Identifying the right target accounts increases account-based success, and that's why we'll walk you through ICP Insights, Target Account Selection, and Contact Data.
4. Account-based is the proactive
coordination of marketing, sales, and
customer success to close, retain, and
grow an organization’s most valuable
accounts.
TOPO, “The Account-Based Everything Framework” 2016
5. 91%of ABM practitioners say average deal size is larger for ABM accounts
Source: SiriusDecisions
6. 87%of ABM practitioners report better success rates at closing deals for ABM
accounts vs. non-ABM accounts
Source: SiriusDecisions
7. Getting Started with an Account Based Strategy...
Step 1: Gain buy-in and allocate resources
Step 2: Define your ABM goals
Step 3: Select your account-based technology
Step 4: Identify and prioritize target accounts
Step 5: Select your channels and create targeted content
Step 6: Engage with accounts
Step 7: Measure, evaluate, and optimize ABM
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9. 29%Target Account List Identification and Selection
Is a TOP 3 Account Based Challenge
Source: TOPO 2019
10. Identifying your ideal accounts
How to define your ICP and build a winning target account list
11. Start with your ideal customer profile (ICP)
● NOT total addressable market (TAM)
● NOT target account list (TAL)
● NOT buyer persona
12. What is an ICP?
A set of attributes used to describe the companies
with the highest value to your business.
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A strategic framework to manage resource allocation
& activity across the entire business.
13. What happens if you don’t have a clearly defined
ICP?
● Product team builds for a first set of
customers
● Marketing markets to a second set of
customers
● Sales sells to a third set of customers
You
lose
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14. 68%Higher win rates were reported for organizations with a strong Ideal
Customer Profile (ICP)
Source: TOPO 2019
15. What a solid ICP looks like
Attribute Value
Industry B2B
Geography U.S., Canada, UK, Ireland
Industry Verticals Investment Banking, Financial Services, Accounting
Company size 500 to 5000 employees
Company rev $10MM+
Technographic Marketo, HubSpot, Pardot, Mailchimp, Constant Contact, GetResponse
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17. RollWorks Account-Based Platform
Identify your ideal customer
profile, target accounts,
and key buyers.
IDENTIFY YOUR LIST
Engage high-fit accounts (even
without a target account list) with
advertising and SDR emails
ENGAGE YOUR CUSTOMERS
Measure the effectiveness
of your programs at the
contact and account level
MEASURE YOUR IMPACT
18. Contact
Selection
Find key decision makers. Get contact info for buying
committees (and not those in unrelated roles).
Advance your account-based strategies. Build and
prioritize a target account list.
Identification Solution: Start by uncovering your ideal customer
profile (ICP), then build your target account list, and source
vetted contacts at the accounts that matter most
Become more account-based. Define or validate your
ideal customer profile (ICP) using your existing data.
Target Account
Selection
ICP
Insights:
21. Problem: Fine-tuning the company ICP
RollWorks Solution: ICP Insights ICP Insights
Identify the right ICP
Use ICP Insights to analyze attributes of
closed-won accounts in sales funnel
Take ICP attributes and plug them into
RollWorks’ database to create a strong TAL.
-or-
Get started running targeted campaigns
against new ICP
Working off of a legacy account list? Low confidence in ICP/TAL?
Business Impact
22. Problem: Effectiveness of Marketing Programs
RollWorks Answer: ICP Insights ICP Insights
Identify the right ICP
Use ICP Insights to analyze website visitors
and funnel stages
Match ICP
Are my marketing programs working and targeting the right accounts? Am I driving
the right traffic to my site?
Business Impact
Marketing should keep doing more of
the same!
Does not
match ICP
Revisit ad targeting/SEO efforts
-or-
Expand ICP to include a new market
segment showing interest
23. Problem: We need to create a target account list
quickly
RollWorks Solution: Target
Account Selection
ICP Insights
Identify the right ICP
Use firmographic attributes of your ICP—
industry, size, revenue, etc.—to generate a
target account list (TAL) in minutes.
With the ability to download an account list
with 22 company-level attributes, you can
begin to gain sales and marketing
alignment. Activate marketing and sales
plays from there.
I have an ICP, but how do I create a list of accounts that match?
Business Impact
24. Problem: Finding contacts on buying committee
within accounts
RollWorks Solution: Contact Data
ICP Insights
Identify the right ICP
Upload an account list or use ICP outputs as
filters to create a contact list.
From here, you can use contacts for
SDR/sales outreach or to create digital ad
audiences.
How can I help my sales team reach individuals at accounts?
Business Impact
26. RollWorks Account-Based Platform
Identify your ideal customer
profile, target accounts,
and key buyers.
IDENTIFY YOUR LIST
Engage high-fit accounts (even
without a target account list) with
advertising and SDR emails
ENGAGE YOUR CUSTOMERS
Measure the effectiveness
of your programs at the
contact and account level
MEASURE YOUR IMPACT
Hello everyone. Welcome to ABM Tech Talks. My name is VM and I work in product marketing at RollWorks. Today, I’ll be joined by Mark Miller from our Product Management Team to take you through all things related to Identifying Accounts for your ABM Program.
