In London on 15th September 2015 we assembled a first rate panel of speakers to address CRM and marketing automation. Simon Daniels from Hanson Wade gave a case study presentation detailing the three lessons learned about marketing automation, and Richard Young introduced the utilisation of content in sales and marketing alignment.
A Welcome Nurture Campaign should be the foundation for all B2B lead nurture programs. At Bislr, I created the following "Playbook" for creating a next-generation, multi-channel Welcome Nurture to:
- Drive engagement with new leads
- Further qualify leads and provide basis for lead scoring
- Learn more about a prospect's motivation and needs
- Enable prospects to learn more about our company and products
- Ensure that "no lead gets left behind"
Expert Tips and Tricks: Your Account-Based Marketing Questions AnsweredMarketo
Effective account-based marketing (ABM) can drive higher revenue deals, increase win rates, and shorten sales cycles. However, the road from planning to implementation can be filled with unseen obstacles that can derail your best-laid plans. View this slide deck the learn how ABM Expert, Craig Rosenberg, designs his ABM strategy.
Do you know the most effective elements of your paid social campaigns?
Do you know how to identify opportunities for improvement?
Whether you’re just launching campaigns or a seasoned PPC professional, this webinar will help you invest wisely and win in your market.
Watch this Webinar to learn the critical components of a successful ad campaign and start implementing them tomorrow.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
• How to effectively target your audience.
• How to choose the proper channels and campaign types for your goals.
• How to design compelling ad creatives and landing pages that convert.
Often, poorly formulated tactics lead to low-quality traffic and can negatively affect conversions.
Join us as Amy Bishop, owner and marketing consultant at Cultivative Marketing (and Paid Media Writer for Search Engine Journal), explains the essential elements you need to know about building effective paid social media campaigns.
Driving Enrollment Quality with Multi-Channel MarketingLinkedIn
Michael McEuen, Director of Marketing at AdStage discuss the paid marketing acquisition landscape, covering topics such as re-targeting, cross-channel measurement, and paid social strategies that work for higher ed.
A Welcome Nurture Campaign should be the foundation for all B2B lead nurture programs. At Bislr, I created the following "Playbook" for creating a next-generation, multi-channel Welcome Nurture to:
- Drive engagement with new leads
- Further qualify leads and provide basis for lead scoring
- Learn more about a prospect's motivation and needs
- Enable prospects to learn more about our company and products
- Ensure that "no lead gets left behind"
Expert Tips and Tricks: Your Account-Based Marketing Questions AnsweredMarketo
Effective account-based marketing (ABM) can drive higher revenue deals, increase win rates, and shorten sales cycles. However, the road from planning to implementation can be filled with unseen obstacles that can derail your best-laid plans. View this slide deck the learn how ABM Expert, Craig Rosenberg, designs his ABM strategy.
Do you know the most effective elements of your paid social campaigns?
Do you know how to identify opportunities for improvement?
Whether you’re just launching campaigns or a seasoned PPC professional, this webinar will help you invest wisely and win in your market.
Watch this Webinar to learn the critical components of a successful ad campaign and start implementing them tomorrow.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
• How to effectively target your audience.
• How to choose the proper channels and campaign types for your goals.
• How to design compelling ad creatives and landing pages that convert.
Often, poorly formulated tactics lead to low-quality traffic and can negatively affect conversions.
Join us as Amy Bishop, owner and marketing consultant at Cultivative Marketing (and Paid Media Writer for Search Engine Journal), explains the essential elements you need to know about building effective paid social media campaigns.
Driving Enrollment Quality with Multi-Channel MarketingLinkedIn
Michael McEuen, Director of Marketing at AdStage discuss the paid marketing acquisition landscape, covering topics such as re-targeting, cross-channel measurement, and paid social strategies that work for higher ed.
You can't deny the importance of marketing these days, especially in the digital realm. Unfortunately, your business may have reached a bottleneck. Whether you lack the manpower, time or budget to implement effective marketing, you've reached a crossroads: Should you hire in-house talent or outsource the bulk of your marketing to an agency? Here, we list the pros and cons of each option.
David Cancel's presentation slides from the 2017 Revenue Summit conference. Look back 5-10 years ago, and sales and marketing teams were all focused on this same thing: Attracting website visitors. Back then, everyone was asking questions like…How do I rank higher in search? How frequently should I be posting on social media sites? How long should my emails subject line be?
