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CLOSED-LOOP
MARKETING
AN INTRODUCTION TO
How to Close
the Loop Between
Marketing & Sales
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CONTENTS
HOW CLOSED LOOP MARKETING WORKS		 //	 8
WHAT YOU NEED TO SET UP CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING	 //	 19
BECOME A BETTER MARKETER BY CLOSING THE LOOP		 //	 25
HOW TO FIX A BROKEN LOOP	 //	 33
CONCLUSION & ADDITIONAL RESOURCES	 //	 38
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Half the money I spend on
advertising is wasted; the trouble
is I don’t know which half.
“
”“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Almost a century after John Wanamaker
spoke those words, most online marketers can still feel his pain.
The irony is, today, marketers have the technology they need to “close the loop” between marketing and revenue, but few are
actually taking advantage of it. To many, setting up closed-loop reporting has remained too hard and confusing to implement.
Effective marketers, however, should be able to tie every single lead, customer and dollar back to the marketing initiative that
created them. This is how marketers can prove their worth, and understand how to more efficiently reach their audience.
It’s time that we changed the status quo. Marketers invest a lot of time in their campaigns and are not always sure whether their
efforts are paying off. Social media is the classic case: businesses engage in social media conversations without knowing how
these interactions can transform into new sales.
If you are unsure on where you should start to implement successful closed-loop marketing, this is the right ebook for you. We
will start by demonstrating the value which comes with closed-loop marketing data. Then, we will walk you through a step-by-step
explanation of how closed-loop marketing works and how it can help you become a better marketer. Lastly, we will show you how
you can fix your loop if you spot something odd in it.
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CHAPTER 1
HOW CLOSED-
LOOP MARKETING
WORKS
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Visualizing Closed-Loop Marketing
The cookie tracks
the visitor’s actions
on the website
Submission of a
lead capture form
Attributing
customer
acquisition to the
visitor’s original
source
VISITOR
ARRIVES
ON SITE
LEAD BECOMES
A CUSTOMER
VISITOR
CONVERTS
INTO A LEAD
VISITOR
BROWSES
WEBSITE
VISITOR ACTIONS
SOFTWARE ACTIONS
Cookie is set
on the visitor and
their source, e.g.
email, social media,
etc.
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VISITOR
ARRIVES
ON SITE
VISITOR ACTIONS
SOFTWARE ACTIONS
The easiest way
to close the loop is to
make your website the central hub
for all your marketing. Search engines,
social media, email marketing, referral links,
paid search, even offline campaigns should get
filtered to your website. Once someone visits
your website, you can cookie them and
start tracking their activity.
COOKIE IS SET
ON THE VISITOR
AND THEIR SOURCE,
E.G. EMAIL, SOCIAL
MEDIA, ETC.
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The drop down menu enables us to switch this chart for a view of leads and customers by channel.
This is the entry point of your closed-loop system. As the lead progresses through your sales and marketing stages, you’ll be able
to attribute them back to the proper channel. If they came into your site through a link from a trade show, an email marketing
campaign or a search term, for example, you’ll be able to trace them back to that original source.
For instance, here is what that data can look like. Below you see a screenshot of HubSpot’s traffic by channel, brought to us by the
marketing analytics tools of our software. By looking at this data we are able to see trends and compare channels. We know which
are our most valuable sources of traffic and can work on optimizing the rest.
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Most web analytics systems will allow you to track sources of traffic like search term or referring website, but you’ll need to
go a step further than this in order to make sure that you’re accurately assigning your leads to the right marketing initiative.
To create a tracking URL, you just need to add a parameter to the end of your website’s link that your analytics system can
identify and associate with a particular campaign or initiative. This will enable you to more accurately track visitors who
otherwise look like they are coming from direct search.
The tracking token is added to the end of a link, allowing your analytics tool to pool a certain group of traffic. Different tools
employ different tokens, but here is an example of what a visit from Twitter could look like:
/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
By attaching this to your URL anyone who clicks that link is signaling to your analytics tool that they are coming from Twitter. The same
type of tracking tokens apply to different channels, such as email, paid media and referral traffic. Investigate with your marketing or
analytics software to make sure you have tracking tokens in place and your data gets assigned to the right categories.
You should assign a tracking URL
to every marketing campaign that
is sending traffic to your website.
!
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The cookie
tracks the
visitor’s actions
on the website
VISITOR
BROWSES
WEBSITE
VISITOR ACTIONS
SOFTWARE ACTIONS
As you attract traffic and
identify where that traffic is coming
from, you need to track the behavior
of your visitors. Which pages are they
viewing? What is their trajectory of actions?
Such intelligence will illustrate a path that
can, down the road, help you optimize for
faster visitor-to-lead or even visitor-to-
customer conversions.
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This is the trickiest part of closed-loop reporting: making sure that you can connect a visitor’s session with their lead
information once they convert on a form. Without this piece, you’ll have two separate databases, one with anonymous
visitor history and one with lead information. As a result, you won’t be able to connect those leads back to their respective
marketing source.
