John Watton discusses how marketing automation can optimize sales across online and offline channels. He notes that 80% of travel is now booked online. Marketing automation can bridge the gap between online marketing and offline sales by nurturing leads scored through a defined process. Examples show how automation turned offline events into online campaigns and increased web traffic, leads passed to sales, and revenue. Watton argues that marketing and sales should work collaboratively using automation to adopt revenue performance management and accelerate growth.
8. %age of travel booked
online (travel agency &
via airlines)?
A: 80%
B: 60%
C: 40%
D: 20%
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10. Offline boosts online
★ Offline average booking
value is 160% of online
booking value
★ Conversion rate
increased by 30% with
number placement
Source: Expedia, 2009
18. Marketing automation > the benefits
Before After
E-Mail Manual, Batch and Blast Automated, empowered
Landing
Slow, manual and no tracking Rapid and tracked
Pages
Lead
Time-consuming, missing opportunity Seamless and smart
Accuracy
no scoring or prioritization Leads scoring in place
Website
monitoring Lacking visibility Digital behavior guides Sales action
Disparate Cohesive experience
Marketing Disjointed customer experience,
inefficient tools for clients and prospects
Programs
20. Optimize > Process, process, process
★ Strong working relationship
with sales
★ Defined process
★ Concept of a Marketing
Qualified Prospect
★ Establishes criteria for
“handshake” between marketing &
sales
★ Generate & recycle
21. Optimize > Process, process, process
★ Strong working relationship
with sales
★ Defined process
★ Concept of a Marketing
Qualified Prospect
★ Establishes criteria for
“handshake” between marketing &
sales
★ Generate & recycle
22. Optimize > Contact Building
Before: Previous campaign to update client mailing address took 1 week to
execute and 4 weeks of data entry. Results: 420 new pieces of information.
After: This campaign took just 3 business days to execute. Results: 1,499 pieces
of information, 82 new client names and expanded our opt-in list by 14.5%
27. Optimize > Turn offline events into
online campaigns
Source: The Inbound Marketing Trade Show Planning Guide, Hubspot, Oct11
28. Optimize > Lead nurturing
1726 1182 290 197
Downloads Visits web Requests
Thought Piece Solutions page Product Callback Pass to
Leadership Overview Overview Sales
Piece Video
★ Number of web visitors up 59% (quantity up);
★ Page views up 70%; and average time on site
up 25% (quality up).
★ LinkedIn and facebook went from zero to
being in our top 20 site referrers in 3
months.
★ The number of sales-ready leads passed to Sfdc Win report
sales went up 400%
29. Revenue Performance Management
Transform and evolve how marketing and sales work together to adopt Revenue
Performance Management and accelerate predictable revenue growth.
Today’s hotel shopper is one of the most demanding customers in any market in the world.\n\nSince we started selling hotels online 15 yeas ago, customer expectations have risen steadily on all fronts. People want:\n\nSpeed – results from their search query in seconds\nChoice – not five hotels hundreds are needed to get the match right\nPrice – today, they’re keen competitive price shoppers. Deals sell. If you don’t have them, someone else will.\nQuality – consumer reviews & ratings are essential – the top purchase influencer online (why Trip Advisor is so popular)\nClarity – they want detailed information on every property, room and neighbourhood\nSupport – many still want to talk about their choice and all expect personal support post-purchase\n\nA hotel partner that can’t live up to these demands is going to let your customers down and damage your brand.\nThese may be ancillary revenues but, to your customers, they’re a critically important part of their trip.\n
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Everyday there are millions of holiday searches made on the Internet.\nCumulatively, these holiday shoppers will spend billions of dollars on hotels.\nAs an online travel agency, you are after as big a cut of that as possible, by providing a traveller-preferred service.\nThe only people you want to talk to are those who can contribute to this, your bottom line and your success with your customers online.\n
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We talk about our inventory as covering the best locations, at the best prices, basically, everywhere.\n\nBut what’s key to you is that this inventory fits into your overall offering.\n\nFor some clients, we offer hotels on a non-exclusive basis.\nOthers use our hotel supply as a supplement to increase the geographical breadth of their offering.\nFinally, some sites combine our API with others’ to present the best offers anywhere.\n
You never want to feel alone with a problem.\n\nWe offer dedicated support to partner sites.\n\nIf or when you run into a problem, we won’t rest until we’ve sorted it out.\n
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We talk about our inventory as covering the best locations, at the best prices, basically, everywhere.\n\nBut what’s key to you is that this inventory fits into your overall offering.\n\nFor some clients, we offer hotels on a non-exclusive basis.\nOthers use our hotel supply as a supplement to increase the geographical breadth of their offering.\nFinally, some sites combine our API with others’ to present the best offers anywhere.\n
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We talk about our inventory as covering the best locations, at the best prices, basically, everywhere.\n\nBut what’s key to you is that this inventory fits into your overall offering.\n\nFor some clients, we offer hotels on a non-exclusive basis.\nOthers use our hotel supply as a supplement to increase the geographical breadth of their offering.\nFinally, some sites combine our API with others’ to present the best offers anywhere.\n