{"id":38697,"date":"2019-07-17T12:39:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T10:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aton.com\/?p=38697"},"modified":"2022-01-25T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T10:24:00","slug":"is-marketing-turning-into-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aton.com\/en\/is-marketing-turning-into-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Marketing Turning into Sales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time out of mind, B2B sales process contemplated marketing and sales as two serial processes: first, customers were contacted by physical or digital communication, then the sales person arrived to close the loop and transform a good Lead into a Customer.<\/p>\n<p><b>Marketing <\/b>nowadays goes well beyond brand construction and request generation and <b>can influence the whole acquisition process,<\/b> not just the initial funnel stages.<\/p>\n<p>Alignment between Marketing and Sales can produce efficient contents which can drastically influence sales processes.<\/p>\n<p>According to recent studies, <b>78% of B2B customers devote increasing time to the fruition of contents <\/b>(typically digital and web ones)<b> relevant<\/b> to their purchases<b> before interacting with a salesperson.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Also in Aton, the Marketing team works in continuous synergy with Sales during the whole process, from opportunity generation to negotiation closure. <b>Inbound Marketing<\/b>, understood as value content sharing, is supported by the traditional <b>Outbound Marketing<\/b>\u00a0techniques, like those adopted by the new <b>Lead Generation<\/b>\u00a0team, acting as \u201cstart-up engine\u201d in a commercial deal starting cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time out of mind, B2B sales process contemplated marketing and sales as two serial processes: first, customers were contacted by physical or digital communication, then the sales person arrived to close the loop and transform a good Lead into a Customer. 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