ABM campaigns are about making one-on-one human connections despite the impersonal barriers of big business. If you want to cut through the noise, reach your champion and sway a whole organization you need to act outside of the inbox. Join this webinar with TJ Nokleby, Manager of Demand Generation at InsideSales and Daniel Gaugler, VP of Marketing at PFL to learn how InsideSales is using a human touch in their ABM campaign to drive engagement with enterprise accounts.
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Housekeeping
4. Who We Are
We help companies make remarkable customer
connections with tactile marketing (print, mail, dimensional
mail, gifts) integrated into the Marketing Automation and
CRM software systems they already use.
6. The Effect of Direct Mail on Recipients
http://www.slideshare.net/canadapost/direct-mail-neuroscienceperspective040814
Leaves a deeper footprint in the brain.
Integration of visual and spatial information
in the parietal lobe.
Milward Brown, 2009 Study
The red area in the images of the brain represents
greater oxygenated blood flow (and hence activation)
stimulated by physical ads. The blue areas are regions
activated more by visual ads. The “cross hairs” highlight
the named brain region.
Drives more emotional processing.
Important for memory and brand associations.
Results in greater internalization.
Responses connected with internal feelings,
in the MPFC and cingulate.
7. What’s the last prospecting
EMAIL you remember?
What’s the last PACKAGE
you remember?
8. Incorporate Direct Mail into Your ABM Efforts
Initial Engagement Stuck Deals Creating Advocates
14. Building your ABM Campaign
Who
Target Accounts
• How many to target
• Who to target
• Budget
Target Contacts
• Conduct research and identify
individuals
Account Research
& Persona Creation
• Identify account level and
contact level pain points,
goals, etc.
• Create contact personas
CMO CIO VP Sales End User CFO CEO
15. Who What How Measure
Customized Content for Each Persona
• Content should speak to specific
persona pain points.
• Sell a solution to their specific
problem.
16. Who What How Results
Deliver the Message
Deep sales and
marketing alignment
Cater the medium to
the persona
Integrate cross-channel
programs
Take time to build the
campaign the right way
18. Our Campaign: Tactile Marketing
What do you send the CEO/CRO of a
Fortune 500 company?
• Create a tactile piece that’s memorable
and ties to your campaign/product
• Don’t be too cute.
20. Our Campaign: Flow
CEO to CEO
& CRO to CRO
AE to VP of
Sales Ops, VP
of Inside
Sales, Dir. of
Sales Ops
AE to
CRO/Head of
Sales, CFO,
CIO
Steve Young Signed
Football/Branded
Football
CEO/CRO
Follow-up Email
Marketing Email 1
(HDF Awareness
eBook)
AE Follow-up
Phone/email 1
Marketing Email 1
(HDF Awareness)
AE Follow-up
Phone/Email 1
Marketing Email 2
(HDF Engage)
AE Follow-up
Phone/Email 2
Marketing Email 2
(HDF Engage)
AE Follow-up
Phone/Email 2
Mini Footballs +
Infographic Poster
AE Follow-up
Phone/Email 3
AE Follow-up
Phone/Email 3
Direct Mail (Invite
to Event/Dinner)
Marketing Email 3
(Digital Invite/
Follow-up to DM)
AE Phone 4
(Follow-up to DM)
AE Phone 4
(Follow-up to
DM)
Marketing Email 4
(HDF Convert)
AE Follow-up
Phone/Email 5
Marketing Email
4 (HDF Convert)
AE Follow-up
Phone/Email 5
EVENT
WEEK
21. Our Campaign: Results
2x Pipeline
In 6 weeks we created as
much pipeline as sales or
revenue of the whole
previous year!
15x
ROI
You have my
attention.“ ”
22. Key Learnings
Sales and marketing alignment is key
Take time to create a compelling campaign and
plan out every detail
Tactile piece is key to breaking through to top accounts
Leverage your executives to help your AE’s get in the door
You can never over communicate to your sales team
23. Daniel Gaugler
VP of Marketing
@dgaugler
QUESTIONS?
Additional Resources:
7 Sales Cadence Templates to Double Your Contact
Rates in 20 Days
http://www.insidesales.com/white-paper/sales-
cadence-templates/
Account Based Mail: Using Direct Mail in Your ABM:
http://pfl.com/abm
TJ Nokleby
Manager of
Demand Generation
Janet of Marketo is moderating and doing housekeeping/introductions—kick it over to Daniel
Daniel—thanks Janet and thanks everyone for joining us today.
