Lori Christiansen, VP of Marketing at Motus, joins us to discuss how to drive alignment between marketing and sales to accelerate revenue growth.

Marketing leaders have faced numerous difficulties over the past year, but one challenge is not exclusive to just 2020—sales and marketing alignment. Getting this correct is more imperative now than ever before and can make-or-break your growth strategy. Ultimately, companies that create strong alignment win 38% more deals and retain 36% more customers than those who are not aligned.

 

On today’s show, Lori Christiansen, VP of Marketing at Motus, joins SBI Managing Director, Tony Erickson, to discuss how market-leading companies drive alignment between sales and marketing to accelerate revenue growth.

 

Click here for the full podcast version of this interview.

 

Flawlessly Uniting Sales and Marketing Teams

 

  1. Combining and evolving sales and marketing goals for a mutual objective. minute 6:42
  2. How Motus is approaching planning. minute 8:20
  3. Staying focused on the ICP in evolving markets. minute 9:41
  4. Leveraging data to keep up with changing buyer needs. minute 12:02
  5. Communication between marketing and sales to stay on track. minute 14:07
  6. Driving accountability with internal SLA’s. minute 16:15

     

Skip to minute 3:20 to hear Lori share how implementing a “smarketing” team has had the greatest impact when it comes to aligning these two functions:

 

“We live by the term ‘done is better than perfect’ within our team, so we don’t sit and plan everything out 100% and then just execute. We sit together, communicate with the sales team about the things that we are doing, and what those goals are, and then turn it around and test it, and then in two weeks, we reevaluate and change if we need to….Adapt a team smarketing mentality, as well as setting your marketing team up as an agile marketing team.”

 

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Tony Erickson

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As a Managing Director at SBI, Tony works with CEO’s enabling their companies to outpace the competition. He helps CEOs and their executive teams solve one big problem: as leaders, how do they exceed industry growth rates and capture share from the competition? For twenty years, Tony gained experience in consulting, business operations, sales, marketing, and general management. Prior to SBI, he worked with marquis technology companies focused on consulting and outsourcing; IBM, HP, Accenture, where he held a variety of leadership positions. At those companies, his successes included delivering a record sales performance of $935M, double-digit growth of a $350M P&L and building the fastest growing industry for two consecutive years.

 

Three years ago, Tony shifted his focus to smaller companies. With SBI, he has consulted with several Private Equity backed companies and served as Chief Operating Officer at a tech-enabled services firm focused on energy management and sustainability.

 

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