Whether you think it, believe it, or discard it – the truth is that buyer personas are the start of every successful campaign.
Every marketer knows that understanding your buyer is key, but every smart marketer knows that standard demographics just won’t cut it anymore. The fact is the very term ‘Buyer Persona’ has become diluted in it’s own “buzz”. So, what does it take to truly assemble meaningful buyer and sales engagement data?
Marketers will learn to combine internal data points through the science of big data and predictive analytics with softer metrics such as psychological felt need and trust establishment to literally clone your best buyer interactions – and avoid those that are simply a waste of time.
Discover the best way to stack the deck in your favor by not only cloning your best customers but cloning your best sales interactions.
Martal Group - B2B Lead Gen Agency - Onboarding Overview
How to Use Marketing Automation to Generate and Nurture Leads
1. Using Marketing
Automation to
Generate and
Nurture Leads
Presented by Justin Gray, @jgraymatter
Founder and CEO, LeadMD
Leadmd.com | @myleadmd | Go@leadmd.com
2. Marketing is
based on assumption
Traditional approach
doesn’t work anymore
Campaigning = Glorified Experiment
Success = Lead Generated
3. But that’s just plain wrong
After 2,600 Marketo engagements
and discussions with thousands of
digital marketing practitioners, VPs
and CMOs, we’ve seen that
equation is wrong for two reasons...
4. Marketers are being
asked to do more with less
There’s an assumption that after spending money on
software, it should be able to do everything.
That’s a big chunk of budget, and marketers will have to be
more agile and produce more.
The old format of campaigning leads to a ton of waste.
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5. All leads are
not created equal.
You can’t use the same metrics for everybody
You must track leads all the way through the funnel to
determine true success
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6. The waiting game
tick tock tick tock…
You can’t afford
to wait and see
the ultimate success
of your campaign Unlock the potential in
your CURRENT lead base
Marketing Automation
+Who & When
7. Big Brother is Marketo…
it sees it all Capture data and track it all
It sees all of YOUR daily
interactions (calls, meetings,
opportunities, won deals)
Keeps tabs on your LEADS
interactions
Predictive scoring plays a
part here, too.
8. Cloning isn’t just for sheep
How to clone your best buyers
(and your interactions with them)
9. The missing ingredient,
the data in your head.
You’ve got demographic and
behavioral data but that data is
superficial.
You don’t have the most important
ingredient: the experience you've
had with this buyer.
10. Here’s how we
accomplished that…
• Activity MUST be in the system.
• Post sales survey
• Customer Survey
11. Now you have the ingredients,
you just need the right recipe
Define your universe - who’s the best people
to talk to
Put everything in your database
13. We’ve got all the
information we need,
now it’s time to build trust.
This boils down to two simple questions:
1. Are we answering the questions that buyers are asking?
2. Do they trust we are accurate?
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The 80/20 rule
Apply what we’ve learned and begin scoring
your best buyers
Most of your opportunity resides in a very small
part of your database.
But that portion will convert at a massively
higher rate than the rest.
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Remember
Demographic defines who.
Behavioral defines when.
If you have a large
degree of demographic
fit, that means you
SHOULD be in our
universe.
17. Getting psychological
Behavioral and demographic has a huge
amount of value.
You can zoom in on signals, but
capturing psychological data in a
systematic way can be tough.
18. What can we take away
from all of this?
Key takeaways
20. Simply put…
Behavior and demographic data
without psychological does not
tell us who that person really is.
Start using the right equation to
clone your best customers.
22. Thank you!
To learn more about LeadMD’s offerings visit us at
leadmd.com or call us at 480.278.7205
To learn more about how we “Cloned our Best
Customers” visit leadmd.com/startcloning
Tweet and follow us @myleadmd
Editor's Notes
What are the steps in doing that?
Look for positive and negative signals
Define that universe
Determine if you have all the information about that lead in your database that MA can help with?
What are the steps in doing that?
Look for positive and negative signals
Define that universe
Determine if you have all the information about that lead in your database that MA can help with?
Correlate what actions those buyers performed at the beginning of the cycle. This will allow you to start to predict who the best buyers will be. And more importantly, predict how to talk to them: How to nurture, what messages to provide, what are their problems, what solutions have excited them.
You’ll be able to leverage these aspects throughout the whole buying cycle. From marketing to sales, all of your “plays” can be assigned based on who the buyers are and what point they are in the funnel.
As leads move thorough the process, we’ll score them, see how much intent they have, and run interactions that align to those positions. Ultimately, this is all to build trust.
Anecdote: A lot of our trust comes from the massive amount of engagements we’ve worked on. But ultimately, if we hop into a conversation and immediately fast forward straight to the end, the buyer will think you don’t know who they are. The message won’t be aligned. You can’t have done dimension without the other.
By finding the right buyers, scoring them by their interactions, and combining that with the right message, we’re able to see 5X opportunity lift based on right time, right message, and nurturing the buyer throughout the funnel.
Behaviors tells us at what point to engage and how. Very low behavioral score= phone. High amount of behavioral = served up to an AE, or even given a coupon code for a purchase.
Maybe it looks like this:
Someone fills out sales form – but has no propensity to buy
Someone downloads a ton of content and tries to determine a benchmark (in our case) – more likely to purchase and be a better customer.
So we have to get that data out of people’s heads and into CRM. Data does not provide all the dimensions you need.
Things like what they told the rep, how excited they were, etc. That’s the data that no one is collecting, and certainly isn’t contained in CRM.
For example, Justin Gray at LeadMD: C-Level name in the database … would probably score high in Cisco’s database … but LeadMD is relatively small organization and probably won’t need need what they are selling … so just because I’d come through their database through an even doesn’t mean I’d be a best buyer. But most lead scoring systems would say just that.
Simply put: No one of those dimensions can be looked at separately. Behavior and demographic without psychological does not tell us who that person really is. All of our personas are psychological in nature.