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YOUR 2019 ABM STRATEGY
Tenessa Lochner
Senior Manager, ABM Education & Training, Demandbase
Jessica Fewless
VP, ABM Strategy, Channel & Field Marketing, Demandbase
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TODAY’S PRESENTERS
TENESSA LOCHNER
Senior Manager, ABM Education and Training
Demandbase
JESSICA FEWLESS
VP, ABM Strategy, Field and Channel Marketing
Demandbase
3. AGENDA
§ Choose the right kind of ABM
§ Assemble your team
§ Align around ABM
§ Measure your progress and success
§ Create and maintain your Target Account List
§ Establish budget
§ Technology to support your strategy
§ Q&A
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THE THREE TYPES OF ABM… IN PRACTICE
5−50
Accounts
§ Prioritize existing key accounts
§ Customized for each account
§ Engagement and relationship-focused
Clusters of
5−15
accounts each
§ Focus on new and existing key
accounts with similar issues
§ Customized with some personalization
§ Engagement and lead-focused
100s of
accounts
§ Prioritize new accounts
§ Targeted with light personalization
§ Lead-focused
Source: ITSMA and ABM Leadership Alliance Account-Based Marketing Benchmarking Survey, July 2017
One-to-One
ABM
One-to-Few
ABM
One-to-Many
ABM
HIGH
Investment &
ROI per account
LOW
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PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
Revenue growth
Opening new markets
Proving new solutions
Developing references and advocates
Changing market perceptions
Ensuring customer success
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CREATING A BLENDED APPROACH
One-to-One ABM
§ One-on-one, face-to-face meetings
§ Executive-to-executive
relationship programs
§ Account-specific (bespoke) thought
leadership development and
dissemination
§ Direct mail
§ Custom collateral, videos,
podcasts, webinars
One-to-Few ABM One-to-Many ABM
§ Email marketing
§ Direct mail
§ Custom collateral/videos/
podcasts/webinars
§ Web personalization
§ Roadshows/events
§ Email marketing
§ Reverse IP/targeted digital ads/
content/retargeting
§ Roadshows/events
§ Direct mail
§ Account-based content syndication
INDIVIDUALIZED CUSTOMIZED SEGMENTED AND PERSONALIZED
Top tactics for the three types of ABM
Source: ITSMA and ABM Leadership Alliance Benchmarking Study, 2018
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ABM ACROSS THE ORG
FinanceOperationsMarketingSales Customer
Success
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ABM TEAM ALIGNMENT
Agreement on metricsCommunication frequencyEstablish set meetings
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ABM ALIGNS YOUR FOCUS ACROSS THE FUNNEL
ADVERTISING WEB MARKETING
DEMAND GENERATION FIELD MARKETING
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ALIGN ON THE JOURNEY
First Touch: Email
[B2B Guide to ABM
Strategy]
Email
[ABM Keys to B2B
Success]
Webinar
[5 Essential Steps]
Direct Mail
[Enterprise
Champagne]
Webinar
[Future of B2B
Marketing
Automation]
Event
[Marketing Profs
B2B Forum]
Opp Creation:
Event
[Argyle Forum
Atlanta]
Pipeline: Event
[MIS Get Email
Update]
Paid Search
[keyword:
Demandbase]
Email
[webinar promo]
Event
[Argyle Forum
Boston]
Email
[ABMLA Research
LookBook]
Webinar
[AI in an ABM
World]
Field Marketing
[Boston ABM
Workshop]
Webinar
[ABMLA Tech
Stack]
Event
[MIS]
DB Advertising
[ABMLA]
Webinar
[Scaling Website
Personalization]
Field Marketing
[Boston Advanced
Certification]
Webinar
[Virtual MIS]
Webinar
[Live Demo:
Identify & Close]
Webinar
[Sirius Decisions
Waterfall]
Close: Webform
[ABMLA 6
Common Issues]
1/8/2017
8/1/2017
86 touchpoints
22 contacts
24 campaigns
11 channels
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ABM MEASURE OF SUCCESS
XX Total Opportunities
XX% of pipeline coming from Target Accounts
XX% Increase in Close Rate
XX% Increase in Average Deal Size
XX% Increase in Funnel Velocity
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LEADING & LAGGING INDICATORS
Business Goals
New logos, Net Retention Rate, Revenue
Department Goals
Account Engagement, Sales Efficiency, Conversions
Program Goals
MQLs, Downloads, Clicks
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COMMUNICATING IMPACT
MARKETING SALES C-SUITE
§ Customer satisfaction
§ Brand perception
§ References
and advocates
§ Account coverage
§ Number of Opportunities
§ New logos
§ Account engagement
§ Pipeline growth
§ Revenue growth
§ Average deal size
§ Customer Retention
§ Upsell/renewal
Different audiences need different metrics
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WHAT IS YOUR IDEAL CUSTOMER PROFILE?
