Sales And Marketing
Your Business|October/November 2019
Understanding the powerful interconnection that leads to top-line growth.
Bernard Jansen
Sales And Marketing

Business owners rightfully expect marketing activities to lead to sales, but how should this work? The question is even more urgent when the focus is on selling to other businesses instead of individuals (so-called business to business, or B2B sales). How can marketing activity support industrial equipment and professional services sales?

The only way marketing communication will positively impact topline growth, otherwise known as “sales in the income statement,’’ is through a tight interconnection between “marketing” and “sales”. A valuable exercise is to visualise this interconnection, otherwise known as the purchase funnel.

Take a piece of paper and list all your marketing and sales activities and draw a line that connects it to your prospective customer and a potential sale. This line represents the purchase funnel of your business. It’s seldom straight, meaning it may start with someone seeing a post on LinkedIn, then taking a detour to your website before going back to LinkedIn and then emailing you.

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