Learn how to:
Build a tiered ABM program with the right level of personalization for each type of account
Implement a multi-channel prospecting play that orchestrates account-based advertising, social, direct mail, email, phone, and more
Understand ABM benchmarks and measure the right success metrics
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Building Your ABM Foundation
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Entitlements
• Styles and Tiers
Organize Data
• Unify Account Data
• Lead to Account Matching
Select Accounts
• Fit
• Engagement
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5-50 accounts (“tens”)
Engagio: up to 2 per AE
$250K – $1B+
5-50 accounts (“tens”)
Engagio: 5 per AE
$100K – 250K
50-1,000 accounts (“hundreds”)
Engagio: 93 per AE
$50K – $100K
Style 1a
Lighthouse
1,000+ accounts (“thousands”)
Engagio: About 2,000
$25K - $50K
Style 1b
Strategic
Style 3
Programmatic
Style 2
Scale
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Style 3 Accounts (~2000)
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Ongoing Programs
• Demand Gen
• Inbound
Ad Hoc
Direct Mail
¢
Limited Account
Ads
Some Data
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Style 1b Entitlements (~20 accounts)
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Lite
Account
Plan
More Data
Direct
Mail
$$
Personalized
Communications
(PlayMaker)
Ongoing
Programs
Targeted Ads
Experiences
$$
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Style 1a Entitlements (approx 10 accounts)
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Personalized
Content Hub +
Customized
Guides
Full
Account
Plan + QBR
More Data
More Often
Direct
Mail
$$$
Personalized
Communications
(PlayMaker)
Executive
Workshop
Ongoing
Programs
Named
Executive
Personalized
Ads
Experiences
$$$
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Challenge: Account Data Spread Across Systems
• Challenging
measurement
• Bad routing
• Poor
coordination
• Limited
marketing &
sales alignment
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Marketing
Automatio
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Corporate Email
Web Visits
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Answer: Start with an Account Foundation
Lead to Account Matching
(L2A) Algorithm
Presentation
Marketing
Automation
Corporate
Email
Web Visits
Engagement Minutes
Model
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Target Account Selection:
Marketing Driven, Sales Owned
Reps choose ~100 total from scored list of 300-350 in their territory
Data quality matters!Technographics
Score = Fit + Engagement
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Three most important factors in enterprise decision:
• Knowledge and understanding of my industry
• Knowledge & understanding of my unique business issues
• Fresh ideas to advance my business
ITSMA
“75% of executives will read unsolicited
marketing materials that contain ideas
that might be relevant to their business.”75%
25%
Yes
No
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Engagio Integrated ABM Play (Scale)
• Pre: Ads for Awareness (50% A/B test)
• Day 0: Package sent + Email
• Day 2: Package delivered + Custom Email
• Day 4: Phone call
• Day 6: Phone call
• Day 7: Phone call + LVM + Email
• Day 10: Email from Jon cc’ing play
• Day 11: LinkedIn InMail from Jon
• Day 13: Email
• Day 15+ FU’s to other personas
Goal: get an
introductory 1:1 meeting
with target account
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Integrated ABM: Results to Date
350 276 74 34 1Mtgs Opps Deal(so far)
AwarePkgs
21%
Meeting Rates
Books only: 34%
Ads and Kindle: 21%
Ads and Books: 20%
Kindle only: 18%
Not significant
Web Traffic Visitors
Ads +43% +47%
No Ads +22% +8%
Directionally meaningful but not significant
25.0x pipeline to spend
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Personalized Plays vs Automated Campaigns
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Event Executive Breakfast Manager Lunch
Invites Personalized via Playmaker
96 Plays Launched
Broad Marketing Automation
652 Emails Sent X 2
From Step 1 from Account Owner
Step 2 from Executive (reply)
Step 3 from AO to Executive
Assistant
Blast 1 = From
events@engagio.com
Blast 2 = From
sandra@engagio.com
Response 10 Replied Yes, I’ll Attend
33 Replied No (starts conversation)!
Response Rate: 43%
21 Registered
No declines - just crickets!
Response Rate: 3%
Attends 9 CMOs and VPs 12 Managers and Directors
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Marketing Automation Marketing Orchestration
Automated Some automation, some human
Scalable but impersonal Personalized but still scalable
Handoffs Collaboration
Lead-based Account-based
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Deal Nurturing
Engagio Deal Nurture Tracks
• Need access to decision maker
• Need to make a key hire
• No budget
• “Not a priority” / early
• ”Gone dark”
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Customer / Expansion Plays
• User Onboarding
• 90 Days From Renewal
• Declined Use
• Net Promoter Follow-up
• New Executive
• Executive Alignment
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Marketing Qualified Accounts (MQAs)
• 30 mins of
engagement from
Marketing (at least 2
people), or
• 15 mins of
engagement from
Marketing Executives,
or
• “Act Nows”
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• Start your ABM journey by building a strong foundation
of unified account data
• Create engagement with relevant, human interactions
over email and in-person
• Marketing automation is to demand gen
as marketing orchestration is to ABM
• Implement deal nurturing to accelerate stuck
opportunities – but don’t blindly automate
• ABM measurement is about quality, not quantity; use
engagement as a leading indicator to revenue
• Account based attribution lets you connect the dots
between account engagement and revenue
Tweetable Takeaways
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