Anyone who's marketed for a financial or legal services brand knows the big deals don't close overnight. When serious money is about to change hands, both sides do their homework. Prospects compare providers and firms, gather documents, loop in a spouse or an accountant, and sleep on it. Firms verify eligibility, check for conflicts, and qualify the opportunity or the case. That due diligence is healthy. It's also exactly what stretches a sales cycle from days into weeks or

Every business faces plateaus, industry shifts, and moments where the old playbook stops working. Long-term success comes from adapting quickly, learning continuously, and making strategic pivots before they become mandatory. It also requires a collaborative partnership where both teams stay aligned, challenge assumptions, share insights, and work together to navigate constant changes in the digital landscape. We're sharing lessons we've learned from one of our longstanding

In this episode of Data Planet, host Emma Davis interviews Timothy Calder, Director of Global Event Marketing at Achievers. They explore how modern marketing teams can transform event marketing from a high-cost, hard-to-measure channel into a scalable, data-driven growth engine. Timothy breaks down how Achievers structures its event strategy to directly influence pipeline and revenue, including the importance of aligning marketing, sales, and operations around shared metrics

You may find yourself wishing you had more data to help you understand the value of your leads. In a perfect world, every new column would be filled out consistently, giving you richer, more precise insights. But the reality? Between chasing follow-ups and keeping existing scoring systems updated, asking sales to fill out multiple new fields just isn’t realistic. The good news: you may not need more fields. The data you need could already be sitting in your CRM, just waiting