You’ve heard the buzz about ABM and of course you know the importance of marketing and sales alignment, but do you really know how to most effectively leverage ABM with your sales organization to drive revenue? Join Heidi Bullock, Group VP of Marketing, as she shares the “ABM secret sauce” for driving growth and effectively aligning with sales. You’ll see how experts at Marketo use best practices in combination with marketing automation and the new Marketo ABM solution themselves, including actual results and metrics.
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More $ to acquire, but bigger deal
size, recurring revenue, cross-sell.
Less $ to acquire, but higher
churn and lower customer
satisfaction.
#1: Not All Leads are the Same
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#3: Work back from your objective –
don’t start with tactics
The Central Region needs to close $2.4M this quarter – how will we get there? Need a total of 9 opps in target accounts.
Program Stage Goal Est % close
Analyst Field Lunch Mid 3 opps 1 opp
Digital Transformation
Webinar for Execs
Mid 2 opps 1 opp
Leadership Forum Mid 4 opps 2 opp
C-level dinner Late 6 opps 2 opp
Exec meeting with dm Late 5 opps 3 opp
Total 20 9 opps
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#4: Measure at Different Time Points
Example: Target Accounts
Goal = Create pipeline and revenue within target accounts
Metrics = early: engagement score, mid: number of meetings, late: pipeline and pipe coverage in TAs
1
• Lift in website traffic – target
accounts visiting site
2
• New names in target account
(building out white space)
3
• Target accounts visiting dedicated
account pages, converting
4
• Engagement score for set of
programs per month
1
• Program success with a target
account
2
• Call connects (target accounts)
3
• # of meetings w/in target account
4
• Marketing qualified leads (MQLs) in
target account
1
• # of opportunities in target accounts
2
•First Touch Ratio
3
•Multi Touch Ratio
4
• Pipeline in target accounts
Early Mid Late
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#7: There is no ‘I’ in Team
I missed my number
dude. I don’t care if
you generated 2000
MQLs.
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• Develop a plan for both sales and marketing to
execute
• Agree on SLAs, definitions, metrics
• Coordinate outreach
• Train reps on how to use tools and programs
• Get feedback
• ABM is a great approach…
Sales and Marketing Alignment
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ENT Account Scoring Model
Historical Data
- Win rate
- Deal Size
- Etc.
Firmographic Data
- Annual Revenue
- Employee Size
- Etc.
4K+ Signals
- Social Media Activity
- Funding
- Etc.
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Account Selection Process
Top 20 Tier 1 Tier 2
Number of accounts 20 ~500 ~1200
Selection criteria • Sales leadership to provide
• Account score = 75+
• Each rep to pick 10
accounts
• Filtered out some
industries: e.g. Real
Estate, Non-profit, etc.
• Each rep to pick 30 accounts
Use predictive account score AND
rep knowledge to select accounts
• Tiers for target accounts
• Accounts will be locked for 6 months
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Account Profiling and Mapping
Build a plan to focus on the right part of the organization:
Gather research:
• Financial health
• Business initiatives
• Personnel developments
• Technologies
• Org structure
• SWOT analysis
• Industry analysis
Acme Industries
In-depth Company Report
August 2015
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Personas / Pain Points
Litmus Test:
Can you create a video or write a
blog this person would like?
What question would you ask to
identify them on your website?
What does sales need to know
about them?
What are the main pain points
they have?
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Goal: For SMB, drive higher value deals
Strategy: Leverage ABM to market and sell to
higher value accounts – use vertical messaging and
content – asset management
Metrics: engagement with select programs (early),
connect rates with SDRs, meetings accepted,(mid)
pipeline created (late)
Timing: month one, three months out, 1 year
Questions:
• Are we increasing velocity with these accounts in this vertical?
• Is the ASP on average higher?
• Higher win rate?
ABM for SMB
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• Did they agree with the list – did they
have other accounts to add?
• Purchased additional contacts
• Applied ‘account score’ for further
prioritization
• Training and key materials
Battle cards
Thought leadership content
Pitch deck
Email templates
Recorded training
Journey deck
Worked Closely with Sales
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*VIX Index: Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index.
