Forget the funnel and the classic AIDA model, what a colleague of mine describes as “disrupt the linearity“, buyer’s journey aren’t linear anymore. It’s about being closely aligned between sales and marketing, in a smart and adaptable combination of in person and on line relevant activities, of course customer obsessed. It’s no longer an “OR”, but rather an “AND”.
This HBR article, source below, is not very recent (2015), but reading it again just highlighted how we should completely revisit our joint Sales & Marketing go to market. Key to your success if not done already or at least started, digital and human have never been so much interweaved than today in B2B demand generation.
Source: What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape
