In this webinar, Marketo and SmartBear cover best practices for your lead nurture strategy.
Highlights include:
- Why segmenting your database is important
- A/B testing for lead nurturing
- Creating a consistent message for multiple channels
This template will help you codify your customer success strategy. You can read the blog post and download the template here: http://blog.preact.com/customer-success-strategy-template
From customer success metrics to the customer journey, and from the customers' critical path to your customer success team, this template enables you to present your vision to your executive team.
Our Lead Generation Plan Playbook is a consulting methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to help you develop a comprehensive lead generation plan.
MoEngage: Next Generation Marketing CloudMoEngage Inc.
MoEngage is the Next-Generation Marketing Cloud, built for the Mobile-first world. With MoEngage, companies can orchestrate campaigns across channels like push, email, in-app messaging, web push, ad retargeting and SMS, with auto-optimization towards higher conversions powered by machine learning.
Traditional marketing clouds are expensive to implement, hard to learn and rule-based. At MoEngage, we are building enterprise software that is easier to use, elegantly designed, fully integrated and learning-based.
MoEngage works with Consumer businesses across the world including Fortune 500 brands like Samsung, Deutsche Telekom (T Mobile), Vodafone, Hearst, Vodafone, and Prudential & L Brands.
They enable hyper-personalization at scale, analyzing 200 million+ users and delivering 8 billion+ interactions across channels in a month.
A quick reference guide to help sales execs review their lead generation, qualification and opportunity sales cycle mapping to improve current business processes.
Over the past few decades, buyer power shifted from the executive to the end user. OV's Kyle Poyar explains how this shift occurred and how product led growth is how you adapt.
B2B Lead Generation with Content Marketing // MAN Digital Pitch DeckMAN Digital
MAN Digital is a boutique B2B Digital Agency focusing on B2B Lead Generation with Content Marketing.
WHAT WE DO?
• B2B Lead Generation Strategy
(Workshops, Audit + Strategy)
• Copywriting & Content Marketing
(Content Creation - blogs, webinars, pitch decks, email, video, ebooks, case studies, anything that helps you sell better your product or service)
• Performance Marketing
(LinkedIn Ads, Xing Ads, Google Ads, Quora Ads, Facebook Ads, and RTB)
• Digital Sales
(Marketing & Sales Automation, CRM Implementation, Pitch Decks, Outbound, Analytics, and Reporting )
In short, we do full stack for B2B Lead Generation by building content marketing ( not only blog posts), funnels, sales automation, and conversion rate optimization throughout the buyer's journey.
Our Northstar is to initiate an ideal sales conversation with high quality leads in the B2B space.
The Conversion Optimization System: 14 Steps for More Conversions and More Sales
Are you struggling with low website conversion rates? Not sure how to increase your online sales? This is the master class for you. The Conversion Optimization System is a 14-steps process to produce repeatable and consistent increases in website conversion rates. The system has been successful used on over 500 projects and conducted more than 7,000 successful A/B tests with it. Discover the process that has been used by some of the top online companies such as eBay, 3M, O'Reilly and many others.
Be prepared to discover the real secret of conducting a successful CRO project including:
1. Conducting heuristic analysis
2. Conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis
3. Creating a conversion roadmap
4. Testing a test hypothesis
5. Conduct A/B test
Stratello : marketing automation et parcours clientLaurence EVRARD
Comment le marketing automation va pouvoir interagir avec votre stratégie de parcours clients et alors devenir créateur de valeur ? Stratello vous expose les étapes clefs !
This template will help you codify your customer success strategy. You can read the blog post and download the template here: http://blog.preact.com/customer-success-strategy-template
From customer success metrics to the customer journey, and from the customers' critical path to your customer success team, this template enables you to present your vision to your executive team.
Our Lead Generation Plan Playbook is a consulting methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to help you develop a comprehensive lead generation plan.
MoEngage: Next Generation Marketing CloudMoEngage Inc.
MoEngage is the Next-Generation Marketing Cloud, built for the Mobile-first world. With MoEngage, companies can orchestrate campaigns across channels like push, email, in-app messaging, web push, ad retargeting and SMS, with auto-optimization towards higher conversions powered by machine learning.
Traditional marketing clouds are expensive to implement, hard to learn and rule-based. At MoEngage, we are building enterprise software that is easier to use, elegantly designed, fully integrated and learning-based.
MoEngage works with Consumer businesses across the world including Fortune 500 brands like Samsung, Deutsche Telekom (T Mobile), Vodafone, Hearst, Vodafone, and Prudential & L Brands.
They enable hyper-personalization at scale, analyzing 200 million+ users and delivering 8 billion+ interactions across channels in a month.
A quick reference guide to help sales execs review their lead generation, qualification and opportunity sales cycle mapping to improve current business processes.
Over the past few decades, buyer power shifted from the executive to the end user. OV's Kyle Poyar explains how this shift occurred and how product led growth is how you adapt.
B2B Lead Generation with Content Marketing // MAN Digital Pitch DeckMAN Digital
MAN Digital is a boutique B2B Digital Agency focusing on B2B Lead Generation with Content Marketing.
WHAT WE DO?
