Sometimes, you can't wait around for the right people from the right accounts to swim into your demand generation net – you need to reach out to these "big fish" directly. When you need more than Inbound, learn the new secret sauce for combining outbound account based marketing ABM (actually account based everything) and sales development to build pipeline at target accounts, expand existing relationships, and connect with more decision makers.
13. • Spam – guessing emails
• Vague, irrelevant messaging
• Attempt at "personalization" with totally wrong data [bold]
• Focused on their needs rather than value to the customer
• Typos
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“Template emails are
roulette wheels. If you
only get 100 rolls of
the roulette wheel,
then you need to
increase your odds.”
– Craig Rosenberg
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Outbound Does Not Mean Interruption
Apply the best
concepts from
demand generation to
outbound:
• Content driven
• Helpful and valuable
• Focused on the buyer,
not your company
• Personalized and
relevant
• Human
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Three most important factors in enterprise decision:
• Knowledge and understanding of my unique business issues
• Knowledge and understanding of my industry
• 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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Challenger Sale
Offers unique perspective
Two-way communication skills
Knows customer value drivers
Can ID economic drivers
Comfortable discussing money
Can pressure the customer
Asserts Control
Tailors
Teaches
19. Summary
Old Outbound
Buy lists of leads
Cold call
Quantity and volume
Success = Reps with Rolodexes
New Outbound
Account-based
Understand and teach
Quality and buyer-centric
Success = Data and process
24. Hello, Account Based Everything
Engagio
Orchestration
Platform
Account Based
Marketing
Account Based
Sales Development
Account Based
Sales
Account Based
Customer Success
25. Account Based Everything
A strategic GTM approach that
orchestrates personalized
marketing, sales, and success
efforts to land and expand
at named accounts.
26. ABE targets specific (usually large) accounts
Account Based Everything
A strategic GTM approach that
orchestrates personalized
marketing, sales, and success
efforts to land and expand
at named accounts.
27. a way of doing business, not a campaign or tactic
always on for the account until removed
Account Based Everything
A strategic GTM approach that
orchestrates personalized
marketing, sales, and success
efforts to land and expand
at named accounts.
28. treat each account individually
focus = more insights = more relevance
Account Based Everything
A strategic GTM approach that
orchestrates personalized
marketing, sales, and success
efforts to land and expand
at named accounts.
29. it’s a bowtie, not a funnel
Account Based Everything
A strategic GTM approach that
orchestrates personalized
marketing, sales, and success
efforts to land and expand
at named accounts.
30. coordinates experiences across
departments and channels
Account Based Everything
A strategic GTM approach that
orchestrates personalized
marketing, sales, and success
efforts to land and expand
at named accounts.
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What do we
want to
say?
(offers)
Who should
we say it to?
(segments)
Who are we
trying to
reach?
(accounts)
What
should we
say?
(content)
Where should
we say it?
(channels)
Where
should we
say it?
(channels)
DEMANDGENABE
35. Tier # of Accounts Insights Tactics
“Classic”
Tier 1
5 to 50
[Tens]
Full profiles
Quarterly updates
• Bespoke 1:1 Campaigns
“Lite”
Tier 2
~200
[Hundreds]
Basic account profiles
Annual updates
• 1:Few Campaigns
“Hybrid”
Tier 3
1000s
[Thousands]
Industry or segment
• Traditional Marketing with
Account Targeting
• One OSDR: up to 500 accounts
• MQAs
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Level 1: Reps Self-Select
Level 2: Basic Data
Level 3: Advanced
Level 4: Predictive Analytics Sophisticated predictive
scoring and modeling
Advanced ICP data (technographics,
intent, engagement)
Simple definition of Ideal Company
Profile (ICP)
Based on intuition and experience
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Manual
Build and Maintain Your Database With the Right Contacts
for Each Persona
Purchase Predictive
Representative companies; not exhaustive
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Channels for Outbound Account Based Everything
Marketing
• Events
• Direct mail
• Online advertising
• Web personalization
43. Tip: executive invites come from someone with an equal or higher title
Events Are a Big Part of ABM
• Owned events
• Meetings at 3rd party events
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Direct Mail Offers sent by mail are perceived
as 24% more valuable than offers
viewed only on a screen. And mail
boosted ROI by 20% when used as
part of an integrated campaign.
