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Marketing Automation (MA) & Lead Management/Nurturing Overview
Vivek Srivastava
Marketing Automation
• What’s driving this as a priority for CMO’s and marketers?
Our Challenges
• Highly competitive market
• Little to no sophisticated marketing processes and systems
• Little to no insights and information on prospect and customer behaviour
• Unknown and unquantifiable marketing impact
• Poor data, multiple data sources, no single source of the truth
• How can we do more with less?
Organisational Needs
Is Marketing a Cost Centre or a Revenue Generator?
Audiences everywhere are tough. They don’t have time to be bored or brow beaten by orthodox, old-fashioned advertising.
We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in and
be what people are interested in.”
Today’s approach:
“GET IN THEIR FACE” when they’re not looking.
Tomorrow’s approach:
“GET FOUND” when they are looking.
Buying Has Changed Forever
Buyers are Hyperactive
Prospects and customers are now consuming 30-60 pieces of content BEFORE they ever contact a brand or speak to a sales person.
Marketing needs to be
reengineered!
Commonwealth Bank of Australia / Presentation Title / Confidential
Inbound marketing -
Any marketing tactic that relies
on earning people’s interest
instead of buying it;
.
Rethinking Marketing
Outbound Marketing
• Telemarketing
• Trade shows
• Direct mail
• Email blasts
• Print ads
• TV/radio ads
Inbound Marketing
• SEO/SEM
• Blogging
• Social Media
• Content Marketing
• Videos / Podcasts
• Free Tools/Trials
• Public Relations
1-5% Average Response Rate 20-50% Average Response Rate
The new marketing mix.
“Interruption”- based (Highest Cost)
• Avg response rate: 1-5%
“Permission”- based (Lowest Cost)
• Avg response rate 20-50%
60-80% of leads
20-40% of leads
Inbound marketing costs 62% less
per lead than traditional, outbound marketing.
AVG COST/LEAD: $373
OUTBOUND
AVG COST/LEAD: $143
INBOUND
CMO’s Guide to Inbound Marketing
Content Marketing
costs 41% less per lead than the next best tactic, Paid Search.
Make stuff people want.
1 START CREATING/PUBLISHING CONTENT THAT IS
HELPFUL & VALUABLE TO OUR CUSTOMERS:
• FAQS
• HOW-TO’S
• THOUGHT LEADERSHIP CONTENT
• WHITEPAPERS
• WEBCASTS
• VIDEOS
• CALCULATORS
• INFOGRAPHICS / FIRMOGRAPHICS • BLOG!
Be generous. 2
• THE MORE WE GIVE,
THE MORE
WE GET
• INCREASES VISITORS,
PAGES VIEWS &
INBOUND LINKS
• BUILDS TRUST,
CREDIBILITY,
& GOOD WILL
Rock our keywords.
• FOCUS ON THE LONG TAIL
• 70% LEAD OPPORTUNITIES
• GET ON PAGE 1 • DOUBLES TRAFFIC • REDUCED RELIANCE ON PPC (FOR EVERY PAID SEARCH
CLICK THERE ARE 5.6 ORGANIC CLICKS)
Give great directions.
4
• RELEVANT AND ENGAGING WEBSITE
• TARGETED LANDING PAGES
• CLEAR CALLS TO ACTION
• COMPELLING CONTENT & OFFERS
• THE RIGHT CONTENT AT THE RIGHT
TIME, STAYING IN FRONT OF
PROSPECTS - MARKETING AUTOMATION (LEAD NURTURING)
Invest wisely. 5
“IF IT DON’T MAKE DOLLARS, IT DON’T MAKE SENSE.”
It no longer makes economic sense to send an advertising message to the many, in hopes of persuading the few.
Marketing Automation & Sales Force Automation
• A High Level Overview
What is Marketing Automation?
• Forrester defines lead management automation or Marketing Automation as:
– Tooling and process that help generate new business opportunities, manage volumes of business inquiries, improve potential buyers' propensity to purchase, and increase alignment between marketing activity and sales results.
Business Architecture of Leads Management 1. Capturing Leads
2. Identifying quality leads (Scoring AND Modelling – not the same thing)
3. Nurturing (Stay in front of customer / Right Message at Right Time)
• Low-quality Leads (Stay in touch/Drip)
• Acceleration
• Lifecycle (Welcome/onboarding, Cross Sell / Up Sell, Retention)
4. Routing and distributing leads, informing Sales of their quality & priority, empowering Sales with customer engagement insights
5. Lead / Customer engagement and follow up activities by Sales
6. Measuring the effectiveness of the entire Closed-Loop Marketing & Sales process
Video Overview of Marketing Automation
Commonwealth Bank of Australia / Presentation Title / Confidential
3
Case Study
Webinar Invite
Whitepaper +10 – Job Title Contains Executive
+10 – Active Project in Place
+5 – Filled Out Form
+15 – Watched Video
Scoring & Insight
5
Life-Cycle Automation
6 2
Wait 1 Week
Reporting & Analytics
1
New Lead Processing
Wait 1 Week
10
Data Management
Segmentation
20 25 40
7
Lead Nurturing
4
Emails, Landing Pages, Forms
Web Analytics
CRM MARKETING AUTOMATION
Understanding and Aligning to the Demand Waterfall
• Inbound Marketing (Owned & Earned Media):
• Blog Posts • Web Pages, • Press Releases • Search (SEO) • Social Media
• Outbound Marketing (Paid Media): • PPC • Advertising (TV, Radio, Print, Outdoor) • Radio • Call Centre • Direct Mail
This is a diagram of the Demand Waterfall today showing Inbound and Outbound Marketing driving inbound Contacts/Names:
Organisational Level of Maturity
The Road to Success
Why Marketing Automation?
• Driving more leads, higher quality leads, increasing productivity and delivering greater revenue and customer satisfaction across the business.
Overall Business Benefits of Marketing Automation
• Best-in-Class companies who integrate marketing and sales technologies through Marketing Automation demonstrate:
• Up to 49% increase in year-over-year annual revenue
• 33% performance improvement in ROMI* (Return On Marketing Investment)
• 21% performance increase in the year-over-year lead-to-sales conversion rate.
Overall Business Benefits of Marketing Automation
• An implementation of marketing automation will lower costs, improve conversion rates and drive revenue by achieving the following:
• Stopping lead loss – Lead qualification and lead management as part of a holistic marketing automation strategy identifies the best leads and advances them to sales while nurturing leads who are still in the research phase / not yet ready to buy
• Lowering the cost per opportunity – Since leads are tracked from initial touch to sale, marketing automation decreases CPO as marketing assigns only qualified leads to the sales team
• Reengaging Dormant Leads – When leads are advanced to sales prematurely, many are incorrectly disqualified due to unresponsiveness. Rather than discarding those leads, nurturing keeps our messages top of mind as prospects educate themselves on options within our industry
• Increasing Opportunity Size – Leads that have been nurtured have reviewed a steady stream of buyer-focused content, which reinforces the need for your solution
• Maximising efficiency – Marketing automation minimises the waste and redundancy caused by manual campaign execution, cutting expenses. Additionally, marketing automation gives companies in-depth insight into campaign, channel and program effectiveness
Reality of Marketing Generated Pipeline
• Detailed research by Aberdeen Group shows:
• One if four deals (26%) of all closed business come from marketing generated leads at Best-in-Class organisations.
• One in six deals (15%) of all closed business comes from marketing generated leads at Industry Average organisations.
• One in 20 deals (5%) of all closed business comes from marketing generated leads at Industry Laggard organisations.
Reality of Marketing Generated Pipeline
What constitutes ‘Best-In-Class?’
Benefits of Marketing Automation - Lead Nurturing
• Outcome
• Without Lead Nurturing: Marketing misses valuable opportunities.
• With Lead Nurturing: Stop leads from leaking out. Widen reach and recapture opportunities.
Benefits of Marketing Automation
Benefits of Marketing Automation
• Frees up resources to do other tasks
• Frees up resources to execute more marketing activity
• Reduction in resources
• More time for analysis and strategy
Benefits of Marketing Automation
Benefits of Marketing Automation
Marketing Automation = Greater ROI
• Nurtured leads produce 20%
more sales opportunities vs
non-nurtured leads
• Nurture Campaigns have 2x
open rates and 3x click-through
rates of one off emails
• 23% shorter deal times
• 47% higher order value
Marketing Automation = Greater ROI
• Companies that excel at lead nurturing: • Generate 50% more sales-ready leads at 33% lower cost per lead
• Reduce the percentage of marketing generated leads that are ignored by sales (from as high as 80% to as low as 25%).
• Raise win rates on marketing-generated leads (7% points higher) and reduce “no decisions” (6% points lower)
• Have more sales representatives make quota (9% higher) and a shorter ramp up time for new reps (10% decrease)
PRM
(Prospect Relationship Management)
CRM
(Customer Relationship Management)
Digital Living Membership Hardware &
Software Purchase
Marketplace
Consumer Lifecycle
SW/HW
Attach
FGF/Viral
Welcome Member Surveys Promotional
Upgrade
Inactive Cross Sell Service Updates Trial Expiry
Awareness
Total $57m – 2007/08 • Reduce Churn - $28m • Convert Silver to Gold - $13m • Upsell / Cross Sell - $16m
Example: Xbox Live - Extend and Expand the Lifecycle
Closed Loop Marketing
• Drive Revenue Performance by Staying in Front of Prospects and Customers
Aw
aren
ess
Nam
es
Pro
spec
ts &
Rec
ycle
d
Mar
keti
ng
Lead
(M
arke
tin
g Q
ual
ifie
d L
ead
)
Opportunity (Sales Qualified
Lead)
Sale (Closed/Won)
Nurturing Database
Inside Sales Qualification Sales
Sale
s Le
ad
(Sal
es A
ccep
ted
Lea
d)
Recycled
Example Revenue Cycle Model
Marketing
0
are Engaged Prospects But Not Yet Ready to Buy or Speak to Sales 50-
70%
are Marketing Qualified and Ready to Buy, Speak to Sales now
5-25%
are Unqualified and Irrelevant and can be discarded
25%
Engaged Marketing Prospects vary in terms of sales acceleration and hence need their journey through the sales funnel customised to fit different needs
PROSPECTS
Early Stages – Low Acceleration Stay in Touch Campaigns – campaigns
that ‘drip’ relevant content to prospects over time, gradually educating, informing
and building trust in CBA.
Mid Funnel – Medium Acceleration
Lead Lifecycle Campaigns – campaigns that ensure movement and engagement with prospects, even if they are not yet
sales-ready.
End of Funnel – High Acceleration Campaigns that try to accelerate
prospects towards the sale by providing relevant ‘nudges’ based on specific lead characteristics or sales / offer updates.
NAMES
Marketing
Sales
Lead Handoff: Leads are automatically pushed from Marketing and distributed to Sales.
Lead Recycling: Leads are cycled back to the top of the funnel by sales for further nurturing if the lead is not yet ready to buy.
Welcome / On-boarding Campaigns
Retention Campaigns
NLP, Up Sell / Cross Sell, Early Adopter
Campaigns
Existing Customers become Prospects: Once a prospect or lead becomes a customer, they can be automatically dropped into strategic nurturing campaigns based on specific models and or triggers. Or they simply become a prospect again until their behaviour indicates they are a potential buyer or they meet specific nurture campaign conditions.
Lead Capture (Names): Up to 95% of people visiting our owned media are not yet ready to buy. However, 70% will
buy from us or our competitors over the next 12-24 months. We need to become experts at capturing basic contact details via engaging calls to action, targeted landing pages and forms so we can stay in front of prospects & customers through nurturing campaigns.
Lead Sources: Lead sources can be anything from Display Ads, Retargeting, PPC, SEO, Website, Social, Chat, Telephone, Direct Mail, Self Generated, Referrals, Webinars, Events and Sponsorships etc.
