B2b Marketing Case Study

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Today’s digital marketers face an ever-challenging task in the B2B landscape. They struggle to reach a massive amount of potential customers while still treating them with the richness and quality typically dedicated to a narrower group. The richness reach trade-off (see exhibit 1) explains why modern customer relationship management solutions like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Eloqua have quickly gained traction in the marketing sector. These platforms provide a mechanism for marketing and sales departments to amalgamate lead data in a single spot, allowing companies to analyze, track and nurture leads as they move through their marketing pipeline (see exhibit 2). At its heart, customer relationship management (later referred to as CRM) is the process of converting customer information into meaningful customer relationships. More specifically a CRM strategy enables a continued dialogue with customers, personalized treatment of valuable customers, and ultimately leads to…show more content…
The findings of the study concluded that CRM technology “resulted in stronger customer relationships and a better understanding of buyer needs” (RODRIGUEZ and HONEYCUTT). Furthermore, a CRM strategy emphasizes internal collaboration flattening the company hierarchy, creating a more horizontal structure between departments. This is further demonstrated by the study where it was found that B2B salespersons were better able to gather information from different functional areas of the company through CRM collaboration. Furthermore, an effective CRM strategy can be directly linked to faster closing rates, as salespeople have more insight into the organizational buying behaviour as well as where they are in their buying decision. By more effectively managing their leads, salespeople can generate revenue faster with a CRM
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