• B2B Lead Generation Strategy
(Workshops, Audit + Strategy)
• Copywriting & Content Marketing
(Content Creation - blogs, webinars, pitch decks, email, video, ebooks, case studies, anything that helps you sell better your product or service)
• Performance Marketing
(LinkedIn Ads, Xing Ads, Google Ads, Quora Ads, Facebook Ads, and RTB)
• Digital Sales
(Marketing & Sales Automation, CRM Implementation, Pitch Decks, Outbound, Analytics, and Reporting )
In short, we do full stack for B2B Lead Generation by building content marketing ( not only blog posts), funnels, sales automation, and conversion rate optimization throughout the buyer's journey.
Our Northstar is to initiate an ideal sales conversation with high quality leads in the B2B space.
The Conversion Optimization System: 14 Steps for More Conversions and More Sales
Are you struggling with low website conversion rates? Not sure how to increase your online sales? This is the master class for you. The Conversion Optimization System is a 14-steps process to produce repeatable and consistent increases in website conversion rates. The system has been successful used on over 500 projects and conducted more than 7,000 successful A/B tests with it. Discover the process that has been used by some of the top online companies such as eBay, 3M, O'Reilly and many others.
Be prepared to discover the real secret of conducting a successful CRO project including:
1. Conducting heuristic analysis
2. Conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis
3. Creating a conversion roadmap
4. Testing a test hypothesis
5. Conduct A/B test
Stratello : marketing automation et parcours clientLaurence EVRARD
Comment le marketing automation va pouvoir interagir avec votre stratégie de parcours clients et alors devenir créateur de valeur ? Stratello vous expose les étapes clefs !
A basic primer on marketing automation, lead management and demand generation as presented by Michael Ward, Founder & CEO of Net-Results Marketing Automation.
Performance Marketing in a digital worldForestView
This is the introductory presentation that Zhivko Kalotov, Country Manager of ForestView Bulgaria, delivered at the "Performance Marketing in a Digital World" Masterclass. The event was hosted on March 12, 2014 by ForestView, in collaboration with the Bulgarian Association of Advertisers.
Our Demand Generation Program Playbook is a planning methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to help you develop and implement a demand generation strategy that provides a steady flow qualified, engaged leads for your sales team.
Conversion Rate Optimisation: Making The Most of Your Website (Service Networ...Marty Hayes
Venture Stream's Digital Director, Marty Hayes, presented on one of their favourite topics, Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) as part of Service Network's events series.
Customer success continues to be an emerging practice as both technology companies and nontraditional industries move to a new subscription revenue model. A maturity model framework helps companies establish their customer success organizations and initiatives, as well as allowing them to see where they stand and how they can improve as they move through the stages of maturity. www.tsia.com.
Customer Success Best Practices for SaaS Retention: Metrics and KSFs for Buil...Gainsight
Customer Success Best Practices for SaaS Retention: Metrics and KSFs for Building a High Performing Customer Success Team
Insight Venture Partners and Gainsight presented a webinar on customer success best practices for SaaS retention, including the crucial metrics and Knowledge and Skills Frameworks (KSFs) for building a high performing Customer Success team.
The most successful Enterprise SaaS companies know that growing revenue only through new customer acquisition is the less efficient way to scale. Rather, they understand that growing revenue within your existing customer base - through up-sells, cross-sells, and expanded use - is the most profitable way to scale.
In fact, Enterprise SaaS companies that grow revenue - and company valuation - by expanding revenue within their existing customer base also know the key to making this work is to focus on - and operationalize - Customer Success.
Success in the Cloud requires 3 things:
1) A Compelling Value Proposition
2) Creating Competitive Separation
3) Strategy vs Execution. Making it happen requires execution
Master Nurturing and Marketo Engagement ProgramsJosh Hill
Master lead nurturing with Marketo using Marketo's Engagement Programs and smart campaigns. Includes exclusive tips from marketing tech expert Josh Hill.
Startup Metrics 101: a Product & Marketing WorkshopDave McClure
This presentation demonstrates a simple, actionable 5-step model for measuring startup metrics. The 5 steps are: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, & Revenue (AARRR!). The presentation also explains how to use the model to make better product & marketing decisions for your startup.
Created by Dave McClure & Hiten Shah, presented at Web 2.0 Expo SF on Tue 4/22/08.
Digital Marketing for B2B: Introduction and Steps to Get Started.Thomas Webster
An introduction to digital marketing for B2B - exploring key trends, frameworks for digital marketing strategy and tips to help you get started with digital marketing, social media, SEO and content marketing.
SaaS Marketing Plan: 5 Ways to Get your B2B App to Sell ItselfLincoln Murphy
Your B2B SaaS app will not sell itself unless it is designed to do so. This is a guide to getting your B2B SaaS to 'sell itself' was created by noted SaaS Marketing expert and Growth Hacker Lincoln Murphy of Sixteen Ventures.
This guide is full of actionable, unique, and thought-provoking ideas - Growth Hacks if you will - that are designed to allow your product to sell itself.
From attracting the right audience and driving user engagement, to making it easy to buy and easy to share through orchestrated virality, this guide covers all aspects of what's necessary to drive growth with SaaS companies of any stage and serving any market.
Whether you have a self-service sales model or one that requires outside sales reps to drive business, the tips and techniques contained in this guide and the source blog post will help you achieve your goals of efficiently scaling your sales process.
A Complete Digital Marketing Plan for a medical equipement supplierSayan Dasgupta
A complete plan on how you can market medical equipment through SEO and Google Adwords as a medium.
