B2B Marketing: Growth Strategies for Your Organization

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April 25, 2024

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8 weeks, online
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B2B Marketing: Growth Strategies for Your Organization

"Change," a recent Gartner trends report concluded, "is the only constant in B2B marketing." In fact, change has rapidly accelerated with the ever-increasing digitalization of customer journeys demand. As in business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing, business-to-business (B2B) buyers have made a massive shift to digital. A McKinsey survey found 70 percent of B2B decision makers say they are now open to making new, fully self-serve, or remote purchases in excess of $50,000, and an astonishing 27 percent would spend more than $500,000. Gone are the days when digital transactions were limited to small-scale purchases.

To keep pace, industry professionals must understand both the language of B2B marketing as well as the foundational principles, customer-centric focus, emerging technologies, and essential tools that have reshaped B2B marketing during COVID-19 and tools that will remain a key driver of organizational growth in the years ahead.

The B2B Marketing: Growth Strategies for Your Organization online program from Kellogg Executive Education provides a holistic picture of the full scope and value of B2B marketing. In just eight weeks, through this A-to-Z playbook on B2B marketing, you will get a step-by-step guide on the strategies and techniques to build a strong B2B marketing action plan for your organization.

80%

of marketing organizations report having a B2B marketing automation platform deployed, leading to better metrics calculation and analysis.

SOURCE: GARTNER

501,243

US job postings with “B2B Marketing” listed as a skill on LinkedIn

SOURCE: LinkedIn

90%

of sales and marketing professionals report misalignment in terms of strategy, process, culture, and content in their organizations.

SOURCE: LINKEDIN/EDELMAN

Key Takeaways

By the end of this 8-week program, you will be able to:

  • Assess your organization’s current B2B marketing capabilities and identify improvement priorities
  • Apply modern B2B marketing principles, tools, terminology, tactics and strategies to inform and accelerate organizational performance
  • Define the roles that B2B marketers play within an organization, and describe why, in a digital-first environment, great marketing matters more than ever
  • Apply the knowledge and skills gained from this program to create a B2B marketing action plan for yourself and your organization
  • Take a holistic approach to B2B marketing based on its foundational definitions and applications to influence your organization’s B2B marketing strategy and drive growth

Who Is This Program For?

  • Sales managers and key account managers seeking to improve alignment between marketing and sales, including the handoff from demand generation to lead generation
  • Marketing managers seeking proven tools and frameworks to create and execute strategic B2B marketing plans that support organizational goals
  • Department heads and senior leaders seeking a deeper understanding of the knowledge, skills and language of B2B marketing

Program Experience

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Live sessions with faculty

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Guest lectures with Industry Experts

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Real-world application exercises

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Proprietary case study—Deloitte's Marketing Makeover: Making Marketing Agile

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Knowledge checks and moderated discussions

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Capstone project with individualized feedback

Program Modules

This program serves as the preeminent A-to-Z strategy playbook for B2B marketing, sales, and growth-seeking professionals, unfolding in eight sequential modules, and it is aimed at driving measurable impact in your organization.

Module 1:

The New B2B Marketing Imperative—Driving Profitable Growth

Gain a foundational understanding of why B2B-oriented organizations need to modernize and formalize their marketing practices, what that transformation looks like in practice, and the proven tools to get you there.

Module 2:

Your Go-to-Market Strategy—Understanding the Context

Explore qualitative methods for identifying your customer segments with more precision, and determine how to solve their most pressing problems as well as learn to conduct effective market research, including competitive and category analysis, to uncover customer needs and goals.

Module 3:

Your Go-to-Market Strategy—Choosing Your Path

Apply customer insights to create a compelling value proposition and product marketing strategy.

Module 4:

Product Pricing

Through this module, you will also discover the immutable link between your value proposition and product pricing as well as examine price elasticity to determine the impact of price changes on the net margin.

Module 5:

Demand Generation

Recognize that demand generation is about building awareness for your brand or product. Employ the Strategic Marketing Framework as a tool for refining your marketing objectives. In addition, identify metrics to measure the success of your demand marketing generation and outbound marketing activities.

Module 6:

Lead Generation

Learn tactics to convert marketing qualified leads (MQLs), and evaluate approaches for scoring and nurturing leads. Using Kellogg's Comprehensive Campaign Template, achieve better results for your organization's B2B marketing efforts.

Module 7:

Customer Relationship Management and Marketing Automation

Technology is critical to understand which tools will add substantial value to your organization. Throughout this module, you will examine how these technologies interact with sales technologies (e.g., CRM), learn how to automate your A/B testing processes, and identify emerging marketing technologies that could benefit your organization.

Module 8:

Your Path Forward

Your learning journey culminates in the creation of a marketing action plan that outlines the next 30, 60, and 90 days, giving you a roadmap for success and enabling transformation.

