Drivers of Marketing Automation for Small Biz

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You’ll Learn: • The key drivers of marketing automation • Why marketing automation makes sense for small businesses • Marketing Automation adoption rates and trends • Skills required for success

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What’s Driving Adoption of Marketing Automation?

Dan FreemanPresidentMarketing Growth Strategies LLCEmail: dan@marketinggs.com Web: http://marketinggs.com Tel: 201 266-6919

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Dan FreemanPresident

Marketing Growth Strategies LLChttp://marketinggs.com

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Agenda

• Drivers of Marketing Automation

• Adoption Rates

• Skills required for Success

• Content

• Data

• Marketing Processes

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Why Marketing Automation

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Creative Destruction

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Transformation of Marketing

Top Down, Push Bottom up, Pull

From Madison Avenue…to Silicon Valley

Google’s Market Cap from Zero to $350 Billion in 15 years

1960s

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Transformation of Marketing

1.3 Trillion Searches Annually

920 Million Web Sites

42 Million WordPress Blogs

500 Million Tweets Daily

4.5 Billion Facebook Likes Daily

144 Billion emails per Day

1.1 Billion Smartphones

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Transformation of Marketing

Apps in iPhone Catalog

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Transformation of Marketing

• Exponential growth in digital interactions

• Marketing is now more data intensive than Wall Street

• The primary challenge of marketing today:

How to manage the proliferation of content and data

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Marketing Automation Defined

Marketing Automation software enables marketers to manage the complexity of modern marketing

related to the proliferation of content and data.

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Product Lifecycle

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Marketing Automation Adoption

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Marketing Automation Adoption

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Skills Required for Marketing Automation Success

• Technology Expertise• Streamlined Content

Creation • eMail List Building &

Data Management• Lead or Tag Scoring• Collaboration with Sales

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Technology Expertise

• Spend the time to learn• Marketing Automation

vendors have abundance of rich content

• Choose a system that fits

• Devote resources to implementation

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5 Steps for Streamlining Content Creation

1. Audit your content2. Map your content to

the buying cycle3. Identify the content

GAPS4. Create personas to

understand your target audience

5. Create a content plan

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7 No-Brainers for Building an email List

1. Simply ask 2. Display an opt-in form prominently

on your home page3. Offer free content to capture

prospect information4. Include an offer in your email

signature 5. Incorporate opt-in form into all

social media6. Collect business cards at

conferences 7. Incorporate data collection into

your sales processes

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Lead Scoring & Tag Scoring

• Quantifies digital interactions

• Behavioral vs Demographic

• Delivering quality leads to sales is marketing’s top priority

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Collaboration with Sales

• Recognize marketing’s critical role in revenue generation

• Marketing creates relationships before a sales contact is made

• Marketing and Sales are part of a single customer acquisition process

“The aim of Marketing is to make selling superfluous.” -- Peter Drucker

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Q&A

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