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Lead Scoring for B2B Marketers Adam B. Needles Director, Field Marketing Twitter: @abneedles

Lead Scoring For B2B Marketers

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Lead Scoring for B2B Marketers

Adam B. NeedlesDirector, Field Marketing Twitter: @abneedles

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Agenda

• Introductions• B2B marketing defined• Lead scoring defined• Context• The basics• Advanced issues• Closing thoughts + Q&A

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Product Marketing – 2% Marketing

Communications – 12%

Hiring – 10%

Market Definition –20%

Sales Process – 10%

52%Lead

Generation

Leads = your greatest challenge

52% of B2B marketing organizations say lead generation is their #1 marketing challenge

>>> SiriusDecisions

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Lead management challenges

47%

53%

Lead Scoring Adoption by B2B Marketers

Score

Don't score

>>> Silverpop

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Webinar goal: Understand the context and application of lead scoring for B2B marketing initiatives

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What are your goals?

Tweet: @abneedles + Q&A

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Introductions

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Adam[B2B marketer]

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My company

• Solutions for marketers

• B2B + B2C• Marketing

automation + e-mail marketing

• Software-as-a-service

www.silverpop.com

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My role

• Director, Field Marketing

• B2B marketing advocate

• Evangelist for the Engage B2B platform

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B2B marketing

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B2B marketing is different.

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B2B marketing is different.

• Direct sales forces• High-involvement sales process• Lower volume; higher purchase price• Rational vs. emotional purchase• Complex and savvy 'buying unit'

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B2B marketing legacy

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B2B case >>> AllRegs

• Mortgage industry data provider

• 2006– 25+ tradeshows per year– Low conversion rates– Major source of leads

• Today– 10 tradeshows per year– Higher conversion rates– New lead-gen avenues (e.g.,

alerts)

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B2B marketing’s primary goals:

drive leads for sales

cost effectively

qualified

improve close rates

help retain customers

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sales is marketing’s customer

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B2B marketing is

focused on pre-sales buyer dialogue

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Lead scoring defined

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Lead management

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Lead management

• Information capture• Scoring• Routing

– Sales– Nurturing

• Monitoring

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Marketing Qualified

Interest + investigation

Sales Qualified

Sales Accepted

Awareness

Marketing

Sales

New Business

Lead stages

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Marketing Qualified

Interest + investigation

Sales Qualified

Sales Accepted

Awareness

Marketing

Sales

New Business

Lead stages

L E A D S C O R I N G

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Lead scoring = ‘Propensity to buy’

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Lead scoring = ‘Resource triage’

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Lead scoring looks at

• Buyer fit• Demographic fit• Behavioral fit

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Role of lead scoring

“A solid lead scoring approach not only helps to rank prospects against one another, but can smooth the lead flow and serve as the baseline for building a range of business rules that include ownership, role and activities.”

>>> SiriusDecisions, “What’s the Score?”

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Lead scoring: Context

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Nurturing context

>>> MarketingSherpa

17.50%

12.50%

70.00%

Average B2B Initial Lead Break-down

Discard / disqualified

Sales-ready now

Longer-term oppor-tunity / worth nurtur-ing

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Quality context

48%52%

Lead Quality is a Top Concern for B2B Marketers

Top concern

Lesser concern

>>> Forrester

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Marketing Qualified

Interest + investigation

Sales Qualified

Sales Accepted

Awareness

Marketing

Sales

New Business

Stages context (w/ average B2B 08/09 conversions)

>>> SiriusDecisions2008 / 2009 data

3.9% / 3.8%

58.3% / 64.0%

49.1% / 45.9%

23.1% / 20.7%

2.57:1000 / 2.31:1000

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Cultural context

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Cultural context

Marketing

• “They don’t follow up on any leads we give them”

• “A lead to them is a sale”• “They ‘cherry-pick’ and act

like they know what the leads want before calling them”

• “They don’t even look at half of the leads we give them”

Sales• “We have no visibility into

what they are doing”• “We need more support

from them”• “The leads they pass to us

are worthless”• “They don’t understand

who our target market is”

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Why score?

• Align– Business– Marketing– Sales

• Prioritize resources• Maximize sales team capacity• Testing, analysis and improvement

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Lead scoring: The basics

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What do we know about a prospect?

Download a Whitepaper

5000Employees

VP Sales

$100MCompany

EvaluatingSolutions

Has2009

Budget

NeedsFit

Solution

Visited Website Last

Week

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Putting the pieces together ...

Download a Whitepaper

5000Employees

VP Sales

$100MCompany

EvaluatingSolutions

Has2009

Budget

NeedsFit

Solution

Visited Website

Last Week

Demographic

BANT

Implicit

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Lead scoring = grading a prospect

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Lead scoring components

• Explicit• Implicit

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Explicit scoring components

• BANT– Budget– Authority– Needs– Timing

• Demographics– Individual– Firm

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Progressive profiling1. Basic Lead Form 2. Returning Leads –

Pre Populate

3. Returning Leads – Pre-Populate – Gather More

4. Returning leads – Personalize – Pre-Populate – Progressively Gather More

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Lead scoring example

>>> Silverpop Engage B2B

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Implicit scoring components

• Recency• Frequency• Behavior

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Activity/Behavior

DownloadWP A

E-Bookcampaign

Web Activity

In Last 5Days

Visitedwebsite

>10 times

ViewedOnlineDemo

SubscribesTo

Newsletter

NurtureCampaign

TradeshowVisit

LandingPageOffer

Use your sales data to learn

Measuring implicit

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Lead scoring example

>>> Silverpop Engage B2B

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B2B case >>> Edgar Online

• Online corporate financial information

• Challenge managing leads and qualifying them

• Highly-granular lead scoring– Based on everything lead views– Helps with campaign evaluation– Enables greater scale– Quality vs. quantity of leads

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Issues for your model

• Sales + executive team collaboration• Weighting of factors• Market segmentation• Managing complexity• Impact of ‘demand type’ on BANT

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Lead scoring: Advanced issues

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Advanced issues

• Dialogue and momentum• Insights from the communication

channel and the nature of the information 'consumed’

• Insights from both online AND offline activity

• Adjusting your model over time• Re-assessing lead score data• Tuning the relative 'elasticity' of

variables

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Closing thoughts

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Closing thoughts

• Lead scoring is more about process than technology

• Successful lead models come from sales/marketing collaboration

• Efficient, repeatable lead scoring and lead management requires marketing automation

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Additional Q&A

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Thank you!• Phone: 617-413-6087• E-mail: [email protected]• Twitter: @abneedles• Blogs

– Demand Generation (Silverpop): • http://www.silverpop.com/blogs/demand-generation

– Propelling Brands (personal): • http://propellingbrands.wordpress.com/

• Silverpop – Lead Scoring for B2B Marketers