4. Who are we?
Who we are:
Joe Stickney, Leads and Customer Data Manager
Lazydays: Tampa, FL
About.me/joe.stickney
5. Who are we?
One of the largest RV dealers in US
5,000+ annual sales
300+ service bays with shops
3 restaurants
700 campground sites
2 new parts stores
Seminars and driving classes
Finance and insurance
RV purchasing
6. Who are we?
What do we want to accomplish:
Lead generation and engagement
Using and collecting data
Identifying goals and problems
Mapping processes
Designing workflows
Analyzing results
7. Don’t treat your leads like a
one-night stand
Nurturing and understanding builds quality
relationships
8. Not a one-night stand
Date me first, jerk!
Ecommerce is promiscuous, lead generation is prude
Speed-to-lead
5 minutes. That’s your goal. Period.
Know the buying cycle
Long process, have patience and think customer-centric
Know your prospect
Favorite color, dog’s name, favorite football team
9. Not a one-night stand
Post-purchase relationship
You got them, now keep it up
Repeat and referral are the best customers
Lost opportunity
Understand why they didn’t choose you
Keep pursuing them
Make them want you
11. Matchmaking
Seven ways to make data work for you:
1. Help identify your goal or problem
2. Identify your KPIs
3. Bucket and segment
4. Measure the KPIs and goals
5. Analysis
6. Test and adjust
7. Follow up
12. Matchmaking
How we use lists and segments
We use lists to move contacts through a process
We use segments to break down our lists by properties or actions
Fields are your friends
Know what’s important & how to consolidate the data
Create a field for each data component
Ex: Field = married, data = 1,0 or Y,N
Field = special powers, data = 1,0 or Y,N
Field = vehicle type, data = bat mobile, avenger jet
13. How do we flow?
Some of our workflows in practice
16. How do we flow?
Why draw my workflow when I have a perfectly good tool in
Bronto?
Erasing is easier than angry customers
Identify problems and bottlenecks
Make notes
Remember where you left off
18. How do we flow?
What should I know before I start my workflow?
What is the business problem?
What are the possible solutions?
What are the possible outcomes?
Which outcomes are favorable?
19. How do we flow?
Our business situation (sales):
High cost product & long consideration cycle
Online competition is getting fierce
Losing traction on our internet generated leads
Small shifts in sales can create big shifts in market share
Communication and speed-to-lead need to improve
20. How do we flow?
Business problem statement:
Communicate with eleads quickly and efficiently while
successfully differentiating our value proposition.
21. How do we flow?
Solution
Build a workflow that:
Automates communication and follow up
Sends timely, relevant emails
Provides a value
Measures how we are doing
Customer/prospect controls email
23. How do we flow?
The welcome series:
Welcome message
Immediate response
Calls out additional business
segments
Engages contact
Gives them an offer
25. How do we flow?
The welcome series:
24-hour responder
Adds human element
Allows a response channel
Identifies with product
management tool
26. How do we flow?
The welcome series:
How are we doing?
“Prospect NPS”
Real-time prospect feedback
Allows a response channel
Allows us to react quickly to issues
and questions
Shows we care about our
customers
27. How do we flow?
The welcome series:
Added value
Significantly differentiates our
brand
Shows other business segments
Adds value to our dealership
Engages customer with multiple
destinations
28. How do we flow?
The welcome series:
Manage preferences
29. How do we flow?
The welcome series:
betterRVing.com subscribe
Continues engagement, even
after sale
Grows our contact list
Adds value
30. How do we flow?
Brand header
Keep it consistent
38. How do we flow?
The NPS & thank you series:
The sales NPS
Our customer service end-all, be-all
Use scores to track business performance
Indicates the most beneficial areas for
improvement
39. How do we flow?
The NPS & thank you series:
