Check out this webinar for best practices on aligning resources and roles across strategic teams to increase pipeline.
You'll hear:
• How to use marketing automation as a tool to create alignment across your organization
• Best practices for implementing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between cross-functional teams, to ensure proper follow-up
• Ideas you can put into practice now to align team resources and roles
3. “If you could get all the people in an
organization rowing in the same direction, you
could dominate any industry, in any market,
against any competition, at any time.”
- Patrick Lencioni
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
6. Enterprise Focus Areas
Deliverables
Marketing
Strategy
Marketing
Maturity Matrix
Marketing
Strategy
Strategic
Campaign
Roadmap
Cross-Functional
Alignment
Resources &
Team Roles
Sales & Marketing
Funnel Model
Joint Execution
Plan
Sales &
Marketing
Funnel
Lead Lifecycle
Lead and
Opportunity
Stages
SLA’s & Alerts
Measurement &
Reporting
Key Performance
Indicators -
Tactical v.
Revenue
Business Case
Audience &
Cadence
7. Main Painpoints:
• “How do I get better quality leads from Marketing?”
• “When are the new marketing campaigns happening so I can
get more leads?”
• “Why is marketing reaching out to MY leads?”
Sales
Need more leads
8. Main Painpoints:
• “How much revenue can I forecast this quarter through my
direct vs indirect business?
• How can I grow the business faster than my competitor?
• How do I drive loyalty among my existing customers?
• How do I drive awareness amongst net new customers?”
Business Unit
Run the Business
9. Main Painpoints:
• “How do I get the right data from Sales to create an accurate
funnel?”
• “How do I get the right support from IT to ensure that my
marketing operations team gets the support that they need?”
• “How do I get everyone aligned on the same terminology:
MQL, SQL, SAL, Conversion Rate, etc..?”
Marketing
Focus on the Funnel
10. Main Painpoints:
• “How does marketing automation technology fit into the
existing technology architecture?”
• “What’s the integration strategy?”
• “Is data secure at every stage?”
• “What’s the uptime and deliverability?”
• “What are the stages of a successful implementation?”
IT
Let’s make this Secure
12. Your Customer Base is your Strategic Asset
Traditional
Marketing
Marketing Automation
Integrated Marketing
Revenue
Performance Management
Basic Marketing
Automation
• CRM Integration
• Scoring
• Automated Nurturing
Utilize the entire Sales
Funnel & its Stages
• Targeted Marketing
• Detour Stages
• Dynamic Lead Routing
• Triggers & Alerts
Create a multi-touch
attribution model and use
it to tweak performance
• Attribution Model
• Operational Reporting
• Sales Empowerment via
CRM campaign
execution
14. Align Funnel Taxonomy and Definitions
Funnel
Stage
Name SFDC
Status
Owner Definition Fit Criteria
Demand Gen Suspect N/A Mktg A marketing target about whom
very little is known
N/A
Nurturing Prospect Open Mktg A respondent to a marketing
campaign with a known name
and valid email address
• First Name
• Last Name
• Email Address
• Phone Number
Nurturing >
Qualification
Lead (MQL) Sales Ready Mktg. A prospect who meets the
minimum fit criteria and has
displayed enough interest to be
handed over to sales.
• Title
• Org. location
• Org. Type / Footprint
• Timing
• Org. Tech Utilization
Qualification Sales
Accepted
Lead (SAL)
Working Inside
Sales or
Sales Dev.
A MQL that has been accepted
by sales (or inside sales team)
for further qualification to
determine pipeline readiness.
• Active in Payment Reform
(RAM, SSM, PFP, etc.)
• Implementation plan
• Funding for Initiative
Qualification Sales
Qualified
Lead (SQL)
Qualified Sales A SAL that has progressed to an
opportunity and is now
committed to pipeline
• Strategic fit
• Aetna Relationship
Revenue Closed Won Closed Won Sales An opportunity that has
resulted in revenue.
Opportunity Closed, stage (TBD)
16. Cross-Functional Alignment
Alignment within your Funnel
The deliverable and outcome is a process and completed worksheet that aligns your team and
creates synergy and alignment on key business goals/drivers across the marketing and sales
teams.
17. Potential Campaign Example – Integrated Campaign – Direct Mailer + Digital Interactions
Anonymous Identified Pre-Qualified Sales Working Sales Relationship Opportunity Closed/Won
Campaign
Stage
Program Selected &
Launched
BusinessProgram Selected & LaunchedSalesProgram Selected & LaunchedMarketing
Success
Path Stages
Campaign
Flow
Find through SEO
WOM, Conference
on Topic or Trend
Engage us Via
Website
Fill out Form, Sign
up for Newsletter Recycled
List Segmentation,
etc.
