Revenue Disruption: Game-Changing Sales and Marketing Strategies to Accelerate Growth

Key Points

• Keeping a laser-like focus on the buyer, instead of on a company’s own internal politics and business processes, is essential for effective revenue performance.
• Prospective buyers typically do a lot of research into a company and its products before the company even knows they exist.
• The marketing department’s traditional practice of handing off leads to sales is both mutually frustrating and unrealistic in today’s marketplace.
• It is today’s buyer—not the supplier’s sales or marketing people—who controls the process leading toward a sale.