Using Google Analytics and Google Search Console is primary to identify the keywords and move forward.
The Art and Science of Revenue-Centric Marketing in a Digital WorldGary DeAsi
With the digital age upon us, for marketers, the key to driving revenue is all about engaging customers by delivering exceptional omni-channel user experiences throughout the entire buyer's journey. The most effective approach is often one that harnesses the combined power of exercising both sides of the marketing brain'creative and analytical, chaos and order, art and science'to engage your customers on both rational and emotional levels.
In this presentation from the 2015 Marketo Marketing Nation Summit in San Francisco, two-time Marketo Champion, Gary DeAsi, shares insights on how the SmartBear marketing team has adopted an 'art and science' digital approach to drive conversion and revenue at every stage of the funnel, including initiatives that earned SmartBear back-to-back Marketo Revvie Awards in 2013 & 2014 for Most Dramatic Business Impact and Most Creative Integrated Marketing Campaign.
Topics include:
1. Digital content creation strategies optimized for engagement
2. Integrated multi-channel demand generation campaigns that resonate and move the needle
3. Getting creative with data! Custom, unorthodox applications of data & Marketo objects
4. Utilizing data to understand buyer personas, behaviors and dynamically dictate customer experiences
[Webinar] Predictive Lead Scoring: How To Turn Data Into RevenueMintigo1
To watch the entire webinar replay, please visit:
http://www.mintigo.com/predictive-lead-scoring-how-to-turn-data-into-revenue/
Description:
“Predictive Analytics” is the buzzword du jour. With so many digital marketing tools, technologies, and channels at our disposal and the ability to track prospect and customer behavior, we are awash with data to be analyzed in order to predict and drive our marketing results. So, how do we cut through the clutter, sift through the hype, and bring the most critical data into focus? How do we put it to use?
Download the slides and watch this Marketo LaunchPoint webinar replay to discover how predictive lead scoring will put all of your data to work for you. Learn how the marketing ninjas at SmartBear Software have used Marketo and Mintigo to build an automated system that targets the right leads with the right messages at the right time.
You will learn how to:
- Profile your ideal customer so that you can target high-fit leads
- Score your leads in real-time based on that profile
- Optimally engage the leads by routing them to the appropriate nurture track or sales reps before even gathering behavioral data
Speakers:
Patrick Chen - Sr. Manager of Marketing Operations at Marketo
Tony Yang - Director of Demand Generation at Mintigo
Gary DeAsi - Sr. Marketing Manager & Marketo Champion at SmartBear Software
A basic primer on marketing automation, lead management and demand generation as presented by Michael Ward, Founder & CEO of Net-Results Marketing Automation.
Performance Marketing in a digital worldForestView
This is the introductory presentation that Zhivko Kalotov, Country Manager of ForestView Bulgaria, delivered at the "Performance Marketing in a Digital World" Masterclass. The event was hosted on March 12, 2014 by ForestView, in collaboration with the Bulgarian Association of Advertisers.
Our Demand Generation Program Playbook is a planning methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to help you develop and implement a demand generation strategy that provides a steady flow qualified, engaged leads for your sales team.
Conversion Rate Optimisation: Making The Most of Your Website (Service Networ...Marty Hayes
Venture Stream's Digital Director, Marty Hayes, presented on one of their favourite topics, Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) as part of Service Network's events series.
Customer success continues to be an emerging practice as both technology companies and nontraditional industries move to a new subscription revenue model. A maturity model framework helps companies establish their customer success organizations and initiatives, as well as allowing them to see where they stand and how they can improve as they move through the stages of maturity. www.tsia.com.
Customer Success Best Practices for SaaS Retention: Metrics and KSFs for Buil...Gainsight
Customer Success Best Practices for SaaS Retention: Metrics and KSFs for Building a High Performing Customer Success Team
Insight Venture Partners and Gainsight presented a webinar on customer success best practices for SaaS retention, including the crucial metrics and Knowledge and Skills Frameworks (KSFs) for building a high performing Customer Success team.
The most successful Enterprise SaaS companies know that growing revenue only through new customer acquisition is the less efficient way to scale. Rather, they understand that growing revenue within your existing customer base - through up-sells, cross-sells, and expanded use - is the most profitable way to scale.
In fact, Enterprise SaaS companies that grow revenue - and company valuation - by expanding revenue within their existing customer base also know the key to making this work is to focus on - and operationalize - Customer Success.
Success in the Cloud requires 3 things:
1) A Compelling Value Proposition
2) Creating Competitive Separation
3) Strategy vs Execution. Making it happen requires execution
Master Nurturing and Marketo Engagement ProgramsJosh Hill
Master lead nurturing with Marketo using Marketo's Engagement Programs and smart campaigns. Includes exclusive tips from marketing tech expert Josh Hill.
Startup Metrics 101: a Product & Marketing WorkshopDave McClure
This presentation demonstrates a simple, actionable 5-step model for measuring startup metrics. The 5 steps are: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, & Revenue (AARRR!). The presentation also explains how to use the model to make better product & marketing decisions for your startup.
Created by Dave McClure & Hiten Shah, presented at Web 2.0 Expo SF on Tue 4/22/08.
Digital Marketing for B2B: Introduction and Steps to Get Started.Thomas Webster
An introduction to digital marketing for B2B - exploring key trends, frameworks for digital marketing strategy and tips to help you get started with digital marketing, social media, SEO and content marketing.
