9. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
A SHORT JOURNEY AKA NO STREAM
ONLY 1 IN 3
B2B Marketing Websites
ENCOURAGE HIGH
CONTENT ENGAGEMENT
Heinz Marketing, The New Marketing Standard:
How Today’s Successful B2B Marketers Accelerate the Buyer’s journey with Content
10. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
THE BUYER JOURNEY IS FUELED BY CONTENT
Content Purpose Rank Usage
Brand Awareness 1 76.00%
LeadGeneration 2 71.70%
Customer Education 3 58.70%
Sales Enablement 4 57.20%
Buyer Education 5 53.00%
Product Releases 6 52.30%
Event Follow-up 7 50.20%
Heinz Marketing, The New Marketing Standard:
How Today’s Successful B2B Marketers Accelerate the Buyer’s journey with Content
12. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
DEMAND OWNS CONTENT
WEBSITES
SOCIAL
EMAIL
AD SPEND
SALES REPS
CONTENT ON HOMEPAGE
LINK OUT TO CONTENT
CTA TO CONTENT
CLICK TO CONTENT
EDUCATE WITH CONTENT
ENGAGE WITH
DIGITAL MARKETER
SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETER
DEMAND GEN MARKETER
DEMAND GEN MARKETER
ABM / ENABLEMENT MARKETER
WHO OWNS
14. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
ONE PIECE OF CONTENT AT A TIME
IS NOT ENOUGH7-12 pieces of content
15. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
82%
RESEARCH
18%
TALK TO VENDORS
VENDORS HAVE A
SMALL SLICE OF
BUYERS’ TIME
Gartner, 2018
What is the average % of time spent doing each of the following activity during
the buying cycle for new IT related purchases?
16. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
I NEED TO
ACCELERATE THE BUYER JOURNEY
21. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
whyhow what
contentgrowthhow will we
go to market?
abm tierengage
demand
sales
outreach
social
email
retargeting
inbound
sales enablement
content experien
22. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
whyhow what
content experiencgrowthhow will we
go to market?
abm
segment:
sales rep
by product
line
engage
demand
email
signature
inbound
sales enablement
23. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
whyhow what
content experiencgrowthhow will we
go to market?
segment:
sales rep
by product
line
engage email
signature
sales
enablement
24. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
whyhow what
content experiencgrowthhow will we
go to market?
segment:
sales rep
by product
line
engage email
signature
sales
enablement
25. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
whyhow what
content experiencgrowthhow will we
go to market?
abm
segment:
region
revenue
persona
engage
demand
webinars
SEO
emailinbound
sales enablement
26. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
whyhow what
content experiencgrowthhow will we
go to market?
segment:
region
revenue
persona
engage
webinars
SEO
email
demand
27. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
whyhow what
content experiencgrowthhow will we
go to market?
segment:
region
revenue
persona
engage
webinars
SEO
email
demand
28. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
whyhow what
content experiencgrowthhow will we
go to market?
abm
2000
accounts
engage
demand
email
signatures
direct
mail
display ads
inbound
sales enablement
LinkedIn
29. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
whyhow what
content experiencgrowthhow will we
go to market?
abm
2000
accounts
engage
email
signatures
direct
mail
display ads
LinkedIn
30. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
whyhow what
content experiencgrowthhow will we
go to market?
abm
2000
accounts
engage
email
signatures
direct
mail
display ads
LinkedIn
31. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
whyhow what
content experiencgrowthhow will we
go to market?
abm
2000
accounts
engage
email
signatures
direct
mail
display ads
LinkedIn
32. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
DEALS 2x AS
LIKELY TO CLOSE
3x DEAL SIZE
34. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
HOW DO YOU
JUSTIFY THIS AS A
PRIORITY?
of B2B buyers expect a
personalized buying
experience
79%
of marketers see improvements
due to personalization, with
more than half reporting a lift
greater than 10%
88%
believe their efforts to
personalize their content have
been ineffective
54% Heinz Marketing, The New Marketing Standard:
How Today’s Successful B2B Marketers Accelerate the Buyer’s journey with
Content
Evergage
Press release: New Evergage Study Shows Compelling Personalization
Benefits
Instacart
68 Personalization Statistics Every Digital Advertiser Must Keep In Mind
35. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
MOST CHALLENGING FACTORS OF PERSONALIZATION
Content Purpose Rank Usage
Takes too many resources 1 42.20%
Takes too much time 2 36.00%
Current tech stack doesnot support 3 32.90%
Levelof personalization wewant isn’t scalable 4 31.10%
Requires expertise we don’t have available 5 30.40%
Don’t know where tostart 6 17.30%
# conex @ randyfrisch
Heinz Marketing, The New Marketing Standard:
How Today’s Successful B2B Marketers Accelerate the Buyer’s journey with Content
36. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
EXPERIENCE
$
DATA
$$$
SALESPEOPLE
$$$$$$
DISTRIBUTION
38. 5# conex @ randyfrisch
EXPERIENCE
$$$
INVEST IN EXPERIENCE
OR DON’T SPEND A SINGLE DOLLAR
@ randyfrisch
Thank You
Editor's Notes
What all these companies are tying to do is just trying to get you to stick around. But they’re not getting you to stick around for only their content. It’s for all content.
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But this doesn’t just happen in B2C, it also happens in B2B
Email > Broken Video > No Contextual CTA
Story of Randy discovering the experience was broken with conflicting CTAs and broken links.
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The journey our buyers want
We give them one piece of content and leave them in a dark forest of content that resembles the upside down of Stranger Things. Only 1 in 3…
We are leading with content at every stage of the buyer journey
This is the approach of the past. We need to get to a place where we can deliver content our buyers can binge.
We’re doing it in the wrong way—where we think 1 piece of content at a time
We need to deliver 7-12
If you don’t believe me that we need 7-12, look at what Gartner says
We start with content experience.
Next: real companies are operating like this. Take a look at Medtronic who does this in a simple but effective way
We start with content experience.
Next: real companies are operating like this. Take a look at Medtronic who does this in a simple but effective way
We start with content experience.
Next: real companies are operating like this. Take a look at Medtronic who does this in a simple but effective way
They start with sales enablement
Next: they use email signatures
Next: they create personalized streams. That is their content experience
Next: Blackbaud is another example
Next: They focus on demand generation.
Next: they segment using Marketo
Next: They distribute these streams in email and send their buyers to a personalized journey
Next: they use intelligence to create recommendations on their website
Next: Let’s take a look at an even more complex strategy by Snowflake
They focus on ABM and delivering to 2000 targeted accountsNext: by using everstring
Next: Display Ads
Here’s an example of one targeted to Tinder
Next: direct mail
Next: email signatures
Next: personalized streams for every account.
Next: they achieve results.
They noticed that deals are… using this strategy, they closed 3x the deal size
Next: So you see, Personalized Content Experince wins
Next: so how does a company like Snowflake achieve this at scale?
We are leading with content at every stage of the buyer journey