In a world of 8-second attention spans and pesky "promotions" tabs, marketers are clamoring to find ways to communicate their messages to buyers. But do you know if your efforts are resonating with the right people? Join Chris Lucas, VP of Partnerships at Formstack, for a tactical presentation on how you can use online forms to create your target profile and apply the findings to your email marketing and nurture efforts. He'll show you how to assess your existing customer base for buyer behaviors and determine the best way to gather initial data on your target market. Data nerds: We love this stuff as much as you do, so you're not going to want to miss this one!
4. 1. Allows you to be more targeted with messaging.
2. Builds credibility.
3. Builds a deeper connection with your buyer.
5. Understanding and tailoring your content to distinct buyer
personas can yield 2x the open rates and 3x the click-
through rates in your email campaigns.
6.
7. said “they have ‘broken up’ with a brand due to receiving
poor, disruptive or irrelevant marketing messages.
34%
14. “Buyer personas are research-based archetypal
(modeled) representations of who buyers are, what
they are trying to accomplish, what goals drive their
behavior, how they think, how they buy, and why they
make buying decisions.”
— Tony Zambito
38. Email 2 (Events)
Hi %%first_name%%!
<name> with Formstack again. I just wanted to send over this great resource on using Formstack for event planning. This guide provides a
great overview on how you can leverage your online forms to plan every aspect of your events from start to finish.
Since you’re now halfway through your free trial, is there anything I can help you with? If you have any questions, including how Formstack
can meet your event planning needs, please let me know! We can chat over phone or email.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Happy form building,
-%%user_name%%
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39. Email 2 (Surveys)
Hi %%first_name%%!
<name> with Formstack again. I just wanted to send over this great resource on using Formstack for surveys. The most difficult part about
surveys often involves just getting people to fill them out. This blog post provides a great overview on how you can leverage your surveys in
the best way possible to get the responses you need.
Since you’re now halfway through your free trial, is there anything I can help you with? If you have any questions, including how Formstack
can meet your survey needs, please let me know! We can chat over phone or email.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Happy form building,
-%%user_name%%
%%user_html_signature%%
40. Email 2 (Lead Generation)
Hi %%first_name%%!
<name> with Formstack again. I just wanted to send over this great resource on using Formstack for lead generation. This ebook provides
some great tips on how to maximize your lead gen by creating and testing high-converting forms.
Since you’re now halfway through your free trial, is there anything I can help you with? If you have any questions, including how Formstack
can meet your lead capture needs, please let me know! We can chat over phone or email.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Happy form building,
-%%user_name%%
%%user_html_signature%%
50. 1. Creating buyer personas leads to better
understanding
2. Use quantitative & qualitative data
3. Doesn’t have to be difficult to implement
In Conclusion
51. Creating The Ultimate Buyer
Experience with Better Data
Ashley Walsh
Director of Marketing Operations
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
1pm EDT / 12pm CDT / 11am PDT
Responsys surveyed over 2,000 U.S. adults to find out how they feel about their relationships with brands.
as technology progresses and breakout brands wow customers, their expectations continue to get higher.
3of the top 4 are complaints around poorly targeted or “missed the mark”
Everyone has received some form of marketing that is in no way aligned with who they are or what they want (insert senior soulmates email) Sometimes I feel like hitting my 30’s makes me a senior citizen, but come on.
Even bright and shiny Uber makes mistakes - I live in Indianapolis and don’t need to receive local email blasts for every city I have requested an Uber.
Tony is the leading authority on buyer personas - a strategist that helps fortune 100 companies on buyer personas and insights. Innovators Dillema – Clayton Christenson – “Jobs to be done”
A good mix of qualitative and quantitative data should make up your buyer personas
High on Demographic data
Signup Forms
Whether it’s a content download/contest form etc., find the Minimal Amount of Information you actually need
If you need this much data to build your persona, you might seek a 3rd party data source. We’ve found a few months back by using our form A/B testing and field bottlenecks tools that we lost about 5% of our conversions by asking those questions and decided to ditch them.
Onboarding & In App Surveys
Tip, Add these as hidden fields
Tip, Add these as hidden fields
Here’s a form I created with Google+ Autofill (gender, Birthday, Work & Occupation are hidden)
A rounded out story on an actual user
Based on onboarding response we target variable copy to different users. Only one sentence difference across 6 variations of this email.
2X lift in CTR – not exactly the 3X…yet, but only been running a few weeks
Onboarding & In App Surveys
This formstack welcome screen is customized with pre-built templates based on your answer to the onboarding survey