To Our Valued Marketing Director at ACME Corporation,As one of the sales reps at ACME, I am grateful for marketing programs and the people who create them. In fact, I’m tired of all the blogs about the tension between sales and marketing teams. I think you guys work really hard, and I don’t think our company would be

I wish…when one of my customers makes a referral, it would be automatically tracked and routed to me.
2. You never ask.
You invested a lot of time and money getting this program launched, but after the inaugural internal promotion of the program, we never heard another word about it.
Conferences, newsletters, webinars — we hear a lot about those before and after they happen. So what happened to that referral program you talked about several months ago?
I wish… I was incentivized and actively encouraged to promote the referral program. And I wish there was an easy way to measure my accomplishments without asking you to do more work.
3) It’s a hassle.
One of my current customers clicked-thru one of your referral program promotional emails and he made a referral. When his friend accepted the referral and was routed to the sales department, I was randomly assigned the lead. But it could have just as easily been another sales person in our department who got that lead.
Despite getting that lead, I’m in a predicament. For the past three weeks I’ve been fielding questions from my customer who made the referral. She wants to know the status of the reward she earned through our program. I wish I could help her, but no one in sales knows where to find that information! I have no idea where her reward is.
I wish…that there was an automatic way to update our customers’ referral statuses so that their rewards could be delivered promptly. It doesn’t make me or our company look very good when no one can answer what should be a pretty simple question.
As a sales rep, I know that referral leads close quicker and customers that come from a referral tend to buy more.
So, dear marketer, I really do appreciate all you do for me, but could you please help me help you? Find an automated referral program and we will both have less work to do. I’ll get more credit for my work, and you’ll get more credit for yours! And I’m willing to bet that our customers at ACME will appreciate how organized and efficient we are in serving them and keeping them happy.
Let’s talk, ok?
Sincerely, Your Faithful B2B Sales Rep