Why ABM is not a Marketing strategy — Justin Gray // Shift Paradigm

Justin Gray, Chief Commercial Officer at Shift Paradigm, discusses why ABM is not just good B2B marketing. When we think about ABM solutions and platforms, there’s often just focus on targeting accounts. However, they’ve led to more alignment between marketing and sales and shared insights in terms of target accounts. Today, Justin talks about why ABM is not a marketing strategy.
About the speaker

Justin Gray

Shift Paradigm

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Justin is the Chief Commercial Officer at Shift Paradigm

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Show Notes

  • 01:55
    ABM as a response to sales and marketing alignment issues
    Initially, a lot of marketing was focused on driving awareness in an untargeted fashion. These efforts werent bearing fruit for sales and ABM was meant to more precisely target intended prospects.
  • 04:48
    What ABM is
    ABM solutions and platforms have a lot of features that are based on targeting. However, ABM goes beyond those features and is really about targeting in a highly informed manner.
  • 07:22
    Mechanisms that have changed around marketing
    Theres been a shift in terms of marketing now working with sales and other departments within the organization. Now, these departments can work together to determine the total addressable market, ICPs, and the reasoning behind them.
  • 09:34
    Technology and platforms facilitating shared insights for marketing and sales
    Theres been an increase in technologies and platforms that arent department specific. Rather, solutions are facilitating sales and marketing looking at the same dashboards, metrics, and perspectives of target accounts.

Quotes

  • "Marketing is performing a lot of efforts that sales looks at and says, that's not fruitful, that's not relevant to my day to day. So, ABM was the retort to that age-old conflict." -Justin Gray, CCO, Shift Paradigm

  • "If you look at what's out there in terms of an ABM solution or platform, you're going to find a lot of those features that are rooted in targeting. ABM is a lot bigger than those features." -Justin Gray, CCO, Shift Paradigm

  • "When we reduce the aperture in which we're looking at, these are our targets, this is who we want to see to precipitate in the pipeline...That's a really big change for organizations today." -Justin Gray, CCO, Shift Paradigm

  • "From a cultural and environmental perspective, it's incredibly important to get people out of siloed point solutions, sharing the same data, and focusing on the same motions." -Justin Gray, CCO, Shift Paradigm

About the speaker

Justin Gray

Shift Paradigm

 - Shift Paradigm

Justin is the Chief Commercial Officer at Shift Paradigm

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