Marketing Automation, Lead
Nurturing & Lead Management
MARKETING LEAD
SALE / WIN
SALES LEAD
OPPORTUNITY
Customised Nurturing Campaigns
Customer Nurturing
Campaigns
1
2
3
4 5 6
7
8
9
11
10
12
13
14
15
16
LEAD DISTRIBUTION / ROUTING
LEAD PRIORITISATION / LEAD INSIGHTS
INB
OU
ND
O
UTB
OU
ND
CHANNELS LEAD SOURCES
Forms
Landing Pages
MARKETING QUALIFIED LEAD
NURTURING
• Low Quality Leads
• Lifecycle • Cross Sell • Acceleration • Retention • Welcome /
Onboarding
CONTACT RULES
• Suppression • Contact
Thresholds • Recency
REAL-TIME CLOSED LOOP ANALYTICS
Segmentation
Lead Recycling (Prospect or Customer is not ready)
Sale
SCORING
MODELLING / ANALYSIS / SEGMENTATION
Propensity Models + Early Adopter + Next Logical Product + Retention Analysis & Recommendations + Detailed analysis of data + Recommendation to marketers for inflight campaign optimisation
Implicit (Behavioural) +10 – Home Loan SEO +15 – Home Loan Landing Page +35 – Filled Out Form + 5 – Visited Blog Explicit (What Customer Tells Us/What We Know) +10 – Job Title Contains Executive +15 – Existing Product (Credit Card) +15 – Postcode
NEW LEAD PROCESSING
Immediate Hot Leads
AWARENESS NAMES PROSPECTS LEADS OPPORTUNITY SALE
OTR
LEAD / CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT & FOLLOW UP
• Work Activities • Tasks
• Blog • eDM • Direct Mail • Ad Targeting • UIB • Social • Content • Landing Pages • Forms • Events • Webinars
Branch
Referrals
DB/PAS
Customer Centric View
Events
Data Management Analytics Reporting
AWARENESS / DEMAND GENERATION
PPC DM DISPLAY EMAIL PHONE SMS EVENTS SEO SOCIAL BRANCH PR ADVERTISING
REGISTRATION 1
LANDING PAGE FORM 1
LANDING PAGE FORM 2
REGISTRATION 2
CONTACT US FORM
CLICK TO CHAT
REGISTRATION 3
CONTENT DOWNLOAD FORM
WEBINAR REGISTRATION
FORM
EZINE / NEWSLETTER
SUBSCRIPTION FORM
EZINE / NEWSLETTER
SUBSCRIPTION FORM
WEBSITE Prospect Activity
Lead Acquired
LEAD SCORING
LEAD NURTURING CAMPAIGNS
• Stay in Touch (Drip) • Acceleration • Cross Sell / Up Sell • Retention • Welcome / On boarding
Qualified Lead
PROSPECT SCORE = 70+
Implicit (Behavioural) +10 – Home Loan SEO +15 – Home Loan Landing Page +35 – Filled Out Form + 5 – Visited Blog
Explicit (What Customer Tells Us/What We Know) +10 – Job Title Contains Executive +15 – Existing Product (Credit Card) +15 – Postcode
Marketing Automation Software
• Prospect & Lead Source Tracking
• Anonymous + Prospect + Lead Behavioural Analytics
• Prospect / Lead Acquisition • Prospect / Lead Scoring • Prospect / Lead Nurturing • Prospect / Lead Segmentation • Lead Prioritisation • Lead Insights • Lead Escalation & Alerts
CRM APPLICATION / SALES FORCE AUTOMATION
Lead Distribution & Routing
Lead Recycling
LEAD ENGAGEMENT
LEAD PRIORITISATION
LEAD INSIGHTS
WORK ACTIVITIES
TASKS
Sales Force Automation Software
• Lead Distribution & Routing • Lead Recycling • Sales Forecasting • Sales Pipeline Performance
Names 5,000
Prospects 1,000
*Active Prospect Database 250K
Marketing Leads (300 + 7.5k) Nurture
Opportunities 3,744
Sales 1,498
Lead Type Variants • Source • Channel • Industry • Size
20-50% 70% (> 1 month)
30% (< 1 month)
15% Inactive
(Last 6 months)
3.0% / month (7.5k) 75%
46% of prospects eventually become a lead
40%
65% of all sales would follow this model
80%
Awareness 100k
5%
Revenue Cycle Model – Overview Example (No lead left behind)
*Cumulative Nurturing Database
TD D&T
Savings Credit Card
Loans
19% Sales Leads 4,680
60%
Leads automatically flowing from Always On Drip Campaigns. As low as 3% of all prospects in database
become Marketing Qualified Leads per month to as high as 7%.
Campaign Example – Initial Hot Leads + Leads from Drip Campaigns
• Typically only 5% of prospects visiting a brands website or digital properties are ready to buy or speak to sales and Marketing & Sales only focus on these immediately ‘hot’ leads.
• However, 70% of the other 95% who have responded in same way to marketing campaigns will eventually buy from us or our competitors. This is the benefit of automated nurturing campaigns like a ‘stay in touch’ campaign as outlined below – Business As Usual vs BAU + Nurturing.
Marketing Automation / Lead Nurturing Model
Campaign A
Conversion Apr-14 May-14 Jun-14 Jul-14 Aug-14 Sep-14 Oct-14 Nov-14 Dec-14 Jan-15 Feb-15 Mar-15 Apr-15 May-15 Jun-15 Total
Campaign Visitors 60,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 60,000
Names 10% 6,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Prospects (At least one meaningful engagement) 50% 3,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Leads (Marketing Qualified Leads - MQL's) 40% 1,200 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1,200
MQL's coming from Nurturing (Drip Campaign) 5% - 90 86 81 77 73 70 66 63 60 57 54 51 49 46 922
Total MQL's 1,200 90 86 81 77 73 70 66 63 60 57 54 51 49 46 2,122
Opportunities 48% 576 43 41 39 37 35 33 32 30 29 27 26 25 23 22 1,019
Wins 70% 403 30 29 27 26 25 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 16 713
Lifetime Value per Sale $500 201,600$ 15,120$ 14,364$ 13,646$ 12,964$ 12,315$ 11,700$ 11,115$ 10,559$ 10,031$ 9,529$ 9,053$ 8,600$ 8,170$ 7,762$ 356,527$
Nurturing Database - Leads 1,800 1,710 1,625 1,543 1,466 1,393 1,323 1,257 1,194 1,134 1,078 1,024 973 924 878 878
Business as Usual Results 403 201,600$
Additional results from Nurturing 310 154,927$
Total Campaign 713 356,527$
Uplift with Marketing Automation / Lead Nurturing 77% 77%
H2 H1 H2
Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
ROI Marketing Automation
Marketing Automation allows us to understand and optimize every stage of the funnel. Examples: 1. If we optimized just the initial conversion rate
from Touches to Names (capturing names) by 2%, the overall number of sales for the optimized campaign would increase by 40%.
2. If we optimized just the conversion rate of Marketing Qualified Leads to Sales by 5%, the overall uplift on the campaign would be 28%.
Touches to Names
Our Baseline
5.00%
Optimise Here:
7.00%
60,000 60,000
Names to Prospects
Our Baseline
20.00%
Optimise Here:
20.00%
3,000 4,200 1,200 40%
More Names
Prospects to MQL
Our Baseline
30.00%
Optimise Here:
30.00%
600 840 240 40%
More Prospects
MQL to SAL
Our Baseline
50.00%
Optimise Here:
50.00%
180 252 72 40%
More SQL's
SAL to Opportunity
Our Baseline
60.00%
Optimise Here:
60.00%
90 126 36 40%
More SAL's
Opportunity to Close
Our Baseline
60.00%
Optimise Here:
60.00%
54 76 22 40%
More Opportunities
Baseline Revenue per Sale
$500 32 45 13 40%
More Wins
$16,200 $22,680 $6,480 40%
Marketing's
Baseline
Revenue Impact
Marketing's
Optimised
Revenue Impact
More revenue with
Marketing
Automation
Touches
Names
Prospects
MQL
SAL
Opportunity
Close
Baseline Optimised Our ROI
Revenue Cycle Model – Loans (Illustrative)
Names
Analytics Propensity Modelling
CommBank / Netbank
Marketing Lead
Sales Lead
Sale
Landing Pages / Forms GDW – Existing Customers
Prospects
OTR, Online Form, Phone, Paper Form
POC, Clicks Link, Branch, Inbound Call, Online Form, Chat
Application / Pre-Approval
Opportunity Negotiation
Approval
CBA Activities
Inbound Outbound
• Owned Media • Earned Media
• Paid Media
Marketing Activities
Webinars, Case Studies, FAQ’s, Brochures, Spec Sheets
Guides, Videos, Calculators, Checklists, eBooks
Demos, Assessments, Consultations, Comparisons,
Estimates, Trials
Welcome, On boarding Education
Recycling
Marketing
Nurturing Campaigns
Revenue Cycle Model – TD, D&T, Savings (Illustrative)
Names
Analytics Propensity Modelling
Marketing
CommBank / Netbank
Marketing Lead
Sales Lead
Sale
Landing Pages / Forms GDW – Existing Customers
Prospects
Application
Opportunity
Approval
CBA Activities
Inbound Outbound
• Owned Media • Earned Media
• Paid Media
Marketing Activities
Webinars, Case Studies, FAQ’s, Brochures, Spec Sheets
Guides, Videos, Calculators, Checklists, eBooks
Recycling
Welcome, On boarding Education
OTR, Online Form, Phone, Paper Form
POC, Clicks Link, Branch, Inbound Call, Online Form, Chat
Demos, Assessments, Consultations, Comparisons,
Estimates, Trials
Nurturing Campaigns
Revenue Cycle Model – Credit Cards (Illustrative)
Names
Analytics Propensity Modelling
Marketing
CommBank / Netbank
Marketing Lead
Sales Lead
Sale
Landing Pages / Forms GDW – Existing Customers
Prospects
Recycling
Application / Credit Checks
Approval
CBA Activities
Inbound Outbound
• Owned Media • Earned Media
• Paid Media
Marketing Activities
Webinars, Case Studies, FAQ’s, Brochures, Spec Sheets
Guides, Videos, Calculators, Checklists, eBooks
Demos, Assessments, Consultations, Comparisons,
Estimates, Trials
Welcome, On boarding Education
Opportunity
OTR, Online Form, Phone, Paper Form
POC, Clicks Link, Branch, Inbound Call, Online Form, Chat
Nurturing Campaigns
Nurturing
• Driving Revenue Performance by Staying in Front of Prospects and Customers and Delivering the Right Content at the Right Time in Real-time.
Why Lead Nurturing: Stay In Touch
Aw
aren
ess
Co
nta
cts
Lead Nurturing
Lead
(M
QL)
OpportunitiesContract Signed
Sale
s Le
ad (
SQL)
Enga
ged
Building relationships with qualified prospects regardless of their timing to
buy, with the goal of earning their business when they are ready.
“The art of maintaining permission to stay in front of your buyers as they educate themselves”.
Marketing Automation - Lead Nurturing • Basic Lead Nurturing Campaigns
• There are two types of lead nurturing campaigns and processes that can help you get started with the goal
of generating more and better-qualified leads.
• Incoming Lead Processing Campaigns • Lead nurturing is no different than building a long-term relationship — you need to foster respect and trust, be a good listener, and
keep things interesting. Incoming Lead Processing campaigns are your chance to make a positive first impression – what you do and how you act when you first meet someone will affect how they perceive you from there on out. What should you be doing to lay the right foundation?
• Stay in Touch / Drip Campaigns (we drip content) • ‘Stay in Touch’ or ‘Drip’ campaigns are useful for all prospects that are not immediately ready to engage with sales. They form the
backbone of your lead nurturing program by “dripping” out relevant content to prospects over time, helping to educate them and build trust and credibility for your company. By touching prospects regularly, they help keep your brand top of mind so that the prospect will contact you when they are ready to move to the next step.
• Together, these campaigns put in place all the necessary processes to help ensure a stream of more and
better qualified leads for the sales team.
Marketing Automation - Lead Nurturing • Advanced Lead Nurturing Campaigns
• After building a foundation with Basic Lead Nurturing Campaigns, we are now ready to examine the
nuances and winning strategies for advanced lead nurturing:
• Accelerator Campaigns • Accelerator campaigns are campaigns that attempt to move prospects along the buying cycle faster by providing relevant
“nudges” at the right time, usually triggered by specific buyer behaviours or sales updates. By observing the type of content prospects request, where they go and how often they visit your Web site, marketers can adapt their nurturing approaches accordingly, placing prospects with stronger interest on a more accelerated path toward a sales conversation and scaling back. communications with less interested individuals.
• Lead Lifecycle Campaigns (On boarding, retention, up sell, cross sell etc)
• Lead Lifecycle campaigns maximize marketing’s investment in lead generation by ensuring that leads will never grow stagnant or lost. As a general lead nurturing rule, there should be no place in the buying process where leads just “sit,” and you should have only one lead stage value for leads being nurtured. All other lead status values should have a time limit, and leads that sit idle past the deadline should be automatically recycled for further nurturing. In sum, Lead Lifecycle campaigns ensure movement and interaction with prospects, even if they are not ready to buy or sales does not engage.
Marketing Automation - Lead Nurturing
• Nurturing involves maintaining a relationship with prospects and leads through regularly scheduled, customised communications, such as ‘drip campaigns.