SaaS Marketing Plan: 5 Ways to Get your B2B App to Sell ItselfLincoln Murphy
Your B2B SaaS app will not sell itself unless it is designed to do so. This is a guide to getting your B2B SaaS to 'sell itself' was created by noted SaaS Marketing expert and Growth Hacker Lincoln Murphy of Sixteen Ventures.
This guide is full of actionable, unique, and thought-provoking ideas - Growth Hacks if you will - that are designed to allow your product to sell itself.
From attracting the right audience and driving user engagement, to making it easy to buy and easy to share through orchestrated virality, this guide covers all aspects of what's necessary to drive growth with SaaS companies of any stage and serving any market.
Whether you have a self-service sales model or one that requires outside sales reps to drive business, the tips and techniques contained in this guide and the source blog post will help you achieve your goals of efficiently scaling your sales process.
A Complete Digital Marketing Plan for a medical equipement supplierSayan Dasgupta
A complete plan on how you can market medical equipment through SEO and Google Adwords as a medium.
Using Google Analytics and Google Search Console is primary to identify the keywords and move forward.
The Art and Science of Revenue-Centric Marketing in a Digital WorldGary DeAsi
With the digital age upon us, for marketers, the key to driving revenue is all about engaging customers by delivering exceptional omni-channel user experiences throughout the entire buyer's journey. The most effective approach is often one that harnesses the combined power of exercising both sides of the marketing brain'creative and analytical, chaos and order, art and science'to engage your customers on both rational and emotional levels.
In this presentation from the 2015 Marketo Marketing Nation Summit in San Francisco, two-time Marketo Champion, Gary DeAsi, shares insights on how the SmartBear marketing team has adopted an 'art and science' digital approach to drive conversion and revenue at every stage of the funnel, including initiatives that earned SmartBear back-to-back Marketo Revvie Awards in 2013 & 2014 for Most Dramatic Business Impact and Most Creative Integrated Marketing Campaign.
Topics include:
1. Digital content creation strategies optimized for engagement
2. Integrated multi-channel demand generation campaigns that resonate and move the needle
3. Getting creative with data! Custom, unorthodox applications of data & Marketo objects
4. Utilizing data to understand buyer personas, behaviors and dynamically dictate customer experiences
[Webinar] Predictive Lead Scoring: How To Turn Data Into RevenueMintigo1
To watch the entire webinar replay, please visit:
http://www.mintigo.com/predictive-lead-scoring-how-to-turn-data-into-revenue/
Description:
“Predictive Analytics” is the buzzword du jour. With so many digital marketing tools, technologies, and channels at our disposal and the ability to track prospect and customer behavior, we are awash with data to be analyzed in order to predict and drive our marketing results. So, how do we cut through the clutter, sift through the hype, and bring the most critical data into focus? How do we put it to use?
Download the slides and watch this Marketo LaunchPoint webinar replay to discover how predictive lead scoring will put all of your data to work for you. Learn how the marketing ninjas at SmartBear Software have used Marketo and Mintigo to build an automated system that targets the right leads with the right messages at the right time.
You will learn how to:
- Profile your ideal customer so that you can target high-fit leads
- Score your leads in real-time based on that profile
- Optimally engage the leads by routing them to the appropriate nurture track or sales reps before even gathering behavioral data
Speakers:
Patrick Chen - Sr. Manager of Marketing Operations at Marketo
Tony Yang - Director of Demand Generation at Mintigo
Gary DeAsi - Sr. Marketing Manager & Marketo Champion at SmartBear Software
Maximizing the ROI of Every Lead: Advanced Lead Nurturing, Segmentation, and ...Gary DeAsi
(Marketo Marketing Nation Summit, 2014) How to use marketing automation to collect and utilize custom, critical data for your business to multiply engagement levels, conversion rates and ROI with database segmentation and dynamic content, through outbound email, lead nurturing and scoring.
Key Takeaways include:
A) Intelligent database segmentation and targeting with custom fields and custom scoring
B) Utilizing demographic and behavioral data to dictate marketing initiatives and dynamic content, and ensure that every lead you generate will receive the right content, at the right time, throughout every stage of the buyer's journey
C) Building a lead nurturing machine (and "ecosystem") that will work for you to identify and capitalize on key characteristics and behaviors, and move leads down the funnel accordingly, in an automated fashion
D)Concrete action items for Marketo users and marketing leaders on how you can implement all of the above to optimize your funnel, achieve greater results with a lesser investment, and quantify its impact on the bottom line
Cold leads plague our databases, and there needs to be a way to bing them back to life. Here is the answer. From the author of Marketing Automation for Dummies, Mathew teaches you the 5 key aspects to nurturing your cold leads back to life.
This deck features a case study highlighting the basic steps taken by SCI Solutions to kick off an initially successful lead nurture program using Pardot and Sales Cloud.
Why your Content Marketing is Failing (and how to fix it) Gary DeAsi
View this SlideShare to learn 45+ costly mistakes for why content marketing fails, and actionable tips, resources and examples for how to correct them.
