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Sales and Marketing Alignment: Time To Get Serious!
E-books / Sales & Marketing Alignment / May 29, 2018 / Posted by John Golden / 6368

Sales and Marketing Alignment: Time To Get Serious!

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We’re well into the 21st century—yet the subject of Sales and Marketing alignment still seems as pertinent today as it has ever been.

In many organizations, the frustrations seem to endure with every passing year. The age-old blame games are played out. Sales bemoan the quality of leads that Marketing is sending over, and Marketing decries the ability of Sales to close these self-same leads. With all this bemoaning and decrying going on, is it any wonder that the mere suggestion of trying to improve Sales and Marketing alignment is met with cynicism at best, and outright hostility at worst?

And technology, far from helping the situation, has too often simply automated or helped to make the dysfunction more efficient (if that is not oxymoronic but then again so much of this arcane conflict is). Now there is an excuse to engage less and hide behind the screen and push a few buttons rather than sit down and figure out what each group needs from the other.

Are we at last reaching that tipping point where we will all finally accept that changes in buyer behavior have driven a horse and carriage through whatever firewalls and lines of demarcation both Sales and Marketing have used as comfort blankets or excuses not to engage?

To try and answer this, we at Sales POP! engaged with some of the leading thought leaders in the Sales and Marketing space to discuss this subject. We hope this content inspires you to take a lead in your organization, and help both parties realize they need each other, they can help each other and together they are unstoppable.

Isn’t time to bury the hatchet (and not in each other’s backs, either)?

About Author

John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World's Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling. A globally acknowledged Sales & Marketing thought leader, speaker, and strategist. He has conducted over 500 video interviews of thought leaders for Sales POP! online sales magazine and has a podcast channel on iTunes that has over 350 audio interviews He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM. He is also an Amazon best selling author of two books and In his spare time, John is an avid Martial Artist.

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FROM THE CREATORS OF SPIN SELLING―TRIED-AND-TRUE STRATEGIES TO ARM YOU IN THE WAR FOR SALES SUPREMACY "I distinctly remember my first VP talking about 'campaigns' and 'targets.' Indeed, successful salespeople have made learning from military tactics an important aspect of their careers. In this engaging…
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