U.K. Royal Mail, February 2015
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Channels for Outbound Account Based Everything
Marketing
• Events
• Direct mail
• Online advertising
• Web personalization
Sales / Sales Development
• Human Email
• Phone
• Social
47. Account Based Sales Development
• Multi-channel
• Multi-step
• Multi-threaded
• Research oriented
• Human
Cloudera (TOPO)
60% open rate, 31% response rate,
and massive increases in both net-
new opportunities and add-on
business from current customers
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Lead to Account Matching
Leads
Account
Fuzzy logic match
Better routing
Account-level visibility
Implication: MQAs not MQLs
50. Touch Day Step(s) Description
0 Pre Research Find out 3 pieces of relevant information
1 Pre ABM Ads Build awareness with targeted ads
2 Pre Dimensional Mail Package / postcards to decision maker + influencers
3 1 Triple Touch Human email + voicemail + social (InMail)
4,5 1 Double Touch Human email + voicemail
6,7 3 Double Touch Human email + voicemail
8,9 7 Double Touch Human email + voicemail
10,11 13 Last Chance Last chance email + voicemail
Ongoing Ongoing Human Nurture Share relevant insights ever 3-4 weeks
Multi-step and Multi-Channel
TOPO
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Qualification
BANT
• Budget
• Authority
• Need
• Timing
AN
• Authority
• Need
There’s a project in the next six
months (Opportunity)
A Meeting with the right person
at the right company
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Impact: Are ABM activities improving key sales outcomes?
Do you have sufficient data, contacts, and account plans
for each target account?
Coverage:
Are the target accounts aware of your company?Awareness:
Are marketing programs reaching target accounts?Reach:
Are the right people at the account spending time with
your company? Is that engagement going up over time?
Engagement:
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Impact: Are ABM activities improving key sales outcomes?
Do you have sufficient data, contacts, and account plans
for each target account?
Coverage:
Are the target accounts aware of your company?Awareness:
Are marketing programs reaching target accounts?Reach:
Are the right people at the account spending time with
your company? Is that engagement going up over time?
Engagement:
58. Selection
Identify and
prioritize target
accounts, align
on resources by
Tier 1, 2, and 3
Contacts
Discover contacts
and map to your
accounts, ensure
quality data
Insights
Understand what is
relevant and
resonant at
accounts (triggers,
priorities, etc.)
Interactions
Manage 1:1 account-based interactions in channel
– events, outbound, digital (ads, web)
Orchestration
Synchronize
interactions into
coordinated plays
that align to account
plans and goals
Infrastructure
Map leads to
accounts, identify hot
accounts (MQAs),
show impact of ABM
efforts
Content
Create account-
specific content and
messaging that
reflects insights
Ads
HumanEmailEventsDirect
Complementary
Web
Predictive
May
2016
Oct
2015
EOY
2016
AttributionAnalytics
Dialing
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Tweetable Takeaways
• Outbound can be easier to scale and drive larger deals than
inbound
• Outbound does not necessarily mean interruption; use account-
specific content to reach out
• Account Based Everything is a strategy that orchestrates
personalized marketing, sales, and success efforts at named
accounts
• Human email is by far the most important channel for account
based everything
• Don’t measure measure account-based everything with quantity;
measure via coverage, awareness, engagement, reach & impact
@jonmiller
Long time to scale
Can’t easily double
Inbound saturation
“Column B” syndrome
“Inbound dependency”
Indirect learning
Hard to tie activity to impact
ABM is an investment in time and resources so you MUST focus on accounts with highest ROI
It’s not just outbound, not just inbound
Be ALL-bound
“An optimized balance of inbound and outbound marketing techniques, i.e. “allbound marketing”, consistently generates high quality leads that ultimately produce revenue.”– Dan McDade
Not HUMAN
Need to LISTEN
Don’t F-it up with your most valuable prospects
CEO Lattice – 3 templates in one AM
To move to the enterprise, MuleSoft moved to “Sales Development Consultants” not SDRs
They’re the quarterback; the don’t OWN the account, but they LEAD the effort
SDRs know more about what’s happening at the account than AE, so have SDRs do territory reviews with Sales before their territory review
Not lists and volume – relevant, human outreach not to one individual but to the account
Account centric good!
But, if Sales and Marketing are both taking an account-based approach but don’t know what the other is doing, that’s a recipe for trouble.
One part of the group in isolation makes this decision (e.g. do ABM), and that doesn’t work.
