCloud Vice President, Revenue Marketing • 2y

    I always think about demand generation's contribution to company revenue. For example, I think about marketing contributing to inbound, new logo pipeline + ARR by segment. Marketing should contribute more to an SMB segment (80%+), and less for an Enterprise or Strategic segment (~30%). All marketing demand generation goals from SQL up to MQL and lead should be derived directly from the revenue goal. Ideally, that revenue goal is built from a shared model across finance, RevOps, sales and marketi ...Read More

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  2. Mindy Servello
    Mindy Servello

    Calendly Head of Demand Generation | Formerly Ping Identity, Calendly • 2y

    When it comes down to it, revenue goals are what demand generation targets should be based off. When it comes to sales quotas, it's important to keep tabs on them because it signals the health of the sales organization which demand generation should always have a pulse on. When there is a territory or AE that is struggling to hit quota, demand generation can use this to start a conversation and see where they need support. Depending on how the team is structured, you'll often find trends. For ex ...Read More

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  3. Steve Armenti
    Steve Armenti

    Google founder @ twelfth ⚡️ data-driven ABM ⚡️ | Formerly Google, DigitalOcean • 2y

    I look at historical conversion rates or make an educated assumption on conversion rates, and then I look at my demand generation budget and back into the expected performance from that budget. I then compare that to the total sales or business Target for the year. I socialize that percentage as the marketing generated revenue number. If the company wants me to contribute a higher percentage to the total revenue then I need more budget. And that's really clear based on the model

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