I’m really excited to be hear today with the Marketing Nation.
First I like to start off on making everyone jealous of where we live. We are located in Montana just a stones throw from the Yellowstone river and minutes away from world class ski hills.
PFL provides technology solutions that drive engagement with your prospects and customers, by adding a new/old channel to your marketing. Beyond technology we also do print, mail and fulfilment to make executing on multi- channel campaigns easy.
Enough about us.
Let’s talk about Account Based marketing. –the marketing buzzword of 2016 and likely 2017.
While Account based marketing focuses on the account, hence the name. One thing that is important to remember is we are still marketing to people at these targeted accounts.
I think it’s common sense that people generally prefer to be treated like people, right?
Today we’ll talk about how we can create personalized touches with our ABM campaigns that are more human.
I’ll start by sharing a best practices and then hand it off to our customer TJ from Inside sales to share their case study and how they are doing this in live campaigns.
First lets talk about why adding a new channel to your ABM programs is a good idea.
Not only does doing a tactile send get delivered to a different inbox, than the one your trying not to look at right now.
But direct mail tangible and gives a since of something real. It brings your brand to life and stimulates different senses than our digital marketing counterpart. And this experience makes the interaction more memorable.
In this recent technical paper about the neuro science, most of which I didn’t understand shared research on how a interacting with something physical incites different areas of our brain.
The key takeaways are that these physical interactions
Leave a deeper footprint in the brain
Drive more emotional processing
And this happens because direct mail engages parts of the brain that have to do with visual and spatial information, “suggesting that physical material is more ‘real’ to the brain. It has a meaning and a place.
This connects direct mail to your prospect’s memory and emotional centers, creating a powerful connection unique to tangible marketing.
OK enough with the neuro science – and on to marketing.
Do you find yourself endlessly checking your email, hoping that some stranger just sent you something.
-Which is why email can be real challenge particularly in ABM. Many times you are trying to engage people who don’t know who you are. And even if you’ve done the research, and created a super personal email-
--the odds are stacked against you, and chance are it’s highly likely it won’t even get opened let alone read.
It’s easy for emails to get ignored or deleted if the recipient has never engaged with you before—remember, people get hundreds of emails a day.
Contrast that to your reaction to when you see a FedEx package on your desk? – I know for me, I can’t wait to open it. My two year old feels the same, checking the mail is fun.
Most people are lucky to get one package in a week, so the likelihood of them opening and engaging with your direct mail piece is high.
So imagine adding that same level personalization you put into that email and delivering that to your prospect with a tactile touch. And then you send that personal email or make that phone call. The odds of creating engagement go up substantially.
We’ve talked about Direct mail can create engagement and be memorable.
So how’s this fit into ABM? If your thinking about launching an ABM campaign it’s important to think about the what I call the “Stuck Points.”
The most common stuck points we hear about are:
Initial engagement
Use this tactic to warm up an account not just a lead. Make it a conversation starter.
Stuck deals
Getting advocates to talk about you.
But can assist in moving metrics through out your entire funnel. From driving new leads, to retargeting, to accelerating your pipeline, to creating advocacy.
OK, we’ve discussed that Direct mail alone can create stronger connections with prospects because of its nature. So let’s discuss how we can get the most out of this channel.
Just like in digital marketing we have learned that: Personalization is a multiplier: When we improve Relevance and Timing it will dramatically improves our results
You might be asking yourself how does this level of personalization scale. Platform like Marketo… can help us leverage all of our existing data; From there you can take that data to define personas that drive your personalization.
And don't always target just the decision makers. Buy-in from influencers is crucial as well, and the shareable nature of tangible marketing collateral will kick start a conversation about you.
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An average of 17 different people are involved in the decision making process for enterprise purchases and each of those people will pull a different weight in that decision.
Each will also have different needs, pain points, goals, motivations, etc. These could vary depending on whether or not you're talking to sales versus marketing, operational people versus managers and directors and so on, so it's important that you keep direct mail sends aligned with a prospect's persona and role in the buying cycle.
The obvious challenge to including direct mail in an ABM campaign is scalability.
And don't always target just the decision makers. Buy-in from influencers is crucial as well, and the shareable nature of tangible marketing collateral will kick start a conversation about you. Chatter among influencers can grow into a storm decision makers can't ignore. Lower cost sends make sense to this audience, but they will still be meaningful and engaging.