In order to make this work for you, either do something very technical on the back end of your analytics platform or you start
using some software that does this for you. There are a few of companies out there that have figured out how to do this and
there is no point reinventing the wheel--full disclosure, the HubSpot software allows you to do closed-loop reporting.
Here is a screenshot of HubSpot’s Prospects tool which tracks visitors’ activity (when they are still anonymous) and provides
some actionable next steps, such as social media following.
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VISITOR
CONVERTS
TO A LEAD
VISITOR ACTIONS
SOFTWARE ACTIONS
In order to monetize the traffic you are
getting and send qualified prospects to your
sales team, you need to convert visitors into leads.
You can make this happen by sending incoming
traffic to landing pages which are going to make an
information exchange possible and collect more
insights from your visitors.
Submission of
a lead capture
form
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More than just knowing where your visitors are coming from, you’ll need to know who they are. This is curtail to closing the
loop and being able to associate closed customers back to their entry source.
The way to capture this information is to direct website visitors to a landing page with a submission form (or also known as a lead
capture form). Once visitors fill out this from, you’ll have whatever contact information you asked them for: name, email, phone
number, etc. As a best practice, you should be sending most of your traffic to landing pages and forms so that you can grow your
leads database.
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4
LEAD
BECOMES A
CUSTOMER
VISITOR ACTIONS
SOFTWARE ACTIONS
Now it’s time to figure
out how these visits transformed
into sales. Which one of your marketing
channels contributed the most customers?
Are there ways you can optimize the process
for other sources? Closed-loop marketing
enables you to identify the activities that
bring in the most (and least) revenue.
Attributing
customer
acquisition to the
visitor’s original
source
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Finally, you need to look at all of the leads that your sales team has closed and attribute them back to their original
marketing initiative. If you’ve setup everything in steps one through four, this should be a relatively straightforward process.
For most medium-sized business, the easiest way to achieve this is through your Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
system. For smaller businesses, you might do this more manually using a spreadsheet.
Here is a screenshot of HubSpot’s analytics providing us with insights on customer acquisition from different marketing
sources, such as email marketing, social media and referrals.
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CHAPTER 2
WHAT YOU NEED
TO SET UP
CLOSED-LOOP
MARKETING
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In order to set up closed-loop marketing you need to map marketing activities to sales. Such an integration requires connecting
your marketing software to your customer relationship management (CRM). In other words, you tie the intelligence emerging
from your marketing communication with prospective, current and former customers to the intelligence your internal team has
built with these same people.
In order to set up closed-loop
marketing you need to map
marketing activities to sales.“
”
PROMOTION
CONTENT
SEO
TRANSACTIONS
SALES
CUSTOMERS
MARKETING
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The purpose of a CRM system is to synchronize the activities of
your sales, marketing and customer support teams. A CRM
platform can support your business in a number of ways ranging
from selling and fulfillment to identifying and rewarding loyal
customers. SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and SugarCRM are some the
most commonly known CRM systems.
Marketing software, like HubSpot, keeps record of your
marketing data and makes it actionable--by optimizing
campaigns, enabling lead conversions and revealing results.
The CRM and the marketing software talk to each other
through an application programming interface (API).
CRM SOLUTION
MARKETING
SOFTWAREAPI
MARKETING
SOFTWARE
CRM SOLUTION
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As a sophisticated marketer, you want the two systems to talk to each other. When one of your sales representatives closes a
deal, she can mark that sale as “won” in your CRM and that will trigger an update in the marketing software. You will then be
able to go backwards and see where this new customer came from originally. What channel brought them to your website?
What pages did they view afterward? At what point did they convert into a lead?
Such intelligence will expose conversion assists, pages on your website that your visitors viewed before they converted into
leads or customers. Understanding a website’s conversion assists can help marketers identify the most influential pages
they own. In doing so, they can learn a lot about why those pages are (or aren’t) effective and apply these insights to improve
poorly performing web pages and to enhance other components of their marketing.
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As we demonstrated so far, closed-loop marketing offers data that is critical for successful marketing. Yet tying your
marketing software to your CRM impacts your business strategy in even more positive ways.
Closed-loop marketing also enables you to achieve alignment between sales and marketing and define the
operations between the two departments. Here are some of the other benefits emerging from the integration
between your marketing software and CRM solutions:
SALES ASSIGNMENT RULES
The type of campaign, lead grade or conversion event--all insights coming from your marketing system--can trigger
workflows in your CRM system. For instance, specific leads (based on form submission, physical location, etc.) can
get assigned to specific members of your sales team.
LEAD SCORING
Once you mark a sale as “closed won” in your CRM, you can work backwards to assign point values to the lead’s
demographics or specific actions taken on your website. These will all be indicators of the lead’s high probability to
become a customer. Once you’ve set point values for different lead qualification categories, decide at which point a
total score would validate sending a lead to your sales team for a conversation.
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LEAD NURTURING
As a result of your lead scoring mechanism, you will easily identify leads with low lead grades. Now you
can handle them in a more efficient way by sending them to a lead nurturing campaign rather than a sales
person. A series of targeted email messages can invite the lead to sign up for a webinar, download an ebook
from your landing page, or take some other action that will further engage them in your company.