In a digital world where customers have all the power and everyone is a publisher, increasingly high competition and standards are pressuring marketing teams into a race to produce higher quality content, in greater volumes, and at a faster rate than ever before, often with the same amount of resources. But while content is the fuel for every digital marketing engine, not everyone gets the same mileage out of it. A 2016 report from Content Marketing Institute found that while 88% of B2B organizations are using content marketing, only 30% rated their content efforts as being effective for reaching their goals.
This presentation delivers an insightful overview of common costly mistakes that can be killing your content marketing results, and a deep dive on how to maximize content marketing ROI with actionable tips and steps to amplify the impact of every content initiative, including:
The 7 Step Content Marketing Process
1) Personas and Customers: Understanding target customer personas and how to attract and convert them with the right content topics
2) Content Planning and Strategy. Creating monthly and quarterly content plans aligned with each stage of the customer journey, and key business goals, metrics and objectives.
3) Content Production and Design. Digital content creation approaches optimized for search, engagement and conversion.
4) Content Publishing and Promotion. Integrated multi-channel content distribution tactics to reach both larger—and more qualified—target audiences across platforms, and the utilization of data, automation and marketing technology to test, measure and enhance targeting to optimize results.
5) Content Performance and Metrics. Understanding what metrics to track to measure the impact of your content marketing
6) Re-purposing and refining. Smart ways to get more out of your content and increase it lifespan through designing content for re-purposing.
7) People and Process. Building a team with the right skills, knowledge and roles, and implementing an efficient, repeatable content process.
Live Webinar: Crash Course to Lead Nurturing LinkedIn
Featuring:
Sean Callahan, Senior Manager, Content Marketing, LinkedIn
Justin Gray, CEO, LeadMD
We epically conclude our series with the Crash Course to Lead Nurturing. The landscape of lead nurturing has changed and responsibility now falls primarily on the marketing team. We'll review examples of how today's most effective marketers are moving their lead nurturing programs beyond the email inbox and embracing multichannel nurturing - including display and social media advertising.
8 Essential Types of Marketing Content (and how to use them)Gary DeAsi
Check out this presentation to learn 8 types of content every digital marketer should have in their toolbox, their pros and cons, what to use them for, and tips for maximizing results.
Mapping Content Strategy to the Modern Customer Journey - MassTLC Summit 2016Gary DeAsi
Content is the fuel to your digital marketing engine – but if the content you are producing is not aligned to address the specific needs, questions, and barriers of buyers at different stages of the customer journey, you may be spinning your wheels and losing ROI. Too many companies create and distribute the content they think customers want to read without really investing the time or resources to truly understand the varying needs of their audience, or how those needs can change throughout their relationship with your business. Taking a customer journey-centric approach to content strategy means engaging the right buyers with the right content, at the right time— adding more qualified leads to your funnel, and ensuring that more loyal customer advocates come out the bottom. During this session, we will discuss:
• Understanding your customer journey: Adopting a buying stages model, and key factors to consider based upon characteristics your business, target customers and market landscape
• Planning with the customer journey in mind: Utilizing customer journey knowledge to develop monthly and quarterly content plans to overcome key business challenges and goals at different stages of the funnel
• Mapping content distribution to the customer journey: Aligning multi-channel content distribution initiatives with your content strategy to maximize impact and engage your audience across customer journey stages
Journey Maps are a popular and important method in customer and user experience optimization. Here are some best practices for creating Journey Maps that will be effective in transforming your customer’s experience. The infographic discusses:
-What journey maps are and why create them
-The high-level steps to create a customer journey map
-The essentials of effective customer journey maps
-The different types of journey maps (ex: Customer Lifecycle, Service Blueprint)
-An example customer journey.
Aligning Your Marketing Team and Strategy with the Modern Customer JourneyGary DeAsi
Taking a customer journey-centric marketing approach means engaging the right target customers with the right experiences, at the right time— adding more qualified leads to your sales funnel, and ensuring that more loyal customer advocates come out the bottom. Sure, this all sounds great in theory, but how do you actually go about designing and executing an effective strategy for your organization?
Topics include:
• Understanding your customer journey: Adopting a buying stages model, and key factors to consider based upon characteristics your business, target customers and market landscape
• Mapping content strategy and multi-channel marketing initiatives to engage your audience across customer journey stages
• Lessons learned from nearly 4 years of experience practicing agile marketing to support a high volume, high velocity, B2B model
Gary DeAsi is a global digital marketing and demand generation expert with a passion for technology and thinking both analytically and creatively to overcome business challenges at every stage of the customer journey. At SmartBear, he manages the company’s corporate brand and leads the inbound/digital marketing team to drive demand for more than 15 software quality tools used by more than four million software professionals and over 25,000 organizations worldwide. His initiatives helped SmartBear earn back-to-back Marketo Revvie Awards in 2013 and 2014 for Most Dramatic Business Impact and Most Creative Integrated Marketing Campaign. Also an expert in lead nurturing and marketing automation, Gary has been honored as a three-time Marketo Champion, having presented at Marketo’s Marketing Nation Summit. Follow him on Twitter @gDAZ.
Customer Engagement Platform: Smarter Marketing for Better ResultsMarketo
Marketo's Senior Product Marketing Manager, Brian Glover, reviews the concept of smarter marketing for better results with Marketo's Customer Engagement Platform.
Getting Started with Marketing Automation with Tania O'Connor, Business Consultant, Marketo, Kato Oosthuizen, Marketing Operations Director, Asset Management, Sungard and Kelsey Joyce, Head of Global Sales Operations and Development, Huddle
Nurturing. Another of those words we hear again and again. What’s so great about nurturing?
