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How do you set revenue targets for your industry that you're focused on when the sales team's quota isn't tied to your industry?

There is an in-depth science to this that many sales or product strategy teams leverage, so with that caveat, I'm sharing a high-level approach. My recommendation is to ...
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Jack Wei
Sendbird fmr Head of Marketing | Formerly SmartRecruiters, Mixpanel, Deloitte, Beardwood&Co5y
Not sure I understand the question. If this is to set revenue targets for a new industry expansion where GTM resources have not yet been assigned, I'd do a top-down and b...
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Priya Gill
Iterable Chief Marketing Officer4y
This is a tough one because it’s difficult to set any sort of revenue targets for your industry if sales is not fully aligned and compensated to sell to that industry. Yo...
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Morgan (Molnar) Lehmann
SurveyMonkey Senior Director, Head of Corporate Marketing | Formerly SurveyMonkey, Nielsen1y
When I read the first part of your question, my first thought was to tie it to sales team quotas ;) In more mature industry GTM motions, having sales teams segmented by i...
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Zachary Reiss-Davis
Dusty Robotics Head of Marketing4y
This is really tricky to do well, and requires strong executive leadership and business operations support to pull off. Right now, at Procore, I work in an environment wh...
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Sina Falaki
AlphaSense Senior Director, Solution Marketing | Formerly Procore, Motive3y
Industry KPIs should encompass sales and marketing performance. Sales and marketing teams need alignment on pipeline, revenue goals, and rep productivity. In many inst...
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Julie Vasquez
Motive Product Marketing Lead3y
The strategic marketing team could provide direction on where the business has the greatest growth potential: where there is a strong product-market fit and room to captu...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle4y
Formally, sales and sales ops should be setting revenue targets and the associated pipeline coverage targets needed to drive marketing strategy. At least for enterprise s...
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Grant Shirk
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Cisco Campus Network Experiences | Formerly Tellme Networks, Microsoft, Box, Vera, Scout RFP, and Sisu Data, to name a few.3y
As a PMM, revenue is a trailing metric and the one you have the least control over. If there aren't existing quotas set by industry (and this is rare), this is likely to ...
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