CUSTOM LEAD SCORING
You can also customize the way you assign high grades to your leads. For instance, a grade could be boosted
if the lead converted multiple times on your website, thus indicating engagement. Or if it represents a
desired demographic profile. You could also use the qualifying questions on your lead capture forms to
calculate a custom lead score.
SETTING MONETARY GOALS
Tying your marketing software to your CRM system also allows you to set a campaign goal with a dollar
sign on it. Rather than measuring your impact through traffic and leads only, you can focus on the actual
customers certain channels and initiatives brought in to your organization. This is especially valuable if you
are investing a ton of money and effort in a campaign. Trade shows are a great example of the need for
setting monetary goals.
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CHAPTER 3
BECOME A BETTER
MARKETER BY
CLOSING THE LOOP
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Closed-loop reporting is one of the most powerful tools that online
marketers have at our disposal. Not only does it allow us to demonstrate
the work’s value to our bosses, organizations and clients, but it also
enables us to do better marketing.
Once you understand what marketing activities are generating leads,
customers and revenue, you can double down on what’s working, and
cut out what’s not. At the end of the day, marketing is about generating
revenue. A good marketing team should be like a money generating machine - you put a dollar in and
you get two dollars out (or at least $1.25).
In this section of the ebook we will review a few different ways in which closed-loop reporting helps you
attract more high-quality leads and become a smarter marketer.
Closed-loop marketing enables
us to do better marketing.
“ ”
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FOCUS ON THE RIGHT CHANNELS & OFFERS
Closed-loop marketing directs your attention to the most powerful conversion events and channels. By looking
at the sources and offers that traditionally brought in new customers for your organization, you will be able to
identify the behavior you need to engage in to qualify leads and push them down the sales funnel.
For instance, by looking at HubSpot’s Sources we are able to compare the efficiency of different channels in
respect to customer acquisition. In the screenshot below we are comparing the number of sales from social
media marketing to the number of sales from email marketing. It becomes clear that email marketing has a
higher lead-to-customer rate than social media. This insight can then help us take action: nurture the social
media leads with targeted email messages.
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DELIVER CLEARER RESULTS TO YOUR BOSS
The data you can gather thanks to closed-loop marketing will also help you build your authority and support
the decisions you make in front of your boss. It shows that your strategy is driven by evidence and doesn’t
rely on abstract theories or assumptions. That will also help you build powerful marketing presentations for
company-wide meetings or when jumping in comarketing partnerships.
The same type of intelligence will direct you to the content you can use to build your lead nurturing communication. You can
compare the efficiency of different offers in respect to customer acquisition. In the screenshot below we have used HubSpot’s
Landing Page Dashboard to compare the performance of two ebooks in bringing up new customers. This information will help us
decide which of these ebooks to use as a call-to-action when we are trying to push a lead down the sales funnel.
NEW CUSTOMERS:
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GAIN INSIGHTS ABOUT YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE
By gaining a 360-degree view of your sales cycle — looking at a user’s first visit to your website, browsing
through their activities and identifying their last conversion event--you collect insights about the ideal prospect.
This information can help you build a target persona.
Personas are fictional representations of your ideal customers, based on real data about customer demographics and
online behavior, along with educated speculation about their personal histories, motivations, and
concerns.
Analyzing the path that prospects take on the journey to becoming a customer is a great way to get
insights about the needs and challenges of your target audience. If you use a marketing platform
like HubSpot, you can see which search terms brought prospects to your site, how long they stayed
on your site, which pieces of content they viewed, and which forms they’ve filled out. Such lead
intelligence will help you make better decisions when identifying the characteristics of your ideal customers and ways to
nurture your new prospects.
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SHORTEN YOUR SALES CYCLE
By learning more about your leads and targeting them with smarter
communication, you decrease the amount of time that it takes them to convert
into customers. If a prospect with specific characteristics (e.g., a B2B company,
with 100 employees, located in Northern America) follows a certain trajectory
of actions to turn into a customer, then you can take that path and apply it to a
larger segment of that demographic profile.
As an example, let’s explore the lead intelligence of a company that became a HubSpot customer.
We see that initially the prospect became interested in our ebook “101 Awesome Marketing Quotes.” A few days after they
downloaded that ebook and converted into a lead, they visited HubSpot’s pricing page. That behavior, combined with the
customer’s demographics data, could dictate our behavior-based communications with similar type of companies. In other
words, we can encourage new leads of this type to visit our pricing page and get some information on HubSpot’s plans.
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SET THE RIGHT GOALS AND EXPECTATIONS
By knowing precisely what your visitor-to-lead and lead-to-customer conversion rates have been historically, you
can set the right goals and expectations in the future. To ensure that you are moving in the right direction, you
can also compare your current performance to last month’s and create a daily or a monthly leads waterfall.
Wondering how to build a daily leads waterfall graph? First, set a goal for the total number of leads. It might be a month or
a quarter, but start with your sales goals and your conversion rates. For instance, if 5% of your leads become customers and
you need 7 new customers next month, then you need 140 leads next month to hit your goal.
