Category: GTM Strategy
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Reducing Unnecessary CRO and CMO Turnover – Six Alignment Checks to Troubleshoot Go-To-Market Issues
Introduction The list of soundbite issues that cause CRO and CMO replacement is long: We have all heard these issues either directly when a recruiter calls or when we get an explanation for why an executive has been replaced. The problem with these sound bites, and the problem with acting on these soundbites, is that…
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10 Tips for Marketing After an Acquisition
Congratulations! Your PE back company has just made its first acquisition. Now assuming the purpose of the transaction wasn’t just for the technology, what do you do next? This post comes from being on both sides of these transactions and, worse, joining companies after they had been on an acquisition spree, and the resulting roll-up…
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10 Marketing Lessons From Working as a PE Operating Partner
After running numerous marketing and sales teams over the years, I had the opportunity to be an operating partner at a private equity firm for two years. Operating Partners perform due diligence on potential investments, serve as interim operating executives where needed, do short-term projects in the portfolio companies and just generally support the portfolio…
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Shifting to Product-led Growth
A common theme in a lot of CMO searches is the desire to find someone who knows how to do product-led growth models. The story for the hiring companies is somewhat similar – a company is looking to drive more volume sales with freemium models, or more e-commerce from what is today a classic MQL/SQL…
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9 Considerations for Becoming a Multi-Channel Revenue Machine
At some point in a company’s growth, the inbound only, USA only, inside sales only revenue model starts to run out of gas. I have seen this a few times, and it is a function of: size of the market growth rate of the market your revenue relative to the size and market growth market…
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Customer Journey – The Real Process That Matters
Everyone has their funnel sales steps, their sales process, their lead follow up system. If you have read my book on marketing metrics, you get an outline for how to measure the marketing process from driving traffic, converting the traffic, nurturing, passing leads to sales and into the sales funnel. But what all these processes…
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