Some people are still asking these questions today, but for the most part these are questions that we’ve already found the answers to.People have figured out how to attract attention and get awareness and get people to their websites, thanks in part to all of the technology that’s been developed: marketing automation software, social media management software, blogging software with built-in SEO tools, and the list goes on.
That was the first wave in sales and marketing.
Now it’s time to move on to the next wave.
Marketing Automation replaces high-touch, repetitive manual processes with automated ones; bringing forth a world of pre-defined sequences, triggers, actions and behaviors that start in social, web or email.
Putting Personalization To Work In B2B: How Brands Are Building Contextual Cu...G3 Communications
We are all human and we are all unique. Why do brands treat us as giant cohorts when that is not how we want to interact? Personalization and context are becoming the key battleground for customer experience. In this session, professor and practitioner Jeff Marcoux, will highlight how B2B brands are moving beyond basic tailoring of emails and landing pages, to build truly customized paths for different buyers from first touch to close.
CASE STUDY: How Pega used the changing B2B buyer journey and persona's to tra...B2B Marketing
B2B SUMMIT 2014 - CASE STUDY: How Pega used the changing B2B buyer journey and persona's to transform the way we engage with our customers and prospects.
Lead nurturing is not a new concept for marketers, but the tactics and benchmarks associated with lead nurturing are quickly evolving.
View this webinar to hear Jon Miller, VP and Co-Founder of Marketo, and Corinne Sklar, CMO and Digital Marketing Practice Lead of Bluewolf, discuss best practices for executing and measuring lead nurturing programs. Based upon recent research conducted by Demand Gen Report , attendees will gain insights into the benchmarks their nurturing efforts should be tracking against.
View the ondemand webcast to learn:
Effective database segmentation
The importance of clean data
Tactics to balance content vs. sales efforts
Best practices for personalizing email content
When to move someone from one nurture program to another
How much email is too much
Sales and Marketing 3.0: The High Velocity ModelGGV Capital
This deck looks at the evolution of the next model in enterprise sales and marketing: the high velocity organization. See how high velocity teams use technology, data and automation to align sales and marketing and drive faster leads and conversions.
Marketing Planning for Able Power & Other SMEs and StartupsKlaxon
Marketing and communications planning workshop created for TAGTribe's SME 2.0 event in London on August 3rd 2011. Workshop cetnred around Able Power - an energy Brokerage Firm in London and was jointly run by Klaxon Marketing and Citigate Dewe Rogerson.
What are the newest innovations driving B2B marketing? Our analysts and marketing strategists have identified seven emerging trends that are propelling savvy marketers in 2017.
Best Practices in Business Development Success Magic Logix
It’s no secret that in today’s world, to achieve success, companies need to apply a variety of business development strategies. That’s because it is essential for enterprises to stay current, as their competitors may already utilize many of these strategies to increase their revenue and market share.
But these strategies are numerous, and not all of them may be effective.
10 B2B Masters Reveal Their Storytelling SecretsLinkedIn
It’s not businesses but the people within businesses who make buying decisions. B2B decision makers, like all consumers, decide with emotion and then justify their decisions with logic. And there’s no better way to connect with human emotions than a compelling story.
That's why we have compiled and published a new eBook, 10 B2B Masters Reveal Storytelling Secrets, to help marketers like you create content that stands out and inspires action by tapping into the human element. You’ll learn marketing humanization tactics, inspiring brand examples and storytelling tips from the following B2B marketing experts:
Jay Baer
Beth Comstock
Jason Miller
Jonah Sachs
David Raab
Bryan Eisenberg
Bryan Kramer
Lee Odden
Tim Washer
DJ Waldow
We sincerely hope you enjoy reading the excellent insights from these thought leaders as much as we enjoyed receiving them. Have your own storytelling tips to share? Tweet us http://www.twitter.com/LinkedInMktg
Millennials & Influencer Marketing: How To Organize & Optimize For B2BG3 Communications
Not only are Millennial-aged professionals more trusting of social influencers when making purchase decisions, they’re also more likely to participate as influential content creators. B2B brands that can master working with internal and external Millennial talent to co-create content and engage on social channels will reap rewards now and into the future.
This presentation by Lee Odden of TopRank Marketing and Alexandra Rynne of LinkedIn Marketing Solutions will help B2B marketers understand the influencer marketing opportunity with Millennials in multiple ways, including:
-Understanding influencer engagement models from seasoned “brandividuals” to rising star Millennials;
-Busting myths about working with Millennials and how B2B brands can create win/win relationships; and
-Learning from examples of B2B influencer content in action.
