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Account-Based Marketing (ABM)
How to Target your Key Accounts and
Drive Revenue
David Myers
Product Expert
Mike Telem
VP Product Marketing
Ex. Insightera Co-founder
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Insightera, a Marketo Company
• Real-time targeting and personalization platform
• Leveraging big data and predictive analytics to
interact with prospects throughout the customer
lifecycle
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Overview
• Defining Account-Based Marketing (ABM)
• What is real-time personalization
• The 3 W’s for ABM
• Successful ABM use case
• How to get started with your own ABM campaigns
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Account-Based Marketing (ABM)
“Focus on those accounts most likely to
generate revenue.”
Target prospects based on Industry,
Revenue and Named Accounts.
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What is Real-time Personalization?
Speed
“Within the first 10 seconds of your visitor’s website experience, you
must explain what you can do for them” (Microsoft Research)
Relevancy
“82% of prospects value content targeted to their specific industry”
(MarketingSherpa)
Personalizing your prospects experience while they are
engaged and attentive
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3 W’s of Account-Based Marketing
Who
Identify Target Accounts
> Named Lists
> Verticals
> Size/Revenue
What
Discover & Map Content
> White Papers
> Case Studies
> Videos, Posts
Where
Channels
> Website, Mobile
> Email
> Advertising
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Who - Identify your Target Accounts
• Named account lists
• Determine account profiles
• Industry, location, revenue, technology
• Behavior, customer journey and target personas
• Correlate with strategic goals
• Regional expansion, market share growth, big brands, competitors’
customers
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Financial Telecom Healthcare Your Customized
Named Account List
• Mid-West Target Accounts
• Top 50 Retail Accounts
• Key Enterprise Accounts
• Existing customers
Who - Identify your Target Accounts
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What - Discover and Map Effective Content
• 82% of prospects value content targeted to their specific industry
• 75% of executives will read unsolicited materials that contain ideas that
might be relevant to their business
• 67% find content targeted to their job function valuable
(Marketing Sherpa)
• 84% of marketing executives say they plan on developing a process to map rich media
content assets to buyer journey stage
(Aberdeen)
• Average number of content pieces on company websites: SMB - 290, Ent. - 2,430.
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What - Discover and Map Effective Content
• Discover and map content assets
• Analyze content consumption
• Basis for content automation & content recommendation
Automatic Content Discovery
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What - Discover and Map Effective Content
Target Segments Awareness Interest Evaluation Commitment
Fortune 500
Companies
Why enterprises
need cyber security
Infographic
GE
Case Study
Tech-S product
Datasheet
Fortune 500 Product
User Group
Financial Industry
Customer Service in
Finance Sector
Blog Post
10 Tips Banking and
Technology
Video
Tech-S
White Paper
Tech-S
Customer
Event/ Conference
Named Account Lists
Learn how Tech-S
leverages site
security
Overview Video
Optimize your web
security
Webinar
Security Expert
Offer
Free consultation
Join the top
security executives
Breakfast meeting
• Mapping content with a Content Matrix
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Where - Channels
Web
Mobile
Email
Advertising
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How - Real-time Personalization Campaigns
• Segments inbound prospects in real-time based on:
• Auto-engages segmented prospects with
personalized content or calls-to-action while on site
and in context, even if they are anonymous
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Measure, Optimize and Learn
• A/B testing different CTA’s per targeted segment
• Auto-Tune > Automatically accelerate most
effective CTA
• Analytics based on firmographics, verticals, named
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Use Case
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Use Case
• Panaya is a software vendor that helps companies
reduce ERP upgrade time and costs
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Use Case
• New Target Market: Oracle ERP users
Who
Oracle Users
Account-Based Lists
Digital Behavior
What
Case Studies
Banners / Logos
Videos
Where
Website
Mobile
Emails
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Real-time Personalization (Account-based)
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Real-time Personalization (Account-based)
Customers:
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Real-time Personalization (Account-based)
Customers:
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Real-time Personalization (Account-based)
25%
CTR
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Optimization and Auto-Tune
A
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Optimization and Auto-Tune
B
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Optimization and Auto-Tune
C
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Use Case Results
• Over 200 targeted accounts identified in 1st month
• 25% click through rate on personalized content
• 113% increase in content engagement
• Identified most converting content with A/B testing &
Auto-tune
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Getting Started
Where to start?
Identify high yield targets
Map effective content
Execute campaigns and analyze
Measure and analyze results
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Key Takeaways
• Real-time personalization is about speed and relevancy
• The 3 W's model for ABM: who, what, where
• Focusing on your key revenue generating accounts
• Getting started is easier than you think
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Thank you!
Any Questions?
Ebook: Why your Demand Gen Plans Needs
Account-Based Marketing
Contact us: mtelem@marketo.com / dmyers@marketo.com
For more info: www.marketo.com/personalization