• Lead nurturing is scheduled at regular intervals to deliver the benefits of a multi-touch campaign.
• With marketing automation systems, subsequent action points in the campaign can be based on the precise behaviour / activity of the prospect / lead (branched logic campaign).
• These campaigns guide prospects and leads individually through the funnel according to their characteristics.
Nurturing Campaigns
Example: Nurture Email & Landing Pages
Example B2B Drip Campaign
1A
1B
2A
2B
3A
3B
TOUCH 1 TOUCH 2 TOUCH 3
Opt-in Y/N
R
NR
R
NR NR
eDM
DM
CommBank Y
R
Names
Landing Page 1B
Landing Page 1A
Landing Page/s 2 Registration
TIMING
SCORING
ARTIFACTS
CONTENT
5 DAYS 7 DAYS 14 DAYS
DM eDM Paid Acquisition
Landing Pages Form DM eDM Landing Pages
DM eDM Landing Pages
DM eDM Landing Pages
PPC, Display, SEO, Social
Contact Us – Chat, Form, Phone
EXAMPLE ONLY
Content 1 (1A & 1B) Content 2 (2A & 2B) Content 3 (3A & 3B)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Landing Page 1A & 1B are the same, just different locations for tracking as 1B uses a vanity URL.
Awareness Consideration Conversion
Any prospects or leads at any stage which actively want to speak to sales (click to chat, please contact me form) are immediately routed to leads.
Content A – Drive Contact Us Drive Registrations
Content is King!
• Successful Inbound Marketing, Closed Loop Marketing and Marketing Automation is all about content. It is also critical to note that attempting content marketing without Marketing Automation is not ideal. It is about getting the right content at the right time to the right prospects or customers and continually tracking and optimizing it’s performance.
Successful Inbound Marketing is Content Lead
• The marketing world has been turned upside down.
• Digital has quickly changed, and marketers recognise they must now practice the opposite of interruption marketing.
• To create relationships we must earn the permission to sell to prospects.
• We must produce relevant thought leadership content, not only content about our own products.
• The critical ingredient to creating engagement, trust, and thought leadership positioning is content.
• Content is what attracts prospects at the top of the funnel and content is what nurtures leads down the funnel.
• Marketers now understand that brands must become publishers.
Content and Buyer Preferences
• Prospects have preferences based on the buying stage so we need a portfolio of content assets…
The Content Marketing Machine • Here’s a description of the different
components of the machine:
1. Plan: Create a strategic structure for your content marketing
2. Team: Assemble the group to manage your content marketing operation
3. Ideas: Generate a steady flow of ideas for your content
4. Production and Distribution: Assemble your content and distribute it across the web
5. Audience Development: Generate traffic to your content
6. Conversion & Nurture: Convert visitor to leads, nurture them to opportunities
7. Measure & Optimise: Analyse and improve performance
Use a Great Content Marketing Tool which Integrates with the leading Marketing Automation Platforms
• Content Marketing Tool integrates with Marketing Automation vendors to help make your Content Marketing efforts work. It has a great Marketing Calendar, Workflow, Analytics and much more.
All about Right Content, Right Time. Real Time
Content mapping for lead nurturing is the process of preparing and organising our content so that it can be distributed to our prospects and leads at the right time based upon their needs and stages in the buying cycle. A content map is based on a buyer persona: • Helps organise content that can address questions at
various stages of the buying cycle. • Creates a blueprint for content distribution through
multiple channels. • Services as the primary content inventory for the
purpose of reference and re-purposing.
Buyer Personas and Content Mapping (Illustrative)
Emotional Persona (1st home buyers, new family home etc) HOME LOANS CAMPAIGN
Customer Interest /
Tasks
Search for properties. Review property data. Lender search.
Loan / Product search.
Compare shortlist. Meet with lenders.
Pre-approval.
Found property.
Take out loan.
Theme Thought Leadership Solution Knowledge Value Story Solution Validation Financial Justification Onboarding
Perceptual Journey
of Customer
Thinking about a new
home.
Exploring, looking at new
homes.
Understanding products,
services, solutions and
getting assurance these
are right for me.
Choosing and affirming. We are confident and
ready to move forward,
negotiate deal terms etc.
We are ready to commit.
Pain Points
Messages
Customer LifecycleAwareness Consideration Conversion
Education Solution Vendor Selection
Content at this stage focused on introducing a
problem, and then connecting that problem to critical
issues. It should create a sense of urgency for a target
to take action, action that should eventually lead them
to consider a solution/product/service that we offer.
Once target commits to solving a problem, content
should be built to help them pinpoint their needs in
relation to the problem. Next comes the process of
matching needs against a range of solution options in
order to find the type of solution that is the best fit,
which has unique content requriements of its own.
Content at this stage should focus on helping buyers
differentiate vendors that offer the ideal solution, and
arming them with the information they will need to
address the questions and concerns of other
influencers. Clearly communicating features and
functionality, demonstrating return on investment and
total cost of ownership, and sharing details around
service.
Trying to understand the home loan process.
Staying informed throughout the process.
Trying to understand what I am signing / complexity of contracts.
Alternate staffing models
Developing agent productivity
Improving workplace productivity
Buyer Personas and Content Mapping (Illustrative) Emotional Persona (1st home buyers, new family home etc) HOME LOANS CAMPAIGN
Questions
Content Articles Educational tips Case Studies Whitepapers Customer references Welcome kit
Social Media Webinars Testimonials Pricing / licensing ROI calculator Training
White papers Web site Features / benefits How to buy Live demo Customer newsletter
Blogs SEO Competitive and product
comparisons
Events Product awards
Video Analyst reports Data sheets FAQ's Checklists
Infographics Product spec sheets
eBooks Customer stories
Playbooks Industry insights
Guides Product/service fact sheets
Where can I find expert advice?
What do they offer? Leading, solid product/company?
Where can I find information on properties prices? Are their customers satisfied? Recommended by customers and analysts?
Where can I find opinions and ratings on lenders?
Do they fit my need? Meets or exceeds my needs?
Who can I call?
How can I easily evaluate/compare? Can I afford to buy & implement?
Do they meet my expectations? How can I easily purchase?
Where's the best place to go for information on
properties?
Do they have a specialist / partner in my area?Why should I choose them?
Why buy now?
How much can I borrow?
What do analysts say, are they a leader? Can I purchase online?
Is company viable?
You Must Audit, Map and Create Content for Buying Stages
Mapping Your Buying Stages Now that you’ve defined your personas, you need to create a buying journey that will convert these personas into customers. A buying journey maps a buyer’s decision making process during a purchase. Mapping this allows you to: • Understand the process your
buyers go through when considering your product or service
• Develop a content strategy that speaks directly to buyers, regardless of their stage in the buying journey
You Must Audit, Map and Create Content for Buying Stages
You Must Audit, Map and Create Content for Buying Stages
You Must Audit, Map and Create Content for Buying Stages
Easy to Manage & Automate Content/Nurturing with right Tools
Nurture Campaigns, Simple to Manage & Automate - Video
Nurture Campaign Content – 4-1-1 Rule
• For every one self-serving tweet, you should re-tweet one relevant tweet and most importantly share four pieces of relevant content written by others.
• What’s great about this approach is that it lets you engage in the conversation, build awareness, and keep in touch with your followers without coming across as pushy or too “me” focused. We’ve been trying to follow this approach for our Twitter updates as well as our Facebook updates, and so far results are positive.
• The 4-1-1 rule can also apply to your lead nurturing using email. Formally, lead nurturing is the process of building a relationship with prospects that are not yet sales-ready by conducting an informative dialog, regardless of budget, authority, or timing. Less formally, lead nurturing is the art of maintaining permission to “keep in touch” with potential customers as they educate themselves, with the goal of being top of mind when they are ready to move into a buying phase.
• This is where the 4-1-1 rule can apply. As you plan out the cadence of emails you’ll send to prospects, try scheduling four educational or entertaining emails mixed with one “soft promotion” (e.g. attend an event) and one “hard promotion” (e.g. download a free trial or apply for an account).
Right click and clone event
Webinar Integration – Gotowebinar, On24, WebEx
Anonymous Known
Dynamic Landing Pages
Notifications, Alerts, Workflow
Lead Scoring
• Lead scoring ranks a prospect or lead’s level of interest and sales readiness according to a pre-determined scoring methodology.
Marketing Automation - Lead Scoring
• Lead scoring ranks a prospect or lead’s level of interest and sales readiness according to a pre-determined scoring methodology.
• Marketing communications are customised to match the prospects characteristics and degree of sales-readiness.
• Every activity the prospects or lead does is given a score.
• When the scores reach a pre-determined threshold, the prospect or lead is deemed Marketing Qualified and therefore sales-ready and transferred to the sales team.
Marketing Automation - Lead Scoring
Interest
Awareness
Consideration
Action
Prospect Emailed Invitatio
n to BI Event
Opens Email, Clicks link,
Visits Landing Page
Inside Sales Calls and
Qualifies Lead
Re-enforcing
Email Topics
10 points
Registers/ Attends Online Home Loans
Q&A
20 points
Visits Website and Uses Home
Loan Tool
15 points
25 points
Qualified Lead is Passed to Sales
5 points
Receives Email for Home Loan Calculator Tool
5 points
Receives Email Invite to Home Loans Online
Q&A
5 points
0-25 Points 26-75 Points 76-100 Points
How Lead Scoring Works in an Automated Marketing Context
Prospect Receives Email for Home Loan
Promotion
Interest
Awareness
Consideration
Action
Visits Campaign Landing Page
10 points
Completes Request an Appointment
Form
35 points
Qualified Lead is Passed to Sales
5 points
Receives Email Confirmation Appointment
Request
5 points
0-25 Points 26-55 Points 56-100 Points
How Lead Scoring Works in an Automated Marketing Context
Prospects Searches for Home Loan
Content & Behavioural Scoring – Active vs Latent Behaviour Content Scoring Attributes
Example of Active vs Latent Behaviour. Two different prospects with same score
but with different behaviour and time.
Explicit & Implicit Data Explicit: What a prospect tells us / what we know Implicit: What a prospect does
Content Scoring and Optimisation
Constantly reviewing what content works throughout the funnel. In this example, 95% of all opportunities visited the ‘Pricing Details Page’. You could look at all of your content and see whether Leads, Opportunities or importantly Conversions/Sales and viewing / engaging with it and when.
Social Scoring
Marketing Automation – Prospect / Lead Characteristics
• There are three Qualification Characteristics; Demographics, BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, Timing) and Behavioural Indicators.
• Characteristics are critical signifiers that determine the sales-readiness of a prospect or lead.
Progressive Profiling
• Ask the minimum upfront, then ask a time based and or contextual question on next visit. Key information already filled out, also encourages prospects to keep their details up to date.
Progressive Profiling
Progressive Profiling Example
1st visit 2nd visit 3rd visit
With a Marketing Automation solution, a prospect or customer’s details can be ‘remembered’ and pre-populated
on forms. If information presented to a prospect or customer is wrong, ie. Email they are more likely to correct it and therefore the data stays clean and up to date. On subsequent visits, it allows us to ask one or two additional questions (progressive profiling), ie. One time based and the other contextual based on the content they are consuming / engaging with.
Operationalising the Capability
• Operationalising the capability is critical. Organisational structure/alignment, Centres of Excellence and clearly defined roles and tasks are crucial. How does all this work in terms of specific roles like Marketing and Sales?
Centralization of Marketing Automation
Regardless of a MA’s level of centralization, specific functions must always be centrally administered.
Centralized Hybrid,
centralized Hybrid
Hybrid, decentralized
Decentralized
<5
%
25
%
35
%
20
%
15
%
Centralized: Required
• Opt-out management
• User management
• Security settings
• Field mapping
• Upload policy
• QA Policy
• Data standards
Centralized: Recommended
• Touch governance
• Templates
• Lead scoring • Lead routing
• Suggested reports • Data management
• Large-visibility programs
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Primary Owner of Marketing Automation
Though Marketing Automation can be administered in many organizational structures, it is often located in one of three areas.
97
Marketing Operations
• Internal skills gap; specialization of labor
• Multiple programs/campaigns • Highly integrated with corporate
systems and dependent on data
Field Marketing 15%
Marketing Operations
75%
Other 5%
Demand Center 5%
Primary Owner of Marketing Automation
Though Marketing Automation can be administered in many organizational structures, it is often located in one of three areas.
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Demand Center
• $1B+ in revenue • Outsourced program execution • Hubs of expertise
Field Marketing 15%
Marketing Operations
75%
Other 5%
Demand Center 5%
What the Program Requires - People • There are already some case studies and best practices relating to marketing
organisational structures and the types of skills & resources required to excel at Marketing Automation, Inbound and Outbound Marketing.
