If you want Sales and Marketing to be on the same page, then there had better be only one page.

Here’s how to do it.

Benefits of an aligned Sales and Marketing process

Research shows that building a single process when it comes to Sales and Marketing has some very measurable and substantial benefits for your business, including:

  • Increasing lead acceptance by 26%
  • Increasing lead closure rate by 15% and Marketing’s contribution to revenue by 59%
  • Lifting lead acceptance by another 31%, and
  • Improving lead acceptance by another 27% and marketing generated revenue by another 63% when the shared process is refined.

The net effect of building a single, optimised Sales and Marketing process is that the lead acceptance from Marketing to Sales doubles (by 108%) and Marketing’s contribution to revenue does better still (by 126%).

How to build a 1-page Sales and Marketing process

1.  Get your Sales and Marketing teams in the same room, literally.

By having them in the same room, you will be able to build and plan your process together. This means everyone gets a say and no one will be left in the dark — each can contribute their expertise.

2. Get clear on the sales objectives

Be careful: these are not the revenue objectives but the new business targets that Sales and Marketing are going to sign up to.

3. Agree what buyer problem you want to focus on

Identify and agree what problem you’re going to focus on solving for the market.

To do this, you need to think about all the problems that you do solve, analyse them in terms of strengths and weaknesses, whether they’re a big problem or a small problem, and choose one to focus on.

Bringing Sales and Marketing onto the same page

What do you think so far, does this sound achievable for your team? Or more importantly (knowing this is only half of the six steps), do you think you can convey all these ideas and information on one page?

That’s the beauty of Funnel Plan — it brings together all of those elements onto one single page. This encompasses your objectives, strategy, velocity and tactics that you’re going to use together.

If you already have a Funnel Plan, then you know what I’m talking about. If you don’t, go to Funnelplan.com and grab yourself one.

I hope you got lots of value from today’s Funnel Vision blog. We’ll have a new blog up next month in the same place. Until then, may your funnel be full and always flowing.

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Our thanks this week to:

Brittany Shipton & Bella Newton for blog production

Amy Dethick for video production

Hugh Macfarlane for scripting and presenting this week’s show