The document discusses challenges companies face when changing their go-to-market strategies and provides best practices for different strategies like inbound, outbound, account-based marketing, customer success, demand generation units, and partnerships. It notes that most changes fail due to issues with culture, data, and process. The presentation then focuses on specific challenges and best practices for each strategy, and how LeanData's platform can help address them by routing leads appropriately, tracking metrics, and integrating various marketing and sales technologies.
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1. Connecting Data to People Across any Go-to-
Market Model
A LeanData Workshop
Lucas Lam | Partner & Client Solutions | LeanData
2. AGENDA Challenges, Metrics, and Best
Practices
A B M
Challenges, Metrics, and Best
Practices
C u s t o m e r s
Why GTM change is mission
critical for company success
I n t r o d u c t i o n
Challenges, Metrics, and Best
Practices
I n b o u n d G T M
Challenges, Metrics, and Best
Practices
P a r t n e r / C h a n n e l
5. …but most GTM change initiatives fall short
70%
New, large-scale
strategic initiatives
fail
84%
Marketing programs
are decidedly
second-rate
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11. Poor Execution Slows Down Time to Revenue
All numbers in $ Millions
TODAY YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4 YEAR 5
#OFGTMMOTIONS
Single GTM
DIRECT
Blended GTM
DIRECT+
CHANNEL+
INTERNATIONAL
COMPANY 1
COMPANY 2
$100M
$125M
$156M
$195M
$244M
$305M
$150M
$225M
$338M
$506M
$759M
12. Impacts Valuation In a Big Way
All numbers in $ Millions
TODAY YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4 YEAR 5
#OFGTMMOTIONS
$100M
$125M
$156M
$195M
$244M
$305M
$150M
$225M
$338M
$506M
$759M
$1.2B
$4.6B
13. SALESOPSMARKETING
“Someone from my target
account attended a
webinar, and I didn’t even
know!”
“Our prospects and
customers are getting a
poor buying experience.”
“I don’t know if Sales
is following up with
our trade show
leads.”
“I have no idea how many
target account leads
showed up at our last
trade show.”
“If Sales doesn’t update
Salesforce how will we
understand the impact of our
campaigns”
“Why was she
assigned leads from
my target accounts?!”
“Ops has too many
initiatives on their
plate.”
“We keep adding new reps
and changing our
distribution model every 3-6
months.
“Reps step on each
other’s toes and blame
Ops for everything.”
Impacts People In a Big Way
14. How Can Companies Succeed?
Process
Data
The ability to THRIVE with
dynamic Sales & Marketing
GTM changes will be the
key to B2B revenue growth.
Culture
20. Inbound Challenges
• Speed to lead
• Dealing with Customer
Accounts
• Activating the Sales Cycles
• Sales headcount turnover
• Too little inbound volume
• Too much inbound volume
21. Inbound Best Practices
• Segment & prioritize incoming leads
(score, source, opp stage)
• Identifying Leads from existing
Customer Accounts.
• Identify leads from the same
company already in the sales cycle
22. Inbound Best Practices
• Give reps a fixed time to follow up
(SLAs + re-routing)
• Scoring based pools (distribute
equal interest vs. assuming equal
volume)
• Chat with Matching Integration
• Integrating Sales Cadences
29. ABM Best Practices
• Clarity on Target Account
Criteria & Buy-in from Revenue
Teams
• Route target accounts to field
(AE/SDR mappings)
• High-confidence matching &
tagging for ABM
• Auto-Convert & Merge
36. Customer Challenges
• Routing existing account leads
• Removing closed won from SDR
accounts
• Defining AE and CSM domains (upsell
versus cross-sell or renewals)
37. Customer Best Practices
• Customers trump all else
• Fast track new leads to customer
account owners
• Routing based on Opportunity context
• Enabling CSM Sales Motion (rise of
CSM)
• Notifications + Cadences
44. Partner Challenges
• Identifying partner – prospect fit
• Quality and speed of response
from channel
• Sync between AE – Channel Sales
45. Partner Best Practices
• Deal Registration
• Separate Partner Routing branch
• No Auto-Conversion, high confidence
matching (in-country only matching)
• Route to channel manager for
accept/reject
• Auto-create Opp if accepted, set to
closed in rejected
46. Partner Best Practices
• Channel Sales
• Route to Channel Manager &
Create task for Partner rep
• Notify auxiliary sales reps (portfolio
selling)
48. LeanData Feature Highlights
• Separate Partner Branches in Flow
• Matching Filters & Tie-Breakers
• Notifications / Tasks to other Reps
• Route on Update
49. Metrics (How to track it)
• Deal Registration
• Avg. Time to Accept/Reject
• Win % for Deal Registration
• Channel Sales
• Win % by Channel Partner
• Sales Cycle by Channel Partner
• ASP for Channel sales vs. Internal
53. Key Takeaways
• Consider Account and Related Lead context when Routing Leads
• Re-route existing Leads based on time or activity
• Accommodate different selling motions for different teams
• Orchestrate different buying signals and buying groups
• Iterate on your strategy quickly and with confidence. Flexibility is critical.
• Integrate the different pieces of your tech stack for a seamless process
• No one single GTM fits all - Your GTM is a blend of multiple strategies
54. The LeanData Revenue Ops Platform: Manage Across All GTM Motions
Improve the Buyer
Experience
Increase Speed to
Revenue
Improve Sales & Marketing
Alignment / ROI
API / INTEGRATIONS
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CRM
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