A look at why marketing needs to talk to sales about LinkedIn strategy. The speaker, from Gong, argues that targeting the right sales personas for demo requests directly affects pipeline and that marketing teams often miss what their sales counterparts actually need.
To heat check yourself is you got to think from the sales lens too. So think of if a wave of people hit your website, punch the demo button like an overhand from Mike Tyson. Who would your sales team want that to be? Who would your sales rep be? Like, oh hell yeah, today was a good day ice cube reference. So I did this at gong while we were scaling and while we're going up market, I would constantly go to my VP of sales and say hey, if you had one person that could hit the demo button, who would it be? Because we sold to VPs of sales. But also there's like sales enablement. They influence it. And again the CFO signs it off but he said no, no, no, I want VPs of sales to hit the demo button. We'll do in pipeline marketing to the C. We'll do in pipeline marketing to the sales enablement but I don't want to start conversations with them because we have data they don't close.