Here are a few actionable tips to help B2B marketing leaders improve their demand generation strategies for existing clients.

1) Refine your account-based marketing (ABM) strategy. There is no question ABM is redefining B2B marketing. While some B2B marketers are using ABM to better target new business, most are still getting their heads around this B2B marketing trend. Marketers looking for more revenue should ensure they enhance their target account lists with offers for relevant products and services to existing clients.

2) Be smarter with analytics. While many marketing leaders have data and the analytics at their disposal, most aren’t leveraging them effectively. Marketing leaders need to get a better handle on their customer data, targeting key accounts and using better analysis to identify opportunities for growth. For example, marketing leaders need to look for opportunities to cross-sell more products to existing clients or look for upsell opportunities. By mining purchase patterns and content consumption history, marketers can unearth new insights that they can leverage for more business.

3) Better align sales, marketing and technology. Alignment between sales and marketing in B2B organizations can be an elusive goal. One of the biggest challenges for sales and marketing usually centers on lead quality. But, this is where technology can help, if used properly. Thanks to improved demand generation through ABM and multichannel marketing, marketing and sales can better define leads from the beginning – and improve lead quality and sales conversation. Applied to existing clients properly, this can be a path to more revenue thorugh better collaboration between sales professionals and marketers.

1. Find an entry point that you can build trust with and use as an ally to understand the composition, leadership, and dynamics of the team.
2. While you need to message to different roles, make sure they unify around an enterprise objective–don’t let efforts to appeal to personas create conflict and confusion within the team.
3. Create content for sharing within the team.    Be conscious that not everyone will be part of your conversations, so make sure that you provide “leave behinds” that would be clear to others on the buying team who did not hear the discussion.
4. Acknowledge the challenges to the team members you work with.   Ask them what you can do to help build consensus.

And a big thing not to do:  Don’t lock out IT.