Cybersecurity Awareness Training Presentation v2024.03
11 Tips to Optimize Your Multichannel Marketing Campaigns
1. 11 Tips From the Front Lines
to Optimize Your Multichannel
Marketing Campaigns
Presented by Tom Judge
•VP Strategy, Direct Marketing Partners (DMP)
•VP Co-Chair, DMA Northern California
•Program Chair, NorCal BMA Sales Lead Roundtable
2. Your Presenter
Tom Judge – VP Strategy Direct Marketing Partners (DMP)
– Vice President DMA Northern California Chapter
– Contributor Sales Lead Management Association
www.salesleadmgmtassoc.org
– Program Chair NorCal BMA Sales Lead Roundtable
www.norcalbma.org
– Former Instructor on Sales Lead Mgmt .
• San Jose State University and UC prof dev. programs
.
3. About You
Informal Survey
_ B2B Sales & Marketing?
_ Complex sale process?
_ High lifetime value customers?
_ Last year?
.
4. Agenda
• Challenges in B2B Multi-Touch Campaigns
• 11 Tips to Fix
• Case Studies with Metrics
6. Strategic B2B Marketing Objectives for 2013
Source:
CSO Insights Lead Mgmt. Optimization Study, 2013 Key Trend Analysis.
7. Make No mistake, the goal of demand
generation is sales!
However the survey uncovered real problems…
The average number of B2B sales reps making quota in
2012 was only 63%
The average number of firms that achieved their 2012
corporate revenue goals was only 42%
Source:
CSO Insights Sales Performance Optimization Study, 2013 Key Trend Analysis.
11. Tip 1: Become a “Lead-To-Sale” Doctor
• Develop & live a “lead-to-sales” philosophy
• Develop your skills, or have staff, or a vendor that can
diagnose a broken or inefficient lead-to-sale process
• Figure the issues out and implement solutions
• Attitude is key
12. Tip 2: Unify the “Lead-to-Sale” funnel plans
into One
Map buying process by segment or solution
Map the selling process for each solution type
Marry up the two funnel processes as one
You can’t fix it till you know it end to end
Build perfect prospect profiles and buyer personas for each
Identify where they go for solutions, ideas and information
13. Tip 3: Define a “Sales-Ready Lead”
A sales lead that will close!
Design lead criteria based on the perfect prospect profile
Gather sales team input & buy in
Action item: Document and have sales
reps sign off on a sales action SLA document
Warning: Don’t pass unqualified leads to sales, they fail
14. We surveyed sales and here is what they want:
The digital behavior lead score PLUS information
on the actual opportunity
• Digital information verified
Contact information tele-validated
Web and content activity shared
• Right market segment or customer category
• BANT + details on the prospect & opportunity
• Needs to be addressed…
• Size of opportunity…
• Time frame and is there a sense of Urgency…
• Access to funding or ability to obtain or is bus case
needed
• Willingness to move forward and engage with sales?
• Appointment is warranted and set with sales team
15. For complex B2B sales leads
go beyond digital body language scoring
• Pinocchio Principle
• Be aware that some people do not tell the truth on line
• Research shows 69% admit to this
• Many suspects are not “qualified”, however they
consume content and give off false digital signals
• Prospects don’t disclose pain & needs details on line
• The “Sticky Funnel” conundrum
• All of these issues consume significant
sales resources
16. Example of a true “Sales-Ready” Lead
Company FirstName LastName Title Address1 Address2 City State Zip email
LastActivity
_Date
Indiana Department Of Homeland
Security Name Name Information Technology Director 302 W Washington Street Indianapolis IN 46204 1235555555NAME@dhs.in.gov 7/23/2013
Des Moines Police Department Name Name Budget Director 25 E 1st St Des Moines IA 50309 1235555555NAME@dmgov.org 7/26/2013
Saratoga Springs City Police Department Name Name Information Technology Director 5 Lake Avenue Saratoga Springs NY 12866 1235555555
NAME@saratoga-
springs.org 8/6/2013
Dallas City Hall Name Name
Manager of Communication and
Information Services 1500 Marilla St Dallas TX 75215 1235555555NAME@dallascityhall.com 8/12/2013
City of Miami Police Department Name Name Lieutenant 400 Northwest 2nd Avenue Miami FL 33128 1235555555NAME@miami-police.org 8/15/2013
City of Houston Mission Critical
Communications Department Name Name
Assistant Director Of Information
Technology 523 North Sam Houston East Houston TX 77060 1235555555NAME@houstontx.gov 8/26/2013
Lead Rating
Score
What is your role in
the process?
describe your current
infrastructure?
how would you rate your existing
environment:
Security
Rating
Reliability
Rating
Scalability
Rating
Availability
Rating
Overall
Rating
Need Driving
Implementation of a
private network Budget
method of
procurement timeframe
working with
anyone
fromABC?
