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Two reasons why half your sales pipeline vanishes
Over 50% of your sales pipeline is lost to ‘no decision.’ It’s time to tackle the two key reasons behind these losses and take action now. Most sales teams focus on addressing the first issue but fail to listen to customers for clues about the second issue. So, when the customer has crossed the finish…
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Crafting Home Page Messages: Engaging Your Target Persona
Corporate and product marketing teams sweat over any changes to the homepage hero message. It is the most important message that should not miss the mark with your target persona. On top of it, every executive in the company wants to have a say in it. Depending on the company’s size, even board members have…
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Trust but verify – how I use ChatGPT for competitive analysis.
Trust but verify – how I use ChatGPT for competitive analysis. It’s been a few weeks since I did a post – I was heads down, working on client deliverables. I guess I shouldn’t complain – it’s the life of a consultant! I recently received an email from a SaaS software company. The email copy…
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Five ways to improve your ABM program
Many of you are implementing Account-based Marketing (ABM) programs to seek alternatives to a lead-based funnel program that is no longer yielding good results. However, your ABM program may not be showing the results you expected, and you are under pressure to improve it. This blog may help you identify potential issues and correct them. …
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How to get your customer marketing firing on all cylinders!
I have consulted with several software companies to help them dramatically improve the performance of their customer marketing programs . I would like to share best practices based on those engagements in this blog post. The majority of customer marketing programs typically prioritize activities aimed at engaging new prospects. These include creating customer case studies as…
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Product bundles – watch your discounts!
I have worked with several companies to help them streamline their pricing and packaging as a part of my product marketing consulting work. One issue that I constantly see is that very few companies have caps on sales discounts for bundles. This is especially important when one of the products in the bundle has a…
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How to use sales history to improve your vertical go-to-market performance?
In the last blog post, I discussed the value of ‘white space analysis’ using your sales data history. We discussed how it can help you sharpen your customer marketing, improve your sales coverage model, and identify issues in your go-to-market strategy among other benefits. Today I will discuss how to leverage sales history data and…
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White space analysis – key to successful cross-sell drip campaigns?
In the last blog post, I discussed the value of ‘land and expand’ analysis of your sales transaction data. We discussed how it can help you sharpen your go-to-market execution, increase ACV (Average Contract Value) and create more effective customer marketing programs, among other benefits. Today I will discuss a secondary advantage of analyzing sales…
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Why ‘Land & Expand’ analysis of your sales data is a goldmine
There is so much you can learn from the ‘land and expand’ analysis of your sales history. It can help you sharpen your go-to-market execution, increase ACV (Average Contract Value) and create more effective customer marketing programs, among other benefits. What is land and expand data analysis? You start with extracting sales transaction history into…
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Key Sales, Marketing Metrics for a QBR
Key metrics that sales and marketing should review for a QBR
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Three things to consider when pricing and packaging your SaaS solution
This is the time many companies start thinking about redoing their product packaging and/or pricing for next fiscal year. I shared some thoughts on key considerations for pricing and packaging in a previous blog post. Last week, I had a good discussion with a previous client on pricing and packaging, and decided to build on…
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7 principles for building a kick-ass content marketing machine
Here are seven principles that will help you build a kick-ass content marketing machine within your organization
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