Direct Mailer
Campaign Sent Out
with Assets
Follow-Up Email
Vetting Lead
Disqualified
Closed Lost Closed Won
Conversation,
Discuss Details,
Verify Opportunity
Craft
Proposal/SOW/Pitch
for Specific Need
Expresses Interest
via select channels
and or we Follow-Up
18. Joint Execution Plan
A roadmap for moving forward
Outline the steps to take to ensure an efficient close and hand off of Marketo.
19. 1. Embark on the listening tour – what’s working, what’s not
working?
2. Clearly establish what success looks like (ie. Consistent
taxonomy, SLAs, content execution, KPIs)
3. Identify the right stakeholders & assemble the Tiger Team
across multiple teams
4. Celebrate small successes & report out on progress!
Best Practices
20. in·no·vate
A flexible, collaborative, and consultative assessment involving Marketo’s Digital
Strategy Consultants and your cross functional teams.
Assessments evaluate your sales & marketing strategy, cross functional
alignment, sales & marketing funnel, and measurement & reportsto deliver
strategic recommendations and plans for improvement.
INNOVATE
Shyna: Can you tell me a bit about GE’s main pain point? What’s this about a leaky funnel?
Catherine:
Part of HQ
work with marketing teams across biz, marcom strategies, marcom communications, website, and search programs
Shyna: You mentioned a lot about tremendous roadblocks to scale marketing efforts- can you expand a bit on what exactly those are?
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Why do I care?
Marketing has changed more in the last 2 years than the last 200 – much of this is due to the fact that buying has changed. Not that long ago, there were few 3rd party sources of information – information scarcity – which meant that a buyer had to get most of their information from sales. It also meant we lived in a world of attention abundance, with fewer channels competing for a buyer’s attention. But now, there is an explosion of readily available information— so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.
All this data = buyers today are more empowered. The Web provides them with instant information gratification. They can access detailed specs, pricing, and reviews about goods and services 24/7 with a few flicks of their thumbs. Meanwhile, social media encourages them to share and compare, while mobile devices add a wherever/whenever dimension to every aspect of the experience.
Given these changes in buying and marketing, one pattern emerges: your customer base is a strategic asset. It is as strategic, if not more so, than your IP, your physical plant, etc. Included in this view, is not only your existing customer base, but also the potential customers and relationships that you can develop to grow and nurture this base. You make investments (money, people, resources) to nurture and grow this base and engage them over the course of their buying cycle. You have the power and responsibility to be the architect of customer engagement across the entire customer life cycle. The sooner that you realize this is a strategic asset, the sooner you can gain an unfair advantage over your competitors to maximize the yield of that strategic asset.
Marketo’s platform is focused on elevating your customer engagement: how do you grow the size of the customer portfolio, and maximize the return on the customer asset portfolio. The powerful customer engagement platform allows you to have the ability to document and report on the performance of the asset over time, and how those investments pay back.
What is Aetna, who are their customers and what is your role?
What was the secret sauce that really made it work together?
Ok so the secret sauce to making L2RM work is that we have really well thought out and articulated definitions of what each of the milestone phases of the buyer are as they progress toward a sale. Here are the milestones with definition and title. I need your help to articulate the “Fit Criteria”.
Here is some additional color to help flush out the appropriate level of fit criteria. <toggle to slide 16, and then return to 15>
Consider, in an ideal world…
What does a MQL, SAL, SQL look like? behave like?
How can we translate that into PROGRAMMATIC characteristics, since we aren’t going to have a “live conversation” with anyone, we need to be able to hunt for these characteristics in an automated way.
Some possible alternatives:
Geographical areas – concentric sales
Named accounts – target orgs
<If you represent multiple product sales, you may want to have this definition for each type, or at least have the conversation to see how much overlap exists. >
Now that we have an idea of what is possible, let’s discuss your thoughts. It’s not going to be perfect right away, but it’ll be a starting point and we can refine our fit criteria over time to yield better results.
<hold discussion>
Now let’s talk about when something goes awry. Marketing needs to know why and what sends the deal south so let’s…
Determine circumstances for initiating recycling of leads – what happens when things don’t go according to plan? – Talk about the common issues that cause a deal to stall out.
Why would you reject a lead from becoming an opportunity – discuss reasons
Do you have a good sense today for why someone buys from you as opposed to your competition? (discuss reasons for winning vs losing deals.)
Ok that’s great information. Now lets discuss how marketing can act upon this intel to help bring in additional revenue <slide 17>