Masterclass: Advanced Strategies on LinkedIn LinkedIn
You’ve launched campaigns, A/B tested, and know LinkedIn best practices….
Now it's time to take your LinkedIn campaigns to the
next level. Learn how with the help of this deck from our Masterclass series!
You can't deny the importance of marketing these days, especially in the digital realm. Unfortunately, your business may have reached a bottleneck. Whether you lack the manpower, time or budget to implement effective marketing, you've reached a crossroads: Should you hire in-house talent or outsource the bulk of your marketing to an agency? Here, we list the pros and cons of each option.
David Cancel's presentation slides from the 2017 Revenue Summit conference. Look back 5-10 years ago, and sales and marketing teams were all focused on this same thing: Attracting website visitors. Back then, everyone was asking questions like…How do I rank higher in search? How frequently should I be posting on social media sites? How long should my emails subject line be?
Some people are still asking these questions today, but for the most part these are questions that we’ve already found the answers to.People have figured out how to attract attention and get awareness and get people to their websites, thanks in part to all of the technology that’s been developed: marketing automation software, social media management software, blogging software with built-in SEO tools, and the list goes on.
That was the first wave in sales and marketing.
Now it’s time to move on to the next wave.
Marketing Automation replaces high-touch, repetitive manual processes with automated ones; bringing forth a world of pre-defined sequences, triggers, actions and behaviors that start in social, web or email.
Putting Personalization To Work In B2B: How Brands Are Building Contextual Cu...G3 Communications
We are all human and we are all unique. Why do brands treat us as giant cohorts when that is not how we want to interact? Personalization and context are becoming the key battleground for customer experience. In this session, professor and practitioner Jeff Marcoux, will highlight how B2B brands are moving beyond basic tailoring of emails and landing pages, to build truly customized paths for different buyers from first touch to close.
CASE STUDY: How Pega used the changing B2B buyer journey and persona's to tra...B2B Marketing
B2B SUMMIT 2014 - CASE STUDY: How Pega used the changing B2B buyer journey and persona's to transform the way we engage with our customers and prospects.
Lead nurturing is not a new concept for marketers, but the tactics and benchmarks associated with lead nurturing are quickly evolving.
View this webinar to hear Jon Miller, VP and Co-Founder of Marketo, and Corinne Sklar, CMO and Digital Marketing Practice Lead of Bluewolf, discuss best practices for executing and measuring lead nurturing programs. Based upon recent research conducted by Demand Gen Report , attendees will gain insights into the benchmarks their nurturing efforts should be tracking against.
View the ondemand webcast to learn:
Effective database segmentation
The importance of clean data
Tactics to balance content vs. sales efforts
Best practices for personalizing email content
When to move someone from one nurture program to another
How much email is too much
Sales and Marketing 3.0: The High Velocity ModelGGV Capital
This deck looks at the evolution of the next model in enterprise sales and marketing: the high velocity organization. See how high velocity teams use technology, data and automation to align sales and marketing and drive faster leads and conversions.
Marketing Planning for Able Power & Other SMEs and StartupsKlaxon
Marketing and communications planning workshop created for TAGTribe's SME 2.0 event in London on August 3rd 2011. Workshop cetnred around Able Power - an energy Brokerage Firm in London and was jointly run by Klaxon Marketing and Citigate Dewe Rogerson.
What are the newest innovations driving B2B marketing? Our analysts and marketing strategists have identified seven emerging trends that are propelling savvy marketers in 2017.
Best Practices in Business Development Success Magic Logix
It’s no secret that in today’s world, to achieve success, companies need to apply a variety of business development strategies. That’s because it is essential for enterprises to stay current, as their competitors may already utilize many of these strategies to increase their revenue and market share.
But these strategies are numerous, and not all of them may be effective.
10 B2B Masters Reveal Their Storytelling SecretsLinkedIn
It’s not businesses but the people within businesses who make buying decisions. B2B decision makers, like all consumers, decide with emotion and then justify their decisions with logic. And there’s no better way to connect with human emotions than a compelling story.