Marketers are currently only getting 15-20% penetration into target accounts [TOPO]
ABM does not work in isolation – ABE is the mandate
Wrong: what we want to say, how we want to say it target the right people
RIGHT: who we want to target what and how to say it
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account-based on Sales and Success; not marketing
open to influence as a metric
demandbase: vertical audiences
T1: 300 top accounts (whales)
T2: 300 next
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account-based on Sales and Success; not marketing
open to influence as a metric
demandbase: vertical audiences
T1: 300 top accounts (whales)
T2: 300 next
Something about Ideal Company Profile
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account-based on Sales and Success; not marketing
open to influence as a metric
demandbase: vertical audiences
T1: 300 top accounts (whales)
T2: 300 next
Research: Don’t skip this step.
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account-based on Sales and Success; not marketing
open to influence as a metric
demandbase: vertical audiences
T1: 300 top accounts (whales)
T2: 300 next
Many of the best high-level executive events include unique, ‘money can’t buy’ experiences.
Earn the list of attendees
For marketing invites, list should be 4-5x desired attendance
Offer charitable donation, or ipad, or airline voucher in exchange for a meeting
Don’t ignore the team
More = Google PPC targeting now, future Uber cars
Targeting outreach campaigns by account enables Cloudera SDRs to research individual accounts and buyers and speak to their exact pain points.
As a result, these campaigns produce a 60% open rate, 31% response rate, and massive increases in both net-new opportunities and add-on business from current customers.”
TOPO: Cloudera Case Report, September, 2015
Sales Development – or Prospecting – is the heart of every ABM program.
It combines email, phone calls and the personalized end of social media interactions into a coordinated series of engagements that develop and deepen relationships.
use all the account insight you’ve generated to prove to the prospect that you understand their challenges and have a unique approach to solving them
Any one person can be sick, ignore, PTO, promote, transfer, fire
Do you have major accounts that hinge on one or two personal relationships in the purchasing enterprise? If your answer is “yes,” then it’s important for you to realize that this represents enormous risk to your organization -- risk you need to act on now to minimize… those one or two key contacts can very easily be promoted, transferred or fired, and suddenly you may find that the relationship between your businesses is actually quite shallow.
MQA good b/c multithread in account – any one person can ignore you or be on PTO or get sick or leave, but touching multiple people in account gives higher chances
Even individuals who possess significant authority still have to build consensus within their company to get approval to move ahead with a purchase.
A member of the sales team at New Relic, a SaaS vendor of performance management software and analytics, was close to closing a deal with the CTO at a Fortune 15 consumer products company. But then the deal hit a snag. “My sales rep emailed me that the CTO was going to be out until the end of the quarter,” said John Gilman, VP of Worldwide Commercial Sales for the vendor. “That meant that the deal was not going to happen in that quarter, and the sales rep was going to miss his numbers. If we had a few other relationships at the company, someone else may have been able to step in and move the ball forward.” Gilman pointed out that a multi-threading approach is helpful to avoid similar situations. “For deals over a certain threshold, it is unacceptable to come to the table with one person at the target company,” Gilman said. “You need to know who their manager is, who can say yes, and who can say no. Also, you need to know who can help make the deal bigger.” An examination of successful deals shows that the approach works, according to Gilman. “Most of our successful deals have taken a multi-threading approach that relied on multiple relationships with influencers in an organization.”
Meetings not Opps
A = Authority. When you are talking to the decision maker, make sure to make note of what their title and function is so you can align their needs with your product. This will go a long way when you pitch to them! Hitting what matters to them shows you know what their pain points are.
N = Need. Make sure to find lists of companies in the target industry you’re seeking and their size.
U = Urgency. Keep up with companies and their latest news releases. If a sales rep is sensitive to the urgencies of companies it can seriously help the sales process. If a company has announced they are expanding their inside sales team or have a new vice president of sales, this could be a cue to contact them.
M = Money. Know where the money is. If a company is growing, recently announced a round of funding, or are older, more established companies then they have the funds.
In an ABM (Account-Based Marketing) world, Sales has to be willing to have a discussion with someone, no matter where they are in the buying journey. The most important factors: is it the right company, and the right person?
Looser qualified lead definitions prevail - BANT is on life support
Sales must now early in the buying cycle or before a buying cycle even begins (no BANT)
ANUM is new! [see TOPO]
Example: Netsuite, SDRs pass a lead as soon as they convince the right person in a target account to agree to a meeting
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account-based on Sales and Success; not marketing
open to influence as a metric
demandbase: vertical audiences
T1: 300 top accounts (whales)
T2: 300 next
The “law of large numbers” breaks down in narrow funnel -- can’t use vanity metrics, can’t count on volumes
Only need one deal to make a program ROI look good – noisy data