In B2B Marketing the difference between winning and losing deals comes down to the ability to continually target and engage prospects throughout the buying process, but what happens when your prospects stop engaging with you?
Join this webinar as we cover how to:
- Stop crossing your fingers and hope your prospects are engaging with you
- Reach the full buying committee at your best-fit accounts
- Deliver customised, relevant messages that fit each phase of the journey
This webinar will feature a B2B marketing practitioner who will share experiences of how they are reaching their target audiences and driving real business outcomes.
3. AGENDA
ENGAGE WITH IN-MARKET PROSPECTS
REACH THE FULL BUYING COMMITTEE
DELIVER RELEVANT MESSAGING
HOW BAE SYSTEMS INCREASED PIPELINE WITH ADVERTISING
We’re still in the early days of AI for B2B marketing and sales, and there is a great deal of education that is still needed as how how it can be leveraged for sales and marketing initiatives – so we hope this webinar today helps with that education.
Demandbase carried out an AI survey in April of this year in conjunction with Salesforce Pardot and global research firm, Demand Metric and the findings point to strong interest and high expectations in AI from B2B marketing and sales professionals;
Some of the key findings from the survey indicate 84 percent of study participants are currently planning, evaluating, implementing or using AI, and 84 percent also expect to see value from their implementations in a year or less.
AI is transforming the B2B marketing and sales industries, providing greater insights, personalised campaigns, dynamic experiences and an overall more seamless experience between marketing and sales.
So with that in mind, here’s how we’re going to spend the next 45 minutes…
We are joined by Chris Gallet, Digital Marketing Manager at BAE Systems.
In Chris’ role he is responsible for delivering BAE’ s Global Search Engine strategy, ensuring visibility in Paid Search, Organic Search, and delivering website analytics to stakeholders around the wider BAE Systems business.
So how do we help?
We provide technology-based solutions which enable government and commercial customers to find and stop threats, manage risks and regulations and operate securely in the digital world.
We combine the best of machine intelligence with human intelligence
Machine Learning
Advanced Algorithms
Big Data
Domain Experience
Threat Intelligence
Case Management and Response
Exploitation of data is at the core of what Applied Intelligence does and we have built deep data analytics expertise by solving the most complex data challenges for secure government clients for over 40 years
Old Approach
Didn’t know what accounts were visiting
No insight into how to prioritise content to website visitors
No intelligence being passed to BD’s
No Retargeting
Surfacing personalised content wasn’t happening at scale
Opportunity analysis/ROI on retargeting
Good mid-bottom level reporting, but top of funnel reporting has been better with Demandbase
With this new approach of combining AI & ABM, we’re now able to automate actions
It starts with discovering and identifying accounts that are showing buying signals and real intent in our products and services.
We can now optimize the buyers journey by providing the right information at the right time
Deliver a personalised, relevant experience on our website to both known and unknown visitors
Target our decision makers with personalised advertising
And provide our sales teams with the insights and information they need on their target accounts and decision makers so they can close deals faster.
To recap: Why use behavioral intent signals instead of segments purporting to identify one’s job function, title or department?
First, it’s more scalable, and better at penetrating your full buying committee. On the ad exchanges, where personally identifiable information is forbidden for privacy reasons, reliable identity signals (like job title) are available for only a small minority of individuals. But with technology like Demandbase’s, behavioral intent signals are visible from virtually every employee at your target accounts.
Second, behavioral buyer targeting produces much more relevant audiences because it focuses on those showing intent specifically for your offering.
Think about large enterprises with dozens of divisions, where there might be 20 Directors of Finance, but only one or two of those who are in a buying cycle for a particular category at a given time. Job title targeting would deliver the wrong audience.
And if you have SDRs, ask them: “How often do you get someone on the phone whose title suggests they own or at least influence the buying process for your category, only to be redirected to someone else, and then redirected again?”
Data from our own CRM hint at why – job titles are just not as standardized as they once were. They’re more specialized, more bespoke (think “analytics ninja” and “social media guru”), and they’re more fragmented than ever. When we look at our own CRM, we see that over the past year, Demandbase had closed won opportunities with more than 500 job titles listed as key contacts. That suggests we’d have a very hard time reaching the right people if we were to use job title segments in our campaigns, and we know we’re not alone there.
Finally: It enables better brand safety. Not having to deliver on tiny, shrinking third-party cookie pools means that Demandbase (and you) can be pickier about where your ads are shown.
The Targeting solution is about more than just audiences, though – Demandbase’s technology also goes to work optimizing campaigns over time to wring the best possible results out of your budgets.
This optimization takes place on two levels:
In optimizing across accounts, Demandbase monitors and automatically adjusts the relative distribution of budget for the companies on your list, keeping the largest companies from getting too much attention, and sending help for accounts that need more impressions to move the needle.
In optimizing within accounts, it’s all about keeping tabs on who is showing them most, and the most relevant, intent, and adjusting targeting and bidding accordingly.
These smart campaigns use artificial intelligence and automation to make your budgets work harder for you.
Many advertisers work with Demandbase to tailor their messages to the opportunity stage for each account and nurture prospects through the funnel.
The platform gives complete transparency into more standard campaign metrics, broken out by account, plus reporting on the number of “high-intent users” identified and subsequently reached.
And since we restrict campaigns to brand-safe site inventory, we make site-level impression reporting available right within the platform as well.
MEASURE WHAT MATTERS
With this new way of advertising we were able to understand and see the true ROI on our ad spend. We now measure the things that have an actual impact on our pipeline and business by measuring reach, engagement, conversions and opportunities at the account level.
This is an example of one of our ads dashboard for a banking campaign that helps us understand reach, engagement, and the movement through the funnel -- at the account level.
The dashboard puts not cost-per-click or cost-per-lead front and center, but instead cost-per-engaged-account.We have adopted this new metric, which is the best known short-term proxy for downstream deal activity and focuses on not the actions of an individual but those of a buying committee – to assess the effectiveness of their budgets.
We also connected this to our Salesforce instance to get even more insight into advertising’s role in nurturing accounts all the way through to opportunities and closed deals.
NOTE – change company example
The results show that it’s worth it:
Personalised advertising commands more attention and drives more qualified traffic to our website.
We’re seeing increased engagement using account-targeted advertising
All campaigns influencing High Value Content Consumption such as “Solutions Pages”
32 Net New accounts.
Strong net new account engagement - 37% increase compared to baseline across FS, D&D, SMB campaigns to assist brand awareness and visibility