That's why we have compiled and published a new eBook, 10 B2B Masters Reveal Storytelling Secrets, to help marketers like you create content that stands out and inspires action by tapping into the human element. You’ll learn marketing humanization tactics, inspiring brand examples and storytelling tips from the following B2B marketing experts:
Jay Baer
Beth Comstock
Jason Miller
Jonah Sachs
David Raab
Bryan Eisenberg
Bryan Kramer
Lee Odden
Tim Washer
DJ Waldow
We sincerely hope you enjoy reading the excellent insights from these thought leaders as much as we enjoyed receiving them. Have your own storytelling tips to share? Tweet us http://www.twitter.com/LinkedInMktg
Millennials & Influencer Marketing: How To Organize & Optimize For B2BG3 Communications
Not only are Millennial-aged professionals more trusting of social influencers when making purchase decisions, they’re also more likely to participate as influential content creators. B2B brands that can master working with internal and external Millennial talent to co-create content and engage on social channels will reap rewards now and into the future.
This presentation by Lee Odden of TopRank Marketing and Alexandra Rynne of LinkedIn Marketing Solutions will help B2B marketers understand the influencer marketing opportunity with Millennials in multiple ways, including:
-Understanding influencer engagement models from seasoned “brandividuals” to rising star Millennials;
-Busting myths about working with Millennials and how B2B brands can create win/win relationships; and
-Learning from examples of B2B influencer content in action.
Masterclass: Advanced Strategies on LinkedIn LinkedIn
You’ve launched campaigns, A/B tested, and know LinkedIn best practices….
Now it's time to take your LinkedIn campaigns to the
next level. Learn how with the help of this deck from our Masterclass series!
CRM & Marketing Automation | Sales & Marketing AlignmentRichard Young
In a recent presentation at the #Techmap event I presented on Sales & Marketing alignment and how CRM and Marketing Automation can help with this process.
Slides from Northern California Business Marketing Association January 28th 2015 Meeting.
Panel discussion: How Stories Can Boost Your Marketing Success
Laura Ramos, VP/Principal Analyst, Forrester - Moderator
Clay Hausmann, Principal, Treatment
Jeff Paris, SVP, Group Creative Director, MRM // McCann
An effective MarTech stack can help you execute, evaluate and expand marketing efforts across the entire customer lifecycle. Listen in to this webinar to how to optimize your MarTech stack.
Crawl, Walk, Run with Account-Based MarketingSangram Vajre
How do you get started with account-based marketing, then fully execute ABM at scale? In this webinar, Sangram Vajre from Terminus teamed up with Dialpad, LookBook HQ, and Lattice Engines to discuss the steps for successful ABM campaigns.
Portland Small Business Salesforce Salon Presentation deckIdealist Consulting
Follow Fred Armisen of Portlandia through his customer journey from lead to prospect to client, through the lense of Salesforce tools Pardot, Sales Cloud, and Communities. This was presented at a live event for the Portland Small Business community 3/19/15.
Digital Marketing and Lead Generation for Startups. Focused on online lead generation, but also covering Outbound lead generation processes. Covers identifying target buyers; value proposition; website design for lead generation; content marketing; paid online ads; Search Engine Optimization, email marketing, social media marketing. Describes key steps in Outbound lead generation too - prospecting, prospecting tools, initial email contacts, follow-up and conversion.
Durring this session at MarTech West 2019, Mediacurrent's Director of Marketing Adam Kirby shares his approach to transitioning a 2K person SaaS organization from almost no KPIs to a multi-touch attribution model supported by sales, marketing, and the technology departments. You'll learn from his mistakes and walk away with a clear set of next steps to guide your organization to marketing attribution.
Aligning Sales, Marketing, and CS to Scale Revenue and Retention with Showpadsaastr
According to a study from SiriusDecisions, the majority of buyers (81%) today make purchase decisions based on buying experience, over product or price. To meet buyers’ high expectations and manage the challenging sales landscape, companies must involve their entire organization in maturing the sales process- including after prospects sign on the dotted line. This session will outline a practical approach to growing revenue and retention by aligning sales, marketing, and customer success.
Data Strategy for Digital Sales : Case Study & Best PracticeBarry Magee
Citrix Peer Exchange : Indeed.com - Oct 2020 - Barry Magee
I'm an experienced senior business leader focused on how data-driven transformation creates organisational value with deep experience in sales, marketing, strategy, operations, and change management. I’m a recognized industry-leading specialist and academic on effective and systemic innovation using data and analytics to build competitive advantage and tangible results.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrymagee/
Digital Marketing for Startups: a seminar on how to use web marketing to generate leads and acquire customers. Includes defining your Value Proposition; identifying your Ideal Customer Profile; revising your Website design to support lead generation; using Content Marketing, SEO, Social Media and paid online adds to generate traffic; using landing pages, content and downloads to convert that traffic to leads; and using lead nurturing to convert those leads to sales opportunities. Also discusses using Outbound Lead Generation campaigns in parallel with Online / Inbound Lead generation to maximize results for early stage tech firms.
