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My Sample Marketing Plan Shows Sales And Finance On Your Side
If you were a Chief Marketing Officer at a $500M B2B global enterprise, you'd already know that you have only 18 months to prove your mettle to Sales and Finance. That's average tenure for a CMO.
If Sales Hates You...
On the one hand, Sales is only too glad to throw you under the bus for your team's failure to convey the right message to the right people at the right time everywhere in the world.
That's why they're claiming that you flood the Sales force with useless sales leads.
The reps complain that they have to go out and get the deals with little to no help from you. These folks get paid on deals that they forecast to close this quarter not in 6 months.
Is Sales calling you friend?
If Finance Hates You...
On the other hand, you have Finance. These folks only care about the numbers. They crunch them and, next thing you know, they're asking you for a return on marketing investment, else here comes a budget cut. And then another. And then another.
Well, you've cut your campaigns funding to the bone. Headcount is next. Yeah, cost containment and operational effectiveness are crucial to the survival of your operation.
But, is Finance calling you friend?
Who Loves You, Baby?
If neither Finance nor Sales is calling you their friend, then, my dear marketer, you're toast. Can you see why your CMO might need a marketing strategy consultant instead of some run of the mill sample marketing plan?
Yes. I've heard it before. Consultants are too expensive you say. Gimme a break. This is the 21st-Century!
Even consultants can be virtual. Being virtual reduces your expense but not the consultant's effectiveness.
A sample marketing plan may be free. But you get your money's worth.
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Anybody like you can adopt best practices. Anyone like you can follow a cookie-cutter approach to setting a marketing house in order. But does that give you the edge? Does it transform you into a true partner with Sales and Finance?
You gain a comparative advantage by specializing in improving strategic areas in your operation (do you know what they are?) and not by merely following the herd. This is how you manage to deliver better leads to Sales and greater financial benefits to Finance.
This also means that you will need customized marketing solutions not a sample marketing plan to get the edge in today's globally competitive landscape.
In short, you need a custom-made plan to keep Marketing from getting blamed for wasting Sales' time and Finance's money.
I do this by building the business case and execution strategy for optimizing and even outsourcing certain marketing operations to streamline workflow process, marketing productivity, intelligence and cost reduction. This is what gives you the edge.
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Use this database-driven platform to get reliable and sustainable customer and market insights. (Call this intelligent marketing!)
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How to increase your chances at system adoption
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How mobility and social media can add a new dimension to your understanding of your customer base
How to focus on the most critical information that produces the best campaign results
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Don't just settle for some sample marketing plan. Get the edge. Avoid the typical imbalance between planning and executing. Don't wonder whether you're promoting to the right target, whether you're keeping pace with recent marketing advances or whether you can give an intelligible explanation of your entire operation to upper management.
If you want customer knowledge to base your planning on, if you want greater sales and customer satisfaction, if you want transparency in how marketing spends its budget and whether this means more work done by fewer resources, then you will find this information in my site.
After that we need to talk. Or else, if you're ready to talk now, then contact me, the marketing strategy consultant, for a free consultation.
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