Why Your Sales Game Is Lacking & How to Play Ball

It’s no “breaking news” that many of your buyers are online. And by now, I’m sure you are too – between marketing automation, social media and more, we all are digitally invested. Despite the digital migration of your buyers and internal business teams, there is still a disconnect; online marketing activities aren’t translating into insights […]

5 Reasons Why You Should Never Use “Black Box” Lead Scoring

We see it constantly–analytics vendors who claim to offer lead scoring services that will increase your conversion rates enormously and leave you begging for more. These companies typically promise a quick and easy lead scoring deployment that will yield a +20% increase in conversion rates. How the vendors plan to achieve said results, however, isn’t […]

Blow the Doors Off of Inside Sales Performance in 2016

Inside sales is becoming a preferred channel for organizations to drive sales conversations and pipeline growth. It offers major efficiencies over traditional direct sales models, including the ability to specialize sales reps on certain activities and areas of the funnel, and provides major scale in increasing the volume and improving the conversion of deals. Sales […]

Riddle me this: How many apps does it take to make a Sales rep productive?

We were working with a client recently that had over 10,000 global field and inside sales reps. We were amused, but not surprised, when we discovered there were over 10+ different software and customer intelligence tools available to a sales rep to “drive productivity.” Of course, any good sales rep knows that the fastest way […]

MSFT + LNKD: Welcome to the New World of Sales Enablement

Here at MarketBridge, we had collective smiles on our faces when we heard the news. We have been predicting and investing against this scenario for over two years and it’s great to see the big players validate our strategy. Ok, so we didn’t exactly predict this deal, but what MSFT sees is that the era […]

Marketing Performance: Why Is It So #@$% Hard To Get Basic Results?

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” – John Wanamaker, (attributed) More than 100 years later, marketing executives still feel John Wanamaker’s pain. CMOs are under intense pressure to deliver measurable returns on marketing investments. However, delivering consistent, reliable performance metrics remains a challenge for […]

Killing Reps Softly with Customer Data and Marketing Content

As sales leaders, we spend a lot of our time trying to figure out how to make our sales teams more productive. Selling into the sales and marketing technology space, MarketBridge sees many of our clients and peers struggling to do the same. Through that observation, an interesting and counter-intuitive trend has emerged. In an […]

Wrestle Back Control in the Age of the Customer

As organizations continue to look for an edge, increasingly they are looking at the customer buyer journey to figure out how they can better anticipate and manage this journey. Given the shifts in how customers make decisions, involve stakeholder groups, and transact, sales and marketing teams need to continually ask themselves “how can we deliver […]

5 Tips to Arm Sellers in Today’s Digital Environment

B2B Customers have clearly changed how they buy. Their expectations have changed around the buying process in terms of evaluating product or service options, self-educating, and ultimately deciding on and making a purchase. Customers now spend significantly more time doing online research, they expect to be served up content aligned to their buying process, at […]

Marketing Technology Trends for 2016

I came across a great article from Rohit Roy and the MarTech team today that looked at recent results from a survey completed by Spear Marketing Group in September 2015. The survey focused on shifts in importance of specific marketing technologies. Here are some of the great data points, from Rohit and Spear Marketing, on […]