One-day seminar on Customer Acquisition for startups using web marketing, online lead generation and outbound lead generation. Covers Customer Development, Value Proposition, Product Market fit, website design, content marketing, search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, email marketing, social media marketing, sales prospecting and lead generation
Why the best B2B buyer experience wins - Louis Jonckheere CPO - ShowpadB2B Marketing Forum
Our consumer experiences and expectations are influencing our behaviour as a B2B buyer. Most sales reps however have not adapted their way of working to this shift in buyer expectations.
For simple purchases, B2B buyers increasingly prefer ecommerce with no salesperson involved. Complex sales on the other hand still requires sales intervention.
As consumers we shop online and use apps, e.g. Amazon, Netflix, and Booking.com, and we expect to find the information we need when we want it. Sales reps play no role or a minimal role in this process. As the current sales practices aren’t in line with B2B buyer expectations, many sales reps are boring their buyers.
How can you stop boring your buyers and start delivering a better buyer experience?
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Can Marketers Get to Grips with the Human Condition?Klaxon
On 20th October we explored how to employ neuroscience research techniques to drive marketing performance.
Our industry experts included:
Thom Noble, CEO, NeuroStrata
Mev Bertrand, Research Manager, Neuro-Insight
Will Nicholson, Managing Director, The Vision Network
Can Marketers Get to Grips with the Human Condition?Klaxon
On 20th October we explored how to employ neuroscience research techniques to drive marketing performance.
Our industry experts included:
Thom Noble, CEO, NeuroStrata
Mev Bertrand, Research Manager, Neuro-Insight
Will Nicholson, Managing Director, The Vision Network
In London on 7th July 2015 we assembled a first rate panel of speakers to address return on investment and measurement of marketing, advertising and PR. Hugh davies from three gave a case study presentation from the UK's 4th largest mobile operator, Stella Bayles from coveragebook.com talked about using SEO measures to evaluate PR and Russell McAthy introduced the core themes of attribution. It was a very interesting and useful session for anyone who wants to get the best possible return from their marketing and communications.
These presentations delivered by Tim Barker from Datasift and marketing strategist Mat Morrison.
Tim looked at how to use facebook topic data to create customer insight and inform marketing decisions.
Mat looked at the true value of social influence and how to use social data to make marketing decisions.
Presentations from techmap in London on 27th April 2014 all about how content marketers can Overcome Content Shock.
Slides from conttent strategist Emily Turner and Creative Director and Co-founder of Velocity Partners, Doug Kessler.
techmap: Is Programmatic the Future of Advertising Klaxon
techmap is where marketing meets technology. These slides are all about programmatic advertising, as we asked speakers from Nestle, TimeInc and TubeMogul to answer the question: Is Programmatic the Future of Advertising. They were presented at techmap London in March 2016
London Bloggers Meetup: Search Engine Optimisation Edition - slidesKlaxon
Slides from the London Bloggers Meetup on Search Engine Optimisations. This SEO talk featured speakers: Charlotte Gunnell, SEO Manager for the Metro, Judith Lewis from SEO Chicks and also available at decabbit and Yiannis Pelekanos from marketing and search agency Klaxon. Focusing on the key ways you can improve your blog or website to make it more friendly for search engines in 2014.
What Skills do B2B Marketers Need to be Truly Effective in 2014?Klaxon
Presentation delivered by Andy Bargery of Klaxon at a conference in London called The Evidence, March 2014.
The conference was organised by B2B Marketing Magazine and revolved around entries into the B2B Marketing Awards in 2013. This presentation was based on the submissions to those awards.
Workshop session on Pinterest delivered at the B2B Marketing Annual Conference in London, 1st November 2012. Presentation delivered by Andy Bargery of Klaxon.
Presentation is all about mastering email marketing for events, covering the core essentials and touching on social media and email automation. Prepared and delivered for the Active Network, October 2012.
Dissolving boundaries – using Twitter from a Customer Service Perspective and...Klaxon
Presentation delivered by Robert Wint at Making Social Part of Your DNA, a conference held during Social Media Week 2012 in London.
For more information visit http://www.socialmediadna.co.uk
The Road Map to ROI ; how companies are evolving social monitoring to social...Klaxon
Presentation delivered by Jacqui Taylor at Making Social Part of Your DNA, a conference held during Social Media Week 2012 in London.
