How many different experiences does a prospect have with your business?
Your website, your reputation among your prospect’s peers, your sales team, social media, all your marketing efforts, your operations and customer service … so how many experiences does a prospect really have with your business?
Just one.
Every touch point all adds up to one experience in your prospect’s mind. And if your messaging isn’t aligned across every piece of this experience, it creates cognitive dissonance. That disconnect creates friction and slows down your sales cycle. Even worse, it can sabotage your sales force and cause you to lose the deal altogether.
“The top third of the sales cycle has gone away … the traditional sales process has evaporated.”
— John Neeson, co-founder of SiriusDecisions
Buyers are in control of the process now. And because they are doing their own research, your marketing must fill the role that traditional prospecting and consultative selling used to play. Your salespeople should be closing deals, not finding opportunities. Marketing should land you the first meeting. Sales should bring in the revenue.
- Organizations with tightly aligned sales and marketing functions experience 36% higher customer retention rates and 38% higher sales-win rates, according to a MarketingProfs report.
- Aligned sales and marketing organizations achieved an average of 32% annual revenue growth, while less aligned companies reported an average of 7% decline in revenue, according to Forrester Research.
- Firmly aligned sales and marketing operations in B2B organizations achieved 24% faster growth and 27% faster profit growth over a three-year period, a SiriusDecisions study.
How do we help align your sales and marketing efforts?
Through a proven series of steps and tactics, our team assesses where you are, charts a plan to take you where you want to be, and executes and tests to maximize your results.
- Strategy and marketing plan based on your real-world sales cycle
- Documentation of your sales process to shorten the sales cycle
- Alignment training for internal marketing teams
- Communication training for your sales team to improve closing ratios and speed to sale
- Presentation decks that “wow” your prospects
- Messaging that frames you as unrivaled, and supports sales conversation across all marketing tools and touches
- Content that converts
- Data and data cleanup with insights around how marketing is impacting the sales cycle
- Accountability check-ins for sustainable improvement and growth
Why work with Blender?
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Our leadership has front-line sales experience.
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We use sales mapping as the foundation for your marketing plan and messaging choreography.
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We are well-versed in the technical language and complexities of your industry.
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Our customized client dashboard keeps you — and us — focused on results. Data is not a distraction, but a source of information to identify buying triggers.
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We never lose sight of your revenue goals.

The value of positioning
“We are implementing our learnings from your presentations on how to position ourselves when value selling. The Mirror, Teach, Prove, Sell process really stuck with us.”

— STEPHANIE PARRISH, Communications Marketing Lead, Bryne —

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