Appointm
ent?
B Lead Recommender
Currently on a public network using various carriers such as
Verizon and AT and T. 4 4 4 4 4Plan for Future Allocated Grant 1-2 years No Yes
C Lead Recommender Verizon Open Public Network Satisfactory Satisfactory Satisfactory Plan for Future Planned Budget Allocation 2-3 years Yes Yes
B Lead Decision Maker Verizon Air Cards 5 5 5 5 Security Planned Budget Allocation 1-2 years No Yes
A Lead Decision Maker Currently using aircards which are not efficient average below average Plan for Future Planned Budget Allocation 0-12 months Yes Yes
C Lead Decision Maker Verizon and Att Air Cards 5 5 5 5 Plan for Future Planned Budget Allocation 2-3 years No Yes
A Lead Decision Maker
They are currently on a public network and are using
commercial carriers such as Verizon and Sprint within
Houston City. 2 2 4 2 3Plan for Future Allocated Don't Know 0-12 months No Yes
17.
18. When is it OK to stop at Digital Body
Language when setting qualification
criteria?
• When you have the following conditions
• You have a broad horizontal market and can’t
engage on a 1:1 basis affordably
• Large market which is influenced via social media
• Have a large sales network with their own 1:1
process
• Have a lower price point, or margin or
transactional sale process
19. Tip 4: Quantify the needs
Create A Lead-To-Sales Requirements Calculator
Sample Lead Requirements Calculator
Scenario Requirements
ANNUAL SALES REVENUE GOALS: $13,000,000
Sales Revenue Goals/Quarter $3,250,000
Revenue per sale $115,000
# Closed Sales Required/QTR 28.3 Or 9.3 Closes/mo.
Estimated Closed Rate on Pipeline Proposal Opportunities 25%
# Qual Leads That Must Convert to Pipeline Proposals/QTR 113
Est. forward conversion rate fromsales-readylead into Pipeline 40%
# Qualified Sales -ReadyLeads Required per
Quarter (Prospects meeting sales-readycriteria)
283
# Qualified Sales-ReadyLeads Required per
Month (Prospects meeting sales-readycriteria)
94
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20. Tip 5: Create lead gen plans to fill the funnel
Sales Lead Campaign Planning Model: DM + EM + OB Tele-qualification nurturing sequences
Metrics B A Funnel Model
Campaign Plan
A Monthly: Various Email marketing broadcasts to house lists 20,000
Estm. Inquiry Response Rate: 2% Landing Page X 25% submit form 0.50%
Estm. # IB Inquiries Received (Not Yet Qualified) 100
B Monthly: Direct Mail campaign 7,000
Estm. Inquiry Response Rate: 6% to Landing Page & 25% submit & BRC combined 1.50%
Estm. # IB Inquiries Received (Not Yet Qualified) 105
Estm. Lead Tele-Qualification Conversion Rate into Sales-Ready lead stage: 10.00%
Ttl. Hr.
C Metric: Estm. OB Tele-qualification calls to IB responders/mo. 720 18.0
Metric: Estm. OB Tele-qualification calls to non-responders/mo. 7704 4.00
Metric: Tele-qualification completed interviews/hr. (Fully presented & profiled)/hr. 2.00
Estm. OB Tele-qualification calling hrs/mo. to IB inquiry responder group 40.00
Estm. OB Tele-qualification calling hrs/mo: To Non-responder group 428.00
Estm. Total Tele-Qualification interviews/scripts completed/mo. 936
Estm. # pre-qualified sales-ready leads/mo. From Responder group: 8
Estm. # pre-qualified sales-ready leads/mo. From Non-responder group: 86
Total Leads Per Month Pre-Qualified for Sales: 94
Revenue D C Estm. Budget
Month 1: TeleQualification $33,400 Prog Mgmt, QC, reporting, incl.
