The Argument: Does Marketing Now Own the Pipeline?

The sales pipeline, aka the sales funnel is the long-standing measurement of the past, present and future for a company.  In the not too distant past marketing dumped demand into the beginning (top) of the pipeline and sales took responsibility for the rest of the process.

For years marketing has chipped away, usually unintentionally, at various steps of the sales pipeline to aid the salespeople.  Most of this is made possible by marketing automation and telemarketing being managed by marketing. After reading some of the more recent research from Velocify of late and comments by people I respect, I think that the sales pipeline ownership has finally shifted from sales to marketing.  Marketing in more sophisticated companies probably manages more than 50% of the pipeline steps now and to me that means ownership has shifted. Jim Obermayer is the host with the commentary this week.  Guests may call in on the studio lines at: 1st 949-330-7761 2nd 949 330 7762 SLMA Radio Sponsorship  Whether you're producing a seminar series, user's conference, lunch and learn, or exhibiting at a tradeshow, Validar has a solution. Call 888 784 2929 or visit us at www.validar.com