Then, take the total number of leads (in this case, 140), divide by the number of sales reps you have and the number of days
in the month to identify a goal for the number of leads you need to provide
each sales rep with each day. Now you just have to create the daily leads
waterfall graph, with the x-axis representing the day of the month, and the
y-axis - the percentage of the leads goal you have attained.
If you are using the HubSpot software, you’re in luck! Your HubSpot
dashboard will create this graph for you automatically using either a
custom goal that you can set, the last month, the month a year ago, or a
3-month average as the goal you track against.
Y AXIS:
% OF LEADS GOAL
X AXIS:
DAY OF MONTH
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KEEP YOUR COST PER LEAD LOW
As we already mentioned, closed-loop gives you insights on your most powerful inbound marketing offers and
enables you to set realistic goals for both marketing and sales. These two factors are key in determining how
you are going to spend your marketing budget and they dictate where your marketing dollars will go into.
For instance, if you were looking to host a trade show, you can easily decide on the type of offer you are going to promote at
the event. You have already identified what content helps you convert more leads into customers, now you just have to think
of a creative way to present it in front of your audience.
Similarly, you can do paid advertising efficiently. Just take the ideal lead
demographic information that you discovered thanks to connecting
your marketing software to your CRM, combine that with your best
performing offers, and you will be sure to attract some new sales
without wasting money.
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CHAPTER 4
HOW TO FIX A
BROKEN LOOP
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There are plenty of areas
where the loop can break.“ ”Setting up closed-loop analytics is not easy, and
there are plenty of areas where the loop can break. A
broken loop can directly hurt your business results.
In this section we will cover some tips to fix your
reporting process if it does break.
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SET TRACKING CODE ON EVERY WEBSITE PAGE AND
ON SUBDOMAINS
If any of your pages are missing tracking code, then you’ll break the loop. The same goes for all of your
sudomains. As we already mentioned in chapter one, a tracking token is the parameter you add to the end
of your link in order for your analytics to associate it with a particular campaign. If you have a subdomain like
blog.yoursite.com, then you should add the same tracking code to that sudomain in order to track the entry
point of your blog readers and the content they have viewed on your blog.
CREATE TRACKING URLS FOR ADS, EMAILS
AND OFFLINE EVENTS
Yes, this is a huge PITA, but it’s worth it. Get in the habit of creating these URLs
for any marketing event or campaign. That will allow you to look at clean
results and gain an accurate picture of how your channels and campaigns
perform.
For instance, you don’t want to confuse your paid initiative with your
email marketing campaign, do you? Or count social media
traffic as direct traffic, thus not realizing that you can invest
more in certain marketing efforts that yield good results.
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ASSOCIATING A VISITOR’S ONLINE SESSION WITH THEIR
LEAD INFORMATION
After a visitor first lands on your website and before they fill out a landing page, there is a key period of
browsing you need to be aware of. This is the place where most marketers stumble because it’s technically
difficult. To solve for this problem, you’ll need to find an integrated system that does this for you. HubSpot’s
marketing software, for instance, enables you to view your leads’ relevant social media information and past
browsing history.
ENSURING YOUR SALES TEAM IS PROPERLY CLOSING
LEADS
All the work that you’ve done to properly track visitors will go to waste unless you can get your sales team on
the same page. Come up with a system that both you and your sales team can agree upon, and make sure it’s
easy for them to close business in a way that will close the loop.
Once you’ve agreed on terminology, use common terms to develop a service-level agreement (SLA) between 		
.	 sales and marketing. An SLA is a contract between the two groups that sets expectations for 	
	 the quantity and quality of leads that marketing will deliver to sales, and outlines the
steps sales reps will take to follow-up on those leads.
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NOT NURTURING YOUR LOW
GRADED LEADS
If you haven’t set up lead nurturing to follow up with your low graded
leads, you haven’t necessarily broken the loop, but are certainly missing
out on an opportunity that can make your process much more efficient.
Shorten your buying cycle and provide your most engaged leads to your
sales team using some type of behavior-based communication that allows
your organization to stay top of mind for contacts.
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CONCLUSION
& ADDITIONAL
RESOURCES
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Closed-loop marketing cuts through
the widespread vagueness of
marketing myths & assumptions.“
Closed-loop reporting is one of the most sophisticated steps of successful inbound marketing. Getting it right
is an eye-opening experience that reveals both strengths and weaknesses, and cuts through the widespread
vagueness of marketing myths and assumptions. By reading this ebook you have taken the blindfolds off.
Now you are aware of the fundamentals of closed-loop marketing: how it works and what you need to set it up.
What is more, you know about the tremendous growth potential you, as a marketer, have by closing the sales
and marketing loop. Now go ahead and put this newly gained knowledge to practice!
