Use this marketing plan presentation template to quickly document a modern marketing plan. Chapters include: aspiration, situation, objectives, strategy, content, technology and budget. Your stakeholders will be impressed with the analysis, design, brevity of your marketing plan.
The presentation covers elements of a GTM plan, what makes it disruptive and how does one measure it. The presentation was used at the NASSCOM Product Conclave in Cochin held on 14 Dec 2016 by Sunder Madakshira.
The Go-To-Market framework is a related set of activities and processes that connect the company’s product strategy to the customer experience. The Go-To-Market framework is cross-functional, spanning product management, product marketing, and sales. It is a strategy and requires operational efficiency.
Use this modern go-to-market framework to define the activities required to successfully build market-driven products & services that customers will accept.
The presentation covers elements of a GTM plan, what makes it disruptive and how does one measure it. The presentation was used at the NASSCOM Product Conclave in Cochin held on 14 Dec 2016 by Sunder Madakshira.
The Go-To-Market framework is a related set of activities and processes that connect the company’s product strategy to the customer experience. The Go-To-Market framework is cross-functional, spanning product management, product marketing, and sales. It is a strategy and requires operational efficiency.
Use this modern go-to-market framework to define the activities required to successfully build market-driven products & services that customers will accept.
A Go to Market Strategy is a strategic plan that organizations use to outline how they will bring a new product, service, or business model to market. This strategy is created with the intention of attaining competitive advantage in the industry by improving the overall product experience of the customer (e.g., reasonable price, high quality materials, etc.). While creating an enticing value proposition is a commonly used strategic plan of organizations, the Go to Market Strategy is unique in that it specifically highlights how the company will use internal and external resources to differentiate and establish itself to succeed in a new market segment or geography.
Fill out the template on the next page with ideas related to your Go to Market Strategy.
Developing a go-to-market strategy is an essential step for any successful business, in order to bring together all the key areas that define the public face of their company (such as its marketing strategy, sales procedures, distribution methods, and so forth).
Our Product Marketing Plan Playbook is a planning methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to develop a comprehensive product marketing plan.
Marketing strategy and first 90 day planJanice Zhang
Janice is a senior marketing executive with a 16-year track record of delivering outstanding results for B2B & B2C companies. She put together this slide deck to help CMOs and VPs of Marketing define their strategy and first 90 day plan.
While different people will have different approaches to developing and managing brands, we believe there are some fundamental constructs and truths about brand strategy that need to be considered in any brand strategy process. We\'ve developed a short presentation on some of the fundamentals of brand strategy.
What is a Go-to-Market Strategy & How to Create OneCompellingPM
We often hear other PMs and executives say the word Go-to-Market Strategy and everyone nods their heads as if they know exactly what the other person really meant. But the reality is that within any given organization, there are as many ideas of what Go-to-Market Strategy means as there are senior level executives. And when Product Marketing is asked to develop a Go-to-Market Strategy, they are unlikely going to satisfy the expectations of all stakeholders because each one has a different expectation. In this webinar, we'll help you to create a common understanding of a Go-to-Market Strategy and what Product Marketing needs to do to effectively create one.
Key Takeaways from participating in this webinar:
- Develop a common definition for a Go-to-Market Strategy that can be shared with your organization
- Learn the seven elements that go into a complete Go-to-Market Strategy
- Understand the steps to creating your Go-to-Market Strategy
Use this go-to-market framework to define the activities required to successfully build market-driven products & services that customers will accept. The six stages include research, plan, approve, develop, prepare and launch. Within each stage there are a series of essential activities that need to be performed to ensure alignment between product features and customer needs, and alignment with organizational objectives and priorities.
Download for FREE here: http://www.demandmetric.com/content/modern-go-market-framework
Slides David Shoenberger recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
How To Evolve Your B2B Go-to-Market Strategy With Account-Based ExperienceDemandbase
Account-Based Experiences (ABX) has become the modern approach by leaders, and its rooted in an intense focus on the customer at every stage of the buying cycle, using intelligent insights to know when and how to engage, and what to say to each account.
During this session, join Tenessa Lochner, Director of Enterprise Marketing & ABM at Demandbase, to learn how companies are evolving their go-to-market to align with the buyer experience at every stage of the journey, including:
Site customization;
Forms enrichment; and
Personalization approaches to create unique experiences for customers and prospects.
5 Ways to Master Search Marketing For Your Enterprise BusinessCatalyst
Mastering search marketing for an enterprise or global business is no easy feat. Differences across countries, regions, business units, platforms, and partners create complicated barriers to business results. How do you overcome these challenges to create a well-oiled (and insanely successful) search marketing machine? Join Catalyst’s session to learn how we’ve done it for brands like yours. Catalyst’s Managing Director, Jim Kensicki, will share five actionable ways to improve your business’s holistic approach to SEO and paid search. From streamlining processes to securing investment and from managing stakeholders to scaling campaigns, you’ll leave this session ready to take your search marketing returns to new heights.
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.
A Go to Market Strategy is a strategic plan that organizations use to outline how they will bring a new product, service, or business model to market. This strategy is created with the intention of attaining competitive advantage in the industry by improving the overall product experience of the customer (e.g., reasonable price, high quality materials, etc.). While creating an enticing value proposition is a commonly used strategic plan of organizations, the Go to Market Strategy is unique in that it specifically highlights how the company will use internal and external resources to differentiate and establish itself to succeed in a new market segment or geography.
