Alexa Franck, a Senior Content Marketing Manager at GoLinks, discusses common challenges that hinder the efficiency of sales and marketing teams and offers solutions to overcome them. The challenges highlighted include cross-departmental knowledge silos, disorganized marketing collateral, lack of alignment between sales and marketing, incompatible technology stacks, and reliance on manual tasks. Franck emphasizes the importance of breaking down knowledge silos through effective communication, organizing marketing materials for easy access, aligning sales and marketing efforts to enhance collaboration, and ensuring some technological overlap between the teams to facilitate smoother processes. Additionally, she advocates for automating tasks to improve scalability and flexibility, thereby allowing teams to adapt more readily to changing market conditions. By addressing these issues and implementing the suggested strategies, teams can enhance their efficiency and drive greater success.