# of Qualified Sales-Ready "A" Leads Generated/Mo: MQL 94 Tele Qual set up $1,500
Estm. Pipeline Value Created/mo. (Using ASP $115k) $10,764,000 Dir Mail Creative $38,182 One time
Estm. Lead "Conversion into Sales Pipeline Opportunity" Rate 40.0% Dir Mail + Postage $27,000 Estimate $4x6700
# of Leads Reaching Sales Forecast/Proposal/mo. 37 Email LP Creative $0 Included in Dir Mail Creative cost
Estimated proposal pipeline value created per month $4,305,600 Premium $5,600 Estimating $20 x 280 A leads
Estm. Close % on Sales Pipeline Opportunities: 25.0% Lists (em bcast TM) $0 House
# Deals Closed/Month 9.4 $105,682
Average Sales Price Range (Initial Sale Revenue) $115,000
Estm. Revenue Generated/Year from each month's pipeline: $1,076,400 Month 2: TeleQualification $33,400 Prog Mgmt, QC, reporting, incl.
Mo. 1 Tele Qual set up $0
Estm. Budget/Month: $105,682 Emarketing $0 Included in SOW
Cost per Qualified Sales-Ready "A" Lead: $1,129 Dir Mail + Postage $27,000 Estimate $4x6700
Cost per Proposal Pipeline Lead: $2,823 Lists (em bcast TM) $0 Assumes Publisher sends
Estm. Revenue ROI on each $ Invested: $10.19 to $1 $60,400
Mo. 2, 3 Month3: TeleQualification $33,400 Prog Mgmt, QC, reporting, incl.
Estm. Budget/Month: $60,400 Tele Qual set up $0
Cost per Qualified Sales-Ready Lead: $645 Emarketing $0 Included in SOW
Cost per Proposal Pipeline Lead: $1,613 Dir Mail + Postage $27,000 Estimate $4x6700
Estm. Revenue ROI on each $ Invested: $17.82 to $1 Lists (em bcast TM) $0 Assumes Publisher sends
$60,400
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Quarterly Budget $226,482 All Rights Reserved
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21. Tip 6: Implement an agile marketing system &
lead mgmt. team that gives you end to end
visibility into all of your campaigns
Action item: Have the right talent, systems and an executive
dashboard reporting tool to manage your lead-to-sale funnel
22. Tip 7: Improve targeting
Assess & improve prospect data accuracy
then segment prospects into smaller sets
Action item: Don’t boil the ocean. Clean prospect data, then
compare campaign performance by segment to identify better
performing markets to focus resources better..
23. Tip 8: Use multi-touch campaigns to serve up
relevant content, offers, personalized messaging
to engage prospects with your compelling story
Action item: Create a multi-touch sequence of relevant
content to deliver to prospects over time to earn the right to
engage and ask the peer level qualification questions.
24. Example: Rovi Multi-Channel Campaign
9 components: Personalized content and messaging via dimensional mail,
email, 2 banner ads, social/twitter, web site, landing page, the online trivia
game and a tele-qualification team
30. Case: Rovi’s front line
Tele-prospecting/Tele-qualification team
brings it all together
Has become their ultimate personalization touch point
This pre-sales team syncs all the components, digital and
off line into the tele-qualification process
Helps solve prospect problems with the right information
This allows us to earn the right to ask the detailed qualification
questions needed by the sales team to prepare to engage
Allows us to close on meetings with the sales teams
Works for Rovi’s b2b complex solutions where the goal is
to optimize the sales team’s time and resources
Action item: Multi-Channel Multi-Touch is the
new norm. Test it if you are not already using it.
31. Tip 9: Consider peer-to-peer tele-qualification
in the touch process at the right time
Action item: We suggest running a three-month A/B test using
email + telemarketing in the lead nurturing and qualification process
and measure the ROI.