Fill out the template on the next page with ideas related to your Go to Market Strategy.
Developing a go-to-market strategy is an essential step for any successful business, in order to bring together all the key areas that define the public face of their company (such as its marketing strategy, sales procedures, distribution methods, and so forth).
Our Product Marketing Plan Playbook is a planning methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to develop a comprehensive product marketing plan.
Marketing strategy and first 90 day planJanice Zhang
Janice is a senior marketing executive with a 16-year track record of delivering outstanding results for B2B & B2C companies. She put together this slide deck to help CMOs and VPs of Marketing define their strategy and first 90 day plan.
While different people will have different approaches to developing and managing brands, we believe there are some fundamental constructs and truths about brand strategy that need to be considered in any brand strategy process. We\'ve developed a short presentation on some of the fundamentals of brand strategy.
What is a Go-to-Market Strategy & How to Create OneCompellingPM
We often hear other PMs and executives say the word Go-to-Market Strategy and everyone nods their heads as if they know exactly what the other person really meant. But the reality is that within any given organization, there are as many ideas of what Go-to-Market Strategy means as there are senior level executives. And when Product Marketing is asked to develop a Go-to-Market Strategy, they are unlikely going to satisfy the expectations of all stakeholders because each one has a different expectation. In this webinar, we'll help you to create a common understanding of a Go-to-Market Strategy and what Product Marketing needs to do to effectively create one.
Key Takeaways from participating in this webinar:
- Develop a common definition for a Go-to-Market Strategy that can be shared with your organization
- Learn the seven elements that go into a complete Go-to-Market Strategy
- Understand the steps to creating your Go-to-Market Strategy
Use this go-to-market framework to define the activities required to successfully build market-driven products & services that customers will accept. The six stages include research, plan, approve, develop, prepare and launch. Within each stage there are a series of essential activities that need to be performed to ensure alignment between product features and customer needs, and alignment with organizational objectives and priorities.
Download for FREE here: http://www.demandmetric.com/content/modern-go-market-framework
Slides David Shoenberger recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
How To Evolve Your B2B Go-to-Market Strategy With Account-Based ExperienceDemandbase
Account-Based Experiences (ABX) has become the modern approach by leaders, and its rooted in an intense focus on the customer at every stage of the buying cycle, using intelligent insights to know when and how to engage, and what to say to each account.
During this session, join Tenessa Lochner, Director of Enterprise Marketing & ABM at Demandbase, to learn how companies are evolving their go-to-market to align with the buyer experience at every stage of the journey, including:
Site customization;
Forms enrichment; and
Personalization approaches to create unique experiences for customers and prospects.
5 Ways to Master Search Marketing For Your Enterprise BusinessCatalyst
Mastering search marketing for an enterprise or global business is no easy feat. Differences across countries, regions, business units, platforms, and partners create complicated barriers to business results. How do you overcome these challenges to create a well-oiled (and insanely successful) search marketing machine? Join Catalyst’s session to learn how we’ve done it for brands like yours. Catalyst’s Managing Director, Jim Kensicki, will share five actionable ways to improve your business’s holistic approach to SEO and paid search. From streamlining processes to securing investment and from managing stakeholders to scaling campaigns, you’ll leave this session ready to take your search marketing returns to new heights.
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.
Search marketing continues to grow in importance as an advertising channel for businesses of all kinds. Even during the past 12 months, as the Great Recession has taken its toll on other advertising channels – from display to TV, and most decidedly to print – search advertising has continued to grow. As the paid search advertising market has grown and matured, the cost of entry for new players has increased, and for those who have been doing search for some time, the cost of being successful and driving optimal results from paid search continues to go up. The sophistication of the market requires constant investment.
Advertisers have several choices as to how they choose to deal with building and maintaining their programs, each with different pros and cons:
• Hire a search agency – according to Forrester Research, approximately 52% of companies elect to leverage agencies to do their paid search work, with that percentage increasing as more money is spent
• Manage in-house – this is most common in retail and travel, as well as with small and mid-sized firms
• Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) – a hybrid model by which advertisers begin with an agency, with the intention of managing risk until the program can be brought in-house in order to manage costs more effectively
The webcast will go through each model, as well as discuss the technology, skill sets, and processes needed to have a successful paid search program.
Agile marketing and best-of-suite CMS solutionsValtech
Sebastian Bode, Senior Digital Strategist at eFocus, has given a webinar for Sitecore Summer School 2015. During this webinar he discussed how to deal with the challenges of the effective use of marketing capabilities of content management systems using Agile Marketing Principles. Sitecore is used as an example, but the scope is also applicable to other integrated solutions.
Marketing automation 101 understanding marketing automation and where to get ...Mario Kyriacou
What this presentation covers:
- What is marketing automation?
- How marketing automation can improve the overall customer experience
- How automation can improve conversions and ROI
- Why automation is applicable to both B2B and B2C
- Where to get started with your own automation program
- Getting buy-in from sales and senior management
How to start the journey of Data science in your organizations. Find how to understand the business objectives, AI Frameworks, Methodologies and canvas models to help you depict business potential scenarios for justification.
The Science of Incentive Compensation Programs: The DNA of What WorksProformative, Inc.
Acquiring, retaining and motivating the right talent continues to top the list of challenges identified by CFOs and other C-Suite executives at companies of all sizes. Incentive compensation plans that miss the mark can damage any company’s profitability, and even put the future of a company at risk. Yet, despite with the availability of data to better understand the behaviors of customers and those tasked with engaging and managing them, incentive compensation design and management still often fails to get its due.
