12. TIMING IS EVERYTHING
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20%
Followed up
30%
Qualified
20%
Don’t buy
80% Not
Followed up
70%
Disqualified
80%
Do buy
13. THE COST OF SALES
Engagement Entry point: Engaging too early versus too late
Market Type and Digital Readiness
Insufficient demand marketing support
- Technology
- Process
Intra Engagement: Interactions Mismatch
Sales and Digital Body Language
Sales Enablement by Marketing
Content mismatch
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AcquisitionConversion
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1.A ENGAGEMENT ENTRY POINT:
DIGITAL SUPPORT
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15. MARKET TYPE AND DIGITAL READINESS
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Complex
Commoditized
High Priced
Low Priced
Sales
Service
Product
Purchase
Complexity
GoToMarket
Complex and Custom
Commoditized
High Priced
Low Priced
Sales
Self
Service
Product
Purchase
Complexity
GoToMarket
Established Market New Market
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16. MARKET TYPE AND DIGITAL READINESS
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Complex
Commoditized
High Priced
Low Priced
Sales
Service
Product
Purchase
Complexity
GoToMarket
Complex
Commoditized
High Priced
Low Priced
Sales
Service
Product
Purchase
Complexity
GoToMarket
Design Market Custom Market
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17. MARKET TYPE UNDER PRESSURE
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Complex
Commoditized
High Priced
Low Priced
Sales
Service
Product
Purchase
Complexity
GoToMarket
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1.B ENGAGEMENT ENTRY POINT:
MARKETING SUPPORT
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19. INSUFFICIENT SUPPORT FROM MARKETING
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Marketing Pipeline Contribution
Marketing Accountability
Tale of the performing tactic
Owned, Earned, Paid Media Convergence
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20. SALES PIPELINE
30% + Sourced*
70% + Influenced*
Not a Leads Only Focus
4 FOCUS AREAS
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* Varies by organizational size and target markets
PROGRAM MIX
Multi-Channel
Web Centric
Nurturing Model
Best Practice Syndication
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SALES ALIGNMENT
Flexible programs
Strong SLA’s
Targeted Sales stage
based
INTEGRATED PGM
Buyers Journey Based
Multi touch Programs
Data Driven
Web Driven
21. MARKETING
AUTOMATION
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Implicit & Explicit DB
•Capture and easily access DBL
Inbound Marketing
•Ensure potential customer
can find you
Outbound &
Engagement
•Nurture life cycle
Revenue
Effectiveness
• Drive effective
conversion from
prospect to sale
Analytics &
Measurement
•Understand Impact and drive
process improvement and ROI
22. TECHNOLOGY WITHOUT PROCESS: SUBOPTIMAL
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75 % 3.9 %
5 %
11 %
20 %
58 %
49 %
23 %
23. THE WATERFALL
Shared View
Common Language
Agreed Upon Definitions
Enables Consistency
Benchmarked
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24. STAGES
Each stages comes with
qualification process to
identify leads that need to
meet AGREED UPON
CRITERIA to the next stage
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25. TO ACCEPT OR REJECT?
Acceptance is not the same as Qualification!
Marketing deems ready for hand off based on agreed upon fit
Procedural (disposition issues)
Clerical (missing data)
Definitional (does not meet target)
Rejection or Acceptance
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26. MARKETING QUALIFIED LEADS
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Using tele marketing for high
level qualification especially in
non commoditized markets
28. THE TELE FUNCTION
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Often demand is not
only created by the
marketing activity and
can be generated by
TM and TS functions
through focused
(small net fishing)
activity
29. SALES
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Where sales may be
selling into and
expanding presence
in a select set of
target accounts, sales
is often originating its
own demand
31. COMPLETE PICTURE
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SEED
Owned Paid Earned
CREATE
Focus on Quality
ACCELERATE
Enable speed
NURTURE
Work not ready lead
MATURITY
Random Acts
Brand
Leads
Demand
Alignment
Revenue
32. TECHNOLOGY WITHOUT PROCESS: SUBOPTIMAL
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75 % 3.9 %
5 %
11 %
20 %
58 %
49 %
23 %