In the sea of constant noise, it's hard to break through. In this presentation, I recommend focusing on the matters of the heart in the business.
You read it right! In business and life, heart matters and when you focus on the heart, outcome soars.
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Marketing From The Heart - How Customer Experience creates Magic
1. A One-of-a-Kind Customer Engagement Summit
Marketing from the Heart
How to Create a Magical Customer Experience
Sangram Vajre
Co-Founder & CMO, Terminus
sangram@terminus.com
@SangramVajre
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Head of Marketing, Pardot (now Salesforce)
Co-founder and CMO of Terminus
Founder of the #FlipMyFunnel community
I am now an author (by accident)
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8. WHEN YOU
FALL IN LOVE…
There’s a spark!
It feels magical!
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9. It’s why Harry Potter
is so popular!
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10. The Magic of Harry Potter
20 Years
of the
“wizarding
world”
400
million
copies
sold in 68
languages
8 films
grossed
nearly
$8 billion
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11. REAL LIFE MARKETING
FROM THE HEART
J.K. Rowling was a billionaire
until she gave away
$160 million to charity
12. We all want magic in our lives
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13. A cold call to
be answered
An email pitch
gets a response
A deal to
get done
In business, the magic can be
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14. Every single day, through surprise and delight
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15. How do we create this magic?
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16. 1) Company?
2) Community?
3) Customers?
How can you
create magical
moments for your
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18. Terminus is on a mission to build a best-in-class
ABM platform and community that empowers
B2B marketers to be heroes in their organizations.
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Our Mission
20. Our Culture
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We have relentless commitment to the personal and
professional growth of our team and believe in each
individual having the “Keys to the Ferrari”
21. We knew we wanted to talk
about the problem
Less than 1%
of leads turn into customers
MAGIC IN
OUR COMPANY
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22. Everyone cared about the problem
B2B marketers are in business to make money!
MAGIC IN
OUR COMPANY
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23. Hosted #FlipMyFunnel Events
Brought in influencers, practitioners, vendors that were our competition
MAGIC IN
OUR COMMUNITY
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8 18 2K 6K
Conferences
Hosted
Months People
Attended
Online
Community
24. RESULT Created a community of believers
Category for account-based marketing
MAGIC IN
OUR COMMUNITY
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25. You know the saying:
MAGIC IN
OUR COMMUNITY
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“A rising tide lifts all boats”
26. So yes, the goal was to:
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Talk about
the problem
Build a
category
Have product-
market fit
27. But in order to be successful, you have
to think beyond your company’s
bottom line
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28. We all know the phrase:
“Do what you love and
the money will follow.”
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29. How about this?
Make sure your customers love you,
and the money will follow!
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32. How do we create magical moments that
make our customers fall in love?
MAGIC FOR
OUR CUSTOMERS
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MARKETING
CUSTOMER
SALES
47. My wife, Manmeet
WIFE HEROISM
My life long
customer!
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MY IMPACT GRAPH
48. Low
Impact
(1X)
Need to Do
High
Impact
(10X)
Must Do
Clean cars, pay the bills on time,
take kids to soccer
Try to become both Mom and Dad on
the weekends and let her have some
personal time Do dishes when she is away
Flowers on a Wed
Asking her, “What do you want for
Christmas?”
WIFE HEROISM
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MY IMPACT GRAPH
49. CUSTOMER HEROISM
Low
Impact
(1X)
Need to Do
High
Impact
(10X)
Must Do
Email newsletter
Blog and website updates
Analyst recommendations
In-person events
Industry or persona-based webinar
Account-based
advertising/messaging
or FB Ads
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YOUR IMPACT GRAPH
50. Low
Impact
(1X)
Need to Do
High
Impact
(10X)
Must Do
What would happen if
you got rid of
everything here?
What will happen
if you put all your
focus here?
CUSTOMER HEROISM
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YOUR IMPACT GRAPH
Three themes: Creating Magic, Building for Tomorrow, Going 10X = 3 different colors. Big and bold text
Heart + wand (stars)
Stick figure w/ building blocks
10X = jumping for joy
You know you’ve found something special…everyone wants to be part of something magical
Harry Potter celebrated its 20th anniversary this summer (1st book was published in July 1997)
More than 400 million copies of Harry Potter titles have been sold worldwide, and they've been translated into 68 languages
Its eight films have grossed more than $7.7 billion worldwide (excluding Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)
*from Fortune, July 26, 2017
Harry Potter celebrated its 20th anniversary this summer (1st book was published in July 1997)
More than 400 million copies of Harry Potter titles have been sold worldwide, and they've been translated into 68 languages
Its eight films have grossed more than $7.7 billion worldwide (excluding Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)
*from Fortune, July 26, 2017
J.K. Rowling was a billionaire until she
A cold call to be answered
An email pitch gets a response
A deal to get done
Stick figures giving a gift
Super bold text!
How do we create these magical moments in our own companies
Leading from the heart, being intentional
But it goes beyond that
It’s this mission to challenge the status quo of B2B marketing through account-based marketing that inspired the idea for #FlipMyFunnel
Make big & bold – pull in iconography.
INTERNAL FORMULA
Give each individual the “Keys to the Ferrari”
Challenge the status quo