”
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An Introduction to Closed-Loop Marketing

  • 1. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 1 Share This CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING AN INTRODUCTION TO How to Close the Loop Between Marketing & Sales
  • 2. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 2 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 2 CONTENTS HOW CLOSED LOOP MARKETING WORKS // 8 WHAT YOU NEED TO SET UP CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING // 19 BECOME A BETTER MARKETER BY CLOSING THE LOOP // 25 HOW TO FIX A BROKEN LOOP // 33 CONCLUSION & ADDITIONAL RESOURCES // 38
  • 3. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 3 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 3 Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half. “ ”“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Almost a century after John Wanamaker spoke those words, most online marketers can still feel his pain. The irony is, today, marketers have the technology they need to “close the loop” between marketing and revenue, but few are actually taking advantage of it. To many, setting up closed-loop reporting has remained too hard and confusing to implement. Effective marketers, however, should be able to tie every single lead, customer and dollar back to the marketing initiative that created them. This is how marketers can prove their worth, and understand how to more efficiently reach their audience. It’s time that we changed the status quo. Marketers invest a lot of time in their campaigns and are not always sure whether their efforts are paying off. Social media is the classic case: businesses engage in social media conversations without knowing how these interactions can transform into new sales. If you are unsure on where you should start to implement successful closed-loop marketing, this is the right ebook for you. We will start by demonstrating the value which comes with closed-loop marketing data. Then, we will walk you through a step-by-step explanation of how closed-loop marketing works and how it can help you become a better marketer. Lastly, we will show you how you can fix your loop if you spot something odd in it.
  • 4. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 4 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 4 CHAPTER 1 HOW CLOSED- LOOP MARKETING WORKS
  • 5. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 5 Share This 1 2 34 Visualizing Closed-Loop Marketing The cookie tracks the visitor’s actions on the website Submission of a lead capture form Attributing customer acquisition to the visitor’s original source VISITOR ARRIVES ON SITE LEAD BECOMES A CUSTOMER VISITOR CONVERTS INTO A LEAD VISITOR BROWSES WEBSITE VISITOR ACTIONS SOFTWARE ACTIONS Cookie is set on the visitor and their source, e.g. email, social media, etc.
  • 6. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 6 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 6 1 VISITOR ARRIVES ON SITE VISITOR ACTIONS SOFTWARE ACTIONS The easiest way to close the loop is to make your website the central hub for all your marketing. Search engines, social media, email marketing, referral links, paid search, even offline campaigns should get filtered to your website. Once someone visits your website, you can cookie them and start tracking their activity. COOKIE IS SET ON THE VISITOR AND THEIR SOURCE, E.G. EMAIL, SOCIAL MEDIA, ETC.
  • 7. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 7 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 7 The drop down menu enables us to switch this chart for a view of leads and customers by channel. This is the entry point of your closed-loop system. As the lead progresses through your sales and marketing stages, you’ll be able to attribute them back to the proper channel. If they came into your site through a link from a trade show, an email marketing campaign or a search term, for example, you’ll be able to trace them back to that original source. For instance, here is what that data can look like. Below you see a screenshot of HubSpot’s traffic by channel, brought to us by the marketing analytics tools of our software. By looking at this data we are able to see trends and compare channels. We know which are our most valuable sources of traffic and can work on optimizing the rest.
  • 8. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 8 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 8 Most web analytics systems will allow you to track sources of traffic like search term or referring website, but you’ll need to go a step further than this in order to make sure that you’re accurately assigning your leads to the right marketing initiative. To create a tracking URL, you just need to add a parameter to the end of your website’s link that your analytics system can identify and associate with a particular campaign or initiative. This will enable you to more accurately track visitors who otherwise look like they are coming from direct search. The tracking token is added to the end of a link, allowing your analytics tool to pool a certain group of traffic. Different tools employ different tokens, but here is an example of what a visit from Twitter could look like: /?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter By attaching this to your URL anyone who clicks that link is signaling to your analytics tool that they are coming from Twitter. The same type of tracking tokens apply to different channels, such as email, paid media and referral traffic. Investigate with your marketing or analytics software to make sure you have tracking tokens in place and your data gets assigned to the right categories. You should assign a tracking URL to every marketing campaign that is sending traffic to your website. !
  • 9. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 9 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 9 2 The cookie tracks the visitor’s actions on the website VISITOR BROWSES WEBSITE VISITOR ACTIONS SOFTWARE ACTIONS As you attract traffic and identify where that traffic is coming from, you need to track the behavior of your visitors. Which pages are they viewing? What is their trajectory of actions? Such intelligence will illustrate a path that can, down the road, help you optimize for faster visitor-to-lead or even visitor-to- customer conversions.
  • 10. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 10 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 10 This is the trickiest part of closed-loop reporting: making sure that you can connect a visitor’s session with their lead information once they convert on a form. Without this piece, you’ll have two separate databases, one with anonymous visitor history and one with lead information. As a result, you won’t be able to connect those leads back to their respective marketing source. In order to make this work for you, either do something very technical on the back end of your analytics platform or you start using some software that does this for you. There are a few of companies out there that have figured out how to do this and there is no point reinventing the wheel--full disclosure, the HubSpot software allows you to do closed-loop reporting. Here is a screenshot of HubSpot’s Prospects tool which tracks visitors’ activity (when they are still anonymous) and provides some actionable next steps, such as social media following.
