The Collaborative Future of Leadership and Technology
1. The Collaborative Future of Technology
and Leadership
Kyle Lacy
Jason Miller
Director, Global Content & Research
Senior Director, Global Content Marketing
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
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15. Smartphone massive
growth potential with
only 30% of total market.
Mary Meeker’s 2014 Internet Trends Report
@kyleplacy
16. 50% of B2B marketing
leaders don’t plan on
using mobile in their
strategy
@kyleplacy
17. @kyleplacy
100% of marketers who rated
mobile app technology as
important also rated it as either
very effective or effective within
their marketing strategy.
19. Most important, make sure your landing page is mobile responsive—
otherwise you are wasting leads
70% of clicks from Sponsored
Updates will come from mobile.
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28. Percent of Marketers Rating Cross-Functional
Relationships as Absolutely Critical/Very Important
Head of
Sales
86%
CEO Head of
COO CIO
CFO
Product 78% 70% 67% 56% 37%
36. “People want a thrill,
people want a spectacle
and people love
to be entertained.”
37. B2B Recommendations
• Map the customer journey. Of the 510 senior-level marketers surveyed, 37% had
adopted the term customer journey into their overall business strategy, compared to
42% of B2C senior-level marketers.
• Prioritize mobile strategy. There are already billions of smartphones in the world,
but more importantly, those smartphones are creating hundreds of trillions of data
points by the second. B2B marketers currently aren’t adopting mobile marketing
strategies at a high rate (61% don’t plan to use SMS or location-based tracking for
marketing, and 53% don’t plan to use push notifications).
• Test new tools. Marketing automation, videos, content marketing, guided selling,
and landing pages are the most effective channels and strategies that B2B
marketers can leverage.
38. B2C Recommendations
• Maintain a customer journey focus. B2C companies are on the right path when it
comes to the customer journey; more B2C companies than B2B are using the term
“customer journey,” and their definitions of the customer journey included customer-centric
concepts like path, experience, and customer.
• Rely on SEO/SEM, content marketing, and email as the workhorses of B2C.
These three channels ranked most effective for B2C marketing leaders among all
digital channels.
• Close the data integration gap. Sixty-five percent of B2C marketing leaders say
they have only partially integrated customer data across the organization (between
sales, ops, customer service, marketing, and so on).
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Sitting in a marketing meeting twenty or even ten years ago, you wouldn’t have heard the terms “customer journey” or “customer experience” much. Sure, marketers talked about making customers happy and the need to acquire more of them—but a focus on, and even obsession with, customers and their brand experience is a recent phenomenon, largely driven by revolutions in technology and connectivity.
Yet the customer journey is more than a phenomenon, buzzword, or trend; it’s a requirement. Respecting and refining the customer journey is the only way for companies to succeed in the age of the customer.
At Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s Connections event in September 2014, Beth Comstock, SVP and CMO of GE, said, “You have to put your customer in the middle, no matter what industry you’re in—and that is changing with digital tools.”
As marketers create 1:1 connections that do put customers in the middle, they need to know and recognize these customers across channels and devices. These customers have done their research on brands before ever stepping in a store or picking up the phone, and they expect that brands, in turn, have done research on them. Marketing is now the hub for customer insight and understanding through advanced analytics, predictive intelligence, technology that serves customers on-the-go, and much more.
This is an exciting time to be a marketer, and marketing leaders at the head of the ship must be more agile, data-focused, and customer-obsessed than ever before. To understand these new marketing leaders better, we surveyed more than 900 of them on LinkedIn to see what’s top-of-mind in their roles and companies today.
Map the customer journey. Of the 510 senior-level marketers surveyed, 37% had adopted the term customer journey into their overall business strategy, compared to 42% of B2C senior-level marketers. We recommend that B2B marketers increasingly focus on customer journey strategy, improving customer experience of lead forms, lead nurturing campaigns, sales interactions, advertising, and beyond. Customer journey mapping, or illustrating important touchpoints along the customer journey and the different ways customers might respond to them, will be an important area for marketing leaders to oversee.
Prioritize mobile strategy. There are already billions of smartphones in the world, but more importantly, those smartphones are creating hundreds of trillions of data points by the second. B2B marketers currently aren’t adopting mobile marketing strategies at a high rate (61% don’t plan to use SMS or location-based tracking for marketing, and 53% don’t plan to use push notifications). Marketing leaders in B2B companies should invest research, budget, and effort into how customers use mobile channels and act accordingly, because mobile penetration is exponentially higher every moment.
Test new tools. Marketing automation, videos, content marketing, guided selling, and landing pages are the most effective channels and strategies that B2B marketers can leverage. A fair test takes longer than 3 or even 6 months to yield genuine results, however. Seeing success can take 12 months or more, especially for progressive profiling tools like predictive intelligence, so give new tactics a reasonable chance if you have the budget and personnel to test them in the first place.
Maintain a customer journey focus. B2C companies are on the right path when it comes to the customer journey; more B2C companies than B2B are using the term “customer journey,” and their definitions of the customer journey included customer-centric concepts like path, experience, and customer. Still, some B2C marketers are still unsure about the technologies that yield customer journey success, and customer data integration is low across the marketing industry. B2C marketers are beginning to understand what’s at stake with customer experience, and they should maintain a clear focus in that direction.
Rely on SEO/SEM, content marketing, and email as the workhorses of B2C. These three channels ranked most effective for B2C marketing leaders among all digital channels. While SEO and email may be older technologies, they’re providing a strong foundation for brand-to-customer communication and information gathering. Content marketing also performs well for B2C companies, but be sure any content and email created can also be easily accessible on mobile.
Close the data integration gap. Sixty-five percent of B2C marketing leaders say they have only partially integrated customer data across the organization (between sales, ops, customer service, marketing, and so on). For example, one enterprise B2C director said, “We need a better foundation in understanding what data we have and how we can get more. The biggest struggle is between operations and marketing.” Closing this gap is inherent to marketers wanting to build a personalized, responsive customer journey model. Without the data to do it, the customer journey lacks any relevancy beyond broad segmentation.