Hint: Use the peer-to-peer approach
32. This improvement was recently documented
in Aberdeen’s research
Sales related KPIs rated higher in this b2b model
33. Dispelling the Marketing Automation “Solves it All” Myth
Sirius Decisions has now inserted Tele-qualification to
increase the sales qualification information gathered, boost
lead quality &conversions
36. Metrics – Email alone
EM Broadcast to 14,769
EM Click Through @ 1%= 161
Conversion to Demo @ 10% = 16
Qual. Lead = Interest & Registered for Demo
.1% conversion ratio of EM sent to qual. demo
lead
37. Metrics - Email with outbound
tele-prospecting integrated
OBTM follow up calls to non-responders
@ 7,513
Prospects Contacted & Graded
@ 33%= 2,511
Now cleaned & captured, most are now in the opt-in
database
Prospects Scripts Completed & Needs Captured
@ 26%= 662
1:1 relationships now established
Conversion to Demo Sales-Ready Leads
@ 32% = 217
Qual. Lead = Interest & Registered for Demo
2.9% conversion ratio of Calls to qual. demo lead
38. Results: Conversion rate boost of 13X
Conversion to Demo:
From 16 via em alone to 217 via combined em + tm
Email, Conversion to
Demo, 16
217
13.6
Multi Channel Boost
Email Telemarketing
39. Tip 10: Prospect nurturing is critical
Action item: Use your multi channel lead management touch
metrics dashboard to track response as you make multiple contacts
and thus identify the best combinations to reach the point of
optimizing conversions to “sales-ready”. AKA, that “sweet spot”
40. Lead nurturing yields more “Sales-Ready” leads
Touches
# of
Lead
s
% of
Total 'A'
Leads
Cumulative % of
Leads (right axis)
1 57 26.1% 26.1%
2 50 22.9% 49.1%
3 29 13.3% 62.4%
4 26 11.9% 74.3%
5 18 8.3% 82.6%
6 12 5.5% 88.1%
7 12 5.5% 93.6%
8 5 2.3% 95.9%
9 4 1.8% 97.7%
10 3 1.4% 99.1%
14 1 0.5% 99.5%
15 1 0.5% 100.0%
Analysis of the number of nurturing call/s & email touches needed to
develop suspects into “Sales-Ready Qualified” leads
41. Tip 11: Analyze KPI metrics in light of the
original touch plan & make refinements
Action item: Analyze lead-to-sales conversion
metrics from end to end. Frequently adjust tactics to
43. Case 1: Anritsu multi-touch demand generation case
• North American div. of Anritsu Corp.
• Test & Measurement equipment
• Segment: Wireless telecom carriers they could not
penetrate
• Targets: “Tower Dogs” management
44. Anritsu demand generation case
The previous best practices outlined were followed
First we created aLead-To-Sales requirements study
Second we developed the lead generation multi-touch
metrics plan.
Then, we used the agile method to measure and
manage the campaigns as they unfolded
52. Anritsu Campaign: IB response rate metrics %
Drop Date Delivered
IB Response
Rate
Landing Page
Capture Rate
Qualification
Rate on LP
Submissions
DM-BTS PURL EVDO 9/08 679 6.63% 3.83%
DM-BTS PURL WCDMA 9/08 679 7.36% 4.27%
DM-BTS PURL WiMAX 9/08 59 13.56% 3.39%
TOTAL 1,417 103 = 7.27%
57 = 4.02% of
TTL Delivered
55% of LP
28 = 49% of
LP
Submissions
Broadcast
Metrics: Combined email and direct mail results
Response to direct mail & email broadcasts was outstanding.
7% visited the PURL, and 4% filled out the contact form or
55% of those going to LP
Industry norm qualification rate = 5% to 10%.
The BTS Master campaign’s multi-touch strategy improved
conversion to sales-ready lead five fold.
53. Anritsu outbound tele-prospecting to
non-responders touch metrics
Target calling touch metrics: For 57 IB responders & 1,410 non-responders
Project Metrics Overview
Funded
Call Hrs
Hours
Called
Remai
ning
Hours
List
Size
Number
of Calls
Comple
ted
Record
s
Compl
eted
Script
s
Calls/H
our
Record
s/Hour
Script
s/Hr
Call
Hrs/De
mo
Reg.