With so much of the buying journey unassisted by sales, marketing needs to be able to accompany buyers through their journey with the right content. The delivery of the right content at the right time is the role of nurturing. And that works equally well when we’re nurturing a prospect towards an initial sale – as it does when we’re nurturing customers towards repeat or additional purchases.
In this presentation, we will cover topics such as:
• What the buyer journey looks like, pre- and post-sale
• Ways to maximise customer lifetime value
• What content works at each stage of the buyer journey
• Marketing automation and CRM systems: what are they good for?
• Marketing automation: don’t get carried away by hype
• What should we be measuring and when
How to Build the Ultimate Customer Demand Generation MachineMarketo
Are you marketing to customers for up-sell, cross-sell and retention goals? Check out this presentation which will show you how to use marketing automation to build an ultimate demand generation team for your customers!
10 Digital Marketing Essentials for any type of business Dave Chaffey
What are the techniques of online marketing that businesses MUST get right today? Dave Chaffey of Smart Insights presented at Portsmouth Business School on 8th October 2014 and repeated with a longer version at Leeds University Business School on 15th October.
Account Based Marketing with Marketo - LA User Group Dec 4, 2015Josh Hill
The LA Marketo User Group discussed how to conduct Account Based Marketing (ABM) using existing Marketo features and LaunchPoint partners. With Josh Hill, Madhu Gulati (ShowMeLeads), and Prash Shenoy (Apigee).
Managing Changes in Your Marketing OrganizationMarketo
These days, it's table stakes to implement digital tools to better engage with customers, but figuring out how to take full advantage of the technology and structure your team are a different matter altogether.
Check out this presentation by Marketo expert Shyna Zhang for an overview on how to make comprehensive digital marketing changes that positively affect your enterprise team.
Attend this exciting webinar to discover:
- The unique challenges of enterprise-level marketers
- How to make the case for marketing software and guide the change management process
- Tactics for optimizing your team's structure
Brand building workshop exploring the relationship between search, strategy and branding, including exercises for workshop. Presented to the Texas CEO Magazine Boot Camp Saturday, September 17, 2016.
Inherited Marketo? Making it Work for Your OrganizationCindy Zhou
From Marketo's 2014 Marketing Nation Summit - You've landed a new job and Marketo powers your marketing–great! Not so great–you must uncover how your company uses Marketo and the strategies currently in place. In this session, a VP of marketing showcases a strategic reboot process to increase efficiencies, sales alignment, and revenue potential. Next, a seasoned Marketo administrator shares how to clean up an inherited Marketo instance and modify it to suit your organization's marketing and sales goals.
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The overall benchmark for the online customer experience has risen dramatically. Businesses are faced with new challenges and will need to experiment with a variety of channels, deploy their budget strategically, and continue to analyze what is working for them. How can you grow your businesses in this busy market? You will need to level up your marketing game.
You’ll learn:
-Tips for personalizing your customer journey
-How to coordinate a cross-channel strategy
-Ways to analyze what’s working in order to grow your business
Industry Success: Bring Your Content and Demand Generation Teams TogetherMarketo
How can marketing teams stand out in the digital world that is oversaturated with content, emails, and virtual events? One of the ways to achieve efficiency and success is to bring the content, demand generation, and industry teams together to ensure close collaboration.
You'll learn:
-How to approach content strategy design with demand in mind
-What makes the partnership between content and industry teams so valuable
-Why joining the forces enables powerful customer journeys
Customer-First: Embedding Experience Design in Your GTM StrategyMarketo
Customers are the lifeblood of every business, but how many companies can say that they truly have a customer-centric go-to-market strategy? With so many touchpoints in a customer’s lifecycle, there are innumerable ways to misstep and think about what makes sense for your company instead of who your company serves.
Are you segmenting in ways that make sense for your audience? Are you creating marketing events and programs that bring the right types of customers together? When you speak to your audience, are you speaking in their language?
You'll learn:
-Dos and Don’ts of account segmentation
-Creative ways to think through programs and activities
-How to connect with your customers in meaningful ways
Prove Your Marketing Impact: The Fundamentals of Marketing AttributionMarketo
Every marketing team faces the challenge of proving direct impact to the bottom line, but it’s no longer enough to show email metrics or the number of leads generated. In order for marketing to earn its seat at the table, the C-suite needs to know how it translates to revenue for the business.
You'll learn:
-Why attribution is essential to modern marketing teams
-How to establish marketing KPIs that align with business objectives
-How to think like the C-suite in your marketing strategy and reporting
Prove and Improve Your Marketing Impact in 2021Marketo
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How to Test and Optimize Your Lead Nurturing Strategy
1. How to Test and Optimize Your Lead
Nurturing Strategy
Practical Tips and Examples with Marketo and SmartBear
Software
Heidi Bullock, VP Demand Generation @ Marketo
Val Armstrong, Marketing Operations Manager @ SmartBear
Rick DeCosta, Marketing Production Manager @ SmartBear
Gary DeAsi, Senior Marketing Manager @ SmartBear
9. 1.Lead nurturing will increase
the velocity of leads through
my funnel
2.Lead nurturing will increase
the # of my MQLs
3.Lead nurturing will lower the
investment per lead
Tip1: Define Your Hypotheses
10. What does success look like at different time points?
Tip 2: Identify How You Will Measure
Results and When
Nurture
Program One
Set –Up
Complete
Jan Feb Apr May Jun
Engagement
Score = 70
4x the # of fast
leads (<1
month)
compared to
pre-nurture
2x the # of
opportunities
With
Optimizations,
Engagement
Score = 80
May
2x the # of
MQLs
compared to
pre-nurture
Example:
11. Tip 3: Create Your Team Structure
Nurture Content Manager
Nurture Operations Manager
13. • Schedule time with stakeholders
• What does your target market look like?
