There are some nasty blind curves when you need to show how marketing campaigns impact revenue.
Listen to the 30-minute webcast where you’ll learn:
- How to get your company on the path to revenue reporting
- The surprising obstacles that kill great reporting and how to overcome them
- The cost of only taking half-steps to revenue reporting
- Be successful at Account-Based Marketing
Tom Grubb, the Chief Strategy Officer with Digital Pi will discuss with Dan Ziman his insight on how marketing can report revenue analytics that don't lie.
4. “…Fewer than 4% of
marketing generated leads
are ever converted into
sales.”
Source: Business2Community, February 10, 2014
Why Organizations Should Stop Focusing on Lead Nurturing Campaigns
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7. Challenge: reporting vastly undercounts campaign touches
Lead Contact
Contact
w/role
Lead Contact ?
Lead ? ?
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8. B2B Marketing is multi-person and multi-campaign
CAMPAIGNS
Director, Marketing
(Contact w/Role)
Marketing Specialist
(Contact)
CMO
(Lead)
Website X
Webinar X
Whitepaper X
Exec Roundtable X
Tradeshow X
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9. Poll: How much do you trust your marketing reports?
1. Usually – 22%
2. Occasionally – 67%
3. Never – 11%
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10. 80% of CEOs simply don’t trust marketers at all
- Fournaise Group Study
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12. Marketing Revenue
• Platform Approach:
– SFDC: Campaign Influence Reports
– Marketo: FT and MT Attribution
• No way back to marketing when:
– Leads not associated with accounts
– Contacts not associated with
opportunities
– Duplicates
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13. Marketers can’t generate sufficient growth
Marketing = cost, sales = revenue.
Our numbers are right, yours are wrong.
I only trust data from Salesforce.com.
Why doesn’t marketing have a quota?
Explain MT and FT attribution again?
CEO says all marketers are liars.
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14. Marketers can’t generate growth
Marketing = cost, sales = revenue.
Our numbers are right, yours are wrong.
I only trust data from Salesforce.com.
Why doesn’t marketing have a quota?
Explain MT and FT attribution again?
CEO says all marketers are liars.
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15. The Path to Revenue Reporting Starts with Opportunities
CONTACTS
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23. 61% More Revenue Won Influence with Implicit
Marketing
Influence? Contacts Counted
% Revenue Won
Influenced
% Pipeline Open
Influenced
No 351 74% 46%
Yes 252 26% 54%
Marketing
Influence? Contacts Counted
% Revenue Won
Influenced
% Pipeline Open
Influenced
No 127 12% 11%
Yes 476 88% 89%
Opportunity
(Explicit)
Account
(Implicit)
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24. White Paper
TradeshowWebinar
More Lost Attribution: Stuck in The Land of Leads
Account
Opportunity
Technical
Executive Approver
Leads have no path
to get revenue
credit for marketing
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26. Your Options:
1.Modify sales behavior
2.Modify SFDC – lock it down
3.Modify your reporting configuration
4.Switch to another reporting tool or platform
5.Employ technology
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