For more information visit http://www.socialmediadna.co.uk
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Presentation delivered by Andrew Walker at Making Social Part of Your DNA, a conference held during Social Media Week 2012 in London.
For more information visit http://www.socialmediadna.co.uk
Engaging communities – talking about mental health onlineKlaxon
Presentation delivered by Eve Critchley at Making Social Part of Your DNA, a conference held during Social Media Week 2012 in London.
For more information visit http://www.socialmediadna.co.uk
Engaging your audience; building long term relationships with brand advocates...Klaxon
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For more information visit http://www.socialmediadna.co.uk
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For more information visit http://www.socialmediadna.co.uk
Digital Transformation and IT Strategy Toolkit and TemplatesAurelien Domont, MBA
This Digital Transformation and IT Strategy Toolkit was created by ex-McKinsey, Deloitte and BCG Management Consultants, after more than 5,000 hours of work. It is considered the world's best & most comprehensive Digital Transformation and IT Strategy Toolkit. It includes all the Frameworks, Best Practices & Templates required to successfully undertake the Digital Transformation of your organization and define a robust IT Strategy.
Editable Toolkit to help you reuse our content: 700 Powerpoint slides | 35 Excel sheets | 84 minutes of Video training
This PowerPoint presentation is only a small preview of our Toolkits. For more details, visit www.domontconsulting.com
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Cultivating and maintaining discipline within teams is a critical differentiator for successful organisations.
Forward-thinking leaders and business managers understand the impact that discipline has on organisational success. A disciplined workforce operates with clarity, focus, and a shared understanding of expectations, ultimately driving better results, optimising productivity, and facilitating seamless collaboration.
Although discipline is not a one-size-fits-all approach, it can help create a work environment that encourages personal growth and accountability rather than solely relying on punitive measures.
In this deck, you will learn the significance of workplace discipline for organisational success. You’ll also learn
• Four (4) workplace discipline methods you should consider
• The best and most practical approach to implementing workplace discipline.
• Three (3) key tips to maintain a disciplined workplace.
Business Valuation Principles for EntrepreneursBen Wann
This insightful presentation is designed to equip entrepreneurs with the essential knowledge and tools needed to accurately value their businesses. Understanding business valuation is crucial for making informed decisions, whether you're seeking investment, planning to sell, or simply want to gauge your company's worth.
3. Introduction
CRM and marketing automation show huge
promise. But according to Forrester Research only
47% of CRM projects meet expectations. Gartner
and the Economist suggest even worse success
rates.
So where are we going wrong, or more
importantly, how do we get it right?
Sponsored by:
14. Talking of Sales & Marketing Alignment
• According to a 2010 report by
Aberdeen Research, companies
that are best-in-class at aligning
Marketing and Sales experienced
an average of 20% growth in
annual revenue.
• According to MathMarketing, alignment
between Marketing and Sales can help your
company become 67% better at closing deals,
and generate 209% more revenue from
Marketing.
15. THE AVERAGE TENURE OF A:
– CMO/Marketing Director: 45 Months
– VP Sales/Sales Director: 18 Months
THE AVERAGE SALARY OF A:
– Marketing Director:
• £71,270 / $154,910 Year
– Sales Director:
• £68,515 / $148,200 Year
• £30,051 Commission
23. “What we have here is a failure to communicate”
MARKETING LEAD
– Web lead, trade show lead, or inbound
lead. Someone that marketing has
“captured”.
MARKETING QUALIFIED LEAD
– You believe this lead is worth passing to
Sales. You have done some basic
qualification to see that there is interest.
Are You Speaking My
Language?
24. “What we have here is a failure to communicate”
SALES QUALIFIED LEAD
– Sales have engaged and found that they
do need your products/services i.e. they
have a problem you can resolve.
SALES OPPORTUNITY
– They have an active project and you’re
helping them with it. It’s going on your
forecast.
Are You Speaking My
Language?
25. Let’s Talk Pipeline
• Website visits
• Visits that convert into Leads
• Leads that convert into MQL
• MQL that convert into SQL
• SQL that convert into Closed deals
31. TopTips for
Sales & Marketing Alignment
• Agree a common language
• Agree measurement (KPI)
• Build a Buyer Persona – and the Buyers Journey.
• Ensure you support the buyer journey together.
• When deals fall out of the sales process –
recycle them.
