Need to jumpstart your ABM efforts yesterday? Don’t struggle with your martech stack and database to support your ambitious efforts. Join this session to learn how two Marketo Champions do Account Based Marketing, including:
The Segmentation Framework you didn’t know you needed for targeting Accounts and Personas How to measure the performance of your ABM tactics in Marketo Real-life ABM campaigns you can deploy immediately. (May 2016).
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ABM explodes, vendors pivot, and
marketers scramble
• 41% of firms over $500MM claim to
use ABM (DemandMetric, Sept
2015)
• 76% of firms claim to be
“considering or more” ABM
• 34% said they did not understand
ABM.
• 11% said technology was a barrier
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…with the tools you may already have.
*logos are not necessarily an endorsement.
But what if you don’t have it all?
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Think like a salesperson
Researcher
User Champion
Influencer
Decision Maker
Purchase Mgr
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Are you ABM ready?
Demographics Contact Info
Territory
Assignments
Permission Recency
Prepared DB
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…because there’s a lot of segmentation
Account Persona (Segmentation) Buyer Persona 1 (Segment) Buyer Persona 2 (Segment)
Technology SaaS Startup Marketing Manager Marketing Director
Manufacturing Multinational Marketing Operations BU Level Marketing Director
#ABMMatrix
AccountPersona
Purchase Stage
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…and a lot of moving parts.
• Segmentations
• Dynamic content
• Moving records to correct nurture
tracks
• Lead to Account Matching
• Reporting
• Predictive analysis
• Ads: Retargeting, Adbridge, Site
Content
• Content creation
• Analysis
• Customer discussions
• Sales conversations
Automate it Possibly automate
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Create the ABM nurture waterfall
Goal: get to Account Track or
MQL
Goal: get to MQL or Opp.
Goal: obtain enough data to select more specific
track. Use a daily batch to pull out people who
meet the next track’s criteria.
Goal: confirm persona and ABM
info.
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Understanding target account data
Coverage Are they aware? Do they engage?
• Smart Lists
• Lead Perf+Smart List
• Smart List Columns
• SFDC Dashboards
• Visits+Smart List
• Web Analytics
• Form Fill Outs
• Program Success
• RCA Reports
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Coverage: Lead Performance & Smart Lists
Choose Group By and Lead
Created Range
Get sub-counts by ABM
Persona
Custom Columns are
your friend.
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Awareness: Company Web Report
Constrain by Page and/or
PersonaChoose the date Range
Known Leads (Smart Lists)
Anonymous Non ISPs – get an idea of
how many people visit from Company A
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Engagement: Email performance, etc.
Engagement by Persona?
Totally possible.
Choose the Range of Emails
Date of Activity
Use your ABM segments here
along with Was Sent Email
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More tactical program ideas
• Meeting makers
• Multi-touch, multi-channel meeting makers
• Use direct mail webhook to drop ship based on behaviors
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Do you even need to use ABM?
Strategy
You only care about Enterprise
Account penetration.
Customer Development for Product-
Market-Fit
Tactic
High volume SaaS firm
Only one small group handles the
top tier Enterprise Accounts
“Take a hard look at your business model. Are you a high-volume SaaS solution company? If so, you probably would benefit more
from targeted lead marketing strategy. But if that same business is seeking to chart a different course by having top-tier sales reps
focus solely on large enterprise accounts, ABM absolutely will have value.” – LeanData ABM Book
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Do the marketing segmentation…
Components Criteria Considerations
Account Target List
Your named account list with Company Name and
Domain Name.
IS will be more precise, but CONTAINS may help. But
beware “cisco” vs. “San Francisco”
Buyer Persona/Title List
Segmented People by Persona or Title Again, watch those filters. Buyer Personas will help more
here, but Titles or Level work too. Coverage reporting is
mostly about Level. Sales’ input on Level & Function will be
important for messaging.
Story for Each Persona
Collect content and design dynamic content
matrix.
Do you have the messaging clear for each Persona?
Account Personas
Segment by Account, Industry, Size Do you have the story for each Account Persona?
Data Cleaning +
Appending
Automated deduping, data appending, should be
operational by now.
How much of the Account and Title information is filled in?
Are you using Progressive Profiling to fill in more?
Territory Management
Ensure that you can send on behalf of the
Salesperson, SDR/LDR, or Field Sales as
appropriate. This may require segments or smart
lists to go beyond Lead Owner in Salesforce.
Your CRM admin and Sales team need to have the update
and territory change process very efficient or you risk
embarrassment or missed opportunities.
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Reporting on ABM
Report Definition Tools that can help right now
Coverage Do you have the people you need? Any database, engagio, LeanData, etc..
Smart Lists, Segmentations
Awareness Do they know about you? Engagio, Terminus, Google Analytics,
Company Web Report
Engagement Are they interacting with your
content? Spending time?
Marketo Programs, engagio, Terminus, etc.
Influence Are account targets responding? RCE, Program Reports, campaign influence
Impact Are programs causing higher spend,
faster sales?
Marketo RCE (Model Analysis – Companies),
Engagio, Brightfunnel, etc.
• Lead Performance by Status and Smart List Columns.
• Smart List Counts
• Program Status Counts
• SFDC Dashboards
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11% – true! Most tools can help even if they aren’t “ABM tools.” But do you KNOW HOW TO USE IT for ABM?