Module 1:

The New B2B Marketing Imperative—Driving Profitable Growth

Gain a foundational understanding of why B2B-oriented organizations need to modernize and formalize their marketing practices, what that transformation looks like in practice, and the proven tools to get you there.

Module 5:

Demand Generation

Recognize that demand generation is about building awareness for your brand or product. Employ the Strategic Marketing Framework as a tool for refining your marketing objectives. In addition, identify metrics to measure the success of your demand marketing generation and outbound marketing activities.

Module 2:

Your Go-to-Market Strategy—Understanding the Context

Explore qualitative methods for identifying your customer segments with more precision, and determine how to solve their most pressing problems as well as learn to conduct effective market research, including competitive and category analysis, to uncover customer needs and goals.

Module 6:

Lead Generation

Learn tactics to convert marketing qualified leads (MQLs), and evaluate approaches for scoring and nurturing leads. Using Kellogg's Comprehensive Campaign Template, achieve better results for your organization's B2B marketing efforts.

Module 3:

Your Go-to-Market Strategy—Choosing Your Path

Apply customer insights to create a compelling value proposition and product marketing strategy.

Module 7:

Customer Relationship Management and Marketing Automation

Technology is critical to understand which tools will add substantial value to your organization. Throughout this module, you will examine how these technologies interact with sales technologies (e.g., CRM), learn how to automate your A/B testing processes, and identify emerging marketing technologies that could benefit your organization.

Module 4:

Product Pricing

Through this module, you will also discover the immutable link between your value proposition and product pricing as well as examine price elasticity to determine the impact of price changes on the net margin.

Module 8:

Your Path Forward

Your learning journey culminates in the creation of a marketing action plan that outlines the next 30, 60, and 90 days, giving you a roadmap for success and enabling transformation.

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Capstone Project

The final project culminates in the creation of a B2B marketing action plan that you can present to your leadership team, colleagues, or prospective clients.

To ensure that your plan is truly actionable, you will also:

  • Create a schedule for implementing it over a three-month period
  • Test your vision through a series of pilot programs so that you can determine what works and what does not work
  • Receive individualized feedback to help you achieve your best output

Case Studies and Industry Examples

Examine how Deloitte became a more agile organization by transforming its marketing practices across four dimensions:

  • People
  • Culture
  • Structure
  • Process

Tap into many other real-world examples of how modern B2B marketing organizations adapt their culture, people and processes to become more agile, and apply this knowledge as you identify opportunities and challenges within your organization.

Other examples include:

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PROGRAM FACULTY

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Kent Grayson

Associate Professor of Marketing, Bernice and Leonard Lavin Professorship

Professor Grayson has taught in Kellogg's Business Marketing program for executives since 2004. He has earned the Chairs' Core Teaching Award in marketing at Kellogg six times and was a finalist for Kellogg professor of the year in 2010... More info
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Jonathan Copulsky

Lecturer of Marketing, Program Director, Business Marketing Strategy, Executive Education

An innovative marketing leader, Copulsky is a growth strategist with over 40 years of experience working at the intersection of brand, marketing strategy, content marketing, and marketing technology... More info

Guest Speakers

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Aditya Varanasi

Founder and CEO, Awarity

En route to earning an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Varanasi shifted his focus from developing products—he holds multiple US patents from his work on such innovations as Lay’s Stax and Tostitos Scoops—to marketing them. He managed Frito Lay’s first-ever content-based digital campaign, promoting leading brands, including Cheetos and Cracker Jack. After 14 years at PepsiCo, Varanasi launched Awarity, whose mission is to make world-class advertising affordable for small businesses. Awarity’s proprietary AI increases efficiency to deliver industry-leading results.

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Lyndall Spooner

CEO, Fifth Dimension

After beginning her management-consulting career by running customer and employee surveys for large industrial organizations and government bodies, Spooner joined Invetech, one of Australia’s most successful technology commercialization organizations. Drawing upon an extensive background in research and design thinking, honed by working with progressive organizations such as Microsoft, Spooner founded Fifth Dimension Consulting in 2006. Her organization, which specializes in innovation through the collaboration of different mindsets and technical capabilities, was recently awarded two global innovation awards for their work with Coles and QBE in CX measurement. Fifth Dimension was also ranked in the top 25 most innovative consultancies globally in 2020.

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Victoria Meyer

Founder and President, Progressio Global

A B2B strategy and marketing expert with more than 25 years in the chemical industry at Organizations that include Shell, Clariant, and LyondellBasell, Meyer has a long history of success. She has led numerous teams to overcome stagnant growth and fulfill their potential by developing and delivering market-focused solutions. Her strategic mindset, insatiable curiosity, and sincere interest in people enable her to understand business challenges, ideate quickly, build trust with clients, and, in turn, help them to accelerate success. Meyer holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

CERTIFICATE

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CERTIFICATE

Upon successful completion of the program, Kellogg Executive Education grants a verified digital certificate of completion to participants.

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