Demo %
of TCS
170.0 170.00 0.00 1,467 3,862 876 244 22.72 5.15 1.44 1.39 49.18%
Leads Campaign Results
A+ A- B C
Future
Opportu
nities
Total
Leads
&
Future
Opport
unities
New
Recor
ds
Uncalla
ble
Record
s
%
Uncalla
ble
Record
s
Opt-
Out
Inappro
priate
Contact
Referral
given
Inapprop
riate
contact,
No
Referral
given
31 34 53 2 2 122 111 298 34.0% 8 104 120
54. Anritsu combined campaign touch metrics
Drop Date Targets
Prospects
Engaged/
Updated
Validated
Presentation
Completed
(TCS) TTL
Completed
Scripts
Qualification
into Sales-
Ready Lead
from TCS
DM-BTS PURL EVDO 9/08 667 484 = 73% 126 =26% 70 = 56%
DM-BTS PURL WCDMA 9/08 626 390 = 62% 102 = 26% 47 = 46%
DM-BTS PURL WiMAX 9/08 37 19 = 51% 3 = 16% 0 = 0%
Addtl Others 9/08 137 34 = 25% 13 = 38% 3 = 23%
TOTAL 1,467 927 = 63% 244 = 26% 120 = 49%
Broadcast
Combined IB & OB Touch Metrics & Results
Total targets to pursue
Industry norm qualification rate = 5% to
10%. The BTS Master campaign’s
multi-touch strategy improved response
five fold.
58. About Direct Marketing Partners (DMP)
DMP is a lead management and lead funnel qualification
services provider for B2B selling firms
DMP provides customized lead-to-sales service bundles.
DMP teams are an extension of our clients’ demand gen teams.
Clients receive dedicated trained teams to execute multi-touch email,
direct mail and peer to peer tele-prospecting campaigns with marketing
automation and funnel metrics to optimize lead to sale conversions.
Editor's Notes
WelcomeDMA House keeping announcements
I’m quite focused on B2B sales lead management and process. I hope this passion will be shared and that you develop the critical thinking skills that you want to achieve.I’ll be frank, to the point and I must warn you. I see the insides of many sales lead programs, and at times they are not pretty. will tell it like I see it.I believe that’s why you’re here. No sugar coating, this is hard stuff.Note for your career. There are very few of us out there. So you will be yards ahead of your competition in my opinion.
With the sales quota bar raised, the sales teams are demanding higher quality sales leads so they can increase conversion rates.Your goal; is to optimize the lead to sale process with the least resources. To do this we’ll need to know the processes and find the gaps or black holes to fix and move forward. All other efforts must fall under this objective.
Context: My background and case examples are B2B. One of which won an ECHO award at the DMA. I’ll insert action items for you.When you print the presentation be sure to select the Notes Page view.Most of my examples will be from firms with a complex sale process and a high lifetime value.My company manages many sales lead programs and measures all their KPIs, so the examples will be very relevant to these best practice tips that we see working.My assumption, is that you are all doing demand generation now in your jobs, and are running multi touch campaigns of some magnitude. And that you want to improve.
No surprises here from the SALES perspective
Sales is still top from the marketing survey and perspective
Sales teams are demanding higher quality sales leads.Sales quotas are up but sales teams are still flat.
Note: Marketing Sherpa published a report that 73% of B2B marketers send unqualified (Non-Sales-ready) leads to the sales teams! Problems?!Studies show that higher quality sales leads have shorter sales cycles and higher close rates.There needs to be a way to deliver higher quality sales opportunities that take fewer sales cycles.
Conversion of low quality leads to first meetings is terrible!With the sales quota bar raised, the sales teams are demanding higher quality sales leads so they can increase conversion rates. THEY ARE IGNORING low quality sales leads!Your goal; is to optimize the lead to sale process with the least resources. To do this we’ll need to know the processes and find the gaps or black holes to fix and move forward. All other efforts must fall under this objective.
Doctor or Detective
I assume that most if not all of you have developed lead gen plans and sales process plans to some degree.Now integrate the 2 into 1 and document the process.
The digital information is corrected or refined at this stageThen digital information is included in the sales lead.BANT + refers the additional details that sales teams need to justify a sales campaign on the opportunity. Budget, Authority, Timeframe are general categories that you should customize based on your scenario. They are NOT cast in concrete.During this process, several significant advancements are made.Respect and a peer-to-peer level relationship should be established with the nature of the helpful information you are discussing and collecting at this point.A competitive advantage will emerge for your brand as a leader who is doing their homework in order to align the right resources at the right time.THIS WILL usually take multiple touches.Note it usually takes 7-13 or MORE touches to generate a sales-ready lead. Attend my Wednesday 9:00 workshop on this topic in room ___.Details are gathered which b2b buyers WILL NOT disclose on line.The Sales teams will not gather this information for you, if they do, they do not share with marketing. No intelligence gathered.