Join us as Erik Charles, Principal Incentives Strategist, Xactly explains the science of an effective incentive compensation program including the essential components of its DNA.
How to Hire the Perfect Sales Operations AnalystHireQuotient
1. Clarify Your Needs and Goals
Begin by outlining the specific responsibilities and goals for the Sales Operations Analyst within your organization.
2. Craft a Detailed Job Description
Don’t forget to include information about your company culture and the benefits of joining your team. Enhance your job posting with tools like HireQuotient's JD generator.
3.Utilize Various Recruitment Channels
Extend your search with EasySource, utilizing both your internal and external candidate pools to ensure a broad and diverse applicant base.
4. Screen for Key Competencies
EasySource's Candidate Screening Module can help automate this process, ensuring candidates meet the detailed criteria outlined in your job description.
5.Engage Top Candidates
EasySource’s Candidate Engagement Module can help automate and personalize this outreach.
6. Conduct Skill Assessments
To thoroughly evaluate a candidate’s expertise in sales operations, use EasyAssess. This tool can help assess their proficiency in managing and optimizing marketing campaigns, as well as their analytical skills.
7. Hold Targeted Interviews
Prepare interview questions that delve into the candidate’s experience with managing budgets, optimizing marketing channels, and crafting creative ad content. Possible questions include:
8.Evaluate Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
Test candidates on their ability to use data to identify issues and develop effective solutions
9.Check References
Contact previous employers to confirm the candidate's past job performance and achievements in sales operations roles.
10. Make a Competitive Offer
Propose a package that includes a competitive salary, benefits, and professional development opportunities that highlight the value they bring to your team.
11. Ensure Effective Onboarding
Introduce them to the specific tools, platforms, and strategies your company uses in its sales operations to ensure they can hit the ground running.
To read the full article, visit
https://www.hirequotient.com/how-to-hire/sales-operations-analyst
This is the second deck of three which defines a collaborative innovation reference model. In this deck we identify five areas of consideration whenever an innovation effort is considered: Strategic context, Insights, Go To Market, enabling infrastructure and systematic innovation processes.
Prepare for Marketing Automation: 5 Tips to Maximize ROIG3 Communications
View this webinar on-demand at: http://dg-r.co/AutomatedROI
Getting started with marketing automation may seem complicated, but with a little preparation, you’ll see results right away. In fact, 44% of companies achieve a positive ROI within only six months - with a 28% average overall return.
This quick start crash course will give you a 5-step strategy to prepare your organization for adopting marketing automation and help you accelerate your return on investment.
In this webinar, you'll learn:
The three “Must Dos” to get started;
Setting up your pilot lead management program;
Core competencies your team will need;
The 5-step process for creating your first automated program; and
Optimizing and maximizing results with metrics that matter.
The Impact of COVID-19 in B2B MarketingDemand Metric
In Q2 2020, we asked marketing leaders at mid-sized B2B companies in the USA abouthow the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their plans for the year.
Here’s what we found.
In 2018, Return Path and Demand Metric partnered to study the state of email marketing to equip marketers with data and best practices to improve the use of email.
Engagement is the key to getting email into subscriber inboxes. This relationship to deliverability made engagement a logical next candidate for the study. Return Path and Demand Metric partnered again to study engagement and its relationship to email deliverability.
Infographic Vidyard Video Marketing 2018Demand Metric
For far too long, the emphasis on video content marketing has been on production quality; the higher the quality, the more marketing value a video is presumed to have. While quality is certainly an important aspect of video content, producing quality video does not guarantee video content marketing success. Success is very much a function of how well video content and viewing data integrate with the marketing technology stack, and how the sales team leverages the intelligence. In this fifth annual video content marketing report, Demand Metric and Vidyard partnered on research to better understand the use of video for sales and marketing, how performance is being measured, and what impact video is having. This study’s focus is on the use of video in marketing, the maturity indicators such as measuring video content performance, and how video viewing data is integrated with marketing automation platforms (MAP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. This report shows what progress, if any, has been made in the fifth year of this study. These study results provide insights and data useful for helping marketers get the highest possible return on their video content investment.
Download the PDF: https://www.demandmetric.com/content/digital-marketing-best-practices-report
It has been said that “All Marketing is Digital Marketing.” And with good reason! In the last decade (or less), the marketing environment has been transformed.
Marketing has moved from an environment in which traditional marketing, brick and mortar storefronts and Digital Marketing options all competed for the time, attention and resources of the marketing department to one in which Digital Marketing reigns supreme – with an occasional nod in the direction of the storefront, or traditional marketing (direct mail, print advertising, etc.)
One of the biggest challenges of Digital Marketing is the speed of which it has taken over the marketing organization, often in an ad hoc, uncoordinated fashion.
Demand Metric’s research has consistently shown that Digital Marketing has a very significant and positive impact on the organizations that are employing it when they do so by following best practices and processes in a coordinated, holistic approach.
In this Best Practices Report on Digital Marketing we will cover the Digital Marketing landscape in five distinct categories - Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Video Marketing and Public Relations
Download the PDF: https://www.demandmetric.com/content/content-marketing-solution-study
Our Content Marketing Solution Study presents the insights, landscape and vendors within the content marketing space. Demand Metric defines content marketing as the strategies, processes and software technology that enable marketing departments to automate, measure and improve the performance of marketing strategies, activities and workflows.