• What are the minimum requirements?
• What are the negative attributes?
• Agree and Iterate
Tip 4: Identify Who to Nurture
25. Tip 9: Test and Iterate
Get out of the set and forget it mindset
26. Fast Leads
( MQL <1 mo)
Slow Leads
(MQL >1 mo)
Total Leads
(MQL)
Cost / Lead
(MQL)
Without
Nurturing 20% 6.67% 26.67% $206.00
With
Nurturing 20% 20.0% 40.0% $137.50
The ROI of Lead Nurturing
Source: Actual Marketo data; assumes $55 per prospect
Marketo ROI Results (quoted by Forrester)
Results: 50% more marketing qualified leads from lead nurturing
27. B) - I got this!A) - Freak out
Tip 10: Don’t Freak
28. 1. Nurture shouldn’t be an afterthought
2. Have a hypothesis going in – set your goals
3. Know what you are going to measure and when
4. Think multi-channel
5. Your content story arc is a big deal
6. Review progress and have an ongoing dialog with sales
7. Test and iterate – this is not set it and forget it
8. Think big, start small, move quickly
Tweetable Takeaways
@heidibullock
53. SmartBear Nurture Overview
• 8.5 million emails sent through Marketo in 2014
• Average Open Rate of 16%
• Average CTR of 2.7%
• Unsubscribe Rate of 0.3%
• 970 emails sent every hour for a full year
59. Tips for Success
• Start simple – “the Russian Doll Approach”
• Content fuels the engine
• You’re only as good as your data
• If you don’t have the data, create the data
• Always be testing
• Use your channels
• Funnel awareness at every stage
• Always keep end goal in sight
• It’s all about Scale
• Educate your sales team
Definition
Lead nurturing is the process of building effective relationships with potential customers throughout the buying journey.
Key on relationship
No different from the relationships you have with those around you. When you have a good relationship, there is a higher level of trust, it’s easier to ask them for help when you need it.
When marketers look into purchasing a MA platform, they often focus on a few core features, and one of those features is almost always LN. Why is that? Why is is so important? Well, the ability to build relationships is obviously important, but over the past 10 to 15 years, something else has changed that’s made LN really important.
Deliver what sales has the capacity and desire to manage, and nurture the rest.
(point here is to reiterate Jon’s intro)- the way people buy has changed – therefore as a marketer, you need to think about how you will cut through the noise and stand out. It is more critical than ever to ‘be found’ and attract people to your company/brand - >> if you don’t, your competitors will.
And depending on what you’re selling, and how long the buying journey typically takes for your product or service, nurturing is something that is often required over a long period of time. In the case of Marketo, here you can see how long it takes leads to become opportunities across various channels, and the average is 327 days. That’s almost a year that a marketer needs to stay engaged with a potential buyer until an opportunity is identified. And that’s really just one stage of the relationship. Once the person becomes a customer, there’s more nurturing to do. Companies nurture existing companies for many reasons, from upsell or cross-sell, to advocacy, and more. So nurturing is really something that should be done over a long period of time if it’s to be done well.
Goal setting
Improve the percentage rate at which raw leads convert to qualified prospects by X% • Improve the percentage rate at which raw leads convert to closed deals by X% • Increase the number of sales ready leads per month to X • Reduce the number of leads rejected by sales to X% • Generate X incremental opportunities per month from the existing database • Faster sales cycle by X% • Better win rates by X% • Increase upsell / cross-sell with current customers by X%
Success Secret # 2 – Set your goals upfront with key stake holders.
It is very important before you even start on the event (signing the contract, etc.) to make sure that the team is aligned on objectives and outcomes.
I have an example illustrated here for a tradeshow.
I suggest setting up a meeting with key folks – may be your VP of Marketing, CEO, head of sales, head of product
Review the reasons why you think the event has value and how you propose looking at success over time.
The timing element is an important one because most likely you will not see closed won deals the day after the tradeshow.
So here you can see there are pre-event goals, during event, and post event goals.
Success Secret # 3 – Lead nurturing is a co-existence of two opposing variables: creativity and logic. It’s both an art and a science. Your nurture team needs to produce compelling content, but it also needs to perform complex marketing operations.
On some marketing teams, all lead nurturing is managed by one person. In other organizations, it is divided amongst several people.
Nurture content manager
Nurture operations manager
So how we segment at Marketo. Well, first of all, we do it across 2 primary dimensions on a regional basis.
One dimension we use is the buying stage, which maps really well to our overall revenue model, both to the high level funnel stages, TOFU, MOFU and BOFU, and also happens to map to the way we segment our content, EARLY, MID, LATE and CUSTOMER.
The other dimension is the buying profile, which we typically define by personas.