As a lead management and lead qualification firm, over the past 2 decades, we’ve see and processed tens of thousands of inbound inquiries from many sources and campaigns.Inquiries with various advanced filters and other data profiling enhancements included….We also track the conversion rates into sales-ready qualified lead condition. And we have observed several common pitfalls to often be the case.:They consume significant sales resources and marketing budget use. Refer back to the Forrester problem research.They also cause frustration and mistrust between sales and marketing.An alarming increase in cases of “the sticky funnel conundrum”When prospects do not progress down funnel, they get stuckRather, they go round and round in email and content, then stopThey do not score up into the sales-ready qualified level and do not self request a meeting with sales teamThey drop off the radarFirms do not know why, they have poor listening skills
Each is a category of several background questions under each of the BANT that will provide more detail.Here is an example of those categories.Then, you go into the additional background to find out more on the opportunity.
Caution issued for each of these scenarios
Now you need to quantify how many you’ll need to hit the sales goals: Tom will provide some deep diveThere will be multiple models for multiple market segments or solution/product lines.Have management sign off on these models!Run the numbers both bottom up and top down and create several models in your plan: Start at the buying processHow do they buy? Why would they buy any solution? Where do they research? How do they know they are in pain or have problems?? What are their triggers??Are they even aware they may have problems??Map the sales steps and current conversion rates to a saleCreate the multi touch demand generation, nurturing and lead qualification plan to feed that funnel. Create touch quotas for each touch metric.You will Measure all demand gen activities and compare back to these quotasAcknowledge that it takes multiple contacts before they decide to buy in most cases.
Here we show the demand gen/lead generation planning modules on one graphic.This is a summary plan of the “sales-ready” lead flows from each of the lead generation touch streams and a proforma budget, and a proforma sales and ROI estimator all in 1.Here we have a multi-touch 3 lead gen tactics under one model plan. EM, dir mail, tele-prospecting/qualificationThis starts with the need for 94 sales-ready leads to feed the sales team to hit their sales numbers.You’ll want to monitor these numbers daily and or at least weekly.Key stepsLead Quality (defined)Target prospect TAM & segments & what you haveFundamentals: Content, offer, messaging, hooks etc. to create IB responder pullBack into numbers requiredMulti=touch plan to qualify IB respondersMulti=touch plan to OB prospect the non-responders to fill the shortfall
Team of experts with tools is the key:Lack of talent is hurting firms a great deal. Consider partnering with a lead development lead management agency for the resources. This is becoming the norm.Regarding the Over Reliance on Marketing automation as the short cut:We are advocates of designing and automation process where it makes sense. However some firms are not using marketing automation to their advantage.Marketing automation has not solved the lead quality problem, in some cases its worse!Expand on this at the Wednesday workshop at 9:00am.Firms struggle with some of the fundamentalsNail the end to end lead to sales process first be fore automating. PROCESS is key.After that, THEN seek to use marketing automation tools.Don’t rely on software to fix a human process. It will make it worse.Make sure that you can integrate ALL of your touch points and don’t stop at email or digital only!
Helps optimize and eliminate wasted spending in multiple areas.
Here is a case showing you what we mean about syncing the content and messaging and multiple touch points, etc.Sample of a highly personalized and intriguing campaign allowed us to engage the hardest target segment at Rovi. There were some responders but mostly non-responders who loved the contest idea.Rovi Corp provides meta data services to firms that sell on line or are entertainment media using digital media.Small number of target markets.High $ spenders in A and B accounts, C accounts are marginal, D accounts are not desirable but make up most of the responders. We must outbound the A/B and C non targets.Key= Target prospect list was pre cleaned and tele-validated by the presales team in the contact center.Package: Gold looking coins with serial numbers on them + printed collateral was personalized and mailed.Followed up with PURL email.Followed up with tele-qualification call sequences with more content over time.Trivia campaign about Rovi. Go on line and participate…
Then aPersonalizedEmail sent, serial numbered targets
Online banner ads
Online banner ads
Landing page allows them in to register and then play the trivia game.Very successful at using a fun contest and trivia to drive traffic, but minimal qualification questions are harvested! This was ok because we planned for it.So we tele-qualified them with a personalized call . Which a majority gladly accepted and discussed their needs and applications and provided qualification profile information.That leads us to the next tip.
