5. What I believe
• Marketing exists to make sales easier
• Your brand is the promise to the customer
• The glass is half full. Always.
#advocacyadv
6. The traditional funnel is gone
The buyer is in charge
Sales & marketing are not aligned
We need to catch up to B2C
What Drives the Advocacy Imperative?
Customers are simply easier (if they are happy)
10. The Buyer is in Charge
Source: Forrester, Death of a B2B
11. Marketing is Behind
• Messy, incomplete
customer data
• No direct customer
interaction
• Don’t put customer
data to work
Source: Forrester Make Your B2B Marketing Thrive in the Age of the Customer
12. We Are Not Aligned→ Conflict
Long-term
Segments
Top of lead funnel
Campaign metrics
Net new accounts
This quarter
Accounts, titles, people
Start of sales cycle
Quota attainment
Grow accounts (customers!)
13. Catching Up to B2C
Source: Forrester, The Evolved CMO in 2016
Q415 Forrester/Heidrick & Struggles Global Evolved CMO Survey
16. Embrace account-based everything
Making Advocacy a Core Strategy
Technology solutions allow scale
Align sales & marketing
Get CX responsibility
Create a customer data strategy
17. Align Sales & Marketing in Every Process
Source: Forrester, Build an Adaptive, Efficient
Process to Elevate Leads to Revenue
23. Embrace account-based everything
Making Advocacy a Core Strategy
Technology solutions allow scale
Align sales & marketing
Get CX responsibility
Create a customer data strategy
24. Customer Loyalty Drives Revenue
• Increase cross-sell by 22%
• Drive up-sell revenue from 13-51%
• Increase order size from 2-5X
Source: Constellation Research