Planning for 2013: How To Use Inbound Marketing To Improve Your Lead Generation

Prepared by FullQuota on behalf of Microsoft

Reed Overfelt, CEO – FullQuota

IT’S TIME TO

YOUR MARKETING TRANSFORM

Planning for 2013 How to Use Inbound Marketing to Improve Lead Generation

Technology companies

have historically relied on

traditional marketing tactics

like trade shows, webcasts,

direct mail and email.

Your buyer has changed.

Disclaimer: Use of social media company icons is for instructional purposes only and in no

way implies an association or partnership with any of the individual companies, or approval,

sponsorship, or endorsement by any of the individual companies.

Today, buyers have more

information than

ever before to guide their

discovery and evaluation of

your products and services

Buyers enter the sales process

understanding…

Problem

Answer

Cost

Before

Yesterday’s approach:

“GET IN THEIR FACE” when they’re not looking. Today’s approach:

“GET FOUND” when they are looking.

HOW?

Have a Plan 1

Become a TOFU Ninja 2

Master Your MOFU 3

Keep SCORE 4

Have a Plan

1

Concerns - Hate being sold to

- Find it offensive to give

name and email

- Don’t want to get spam

sales emails

- Don’t have time to teach

a sales person about their

business problems

Get inside your customer ’s head

Concerns

Understand what motivates them

- Want to solve my problem

- Education

- Data/information reports

- Recommendation from a peer

- Meeting other people like me

that have insights to share

Motivations

Concerns

Create a solution that entices them and addresses their concerns

- Tell them – in simple terms – what

you offer and how it addresses

their business problem.

- Provide customer testimonials,

address vendor risk.

- Offer free “fit” assessments, address

product viability and fit concerns.

- Provide demos and paid trials to

prove value.

Entice & Address

Concerns

Become a TOFU

Ninja

2

(Top of the Funnel)

Your customer ’s purchase in stages

Consideration

CLOSED

DEAL

Awareness

Purchase

An organizational model for your sales funnel stages

Middle of the Funnel

CLOSED

DEAL

Top of the Funnel

Bottom of the Funnel

What is the top of the funnel?

SALES

PROSPECT

GET

FOUND

GENERATE

AWARENESS

HOW?

TOFU in a nutshell

1. Creating

content

2. Optimizing

content 3. Promoting

Content

Make stuff people want…

Start creating & publishing content that is

that is meaningful and relevant to your

target buyer:

•Up-to-the minute blog articles

•Hard facts

• Industry research, reports, & studies

• Educational content

Be generous.

• The more we give,

the more we’ll get.

• Increase # of

pages

and inbound links.

• Build trust,

credibility

and good will.

Be consistent.

Daily executive article

summaries (blog)

Weekly executive newsletter

Monthly e-books, reports and

white papers

Quarterly webinars

2 Optimize

vs. “Retail Trends”

“6 RETAIL TRENDS you MUST

understand & embrace.”

Google is Judge, Jury & Executioner

Understand what motivates Google (as well as bing and Yahoo)

Help Google decide.

f(n) = Authority + Relevance

Ranking Algorithm

Creating

meaningful and

relevant content is

the best way to

improve the

authority of your

website and content.

WHY?

The internet is like a popularity contest ...

When content is really good, people want to link to it.

Create content worth linking to!

So, if you want more links…

3 Promote

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instructional purposes only and in no way implies an

association or partnership with any of the individual

companies, or approval, sponsorship, or endorsement

by any of the individual companies.

Pick the right channels.

?

Participate in

channels with

about your

target buyers

and their

passions.

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Make it easy to share BLOGS │ EBOOKS │ WEBINARS │ DEMOS │ NEWSLETTERS │ EVERYTHING!

Master Your MOFU

3

(Middle of the Funnel)

What is the middle of the funnel?

SALES OPPORTUNITY

QUALIFY

NURTURE

CONVERT

TOFU is just dessert

“ ”

MOFU is where the

beef is

“ ”

MOFU in a nutshell

1. Convert traffic

into prospects

2. Nurture

prospects into

leads 3. Qualify leads

into sales

opportunities

Converting is all about helping potential prospects take action.

Give great directions.

Create: • Relevant websites & landing pages

• Clear calls to action

• Compelling offers

?

Create clear, relevant websites

Example: Avanade ERP for Construction

Micro Website

What’s in the box?

Who is it for?

What is it?

Clear calls-to-action

How do I get it?

Example: Avanade ERP for Construction

Micro Website

Compelling offers…

What is it?

What do I get?

What do I need to do?

Nurturing is all about guiding prospects from general awareness to actively considering your products and services.

the keys to nurturing prospects into leads

Creating, optimizing, and promoting exceptional and unique content are

also

Remember! Your buyer has changed.

Disclaimer: Use of social media company icons is for instructional purposes only and in no

way implies an association or partnership with any of the individual companies, or approval,

sponsorship, or endorsement by any of the individual companies.

thinking like a

marketer or

advertiser…

…START thinking

like a

publisher and

socializer.

…Focus

your

buyers

business

problems.

With ZERO selling

Give them Valuable and Relevant Content…

Education

Information

Knowledge

Qualifying is all about contacting, scoring and converting leads into sales ready opportunities – or not!

Up to 75% of marketing gets lost in

the middle-of-the funnel.

WHY?

Most leads

should never be passed over

to sales.

< 25% of Leads Are Sales Ready

s

✗ n

are

Marketing says:

“That is crazy! We

give you tons of leads.

You just don’t follow

up on them properly!”

Sales calls a few

unqualified leads and

finds they are a waste of

time – then they stop

calling the rest of the

leads.

Inside sales teams are uniquely effective at contacting leads and qualifying them into sales opportunities.

It takes between 3 and 8 touches – including phone calls and emails – to contact a prospect.

@ @ @

Inside Sales reps spend

over 71% of their time

interacting with

customers (vs. <41% for field sales reps)

Inside Sales reps conduct 8 customer interactions

for every field rep’s 1 interaction.

So, if you want…

Insanely Happy

Sales People

Keep SCORE

4

Measure "If you cannot measure it,

You cannot improve it."

- Lord Kelvin

Visitors

Campaigns to

drive traffic

Lead

Closed deals

Conversion %

Conversion %

Overall conversion %

(By lead source)

The key metrics

Have a Plan 1

Become a TOFU Ninja 2

Master your MOFU 3

Keep SCORE 4

If you don’t like change,

You’re going to like irrelevancy even less.” - GENERAL ERIC SHINSEKII, 2003

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