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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING INSIGHTS

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Attribution, alignment & strategy - how to address B2B marketing's 3 biggest challenges.

Marketing Week conducted a survey recently, asking B2B marketers about their challenges, how they are adapting and where they still feel uncertain about their performance.

Looking at the results, it's clear to see that the three biggest challenges of marketers are linked. In order they were:

  1. Performance measurement
  2. Internal alignment
  3. Business strategy

A CEO I once had the privilege of working for had the solution to all of these. "It's all about the customer, focus on engaging with the ones that count - do that well and nobody will be questioning the performance of marketing."

How many of your marketing efforts are specifically targeted at key strategic accounts? Events, advertising and content can be targeted at people rather than personas.

The performance of these is easy enough to measure and gain buy-in for, but too often important accounts are overlooked as we try to fill the top of the funnel and hit opportunity KPI's.

Perhaps the way to address these challenges is a focus on quality over quantity and a hard look at what we are trying to do as marketers. Are we the business leaders and the engine for growth or does Marketing simply book meetings for Sales?

On the one hand, measurement and attribution is absolutely vital to embedding marketing as pivotal to success, but it also suffers from ‘Cinderella’ syndrome.... ...hesitancy to engage with attribution is down to more than just time or allocation of funds. The ability to get meaningful and accurate representation of marketing effectiveness appears limited, according to the survey results. More than half of respondents are not very confident or only somewhat confident (57%) they have accurate figures when measuring return on investment. In the same vein, only 5% say they are very confident.

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content marketing, b2b marketing, e2e, alignment