An Inside Sales Team webinar with Jon Miller and Craig Rosenberg.
Jon, Founder and CEO of Engagio, and Craig, Chief Analyst and Co-Founder of Topo, discussed how to successfully plan and implement an Account-Based Marketing program. During this webinar Miller and Rosenberg covered the following topics:
* What is Account-Based Marketing (ABM)
* 3 Step Model of ABM
* Metrics for ABM
2. Jon Miller
• Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Engagio
• Co-Founder and Previous Chief Marketing Officer at Marketo
• @JonMiller
• www.engagio.com
3. Craig Rosenberg
• Co-Founder and Chief Analyst at Topo
• Editor, Funnelholic
• @funnelholic
• www.topohq.com
The funnelholic
4. Topics for Today
• What is Account-Based Marketing
• 3 Step Model for Account-Based Marketing
• Metrics for Account-Based Marketing
6. Different Deal Types Require Different Types of Marketing Support
Different Demand Types
ABM
Demand
Generation
7. Account-Based Marketing:
A strategic approach that coordinates
personalized marketing and sales
efforts to open doors and deepen
engagement at specific accounts
– @jonmiller
8. Different Model
Up to 17 people influence enterprise purchases
(up from 10 in 2011)*
*2014 IDG Enterprise Role & Influence of the Technology Decision-Maker survey
“Person-centric” “Account-centric”
• Decision maker
• End users
• Influencers
Going After Target Accounts Requires an Account-Centric Focus
10. Land and Expand
Often, The Best Account-Based Marketing Opportunities
Are At Current Customers
11. ABM Today is Like Like Lead Nurturing in 2008
The Next Big Thing?
Google Trends
“Sales has been doing account selling for
years; marketing is now sophisticated enough
to do some of the same tactics at scale.”
“Your timing is very good,
based on what we see
happening at Sirius. We
launched an ABM practice in
response to a groundswell.”
“Account based marketing
is red hot...several
attendees named account
based marketing as their
top priority right now”
“…it’s clear that we’ve
passed the fad phase of
ABM’s most recent
comeback. Now, we’re
solidly in the trend phase.”
Marketers know they need to do it, and are trying to figure out how
13. ABM Planning Starts With The Account, Not the Offer
#FlipMyFunnel
What do we
want to say?
(offers)
Who should
we say it to?
(segments)
Who are we
trying to
reach?
(accounts)
What should
we say?
(content)
Where should
we say it?
(channels)
Where should
we say it?
(channels)
DEMANDGENABM
15. Pick Target Accounts
Tip: Limit list turnover (e.g. 25% per quarter)
Level 1: Reps Self-Select
Level 2: Basic Data
Level 3: Advanced Data
Level 4: Predictive Analytics
16. Build Your Database With the Right Contacts for Each
Persona at Target Accounts
Identify Contacts
Manual Purchase Predictive
Representative companies; not exhaustive
18. What Does Sales Want From Marketing?
What
“A meaningful and real relationship with the decision-makers + relationship with
all significant decision influencers + understanding of the dynamics of the specific
customers' business.”
New relationships:
• Accurate and clean contacts
• Air cover (awareness)
• Access and coverage (e.g. engagement
heat map)
• Meetings (where person knows why they
are meeting)
Insights:
• Research: org chart, budget, initiatives, priorities
• Timeline: what’s gone to each customer, their
status, etc.
• Reasons to call
• Account specific content
22. Lead with Insights and Ideas
After sending my last email, I got really excited and wanted to share some ideas I had on
how Starbucks could leverage <Company Name>:
• Mobile app distribution - reduce friction by allowing your website visitors to download
your mobile app by texting the download link to their phone. We intelligently detect
whether a phone is on iOS or Android OS and sends them to the right app store.
• Picture message a coupon to your customers on their birthday. Why tell them how
good a frap will be when you can show them the gooey ribbons of caramel?
• New VIP service: text your order in to your local Starbucks. Get your favorite thirst
quencher sooner.
• Picture message Starbucks coupons w/QR codes to your friends on special
occasions.
• Leverage geo-location services to MMS special deals to customers when they are in
close vicinity to a Starbucks.
The possibilities are really endless.
I'd love to chat with you further about how other companies are using us, as well as chat
more about how we can help foster Starbucks' future innovative ventures.
Be bold – share some
amazing ideas; they will
respect even if you are
wrong.
23. Great ABM Requires Great Customer Knowledge
“A structured
approach to
developing and
implementing
highly-customized
marketing
campaigns to
markets of one.”