  • 11. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 11 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 11 3 VISITOR CONVERTS TO A LEAD VISITOR ACTIONS SOFTWARE ACTIONS In order to monetize the traffic you are getting and send qualified prospects to your sales team, you need to convert visitors into leads. You can make this happen by sending incoming traffic to landing pages which are going to make an information exchange possible and collect more insights from your visitors. Submission of a lead capture form
  • 12. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 12 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 12 More than just knowing where your visitors are coming from, you’ll need to know who they are. This is curtail to closing the loop and being able to associate closed customers back to their entry source. The way to capture this information is to direct website visitors to a landing page with a submission form (or also known as a lead capture form). Once visitors fill out this from, you’ll have whatever contact information you asked them for: name, email, phone number, etc. As a best practice, you should be sending most of your traffic to landing pages and forms so that you can grow your leads database.
  • 13. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 13 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 13 4 LEAD BECOMES A CUSTOMER VISITOR ACTIONS SOFTWARE ACTIONS Now it’s time to figure out how these visits transformed into sales. Which one of your marketing channels contributed the most customers? Are there ways you can optimize the process for other sources? Closed-loop marketing enables you to identify the activities that bring in the most (and least) revenue. Attributing customer acquisition to the visitor’s original source
  • 14. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 14 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 14 Finally, you need to look at all of the leads that your sales team has closed and attribute them back to their original marketing initiative. If you’ve setup everything in steps one through four, this should be a relatively straightforward process. For most medium-sized business, the easiest way to achieve this is through your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. For smaller businesses, you might do this more manually using a spreadsheet. Here is a screenshot of HubSpot’s analytics providing us with insights on customer acquisition from different marketing sources, such as email marketing, social media and referrals.
  • 15. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 15 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 15 CHAPTER 2 WHAT YOU NEED TO SET UP CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING
  • 16. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 16 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 16 In order to set up closed-loop marketing you need to map marketing activities to sales. Such an integration requires connecting your marketing software to your customer relationship management (CRM). In other words, you tie the intelligence emerging from your marketing communication with prospective, current and former customers to the intelligence your internal team has built with these same people. In order to set up closed-loop marketing you need to map marketing activities to sales.“ ” PROMOTION CONTENT SEO TRANSACTIONS SALES CUSTOMERS MARKETING
  • 17. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 17 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 17 The purpose of a CRM system is to synchronize the activities of your sales, marketing and customer support teams. A CRM platform can support your business in a number of ways ranging from selling and fulfillment to identifying and rewarding loyal customers. SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and SugarCRM are some the most commonly known CRM systems. Marketing software, like HubSpot, keeps record of your marketing data and makes it actionable--by optimizing campaigns, enabling lead conversions and revealing results. The CRM and the marketing software talk to each other through an application programming interface (API). CRM SOLUTION MARKETING SOFTWAREAPI MARKETING SOFTWARE CRM SOLUTION
  • 18. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 18 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 18 As a sophisticated marketer, you want the two systems to talk to each other. When one of your sales representatives closes a deal, she can mark that sale as “won” in your CRM and that will trigger an update in the marketing software. You will then be able to go backwards and see where this new customer came from originally. What channel brought them to your website? What pages did they view afterward? At what point did they convert into a lead? Such intelligence will expose conversion assists, pages on your website that your visitors viewed before they converted into leads or customers. Understanding a website’s conversion assists can help marketers identify the most influential pages they own. In doing so, they can learn a lot about why those pages are (or aren’t) effective and apply these insights to improve poorly performing web pages and to enhance other components of their marketing.
  • 19. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 19 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 19 As we demonstrated so far, closed-loop marketing offers data that is critical for successful marketing. Yet tying your marketing software to your CRM impacts your business strategy in even more positive ways. Closed-loop marketing also enables you to achieve alignment between sales and marketing and define the operations between the two departments. Here are some of the other benefits emerging from the integration between your marketing software and CRM solutions: SALES ASSIGNMENT RULES The type of campaign, lead grade or conversion event--all insights coming from your marketing system--can trigger workflows in your CRM system. For instance, specific leads (based on form submission, physical location, etc.) can get assigned to specific members of your sales team. LEAD SCORING Once you mark a sale as “closed won” in your CRM, you can work backwards to assign point values to the lead’s demographics or specific actions taken on your website. These will all be indicators of the lead’s high probability to become a customer. Once you’ve set point values for different lead qualification categories, decide at which point a total score would validate sending a lead to your sales team for a conversation.
  • 20. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 20 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 20 LEAD NURTURING As a result of your lead scoring mechanism, you will easily identify leads with low lead grades. Now you can handle them in a more efficient way by sending them to a lead nurturing campaign rather than a sales person. A series of targeted email messages can invite the lead to sign up for a webinar, download an ebook from your landing page, or take some other action that will further engage them in your company. CUSTOM LEAD SCORING You can also customize the way you assign high grades to your leads. For instance, a grade could be boosted if the lead converted multiple times on your website, thus indicating engagement. Or if it represents a desired demographic profile. You could also use the qualifying questions on your lead capture forms to calculate a custom lead score. SETTING MONETARY GOALS Tying your marketing software to your CRM system also allows you to set a campaign goal with a dollar sign on it. Rather than measuring your impact through traffic and leads only, you can focus on the actual customers certain channels and initiatives brought in to your organization. This is especially valuable if you are investing a ton of money and effort in a campaign. Trade shows are a great example of the need for setting monetary goals.
