View our slides to increase engagement levels across your strategic accounts and learn how to:
-Target the RIGHT accounts
-Engage key decision-makers across channels
-Measure with an account-lens so you can optimize your programs
-See our Web Personalization and ABM tools in action!
12. Account Selection Process
Top 20 Tier 1 Tier 2
Number of accounts 20 ~1,000 ~1,000
Selection criteria • Sales leadership to provide
• Account score = 100
• Filtered out some
industries: e.g. Real
Estate, Non-profit, etc.
• Accounts from Sales to be
added to this tier
• Each rep to pick 20 accounts
Use predictive account score AND
rep knowledge to select accounts
• Tiers for target accounts
• Accounts will be locked for 6
months
17. Know your Buyer: What and When
Buying Stage Early
Pre-purchase
Middle
Commit to Change
Late
Evaluation
Marketing Goals Build awareness address
pain points
Help buyers find you
when they are looking for
solutions -
Company-specific
information to help
evaluate and reaffirm
selection
Content Types Blog, ebook, research
data infographic,
webinar, video
Buying guide, RFP
templates, ROI calculator,
analyst reports
Pricing, demos, services
info, 3rd party reviews,
customer case studies
Persona #1 – End User
Persona #2 - Influencer
23. Example: Target Accounts
Goal = Create pipeline and revenue within target accounts
1
•Lift in website traffic – target accounts
visiting site
2
•New names in target account (building
out white space)
3
•Target accounts visiting dedicated
account pages, converting
4
•Engagement score for set of programs
per month
1
•Program success with a target account
2
•Call connects (target accounts)
3
•# of meetings w/in target account
4
•Marketing qualified leads (MQLs) in
target account
1
• # of opportunities in target accounts
2
•First Touch Ratio
3
•Multi Touch Ratio
4
• Pipeline in target accounts
Early Mid Late
Look at Metrics at Distinct Time Points
Metrics: Engagement Score Number of Meetings Pipe & coverage in TAs
39. Marketo can help you to select your target accounts, build
account-centric cross-channel engagement programs and
measure the results of your account-based marketing
activities
ABM Launch Pack
Ideal for small to mid-sized companies, our ABM Launch Pack includes one-
on-one coaching to setup Marketo ABM and help you build and report on
your initial campaigns.
ABM Custom Implementation
For larger organizations or Enterprise-level instances of Marketo, our team
will develop a custom ABM implementation program perfectly aligned to
your marketing and business objectives.
40. Professional Services
Introduce ABM & use cases ● Establish your ABM goals ● Account discovery
● Lead mapping ● Review account-level analytics to set benchmarks ●
Target account selection ● Setup target account lists in Marketo
Develop your account-centric campaign plan ● Build journey matrix mapping
channels and content to funnel stages ● Implement account segmentation and
scoring models ● Build and launch campaigns including channels like email,
events, direct, web, ads – with coordinated account-centric messaging ● Setup
sales alerts and notifications based on account activity
Introduce ABM dashboards to track account level KPIs ● Build account-level
reports using ABM-centric filters in Marketo ● Review your initial results
against goals ● provide recommendations for optimization
Marketo Experts can help you to set
your target accounts list, plan and
build account-centric cross-channel
engagement programs and measure
the results of your account-based
marketing activities.
Marketo will scope a custom ABM implementation
plan to fit your ABM skill-level and objectives
TARGET
ENGAGE
MEASURE
41. Marketo ABM Launch Pack
Marketo Account-Based
Marketing Launch Pack
The Marketo ABM Launch Pack includes
up to 16 hours of time with a Marketo
Consultant to help you set your target
accounts list, build account-centric
cross-channel engagement programs
and measure the results of your
account-based marketing activities.
Introduce ABM & use cases ● Establish your ABM goals ● Account discovery
● Lead mapping ● Review account-level analytics to set benchmarks ●
Target account selection ● Setup target account lists in Marketo
Develop your account-centric campaign plan ● Build journey matrix mapping
channels and content to funnel stages ● Implement account segmentation and
scoring models ● Build and launch 1-2 campaigns including channels like email,
events, direct, web, ads – with coordinated account-centric messaging ● Setup
sales alerts and notifications based on account activity
Introduce ABM dashboards to track account level KPIs ● Build account-level
reports using ABM-centric filters in Marketo ● Review your initial results
against goals ● provide recommendations for optimization
Marketo Enablement Consultants will guide you
through the key steps to ABM success:
TARGET
ENGAGE
MEASURE
44. Visitors from UPS Visitors from Barclays
Using Web Personalization - increased opportunity stream from key accounts
Apprenda Personalizes Website by Account
45. These Ads drove 2x more lead conversions
117% increase yr./yr. in qualified leads
Retargeting/Remarketing
48. • Goal: Drive Target Account attendance
• Metrics: C- level attendance, 4 ENT opps,
10x pipeline, Target account reg (50%)
• Timing: month one, three months out, 1
year
• Questions:
• What percentage of target accounts did
sales drive?
