--- title: 12 Key Initiatives that Could Accelerate Your Revenue Growth description: Here are 12 key initiatives that seem to distinguish many of today's top-performing B2B sales and marketing organisations from their competition. --- This is a search field with an autosuggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. # 12 Key Initiatives that Could Accelerate Your Revenue Growth ![Bob Apollo](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/78fa41976d534cacbb0e22e151bc6816) Post by [Bob Apollo](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/author/bob-apollo) October 31, 2011 What are the factors that separate many of today’s top-performing B2B sales and marketing organisations from the rest? Having outstanding products and services that are truly relevant to a well-defined target audience is clearly important. But when you look at the factors that truly separate the fastest growing vendors from the rest, it’s often their ability to execute that really impresses. They have the ability to align their entire sales and marketing organisation around a common set of winning strategies and tactics. My own experience - together with a body of research by the **Harvard Business Review**, the **Aberdeen Group**, **Sirius Decisions**, **CSO Insights** and others - consistently throws out a dozen key initiatives that seem to be particularly effective - when they are applied in an integrated fashion - in establishing a repeatable, scalable and high performing sales and marketing machine. I’ve captured the factors in more detail in our latest guide to “**[12 Key Initiatives that could accelerate your revenue growth](https://www.inflexion-point.com/Portals/41408/docs/inflexion-point%2012%20key%20initiatives.pdf)**” - you can [download a copy here](https://www.inflexion-point.com/Portals/41408/docs/inflexion-point%2012%20key%20initiatives.pdf) (no registration required), but in summary, here they are: 1. Identifying your ideal customers and prospects 2. Understanding your key stakeholders’ concerns and motivations  3. Capturing the key trends and issues affecting your prospects 4. Identifying your prospects’ key trigger events 5. Actively participating in business social media 6. Establishing a consensus about “sales ready leads” 7. Applying consistent sales opportunity qualification 8. Implementing a structured and repeatable sales process 9. Adopting dynamic sales pipeline management 10. Applying consistent standards for sales forecasting 11. Continuous reinforcement of sales training 12. Maximising CRM user enthusiasm and adoption  Each initiative by itself has the potential to have an important impact on an key aspect of your sales and marketing performance. But they have a powerful multiplier effect when they are combined together. I’d encourage you to review your own organisation’s current performance in these 12 areas - and to come up with an action plan for the areas where you can see some scope for improvement. You may find it helpful to take our online [B2B Sales + Marketing Health Check](https://www.inflexion-point.com/healthcheck/), which reviews each of these important areas plus a number of other significant performance areas. Please [download the guide](https://www.inflexion-point.com/Portals/41408/docs/inflexion-point%2012%20key%20initiatives.pdf), [take the test](https://www.inflexion-point.com/healthcheck/), and let me know what you think. Have I missed out any significant areas?    ###### Tags: [B2B Marketing, ](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/topic/b2b-marketing) [CSO Insights, ](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/topic/cso-insights) [Sirius Decisions, ](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/topic/sirius-decisions) [Harvard Business Review, ](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/topic/harvard-business-review) [Aberdeen Group, ](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/topic/aberdeen-group) [Scalable Systems, ](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/topic/scalable-systems) [Complex Sales](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/topic/complex-sales) ![Bob Apollo](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/78fa41976d534cacbb0e22e151bc6816) Post by [Bob Apollo](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/author/bob-apollo) October 31, 2011 Bob Apollo is a Fellow of the Institute of Sales Professionals, a regular contributor to the International Journal of Sales Transformation and Top Sales World Magazine, and the driving force behind Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, the leading proponents of outcome-centric selling. Following a successful corporate career spanning start-ups, scale-ups and market leaders, Bob now works as a strategic advisor, mentor, trainer and coach to ambitious B2B sales organisations - teaching them how to differentiate themselves through their provably superior approach to achieving their customer's desired outcomes. [Follow me on my website](https://www.inflexion-point.com) [Follow me on LinkedIn ](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/bobapollo) [Follow me on Twitter ](https://twitter.com/bobapollo) ### Comments ###### Related Articles ### [The essential keys to proactive sales pipeline management](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/the-essential-keys-to-proactive-sales-pipeline-management) Posted by **[Bob Apollo](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/author/bob-apollo),** **Jul 22, 2014** Talk to almost any CEO of a technology-based, B2B-focused business and you’re likely to hear concerns about the size of ... ### [Boldly Going in B2B Sales: Less Kirk, More Spock](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/boldly-going-in-b2b-sales-less-kirk-more-spock) Posted by **[Bob Apollo](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/author/bob-apollo),** **Oct 03, 2015** The traditional profile of a successful sales person isn’t a million light-years away from the personality of Captain James ... ### [Rebalancing Risk in the Buying Process](https://www.inflexion-point.com/Blog/bid/22363/Rebalancing-Risk-in-the-Buying-Process) Posted by **[Bob Apollo](https://www.inflexion-point.com/blog/author/bob-apollo),** **Jun 09, 2009** Let’s face it - today’s B2B buyers are scared. 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