• Before we look at some options, it’s important to understand five key characteristics of a successful marketing team in this new era of marketing:
1. Strategy 2. Focus 3. Cross functional 4. Agile 5. Data driven
• Here are some organisational design options and a recommendation……
What the Program Requires - People • Example 1
MARKETING LEADERSHIP TEAM
Hires, manages & develops marketing teams; allocates budgets, develops strategy.
BRAND & BUZZ
Objective: Generate brand awareness
TOFU
Objective: Attract Leads
MOFU & BOFU
Objective: Nurture & Close Leads
KNOWLEDGE & EVANGELISM
Objectives: Deepen product awareness
MIT
Objective: Make stuff
• PR • Brand • Company Blog • Events
• Content • Co-marketing • Affiliate Marketing • Display • PPC
• Email • Landing Pages • Webinars • Calculators • Demos / Assessments
• Product content • Sales training • Marketing training • Customer events • Centres of Excellence
• Tools & apps • Internal marketing tech • Innovation pilots
T E A M R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E S / A S S E T S
• Direct & branded search traffic
• PR coverage • Reach
• Visitors • Subscribers • Downloads • Names
• Prospects & Leads • Conversion rates • Lead quality • Optimisation
• Product awareness • Product buzz • Sales SLA’s • Tools adoption
• Traffic / downloads / users of tools & apps
• Marketing productivity
T E A M M E T R I C S
What the Program Requires - People • Example 2
CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAM
(Needs a RACI or ORAP model)
BRAND & BUZZ DEMAND GEN CONTENT & CREATIVE
NURTURING ANALYTICS KNOWLEDGE & EXCELLENCE
• PR • Brand • Company Blog • Events
• Co-marketing • Affiliate Marketing • Display • PPC • Display • Social
ATL
• Research Content • Content Strategy • Content Mapping • Content Creation • Content
Optimisation • SEO
• Develop, deploy, track & optimise Nurture Campaigns
• Power user for Marketing Automation tools
• Measure, monitor & track all Marketing Activity
• Analyse and develop insights and recommendations
• Reporting
T E A M R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E S / A S S E T S
• Marketing Training • Sales Training • Centre of Excellence • Best Practices • Innovation pilots
What the Program Requires - People • Example 3
MARKETING LEADERSHIP TEAM
Hires, manages & develops marketing teams; allocates budgets, develops strategy.
CONTENT CREATION
Objective: Attract and Convert Leads
DEMAND GENERATION
Objective: Attract Leads
LEAD MANAGEMENT
Objective: Nurture & Close Leads
KNOWLEDGE & EVANGELISM
Objectives: Deepen product awareness
MIT
Objective: Make stuff
• Content Strategy • Content Mapping • Content Creation • Content Optimisation
• PPC • Display • Social • SEO • Campaign development
& management
• Email • Landing Pages • Webinars • Calculators • Demos / Assessments
• Product content • Sales training • Customer events • Analyst relations
• Tools & apps • Internal marketing tech • Innovation pilots
T E A M R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E S / A S S E T S
What the Program Requires - People • PILOT RECOMMENDATION CAMPAIGN LEAD
(Marketing Manager)
INBOUND MARKETING
CONTENT
SEO
WEBSITE
PAID ACQUISITION
PPC, DISPLAY
LANDING PAGES & FORMS
FUNNEL & NURTURING
POWER USER AUTOMATION
TOOL
ANALYTICS
MEASUREMENT, ANALYSIS, REPORTING
INSIGHTS & RECOMMENDAT
IONS
KNOWLEDGE & EXCELLENCE
TRAINING
PLAYBOOK, CHEAT SHEETS,
FAQ’S
CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
What the Program Requires - People • POST PILOT RECOMMENDATION CMO
INBOUND MARKETING
(Organic Marketing)
CONTENT
SEO
SOCIAL /
COMMUNITY
WEBSITES
DESIGN
PR
PERFORMANCE MARKETING
(Paid Acquisition)
MARKETING
FUNNEL
PPC
DISPLAY
AFFILIATE MARKETING
BRAND ADVERTISING
MARKETING ANALYTICS
60-80% Leads (Lowest Cost)
20-40% Leads (Highest Cost)
Marketing & Sales Alignment • For the Marketing Automation pilot to be truly
beneficial and successful, it is very important to ensure Marketing & Sales are aligned and this alignment piloted as part of the project.
• If the pilot works correctly and effectively then it will drive better quality leads and importantly when the prospect is likely to be ready to buy. If these leads are not passed onto sales and dealt with immediately (within minutes or hours) then much of the effectiveness of the program will be negated because we will not be able to see relevant conversion rates for the leads generated and therefore the necessary insights into which channels, tactics, content and programs are working (or not).
• An aspect of Marketing Automation is Sales Force Automation in combination with SLA’s. Both of these components need to be established prior to the execution of the pilot.
1. Strategy & Leadership
2. Digital Marketing Platform
3. Connected Sales & Marketing
4. Digital Ignition
Digital Marketing
Mission: More measured digital interactions with customers
Core Components for Digital & Integrated Marketing Succes
A cohesive, consistent and strategic framework for planning, prioritising, executing and evaluating digital marketing activities
Efficient and productive processes
Clear roles & responsibilities
Relevant & effective documents (brief’s etc)
The right skills and resources
A better understanding of how digital aligns/ interconnects with offline
tactics
Insightful and actionable KPI’s, timely analysis and regular reporting
Appropriate tools & infrastructure
Our single biggest priority is to operationalise digital marketing @ CBA focusing on the basics and then scaling and advancing from there:
A more audience & customer-centric marketing approach
Develop more relevant digital experiences which address customer
goals & needs across the entire user journey
Build better online experiences which utilise industry best practices
Overall top down audience centric prioritisation and experience
governance model
Activate & Engage New Users
Surprise and delight with the right content & scenarios
Build advocacy
Acquire new leads, accelerate purchase decisions, nuture leads and increase customer satisfaction
Acquire new leads
Accelerate purchase decisions across the entire sales & marketing
lifecycle
Successfully nurture, retain, up-sell and cross-sell new and existing
leads
Lower the cost of lead acquisition & retention
Increase customer satisfaction through more timely and relevant
messaging, content and engagement
How will your organisation Master the Art of Digital?
1. Shifting the Marketing Mix
4. Measurement, Analytics & Insights
3. Core External Capability: Our Agencies
2. Core Internal Capability: Organisation’s Digital & Online Network
5. Building an Organization of Great
Digital Marketers
Digital Ignition: 5 Strategic Pillars
Digital Marketing Readiness Pillars - Assessment
Mar
kete
r D
rive
n
Mar
ket
Dri
ven
Audience Digital Adoption How relatively sophisticated are digital users?
Availability of Credible Research & Planning Tools What Media consumption/digital behaviour research and planning tools are available?
Digital Media Landscape How relatively sophisticated is the
publishing community?
Capitalising on Internal Assets Are our internal digital assets being leveraged for
Marcom?
Embracing Digital for Marcom Are the local teams increasingly transitioning to Digital as Core Marcom element?
Following Digital Best Practices Are Digital Best Practices being deployed to meet marketing Objectives?
Digital Readiness Program
DIGITAL CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE
THE 8 COMPONENTS OF A COE
Marketing Automation/Lead Nurturing (MACOE)
Provides marketers with on-demand information for all aspects of marketing automation, lead nurturing, lead scoring, landing pages, A/B testing and individual prospects and customer targeted best practices.
Online Advertising (OCOE)
Provides guidance for planning, execution, and optimization of online advertising campaigns and enables more effective online advertising.
Search (SCOE)
Centralized set of resources for Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to maximize ability to deliver and retain more qualified traffic to IBM.com from search activities and encourage marketers to make greater use of SEM.
Measurement (MCOE)
Prescriptive framework and guidance for consistent measurement, reporting, analysis, testing and optimisation to increase online marketing campaign effectiveness and efficiency.
Cross COE frameworks and guidance for strategy, tools, resources, communications, measurement and skills
Campaign Site (CCOE)
Prescriptive guidance for campaign landing environments to increase online marketing campaign effectiveness and efficiency
Strategy Process Policy Tools
Resources Communication Measurement Skills
Operationalize Digital Marketing through COE deployment: Training, resources, skills development
Digital Marketing Centres of Excellence: DCOE
Increase search marketing skill set of CBA marketers and our agency partners through training/education of strategy, process and policy Evangelize best practices
Provide business requirements for improving/new tools, either internally or for our external partners
STRATEGY Create a best-in-class SEM capability by building a road map with our agency and marketers (enables us to advance CBA digital marketing leadership)
PROCESS Ensure consistency and integrity of processes and manage process change and optimization Streamline processes and reduce redundancies
POLICY
COMMUNICATIONS
HUMAN RESOURCES
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
TOOL REQUIREMENTS
REPORTING/ OPTIMIZATION
Ensure adherence to CBA privacy standards, brand standards, vendor management, cross-country, etc
Develop SEM scorecard, set performance benchmarks, build robust testing plans, analyze results, optimize efforts
Scope (in order of priority) Description
Deliver updates to marketers on the SCOE, including, but not limited to process & policy changes, aggregate SEM performance, new tools, etc.
Central core team to drive SEM leadership Extend team to drive input to enable better relevance to corporate and field organizations
Example: Search Centre of Excellence
Example:
Lead Management Program Definitions
• Before embarking on a Marketing Automation / Lead Management journey, it is critical that EVERYONE in your organisations is on the same page in terms of definitions and taxonomies.
Lead Management Terminology • CBA Revenue Cycle Glossary* # Terms Definitions Additional Description
1 Awareness This is pretty self explanatory. This is all of our Branding Activities and Content Creation across Inbound Marketing (Owned and Earned Media) and/or Outbound Marketing (Paid Media & Call Centre) which our target audiences are exposed to.
All of this activity generates Traffic, Educates Prospects, Builds Brands, Produces Thought Leadership and can even help Reduce Churn. It is critical to measure this activity correctly as a “Lead Source” (also whether Inbound or Outbound) as the ability to determine lead source performance is critically important and therefore the Source Taxonomy is critically important as well.
2 Names Name of an individual along with some basic contact details, for example; First Name, Surname, Email Address and possibly Address, Phone Number, Job Title.
This is the entry point for everyone. We know little about their specific needs, their intent, their fit or where they are in the buying cycles.
3 Prospect These are qualified and engaged contacts which could buy from us at some stage but are not yet ready to engage with sales. They become a qualified prospect based upon behavioural lead scoring.
For someone to move from simply a name to a “prospect,” they must conduct meaningful interactions with us. For example; a visit to our website and either fill out a form, download content or use an online calculator. At this point the Contact undergoes demographic lead scoring. Using this scoring, a prospect is, “the right kind of person at the right company.” Many organisations actually define all of their Prospects as Leads but this overestimates the quality of the Prospect.
4 Marketing Lead These Marketing Lead or Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) are prospects which have shown enough behavioral engagement or buying intent that we want to call them to ensure they are ready.
An MQL is a lead deemed worthy to be handed off to sales. Sales should have the ability to reject an MQL for a handful of basic reasons, including procedural (lead has been incorrectly routed), clerical (the prospect record is incomplete or inaccurate) or definitional (the lead does not meet target market, activity or lead-level thresholds).
5 Sales Lead These Sales Leads or Sales Accepted Leads (SAL) have been qualified by Marketing, based upon criteria agreed upon by both sales and marketing, as sales ready by our Inside Sales tele-qualification teams or by active and or latent behaviour.
Salespeople who accept MQL’s are simply acknowledging that the leads they’ve received meet the agreed-upon criteria in the SLA. Leads should be reviewed and accepted or rejected by sales prior to attempting contact.
6 Opportunity These Opportunities or Sales Qualified Leads (SQL) are Leads which have been successfully qualified and now constitute a sales pipeline. Therefore these opportunities will contribute to a sales forecast.
Many companies, more commonly those with complex decision cycles, have additional stages even within the Opportunity stage to more accurately reflect, forecast and provide confidence around longer sales cycles.
7 Sale We have successfully closed an opportunity and won either new customer business or new business from existing customers (up sell / cross sell).
This is our final phase showing the ultimate result of our opportunities. It is important here to distinguish between net new customers / business and new business / sales from existing customers. However, both should use the same definition for a successful sale or deal.
*The key difference between 1,2,3,4 and 5 is Buyer Fit and Intent
Lead Management Terminology • Generic terms
Terms Definitions
Account
Companies or organisations; these can be prospects, customers, partners or even competitors.
