Most companies buy ABM tools and account lists expecting instant pipeline, but that doesn't work. The real problem is broken sales territory planning and bloated account lists based only on company size and industry. Without strategy and sales-marketing alignment, technology alone won't create opportunities.
love to highlight several things here, right? So first of all, you mentioned that, um, the bigger part of your market is actually not buying right now. The most common problem and the most common myth about ABM is that it's just enough to purchase technology and then create a list of accounts, and then you can— because it's called ABM now, you can generate pipeline. Now what it actually means that sales, if they have a broken territory planning framework, right, that quite often it's just, okay, this is our territory, this is our firmographics criteria, they end up with thousands of accounts. That's right. They send this wishlist to marketing and say, now let's do magic, we want to do account-based marketing, let's generate sales opportunities. So that's the first thing, right? If they're not applying, like no strategy will help.
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