Curious to understand how the Marketo marketing team creates tight alignment with sales? Join Hally Pinaud, Principle Product Marketing Manager at Marketo for our webinar, Marketo's Secrets to Sales Partnership! You'll learn what types of content work best to engage sales, how to develop a shared strategy for reaching the right customers and exactly how to create and effective ongoing line of communication between Marketing and Sales leadership.
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Marketo's Secrets to Sales Partnership
1. Marketo’s Secrets to Sales Partnership
Hally Pinaud
Principal Segment Marketing Manager
Marketo
@hallypino
Noelle Ruiz
Sr. Segment Marketing Specialist
Marketo
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Housekeeping
4. 79%
of customers only
consider brands that
show they understand
and care about ‘me.’
(Wunderman)
57%
of customers expect
a consistent end-to-
end experience.
(Marketo)
33%
of B2B customers
feel like brands
understand them.
(Marketo)
5. “Relationship between sales and
marketing is only getting stronger and
tighter, and it’s necessitated by having a
common experience for the customer.”
12. Creating Marketing & Sales Focus
Non-ICP Accounts
Target Accounts
Named
AccountsINBOUND: Target Accounts:
Marketing will focus programs here to provide a
pipeline of demand beyond the Named Accounts.
INBOUND + OUTBOUND: Named Accounts:
Accounts assigned to AEs. Sales team will focus on
outbounding to these accounts. Marketing provides
support as needed.
~50 or 250 accounts/ AE
Ideal Customer Profile:
Defines the type of accounts we want to target
Non-ICP Accounts:
Accounts that are not a product/market fit for
Marketo and should not be targeted at present
19. Pulling it all Together: Sales Plays
Sales Portal
+
ToutApp
20. Example: Credit Union Sales Kit
• Industry Play: Kit that includes assets
for all stages of the sales cycle
• Positioning & Outbounding
• Credibility: Customer Stories, Analyst
Reports
• Objections and Internal Selling
• eBooks, Infographics, Blogs
• Specific opportunity
• Easy to replicate
• Accessible
• Linked to Emails + Touches in
ToutApp
22. How do we do that?
• Revenue Team Kick Off – strategy is communicated
• Weekly Emails
• Segment sales meetings
• Weekly all hands – to present plays/content/activities
• Monthly global call – to present plays/content/activities
• Weekly forecast meetings – to validate strategy/give updates
• FLM monthly meeting – feedback + discussion
• Weekly 1:1 with marketing + sales leader(s)
• AE and SDR!
Reinforce! Reinforce! Reinforce!
23. But is it Working?
Don’t just throw support over the fence:
• Follow up frequently before/after launching a play
• Check in with broad questions/surveys at all levels
• Audit use and effectiveness
Amazingly effective… hard to argue with anything that says you’ll be 15% more profitable… but linear construct for thinking about sales and marketing. Why is that?
To illustrate the point further. Let’s compare ABM to traditional B2B marketing.
Traditional B2B marketing is often done in a broad reaching way – which you see depicted visually on the left side here. Most marketers try to get their word out….as far and wide as possible…. by leveraging a bunch of different marketing channels: from their website, to email to paid ads, earned media and on and on.
And they try to put out as much content as possible across these channels: eBooks, whitepapers, videos, case studies, bylined articles and so on. That broad reaching approach describes most of the modern B2B marketing we see today.
The hope for these marketers is that by casting a very wide net, as far and as wide as possible, and by putting out as much content as possible out the world, that it will act as a big huge marketing magnet and draw in a huge number of leads into your funnel. And of course, the more leads you have at the top of the funnel, the more wins you’ll generate at the bottom of the funnel. It’s all about going after a large swath of your buying market with a loud voice, and maximizing the volume of leads that go through the funnel.
On the other hand, ABM is in many ways the opposite. It’s about getting all your resources - your program dollars AND your people (including your sales and marketing teams) - working together in a coordinated way to go after very specific accounts. It’s not about amplifying your voice across a wide swath of the market. It’s about taking a very direct approach to engage very specific target accounts.
Next week – get everyone together on segments and audiences to target and why?
Map this with numbers and resource gaps.
Based on what we recommend, here are some ideas for themes to discuss.
Be strategic: A lot of times we will have assets already created that either need a little refresh or are good to go. Pulling assets together to make a kit /one stop shop goes a long way and will get your sales team to start using the assets they forgot were there. Less time and resources needed to be used to create the same vale.