2022 MarTech Predictions: Rev Ops Movement — Scott Brinker // Hubspot

Scott Brinker, HubSpot’s VP of Platform, looks at the shift towards revenue operations. Customer journeys don’t end with purchase and subscription based services mean that customers and businesses are interacting far more frequently. Alignment of these interactions in terms of marketing, sales, and customer service is a must. Today, Scott discusses the rev ops movement of 2022.

Show Notes

  • 02:51
    The rev ops movement
    This is the alignment of marketing, sales, and customer service across an organizations processes and platforms, as a combined revenue concept.
  • 05:56
    Why CMOs are being replaced by CROs
    CROs are able to create that synchronicity between marketing, sales, and customer service teams. This removes departmental barriers and allows for scaling and growth.
  • 08:28
    Diminishing marketing as an entity
    Unified systems should balance standardization with enough room for specialization on individual teams with unique capabilities.
  • 12:07
    Missing non
    Its about rev ops teams understanding the unique challenges of analyzing what is happening throughout the customer lifecycle.

Quotes

  • "Customers are moving across our departmental boundaries fluidly. Due to high expectations of continuity and consistency in experience, you can no longer have gaps because your customers feel it." -Scott Brinker, HubSpot, VP of Platform

  • "Revenue ops is the ability to bring the discipline of operations across marketing sales and customer service as a combined revenue concept within the organization." -Scott Brinker, HubSpot, VP of Platform

  • "The customer is one solid entity. There's no Scott, the marketing receiver. Having the company be able to match and connect as one company to one customer is brilliant." -Scott Brinker, HubSpot, VP of Platform

  • "If someone reaches out because of a problem, and their first instinct is to use the social channel, you want to ensure they have a direct line into the customer service organization." -Scott Brinker, HubSpot, VP of Platform

  • "A more viable model for a lot of companies is to have very strong marketing, sales, and customer service organizations that are then provided a little bit more of an umbrella with revenue." -Scott Brinker, HubSpot, VP of Platform

  • "You want a balance between the best of standardization and the provision of enough agility and room for specialization in individual teams who have a certain capabilities." -Scott Brinker, HubSpot, VP of Platform

  • "It is really important for the rev ops team to be a true life cycle revenue ops team and not just a sales ops team with a slightly larger scope." -Scott Brinker, HubSpot, VP of Platform

  • "Every time there's a new channel or behavior change, it is definitely a moving target on understanding how upstream activities feed into a customer acquisition." -Scott Brinker, HubSpot, VP of Platform

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