But 1st a few housekeeping items. We are recording this webinar and will send out the recording after this webcast. Also, we want to answer any questions you may have, so do send those in via chat box. We have allocated time at the end of this webinar to answer your questions
Our Agenda for today will focus on
A quick intro to ABM or ABE
Then we’ll talk about importance of an ICP as a starting point for identifying a target account list
Mark will demo the Account & Contact Identification capabilities within the RollWorks Account Based Platform
We’ll take you through some use cases on how our technology is enabling our customers reach their AB goals
And we’ll wrap up with a Q&A
Let’s talk about ABM for a minute. Most B2B Marketer know about it, some practice it, and some are just starting to look into an Account-Based Approach. So What is ABM?
TOPO defines an account-based approach rather simply… “Account-based is the proactive coordination of marketing, sales development, sales, and customer success to close, retain, and grow an organization’s most valuable accounts.”
Most valuable accounts. We’ll come back to that later.
Also, not the emphasis on alignment or coordination of sales and marketing.
It’s worth noting that ABM (account-based marketing) is not just a buzzword any more, as marketers are seeing real results by moving from a lead-based to an account-based approach.
According to SiriusDecisions,
91% of ABM practitioners say that an ABM strategy increases average deal size
And
-87% report better success rates at closing deals for ABM accounts compared to non-ABM accounts. So wIth an ABM strategy you just have a far better chance of closing deals. It’s a more focused approach.
So we now know that an Account Based strategy works
Better success rate at closing, compared to non-ABM accounts - you have a far better chance of closing deals
So how does one get started with an Account Based Strategy. Noe Doing it right means checking off a few key steps
Step1: Get organization buy-in and create an ABM team. It is super important to get sales and marketing alignment upfront.
Step 2: Define your ABM goals and be specific
Step 3: Select your AB tech stack; Companies like RollWorks can help here
Step 4: Identify and prioritize your target accounts: This is the focus for our webinar today
Step 5: Create content and messaging
Step 6 Engage with target accounts via marketing campaigns and sales outreach
Step 7. Measure, Evaluate and Optimize
You’ve probably got a sense that Identifying account is the foundation for an AB strategy. And it takes work - it’s not easy
In fact according to TOPO, 29% of ABM practitioners mention Target Account list identification as a TOP AB challenge
So what do you need to get started?. You need to know who your top accounts / targets are. And that starts with defining your ICP.
Let’s start with what your ICP is NOT:
Total addressable market, or every company that could possibly purchase your product
Target account list, or specific accounts that you want to target
Buyer persona, or specific types of people that will buy and use your product
ICP IS:
Specifically: A profile or A set of attributes (Firmographic and technographic) used to describe the companies or accounts with the highest value to your business.
It is also: A strategic framework to manage resource allocation & activity across the entire business. Our new President just rolled out a revised version of the RollWorks ICP, and every employee was quizzed on it, as it’s the epicenter of all decision making)
If you don’t have a well ICP in your company
Product builds for a first set of customers
Marketing markets to a second set of customers
Sales sells to a third set of customers
This misalignment results in wasted time and MONEY.
But let us not be ruled by fear; in the most recent TOPO Account-Based Benchmark Report, organizations with a strong or well thought out ICP reported 68% higher win rates than those that did not. So there is a tangible monetary benefit to thinking through your ICP and being rigorous in its application.
So what does a solid ICP look like. First of all, it is specific and clearly defines the firmographic attribute of an ideal account - attributes such as- Industry verticals, company revenue, company size. And, it also defines any technographic attributes that may be important
So now we know what a well defined ICP looks likes. But how do we develop one? And more importantly how do you create an Account list based on an ICP. And then how does one get to key contacts or key buyers within that account list
This is where technology and your ABM Tech stack can help.
Our RollWorks Account-Based Platform has been developed to specifically
-help you identify your Account list
-Engage your customers
-and measure your impact
Now I’ll hand it over to Mark, who’ll show you how our Identification solution can help you develop an ICP, create a target account list that aligns to it and tier/prioritize accordingly. And, how you can go a step further, and begin to source contact information for those in the buying committee, based on role.
Hopefully you have a sense of how our Account Based technology works. Let’s now talk about how our customers are using this technology to solve their Account Identification issues
So we’ve spent a lot of time talking about a data foundation of ideal accounts and contacts. The next steps is engaging with accounts and key buyers
We have a solution for that. The RollWorks account-based platform has an engagement solution that that can activate digital advertising and sales outreach against an account and contact list .
But we’ll reserve that for our next tech talk
Looks like we are time. Today’s webinar has covered some basics around Account Identification. I’d like to now open up for questions. I can see we have a few in the chat section.