The Skills Every B2B Marketer Needs in 2024 | Revenue Marketing Report
Dec 29, 2023
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Doug Bell, Fractional CMO at Chief Outsiders, and Camela Thompson, Go-To-Market Thought Leader and B2B Insights Expert, discuss the essential skills B2B marketers must possess in 2024, including prioritization, focus, and retrospective analytics. They emphasize the importance of cross-selling, creating social buy-in, and protecting email deliverability while highlighting the risks of sending emails from a new domain. Online communities are also mentioned as valuable resources for B2B marketers to improve their skills.
Marketers need to align their goals with other executives and demonstrate how they can contribute to overall growth.
Marketers should prioritize and focus on the most important tasks to avoid diluted efforts and decreased effectiveness.
Deep dives
Cross-selling and creating social buy-in
Cross-selling to other executives and creating social buy-in is an important skill for marketers. It involves showing a common goal and associating it with the executive's interests and departmental goals. This can be done by helping them achieve growth, improving sales cycles, opening doors, and understanding the priorities and skillsets of the product organization. It is essential for marketers to align their goals with other executives and demonstrate how they can contribute to overall growth.
Learning to say no and focus
One of the top skills every marketer needs is the ability to say no. With marketing departments facing budget cuts, it is important to prioritize and focus on the most important tasks. Saying yes to everything can lead to diluted efforts and decreased effectiveness. Another crucial skill is focus, as every time marketers say yes to new projects, they risk diverting attention from their primary functions and losing efficiency.
Project management and retrospective analytics
Project management skills are essential for marketers to ensure that projects are completed successfully. Starting projects but not finishing them can create a negative image. Additionally, marketers need to excel in retrospective analytics, analyzing past performance to understand what worked and what didn't. This skill becomes even more crucial when advanced analytics tools are not readily available, allowing marketers to make informed decisions based on past data.
Doug Bell, Fractional CMO at Chief Outsiders, joins our host, Camela Thompson, Go-To-Market Thought Leader, and B2B Insights Expert, in this Revenue Marketing Report podcast episode. Any new year should require some reflection, but 2023 was a real doozy in the land of SaaS, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out that new skills are key in adapting to the new landscape. Doug Bell brought a list of skills he is focusing on for 2024, and Camela threw in a few more for good measure.