  • 21. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 21 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 21 CHAPTER 3 BECOME A BETTER MARKETER BY CLOSING THE LOOP
  • 22. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 22 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 22 Closed-loop reporting is one of the most powerful tools that online marketers have at our disposal. Not only does it allow us to demonstrate the work’s value to our bosses, organizations and clients, but it also enables us to do better marketing. Once you understand what marketing activities are generating leads, customers and revenue, you can double down on what’s working, and cut out what’s not. At the end of the day, marketing is about generating revenue. A good marketing team should be like a money generating machine - you put a dollar in and you get two dollars out (or at least $1.25). In this section of the ebook we will review a few different ways in which closed-loop reporting helps you attract more high-quality leads and become a smarter marketer. Closed-loop marketing enables us to do better marketing. “ ”
  • 23. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 23 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 23 FOCUS ON THE RIGHT CHANNELS & OFFERS Closed-loop marketing directs your attention to the most powerful conversion events and channels. By looking at the sources and offers that traditionally brought in new customers for your organization, you will be able to identify the behavior you need to engage in to qualify leads and push them down the sales funnel. For instance, by looking at HubSpot’s Sources we are able to compare the efficiency of different channels in respect to customer acquisition. In the screenshot below we are comparing the number of sales from social media marketing to the number of sales from email marketing. It becomes clear that email marketing has a higher lead-to-customer rate than social media. This insight can then help us take action: nurture the social media leads with targeted email messages.
  • 24. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 24 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 24 DELIVER CLEARER RESULTS TO YOUR BOSS The data you can gather thanks to closed-loop marketing will also help you build your authority and support the decisions you make in front of your boss. It shows that your strategy is driven by evidence and doesn’t rely on abstract theories or assumptions. That will also help you build powerful marketing presentations for company-wide meetings or when jumping in comarketing partnerships. The same type of intelligence will direct you to the content you can use to build your lead nurturing communication. You can compare the efficiency of different offers in respect to customer acquisition. In the screenshot below we have used HubSpot’s Landing Page Dashboard to compare the performance of two ebooks in bringing up new customers. This information will help us decide which of these ebooks to use as a call-to-action when we are trying to push a lead down the sales funnel. NEW CUSTOMERS:
  • 25. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 25 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 25 GAIN INSIGHTS ABOUT YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE By gaining a 360-degree view of your sales cycle — looking at a user’s first visit to your website, browsing through their activities and identifying their last conversion event--you collect insights about the ideal prospect. This information can help you build a target persona. Personas are fictional representations of your ideal customers, based on real data about customer demographics and online behavior, along with educated speculation about their personal histories, motivations, and concerns. Analyzing the path that prospects take on the journey to becoming a customer is a great way to get insights about the needs and challenges of your target audience. If you use a marketing platform like HubSpot, you can see which search terms brought prospects to your site, how long they stayed on your site, which pieces of content they viewed, and which forms they’ve filled out. Such lead intelligence will help you make better decisions when identifying the characteristics of your ideal customers and ways to nurture your new prospects.
  • 26. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 26 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 26 SHORTEN YOUR SALES CYCLE By learning more about your leads and targeting them with smarter communication, you decrease the amount of time that it takes them to convert into customers. If a prospect with specific characteristics (e.g., a B2B company, with 100 employees, located in Northern America) follows a certain trajectory of actions to turn into a customer, then you can take that path and apply it to a larger segment of that demographic profile. As an example, let’s explore the lead intelligence of a company that became a HubSpot customer. We see that initially the prospect became interested in our ebook “101 Awesome Marketing Quotes.” A few days after they downloaded that ebook and converted into a lead, they visited HubSpot’s pricing page. That behavior, combined with the customer’s demographics data, could dictate our behavior-based communications with similar type of companies. In other words, we can encourage new leads of this type to visit our pricing page and get some information on HubSpot’s plans.