Think of your direct mail piece as a blank canvas. Everything can be dynamic based on the data to make the piece more impactful
Use variable content and images that will resonate with the company and persona you’re targeting.
Also don’t forget the timing aspects.
Factor in behavioral triggers.
Examples:
You can trigger the send of "meeting maker" packages to decision makers once your account reaches a specified score threshold.
Or, you can trigger the send of a printed guide book when a target prospect visits a specific product page on your website.
The key to great ABM is personalization. Personalize by persona, but then kick things up a notch later in the sales cycle with "personality" personalization. Take information from sales conversations and social profiles to identify things the prospect enjoys, such as food, outdoor activities, travel etc. Then surprise and delight that prospect with a direct mail package that ties into their interests and a note that prompts them to complete the desired behavior, whether it is to give you a call back or sign the contract.
People who receive packages are 10 times more likely to act when asked for something in return, so this can be a highly effective tool for your sales team. Just as you did with personas, you can make this strategy scalable by grouping personality interests into categories and then choosing a direct mail package for each.
The key to using direct mail in an ABM campaign is keeping it multi-channel. Direct mail should never be set-and-forget—your efforts will be much more successful when integrated with account based emails, phone calls and web personalization. This way contacts will get a consistent set of messages across the channels, progressing them through their path to purchase.
TJ at InsideSales.com is running an awesome multi-channel ABM campaign, and I’m going to kick it over to him now to share how he’s doing it.
Tell us more about yourself and InsideSales.com and give a quick overview about why you chose ABM as a marketing approach/why it works for your business.
(Maybe mention how you guys are based in the Utah “Silicon Slopes”…we also refer to ourselves in a similar manner, being nestled in the Montana mountains.
Quick preview of what you’re going to talk about:
Building an Enterprise ABM Campaign
Using Tactile Marketing to Reach to Decision Maker
Results/Learnings
Everything starts with Sales/Marketing alignment
Marketing presented budget, how many accounts.
Together, we decided who to target, list criteria, finalized campaign
Persona Based Marketing(PBM)/Enterprise Accounts (Fortune 500)
CRO/Head of Sales, CEO, CFO, Sales Ops
After determining our target personas, we started to create personalized and relevant messages for our various personas so we could start building out our campaign.
(Explain your messaging strategy briefly and why the messaging works for your various personas)
Build content that will speak to their specific pain point for their respective job title. Sell a solution to their specific problem.
Cater the medium to the specific title.
Ex. Tactile to CEO (email most likely won’t cut through)
Take the time to build the campaign the right way (map it out). You may not get another chance with the Account.
So, you should cater messaging to specific personas, and you should also cater the medium to personas.
Cater the medium to the specific title.
Ex. Tactile to CEO (email most likely won’t cut through)
Take the time to build the campaign the right way (map it out). You may not get another chance with the Account.
(Touch on the value of integrated, cross-channel campaigns)
Importance of sales/marketing alignment through all of this…
Campaign
6 Week Campaign/Nurture
Tactile Pieces, Email, Phone
Product: HD Forecast – InsideSales.com’s AI Forecasting Tool
What do you get the CEO/CRO of a Fortune 500 company?
Amazon Echo? He/she can buy whatever they want.
You’re marketing to Fortune 500 accounts, not asking a them to a high school dance.
Create a tactile piece that’s memorable and ties to your campaign/product
Don’t be too cute. “People are just “nuts” (gifting a bag of nuts) about our product…”
PFL helped as a great sounding board from their experience of what has worked for other clients.
Signed/Branded Footballs (Quarterback of their sales organization)
Personal Note from InsideSales.com’s CEO or CRO (depending on title)
Through PFL, was able to trigger the football via Marketo, have notifications when the footballs were delivered, and trigger an automated email from our CEO/CFO (50% open rate on those emails)
X % increase in pipeline (in 6 weeks we created as much pipeline as the previous year for HD forecast)
2x pipeline created in 6 weeks than revenue for the previous year (for HDF).
15x ROI (Est.)
Top tier Fortune 500 accounts
Walked into meeting and the customer brought out football, “you have my attention”
Sales and marketing alignment is key
Take the time to create a compelling campaign and plan out every detail
Tactile piece is key to breaking through to top accounts
Leverage your executives to help your AE’s get in the door
You can never over communicate to your sales team the details and activities of the ABM campaign. Use PFL/Marketo to give visibility to each AE on what is happening with their accounts