And by the way, we’ve kept it to 2 because even moving to 3 adds an exponential level of complexity.
Lead scoring is the shared sales and marketing methodology for ranking leads in order to determine sales-readiness
In essence, lead scoring is helping you qualify and eliminate leads based on the agreed upon definition you defined for your organization. There are 4 dimensions of lead scoring that can help you determine the sales readiness of a lead.
Lead fit is based on demographics like title, role, location. It’s based on firmographics or organizational characteristics like company size, revenue, industry. Lead fit is also based on BANT, which stands for budget, authority, need and time.
Lead interest is based on scoring individual behaviour and tying an interest score to those behaviours. For example, if someone visits our social product page, we score them as interested in our social product.
Lead behaviour is picking up on certain behaviours that qualify an individual. For example, if someone fills out a “Receive a quote” page. This indicative behaviour is something you should be scoring on for sales readiness. So how does this differ from lead interest, which also scores on individual behaviours. Lead interest is an aggregate of multiple behaviours that says someone is interested in someone. Lead behaviour is looking at a set of scores that you should be paying attention to.
Last is buyer stage and time. What this in essence means is, which of your leads require a lot of nurturing, and which ones should be passed immediately to sales.
If you score your leads on these four dimensions, you’ve created a great automated process for identifying and qualifying, who is within your target market.
Lead scoring is useless if the health of your database is not clean. If the data you have is inaccurate then you could potentially be scoring people incorrectly. It’s like approaching someone you think has one name, and then realizing that their name is something completely different. It can be a very awkward experience, and lead nurturing is all about personalized communications at scale.
Keeping your database healthy includes, identifying and removing duplicates from your system, removing inactive contacts, removing junk contacts, and having a uniformity of values - for example everyone in an Enterprise company should not have multiple values like ent or 2000+. They should all be uniform.
There are typically three to think about :
pre-MQL - Nurturing before a prospect is handed off to a teleprospecting, field or channel resource
Recycled - Nurturing when a prospect is rejected by a sales resource for a pre-determined reason
Passive recycled – Nurturing when a prospect has experienced no movement fora pre-determined period of time, but has not been rejected by sales
For nurture to be effective, you have to think outside of just email. It is most effective when it is aligned to buyer behavior and their communication preferences.
For this to be successful:
-Synchronizedexperience across everytouch point
• Monitored, measuredand agile
• Rules-based contenttargeting
• Supports named andanonymous prospects
Marketo uses personalized retargeting ads to target visitors from the Enterprise industry who were on their website. These personalized ads generated 2x more leads compared to their standard remarketing campaigns
We can our RTP segments to create remarketing audiences in Google Adwords – which allows us to target remarketing ads to a segment
Lead gen example – anon or known - CAN PULL IN REVENUE STAGES
Alright now you’ve got your team together, you’ve defined your target market, you’re able to properly identify and qualify them, its time to think of the story you want to tell them.
The best way to do this is to determine how many emails you want to nurture a particular audience with. Let’s go with 10. The first 2-4 emails tend to be the most important because they either capture the attention of your audience, or they are the ones that people unsubscribe from. This is where you should place your best performing emails. Once a person has unsubscribed from your emails, there goes your ability to tell someone a holistic story about your company.
At Marketo our philosophy is to always start with light and engaging content like infographics or videos, and then move on to meatier pieces of content like eBooks or definitive guides. Finally you can include some product promotions, but do them carefully, sparsely and intermittently. You don’t want people to feel sold to and unsubscribe from your content. Nurture is all about engaging with people over a long period of time. At Marketo we have a rule of thumb called the 4-11 rule. For every four entertainment pieces, we send 1 soft promotion like a research report and 1 hard promotion like attend a demo or visit a pricing page
Also be conscious that even though you create a story arc of emails 1 through 10, doesn’t mean that a person will read and receive all of them
Once you’ve determined the story you want to tell and the types of content you want to send. What should your email look like? There are different looks and feels to emails, but there are a couple of other things to take into consideration. For Example, does your subject line clearly summarize what is in the body of the email. You can always have a great subject line that gets a high open rate, but if people feel like the email itself does not match their expectation they could unsubscribe or they may no longer pay attention to your emails. It’s like the boy who cried wolf. If you want help with subject lines, there are 3 subject line techniques that work really well. The first is to ask questions in your subject line. Another technique is to Educate people with subject lines like “7 things marketers can learn from sales”. Another technique is to jump on a popular on trending topic.
Another email best practice is to have a clear call to action. Whether it’s to download an eBook, or to set up a meeting with a rep, its important to answer some of these questions. Do you have buttons that call out these CTA’s, are you bolding the hyper links, are the CTAs clearly above fold, which just means is your CTA button above the first half of the email screen and not below where people have to scroll down.
There are also multiple ways you can stylize your emails. There are emails that are highly branded, and are incredibly visual. Think of retail brand emails. Then there are also text based emails that come off more personalized and like they are coming from a sales person. Different email styles work better for different types of promotions, but all of them should be mobile responsive.
Mobile responsive use to be optional. Now it should be a standard, because 41% of emails are opened on a mobile device. Emails require constant innovation and so its important to adjust to new screens, but also to be testing things like subject lines or CTA’s to help you improve the performance of your nurtures.
What I want to focus on here is two models that you can use to calculate the ROI yourself.
In the first, the key is to estimate