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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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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Iterable Chief Marketing Officer • 4y
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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SurveyMonkey Senior Director, Head of Corporate Marketing | Formerly SurveyMonkey, Nielsen • 1y
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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Dusty Robotics Head of Marketing • 4y
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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AlphaSense Senior Director, Solution Marketing | Formerly Procore, Motive • 3y
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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Motive Product Marketing Lead • 3y
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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Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle • 4y
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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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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