Pain Points and Targeted Content
Acquire
Clients
Retain
Clients
Build Client
Trust
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*VIX Index: Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index.
Campaign Details and Results
22 Opps
~$1M in Sales
Pipeline
ACQUIRE
RETAIN
TRUST
Email Webinars Results
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Early Measurement
Program Comments Metric Rating
Blog Does this messaging
resonate?
New names from target
accounts
Email Campaign Is our content helpful? Open/CTR – download of asset
from target accounts
Webinar Series Can we engage these
accounts further?
Reg/Attend rate from ta’s
Follow up connect rate >1/3
Field Event Can we engage these
accounts further?
Reg/Attend rate from ta’s
Follow up connect rate >1/3
Accelerator -
SDRs
Let’s narrow the pool
further – are any leads
ready now?
Meetings – sales accepted
leads
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Later Stage Assessment
Late Indicators Metric Comments Rating
Sales accepted
meetings
Ideally >1/3 are
accepted
Majority of programs met
this but some did not.
FT Pipeline/MT
Pipeline
Are we creating pipe
in our target
accounts?
Above our goal for pipe in
TAs
Win rate in target
accounts
Is the win rate higher
in target accounts
versus non?
7% higher in target
accounts
ASP in target
accounts
Is the ASP higher in
target accounts
versus non?
For won deals, notably
higher
Hi Everyone and thank you for joining us today for this exciting inside sales event!
My name is Heidi Bullock and I am the GVP of Marketing here at Marketo – and today I will be going through a few tips you can leverage to make your business more effective – specifically in terms of driving revenue.
Today we are going to cover a helpful framework if you are getting started on your ABM initiatives and Mike will walk through how we leverage Marketo for our ABM programs.
You have a job to do – but it’s harder - WHY
Challenge #1: It seems like you always need more qualified leads and of course pipeline! You need to drive more revenue and close deals faster! In general it may feel like more is being added to your plate.
Challenge #2: With the added demands, you or your team may feel like you have more programs to build out – including webinars, emails, landing pages, etc.
If you are trying to scale up your marketing efforts, this can take you --- or your team ----some time to get done and it can be very overwhelming.
Challenge #3: You may have some disconnect with sales around what a lead is and when they are qualified.
How can you ensure your marketing and sales teams are on the same page? This is even more important if you are doing account based marketing.
How do you handle getting the best leads to sales at the right time?
-- and lastly….
Challenge #4: To ensure you get the budget you need to hit your goals and protect what you have - how do you prove and demonstrate the value of your marketing programs and show overall marketing ROI?
You want to be able to answer the following questions?
What is your top performing channel?
What is your top performing program?
What would you do with more budget?
What program would you cut?
Don’t worry! We’ve got this!
More isn’t always great for the business
It is critical to clearly define your shared revenue model. A good model will have:
Agreed upon definitions and stages
Clear service level agreements – slas – ex: a BDR or SDR has 8 business hours to follow up on an Act Now
Incentives
If you use Marketo – you can build this out
Don’t start with tactics.
Measure at different time points. There isn’t just one metric that tells the entire story.
The best way to avoid a frankenstack is to have a complete view of what your organization needs and wants to accomplish with the use of technology – without this an organization can mistakenly pick up one-off tools for specific tasks. Also, when both sales and marketing are aligned it decreases the chances of mistakenly purchasing tools that everyone doesn’t agree work best.
Does the technology fill a REAL need?
Do you give people time to evaluate tools – needs to be ongoing – this can be a person or committee
Identify who will manage the tool
focus on decisions that improve marketing.
A key part of your planning process is to identify up-front what decisions you need to make to drive company profits, and then build your measurements to capture the right information.
This means you should measure things not just because they are measurable – but rather because they will guide you towards the decisions you need to make to improve company profitability.
Like the dashboard in your car, three to five metrics are all you really want. Think about the contrast with a dashboard in a 747 airplane --- there are so many measurements it’s hard to quickly ascertain the most important ones.