These strategies and activities include: Email Marketing, Multi-channel Campaign Management, Inbound/Search Marketing, Landing Pages, Lead Generation, Lead Management, Lead Scoring, Lead Nurturing, Social Marketing, Marketing Resource Management, Event Management, Engagement Marketing and Marketing Analytics.
The three foundation functions of marketing automation systems are – email marketing, campaign management and lead management. While the most advanced and sophisticated marketing automation systems have extending capabilities far beyond this base, these functions are core to a Marketing Automation system.
Download the PDF: https://www.demandmetric.com/content/seo-technology-overview
SEO is no longer just about search.
In fact, SEO, which in its early days focused primarily on keywords
(finding, optimizing, ranking), is now a baseline factor of a broader Internet
Marketing strategy across the Enterprise.
This new SEO-driven market segment that has been called Web
Presence Management (WPM) is based on the reality that keywords no
longer drive search results, but rather optimized content does.
As the SEO market matures, quality measures, such as reputation, trust,
content relevance and author authority, are replacing the old quantity
metrics, such as keyword rankings and link volume.
Advanced SEO solutions now weigh campaign performance metrics
(based on brand building, site traffic and conversion) more heavily than
keyword rankings.
This reality is based on changes in the way customers search, the
increasingly integrated omni-channel marketing environment and,
most notably, changes to Google’s Search Engine Results Page (SERP)
algorithms that favor page content freshness, density and content-rich
media over standard keyword search.
All of this means that Modern Marketing Organizations (MMOs) must
re-evaluate their SEO strategies, processes and campaigns.
In this report we will examine the state of the market, share results from the
SEO Benchmark Study, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of 15 top
SEO solutions in our vendor landscape to help organizations choose the
best solution for them, highlight the current trends in SEO that will have an
impact on Enterprise SEO initiatives and provide some recommendations
for the way forward as SEO is redefined right before our eyes.
Demand Metric defines Search Engine Optimization Platforms
as those frameworks, tools and technologies that use searchrelated
functionally to secure high visibility and web presence
for brands, products, services and companies through the use
and management of elements, such as keywords, links, content
relevance and social signals tracking.
In its fourth year, this report on video marketing metrics highlights best practices including video hosting to how video viewing integrates with the sales funnel.
Formalizing the Sales Support Function How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
At the highest level, the Sales Support function is responsible for ensuring that the Sales & Marketing departments have the tools, resources, and systems they need to achieve current and future sales revenue targets.
Read this brief 2-page guide to learn:
Director of Sales Support Roles & Responsibilities
Action Plan for formalizing the sales support function
Read this report to learn how to assess your current level of effectiveness, and if necessary, hire an experienced Director of Sales Support.Download our Director of Sales Support Job Description to get started!
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
How to Launch a Mobile App Guide How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
A mobile app is a software application designed for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices that has been built on a mobile operating system such as iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows.
Mobile apps were originally developed for productivity and information retrieval. Today, over 91% of all U.S. citizens have their mobile device within reach 24/7 (Morgan Stanley). The rising use and accessibility of mobile phones has influenced many companies to enter this growing market with new and innovative use cases.
This How-To Guide discusses the benefits of creating a mobile app, things to consider before building a mobile app and an action plan to help you launch your new app.
Read this brief 5-page guide to understand the following:
Benefits of creating a mobile app
Things to consider
Action plan for launching your mobile app
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Getting Started with Agile Marketing How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
Agile Marketing is a method for planning and executing a marketing plan borrowed from the world of software development. Instead of long, “waterfall” methods of development that too often result in delayed or out-of date products launching later than planned, the Agile method follows a simple process of build, measure, and learn. Marketers all over the world are adopting this method to the extent that 2013 has been dubbed “the year of Agile Marketing".
This How-To Guide defines why Agile Marketing is important and outlines its key principles and identifies and action plan for getting started.
Read this brief 5-page guide to understand the following:
How to apply agile methods to marketing
Important terminology
How Agile Marketing is currently being used
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Entering the European Market Successfully How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
Leaving your domestic comfort zone to operate in another country or even continent requires careful planning. Expanding into new geographical markets is very exciting, but also very nerve-wracking. Any firm considering entering into international business transactions must understand that doing business abroad is not a simple task. It is stimulating and potentially profitable in the long-term but requires much preparation and research prior to the first transaction.
Europe is probably the most heterogeneous continent on our globe, making understanding market potential more challenging than in more homogeneous markets. Because of the European Union, it’s tempting to view Europe as a single market. In reality, you must consider each country as a market, because each country has a different mix of history, culture, language and business etiquette.
This How-To Guide will describe the steps required to successfully expand into the European market.
Read this 7-page guide to understand the following:
Understand market potential
Identify product-market comibinations
Identify a local partner
Launch and start selling
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Driving SEO with Press Releases How-To GuideDemand Metric
This How To Guide will explain how press releases can boost SEO efforts, how to write press releases for SEO, the pros and cons of doing so and conclude with an action plan on using press releases in your SEO efforts.
For decades, press releases were the basic building blocks of a public relations strategy. A company that wanted press coverage would write and issue a press release. The more skilled the company was at media relations, the better this strategy worked. Press releases still serve this purpose, although a new and important use of press releases has evolved as a tool for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
For companies whose websites are key to revenue generation, the SEO benefits are the primary motivation for writing and issuing press releases. If releases also produce favorable media coverage, that’s viewed as a bonus. The benefits of this SEO strategy result from the links a press release can produce back to the issuer’s website. These links are known as backlinks. The more external, authentic backlinks a website has pointing to it, the higher it ranks on a Search Engine Results Page (SERP). While this strategy is conceptually simple to grasp, executing it effectively requires some insider knowledge of both media relations and SEO.
