3. @digijinni
A strategic approach to sales and marketing where
you focus your efforts on a specific set of high-value
accounts with personalized messaging and campaigns.
What is Account-Based Marketing
4. @digijinni
• Start with a goal
• Have a hypothesis
• Establish a baseline
Considerations Before You Begin…
1
• Closed Won Revenue ($)
2
• Closed Won Opportunities (#)
3
• Pipeline Opportunities (#)
4
• Pipeline ($)
5
• Sales Qualified Leads (#)
6
• Marketing Qualified Leads/Accounts (#)
8. @digijinni
• Goal:
• Drive higher value SMB deals
• Strategy:
• Apply ABM approach to market and sell
to high value target accounts
• Use vertical messaging and content
• Focus on asset management
(a subset of financial services)
• Timeframe: 2016
Applying ABM for SMB
16. Cleanse Your Data
•Match leads to accounts
•Verify titles, territories
•Map parent and child
accounts
•Destroy duplicates
•Enrich data
•Tag accounts in CRM
•Lock accounts for 6-12 months
32. @digijinni
Early
1
• Call connects
2
• # of meetings
3
• Marketing qualified leads
(MQLAs) in target account
Mid
1
• # of opportunities in target
accounts
2
• Pipeline from TAs
3 • Closed won deals
Late
Know What To Measure When
37. @digijinni
• Agree on goals and KPIs with Sales from the
beginning and showcase early success
• Use data-driven approach to account selection –
pick the right partner
• Allow ample time for account selection, and
getting ABM-ready
• Use multi-channel approach to programs
• Leverage market events in real time
Takeaways
@digijinni
I run demand gen for net new SMB business and customer base
Been at marketo for 3 years
Marketo has been doing ABM for over 5 years now on the ENT side, but we embarked on ABM journey within SMB segment in 2016, so that’s what I’d like to share with you today
We’ll cover what ABM is and considerations before you begin
Walk through 5 principles for ABM success
I’ll share with you how Marketo does and walk you through the Marketo’s last year’s ABM journey
This is an ABM conference so I will not go into details of what ABM is and it’s benefits;
ABM name is misleading since it’s placing an emphasis on Marketing, but marketing cannot do it alone
It requires complete alignment of the entire Marketing, Sales, SDR and other orgs (MOPS/SOPS, Enablement, Services and Consulting, even Finance)
I will not spend too much time in this presentation on S&M alignment, but if you’re interested in this topic, I am speaking on a panel at 2pm
Goal: higher revenue
Hypothesis:
Higher ASP
Higher close rate
Higher velocity
Baseline: What’s my revenue, ASP, sales cycle, close rate, etc. today?
The first two are the most important, so we’ll spend more time on it
I am going to illustrate how Marketo applies the 5 steps to our business and I will share with you a specific case study for what we did in the commercial / SMB business in one particular vertical in 2016
Questions:
Are we increasing velocity with these accounts in this vertical?
Is the ASP on average higher?
Higher win rate?
How do you do that?
Ask your Sales people
Use Data-Driven approach
Combination of the above
Leveraged predictive analytics to develop ICP model and account score to select and prioritize accounts in our CRM and also buy net new accounts that match the ICP criteria
we used a partner – leadspace to build a model for us using
Historical data (win rate, deal size, etc.)
Firmographic data (annual revenue, empl. size
Plus 4K+ different 3rd party data signals like social media activity, funding, tech used, etc.
This chart shows you that with the higher score, ASP goes up as well as propensity to buy
Once the model was built, we updated the SFDC data with account score details for sales to prioritize the accounts
So the account scoring model allowed us to create Target Account Tiers
If you look at this chart … the outer circle represents ICP
Target Account tier represents accounts matching ICP in key verticals – marketing will be nurturing these accounts
Named accounts – this is the best set of target accounts for each sales rep within their territory
We also changed our lead scoring model from MQLs to MQLAs by overlaying account score to demographics and behavioral signals
Now we’re looking at each lead from the point of whether they have the right demographics (VP of marketing v. student); behavior (are they engaging?) and account fit (do they come from the right account?
I won’t spend too much time on content – there’s plenty of presentations here on content for ABM
If you have a good library of content, it should be easy to create ABM content with minor revisions and redesign tweaks – I am happy to discuss this offline
We Identified pain points for asset managers (grow AUM, retain clients, drive engagement, aquire new clients)
Developed content assets by modifying existing assets as well as created new ones by partnering with 3rd party research companies like Frost and Sullivan
It helped that a couple people on my team came from FSI, which enabled us to expedite content development and programs
Map content to the stage (early, mid, late), profile (Sales, IT, Marketing, Finance)
Altogether, email and webinar series generated 22 opps and $1M+ in Sales pipeline
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.
Depends on your sales cycle
Measure against baseline or past performance (e.g. TA vs. non-target accounts; if you’re swapping TAs, how’s the new set performing relative to old?; YoY, QoQ
keep the audience in mind (execs don’t care about early stage metrics)
each account will have its own ‘account details page’
sales team use this dashboard before going to that critical meeting with customers
each account will have its own ‘account details page’
sales team use this dashboard before going to that critical meeting with customers
Not seeing higher velocity as the deals are more complex and at a higher ASP they require more time for closing
For Financial Services Vertical:
Closed Won: 20 deals
For SMB Target Accounts
86 closed won