Chief Outsiders

JULY 22, 2022

As a marketer in the digital age, I am fortunate to have many tools at my disposal that make my job easier. That’s because the Holy Grail for marketers is to understand not just the “who” is likely to buy, but the “why” behind the purchase.

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Marketing Revenue 245

Chief Outsiders

JANUARY 10, 2023

With an average tenure of fewer than seven years, according to some estimates, the CEO has little runway with which to work in creating market and revenue success. It’s an unfamiliar place for many CEOs – particularly those in the SMB and mid-market space.

Marketing 246

Marketing Sales Sales Revenue 246

Chief Outsiders

AUGUST 25, 2022

As we try to determine whether old style, hand-to-hand, touch-it-and-feel-it marketing can compete in today’s switched on, always moving world, is it possible that a bird feather holds the key to the question posed in our headline? By Atul Minocha and Paul Sparrow.

Marketing 264

Marketing Revenue Sales Sales 264

Chief Outsiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By: Carol Eversen and Jeff Loeb As fractional CMOs with deep experience implementing ABM across many B2B companies, we see a pattern emerging: business leaders have very different perspectives about what it takes to implement ABM and how to get started.

ROI 246

ROI Revenue B2B Implementation 246

Help Scout Leadership

MAY 20, 2021

Marketing is often focused heavily (or even solely) on generating new leads and customers, but it’s important not to overlook your existing customers when creating your marketing strategies. So how can marketing teams create content and messaging to improve customer success and drive retention? Case studies. Customer events.

SaaS 200

SaaS Marketing Retention Onboarding 200

Peter Winick

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Going from idea to prototype, to marketable product. An interview with Pete O’Heeron about pushing the envelope of science to bring cutting edge offerings to the market. Pete offers great insight into how to take new niche ideas from prototype to market and have conversations that draws your audience in. And I immediately.

Marketing 285

Marketing Rollout Recruitment Revenue 285

Chief Outsiders

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

By: Carol Eversen and Jeff Loeb Part 4 - Getting Started with ABM In part 3 of our four-part ABM blog series , we explored the technologies available to support ABM and articulated how different tech stack elements can be leveraged to support your ABM program.

ROI 246

ROI Revenue Accounts Marketing 246

Chief Outsiders

MARCH 27, 2024

In today's competitive business environment, a highly skilled and empowered sales force is essential for driving revenue growth. This is where the collaboration between the sales and marketing departments becomes crucial. However, the effectiveness of sales training alone is limited without consistent support and reinforcement.

Sales 162

Sales Sales Marketing Revenue 162

Chief Outsiders

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Sure, if you’re like most companies, you have the digital tools you need to generate marketing-qualified leads, or MQLs, by the scads and buckets – casting a broad net through newsletters, promotional emails, social media mentions, website interactions – you know, the entire digital gamut.

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Chief Outsiders

MAY 24, 2022

As a result of the “go-go” market conditions, a new benchmark has been established: If your company can't show a minimum Compound Annual Growth Rate of 10 percent, you are putting yourself and your company at risk. As never before, the key to a business's health, high corporate valuations – and CEO job security -- is revenue growth.

Benchmarking 242

Benchmarking Revenue Marketing 242

Peter Winick

OCTOBER 17, 2024

How Thought Leaders Turn Books into Revenue Powerhouses with Speaking and Consulting Peter Winick and Bill Sherman sit down to discuss some of the intriguing findings from the Book ROI study they’ve been involved in for the last several months. I mean, in terms of understanding authors, revenue expenses, experience.

ROI 275

ROI Revenue Sales Sales 275

Chief Outsiders

JANUARY 9, 2025

Part 2 of A CEO's Guide to Marketing Performance Metrics matter now more than ever. As a six-time CMO over a 16-year career, Ive tracked dozens (actually hundreds) of metrics and found that many measures are ultimately meaningless or only matter to marketers.

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Metrics Marketing KPI Revenue 162

Chief Outsiders

JANUARY 23, 2023

The numbers don’t lie: Companies that align their sales and marketing functions win more business , keep more customers , and reap far more revenue than those who don’t. However, true alignment for many organizations can be evasive, and for others, it can be entirely absent.

Sales 130

Sales Sales Marketing Revenue 130

Chief Outsiders

JUNE 23, 2023

Part 3: Technology Platforms for the Win The market for sales enablement platforms has never been more robust. As companies like yours clamor for clients, revenue, and growth, they’re showering billions on the latest technology tools to help get them there.

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Sales Sales Revenue Marketing 246

Lolly Daskal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By fostering a culture of AI innovation, organizations position themselves to create groundbreaking solutions that address evolving customer needs and drive market leadership. Organizations that embrace AI can deliver personalized experiences that foster customer loyalty and drive revenue growth.

Operations 317

Operations Marketing Recruitment Revenue 317

AIHR

JUNE 13, 2022

Those are also some of the key characteristics of the market culture. Let’s dive into all you need to know about the market culture and how to promote aspects of the market culture within your organization to become a more competitive and profitable business. Contents What is market culture? What is market culture?

Marketing 139

Marketing Compensation Organizational Development Revenue 139

Chief Outsiders

DECEMBER 12, 2024

B2B marketing is broken. The root of the issue lies in a need for more understanding of the complex nature of marketing. Marketing involves navigating a multi-dimensional equation to guide prospects from unawareness to consideration and purchase, a complex, non-linear journey with varying durations.

Marketing 130

Marketing B2B Metrics Revenue 130

Chief Outsiders

APRIL 11, 2024

Learn how to accelerate revenue growth by shortening your sales cycle. Discover the seven steps to success and a real-life example of significant growth achieved through effective marketing strategies.