Read this brief 8-page guide to understand the following:
How press releases boost SEO
Writing press releases for SEO
The pros and cons of a press release SEO strategy
Using press releases in your SEO efforts
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com to make a content request.
Calculating Customer Lifetime Value How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
This How-To Guide details the definition of customer lifetime value (CLV), the advantages of calculating CLV and the standard formula for calculating CLV.
Common sense tells us that the longer a customer is in relationship with a company, the more profitable that customer relationship is. However, many companies put the emphasis on new customer acquisition and not enough effort is made to retain existing customers. This is a mistake, because the financial impact of retaining customers is substantial: companies can increase profits by as much as 100% by retaining just 5% more of their customers. For these reasons, CLV is a crucial metric that most organizations overlook mainly because its definition and purpose are not entirely known. Understanding the monetary value each customer represents to your organization can help you budget correctly for your business needs, strategically plan your marketing initiatives and improve long-term relationships with your customer base.
Read this brief 4-page guide to learn about:
Customer Lifetime Value
The advantages of calculating CLV
The standard formula for calculting CLV
Use the Customer Lifetime Value Calculator to get started!
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Lead Scoring: Five Steps to Getting Started How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
This How-To Guide will help marketers score leads by showing how to set up a simple lead scoring system and then refine it over time.
Lead scoring applies mathematical formulas to rank potential customers. It is chiefly used to identify prospects that are ready for direct sales contact. Because the calculations are automatic, the scores are consistent, current, and can include more variables than any manual assessment. This saves marketers work, ensures that all qualified leads are sent to sales promptly, and keeps non-qualified leads out of the sales system.
Read this brief 11-page guide to learn about:
The case for lead scoring
Setting up a simple lead scoring system
Refinements to improve results over time
Companies that follow this process will quickly gain immediate benefits from lead scoring and have a solid foundation for future growth.
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com to make a content request.
Executive Summary
Social media are now part of every business and consumer activity, joining telephone, Web, broadcast, and face-to-face interactions as primary communication channels. This means that all marketing, sales, and service organizations should include social media as part of their basic activities. Yet social media are still new enough that many organizations are still struggling to learn how to use them, while others are learning how to use them most effectively.
This How-to-Guide provides an overview of social media applications and emerging best practices for deploying social media at your company.
Read this 9-page guide to learn:
The definition of social customer relationship management (CRM)
The main functions needed for social CRM
The vendor landscape for social CRM
Social CRM best practices
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Executive Summary
This How-To Guide will explain the components of a Marketing Resource Management (MRM) system, provide an action plan for deployment, and conclude with a plan for implementation.
Marketing Resource Management (MRM) systems control the administrative processes that support customer-facing marketing programs. This distinguishes MRM from marketing execution systems that store customer databases and deliver marketing messages through email, Web ads, and other channels. MRM may be sold independently or as a component of comprehensive marketing management systems which also provides execution.
MRM functions fall into two primary clusters. The first involves functions related to company-level marketing management, including program planning, scheduling, budgeting, and cost reporting. The other cluster relates to program management, including task lists, purchasing media and materials, and content creation, approvals, storage, and distribution. Some MRM systems specialize in a few of these functions. Others specialize in additional functions such as customizing content for local offices or dealers or in marketing reporting and analysis. Systems may also be tailored to specific industries or companies of a certain size.
Companies buy MRM systems when their marketing programs become too complicated to run in a less systematic fashion. This, along with the systems’ high cost, originally meant that MRM was used almost exclusively by large marketing organizations with hundreds of marketers in multiple offices. More recently, the growth of digital marketing has meant that even small marketing organizations need to manage many different programs and content versions across multiple channels, and to introduce new versions more quickly. This expanded complexity has rarely been accompanied by a corresponding expansion of staff, adding to the pressure for more efficient operations. At the same time, costs have decreased as MRM capabilities were added to integrated marketing suites and as stand-alone MRM products became available as vendor-hosted services (Software as a Service, or SaaS). The result has been increased use of MRM systems among companies of all sizes.
Read this 7-page guide to learn about:
The components of a Marketing Resource Management (MRM) system
An action plan to deploy an MRM system
How to implement an MRM system
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A.I. (artificial intelligence) platforms are popping up all the time, and many of them can and should be used to help grow your brand, increase your sales and decrease your marketing costs.In this presentation:We will review some of the best AI platforms that are available for you to use.We will interact with some of the platforms in real-time, so attendees can see how they work.We will also look at some current brands that are using AI to help them create marketing messages, saving them time and money in the process. Lastly, we will discuss the pros and cons of using AI in marketing & branding and have a lively conversation that includes comments from the audience.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about LLM platforms, like ChatGPT, and how they work, with preset examples and real time interactions with the platform. Attendees will learn about other AI platforms that are creating graphic design elements at the push of a button...pre-set examples and real-time interactions.Attendees will discuss the pros & cons of AI in marketing + branding and share their perspectives with one another. Attendees will learn about the cost savings and the time savings associated with using AI, should they choose to.