Thank you from Randy
Personalization
Allows a response channel
40. How do we flow?
The NPS & thank you series:
Post-purchase survey
Gather/retain marketing data
Welcome to Bronto Summit 2013 I am Joe StickneyAnd today we will be going over
How many of you are lead gen? Submitted long boring titleMore appropriately titled.. Who flows there So move on with – who we are
Joe Tampa - Anyone from Florida or Tampa Bay area?Business backgroundHobbiesMeredith designer / girlfriendIf anyone loves the presentation, let us both know, if you hate it, let just her know as she is the one that laid it outIf you get bored – check me out on about.me/joe.stickney
Very unique industryIs anyone familiar with Lazydays or RVs – Class A, Class B / C travel trailers (towables) RVs are Homes on wheelsPrice points from $6,000 – $800,000+Custom shops – detail, wood working, tileOur goal is to make customers for life
We will cover lead generation and engagement that will be beneficial to both ecommerce and lead genWe will look at collecting and managing dataUsing data to make good decisionsIdentifying problems and setting goalsMapping process and workflowsAnd analyzing results and continual testingSo we are going to first cover lead gen and the number one rule of lead gen…
Court them – treat like your mother. Love them, they will love you backSo how do you court your leads? Well…
People still research in ecommerceKnow the prospect – take your time to understand them and BUILD the relationship, you cant do it all on the first dateTake time to gather good data – don’t expect everything up frontFirst dates- how many kids do you want, what’s your take on pooping with the door openLead Gen is not limited to first dates
Keeping with the relationship theme here Keep treating the customer right, Once you get the milk, if you will.. Keep buying the cow. Lead generation does not end at the sale45% of our business is repeat and 25% or more is referral. No business can survive without repeat and referral businessAlways be looking how to get betterLost OpsDo not give up hope because they went on a date with your best friend. They chose the competitor. Keep loving them. So lets talk about data
Data is essential, but it must be collected tactfullyRemember the creepy first date questions- take your time and collect great dataBuilding a successful marketing program, be it lead gen, follow-up or just targeted campaigns, it all starts with data
So lets get into 7 ways data will help youIs everyone familiar with KPI?Never stop tracking, never stop measuring, never stop testing and adjusting. No two people are alike. Be careful to make assumptions about data when you use it to bucket or group people – an exampleJen StorySO USING LISTS AND SEGMENTS
Lists are used to move you through the process, segments track actions – this is not the only way or necessarily the right way to do things, it is just how we do thingsWe use lists, because we like to be able to easily bolt things on and off of workflowsUse fields to hold contact data and whenever possible make it as quantifiable and as simple as possible, 1 or 0, yes or no,
So you have put in all this leg work of data collection and organization now you are ready to make some real left brained, super analytical, text book black and white workflow decisions so what do you do next?
Yep – your first major analytical decision in workflow planning is grabbing your pencil and paper and start a sketchAnd here is what step 1 of workflow building looks like for us:
Map of the Service workflowWhy draw my workflow when I have a perfectly good tool in Bronto?
2 people and the service directorDraw the processBottlenecksBusiness conflictsOpportunitiesMake notesAnd most of all you look a lot smarter that you really are with that diagram on your wall.
Map of the Service workflowWhy draw my workflow when I have a perfectly good tool in Bronto?
Goldminers comparison – know the process, plan your strategy, prepare and learn from other mistakesPredict possible outcomes and map those outcomesDo they get you to the gold?Start by accessing the situation
I am going to use our business situation that we were in to detail how we developed our workflow for engagementSo we know the situation, now state it as a business problem, make a problem statement
So after mapping out processes and possible outcomes, we determined our best possible solution
So without further a-do, bring on the Lazydays Sales Welcome Series Workflow
2 important things that will make your life a lot easier – the API and identifying triggers (start the workflow)Triggers the API and sends contact, vehicle and specific prospect data to Bronto
Delivers instantly upon submissionLets someone know we are there and we hear themKeeps them engaged with us, not the competitor
You gave us something, we give you somethingGive and take works well in lead genPart of the thank you
Deploys 24-hours after the initial thank you email is deployedGives the contact a way to get back to us, send additional info and shows that we are listening. This ben stiller look a like and part time mustache Model is Jason Cohen, the internet sales manager
96 hours after the 24 hour responderA significant and successful program that we have implemented across the businessThis immediate response helps us to identify the areas in the lead process that need work
Deploys 48 hours after how are we doing email and begins leg two of the welcome seriesIt is important to use lists and even multiple workflows if you know you will be bolting on new workflows in the future
Deploys three days after added value email
Deploys 3 days after the manage prefs to anyone who is not on the betterRVing opt in list (have not signed up yet)
Offers can help shorten the consideration cycle and create urgency