There’s a lot going on.
Your operation is reaching the market, creating reasons to engage, demonstrating the solution, making the next step easier, and building recognition across a portfolio of programs.
GROWTH SCIENCE / B2B SAAS
You’ve hired the team, brought in agencies, and increased budgets. Why is pipeline still falling short?
At the end of the day, you're looking for reliable inbound, steady sales-stage progression, and growing pipeline. You're implementing best practices across sales and marketing, but you’re not seeing the results you’re looking for at the revenue level.
B2B SaaS categories are crowded and competitive. In order to build preference, teams need to be firing on all cylinders: strategy, tactics, and operations. We’ll help you define what your ideal portfolio of marketing and sales programs needs to look like, identify what’s missing today, and create a practical plan to build and sustain it.
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01 / THE PROBLEM
You have some of the pieces. But the end result still isn't there.
You’re running ads, reaching out to prospects, publishing content, and working on upsells. Your agency’s reporting shows its contribution increasing. Your new head of marketing just updated the website. There is a lot of activity.
But when it comes to pipeline and revenue, the results simply aren’t there. And the worst part is, no one really knows what to do about it.
Before you replace another agency or add another channel, you need to understand why your current mix of marketing and sales programs isn’t producing the revenue outcomes you want, and what’s preventing your team from building the complete portfolio needed to get there.
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Having the pieces isn’t the same as having a complete portfolio.
02 / OUR OPERATING PHILOSOPHY
Define your ideal program. Build the project plan. Get to work.
Our operating philosophy is simple: the biggest, most effective marketing and sales operations tend to have three things in common.
Programs get better over time.
Programs are maintained, measured, and improved long enough for their value to compound.
Every program has a clear purpose.
Each program supports specific strategic objectives and target customer outcomes, so the complete portfolio moves in the same direction.
If those are the qualities of effective marketing and sales operations, those are the qualities your portfolio and operation should be built to have. Simply pursuing that ideal gives your team more opportunities to do the things that make your brand known, trusted, and preferred over time.
If you agree that this is what good looks like, here is what we think it takes to build and sustain it.
WITH TONY FLORES
What effective portfolios have in common.
03 / WHAT IT TAKES TO BUILD THE PORTFOLIO
Three parts of the operation. One complete portfolio.
Building that kind of portfolio requires strategy, tactics, and operations to work together. Strategy sets the direction. The five objectives give teams boundaries for deciding what to build and why. Operations makes it possible to keep the portfolio running, growing, and improving.
WITH TONY FLORES
How strategy, objectives, and operations work together.
STRATEGY
Strategy gives the work direction.
Your competitive strategy and strategic details should explain why buyers enter the category, who you’re best positioned to serve, how you plan to compete, and what you want to become known for.
They should be specific enough to guide messaging, programs, and day-to-day decisions across the operation.
TACTICS
Tactics put the programs into action.
Tactics are the methods your teams use to execute and improve ongoing programs.
The five portfolio objectives create boundaries and direction for deciding which programs to build, which tactics belong inside them, and where time and budget should go next.
OPERATIONS
Operations keep everything moving.
Your operational infrastructure should give people a shared way to move activities from idea to launch, assign ownership, manage dependencies, and improve what’s live.
That is how your operation sustains more activity without sacrificing quality or strategic alignment.
THE OBJECTIVES THAT GUIDE WHAT GETS BUILT
The five portfolio objectives
Across your marketing, sales, and customer success operations, these objectives define the coverage a complete portfolio needs. They give teams a shared way to decide what to build, why it belongs, and where the gaps are.
- 01
Reach your audience
Are you reaching the people you want to sell to?
- 02
Give them reasons to engage
Are you earning their attention and giving them something useful?
- 03
Demonstrate your solution
Can they see how you help them accomplish what matters?
- 04
Build recognition and memory
Will they recognize and remember you when the need arises?
- 05
Make the next step easier
Are you helping prospects buy and customers expand?
04 / START WITH THE AUDIT
Audits are useless if “good” isn't agreed upon.
You need more than a list of things to fix in your CRM. You need agreement on what your portfolio should accomplish and an honest look at whether your operational infrastructure can support it.
Over 30 days, you’ll get that shared picture, an assessment of your current programs, and a prioritized plan for the next three to six months.
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What are we auditing for?
- 01
Agree on the philosophy
Define the portfolio objectives, target customer outcomes, and ideal portfolio you’re building toward.
- 02
Review the whole operation
Map your marketing, sales, and customer programs to the portfolio objectives and target customer outcomes. Review their quality, consistency, and operational infrastructure.
- 03
Find what’s getting in the way
Identify gaps in strategy, tactics, technology, capabilities, and operational infrastructure.
- 04
Decide what to build next
Get a clear sequence: what to build, in what order, why, and who needs to contribute.
05 / WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH
“Here’s what this needs to become. And here’s the role you play.”
Take the audit conversation to your team, your agency, or your next hire. Use it as a foundation for future planning, or break it into the specific projects each owner needs to take on.
Whatever you decide to do with it, you’ll get a complete roadmap for getting your operation firing on all cylinders.
- A shared operating philosophyThe portfolio objectives, target customer outcomes, and standards that define what good looks like.
- An assessment against that pictureWhat’s working, what’s missing, and what prevents consistent execution.
- A sequenced build planPriorities, owners, dependencies, and suggested timeframes for the next three to six months.
Where strategy needs work, you’ll see the gaps and how to close them. If you move forward without formal research, you’ll know which recommendations are informed working hypotheses.
06 / CLIENT PERSPECTIVE
What changes when the complete portfolio comes into focus.
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07 / HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
Start with the plan. Get the support you need to build it.
START HERE
The audit
$10,000 / 30 days
Align on what good looks like, assess your operation, and decide what to build next.
Leadership conversations, portfolio review, executive presentation, and a prioritized plan. You own it. There’s no requirement to continue.
LEAD THE BUILD
Fractional leadership
Bring me in as your part-time Director of Marketing or Demand Generation.
You get hands-on leadership across teams, execution, leadership meetings, and hiring. The goal is an operation your team can sustain after I leave.
Scoped separately through a partner company.
SUPPORT YOUR TEAM
Ongoing advisory
Your team owns execution. You have someone to work through the hard parts with.
One or two team members get a weekly resource through Slack or email to make decisions, overcome roadblocks, and keep the plan moving.
Scoped to the support your team needs.
08 / YOUR AUDIT PARTNER
You’ll work with me.
Tony Flores.
You need recommendations from someone who understands the work. I’ve run the campaigns, managed the teams and agencies, and explained performance to leadership.
You’ll get that perspective applied to your business, with a plan that accounts for what your team can actually build and keep running.
WITH TONY FLORES
What it’s like to work together.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Get a clear answer before you spend more.
Let’s talk about what you expected, what you’re seeing, and what you’ve already tried. Then decide whether the audit is the right next step.