Lead An individual or company that has the potential of doing business with our organisation. Most organisations actually incorrectly define their Prospects as Leads which is a significant over estimation of the readiness of these people to buy and therefore an overestimation of the quality of the Lead.
Lead Management Terminology • Marketing Automation
Terms Definitions Description
Marketing Automation
The use of technology to manage and automate the process of converting prospective customers into actual buyers.
B.A.N.T. The acronym for Budget, Authority, Need, Time - fundamental ways to determine the sales readiness of a lead.
Lead Management
The process of generating revenue from leads by collecting, qualifying and interacting with individuals and/or organizations in relevant ways throughout the buying process.
Revenue Cycle A new way of looking at the traditional sales cycle, the revenue cycle starts from the day the organization first meets a prospect and continues through the sale and beyond to the customer relationship.
Trigger An event based on a change or update in status, demographic information, or user behavior that causes a lead to proceed along a specific workflow branch or new path.
Workflow A pre-determined path of interactions for individuals to experience based on their profile, demographic, and/or behavioral data with the goal of nurturing and building relationships.
Campaign Management
The process of creating, executing, and measuring marketing programs directed at specific audience segments.
Lead Management Terminology • Lead Nurturing
Terms Definitions Description
Lead Nurturing The process of building relationships with qualified prospects regardless of their timing to buy, with the goal of earning their business when they are ready.
Closed Loop Marketing Campaigns that send communications based on a prospect’s previous actions and their place in the buying cycle.
Incoming Lead Processing Campaign
What you do and how you act when you first meet someone will affect how he or she perceives you from there on out
Drip Campaign A series of scheduled emails that deliver thought leadership to prospects that have opted in to receive marketing communications.
Accelerator Campaigns Campaigns that attempt to move prospects along the buying cycle faster by providing relevant “nudges” triggered by specific buyer behaviors or sales updates
Stay In Touch Campaign
Campaigns that “drip” out relevant content to prospects over time, helping to educate them and build trust and credibility for your company.
Lead Recycling The process of passing a lead from sales back to marketing because a lead was not yet ready to buy.
Lead Lifecycle Campaigns
Campaigns that ensure movement and interaction with prospects, even if they are not ready to buy or sales does not engage
Lead Management Terminology • Lead Scoring
Terms Definitions Description
Lead Scoring The process of determining the sales readiness of leads using a pre-determined scoring methodology and ranking them accordingly.
Explicit Data Information that a prospect provides that is unambiguous such as title, industry, company, etc.
Implicit Data Information that is revealed by a prospect’s online behavior such as pages visited, and recency or frequency of visits.
Qualified The lead characteristic of being ready to engage with sales—a definition that is agreed upon by marketing and sales according to the profile of an “ideal” customer and a scoring methodology.
Decay Score If your prospect hasn’t had any activity for a certain period of time, say two weeks, and then you might want to automatically deduct points. Based on inactivity, sales recycling, or other behavioral triggers.
Threshold A score used to determine whether or not a specific action should be taken on a lead.
Depreciation The ability to automatically lower a lead score due to inactivity, status change, or any other attribute that signifies a decrease in the level of interest – sometimes known as Lead Degradation and Score Decay.
Active Behaviour Active buying behavior identifies “hot” leads based on activities that demonstrate sales readiness and current interest.
Active vs. Latent buying behavior is complex and multi-dimensional. You need systems to evaluate and value different kinds of behavior. The most important distinction lies between active vs. latent buying behavior. The benefits come from adjusting your scoring accordingly. Understanding the difference is crucial. For example, imagine two similar prospects exhibiting different behaviors. One has downloaded an RFP, watched a demo and visited the pricing page - all very active buying behaviors. The other prospect has made several repeat visits to the same page over a longer period of time with no implicit interest in your product or service. While these prospects might both achieve the same overall engagement, one is active while the other is latent. When creating a lead scoring model it is important to ensure you are able to adjust your scoring to take these different buying behaviors into account.
Latent Behaviour Latent buying behavior, on the other hand, involves lower engagement activity.
New Marketing Metrics
• Insightful and Actionable Data
‘Silly’ Marketing Metrics • Too many organisations and too many marketers are using what I call ‘silly’ metrics to ‘measure’ marketing
and in most cases have also inadvertently created a tsunami of un-actionable reports.
• There are generally two categories of ‘silly’ marketing metrics:
Within Each Opportunity, Start with Questions, Not Data….
Traditionally, organisations are tempted to start by gathering all available data before beginning their analysis.
This leads to an all-encompassing focus on data management – collecting, cleansing and converting data – with little time or energy or resources to understand its potential uses. It also usually results in data being trapped in legacy systems which the marketing tools and applications cannot access and use in real-time.
Marketers Struggle With Measurement in Four Fundamental
Ways 1. Action without data • High level goals without supporting
metrics to define them • Measurement intended, but not
delivered (technology, budgets…)
4. Context without action • No plans for improvement, continue as
before • Actions “miss the window” to be
effective
2. Data without insight • Unread reports (everyone gets 7+…) • Data used to justify current activities vs
guiding new ones
3. Insight without context • Confusion on which measures are
“right” and deserve focus • Little proven business value from web
behaviours (“visits / impressions”)
Four KPI’s Summarise Marketing Impact**
Marketing Generated Revenue
% of sales revenue uniquely
created by marketing
10% to
47%
Marketing Influenced Revenue
% of sales revenue
touched by marketing
30% to 82%
Investment-to- Pipeline
Average cost of demand creation of
sales revenue
1% to 4%
Investment-to-Revenue
Average revenue
generated from $1 invested in
demand creation $5 to
$20+
*Cross-industry averages
** CSAT or NSAT would be another critical metric
Six Metrics Diagnose Marketing Opportunity
Database
% database with bad/
incomplete records
25%+
Inquiries
Raw responders
or hand raisers
(Awareness to Names)
2-5%
Marketing Qualified
Leads
(MQLs)
Leads ready to be
qualified (Contacts to
Leads) 4% to
8%
Sales Accepted
Leads
(SALs)
Leads accepted by
Sales
45% to
75%
Opportunities
(Sales Qualified Leads - SQLs)
A lead that is
opportunity in pipeline
45% to 60%
Opportunity-to-Sale
Leads that have closed
20% to 30%
*Cross-industry average conversion rates
Diagnostic Metrics - Example
Metrics to Diagnose Marketing Operational Performance
Operational Performance
Operational performance KPI’s are what marketing managers and marketing management review to look at the high level operational performance of their marketing effort and activities either by campaign and or channel / tactic.
Top Drivers of Satisfaction for the FieldPotential
NSAT Impact
H1 FYxxNet
Score
∆ 6Months
∆ 12 Months
∆ 18Months
H1 FYxxDriver Rank
1.1 125 -9 -1 -6 21
0.7 113 -9 -1 -1 3
0.6 104 -3 +2 -2 18
0.6 77 -4 +6 +6 9
0.4 105 -16 -5 -8 2
0.4 109 -7 +3 +1 23
0.4 107 -4 +1 +1 16
0.3 93 -9 +1 -7 13
59% Somewhat Satisfied Swing Voters
To prevent the “At Risk” populationfrom moving to DSAT, prioritize efforts
to improve:
To move the “Leaning” population to VSAT, prioritize efforts to improve:
•Demonstrates an understanding•Helps me understand the software
roadmap
•Has appropriate frequency of contact
•Demonstrates an understanding
•Products are easy to install •Is knowledgeable of tech solutions
H1 FY09
H1 FY08
DSAT16%
DSAT15%
At Risk2%
At Risk2%
Neutral54%
Neutral51%
Leaning3%
Leaning6%
VSAT25%
VSAT26%
IT Pro
Quality Cares Value Innovative Trust Security Ease Resources
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Microsoft 104 -5 85 +2 73 -4 111 -4 103 +4 87 +2 79 -7 115 +2
IBM 144 +22 124 +26 121 +29 125 +9 133 +14 119 -10 114 +16 123 +17
Red Hat Linux 134 118 150 125 128 142 107 121
Oracle 104 102 81 96 105 111 100 107
Sun 128 115 121 132 120 131 109 121
Symantec 117 +4 101 +3 108 -5 115 +10 125 -2 129 -4 108 +9 101 -5
Qualitative Audience Performance Summary: Example Data Only
Swing Voter AnalysisPerformance on H1 FYxx Drivers
Competitive Analysis (Core Measures & Pillars)
H1 FYxx Top Improvement Areas
Lower price on products (incl. more competitive pricing)
Licensing/improve licensing
Easier licensing policyMore reliable system (incl. less system crashes)
Windows Vista Improved ease of use of products
Verbatim Distribution
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Verbatim Themes Product (Net)
Security (Net)
Resources (Net)
Ease of DoingBusiness (Net)Cost (Net)
Scores showing significant improvement Scores showing significant decline Metric Leader
NSAT VSAT DSAT H1 FYxxBase SizeH1 FYxx ∆ 6 Mos. ∆ 12 Mos. ∆ 18 Mos. H1 FYxx ∆ 6 Mos. ∆ 12 Mos. ∆ 18 Mos. H1 FYxx ∆ 6 Mos. ∆ 12 Mos. ∆ 18 Mos.
109 -8 -2 0 25 -2 -1 +3 16 +6 +1 +3 403
NSAT Performance
0.2%
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Products are relevant to my needs
Resources help me do my job better
Products are reliable
Products are secure from vulnerabilities
Products are easy to maintain
Resources help me get the most of ourproducts
Resources help me connect to the ITcommunity
Communicates business value
Share of impact moving DSAT to SSAT Share of impact moving SSAT to VSAT
Getting the right quantitative data is only half of the marketing measurement equation. Equal effort and investment must be made into Qualitative Measurement as it provides insight into behaviour, drivers and needs.
Example: Qualitative Optimisation Priorities Example
Measuring the NSAT (CSAT – DSAT * 100) opens up other critical performance and operational insights and can help identify important issues which quantitative data will not identify.
CBA Should Have Organisational Wide – Data Card
Data Card: Dynamic universe sizing
and reporting capability supporting
audience management and campaign
planning.
How does the Data Card enable
greater audience management and
campaign planning strategy?
• Dashboard view with quick
filtering capability.
• Detailed visibility into customer &
prospect universe (including non-
contactable) by segment,
audience, sub-audience, region,
etc.
• Historical data visibility enables
trend reporting for reach,
contactability, and touch metrics.
• Customizable standard report
views, pivot table report, and
Excel download capability for all
reports.
Sample Reports
• Embedding Real Time and On Demand Insights with Marketers to Empower More Effective Marketing Planning, Execution and Optimisation.
Sales Performance Reporting
Sales Performance Reporting
Sales Performance Reporting
Sales Performance Reporting
Sales Performance Reporting
Sales Performance Reporting
Sales Performance Reporting
Closed Loop Analytics - Revenue Performance Management
Closed Loop Analytics - Revenue Performance Management
Closed Loop Analytics - Revenue Performance Management
Closed Loop Analytics - Channel performance & Velocity
Closed Loop Analytics - Single view of customer (Detailed)
Closed Loop Analytics – Individual Lead & Customer Behaviour
Easily Track and Measure Nurturing Campaigns
Social Analytics
Email Analytics
A/B Testing - Email, Landing Page and Forms
Revenue Cycle Analytics
Key topic areas: • Balance • Flow • Conversion • Velocity
Filter/Drill into data, e.g. by Program Type, Business Unit, Geography etc.
Trends over time
Measure key metrics associated with each stage of the marketing & sales funnel: • Balance of leads in
stage • In flow • Out flow • Conversion rate • Velocity (time in stage) Then have the ability to filter this information by campaign, products, business unit, demographics, geography etc.
Revenue Cycle Analytics
Revenue Cycle Analytics
Sales Insight
• Embedding Customer Behaviour and Marketing Engagement Insights to Human Channels to Empower and Enable Sales
Sales Insight – Basic Lead / Contact Details in Salesforce
Sales Insight – Enhanced Customer Details in Salesforce
Standard Salesforce Contact Record
Sales Insight Information embedded in Salesforce or
Dynamics CRM or SAP
Sales Insight – Individual Lead / Customer Behaviour
Sales Insight – Individual Lead / Customer Behaviour
Sales Insight – Individual Lead / Customer Behaviour
Sales Insight – Prioritising Hot Leads for Sales
Sales Insight – Individual Lead / Customer Behaviour
Sales Insight – Lead Behaviour Notifications for Sales
Sales or marketing can setup real-time Email and or SMS alerts to let them know of specific prospect or key customer behaviours.
