Sarah Shelnut, Demand Generation Manager for NanoLumens, shares her customer experience using Marketo's marketing software. She discusses why your company needs marketing automation and how Marketo's many software features benefited her company.
First installed marketing automation as a means of leveraging the leads from our trade show traffic, our highest lead generation source at the time.
First installed marketing automation as a means of leveraging the leads from our trade show traffic, our highest lead generation source at the time.
Haphazard marketing automation, not streamlined or integrated – Sales ppl tweeting occasionally from the road, newsletters sent out through a faulty mktg automation software program that had a tendency to send emails to the wrong lists, and zero content marketing strategy
How do we increase our leads organically? We needed a solution that would support our hub-and-spoke model of marketing, with the goal of capturing leads on our website more effectively.
What did we need our Marketing Roadmap to look like? It’s difficult to predict the future, but we knew that we wanted a robust solution that would allow us the opportunity to grow as Marketers.
Other solutions simply didn’t provide a solution that would cover all of our needs down the road. It was important for us to find a solution that had the same philosophy of growth that we do at NanoLumens.
Talk about University, Training Sessions for New Users, Community, Launch campaign number one within 6 weeks
Talk about University, Training Sessions for New Users, Community, Launch campaign number one within 6 weeks
Retail Drip, Terra Download
Because of our SFDC integration, I am able to see opportunities as they move through the funnel without being seen, just like Wonder Woman’s invisible airplane
Stress importance of progressive profiling. Lead goes to biz dev for mktg qualification before being passed to outside sales. It’s easy to get interest and engagement, it’s harder to push through the funnel.
What’s on their mind as they pass through our funnel?
I was banging my head against the wall trying to map out how to effectively get this content into the hands of the buyer. The logic behind the campaigns we do-able, but complicated and left lots of room for error.
Sending an email to the wrong person instantly degrades your brand to the reader.
Hit just the right person at just the right time with segmentation and targeted emails
I can identify my hero at their organization
Following Sarah’s certification as a Marketo Expert in August of 2013, the average number of forms filled out per month jumped from 90 per month to 160 per month,
Because of the increase of leads being acquired through form-fill-outs and downloadable assets, the company found that it was able to attend less trade shows and still have better results on a monthly basis with lead generation
Marketing Acquired Leads went from 1,574 in 2012 to 13,308 in 2013 and over 17,000 in 2014. (745% 32% 1011%)