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![Where should different ”plays” live?
Learn
Define Needs
Assess Options
Negotiation
Sign
Defer
Action
• MAP Nurturing/Nurture
Waterfall
• Lead identification
• [A Content/Spark]
• Inbound thought leadership
and how to do X
• Nurturing/MAP > MQL
• [A content/Spark]
• Thought provoking leadership
• SQL and Opp Plays
• [Teaching, case studies, B
Content]
• Opp to Won
• Won/Onboarding
• [Teaching, confirmation of
capability, C content]
• Plays based on Stage and
Persona
• Gather the right buying team
• ROI calculators
• [Frame Breaking]
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Marketo User Groups: Account-Based Marketing (Silicon Valley)
The document discusses Account-Based Marketing (ABM) as a strategic approach focused on enterprise account penetration and customer development. It outlines the roles and goals for both marketing and sales teams, emphasizing the importance of relationship-building and tailored interactions with targeted accounts. Additionally, it explores operationalizing ABM practices, necessary tools, metrics for success, and the essential workflow for effective engagement with customer personas.
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Marketo User Groups: Account-Based Marketing (Silicon Valley)
- 1. ACCOUNT BASED MARKETING OPERATIONS Makingsense of a new approach… Josh Hill MarketingRockstarGuides.com Silicon Valley Marketo User Group March 10, 2017
- 2. Is an Accountapproach a strategy or tactic? Strategy You only care about Enterprise Account penetration. Customer Development for Product-Market-Fit Tiered Segmentation of Accounts in your Go To Market Plan Everyone thinks in “Accounts” – Assembling the Buying team Tactic High volume SaaS firm with “Physical” touches Only one Relationship Team handles the top tier Enterprise Accounts You use the term “Target Accounts” © 2016-17 Josh Hill marketingrockstarguides.com
- 3. IT’S ABOUT THEWORKFLOW Division of labor and how to set it up.
- 4. Did roles andgoals for marketing and sales shift? Marketing Goals • Acquire account data and Structure • Build up Persona data within Accounts • Keep Accounts Aware • Engage Accounts • Provide Sales with full covered, engaged accounts based on agreed data points. • Provide better personalization based on data (you should have done this anyway). Sales Goals • Take MQL and MQAs seriously. • Consider your cold call/email approach carefully. • Account Based Sales is highly relational and solution based. Know your product, personas, and solution area. • Use cold calling to supplement Coverage. Please do not use it to spray and pray. (Marketing’s tried this, it’s not cool anymore).
- 5. Do you needa Tiger Team? Adjusting to an ABM lifestyle Demand Gen SDRs Account Execs Customer Success Typical workflow and division of labor ABM is different Relationship Leader Account Marketer Account SDR Account Closer Acct Content Creator Technical Sales Customer Success • Overall messaging • Events • Qualification • Manual matching • Play deployment • Coordinate personas • Close • Lead people to Insight • New messaging • Persona messaging • Nurturing • Play copywriting • Trusted consultant and expert (could merge with Closer) • Onboarding • Ongoing key relationship • But ideally Closer still involved • Requests upsell content © 2016 Josh Hill marketingrockstarguides.com
- 6. Both sides ofthe team have plays and goals Learn Define Needs Assess Options Negotiation Sign © 2016 Josh Hill marketingrockstarguides.com MQL Goal of Play Email every X days; story content Play Cadence SAL Day 0: Call Day 1: send email: Day 4: send email 2 Day 5: call, vm SQL Day 0: call; Day 3: send content X: Day 5: AE mgr email; etc.. Opp Day 0: group call invite; Day 3; call; Day 4: email case study, etc.. Won Day 0: welcome email & call; Day 1, Day 2, Day 5…. Owner Marketing/MAP Marketing or SDR AE/Sales AE/Sales AE/Customer Success Stage
- 7. Let’s look atyour customer’s viewpoint of the funnel Learn Define Needs Assess Options Negotiation Sign Defer Action • Website • SEO • SEM • Syndication • MAP • Real Time Personalization • Data Enrichment • Lead management • Nurturing • Predictive/Scoring • CRM • Sales Workflow checklists • CPQ • Phone • CRM • CPQ • Finance • Lead 2 Account/ABM • Talk Tracks • Persona Matching • CRM • Sales Enablement © 2016 Josh Hill marketingrockstarguides.com Systems
- 8. Where should different”plays” live? Learn Define Needs Assess Options Negotiation Sign Defer Action • MAP Nurturing/Nurture Waterfall • Lead identification • [A Content/Spark] • Inbound thought leadership and how to do X • Nurturing/MAP > MQL • [A content/Spark] • Thought provoking leadership • SQL and Opp Plays • [Teaching, case studies, B Content] • Opp to Won • Won/Onboarding • [Teaching, confirmation of capability, C content] • Plays based on Stage and Persona • Gather the right buying team • ROI calculators • [Frame Breaking] © 2016 Josh Hill marketingrockstarguides.com Content
- 9. Using the Playor Nurture Waterfall Goal: get in touch with a key Persona at the Account Goal: reach Mobilizers, engage in Collective Learning with Buying Group Goal: find the next Persona or agree to next steps Goal: confirm this person will help you.
- 10. OPERATIONALIZATION What happens inyour MAP (Marketo, Eloqua, etc. ?)