§ ICP defines attributes of accounts
that are expected to be your
company’s most valuable
customers
§ Create this profile by looking
attributes:
§ Firmographic
§ Behavioral
§ Environmental
§ Requires both qualitative and
quantitative analysis
§ Must be a team effort across the
company, specifically with
Marketing & Sales
FinServ
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Technology
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START WITH YOUR TAM AND THEN FOCUS
§ TAM: $
§ Tactics: National tradeshows, webinars, videos,
infographics and ebooks
§ TARGET MARKET (ICP): $
§ Tactics: TAM tactics + nurture campaigns, segment
personalization, Certification
§ TARGET ACCOUNTS (FIT): $$
§ Tactics: TARGET tactics + Contact Acquisition +
Advertising, Discounts to events
§ AE TOP ACCOUNTS (INTENT): $$$
§ Tactics: Target Acct tactics + Nurture, Direct Mail, Field
Activities, FREE offers for events, 1-off DM, High value
offers (e.g. On-site Certification)
§ OPPORTUNITY: $$$$
§ Tactics: AE Top tactics + Nurture + VIP Dinners +
1-off DM + Advertising campaigns
§ CUSTOMER: $$$$
§ Tactics: Nurture, Training, Welcome Gifts, VIP
Experiences, Advertising
TAM
Target Market
Target Accounts
AE Top
Accts
Oppty
Cust
$ = Spend per account. Shown for scale, not precision
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WHAT’S THE RIGHT LIST SIZE?
YOUR ABM
MATURITY STAGE
TARGET
MARKET
SALES CYCLE
LENGTH
MARKETING
CAPACITY
NUMBER OF
SALES REPS
CLOSE
RATES
Things to consider:
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COMMUNICATION & BUY-IN
It’s always collaborative!
Secure Agreement
from leadership
Verify & Iterate
with sales
Update
at regular intervals
Build
an initial list
4321
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LIST OWNERSHIP AND OPERATIONALIZING
CRM & MASList owner(s)
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UPDATE REGULARLY
§ Territory changes,
backfilling won opps,
demonstrating intent
§ Fundamental market or
business shifts
MINOR
Quarterly
MAJOR
Annually
Pitfalls: Lack of audit, stuffing the list
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5 Ways to Find
Budget for ABM
Top-down directive is in place
Use innovation budget to test
Partner with other teams to
fund programs
Roll up under other Initiatives
Shift and reallocate budgets
from existing programs
$
$
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RE-ALLOCATION REVIEWED
$222K / year
for New ABM
Programs & ABM
Technologies
$465k
FULL BUDGET
CONTENT SYNDICATION
WEBINAR SPONSORSHIPS
DIGITAL ADVERTISING
REGIONAL EVENTS
SAVING BY ABM APPROACH
$243k
FULL BUDGET
Standard B2B
Marketing Spend
ABM Optimized
Spend
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1. Goals & Objectives
2. Alignment
3. Target Account List Scope
4. Marketing Programs
5. Baselines & KPIs
START WITH
YOUR STRATEGY
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TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP
§ Infrastructure: how do you track and
execute your ABM strategy?
§ Account Selection: how do you get the
RIGHT list in place?
§ Engagement: how do you get a relevant
message to your targets?
§ Sales Enablement: Marketing’s done
their job, how do you make sure Sales
gets it over the finish line?
§ Measurement: How do you know what’s
working? What’s not? What’s next?
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TECH SUCCESS
§ We had always done it manually
§ But we wanted to add intent
36. § Use a blended ABM approach
for best success
§ Get buy in from your ABM
leadership team
§ Communicate metrics &
successes on a regular
cadence
§ Align with your marketing team
throughout the buyer’s journey
§ Have a strategy in place before
buying technology
KEY TAKE AWAYS