SEO as the Backbone of Digital MarketingFelipe Bazon
In this talk Felipe Bazon will share how him and his team at Hedgehog Digital share our journey of making C-Levels alike, specially CMOS realize that SEO is the backbone of digital marketing by showing how SEO can contribute to brand awareness, reputation and authority and above all how to use SEO to create more robust global marketing strategies.
For too many years marketing and sales have operated in silos...while in some forward thinking companies, the two organizations work together to drive new opportunity development and revenue. This session will explore the lessons learned in that beautiful dance that can occur when marketing and sales work together...to drive new opportunity development, account expansion and customer satisfaction.
No, this is not a conversation about MQLs and SQLs. Instead we will focus on a framework that allows the two organizations to drive company success together.
The session includes a brief history of the evolution of search before diving into the roles technology, content, and links play in developing a powerful SEO strategy in a world of Generative AI and social search. Discover how to optimize for TikTok searches, Google's Gemini, and Search Generative Experience while developing a powerful arsenal of tools and templates to help maximize the effectiveness of your SEO initiatives.
Key Takeaways:
Understand how search engines work
Be able to find out where your users search
Know what is required for each discipline of SEO
Feel confident creating an SEO Plan
Confidently measure SEO performance
5 big bets to drive growth in 2024 without one additional marketing dollar AND how to adapt to the biggest shifting eCommerce trend- AI.
1) Romance Your Customers - Retention
2) ‘Alternative’ Lead Gen - Advocacy
3) The Beautiful Basics - Conversion Rate Optimization
4) Land that Bottom Line - Profitability
5) Roll the Dice - New Business Models
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
Core Web Vitals SEO Workshop - improve your performance [pdf]Peter Mead
Core Web Vitals to improve your website performance for better SEO results with CWV.
CWV Topics include:
- Understanding the latest Core Web Vitals including the significance of LCP, INP and CLS + their impact on SEO
- Optimisation techniques from our experts on how to improve your CWV on platforms like WordPress and WP Engine
- The impact of user experience and SEO
10 Video Ideas Any Business Can Make RIGHT NOW!
You'll never draw a blank again on what kind of video to make for your business. Go beyond the basic categories and truly reimagine a brand new advanced way to brainstorm video content creation. During this masterclass you'll be challenged to think creatively and outside of the box and view your videos through lenses you may have never thought of previously. It's guaranteed that you'll leave with more than 10 video ideas, but I like to under-promise and over-deliver. Don't miss this session.
Key Takeaways:
How to use the Video Matrix
How to use additional "Lenses"
Where to source original video ideas
Top 3 Ways to Align Sales and Marketing Teams for Rapid GrowthDemandbase
In this session, Demandbase’s Stephanie Quinn, Sr. Director of Integrated and Digital Marketing, Devin Rosenberg, Director of Sales, and Kevin Rooney, Senior Director of Sales Development will share how sales and marketing shapes their day-to-day and what key areas are needed for true alignment.
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
How to Run Landing Page Tests On and Off Paid Social PlatformsVWO
Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring Mariate, Alexandra and Nima where we will unveil a comprehensive blueprint for crafting a successful paid media strategy focused on landing page testing.With escalating costs in paid advertising, understanding how to maximize each visitor’s experience is crucial for retention and conversion.
This session will dive into the methodologies for executing and analyzing landing page tests within paid social channels, offering a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical insights.
The Pearmill team will guide you through the nuances of setting up and managing landing page experiments on paid social platforms. You will learn about the critical rules to follow, the structure of effective tests, optimal conversion duration and budget allocation.
The session will also cover data analysis techniques and criteria for graduating landing pages.
In the second part of the webinar, Pearmill will explore the use of A/B testing platforms. Discover common pitfalls to avoid in A/B testing and gain insights into analyzing A/B tests results effectively.
It's another new era of digital and marketers are faced with making big bets on their digital strategy. If you are looking at modernizing your tech stack to support your digital evolution, there are a few can't miss (often overlooked) areas that should be part of every conversation. We'll cover setting your vision, avoiding siloes, adding a democratized approach to data strategy, localization, creating critical governance requirements and more. Attendees will walk away with actions they can take into initiatives they are running today and consider for the future.
Search Engine Marketing - Competitor and Keyword researchETMARK ACADEMY
Over 2 Trillion searches are made per day in Google search, which means there are more than 2 Trillion visits happening across the websites of the world wide web.
People search various questions, phrases or words. But some words and phrases are searched
more often than others.
For example, the words, ‘running shoes’ are searched more often than ‘best road running
shoes for men’
These words or phrases which people use to search on Google are called Keywords.
Some keywords are searched more often than others. Number of times a keyword is searched
for in a month is called keyword volume.
Some keywords have more relevant results than others. For the phrase “running shoes” we
get more than 80M relevant results, whereas for “best road running shoes for men” we get
only 8.
The former keyword ‘running shoes’ has way more competition from popular websites to
new and small blogs, whereas the latter keyword doesn’t have that much competition. This
search competition for a keyword is called search difficulty of a keyword or keyword
difficulty.
In other words, if the keyword difficulty is ‘low’ or ‘easy’, there won’t be any competition
and if you target such keywords on your site, you can easily rank on the front page of Google.
Some keywords are searched for, just to know or to learn some information about something,
that’s their search intention. For example, “What shoe size should I choose?” or “How to pick
the right shoe size?”
These keywords which are searched just to know about stuff are called informational
keywords. Typically people who are searching this type of keywords are top of a Conversion
funnel.