- 11. You are alreadydoing the basics… © 2016 Josh Hill marketingrockstarguides.com
- 12. …with the toolsyou may already have. © 2016 Josh Hill marketingrockstarguides.com
- 13. Are your systemsABM-ready? Demographics Contact Info Territory Assignments Permission Recency Prepared DB © 2016 Josh Hill marketingrockstarguides.com
- 14. Segment before bringingin tools Account Persona (Segmentation) Buyer Persona 1 (Segment) Buyer Persona 2 (Segment) Technology SaaS Startup Marketing Manager Marketing Director Manufacturing Multinational Marketing Operations BU Level Marketing Director #ABMMatrix AccountPersona Purchase Stage © 2016 Josh Hill marketingrockstarguides.com
- 15. Now you haveto do Lead to Account Matching Enrichment Process © 2016 Josh Hill marketingrockstarguides.com
- 16. ABM Metrics andhow to pull them Coverage Are they aware? Do they engage? • Smart Lists • Lead Perf+Smart List • Smart List Columns • SFDC Dashboards • Visits+Smart List • Web Analytics • Form Fill Outs • Program Success • RCA Reports • Time Spent/Engaged with Assets © 2016 Josh Hill marketingrockstarguides.com
- 17. Managing “coverage” © 2016Josh Hill marketingrockstarguides.com VP Buyer 2 Supporter 2 Coverage is the percentage of Buyer Personas at an Account for which you have Known and Good contact information for. The number of Accounts which have higher than 50% coverage should be a key metric for marketing. Sales notices when they cannot find the “right” people, so stay aligned on this metric.
- 18. Page 18 #MKTGNATION Coverage:Lead Performance & Smart Lists Choose Group By and Lead Created Range Get sub-counts by ABM Persona Custom Columns are your friend.
- 19. Page 19 #MKTGNATION Awareness:Company Web Report Constrain by Page and/or PersonaChoose the date Range Known Leads (Smart Lists) Anonymous Non ISPs – get an idea of how many people visit from Company A
- 20. Engagement and Scoring BehaviorTime Score Whitepaper download 15 minutes Visit Pages on Website 1 or 2 minutes Register for Event 1 minute Attend Event 3 hours Instead of points, weight behaviors based on estimated time spent. Not entirely a replacement for matching behaviors+demographics to Accounts most likely to close or go to Open Opp.
- 21. Page 21 #MKTGNATION Engagement:Email performance, etc. Engagement by Persona? Totally possible. Choose the Range of Emails Date of Activity Use your ABM segments here along with Was Sent Email
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Editor's Notes
- #2 © 2016 Josh Hill
- #3 However you define the top logos, accounts, Tier 1 vs. Tier 2 larger firms you go after.
- #5 Is this any different than before? Not really, but its viewpoint is a bit higher up
- #6 This is mostly if you are carving out a separate team. The enterprise or ABM account team is together, with ONE coach monitoring the end to end process. It can look different, but the alignment is complete here because it is one team. Since ABM arrived (again), I've advocated assigning an ABM manager to sit with the ABM SDR and AE team. They should act as a key coach on messaging and building out journeys or "plays". Sales often has great ideas, but needs the discipline to refine the steps and operationalize it. A very tight understanding is needed with sales managers. The most successful are likely marketers who were former salespeople. If you have loads of budget, hire a special direct response copywriter. Again, this is about Strategy. There needs to be a total shift in mindset that ABM is a long term game for most B2B companies. This isn't about transactional prospecting SDR emails that everyone makes fun of, but still do. This is about solving real problems at companies and doing the dance to prove you are the right choice for each other. The strategy has to recognize that automated lead nurturing goes to a point - usually MQL or until Contact is made. Then ABM plays take over. There isn't just one play, there are dozens for each stage of the lifecycle, including Won/Customer. What are some challenges with ABM that marketers are facing today? The need for sales-marketing alignment is not the same as it was 6 or 7 years ago. Marketers are struggling to understand the systems and strategies actually require a change to workflow and team organization. I would argue most firms that sell to "Target Accounts" need a special ABM team that's less about the lead funnel and more about the skills.
- #7 Use an existing set of plays that top sales people at your firm use; if you’ve developed an SDR or BDR track, break them up into specific plays aimed at buying stage and persona.
- #8 Tools on your end that can help the customer reach your B conclusion faster and keep Sales focused on Mobilizers. Now funnel isn’t the ideal, I know about the crazy journey graphic, but the general idea, even for someone narrowing down 5 solutions to 1 would look like this.
- #9 Think of content in these stages, not your stages. I know you’ve seen the content matrix among other frameworks.
- #10 You could structure this content to run pre MQL or during MQL. If you prefer the MAP to stop and let Plays take over, make this hand off well defined. You may want to even shift MQLs or SQLs to a once a month cadence that operates in the background. You can also adapt this to the Play Waterfall
- #13 Plan out your ABM strategy first. You can do at least 50% or more with what you have right now. Your tools should always match your strategy, not the other way around.
- #14 Data quality matters even more Email reputation is key Marketable – can you segment them? Have contact info? Permission - can you email them? Do you have the right people or do you need to find them? Lead Ownership and Territory Management must be pristine The Content – Segment Matrix https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/670399/call_chat_mobile_phone_talk_telephone_viber_icon#size=128 https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/370079/data_info_information_icon#size=128 https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/309041/group_people_users_icon#size=128 Ivan Boyko https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/299096/calendar_clock_icon#size=128
- #15 Prioritze - any scoring model – likely to buy, preferred targets; has activity.
- #16 Lots of tools and datasets can help you do this.
- #18 Another thing to note here – what % of that coverage is coming from Purchases, Sales Research (like LinkedIn), and Marketing Work (inbound, etc)
- #19 Can do the same with Lead Performance and Custom Columns!
- #20 Alert Sales with weekly updates by Territory. I’ve been telling people for YEARS to do this, but only with ABM is it a priority. https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Company+Web+Activity+Report
- #22 Can do the same with Lead Performance and Custom Columns! Other options include Engagement Stream Performance and Sales Email Performance