32. Recommended Reading
• 5 Reasons why CRM fail
http://bit.ly/1iiTtye and how to solve
them
• MathMarketing on Sales & Marketing
http://bit.ly/1F9C2Kj
36. #techmap @mktginsightguy
Background Currently
Database Marketing
CRM Programme
Management
Marketing Operations
Marketing Technology
Consulting
Title
Head of Marketing
Operations
Company
Sector Conferences
Experience Across
42. To find out more visit:
www.thisistechmap.com
soundcloud.com/techmap (for our brand new podcast)
Sponsored by:
Editor's Notes
CRM and marketing automation technologies are now part of the staple diet for marketers. First arriving in the 1980s with contact management databases, they promised a new era of customer centric marketing. Now there are numerous platforms, providing more than a digital address book; social media integration, marketing automation, lead scoring, pipeline management and more. They all promise to deliver the panacea of marketing: one to one, to many marketing. You’ll recognise some of the larger brands: Salesforce.com, Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics, but the market place is crowded.
However the road to CRM success is by no means simple.
According to Content Marketing Institute these are the things that we measure content marketing on. According to Savo Group the US spends $20 billion a year on Content. Sirius Decisions (famous for the 67% of buyer journey) say that Enterprises spend twice as much as they think and startups ten times as much as they think on Content. So we’re spending a lot on Content and it’s only increasing, we spent 70% more last year than the previous year on content. It’s interesting to see Sales Lead Quality listed twice. So we can say Content and Sales are closely aligned…. Or at least when we ask people who produce content.
And LinkedIn has become increasingly popular. The only warning I’d give here is that LinkedIn doesn’t play well with others. For example they have cut the API to all but 3 CRM systems – Salesforce, Dynamics and Bullhorn CRM. Even social tools like Flipboard have fallen foul of LinkedIn. LinkedIn is of cause the Business 2 Business social platform of choice for most people.
Notice the top item here is in person events – human to human interactions. Webinars whilst digital can also include human to human interaction. That makes the top two items are human contact, where content supports that process.
Now it’s a different source. I find this interesting as it is directly supporting the sales cycle and is very much focused on something the sales person delivers. As has been known for a very long time, only 65% of content is actively used by sales, and that comes from Sirius Decisions. Now if you look long enough you’ll see a lot of people citing 90% is unused by sales. Qvidian also say 49% of content is only somewhat accurate and only 21% can measure the ROI on content.
Well so what is… most people can’t actively show an ROI on content in relation to revenue. Most organizations make it difficult for sales people to find their latest and most accurate content. This is a major issue to sales and marketing alignment.
There are HUGE benefits to sales and marketing alignment. If you read the study done by MathMarketing in conjunction with Marketo you’ll see some absolutely stunning results.
So this is the WHY you should do this.
But it takes work and there is no silver bullet. I’m very quckly, as we don’t have to much time, talk you through some key points.
This data is pulled from payscale. So you have a job much longer in marketing and your base salary is higher. It’s only commission that takes sales people over marketing. Remember when you keep being told it’s good to experiment? Well not for sales – they are one of very few people it effects in their pockets, they get paid less. So sales people are very serious about not messing with the pipeline and why they are so desperate for good quality leads.
Marketing people like to see themselves as the centre of a digital hub
In touch with their prospects and customers, understanding their every need.
When the reality is we just don’t have enough time to do everything that needs to be done.
This is what most people see a sales person as – used car sales person.
Whilst sales see them selfs as charming, highly focused and well dressed.
And of cause the customers are always saying yes and if they don’t well it was never going to happen
And the reality is that they to don’t have enough time to do everything they should be doing. Your in the same ship and you need to work together.
Here’s a couple of definitions. The big thing for sales is going to be not all leads are created equally, and just because someone scores highly on a lead score doesn’t make it a suitable lead. I’m a classic example of that. BDR – business development reps can really help with this. An initial light weight qualification.
And the next steps for sales. Naturally at each of these stages you need to define what should be done, when it should be done and by who.
All companies are looking for revenue. Everyone in the company should be responsible.
Reality is that the CEO doesn’t care about web hits in itself, it’s what web hits represent… building traction to get more eyeballs that convert to leads that convert to opportunities
Measuring your win rate can help. How?
Because if you measure the drop of rate from what’s considered to be a marketing lead to what becomes a sales opportunity. We often call this MQL to SQL. You will see how many leads progress.
To low and it means you have a serious issue. To high and you’re sales people probably aren’t qualifying well enough.