Conversion funnel is the journey that search visitors go through on their way to an email
subscription or a premium subscription to the services you offer or a purchase of products
you sell or recommend using your referral link.
For some buyers, research is the most important part when they have to buy a product.
Depending on that, their journey either widens or narrows down. These types of buyers are
Researchers and they spend more time with informational keywords.
Conversion is the action you want from your search visitors. Number of conversions that you
get for every 100 search visitors is called Conversion rate.
People who are at different stages of a conversion funnel use different types of keywords.
2. This marketing plan presentation is made up of seven stages. Each stage was designed to facilitate analysis,
planning, and communication of your strategic marketing plan. You will find links to additional Demand Metric
tools & templates, which can be used to:
How to use this template:
Help you better understand and execute each component of a strategic marketing plan
Facilitate deep analysis of your business to support your recommendations
Give you more confidence when presenting to senior-level stakeholders
Leverage the same tools & templates that our consultants use when doing consulting engagements
3. Enter your vision statement here.
If you don’t have a vision statement, use Demand Metric’s Vision Statement Worksheet to create one:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/vision-statement-worksheet
MARKETING PLAN
Budget
Technology
Content
Strategy
Objectives
Situation
4. MARKETING PLAN
Enter your core values here (see example below):
• Social Accountability
• Candor
• Results-Oriented
• Equal Opportunity
• Transparency
If you don’t have core values, use Demand Metric’s Core Values Worksheet to create one:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/core-values-worksheet
Budget
Technology
Content
Strategy
Objectives
Situation
5. Statistics
If you don’t have metrics collected, use Demand Metric’s Key Marketing Metrics Dashboard to start tracking them:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/key-marketing-metrics-dashboard
MARKETING PLAN
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
Strategy
Objectives
6. MARKETING PLAN
Enter your customer analysis here. You may wish to
include information regarding the number of total
accounts, lifetime value, satisfaction, retention rates, etc.
Following are a few Demand Metric tools to help you with customer analysis:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/customer-engagement-metrics-dashboard
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/customer-profile-template
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/customer-journey-map-template
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/customer-satisfaction-index-calculator
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/customer-lifetime-value-calculator
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
Strategy
Objectives
7. MARKETING PLAN
Analysis Social Technological Economic Political
Trends
Conditions
Implications
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
Strategy
Objectives
8. MARKETING PLAN
Strengths Weaknesses
• Describe your key strengths as a business
including your core capabilities.
• Outline any weaknesses that are currently holding
you back from achieving better results.
Opportunities Threats
• Based on your strengths, outline any new
opportunities that your organization is poised
to take advantage of.
• Document the key risks your organization is currently
facing.
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
Strategy
Objectives
9. MARKETING PLAN
Use Demand Metric’s Competitive Analysis Tool to analyze your competitive position:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/competitive-analysis-tool
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
Strategy
Objectives
11. MARKETING PLAN
Objective #1 – Generate Enough Leads to Hit Revenue Growth Target
Programs, Initiatives and Actions KPIs and Metrics Target Timeframes
• Enter programs here • Enter KPIs here • Goal timeframes here
Objective #2 – Implement New Marketing Technology Infrastructure
Programs, Initiatives and Actions KPIs and Metrics Target Timeframes
• Enter programs here • Enter KPIs here • Goal timeframes here
Objective #3 – Launch New Product
Programs, Initiatives and Actions KPIs and Metrics Target Timeframes
• Enter programs here • Enter KPIs here • Goal timeframes here
Situation
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
Strategy
12. Use Demand Metric’s Market Segment Analysis Tool to analyze and segment your key markets:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/market-segmentation-and-analysis-tool
Company Size (Revenue)
Key Market Segments Market Segment Sizes
100M+ Revenue 5-100M Revenue 0-5M Revenue
InternationalMarkets
Canada
North America Corporate
Small Business
Small Business
928,247 small businesses in
USA, Canada & Australia
UnitedStates
North America Corporate
1,420,996 mid-sized and large
corporations in USA & Canada
Australia
Australia Corporate Australia Corporate
79,890 mid-sized and large
corporations in Australia
Objectives
Situation
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
MARKETING PLAN
13. Demographics (who they are)
Annual Revenue $100M - $500M
# Employees 250-1,000
Industry B2B (healthcare, finance, insurance, tech, manufacturing, pharma)
Psychographics (how they think)
Culture Open to new ideas and change, flexible and agile in their approach
Growth Orientation Focused on growth and testing new ideas that produce increased results
Technology Adoption Profile Early adopters of new technologies
Behavioral (how they act)
Engagement Conduct research and consume lots of content from various sources before making decisions
Buying Process Team-based, typically initiated by one department, then moves to a cross-functional team
Environment (their situation)
Technology Landscape Have implemented Salesforce and a marketing automation platform (Pardot, Oracle, Hubspot, etc.)
