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How to articulate the importance of collaborating with Sales on planning, execution and ongoing measurement and communication of a Demand and Account-Based Marketing?

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  1. Erika Barbosa
    Erika Barbosa

    Counterpart Marketing Lead | Formerly Issuu, OpenText, Webroot • 3y

    Partnership with sales is critical. It’s important to have an open line of communication with them for unified success. How do you articulate the importance of collaboration? Constant feedback loop. Express the mutual benefit of a constant feedback loop. This will benefit sales / revenue equally. Respond versus react. With collaboration you can respond in a meaningful way to what’s most impactful and continue iterating. Sales are on the front lines. Understanding their feedback on how customers ...Read More

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  2. Tamara Niesen
    Tamara Niesen

    WooCommerce CMO | Formerly Shopify, D2L, BlackBerry • 6mo

    Hot take: Demand gen and Sales should never be a handoff. It’s one system. The strongest teams align on who they’re targeting and who they’re not, what signals matter, and what success looks like (before anything launches). ICP definition, messaging, pipeline quality, and feedback from real customer conversations all have to loop back into marketing. I care a lot about shared KPIs and trust. In interviews, I’ll ask where marketing and sales disagreed, where things broke down, and how that tensio ...Read More

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