In fact if you should measure this at every stage of the sales cycle. Then you can see where people are struggling. That becomes an opportunity for marketing to help.
Velocity – or the time it takes to move from stage to stage is another great metrics to consider. This is how long it takes to move along the sales cycle.
Sales people are targeted on short term wins, at best it’s this quarter, mostly it’s about this month. So sales peoples attention spans are very short – because that’s the way their trained and rewarded.
Marketing can seriously help at all stages of the sales pipeline. Looking for an decrease in win rates or an extended velocity at a particular stage is a very good way to see that theres an issue, and it’s a great opportunity for marketing to help with content.
Now imagine taking this win rate by stage and velocity and applying it by lead source as well….. You can now see which deals close the best and the fastest from which source. You can start to justify those more expensive events or of cause, it might make you reconsider.
Here’s a quick overview of what you CAN do.
As you move further into the sales cycle the types of content your engaging with need to change. What does this mean in practice, well your marketing automation engine needs to be aligned with your CRM. The sales guys use CRM and they run their opportunities through it. This should AUTOMATICALLY update your marketing system.
What it also means is that your content needs to be aligned to support your sales process, not just increase web visitors. Unfortunately marketing aren’t targeted on revenue or SQLs, often its web visitors and number of downloads. That simply doesn’t work. Your CTAs become – read more of the web. In fact here’s a recommendation for you, go back and check your websites. Does it say read the next blog post or does it say, why not talk to one of our experts so we can help you? Sirius Decisions who originated the 67% of buyers journey is completed before touch sales have now said, that if your sales person engages earlier in the buyer journey then they are substantially more likely to win – why? Well to be frank, sales have known this for a long time, first in gets to set the agenda, they shape the conversation and can position your company as the leader.
So here’s an example. The contact registers via a Marketo web form, when it gets enough “points” it goes into the CRM system as a Lead. The CRM system allocates it to a BDR who calls and qualifies. It’s then allocated to a sales person. The sales person contacts them and promotes to an Opportunity. This is good, you have a measurement point for alignment. The leads converting to an opportunity. That’s a win for marketing. You should also track how long it takes sales to get round to that.
From here the CRM should update Marketo to let it know the STAGE of the sales process at each point it’s updated. This enables you to build workflow in Marketo to help reinforce your sales messages – value proposition. More over the CRM can promote to Marketo the job function allowing you to tailor items such as case studies by functional role so ROI for the CEO and CFO, cost of ownership and ease of deployment for the CIO and of cause business insights for all business orientated directors.
More over as you know what their interested in and a good Marketing Automation system supports dynamic websites you can tailor the content they see on the website to help support that sales process as well!
Now, it doesn’t just stop with the sales cycle. A modern CRM is also going to start delivering insights on your customers as well. This to should be linked to Marketo. Imagine a CRM that told you who engages with your employees the most and who from their side engages. Then overlays with with conversation activity. This is a real indicator to customer churn, in my book, if they stop talking to me then their likely to churn and it represents an opportunity to give them some extra TLC.
That’s not just from an account manager, if its flagged and pushed into Marketo, then you have the opportunity to engage with them from marketing as well. Invite them to that event, give them the VIP pass, show them you care.
Now this is often seen as difficult. There is some complexity as most Marketing Automation systems simply have no concept of an opportunity, in which case you need to create a custom field. But really this stuff is not hard these days.
The biggest barrier to making this happen is not the technology, it’s the people in your business. There are connectors that will plug into most systems and have a degree of alignment up and running in under 30 minutes. It can be that simple.
Marketing automation grew out of the tech sector and is at heart orientated around a high value, long/complex sales cycle. If that describes your business then you’ll fit into the out-of the-box model very nicely, but otherwise you may need to use your imagination a little. Don’t be forced into adopting approaches that don’t fit your business, do be innovative and always ask whether the system can work for you, not the other way round.
There are a number of very good solution providers, consultancies and agencies who can help deploy, integrate and operate your MAP system. However, it gets expensive fast and quickly becomes well worthwhile bringing a resource on board to handle day to day activities. You’ll likely still need the back-up of an external provider, but having someone in your office, living and breathing your business, really understanding what’s going on and working with your other marketing staff is very powerful.
It’s tempting to think that all MAPs are the same and to just pick the first one that comes along, but this would be a mistake. Looking at Scott Brinker’s Marketing Technology Landscape it’s clear how many different platforms there are and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Make sure you evaluate your requirements and assess the ability of each solution to meet your specific needs.