This example brings it all together. A hard to engage target segment which spends big once they see the value. They are too busy to be looking for the types of technological developments that Rovi has made so the A and B accounts need multiple touches with good content and story telling.I will dig down further into this topic in the Wednesday 9:00am workshop.
In more and more b2b scenarios, this peer-to-peer touch point has shown to keep the lead-to-sales engine going. Many firms miss the wagon on the comprehensive nature of the pre-sales tele-qualification team in a complex sales environment. Emphasize several important items: This is not easy to get right. The use of digital touches and other touch points (events etc.) enable warm calling. Allow the peer to peer dialogs…The program management staff is critical too. They use the analytics to refine the calling scripts and nurture content served up over multiple touches.Expand on how pre-sales teams are now a huge piece of the process and accelerate the qualification process and in many cases make the plan actually work. (Marketo and many other growth firms use this)
Aberdeen has also measured the effectiveness of the tele-prospecting process.
Sirius Decisions added the tele-qualification touch process to their waterfall model after the email only tracks served up under marketing automation showed significant failure rates.We will expand on this more at the Wednesday workshop as well.
Note the qualification to “Sales-ready” rate is only .1% of the prospect base. Monitor this in light of your touch stream metrics plan.
We called half of the non responders.Significant boost in prospects engaged (33% vs. the 1% response rate), profiled the lead qualification conversion rates 217 sales-ready leads and demos.This was 2.9% vs. 0.1%
Comparison. The boost rate was 13.6 X times using this 1-2 punch!
Not easy, but critical. Discuss how a wireless network firm did it in the next slide and the analysis that led us to the optimization point.
Find your ultimate conversion to cost point. Trapeze Networks.N=218Law of diminishing returns kicks in about 7 touches as we hit 93.4% of the A level sales-ready leads generated at this point.The incremental gain after this point was minimal.Findings: We advised the client to cap the touch process after 8 and use those funds on other new business lead generation.I will drill into the rationale behind the 7-13+ touch reasons behind and concepts in the Wednesday workshop.
Measure everything in the lead to sales funnels. Make frequent refinements based on findings. This is Agile marketing. Similar to Deming's continuous improvement process we learned about in business school.
This campaignexample (in the past) won the DMA ECHO Award in the b2b technology category.A target market of ~ 1,450 prospect base.Hard to reach management that is under pressure to reduce costs but improve safety and quality…First: We needed to quantify how many you’ll need to hit the sales goals: There will be multiple models for multiple market segments or solution/product lines.Have management sign off on these models!Run the numbers both bottom up and top down and create several models in your plan: Start at the buying processHow do they buy? Why would they buy any solution? Where do they research? How do they know they are in pain or have problems?? What are their triggers??Are they even aware they may have problems??Map the sales steps and current conversion rates to a saleCreate the multi touch demand generation, nurturing and lead qualification plan to feed that funnel. Create touch quotas for each touch metric.You will Measure all demand gen activities and compare back to these quotasAcknowledge that it takes multiple contacts before they decide to buy in most cases.
Now you need to quantify how many you’ll need to hit the sales goals: Tom will provide some deep diveThere will be multiple models for multiple market segments or solution/product lines.Have management sign off on these models!Run the numbers both bottom up and top down and create several models in your plan: Start at the buying processHow do they buy? Why would they buy any solution? Where do they research? How do they know they are in pain or have problems?? What are their triggers??Are they even aware they may have problems??Map the sales steps and current conversion rates to a saleCreate the multi touch demand generation, nurturing and lead qualification plan to feed that funnel. Create touch quotas for each touch metric.You will Measure all demand gen activities and compare back to these quotasAcknowledge that it takes multiple contacts before they decide to buy in most cases.
Top Grey line is a previous year example.White line items are current year deals and the bottom grey is mid year totals. 6 months.The ROI takes the current year sales LESS the $78k costs and divides and that’s the 5.91 to 1 ratio. Discuss the goal should be to affect sales team pipeline. And since you do not have control of the sales team you are safer that way.