  • 27. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 27 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 27 SET THE RIGHT GOALS AND EXPECTATIONS By knowing precisely what your visitor-to-lead and lead-to-customer conversion rates have been historically, you can set the right goals and expectations in the future. To ensure that you are moving in the right direction, you can also compare your current performance to last month’s and create a daily or a monthly leads waterfall. Wondering how to build a daily leads waterfall graph? First, set a goal for the total number of leads. It might be a month or a quarter, but start with your sales goals and your conversion rates. For instance, if 5% of your leads become customers and you need 7 new customers next month, then you need 140 leads next month to hit your goal. Then, take the total number of leads (in this case, 140), divide by the number of sales reps you have and the number of days in the month to identify a goal for the number of leads you need to provide each sales rep with each day. Now you just have to create the daily leads waterfall graph, with the x-axis representing the day of the month, and the y-axis - the percentage of the leads goal you have attained. If you are using the HubSpot software, you’re in luck! Your HubSpot dashboard will create this graph for you automatically using either a custom goal that you can set, the last month, the month a year ago, or a 3-month average as the goal you track against. Y AXIS: % OF LEADS GOAL X AXIS: DAY OF MONTH
  • 28. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 28 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 28 KEEP YOUR COST PER LEAD LOW As we already mentioned, closed-loop gives you insights on your most powerful inbound marketing offers and enables you to set realistic goals for both marketing and sales. These two factors are key in determining how you are going to spend your marketing budget and they dictate where your marketing dollars will go into. For instance, if you were looking to host a trade show, you can easily decide on the type of offer you are going to promote at the event. You have already identified what content helps you convert more leads into customers, now you just have to think of a creative way to present it in front of your audience. Similarly, you can do paid advertising efficiently. Just take the ideal lead demographic information that you discovered thanks to connecting your marketing software to your CRM, combine that with your best performing offers, and you will be sure to attract some new sales without wasting money.
  • 29. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 29 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 29 CHAPTER 4 HOW TO FIX A BROKEN LOOP
  • 30. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 30 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 30 There are plenty of areas where the loop can break.“ ”Setting up closed-loop analytics is not easy, and there are plenty of areas where the loop can break. A broken loop can directly hurt your business results. In this section we will cover some tips to fix your reporting process if it does break.
  • 31. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 31 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 31 SET TRACKING CODE ON EVERY WEBSITE PAGE AND ON SUBDOMAINS If any of your pages are missing tracking code, then you’ll break the loop. The same goes for all of your sudomains. As we already mentioned in chapter one, a tracking token is the parameter you add to the end of your link in order for your analytics to associate it with a particular campaign. If you have a subdomain like blog.yoursite.com, then you should add the same tracking code to that sudomain in order to track the entry point of your blog readers and the content they have viewed on your blog. CREATE TRACKING URLS FOR ADS, EMAILS AND OFFLINE EVENTS Yes, this is a huge PITA, but it’s worth it. Get in the habit of creating these URLs for any marketing event or campaign. That will allow you to look at clean results and gain an accurate picture of how your channels and campaigns perform. For instance, you don’t want to confuse your paid initiative with your email marketing campaign, do you? Or count social media traffic as direct traffic, thus not realizing that you can invest more in certain marketing efforts that yield good results.
  • 32. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 32 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 32 ASSOCIATING A VISITOR’S ONLINE SESSION WITH THEIR LEAD INFORMATION After a visitor first lands on your website and before they fill out a landing page, there is a key period of browsing you need to be aware of. This is the place where most marketers stumble because it’s technically difficult. To solve for this problem, you’ll need to find an integrated system that does this for you. HubSpot’s marketing software, for instance, enables you to view your leads’ relevant social media information and past browsing history. ENSURING YOUR SALES TEAM IS PROPERLY CLOSING LEADS All the work that you’ve done to properly track visitors will go to waste unless you can get your sales team on the same page. Come up with a system that both you and your sales team can agree upon, and make sure it’s easy for them to close business in a way that will close the loop. Once you’ve agreed on terminology, use common terms to develop a service-level agreement (SLA) between . sales and marketing. An SLA is a contract between the two groups that sets expectations for the quantity and quality of leads that marketing will deliver to sales, and outlines the steps sales reps will take to follow-up on those leads.
  • 33. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 33 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 33 NOT NURTURING YOUR LOW GRADED LEADS If you haven’t set up lead nurturing to follow up with your low graded leads, you haven’t necessarily broken the loop, but are certainly missing out on an opportunity that can make your process much more efficient. Shorten your buying cycle and provide your most engaged leads to your sales team using some type of behavior-based communication that allows your organization to stay top of mind for contacts.
  • 34. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 34 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 34 CONCLUSION & ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
  • 35. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 35 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 35 Closed-loop marketing cuts through the widespread vagueness of marketing myths & assumptions.“ Closed-loop reporting is one of the most sophisticated steps of successful inbound marketing. Getting it right is an eye-opening experience that reveals both strengths and weaknesses, and cuts through the widespread vagueness of marketing myths and assumptions. By reading this ebook you have taken the blindfolds off. Now you are aware of the fundamentals of closed-loop marketing: how it works and what you need to set it up. What is more, you know about the tremendous growth potential you, as a marketer, have by closing the sales and marketing loop. Now go ahead and put this newly gained knowledge to practice! ”
  • 36. INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED-LOOP MARKETING 36 Share This INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED LOOP MARKETING / / 36 ClearPivot is an inbound marketing agency based in Denver, Colorado. We map out clear paths to achieve our clients’ business goals, and pivot their marketing content, campaigns and infrastructure to reach those goals. http://www.clearpivot.com/marketing-assessment ABOUT US Get a free 30-minute inbound marketing assessment with our marketing specialists. WWW.CLEARPIVOT.COM