– ITSMA
24. Use Custom Content to Get Into Accounts
Custom Content
“Stories that the right people in your targeted companies would actually like
to read and share.” – Freya News
“75% of executives will read unsolicited marketing materials that contain
ideas that might be relevant to their business.” – ITSMA
26. Commonly Used ABM Tactics
Events Outbound Digital
• Owned events
• Partner events
• Third-party events
• Prospecting (SDR)
• Email
• Phone
• Social
• Direct mail /
dimensional mailer
• Ads
• IP-based ads
• Retargeting (persona-
based ads)
• Facebook / Twitter ads
• LinkedIn ads
• Web personalization
• Paid lead gen
Channels
27. Outbound Does Not Mean Interruption
Account-based marketing applies best concepts from
demand generation to outbound prospecting:
• Content driven
• Helpful and valuable
• Focused on the buyer, not the company
• Personalized and relevant
• Highly measurable
• Continuously improving
• Deep sales and marketing alignment
Not Interruption Marketing
29. Open the
Door
• Get
relationship
with cold
account
Accelerator
• Increase
deal
velocity and
win rate
Human
Nurture
• Stay in
touch with
helpful
touches
Meetings
Creator
• Schedule
meetings at
an event
Account
Qualifier
• Follow-up
on inbound
interest
Example ABM Plays
• 63% connect rate, 5% opportunity rate
• $13,000 investment, $200,000+ revenue
35. Engagement
Are the right people at the account spending time with
your company, is that engagement going up over time?
“Big 5” ABM Metrics (3a)
36. Engagement
Are the right people at the account spending time with
your company, is that engagement going up over time?
“Big 5” ABM Metrics (3b)
Marketing Qualified Account (MQA):
An account (or discrete buying center) that
has reached enough aggregate engagement.
37. Program Impact
Are marketing programs reaching the target accounts?
How much waste is there?
“Big 5” ABM Metrics (4)
FOCUS
%ofsuccessesfrom
targetaccounts
COVERAGE…
38. Influence
How are the ABM activities improving sales outcomes such as
deal velocity, win rates, average contract values, retention, and
net promoter scores
“Big 5” ABM Metrics (5)
• “Top 25% engagement = 18% faster sales cycles.”
• “Accounts with >three engaged contacts = 15%
higher contract values.”
• “Accounts that attended that dinner = 16% more
movement to next opp stage.”
39. ABM Market Map
Selection Insights Content Interactions Orchestration Measurement
Identify target
accounts and
contacts
Understand
what is relevant
and resonant at
account
(triggers,
priorities, etc.)
Create
account-
specific
content and
messaging to
use in
outreach
Manage 1:1
account-specific
interactions in
channel –
Events, Outbound,
Digital (ads, web)
Orchestrate
intelligent
account plans
across teams
and channels
Show impact of
ABM efforts:
coverage,
awareness,
engagement,
impact,
influence
Complementary
WebAds
DataPredictive
Paid
Insights
Sales
SDR
Direct
40. • Account-based marketing coordinates
personalized marketing and sales efforts to land
and expand named accounts
• ABM delivers the highest ROI of any B2B
marketing strategy or tactic
• Outbound does not necessarily mean
interruption; use account-specific content to reach
out
• There is no magic campaign; success comes
from a mix of integrated tactics
• Leads are insufficient to measure account-based
marketing; measure via coverage, awareness,
engagement, impact & influence
Tweetable Takeaways
@jonmiller
@funnelholic
ABM is an investment in time and resources so you MUST focus on accounts with highest ROI
ABM is an investment in time and resources so you MUST focus on accounts with highest ROI
Why now? What about mobile, social, cloud, etc. makes this inevitable?
Harder than ever to reach decision makers with traditional tactics
New ways to reach buyers (individually-addressable touch-points, real-time ad buying)
Shift from campaign-marketing to “always on” mindset requires integration
Big data / predictive analytics allow marketers to understand the complexity of relationships and buyer context, and match personalized content accordingly
Buyers delaying engagement with sales ; harder to reach CXOs {happened in velocity, needs to happen in XYZ}
Decomposition of the nice/clean customer funnel… no longer just awareness, familiarity, consideration, etc. Useful model, but. Really a set of nodes, interactions (through a connected device)
New ways to reach buyers
Proliferation of “connected customers” and customer data -- smart phones, smart devices (50B connected devices)
behind every device is a customer → data proliferation
From campaigns to “always on”
Big data / predictive (understand the complexity of the relationships, context)
Needs new ways to measure
Wrong: what we want to say, how we want to say it target the right people
RIGHT: who we want to target what and how to say it
Lots of feelings about some Sales reps not getting it, some that do; frustration “we’re trying to help them but they don’t cooperate”
Need to LISTEN
Content Solution:
Automated content discovery (+ import nurture)
Templates + cloud based labor (Odesk, Scripted, Newscred)
AI agents
Custom
Marketo success with InMail re: Innovate program from Jim Drake - 35% open rate, 13 responses. ($25K) (CB)
Social networking can be following someone, retweeting, etc.
Can also be seeing who they know…
Marketo success with InMail re: Innovate program from Jim Drake - 35% open rate, 13 responses. ($25K) (CB)
Social networking can be following someone, retweeting, etc.
Can also be seeing who they know…
The “law of large numbers” breaks down in narrow funnel -- can’t use vanity metrics, can’t count on volumes
Only need one deal to make a program ROI look good – noisy data
----- Meeting Notes (8/4/15 13:26) -----
account-based on Sales and Success; not marketing
open to influence as a metric
demandbase: vertical audiences
T1: 300 top accounts (whales)
T2: 300 next