Sales Insight - Mobile RSS Feeds for Mobile Sales Teams
Timely Follow up
• As Marketing Automation identifies prospects and leads when they are ‘hot’ and ready to speak to sales / buy, it is critical that they are followed up immediately. After 5 minutes, conversion rates drop off 100 fold.
Contacting Hot Leads – Benchmark Data
Hot Leads Must Be Followed Up Quickly
If a ‘hot’ lead is generated / identified it is critical to follow up the prospect / customer as quickly as possible.
Conversion rates drop 100 fold after 5 minutes.
No Lead Left Ever Left Behind – Alerts & Escalations
How Does it Work?
• Scenario of Marketing & Sales Alignment – Marketing Automation + Sales Force Automation.
Customer Scenario
Anonymous person searches for ‘Home Loan’ clicks link
A score would be given for visitor behavior. For example a higher score
of 10 might be given for the search term ‘Commonwealth Bank Home Loan’ vs a score of just 5 for ‘Home Loan’.
Visits our Home Loan Page
Scores can be given for visiting specific pages. For example, visiting a pricing page could generate a score higher than a general product page.
Anonymous person submits form, becomes ‘known’ Name
A score high enough (ie. 50) to automatically push a visitor above the threshold score which determines whether a Lead is a ‘Marketing Qualified Lead’ would be given for completing an online ‘Contact Us’ form.
Inside Sales Receives Email Alert of Qualified Lead
These notifications / alerts can be as simple or complex as required. If Sales don’t follow up a Hot Lead within an agreed period, a follow up email can be sent and if still not followed up an email can be sent escalating it to a manager.
All of these SLA’s can be reported on to determine which branch / sales person is or isn’t meeting agreed SLA’s.
Inside Sales Clicks on Link in Marketing Qualified Lead Email Which then Opens the Record in Salesforce
Inside Sales Immediately Changes the Status of the Lead
Inside Sales De-Dupes, Cleans & Adds Value to the Data
In addition to de-duping and merging any duplicated records in your CRM, an Inside Sales Development Rep (part of Marketing team) would also use a subscription to D&B or relevant equivalent to add value to the basic data. For example, Industry SIC code, correct Company Name, CAN/ABN, address etc.
Inside Sales then Qualifies the Marketing Lead
• Doing human qualification of a marketing lead is critical to determining whether a Marketing Lead is indeed a real opportunity which can be passed onto sales.
• Qualification is unique to individual companies, but typically it would include some or all of these components and the qualification notes would be entered into Salesforce:
• Demographics • Behavioural Indicators • B.A.N.T. – Budget, Authority, Need, Time
• Mandatory questions • Nice to have questions • Developed and agreed on questions with sales teams
• An Inside Sales team would also look after inbound calls, online
chat, outbound calls and can even manage lower valued accounts.
Inside Sales Logs the Lead Qualification Details which Records Activity in CRM for Sales Rep
Inside Sales can ‘Recycle’ or ‘Un-qualify’ Lead if they Determine it’s not a Real Opportunity to go to Sales
Lead is Recycled or Unqualified
If the Lead is not yet ready to buy then they are ‘recycled’ which automatically puts them back into Drip Nurturing Campaign (stay in front).
If the Lead is genuinely not interested or our organisation cannot help them with a specific product / solution then they need to be ‘unqualified’.
If Lead is Qualified, It Is Now Converted to Opportunity
Lead is Converted to an Opportunity, Opportunity Created
Lead is Routed, Distributed, Allocated to Sales Rep
Sales Rep Reviews Lead/Customer’s Marketing Engagement & Behavioural Information and then Contacts Them
Before Sales contacts the Lead or Customer, they first review what product information, marketing activities the Lead or Customer has engagement with.
Individually targeted cross
sell and up sell messaging and offers could also be displayed at this point for the sales representative
Sales Team is Forced to Select Reason for Recycling or Un-qualifying the Opportunity (Feedback to Marketing)
In order for Marketing and Sales to understand the effectiveness of marketing investments, the quality of leads and conversion rates, Sales are forced to select a reason for Recycling or Unqualifying a Lead.
During the Opportunity Engagement Stages the Sales Rep Must Update Opportunity Stages (Pipeline Management)
Or, Close Out the Opportunity when it is Closed/Lost
What Tools Do What?
• It is critical to define, understand and explain what tool does what and when in context of Marketing Automation as well as any differences between systems and applications.
• *In my view most organisations don’t have a Digital Marketing Platform (DMP) Vision which defines their systems, application and technology roadmap. It is crucial to define one first. See example Vision at end of this document.
Marketing Automation • Marketing Automation Delivers an Integrated Solution
• We already know that marketing technology is not a new thing. For
example, companies already use solutions for email marketing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), so many marketers are confused. What does marketing automation replace, and what does it complement? Furthermore, how does marketing automation compare to other new technologies and marketing trends, such as content marketing, inbound marketing, and social marketing?
• Many CRM systems already have a module for marketing, which is why marketers wonder whether they really need marketing automation to run their modern marketing departments. From a functional perspective, CRM systems typically do not provide functionality for things like email marketing, prospect behaviour tracking, and marketing program management. And it’s true that many CRM systems can be customized to handle things like automated campaign flows, lead scoring, and de-duplication. But it’s hard.
• A marketing automation solution also delivers essentially all the benefits of an email marketing solution along with integrated capabilities that would otherwise need to be cobbled together using various standalone technologies.
Marketing Automation & CRM • Architecture of Marketing Automation vs
CRM
• If you dig into the design and capabilities, you’ll find that while CRM systems provide indispensable value to any kind of sales organization, the reality is that they fall short for most marketing departments. CRM systems are designed and optimized for a very different purpose, which is what creates the whitespace for marketing automation vendors.
• Here’s a very high-level summary of how the two systems differ from a strategic and architectural standpoint.
Marketing Automation & CRM • Features and Capabilities of Marketing
Automation vs CRM
• Now, let’s take a comprehensive look into the specific capabilities of a marketing automation system compared to CRM alone.
Marketing Automation • Marketing Automation Delivers an Integrated Solution
• We want confidence that the platform we buy will meet all of our needs today – meaning it works with the systems and processes we have
– as well as any systems we may need to use in the future. At the same time, marketing as a whole is moving so quickly that there is a dizzying array of possible solutions we can use.
• Complete marketing automation systems include functionality for lead generation, including online and offline events, pay-per click, and tradeshows, as well as organic programs such as social and content marketing.
• While modern marketing automation started with email, many platforms today provide a single source of truth for everything you know about a prospect or customer. They combine information from your CRM system, social activity, your website and blog, buyer purchase history, and other behavioral information. With this complete view of a customer’s needs and interests, you can trigger relevant interactions at the right time, over any channel.
• Today’s marketing automation systems directly provide or integrate with social capabilities including social profiles, campaigns, sign-on, and promotions. This means you can trigger marketing actions based on any of these activities, such as making a tweet, sharing a post, and so on.
• Marketing automation is not just about new business. The same segmentation and nurturing capabilities can and should be used to develop and deepen relationships with customers, not just prospects.
Marketing Automation • A few of the categories that a robust Marketing Automation discipline should include are:
• Dynamic campaigns. Enhance your campaigns with interactive online media, including rich videos, live chat, and rich display advertising. • Social campaigns. Manage multiple social profiles, schedule messages and updates, track brand mentions, and analyze social media traffic. • Top of the funnel. Most marketers today focus a significant portion of their time generating leads at the top of the funnel. Work with SEO and
inbound marketing solutions, A/B testing solutions for your landing pages, and learn how to better serve your anonymous visitors to drive higher conversion.
• Lead data enrichment. Data is the lifeblood of your marketing, so you’ll want to enrich and augment your data with the latest and best solutions available.
• 360 degree view of online behaviours. To enhance lead scoring and relevance, you need to know everything your prospect does online – not just on your website, and not just when they are in the “lead to revenue” funnel. Go beyond your website and webinars; bring in behaviours from online communities, social networks, online videos and documents and more.
• Content Marketing. In a world where attention is a scarce resource, the best marketers build their own audiences, rather than rent someone else’s. To do that you need editorial discipline and workflow, and the ability to curate and publish content on a regular schedule.
• Lifecycle Marketing. Marketing is not just about conversion at the top of the funnel. It’s about identifying potential customers and being the voice of the customer throughout the entire lifecycle.
ADOBE SITECATALYST
ADOBE CQ, TEST&TARGET, AUDIENCE MANAGER
DIGITAL EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT
DAM Design Testing, A/B
Testing
1. Multichannel Content
Management
Content Targeting, Personalisation
Ad Targeting
WEB ANALYTICS
Heatmaps 1. Reporting
1. Cross Device Analytics
Segmentation Marketing Attribution
CRM
Forecasting Social CRM
Email Integration
2. Database Approvals, Workflow,
Automation 6. Analytics
Sales Force Management &
Automation
Knowledge Management
Order Processing
Customer Service Contact Management
3. Reporting
1. GDW
BI & PROPENSITY MODELLING
SAS KXEN Tableau
Existing CRM Frontline Systems
REPORTING 1. Macro Web Analytics. For cross device
website usability and performance diagnostics. For online publishing teams.
2. Micro Analytics. For end-to-end inbound marketing performance measurement and optimisation. For marketers & executives.
3. For sales forecasting and pipeline performance measurement. For sales channels, sales managers
ANALYTICS
1. Macro Web Analytics. For cross device website usability and performance diagnostics. For online publishing teams.
2. Micro Web Analytics. For end-to-end inbound marketing performance measurement and optimisation. For marketers & executives.
3. Sophisticated analytics to assess demand generation and lead nurturing programmes using pre-built, interactive real-time dashboards
4. Dashboards and analytics that allow you to see the performance of your individual social campaigns, so you can test, tune and optimise them over time.
5. Sales dashboard with full insight into the hottest leads and opportunities as well as lead and customer engagement and behavior.
6. For sales forecasting and pipeline performance measurement. For sales channels, sales managers.
DATABASE 1. GDW will always be a Consolidated Data
Warehouse for all required data. 2. The CRM Database contains either a subset or
all of the GDW customer related data for use in the CRM and Marketing Automation System.
3. This Database becomes the Actionable ‘system of record’ for all marketing and customer engagement related data.
MARKETING AUTOMATION
2. Lead Capture Forms & Landing
Pages
2. Closed Loop Analytics
Email Campaign
Management
Social Marketing 3. Revenue Cycle
Analytics
Workflow, Automation, Nurturing
Lead Management & Distribution
2. Reporting
5. Sales Insight Segmentation, List
Management 3. Database System of
Record
Lead Scoring
4. Social Analytics
A/B Testing
LANDING PAGES & FORMS 1. The CMS if for all persistent web pages,
microsites and other more complex content. 2. Marketing Automation provides the capability
for marketers to quickly design, deploy, test and optimise simple landing pages and online lead capture forms.
Email and Online Marketing
Batch Email Marketing
Email Deliverability & Reputation Management
Real-time Triggered Emails
Landing Pages
Forms
A/B Testing
Dynamic Content
Mobile Optimised
Sales Emails
Progressive Profiling
Hidden Form Field Population
Which Tool – Forms & Landing Pages
Persistent Website Campaign Microsite
CMS - Adobe A/B Testing – Adobe
Content Targeting - Adobe
CMS - Adobe A/B Testing – Adobe
Content Targeting - Adobe
Which Tool – Forms & Landing Pages
Lead Capture Pages / Basic Landing Pages
CMS – Marketing Automation A/B Testing – Marketing Automation
Dynamic Content – Marketing Automation
Email – Marketing Automation A/B Testing – Marketing Automation
Dynamic Content – Marketing Automation
Email and Online Marketing Component Description
Batch Email Marketing Email marketing is the ability to create “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” (WYSIWYG) emails and newsletters with easy-to-use design tools, send emails to groups of customers and prospects, and track and report on deliveries, opens, and clicks. It gives you a complete view of email performance.
Email Deliverability and Reputation Management
Simply sending emails cannot impact revenue if the emails do not make it to the recipients’ inboxes. Since marketing automation typically replaces a stand-alone email service provider (ESP), your vendor should offer functionality and services to ensure inbox delivery. This can include opt-in management, bounce handling, unsubscribe processing, and suppression lists, as well as higher-end services such as dedicated IP addresses and capabilities like email preview, spam checking, link validation, and delivery monitoring.
Real-Time Triggered Emails Triggered emails give you the ability to listen for specific customer behaviors and events and respond with an appropriate real-time email. For example, when a prospect clicks on a specific link, a sales rep logs a call, or a lead score goes above a certain threshold, you can automatically send the right message at the right time. Personalized, 1:1 emails based on real-time behavioral data can increase open rates by 50% and conversion rates by 350% (Jupiter Research).