Geographic Location Based in USA, Canada, UK, ANZ, or Western Europe
Alignment with I/T I/T is supportive but allows for solutions to be tested in departments with minimal oversight
Objectives
Situation
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
MARKETING PLAN
14. Business Buyer Persona
Age 28
Income $45,000/year
Experience 5 years in Marketing
Education University or College Degree in Business
Decision-Making Make decisions quickly
Likes & Dislikes
Like being active and busy, dislike pushy
salespeople and complex software
Media
Read online daily, have far too many email
newsletter subscriptions
Habits & Skills
Excellent project manager and skilled at working
with outside agencies
Research
Typically get information from reading reviews
onilne or talking to peers
Technology
Skills
Uses Microsoft Office but I/T manager makes it
difficult to buy new software
Buying Power Has sign-off authority for under $1,000
Purchasing
Process
Reviews products, discusses with team and
makes purchase with credit card
Technical Buyer Persona
Age 36
Income $75,000 per year
Experience 10 years in Information Technology
Education University Degree in Computer Science
Decision-Making Doesn't like to make decisions quickly
Likes & Dislikes Dislikes end users who violate security policies
Media
Online forums with techies, virtual conferences,
technology analyst reports
Habits & Skills
Very organized and tech savvy, not the best
communicator
Research
Posts questions on forums, reads whitepapers,
contacts reference clients
Technology
Skills
Runs the datacenter and network for the business
Buying Power Can authorize purchases up to $5,000
Purchasing
Process
Identifies trends, researches solutions,
requirements, vendors demos, contracts
Objectives
Situation
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
MARKETING PLAN
15. For: Product is: Ideal for: Better than: Because:
KeyCriteria
Identify ideal market
segment.
Provide concise
description.
Describe best use or
application for
product.
Identify primary
competitor or
competing approach.
Cite differentiation
and other evidence to
back up your claim of
superiority.
OurProduct
Use Demand Metric’s Positioning Statement Worksheet to help you craft your statement:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/positioning-statement-worksheet
Objectives
Situation
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
MARKETING PLAN
16. Use Demand Metric’s Pricing Strategy Template to determine your approach to pricing:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/pricing-strategy-template
Economy Penetration
Skimming Premium
Objectives
Situation
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
MARKETING PLAN
17. Use Demand Metric’s Customer Journey Map to document your typical customer journey:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/customer-journey-map-template
Objectives
Situation
Strategy
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
MARKETING PLAN
18. Use Demand Metric’s Buying Process Stage Template to align your buying/sales process:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/buying-process-stage-template
Buyer Stage Need Discovery Consideration Decision Advocacy
Description
Identification of problem
or business opportunity
Search for solutions to
problems/opportunities
Assess alternatives and
gather info on solutions
Goal is to purchase the
product/service that
satisfies the need
Did the purchase
accomplish its objectives?
Action
Buyer becomes aware
of a problem or
opportunity
Buyer finds our solution
and competitive solutions
Buyer evaluates solutions
& enters into “trials”
Buyer must make
decision to purchase a
solution
Buyer reviews product or
service and becomes a
product/service enthusiast
Questions
Do I need this? What
are my requirements?
What differentiates you
from your competitors?
Is this solution easy to
use? How long will it
take?
How can I prove a Return
on Investment?
Is the solution providing
value?
Duration 1 Day 30 Days 30 Days 15 Days On-Going
Influencers Thought Leaders, Blogs
Thought leaders, review
sites, customers,
competitors
Customer service,
Marketing
IT, Marketing, Sales
Customers, Internal
departments
Seller Action Provoke Educate Explain Reassure Renew
Content
Build "need" into key
messaging. Write
problem and solution
blog posts.
Infographics
Blog Posts
Viral Videos
Analyst Reports
eBooks
Webinars
Case Studies
Demo Videos
Pricing Sheets
ROI Calculators
Business Cases
Testimonials
Satisfaction Survey
New Releases
Contests
Sales Process Prospecting Qualification Demo Proposal Contract
Objectives
Situation
Strategy
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
MARKETING PLAN
19. Use Demand Metric’s Marketing Calendar Template to build your content calendar:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/marketing-calendar-template-2017
Objectives
Situation
Strategy
Aspiration
Budget
Technology
Content
MARKETING PLAN
20. ATTRACT ENGAGE CONVERT TRANSACT
CUSTOMER
SUCCESS
Online Advertising
& SEO
Social Media &
PR
Predictive
Analytics
Website, Blog &
Chat
Content & Landing
Pages
Video
A/B Testing, UX
Marketing
Automation
CRM & Data
Enrichment
Sales
Enablement
Webinar/
Screenshare
Proposal/CPQ
Customer Support
Customer
Advocacy
Online Community
Use Demand Metric’s Marketing Technology Research to learn more about technology solutions:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/technology-research-learn-about-key-marketing-technologies
Objectives
Situation
Strategy
Aspiration
Content
Budget
Technology
MARKETING PLAN
21. Budget
Objectives
Situation
Strategy
Aspiration
Use Demand Metric’s Marketing Budget Template to build your budget:
https://www.demandmetric.com/content/marketing-budget-template
Budget Categories
Total
Budget
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Software $85,000 $15,000 $15,000 $15,000 $15,000 $1,000
Public Relations $35,500 $500 $20,000 $100 $50 $20 $25 $50 $75
Advertising (print) $12,000 $300 $600 $200 $40
Advertising (online) $60,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000
Content Production $36,000 $500 $30,000 $500 $1,500 $1,000 $500
Events $180,000 $20,000 $40,000 $1,000 $500
Agency Fees $240,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000
Contact Lists $36,000 $12,000 $2,000 $300
General Admin $15,000 $50 $340 $2,000 $400 $200 $50 $200 $20
Consulting $25,000 $0 $10,000 $5,000 $1,000 $10,000
Totals $724,500 $73,350 $140,340 $49,600 $42,200 $25,550 $26,570 $26,240 $36,025 $25,070 $25,575 $26,500 $20,000
Technology
Content
MARKETING PLAN