WWWR Ep 22: You Don’t Have Anyone In A Revenue Operations Role

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In this episode of What’s Wrong With Revenue? we talked extensively about revenue operations, this entirely new practice that has some marketing leaders wondering what it is, if they need it and how to support it at their company.

Eric and I talked in detail about what’s included in the revenue operations role and who is best suited to handle these responsibilities within an organization.

Most importantly, we discussed how challenging it is to find people with revenue operations skills and experiences. These people are in very high demand by companies and agencies.

We unpacked how organizations can use revenue operations people and how, without this role, a number of important areas of the business are neglected or left to others who have responsibility in different areas of the business.

Revenue operations (RevOps) is an outgrowth of the expanding need for technology solutions in both marketing and sales, but it’s about more than just technology – it’s about understanding the entire buyer journey and making sure that journey is frictionless, efficient, trackable and measurable as possible.

This means the RevOps person needs to be an expert at technology, data, analytics, reporting and execution around initiatives like lead scoring, lead management, sales process design and enabling the sales team with tools.

It’s a nascent role and one that needs to be part of almost any company that is looking to drive significant revenue growth.

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