Landing Pages
The landing page is an essential part of many marketing campaigns. By directing clicks to a landing page customized for a specific email rather than a generic home page, marketers can significantly improve their conversion rates. That’s why many marketing automation systems include the ability to build WYSIWYG pages with a graphical interface, without help from IT or the Online team.
Forms Registration forms can be placed on landing pages, microsites, and corporate websites. When a prospect or customer fills out the form, it captures the activity and adds the lead to the database (if new). Some systems have “progressive profiling,” which are smart forms that recognize known visitors and ask different questions to build out the profile over time. Some systems also allow for “social sign-on,” letting users register on landing pages using their social credentials.
A/B Testing (Emails and Content) An effective split-testing strategy drills into what works to maximize response rates, and can raise your conversions by 48% or more, according to MarketingSherpa. You can test emails (subject lines, copy, graphics, calls to action, frequency, timing, etc.) as well as landing pages, forms, and so on.
Dynamic Content
Emails and landing pages that have been customized for specific segments drive much higher engagement. Customize text, images, and calls-to-action based on criteria, including location, industry, job title, and much more. For example, send different messages to current active opportunities than to early stage prospects.
Email and Online Marketing Component Description
Mobile Optimized As mobile devices become increasingly popular in business, the marketing system must support mobile-optimized emails and landing pages.
Sales Emails This is the ability to personalize “from addresses” and signatures on behalf of individual sales reps, so that automated emails appear to come from the specific sales owner.
Progressive profiling To easily create dynamic forms that recognize known visitors, prepopulate any existing fields, and gather additional information to complete lead records.
Hidden form field population Based on a URL parameter or a cookie without custom code. For example, you might capture the lead source and search keyword as a hidden field.
Lead Management
Marketing Database
Single View of the Customer
Segmentation
Multi-touch Campaigns / Lead Nurturing
Online Behaviour Tracking
Lead Scoring and Grading
Data Quality and Append
Automated Sales Alerts and Tasks
CRM Integration (Data Sync)
Lead Lifecycle Workflows
Sales Intelligence
Lead Management (contd…)
Sales Campaigns
Revenue Cycle Modelling
Real-time, behaviour based trigger responses
Advanced Segmentation
IP Lookup
Multiple Lead Scoring Models
Separate Lead Scores for Lead Demographics & Behaviours
Decay Score
Lead Management Component Description
Marketing Database A marketing database is the system of record for your most important marketing assets: your leads and contacts. It should include more than the data in your CRM system, providing a rich view of all marketing interactions between each person and your company, including website visits, email clicks, scoring changes, data updates/history, and so on.
Single View of the Customer
The more powerful marketing automation solutions extend the marketing database to include data from third-party systems, social networks, in-house applications, and more. They provide a true single view of your customer and prospect. This enables the platform to trigger “right-time, right-message” interactions and extend beyond marketing into broad customer lifecycle management.
Segmentation
The ability to precisely micro-segment your database and target the exact right list of leads and contacts is essential to the success of all marketing activities. These filters should include a combination of demographic, household, and firmographic attributes (title, company size, location), as well as behavioral filters and CRM information. Here are some example lists: high-score leads in a particular region who visited your website in the last seven days; contacts at active opportunities who registered for an upcoming webinar; or prospects who received an email offer and did not click through but visited your website anyway.
Multi-touch Campaigns / Lead Nurturing This is the ability to automate “drip marketing” campaigns that send relevant messages over time, based on prospect behaviors and predefined campaign steps. This can include automated email marketing flows, but can also include other channels as well. Often, this capability is used to run lead nurturing workflows that are designed to maintain and deepen relationships with prospects over the long term.
Online Behavior Tracking This is the ability to track which emails prospects open and click, what webpages they visit, what keywords they use, even what they say on social networks – all with the goal of understanding who they are, what they are interested in, and where they are in the buying process with your company.
Lead Scoring and Grading With lead scoring, you automatically qualify leads based on demographics and BANT criteria as well as specific prospect behaviors, including recency and frequency. By tracking each of these factors and assigning appropriate weights to each, you get a comprehensive view of prospect interest and engagement. More advanced capabilities include reducing scores based on inactivity, and supporting multiple scoring models that separate demographic fit from behavioral interest, as well as scores for different products, divisions, etc.
Data Quality and Append CRM data is often full of duplicates and missing records. This isn’t a problem for salespeople who work with one record at a time, but it’s hard to use for Marketing. Data quality is an essential underpinning to any successful marketing program, consisting of de-duplication, cleansing, and appending. De-duplication recognizes leads and contacts you already have in your database, prevents duplicates before they enter, and merges any duplicates that already exist. Cleansing standardizes data, such as titles and company names, and removes bad data, such as contacts that are no longer with the company. Appending means filling in missing or incomplete data by adding additional contacts to an account or filling in missing fields, such as phone number or industry.
Lead Management Component Description
Automated Sales Alerts and Tasks This is the ability to create tasks automatically and provide real-time sales alerts over email, RSS, or mobile device. It can be important to ensure that Sales receives and acts on lead information in a timely fashion.
CRM Integration (Data Sync) Marketing automation solutions have varying levels of integration with CRM systems. While some require manual mapping of fields, others do it automatically and maintain the connection over time. Some sync information in near real-time; others less frequently. Some systems provide access primarily to lead and contact information; others give access to opportunity and custom objects as well. This is a particularly complex area with high variance among solutions, so it’s worth taking the time to understand your needs and your vendor’s capabilities.
Lead Lifecycle Workflows This takes marketing automation beyond email and web marketing, extending the workflow engine to integrate with the CRM system to create complete lead management workflows. It includes automated data field updates (e.g. update lead status based on changes to the lead score); automated list management; and lead routing / territory assignment rules. It also lets you ensure sales follow-up by creating tasks directly in the CRM system, reassigning leads if they don’t follow-up, and converting hot leads to opportunities. And it supports lead recycling processes, where sales leads are passed back to Marketing for further nurturing.
Sales Intelligence Sales intelligence provides account executives with easy access to the key interesting moments and prospect behaviors, so they can focus on the hottest leads and opportunities —and know what the prospect wants to talk about. Some solutions provide reps with drill-in capabilities to see which emails are opened and clicked, which web pages the prospect visits, and how the lead score changes over time.
Sales Campaigns Some solutions allow Marketing to create campaigns that Sales can add prospects into, or even run targeted campaigns of their own.
Revenue Cycle Modeling This is the ability to define the stages for how leads flow through the revenue cycle, automate the rules for how leads move from stage to stage, and to provide an easy-to-understand framework for the sales and marketing process. It provides the foundation for establishing clear rules governing how leads transition from one stage to the next and assigning Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for lead response and disposition.
Real-time, behavior-based trigger responses Real-time, behavior-based trigger responses—based on real-time behaviors, not just pre-set schedules. For example, if your customer visits a key webpage twice in one week, you might send him a special offer and alert the sales team immediately.
Advanced segmentation Combine real-time triggers, demographic fields, and behavioral attributes in a single list.
Lead Management Component Description
IP lookup By inferred company and geocoding by zip code, state, region, and so on.
Multiple lead scoring models To track interest and engagement for multiple products or businesses.
Separate lead scores for lead demographics and behaviors
According to Benchmarks on Revenue Performance, companies that implement this kind of lead scoring enjoy 23% better sales productivity and a staggering 33% higher revenue growth than companies that only use demographic scoring.
Decay score If your prospect hasn’t had any activity for a certain period of time, say two weeks, and then you might want to automatically deduct points. Based on inactivity, sales recycling, or other behavioral triggers.
Marketing Programs / Lead Generation
Program Management
Event Marketing including Webinars
Cloning
Program Import / Export
Marketing Programs / Lead Generation Component Description
Program Management Manage marketing campaigns and programs across multiple channels, including online ads, video campaigns, mobile, virtual events, and social media. Create and optimize program assets such as landing pages, emails, campaigns, and lists. Track program objectives, results, and costs to assess the program ROI.
Event Marketing including Webinars From attracting attendees to registration administration to post-event follow up, the event management lifecycle can be laborious. Event marketing capabilities streamline the entire event process, including personalized invitations, registration, reminders, and post-event follow up. They can also provide analytics, so know how many people have registered, how many attended, and so on. For online events, some marketing automation systems integrate with tools like Cisco WebEx®, Adobe Connect, Citrix GoToWebinar, ON24, and Readytalk to streamline the process further.
Cloning Each marketing program contains multiple emails, landing pages, campaigns, and lists, but many programs are similar in structure. The ability to clone an existing program can save significant time and resources, especially if your system makes it easy to edit all program parameters in one place and automatically update all the underlying assets (e.g. emails).
Program Import/Export Some systems provide access to a shared library of pre-built verified programs and the ability to exchange marketing programs with other users. This means you can take advantage of their best practices to jump-start your implementation and see results faster and with less effort.
Social Marketing
Social Sharing and Campaigns
Social Campaigns
Social Profiles
Social Engagement and Promotion
Facebook Registration Page Publication
Social Marketing Component Description
Social Sharing and Campaigns
Add intelligent share buttons to your campaigns and content so your audience can amplify your message to drive broader reach – and then track who shares your content and drives conversions. Most tools let you customize the default share message and image for each share; some provide triggered capabilities to prompt the share at the right time.
Social Campaigns Use or integrate with URL shortening services. Measure likes, comments, replies, retweets, etc. Including polls and voting, referral programs and sweepstakes. For example, you might reward $100 to those who refer three friends to an event, or enter a user to win an iPad if they share the content you create.
Social Profiles Incorporate social profile data to enhance segmentation and scoring, including name, location, and description – as well as a history of social sharing activity.
Social Engagement and Promotion Social applications such as polls, sweepstakes, and referral programs can enhance audience engagement and encourage people to amplify your message. Some tools let you easily create and include such social content on your website, landing pages, Facebook pages, and emails so that you can tap into your customers’ and prospects’ social networks.
Facebook Registration Page Publication To improve your lead registration programs’ EdgeRank inside Facebook.
Usability / Speed
Auto Complete Feature
Ability to Clone Entire Marketing Program
Tokens
Library of Best Practice Marketing Programs
Usability / Speed Component Description
Auto complete feature To suggest campaigns and field names when you enter specific values.
The ability to clone an entire marketing program The ability to clone an entire marketing program while keeping multiple emails, landing pages, links, and segments intact.
Tokens Tokens that let you input your event location, date, and time once, and then auto-populate the fields into every relevant email and landing page associated with the event.
Library of Best Practice Marketing Programs A pre-built library of best practice marketing programs—including email and landing page templates, events like webinars and tradeshows, and lead scoring and nurturing workflows. This library should be included inside the application.
Analytics
Web Analytics
SEO / Keyword Analytics
Basic Reporting
Multi-touch Revenue Attribution
Program ROI Analytics
Revenue Cycle Analytics
Social Tracking and Analytics
Analytics Component Description
Web Analytics This capability tells you why prospects visit your site, which pages they visit, and how often they come back. Marketing Automation can even tell you who visits your site when visitors aren’t in your database, thanks to anonymous company lookup, and can send daily alerts to sales reps so they know which companies are interested. When prospects do register, you also have the complete history of their prior web activity as part of their record and lead score.
SEO/Keyword Analytics Monitor and track relevant keywords being used by anonymous and known users to arrive at websites, landing pages and forms.
Basic Reporting The ability to access pre-built and build custom reports and dashboards to measure leads by source/campaign/month, email performance, landing page performance, web activity, and so on. Systems vary in report depth, such as the ability to use custom metrics and queries. Some systems let you create report subscriptions that automatically send updates to your team and executives.
Multi-Touch Revenue Attribution Customers do not purchase your product because of just one campaign. Rather, marketing usually impacts a sale multiple times across multiple people. Multi-touch attribution is the ability to allocate credit (pipeline, revenue) among all the marketing activities that have successfully touched a sale as it moves through the revenue process. Some systems also provide a visual way to see all the marketing programs and touches that influence the contacts associated with a sale as it moves through the funnel.
Program ROI Analytics This is the ability to measure and compare revenue performance by channel or program along metrics like revenue, pipeline, investment, ROI, prospects generated, etc. As a result, you can see which marketing investments generate the greatest return, and get visibility into how the marketing budget should be allocated going forward.
Revenue Cycle Metrics These metrics analyze how leads flow through each stage of the revenue process, from anonymous to customer and beyond, so Marketing and Sales can adjust business processes to increase pipeline and revenue. Key performance metrics for each stage can include balance, flow, conversion rate, and velocity.
Social Tracking and Analytics By adding tracking to social sharing applications, you get insight into who shares your content, your social conversion rates, how much “social lift” you are getting from your campaigns, and how social impacts your bottom line.
