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Business data programs can be full of new and confusing terms, especially if you’re just getting started, and often, many of them sound like they could be the same thing. So what is “business data'' and how do you use it to get the most from your efforts in working with data? Not only is it essential to understand data to help you interpret, track, and measure what is most essential to growing your business, but learning how to use it lends itself to greater profitability.

We’ve compiled some of the data terms you’re likely to come across and examined how they can be applied to support your business’s growth goals.

Atomic Revenue is a revenue operations company built on the talents of a nationwide team of subject matter experts (SMEs). We believe when companies partner on projects to provide clients with services that go above and beyond to solve their issues and increase revenue, everyone wins. Let’s face it, few companies or individuals can deliver end-to-end revenue production in every area of expertise without help. With our partners, we are the unicorn companies are looking for!

“We grow with our partners by increasing the value we can each deliver for our clients.  The bottom line is, we’re better together.” — Scott Sinning, Profitability Practice Leader

How did a nationwide commercial real estate company specializing in triple-net lease investments increase gross revenue from $880,000 to $4,482,000 –– a 5x increase –– in four years? The company partnered with Atomic Revenue’s team of subject matter experts (SMEs) who have designed and implemented an optimized digital operations program with a revenue focus.

In my experience, companies that don’t know who they are culturally, what they want from their people, or know why they’re having problems with unmet goals, will come up with a lot of reasons to be displeased with what they have. You may be saying to yourself, “Business owners and managers always know what they want – they want to sell their products or services.” Or more specifically, they want to sell more of their products and services. But at what expense?

Ed Hagen and Dan Sills founded OMiga in St. Louis, Missouri, to tailor back-office support for small to medium-sized businesses. They found the company growing rapidly, requiring them to concentrate on running the business more often than selling, so they engaged Atomic Revenue to assist with hiring their inaugural salespeople. Read on to find out how they achieved incredible sales results that went beyond the scope of their original request.

Whenever something’s amiss in our business, we tend to point the finger at sales. Think about it: anytime revenue is down, we’re not growing at the desired rate, or we’re not getting the valuation we want before putting our business on the market, we look at sales.

Depressed revenue must be because we’re simply not selling enough. Right? Not necessarily. Sales Operations as part of Revenue Operations provides solutions beyond "closing the deal" to get to profitability goals.

To say Steph Hermanson has rocketed through the past seven years is an understatement. When Atomic Revenue was founded in 2015, Steph became a consultant to develop and deliver digital marketing audits. Her role grew to include digital strategy and digital audits across the full revenue production spectrum, including digital impacts on marketing, sales, and customer operations.

There are various descriptions and definitions emerging for the different types of “operations” within a company – marketing operations, sales operations, business operations, financial operations, digital operations, revenue operations, and more. These terms are often used interchangeably. They are also used as department titles. Each B2B company seems to have its own version of what’s included in the operations disciplines. 

Revenue operations focuses on the profitability outcomes that a business is trying to achieve. Most business leaders get revenue operations wrong – they think too narrowly about what it actually entails. The oversimplification of revenue operations limits profitability and impedes growth for any type or size of B2B company. 

As a business leader, no doubt you’ve heard about the big push for content marketing. But how does content marketing fit into your B2B company’s revenue operations strategy? Where should your content focus be and how on earth do you create an effective content strategy for your business?