We’re assuming here that you already decided ABM is a possibility for you as a Target Account Enterprise Plan or early stage customer dev plan
Should sales spend 30% of their time nurturing target accounts with emails and collecting people? Or can it be automated?
Even if 60% of the buying process is done before a Lead is ready for Sales, not everyone is on your list or even known. (Tim Riesterer)
Traditional demand gen is like using a shotgun – it’s a spray and pray approach. Account-based marketing is all about being a sniper – stalk your target, wait for the right moment, and strike with precision.
Talk about GEICO example. “Look down at your black pants. You can't imagine how your dog has any more hair on his body.”
Traditional demand gen is like using a shotgun – it’s a spray and pray approach. Account-based marketing is all about being a sniper – stalk your target, wait for the right moment, and strike with precision.
There are a few levels of account-based marketing. You have to sit down with your VP of sales and decide the right mix for your company. Make sure marketing and sales are aligned for the best effect.
How many of you are running Small, Medium, or Large?
Large=target accounts only + segmentation strategy + target level of campaigns. Open doors for sales.
Med=accounts+territory
Small=vertical territory
B2B, target criteria, company stage, average deal size, resources available, timing. The guy in the picture got arrested when he got into a fight in the middle of a haircut.
Demand Generation is not dead! You are still dealing with people and targeting at a finer level.
Content marketing and inbound still matter – write for the Industry and Persona Problem-Solution matrix – they will find you.
‘If you are already using predictive scoring, you can leverage Company/Account scores to better identify the Accounts to target, but this is NOT 100% necessary to get moving.
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Demand Generation is not dead! You are still dealing with people and targeting at a finer level.
Content marketing and inbound still matter – write for the Industry and Persona Problem-Solution matrix – they will find you.
Also use predictive to filter out best target list first.
Now, Integrate had a presentation with my friend Scott Vaughan and Jason Seeba a few months ago that described an amazing stack. The link is in the Resources. But this presentation is about what you may already
Now you can do this more automatically.
The researcher
The influencer
The user champions
The executive sponsor
The decision maker
The purchase manager
Data quality matters even more
Email reputation is key
Marketable – can you segment them? Have contact info?
Permission - can you email them?
Do you have the right people or do you need to find them?
Lead Ownership and Territory Management must be pristine
The Content – Segment Matrix
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Show a cube of little boxes where industry, account, buyer persona
Yeah, marketers get flak for this and it’s not Customer Centric except that we’re hoping to send messages that resonate better every time.
You will end up with lots of boxes in a giant matrix.
It will be overwhelming.
Pick one Account Persona at a time to build in the system.
Traffic cop to manage the routing and entry – if immediately ready for ABM Matrix, then do that.
Always build Generic first so you get the hang of it and then build more and more specific tracks, using campaigns, scoring, and behaviors to move between. Demographics are important because the goal of Generic is to segment better, NOT SELL. Sure, use data appending as much as possible, but behaviors will determine how fast you send and streams as the lead goes forward with their interest.
Could use SFDC Dash reports
Use Lead performance with smart list columns
Lead Performance by Status and Smart List Columns.
Smart List Counts
Program Status Counts
SFDC Dashboards
Can do the same with Lead Performance and Custom Columns!
Alert Sales with weekly updates by Territory. I’ve been telling people for YEARS to do this, but only with ABM is it a priority.
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Can do the same with Lead Performance and Custom Columns!
Other options include Engagement Stream Performance and Sales Email Performance
Q4 – we needed to find the accounts with exactly the right demographics who were ready to buy now. How do you kickstart the process?
BANT is for leads. To find the right target accounts, we need a new acronym. PCT stands for Pain, Compatibility, and Timeframe. Find the right PCT of Accounts to succeed.
To gather information about our prospects, we conducted an in-house State of Monitoring Survey. We asked 30 questions and got 1,766 responses. We learned a lot about our customers’ pain points and their specific environments. We used this data to craft our targeted account strategy. To get to PCT, know your audience. Survey = audience insights.
When doing ABM, never underestimate a good handshake with sales.
So after we find which companies have pain points, it’s time to understand compatibility. We turned to Marketo for this exercise.
So after we find which companies have pain points, it’s time to understand compatibility. We turned to Marketo for this exercise.
Usually, exploration of new tools start with the business decision maker. They’ll ask their team to investigate a tool to solve a known pain point. But we knew to jump-start sales, we had to shorten the cycle, so we went directly to the technical champions and researchers.
After coming up with the Target Account list and figuring out who to target, it’s time to come up with the right language and offer. This is perhaps the most important part of the campaign – if you don’t speak the language of your target audience, you will fail. Customize the language on your landing page to suit personas, technologies, and accounts.
After you’ve determined your campaign, it’s time for the fun part. Use your Marketo intelligence to target existing prospects on avenues like retargeting, social media, email, third party sites, and paid search.
Here’s how we did it.
What percentage of our target account list did we penetrate?
Takeaways from running this campaign
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“Take a hard look at your business model. Are you a high-volume SaaS solution company? If so, you probably would benefit more from targeted lead marketing strategy. But if that same business is seeking to chart a different course by having top-tier sales reps focus solely on large enterprise accounts, ABM absolutely will have value.” – LeanData ABM Book
Remember your business courses on stats, segmetnations, etc? This is where that actually gets used.
Could use SFDC Dash reports
Use Lead performance with smart list columns