The Hidden Costs Of Siloed Teams

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Join Brad Friedman and Andy Culligan as they chat about getting your sales and marketing teams to work together and the hidden costs of siloed teams.

Andy Culligan is a marketing leader specializing in revenue growth and scaling SaaS businesses. With close to a decade of experience in both marketing and sales, Andy excels as a Fractional CMO, CRO, and Marketing Advisor. He is known for his straightforward approach to Account-Based Marketing (ABM), aligning marketing and sales teams to drive commercial success. Andy has held key marketing leadership positions at multiple SaaS companies including Emarsys (acquired by SAP), Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach) & Leadfeeder (now Echobot). He focuses on personalized marketing strategies that create meaningful touchpoints, ultimately boosting revenue for his clients.

In this Episode:

• Andy shares tips and tricks to get your sales and marketing teams out of their silos and working together.
• Andy says out of 10,000 marketing and sales teams interviewed, only 8% were aligned.
• Andy talks about the importance of internal communication.
• Andy the need for marketing and sales to be using the same CRM and sharing notes and more.
• Andy also talks about a variety of different tools companies can use to keep sales and marketing on the same page.

Quotes from this Episode:
“How can we get on the same page and how can marketing help sales?” – Andy Culligan
“It's just complete inefficiencies everywhere.” – Andy Culligan
“You need to start the first step is the most, most difficult one. You need to talk to one another.” – Andy Culligan
“Every lead that we bring in that you're not following up with, I'm taking a couple of hundred dollars, putting it in a dust bin and lightning on fire.” – Andy Culligan
“Everybody target the same accounts, everybody use the same message. Simple as that.” – Andy Culligan

Resources:

Andy Culligan:
LinkedIn: Andy Culligan
Website: Purple Path
Website: Andy Culligan

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