Collaborate closely with sales
Develop a plan for both sales and marketing to execute
Create SLAs
Work closely with sales for coordinated outreach
Train reps on how to use tools and programs
Get feedback
ABM will not be successful if you try and do it on your own – you must involve sales
Now let’s walk through each of these areas in more detail:
Identify stakeholders and get buy-in
Establish goals and metrics
Accelerate sales cycle
Increase ASP
Penetrate new verticals
Develop a plan
Focus on high-value companies
Align sales and marketing
Deliver strategic, orchestrated campaigns
Needs to be an ongoing process
Step one – know WHO you are selling to (meaningful segmentation)
I have seen people go crazy on this exercise, but I recommend keeping it simple. You need as many as you need and as few as possible.
While it’s ideal to have specific personas for every person involved in the buying process – it is fine to start with two or three key personas, and work through the process.
For example, for if you are selling technical software - you will have the user, the influencer and the buyer.
This is a really important step to go through is the exercise to really get to know your buyers. Personas help you understand what experiences they like and what influences their behavior.
Here is an example where I am showing an example of content we might show for ENT vs. SMB at the top
And then you can do really cool things – you can serve 2 ads using auto-tuning and then the winner will be shown.
We have an education case study and a financial services case study. The winners are in red – and this is what was shown.
Apprenda is the leading enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) powering the next generation of enterprise software development in public, private and hybrid clouds. Their key prospects are enterprise organizations with high revenues and employee size. They know who their key accounts are and target them using named account lists. In this example, Apprenda created special landing pages for key enterprise accounts like UPS and Barclays Bank.
WITH SALES
Then purchased 1400 ADDITIONAL CONTACTS
The chart on the slide is the VIX which measures volatility. What obviously stands out in that 1 year chart is the flash crash of mid August. And I’m sure you probably all remember where you were on August 24th when it happened and that seemed to be the turning point. And since then, we’ve had China concerns, domestic and international growth concerns, different headlines about negative investor sentiment, and to top it off the Fed raised interest rates last year, but now there is uncertainty about their future plans. All of this has lead to persistent elevated volatility.
The chart on the slide is the VIX which measures volatility. What obviously stands out in that 1 year chart is the flash crash of mid August. And I’m sure you probably all remember where you were on August 24th when it happened and that seemed to be the turning point. And since then, we’ve had China concerns, domestic and international growth concerns, different headlines about negative investor sentiment, and to top it off the Fed raised interest rates last year, but now there is uncertainty about their future plans. All of this has lead to persistent elevated volatility.
The chart on the slide is the VIX which measures volatility. What obviously stands out in that 1 year chart is the flash crash of mid August. And I’m sure you probably all remember where you were on August 24th when it happened and that seemed to be the turning point. And since then, we’ve had China concerns, domestic and international growth concerns, different headlines about negative investor sentiment, and to top it off the Fed raised interest rates last year, but now there is uncertainty about their future plans. All of this has lead to persistent elevated volatility.
The chart on the slide is the VIX which measures volatility. What obviously stands out in that 1 year chart is the flash crash of mid August. And I’m sure you probably all remember where you were on August 24th when it happened and that seemed to be the turning point. And since then, we’ve had China concerns, domestic and international growth concerns, different headlines about negative investor sentiment, and to top it off the Fed raised interest rates last year, but now there is uncertainty about their future plans. All of this has lead to persistent elevated volatility.
The chart on the slide is the VIX which measures volatility. What obviously stands out in that 1 year chart is the flash crash of mid August. And I’m sure you probably all remember where you were on August 24th when it happened and that seemed to be the turning point. And since then, we’ve had China concerns, domestic and international growth concerns, different headlines about negative investor sentiment, and to top it off the Fed raised interest rates last year, but now there is uncertainty about their future plans. All of this has lead to persistent elevated volatility.
2309 new names
Investment = $40K
$17/new name
Account level
Discover people that you don’t know from the account
each account will have its own ‘account details page’
sales team use this dashboard before going to that critical meeting with customers