What are some of your top strategies in driving alignment with Sales?
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Atlan VP, Growth • 3y
Strategies usually get defined bi-annually or annually and most of us don't have complete influence and control on what gets defined. So allow me to stray a bit and take...
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Gong Senior Director, EMEA Marketing • 3y
Communication! Shared Slack channels, meet regularly and ask your sales team for input so they feel engaged and involved in decisions. Be transparent about how the marke...
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Harvey Vice President Marketing • 3y
For sales and marketing alignment, I find understanding their core KPIs and joining their regular leadership cadence meetings allows you to understand the top of mind cha...
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Counterpart Marketing Lead | Formerly Issuu, OpenText, Webroot • 3y
My advice can apply even outside of Sales - try to frame your interactions around the question - how can I help? Even more so lately, people feel overwhelmed with a const...
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YouTube Marketing Lead for NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV | Formerly Google Cloud • 1y
Ensuring there's alignment between Sales and Marketing is always key. When working in B2B, I found these were some of the best ways to gain that alignment: Share Goals: M...
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OfferFit Director of Demand Generation | Formerly Workday, Atlassian, Deel • 1y
This is definitely a challenge from a demand generation point of view. I have approached this in 2 ways in my career. First I view sales as my customer. Specifically for ...
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Pipeline360 Chief Marketing Officer | Formerly Demandbase, Thomson Reuters • 2y
Prioritize, invest, and over-communicate. I can't emphasize the importance of not just trying to get aligned, but working diligently to remain aligned. Alignment is easy ...
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