Ever wish you had more time and resources to focus on marketing your agency more effectively? It's hard balancing delivering powerful results for your clients and finding the time to grow your own agency, so how can you ensure both? In this session, marketing director John Bonini shares insight on how IMPACT made marketing a top priority and executed a strategy that helped his agency generated a 400% increase in leads over the last two years.
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AGENCY MARKETING INNOVATIONS [INBOUND 2014]
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AGENCY
MARKETING
INNOVATIONS
How IMPACT BRANDING increased
lead generation by 500% in 2 years.
John Bonini @Bonini84
Marketing Director, IMPACT
2. JOHN
BONINI
@Bonini84
- Joined IMPACT in 2012
- Employee #6
- Assumed role of
Marketing Director in July
2012
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Freelancer
Blog Posts
(7 weekly)
Premium content
(1 per month)
Contractor
Blog Posts
(5 per week)
Premium content
(1 per month)
Writing Service Specialty Blogs
(As needed)
Content
Strategy Content
Strategy
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Blog Posts
(7 weekly)
Premium content
(1 per month)
Blog Posts
(5 per week)
Premium content
(1 per month)
Specialty Blogs
(As needed)
Content
Strategy
Marketing
Director
Content
Strategy
Freelancer
Contractor
Writing
Service
29. • Focused on delighting
Vehicle for reengagement
customers
Expanded it to opportunities
• Aligns with our ecosystem
• Became a vehicle for
Lowers barrier of entry
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referral marketing
30. Know your ecosystem.
“Know your ecosystem. Identify the behaviors
that drive sales and aim to repeat them” @Bonini84
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Revenue
• Marketing
creates
workflows via
sales intel
Lead Quality Connecting
Leads Nurturing
Lead Nurturing
• Sales keeps
detailed CRM
log that feeds
nurturing
• Sales
contributes to
the blog
• Marketing sits
in on
consultation
calls
• Persona driven
• Marketing
makes connect
calls as an
exercise
• Marketing
writes sales/
connect scripts
39. @Bonini84
Join marketing and sales under
“new business development.”
“A knockout is more
likely if you’re punching
with both hands”
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1. Make a commitment to quality
and quantity.
2. Know your ecosystem.
3. Join marketing and sales
under “new business
development” umbrella.
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Make the right organizational
move. Not a quick one.
Provide full autonomy.
Stay flexible from an executive
standpoint.
Stay the hell away from conventional
wisdom.