Web Analytics vs Marketing Automation Analytics
• I like to call this “macro tracking” because it tells you the percentage of anonymous visitors that converted into web leads.
• For many marketers, this number will suffice and hold demanding executives at bay when they ask, “How’s our marketing going?” But after several months of reporting that 215 people converted into a lead last month from your PPC campaign, most executives will want to know, “Which people? And how much money did we make from them?” That’s where marketing automation comes in.
Macro Tracking (Aggregate / Anonymous) - Web Analytics Micro Tracking (Anonymous / Individual) - Marketing Automation Analytics
Number of visitors to our site Which individual pages they click on your website
Sources of visitors to our site The information they input into your landing page form before hitting “Submit” (such as their company name, email address, and phone number)
Average number of pages per visit Whether they are accessing your site from their company IP address or another location (like a Starbucks or Holden Australia)
Visitor demographics (geography, language, etc.) What search phrases they typed into Google that led them to our pages
What technology people use to access our site (mobile devices, internet browsers, etc.) What emails individuals are opening, clicking and engaging with
As you probably could’ve guessed, marketing automation is more like microeconomics for your website. You know that whole supply and demand curve thing from Economics 101 that told you how many widgets a company should sell and for how much? Turns out that information would actually be relevant to your job someday. Instead of looking at the website as a whole and reporting on overall percentages, marketing automation software analyses each individual that visits your website.
Advanced prospect tracking available in Marketing Automation applications allows us to view a log of all touch points with our prospect, see the pages our prospect has visited, files downloaded, email correspondence, and more – out-of-the-box. All activities that occurred prior to the prospect’s conversion (while still an anonymous visitor) are also captured. It is important to note that with the alternative to a marketing automation solution using disparate marketing tools, it is generally difficult or impossible to paint a complete picture of an individual prospect’s activity. This prospect activity history gives great insight into exactly what your leads are interested in, allows your sales reps to tailor their phone calls or sales pitches accordingly and importantly for marketing to provide the right message and content at the right time. For example, if you know that a lead has searched for “pricing” on your site, you will want to have pricing information on hand when you make contact or score the lead more highly. Similarly, if the lead accessed highly technical content, it would make sense to have a sales engineer available for the call.
Infrastructure
User Roles and Permissions
Secure Partitions / Workspaces
Sandbox
API / Integrations
Ecosystem
Online Community / University
Infrastructure Component Description
User Roles and Permissions Assign permissions that align with specific pieces of functionality or tasks. Example user roles include a role that gives the ability to create but not approve landing pages or emails, and a role that can create but not activate a campaign.
Secure Partitions / Workspaces This is the ability to give users access to only specified lead partitions and assets (e.g. campaigns, landing pages, emails, reports). This lets you create different organizational views that align with how your organization is structured, so different groups can use the system without risk of interfering with each other – while still supporting sharing as appropriate across functions and the demand center.
Sandbox A sandbox is a testing environment that isolates untested changes and outright experimentation from the production environment. This lets the enterprise test out changes to the production system with less risk.
API/Integrations An application programming interface (API) is a specification that tells other systems how to call into the marketing automation platform to get data or perform an action. Other integrations allow the marketing automation system to trigger actions in other systems. In both cases, it allows the platform to interoperate with the other systems in the enterprise.
Ecosystem An ecosystem is a complementary set of solutions that amplify the power of the underlying platform. A strong ecosystem can help ensure that your needs will continue to be met even as you require additional capabilities.
Online Community / University This an online community / University where end users can share best practices, access training and education resources and share ideas and insights.
CRM Integration
Advanced Data Sync
Self-healing Schema
Data Triggers
CRM Integration Component Description
Advanced data sync This offers the ability to immediately synchronize your marketing database with CRM opportunities, activities, campaigns, and custom object information. Also makes those fields available for segmentation, scoring, and reporting.
Self-healing schema This identifies and syncs changes to specific CRM fields, such as new field names or values, and automatically adds new custom fields.
Data triggers This is used to activate marketing workflows in real-time based on data changes in opportunities and custom objects in your CRM.
Resource Management
Budgeting
Calendaring
Resource Management Component Description
Budgeting
This can cover all aspects of managing marketing investments, including assigning top-down budgets to various groups and divisions, planning marketing spend across programs, tracking open-to-spend, ensuring budget compliance, coordinating workflows and permissions, and reconciling plans with actual invoices.
Calendaring
It can be tedious to maintain a marketing calendar across multiple groups and to communicate the calendar and activities to interested groups, such as Sales. This functionality is about managing the calendar for the entire marketing department, from promotions to content to PR and so on.
Overview of Systems
• What system does what and how do they work together?
Marketing Database System of Record
Lead Scoring & Evaluation
Demographics Behaviour
Budget Authority
Need Time
Sales
Leads to Nurture
Reporting
Marketing
CRM Campaign
Automation Engine
Qualified Leads
Sales Force Automation
Marketing Activities
GDW
Legacy System
Legacy System
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1 CRM system connects to One or more Legacy Systems via API. (Better when it’s one source.)
2 There needs to be one primary Data Warehouse to connect to the CRM.
3 Marketing engagement data can be sent to General Data Warehouse (GDW) for access by other systems and for more advanced analysis, modelling etc if required.
4 Either Salesforce in the branch, VisualForce pages in the branch or Salesforce connected to Commsee (or GDW) via API are needed for the two way interaction between CRM / Sales Force Automation and human sales channels. Sales needs to provide feedback & engagement details with leads to the system and therefore marketing and be able to reject / recycles leads.
5 GDW or some equivalent CBA database needs to be the primary CBA data source for the CRM system. Multiple legacy systems can connect to the CRM for different functions but not for overlapping functions such as customer data as their needs to be a single, accurate source of this data.
Marketing Database System of Record
Lead Scoring & Evaluation
Demographics Behaviour
Budget Authority
Need Time
Sales
Leads to Nurture
Lead Capture Sources
Reporting
Marketing
CRM Campaign
Automation Engine
Qualified Leads
Sales Force Automation
Marketing Activities
GDW
Marketing Database System of Record
Lead Scoring & Evaluation
Demographics Behaviour
Budget Authority
Need Time
Sales
Leads to Nurture
Lead Scoring & Evaluation
Reporting
Marketing
CRM Campaign
Automation Engine
Qualified Leads
Sales Force Automation
Marketing Activities
GDW
Marketing Database System of Record
Lead Scoring & Evaluation
Demographics Behaviour
Budget Authority
Need Time
Sales
Leads to Nurture
Lead Routing & Distribution
Reporting
Marketing
CRM Campaign
Automation Engine
Qualified Leads
Sales Force Automation
Marketing Activities
GDW
Marketing Database System of Record
Lead Scoring & Evaluation
Demographics Behaviour
Budget Authority
Need Time
Reporting
Marketing
Sales
Leads to Nurture
Lead Nurturing
CRM Campaign
Automation Engine
Qualified Leads
Sales Force Automation
Marketing Activities
GDW
Marketing Database System of Record
Lead Scoring & Evaluation
CRM Campaign
Automation Engine
Demographics Behaviour
Budget Authority
Need Time
Sales
Qualified Leads
Leads to Nurture
Reporting
Marketing
Sales Force Automation
Salesforce
Marketing Activities
GDW
Marketing Database System of Record
Lead Scoring & Evaluation
CRM Campaign
Automation Engine
Demographics Behaviour
Budget Authority
Need Time
Sales
Qualified Leads
Leads to Nurture
Reporting
Marketing
Sales Force Automation
Marketing Automation Application
Marketing Activities
GDW
Digital Marketing Platform (DMP) End State Vision
• It is critical to have an end state in relation to digital applications, tools and technology to avoid the proliferation and duplication of unnecessary tools but importantly to provide a 360 contextual and optimised operating environment for marketers, marketing data and customers.
Yesterday
Evolving Digital Landscape
Evolving Digital Landscape
“Conversations and engagement with citizens are changing. Customers are time-shifting and place-shifting; choosing when and where to consume information and how to engage and interact with brands and government.”
Today
Linear or fragmented thinking must change. It’s about interconnected lifecycle experiences.
Google research found that 90% of our media consumption occurs across four screen devices – PC, television, tablet and smartphone – and that more and more consumers are viewing more than one screen device at a time. Furthermore, the findings highlight that consumers are browsing the internet on more than one screen device, using their smartphone as a starting point.
*See Martin Walsh’s ‘The New Multi-Screen World’ Presentation
Linear or fragmented thinking must change. It’s about interconnected lifecycle
experiences*
Multi-screen Lessons to Apply 1. The vast majority of media interactions are screen-based, and so marketing strategies should no longer
be viewed as “digital” or “traditional”. Businesses and government should understand all of the ways that people consume media, particularly digital, and tailor strategies to each channel.
2. Consumers turn to their devices in various contexts. Marketing and websites should reflect the needs of a consumer on a specific screen, and conversion goals should be adjusted to account for the inherent differences in each device.
3. The prevalence of sequential usage makes it imperative that businesses enable customers to save their progress between devices. Saved shopping carts, “signed-in” experiences or the ability to email progress to oneself helps keep consumers engaged, regardless of device used to get to you.
4. Consumers rely on search to connect their experiences across screens. Not only should brands give consumers the opportunity to find them with multi-device search campaigns, strategies such as keyword parity across devices can ensure consumers can find the brand when resuming their search
Services, Not Structures Make capabilities available through flexible components and, where appropriate, through APIs.
Connectivity All component capabilities and even foundational capabilities should have out-of-the-box connectivity through API’s or connectors.
Get Measurement Religion
Measurement must be considered throughout capability development. New skills and processes must be developed. We can’t manage what we don’t measure.
Foundation Partnerships Foundation capabilities are critical, and require significant new internal and external partnerships to ensure success.
Customer Scenarios Flexibility in capability enablement, and long-term work towards holistic customer data are critical.
Accessibility / Compatibility Make content and features accessible for customers access across all screens / devices using Web and Digital Standards such as HTML5 (where possible).
Implications for DMP Roadmap
Guiding Principles • SERVICES, NOT STRUCTURES
• Avoid monolithic & inflexible program and
capability structures. • Create flexible services that can be integrated
into, and across different applications and systems and importantly the different customer scenarios
Guiding Principles • OUT OF THE BOX CONNECTIVITY
• All component capabilities and even
foundational capabilities should have out-of-the-box connectivity through API’s or connectors.
• This ensures that the entire platform exchanges data and functionality in context of an entire customer lifecycle and critically in context of marketing operations ensuring day to day work by marketers is streamlined as much as possible.
Guiding Principles • GET MEASUREMENT RELIGION
• Measurement must be integrated holistically into program
planning • We cannot manage what we don’t measure and in order to
satisfy customer needs we must become data driven • Effective measurement requires a cultural shift, with new
skills to analyze and execute • Measurement enablement must evolve and be considered in
all aspects of capability delivery • Equal weighting and investment must be placed across both
Qualitative and Quantitative measurement
Guiding Principles
• PARTNERSHIPS MUST BE FORGED INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY TO CREATE SUCCESS WITH OUR CAPABILITIES
• Business Intelligence, Customer Data Management, Customer Engagement and Content Development & Management are essential to the success of all programs, but are the least accounted for in current ownership plan
• Access to the best but most relevant technologies, devices and innovation is essential to maintaining relevance and service excellence. Strategic partnerships with the right companies is crucial for this insight and access.
• Roadmap development and execution requires successful partnership with owners of each foundation capability, business processes as well as relevant external organisations who live and breathe technology and innovation but who are centered around customer excellence.
Guiding Principles
• COMPELLING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES REQUIRE A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO ENGAGEMENT ACROSS TOUCHPOINTS
• Customer scenarios and Personas are useful tools in understanding customer’s needs and wants in a specific moment in time
• Quality customer engagement requires greater insight into the entire customer experience from media to channels to devices
• This requires a flexible approach to delivering capabilities, and access to holistic customer data
Guiding Principles • ACCESSIBILITY AND COMPATIBILITY ARE CRITICAL TO ENSURE ALL
CUSTOMERS HAVE EQUAL ACCESS
• Content, features and functionality must be, where appropriate accessible for all citizens, ie. including those with disabilities or lower social-economic backgrounds
• The same applies for non-English speaking backgrounds. Services & information should be available in multiple languages
• Importantly, to avoid fragmentation and favouring one audience vs another, this content, features & functionality must be available across all screens / devices • (For example, where possible always build with HTML5 & Responsive
Web Design principles vs native apps. However if a native app is required then it should be available on all platforms simultaneously so as not to alienate customers)
Thank You Vivek Srivastava [email protected]