• Did we create C-level engagement?
• Did we get meetings in our key
accounts?
• How did the program do overall?
Engagement Marketing Luncheons
ABM is an approach that focuses your efforts on accounts that close faster, generate bigger deals/revenue or accounts that have other strategic significance
In a traditional marketing funnel, you start by casting a wide net to find leads interested in your products
And then decide who to market to based on who has expressed interest
The challenge with this approach is you might spend a lot of time marketing and selling to companies you won’t win…
Or that you do win, but don’t provide optimal revenue for the time and resources it took to acquire them
ABM flips the traditional marketing funnel and starts by asking “who do I want to sell my products to?”
Then you build demand within those organizations
By starting with a focused set of key accounts, you maximize the impact of your resources
ABM works and provides a number of advantages
You improve marketing ROI by focusing your efforts on the most important accounts and also measuring impact through an account lens, which gives you the insight you need to optimize ABM success
It helps attribute marketing success much easier since your going after these accounts from the get go – when they become opportunities its very clear what drove them in.
You generate more qualified leads for the sales organization because you’re only targeting qualified accounts
And its brings sales and marketing teams closer, jointly focusing on winning key accounts or cross-selling to existing customers
1 – sales/mktg alignment
2 – know the divisions and the decision makers and influencers of each
3 – need personalized content (MA technology helps)
4 – multi-channel, combine digital and offline
5 – combination of metrics across the sales/mktg funnel
1 – profitable, need to understand attributes (not always biggest accounts)
2 – business pain your product solves
3 – if good win rate, target competitor accounts
4 – new territory, lighthouse account, etc. (e.g. McDonalds)
1 – firmographic data
2 – predictive (what you ask is extremely impt)
3 – tell what which companies are using competitor solutions
3 tiers of target accounts = 3 levels of marketing resources/investment
Use combo of predictive + rep knowledge
1 – sales leadership
2 – filter out industries where we KNOW we’re not successful or are not profitable today
3 – selected accounts from across sales
All about building a plan to focus on right part of org
How do you fit into their current context?
Needs to be an ongoing process
Information on marketing technologies in use
Marketing decision makers and influencers
Personalize based on buyer stage
Then by role – end user, influencer (e.g. CMO, Dir. Demand Gen, IT)
1 – don’t Call to create awareness, be mindful of costs
2 – be purposeful, don’t have a series of one-offs
3 – more touches leads to more mindshare or action (inconsistency can do harm)
Top 20 – do everything
Tier 1 – no WP for indv. Accounts / only low value DM
Tier 3 – no free tradeshow passes / no appointment setting
#1, ABM is all about focus. It’s about taking an account-centric view of your marketing and sales effort and focusing on the high-value accounts in your market.
There are 5 critical steps to ABM –
Identifying your target accounts
mapping those accounts to understand who to target and what their needs are
creating content for the different personas you’re targeting
Launching cross-channel campaigns targeting those people and leveraging the personalized content you have
And then measuring the results of your campaigns so you can be sure to know what’s working and what needs additional attention
And most importantly, all of this can be done at much greater scale than ever before and at lower cost than ever before if you leverage the marketing technologies and ABM vendors that are now available to all of us.
Thanks so much for all of your time. Greatly appreciate you joining Heidi and I on this webinar.
Let’s take a closer look at how Marketo ABM provides the 3 essential ABM capabilities: Target, Engage, Measure.
[walk through features]
Now I’ll show you some examples of each of these Marketo ABM capabilities
TARGET
Manage your account lists, accounts and leads in one place
Measure
See the impact of your ABM campaigns on pipeline and revenue
Use Marketo’s account score to understand whether key accounts are engaged
Use these insights to focus your efforts and resources
Let’s take a closer look at how Marketo ABM provides the 3 essential ABM capabilities: Target, Engage, Measure.
[walk through features]
Now I’ll show you some examples of each of these Marketo ABM capabilities
And when you’re ready to expand your ABM program
Marketo’s open platform is supported by a complete ecosystem of ABM partners
Including 250 integrated applications across 20 categories
1. Because Marketo provides all of the essential ABM capabilities, you save time and reduce complexity by eliminating the need to manage multiple ABM systems, integrations and data sets
2. Marketo unifies ABM and lead management in one solution making it easy for marketers to execute personalized campaigns for both accounts and leads in a single motion… you benefit from reaching key decision makers and deal influencers
3. Marketo provides you with a powerful ABM “hub” along with a complete ecosystem of partners to extend capabilities as you grow
Think of Marketo as the anchor to your overall ABM strategy
Implement Marketo first and expand from there
Apprenda is the leading enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) powering the next generation of enterprise software development in public, private and hybrid clouds. Their key prospects are enterprise organizations with high revenues and employee size. They know who their key accounts are and target them using named account lists. In this example, Apprenda created special landing pages for key enterprise accounts like UPS and Barclays Bank.
Targeting known account contacts
Retargeting website visitors
Drive to web site, have web site personalization campaigns set up
Ensure connected with digital strategy