Stay ahead with customer value thinking.

Marketing teams are just as important as sales teams. There has always been a relationship between marketing and sales, of course. Marketers create strategies and tactics to support account executives to execute and close their deals successfully and effectively. However, there are clear barriers between sales and marketing. Each position has different roles to execute in order for the company to have quality content to be able to sing the company’s benefits and value to the customer’s organization. 

David Brock is the Author of “Sales Manager Survival Guide,” CEO of Partners in EXCELLENCE and is a ruthless pragmatist. View David’s original post and read more of his work on his blog, Partners in EXCELLENCE, here.

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