Market Makers by 6sense

"I'd recommend focusing on the first and second meetings with prospects, as these initial interactions often reveal the most interesting discussions that can be scaled up."

Ilkka as a market maker (by 6sense)

I recently participated in the 6sense's Market Makers program on "What Sales REALLY Needs from Marketing in 2025."

Among other topics, we discussed how sales and marketing must collaborate to spot and act on trends. After all, timing is everything if you want to lead a conversation.

To give a few examples of things that are changing in the CPaaS industry: Multiple countries are rolling out various kinds of SenderID protections for SMS, Meta is changing rules on WhatsApp and opening up the platform, plus RCS channel is growing and enabling new business opportunities for our customers.

How does marketing catch what is on our customers' minds in a changing environment like ours? How can sales and marketing stay in sync?

I believe marketing should shadow sales meetings. Hearing customers explain problems in their own words beats getting the second-hand or even AI-summarised version 100-0.

Market View 03: Ilkka Vertanen - 6Sense: What Sales REALLY needs from Marketing in 2025

Check out the full interview here.