The MarTech Recipe For a Well Done ABM and Sales Strategy

ABM is becoming table stakes. It’s quickly turning into the new modern marketing standard for brands who want to focus on growing more revenue, and create a seamless experience for accounts across the complex buyer journey. But, it’s still perceived as challenging, overwhelming and time consuming. Additionally, the most popular challenge still remains: “How do we get started!?” More specifically, what should our ABM strategy be with Sales? Watch our webinar where two of our fearless Marketo Marketers will share three ABM strategies that will help Sales and Marketing kick-start their ABM for the first time.

Account Based Marketing (ABM) has been a strategy favored by large enterprises for years. Through identifying and targeting key accounts, tailoring content, and executing strategies for the specific audiences’, companies that practice ABM see stronger marketing results.

Over the last few years, leading field service software application ServiceMax has gone through a number of go-to-market changes, which has resulted in some major pivots in fundamental strategies. After setting the proper foundation to move towards an account-based approach, ServiceMax is now executing global campaigns at scale, complete with a phenomenal partnership between the sales and marketing teams. Hear from Shannon Jackson, Director of Demand Generation, about how the ServiceMax team’s shift began at a high-level: first determining how to leverage account insights to prioritize their resources, to then developing a cross-functional approach that aligns sales and marketing as one revenue engine.

Pushed into a (wholly) digital way of working by COVID, B2B sales teams needed to work with and rely on marketing more than ever before to find new opportunities and close revenue. Now with the threat of an economic downturn, this symbiotic relationship will be even more important. Delivering an amazing customer experience means going beyond alignment. And requires restructuring teams, processes, and measures of success. To get ahead, teams need to blow away silos, and build based on customer experience vs. internal views or politics.