As your organization grows, it becomes increasingly important to invest in technology that will help you stay agile and competitive. Revtech, or revenue technology stack, is a collection of integrated processes and technologies based on data-driven, actionable insights.
A Revtech stack is invaluable for companies looking to increase agility, drive customer value, and accelerate differentiation. However, selecting the right platform for your needs can be daunting. Many different solutions are available, and it can take time to determine which ones best suit your needs.
In this blog post, we'll discuss some challenges associated with implementing a Revtech stack and offer tips for overcoming them. We'll also provide an overview of a technology suite to help organizations streamline their marketing, sales, and operations.
What is a Revtech Stack?
Revenue operations (RevOps) is a term that is becoming increasingly popular in the business world, but it's still shrouded in a bit of mystery. RevOps is the practice of aligning an organization's marketing, sales, and customer success functions around a common goal: driving revenue growth.
One of the challenges associated with RevOps is that it requires marketing, sales, and customer success teams to work together more closely. To be successful, RevOps must grow on a foundation of trust and transparency. Without these essential ingredients, silos will form, and the entire effort will crumble.
Another challenge related to RevOps is finding the right technology stack to support it. Because there is no one-size-fits-all solution, each organization must carefully assess its needs and select the tools that will work best for them. This can be a daunting task, particularly for small and mid-sized organizations that may not have the resources of larger companies.
Revtech Features
A Revtech stack is a collection of technology platforms that helps organizations:
- Manage data more efficiently,
- Produce better reports in real-time,
- Set attainable goals and track progress,
- Publish content and attribute credit to marketing teams' success,
- Keep tabs on service departmental tickets and SLAs,
- Automate operational tasks via APIs.
When selecting a Revtech stack, it's essential to consider the following factors:
- The size of your organization
- The industry you're in
- Your marketing goals
- Your sales goals
- Your operational goals
Why Implement a Revtech Stack?
There are many reasons why companies choose to implement a RevTech stack. Some of the most triggers for change include:
- To increase agility: A RevTech stack can help you quickly adapt to marketplace changes by allowing you to manage data more efficiently and produce better reports in real time.
- To drive customer value: Deliver more value to your customers by integrating your marketing, sales, and operations processes.
- To accelerate differentiation: A RevTech stack can help you set yourself apart from the competition.
- To increase the quality of reporting: Produce better reports in real time, obtaining better data-driven insights and increasing visibility into the performance of cross-functional teams via advanced attribution capabilities.
- To reduce operational costs: Automate tasks via integrated workflows, advanced APIs, and reporting features.
For example, the right Revtech stack can help you establish a multi-touch revenue attribution model. Multi-touch revenue attribution is a method of assigning credit to sales interactions based on the number of "touches" or engagements a prospect has had with your brand. In other words, it's a way of understanding which marketing and sales activities are most effective in driving revenue.
HubSpot's multi-touch revenue attribution model is one of the most popular solutions on the market. It assigns credit to each touchpoint along the customer journey and lets you see which channels are most effective at driving revenue.
Components of a Comprehensive RevOps Suite
A comprehensive RevOps solution is designed to help organizations streamline their marketing, sales, and operations. The solution suite includes HubSpot's Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Operations Hub, and Service Hub.
Marketing Hub
Marketing Hub helps organizations attract more website visitors and convert them into leads.
- Attract more website visitors: HubSpot's marketing software includes tools for SEO, blogging, social media, and lead generation.
- Convert more leads into customers with lead capture, nurturing, and conversion tools.
- Analyze marketing performance with marketing analytics and reporting tools.
Sales Hub
Sales Hub helps organizations close more deals and increase customer retention.
- Automate sales processes: HubSpot's sales software includes tools for sales automation, email tracking, and contact management.
- Increase deal value: HubSpot's sales software includes consulting services, deal registration, and pricing optimization tools.
- Analyze sales performance: HubSpot's sales software includes sales analytics and reporting tools.
Operations Hub
Operations Hub helps organizations streamline their marketing, sales, and operations processes.
- Gain visibility into data silos with data synchronization and integration tools.
- Build marketing, sales, and operations workflows: Operations Hub includes tools for workflow management and process automation; it also automates email marketing, lead generation, and contact management for marketing teams, lead capture, lead nurturing, and deal registration for sales teams, and ticketing, SLAs, and APIs for operational tasks.
- Track process ROI: Operations Hub includes tools for marketing, sales, and operations analytics and reporting, such as marketing attribution, sales pipeline reporting, and ROI analysis.
Service Hub
Service Hub helps organizations deliver world-class customer service. The suite enables teams to keep tabs on service departmental tickets and SLAs.
- Provide world-class customer service: HubSpot's customer service software includes tools for ticketing, live chat, knowledge base, and customer satisfaction surveys.
- Create a knowledge base
- Increase customer retention: HubSpot's customer service software includes tools for customer success management, customer onboarding, and product education.
- Manage customer requests: Service Hub software includes a ticketing system for tracking customer requests.
- Analyze customer service performance with customer satisfaction analytics and reporting tools.
The Takeaway
A RevTech stack is a powerful tool that can help companies increase agility, drive customer value, and accelerate differentiation. However, it's important to remember that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Each organization must carefully assess its needs and select the tools that will work best for them.
Partnering with a RevOps solution provider can help streamline an organization's marketing, sales, and operations. And multi-touch revenue attribution can provide valuable insights into which marketing and sales activities are most effective in driving revenue.
Zach West
Zach leads New Breed's demand generation program. His areas of focus include in-depth market research and modeling, customer journey design and optimization, strategic application of data-based insights, technical integrations and data flow design, and technical content support.