Sales 182

Sales Sales Revenue Marketing 182

Chief Outsiders

APRIL 20, 2022

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.” ? Peter Drucker. Why is it that the best run companies often have the hardest time growing?

Engineering 214

Engineering Marketing Operations Sales Funnel 214

Chief Outsiders

JUNE 22, 2022

From the world of “shocking but true”: There are real, actual companies out there that are turning away revenue. Literally, they have customers shaking fistfuls of dollars in their direction and walking in the opposite direction.

Revenue 304

Revenue Retention Marketing 304

Chief Outsiders

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In part two we explore the core tenet of every successful ABM initiative – orchestration of activities across sales, marketing, and customer success teams.

ROI 130

ROI Revenue Accounts Sales 130

Chief Outsiders

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

By: Carol Eversen and Jeff Loeb Part 3 - Technology and Reporting In part 2 of our four-part blog series we explored the core tenet of every successful ABM initiative – orchestration and personalization across sales, marketing, and customer success teams.

ROI 130

ROI Revenue Sales Sales 130

Rhythm Systems Growth

JANUARY 18, 2023

The gathering of fast-growing middle market firms from around the world will assemble for a meeting of the minds to deliver breakthrough execution. 5 Benefits of Attending a Strategy Execution Conference. Rhythm Systems is getting ready to host its 2023 annual breakthrough execution conference on April 26-27, 2023, in Charlotte, NC.

Revenue 98

Revenue Marketing Benefits 98

Peter Winick

JANUARY 26, 2024

For the past two decades he has helped individuals and organizations build and grow revenue streams through designing and growing their thought leadership platforms as well as acting as a guide and advisor for increasing business to business sales of thought leadership products.

Revenue 252

Revenue Diversity Sales Sales 252

Lolly Daskal

AUGUST 19, 2024

AI Optimizes Pricing Strategies : AI-powered pricing algorithms analyze vast amounts of data, including competitor prices, customer behavior, and market trends. These algorithms enable dynamic pricing, allowing companies to optimize prices in real-time, maximizing revenue and profits.

Revenue 208

Revenue Implementation Assets Marketing 208

Peter Winick

JUNE 15, 2023

An interview with Stephanie Chandler about creating a marketing plan for your book and developing additional connected products. Either way, a book can be an incredible investment for an entrepreneur, but to get the full return on that investment, you’ll need a marketing plan and a product roadmap. The market is expected to grow.

Marketing 130

Marketing Sales Sales Media 130

Chief Outsiders

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Learn how CEOs can leverage a Marketing Performance Index to boost growth, improve performance, and strengthen brand presence with actionable strategies and tactics.

Marketing 130

Marketing Revenue Sales Sales 130

Chief Executive

MAY 11, 2023

CMOs are (or should be) well-equipped to lead their teams in this effort, but they will be significantly hindered when marketing and sales teams do not work in tandem. Since businesses are also short on cash, their marketing effort has to be undertaken in the most economically efficient way possible. Marketing needs to receive (honest!)

Sales 98

Sales Sales Marketing B2C 98

Peter Winick

JANUARY 11, 2024

I’m the founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage, and here’s the idea that I’d like to share with you today, and that’s this: Marketing budgets are far larger than training and development budgets. Marketing budgets at most organizations are somewhere in the 10 to 20% range.

Marketing 195

Marketing Revenue 195

Chief Outsiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

Certainly, it takes more than a shot of caffeine to grow B2B sales, revenues, and relevance – but there’s a story brewing here that we believe holds the secret to relevance in today’s marketplace.

B2B 245

B2B B2C Revenue Sales 245

Chief Outsiders

MARCH 18, 2024

In today's highly competitive market, businesses must have a cross-sell and upsell strategy to boost sales and revenue.

Sales 173

Sales Sales Revenue Marketing 173

Help Scout Leadership

APRIL 27, 2021

From a business perspective, user adoption has a significant impact on several important metrics, including customer acquisition cost (CAC), customer lifetime value (CLTV), customer churn rate, and average revenue per user (ARPU). Market to your existing customers (not just prospects). Product updates.

SaaS 236

SaaS Onboarding B2B Retention 236

Help Scout Leadership

JUNE 15, 2021

Every interaction, whether it’s a marketing outreach, the human-to-human interaction in a store, a digital presence, or an interaction with customer service, feeds into the understanding and development of a great customer experience. This both provides greater benefit to the customer and often a path to increased revenue for the company.

SaaS 290

SaaS Sales Sales Onboarding 290

Help Scout Leadership

MAY 12, 2021

Even so, it can be difficult for empathetic customer service staff to think about customers in terms of business revenue. You may also look at the percentage of revenue you retain from your customers, which can show customers who are still returning but are spending in larger or smaller amounts than before.

Retention 294

Retention Revenue Sales Sales 294

Chief Outsiders

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sales methodology provides the framework for how different steps in your sales process are carried out in the pursuit of sales development, customer success, and revenue growth. There are countless sales methodologies, and many are very similar or built around the same concept.

Sales 240

Sales Sales Revenue Marketing 240

Peter Winick

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Three Key Takeaways: Turn Expertise into Revenue: Dr. Sharon Elefant transformed her deep knowledge of nonprofits and networking skills into a thriving business by offering grant writing, consulting, and administrative services that nonprofits were willing to pay for, rather than struggling to do it themselves. So that’s good.

Nonprofit 276

Nonprofit Administration Strategic Planning Accounts 276

Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Peter Winick There’s a market. Because it wasn’t like, okay, went after this with $1 billion marketing budget and. You’re giving away 70% of the revenue and you’re not charging for speaking. Because management is very much it’s got all the elements of the drama of the novel. Kim Scott Yeah.

Operations 255

Operations Software Scaling Manager 255