B2B marketers have it easy. Most of the time, they get to talk to every potential customer directly. But how in the world can consumer marketers do that with millions of customers? Find out here!
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could do the same thing with our consumers?
What was –Mass Advertising, Transactional, Impressions
B2B interactions end with a sales person, inherently personal
Seinfeld story
Mention advertising and emails – impersonal segmentation
And yet most marketing today just annoys people. The data shows that people are continually tuning out marketing, either subconsciously or very consciously
Need to LISTEN
Personal as far as content
Can’t just be demographic – two 30 year old men who live in the same town with same income levels have DIFFERENT interests
– set up for miss the mark
So in addition to demographics, we can make our marketing personal by listening for behaviors
Side note on 50 cent
But it’s not just the content
It’s the cadence
It’s the channel
65 million differnet people
Some for weight loss, some for calorie counting, some for working out, different wokrouts
Listen for interests – personalzie from day 1
MFP now re-activates over 500k users WEEKLY and they have seen a 10% increase in user engagement
It’s a long term thing – people don’t’ make decisions in an instant, companies certianly don’t
RFM model - $$ per email
Maximize CLV
What used to be nuturing has found it’s legs in the consumer world
This is how you can build a relationship with people even when they’re NOT looking to buy
Therefore, strive for these three things!
And I want to emphasize this once more – listening for behaviors and responding
All of the things I’ve said thus far can be done if you can listen to what your customers are doing
Goal is to provide a positive experience at every touchpoint – from marketing to sales to the ticket takers
The better their relationship with each person, the higher the likelihood they can provide a positive experience
Buy a single ticket to a Pistons game, season tickets, a concert for themselves, a concert for their kids
A customer that has a relationship with the Palace is worth significantly more than a customer who purchased a ticket to a Pistons game
By focusing on the relationship first and the transaction later, they’ve seen a 30% increase in season ticket sales alone
Move people through this FASTER
But you know, marketing measurement is hard. And it’s hard for a number of reasons. First of all, people who buy Marketo don’t simply respond to one of our marketing campaigns and then buy. Rather, it’s a journey where, on average, they are responding to 7 different campaigns. So maybe they come in via a tradeshow, then download a definitive guide, then watch a webinar, and so on. It takes 7 campaign successes before a purchase is typically made.
But if you set goals around moving people through the lifecycle, you can start to measure which campaigns had the greatest impact
But you know, marketing measurement is hard. And it’s hard for a number of reasons. First of all, people who buy Marketo don’t simply respond to one of our marketing campaigns and then buy. Rather, it’s a journey where, on average, they are responding to 7 different campaigns. So maybe they come in via a tradeshow, then download a definitive guide, then watch a webinar, and so on. It takes 7 campaign successes before a purchase is typically made.
Now, the way the CRM works when measuring marketing success is it ties all revenue from a win back to the source campaign, which means that the first touch gets all the credit for the revenue. This worked great in the age of information scarcity, because as soon as a lead was generated by that campaign, it was tossed over the fence to sales. But we don’t live in that world anymore. In today’s world, those other 6 marketing touch points along that buyer journey may have had as much or more influence on a purchase decision as compared to the source campaign. So taking those other touch points into consideration when measuring campaign performance can be hard.
Further complicating mattes is that there isn’t often just a single buyer. So what if you have two buyers, and both come into the process at different times, through different marketing campaigns. With Marketo, we’ve seen as many as 21 people involved in the buying decision. FWIW, we don’t recommend this.
So how do you measure ROI with that sort of complexity. It starts with actually having the data.
I’ve seen situations where sales will close a large deal, and marketers go through a manual effort to figure out, and show the different ways that marketing helped closed the deal, so that they get some credit for it. And that can get crazy pretty quickly.
Engagement marketing doesn’t stop once the customer purchases, the customer lifecycle continues as every organization wants to grow their customer’s lifetime value and convert them to advocates.
Kaspersky Lab is a growing IT security vendor focused on providing security solutions for endpoint users. Kaspersky recognized 2 opportunities to drive customer conversion and retention - lifecycle marketing: 1) Improve quality of leads to Sales/Partners to drive faster conversion and 2) Retain & extend customer relationships. They saw a tremendous opportunity to leverage Marketo to drive prospects to purchase, as well as shepherd customers to drive utilization which leads to renewals and advocacy through an automated Loyalty Behavior Scorecard based on scoring.
By leveraging lead scoring capability, Kaspersky is able to assess existing customers’ level of engagement and identify those with the highest propensity to buy additional product/services - the system automatically sends renewal messages based on Loyalty Behavior Scorecard.
Early Results:
Over 50 Kaspersky Lab marketers have used Marketo to increase engagement with new and existing customers and decrease the unit cost of sales qualified leads.
North American reporting that their Cost per SQL has gone from $375 to $75 USD
France is reporting registration-to-attendance rate for webinars is up 20% due to automation and a clean user experience
Kaspersky deployed globally across NA, EMEA, and APAC and drove higher conversion by implementing Lifecycle Marketing to increase new and renewal revenue & provide better leads to Sales/Partners.