The quest of every organization is the same: to rapidly acquire customers, grow their lifetime value, and convert them into loyal advocates who in turn, influence new customers.
Marketers are now faced with new challenges in this dynamic, ever-changing, customer-driven world. The key to success is one thing: engagement. Watch this on-demand session to learn how best-in-breed marketers are mastering the art and science of digital marketing by leveraging seven key tenets of engagement marketing and engaging their audience:
As individuals
Based on what they do
Continuously over time
Wherever they are
Always directed towards a goal
With measurable impact
At the speed of digital
10. Engage People:
We call this
Engagement Marketing
• As individuals
• Based on what they do
• Continuously over time
• Wherever they are
• Always directed towards a goal
• With measurable impact
• At the speed of digital
19. Lifecycle Nurturing
Intelligent Campaign Workflow
Behavioral Personalization
Coordinated Planning
Coordinated Management
Multi-Touch Attribution
Lifelong &
personalized
relationships across
channels with
proven impact at
scale
Behavioral Nurturing
Social Share & Sign-on
Sales insight
Multi-channel Personalization
Personalized
conversations
across channels
with proven impact
Basic Marketing Automation
Database Segmentation
Basic Lead Scoring
Basic Sales Alerts
Continuous
conversations
across channels
StrategicValue
Marketing Maturity
Engagement Marketing Maturity Journey
Email Marketing
Landing Page Creation
Point in time
single channel
optimization
20.
21. Adopting the Lead to Revenue Management (L2RM)
Methodology
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L2RM is…
A set of integrated goals,
processes, and metrics
That is designed around the
buyer,
Which shape marketing
practices, from lead generation
to revenue events
That is based on engagement
And, is calibrated to revenue
performance across the
customer lifecycle.
22. Lead to Revenue Management Process
• Early
Awareness
• Pref.
building
Demand
Gen.
• Known
Names
• 2-way
dialogue
Nurture
• Handoff to
Sales
• In Rep’s
Pipeline
Qualify Revenue
Demand Generation Nurturing Qualification to Close Revenue
• Ads
• Branding
• Social
• SEM/SEO
• Web
• PR
• Events
• Email opt-in
• Webinars
• Invite only events
• Direct Mail
• Thought Leadership
• White Papers
• Phone calls
• Demos
• Visits
• LOI
• Sales methodology
kicks in at this phase
• Reports
• Dashboards
• Win/loss analysis
• Reverse engineering
of pipeline by
conversion values
Advance
when name
known
Advance
when “Sales
Qualified”
Advance when
contract signed
Marketing Leads Sales Leads
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Health Care Reform has caused companies like Aetna to rethink their engagement strategy. They have multiple people that they have to market to – Payers, Providers, and Employers
American managed health care company, which sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance plans and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans. Aetna is a Fortune 100 company that’s focused on
Challenge: inability to show revenue attribution, need a transformation across people, process and technology to show marketing’s impact on revenue
Things to measure are different than in other industries – beyond basic demographics, needed to measure affinity towards Heathcare reform, interest in health
The Lead to Revenue Management Process takes all of the actions, steps, and possible outcomes from this continuum and organizes it into phases with defined programs for each level of the evolution. L2RM brings some discipline and rigor to an otherwise tumultuous endeavor.
The core philosophy of our revenue engine is that buying has changed forever, and that marketing and sales need to change as well.
Before the web, there were few 3rd party sources of information, which meant that a buyer had to get most of their information from sales. In this world, it made perfect sense for marketing to pass all leads over to sales. But now, the explosion of readily available information via social and online channels mean buyers get most of their information themselves and don’t want to talk to a sales person until they are much further along. Pressures in today’s business environment from internal and external forces…
External forces:
L2RM is to the demand chain what Six Sigma has been to the supply chain
Provider/Sale complexity prevents sales from being able to reach quotas and perform effectively without marketing support
B2B buyers are typically 2/3 through problem-solving cycle before allowing a sales interaction
Power has shifted from seller to buyer in a profound way; social is the single biggest change agent
Internal factors:
Transforms marketing from “cost center” to strategic investment
Forecast results, not spending
Make hard cases rooted in data and experience for spending
C-Suite demands ROMI accountability (communicate metrics that are relevant to CEO, CFO, Sales, etc.)
Formalized marketing methodology is a tremendous recruiting tool
Potential to tie compensation to sales revenue and objectives
…necessitate that the old ways of marketing and selling retire in favor of an automated, data driven approach that allows for a sophisticated interaction between brand and buyer. This is THE PATH of all top Fortune companies, be it B2B, B2C or B2B2C.
Now lets look at the phases of the L2RM process in our roadmap…
The goal is to have an automated, closed-loop process for orchestrating relevant, timely and trackable marketing programs to improve revenue generation – IE – SALES!!
We know sales resources are relatively expensive. To provide the highest value, sales should not engage with prospects until prospects are ready to engage with sales. Sales interactions should start relatively late in the pipeline, once leads are well qualified, and use lower cost channels such as marketing to develop relationships with everyone else (INFLUENCERS are key).
This does not mean marketing wants to “CONTROL” how we sell. On the contrary, the process is flexible to allow for customization based on each team’s sales process. It does mean that we want to be a strategic partner who greatly contributes to sales success.
In order to reach this level of performance, marketing and sales need to speak the same language, agree upon milestones along the way, and adhere to the responsibilities and expectations. So we treat the L2RM process as an evolving journey – not a ‘once & done task”- and utilize it as a roadmap/framework to orient and refine our day-to-day activities.
Marketing System of Record
Marketing System of Record
Marketing System of Record
So what is engagement marketing? Let’s start with what it isn’t: engagement marketing isn’t about serving your buyers a particular product, or even serving them a particular experience. It isn’t about one-off campaigns (no matter how compelling or involving), and it isn’t about customer service (at least it isn’t just about customer service). Instead, engagement marketing is about creating meaningful interactions with your customers, based on who they are and what they do, continuously over time. It’s marketing that engages wherever your customers are, and it’s marketing that is backed by both creative vision and hard data. Finally, it’s marketing that allows you to move quickly, shortening the time between idea and outcome, so that you can create more – and better targeted – programs.
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