On December 9th, 2014 as a part of our quarterly HubSpot User Group Meetup Mike Ewing, Author of "Inbound Commerce, How to Sell Better Than Amazon" delivered a presentation to a packed crowd at the Kula Partners office.
9. 86%
skip TV ads
THE OLD
MARKETING PLAYBOOK
BROKEN.
91%
unsubscribe
from email
200M
on the
Do Not Call list
44%
of direct mail is
never opened
IS
#HALIHUG
10. OUTBOUND INBOUND
VS.
Cold Calling
SPAM
Interruption
Thinks like a Marketer
SEO
Blogging
Attraction
Thinks like a Customer
11. Now, why do inbound
marketing with HubSpot?
Here’s 3 Reasons.
15. An inbound marketing software platform with
all the tools you need in one place.
Strangers
SEO Blog Sites Mobile Optimization
Visitors
Calls-to-Action Landing Page Optimization
Leads
Customers
Promoters
Social Media
Forms
Email Optimization
CRM Synch #
Lead Scoring
Sales Alerts
Personalized
Email + Web + Social
Nurturing
Feedback Forms Email + Web + Social
Engagement
ATTRACT
CONVERT
CLOSE
DELIGHT
24. What is a Buyer Persona?
Semi- fictional representations of your ideal
customer based on real data and some select
educated speculation about customer
demographics, behavior patterns, motivations, and
goals.
25. Buyer Personas ARE
Fictional characters
that represent your DREAM
customers
27. MARKETING MARY
• Professional marketer (VP, Director, Manager)
• Mid-sized company (25-200 employees)
• Small marketing team (1-5 people)
• BComm (BU), MBA (Babson)
• 42, Married, 2 Kids (10 and 6)
Goals:
• Support sales with collateral and leads
• Manage company communications
• Build awareness
Challenges:
• Too much to do
• Not sure how to get there
• Marketing tool and channel mess
Loves HubSpot because:
• Easy to use tools that make her life easier
• Learn inbound marketing best practices
• Easier reporting to sales and CEO
28. OWNER OLLIE
• Business owner (Founder, President, Partner)
• Small business (1-10 employees)
• Industry expert with no marketing experience
• BA History (University of Illinois)
• 44, Married, 3 Kids (20, 16, and 11)
Goals:
• Deliver on past sales
• Generate new sales
• Keep the business running
Challenges:
• Lack of marketing expertise
• No control over marketing assets
• No time or budget for marketing
Loves HubSpot because:
• Get more sales and leads
• Get control over marketing assets
• Learn Inbound Marketing
29. ENTERPRISE ERIN
• Director of Marketing Operations
(VP Marketing , Product Marketing)
• Large company (200-2,000 employees)
• Marketing team of 15+
• BS (Merrimack), MBA (Bentley)
• 30, Married recently
Goals:
• Demand/pipeline generation
• Campaign execution and coordination
Challenges:
• Working with sales
• Data & technlogy overload
• Selling use cases to IT, Legal,
Sales, Execs
Loves HubSpot because:
• Integration with all of her systems
• Homebase for marketing with takeaways
• Easy to execute on campaigns
• Stay at the forefront of marketing
30. HUBSPOT’S PERSONAS
Marketing Mary
PRIMARY PERSONA
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Owner Ollie Enterprise Erin
SECONDARY PERSONAS
41. Marketing campaigns
A specific, defined series of activities used in marketing a new or
changed product or service, or in using new marketing channels
and methods.
Source: Entrepreneur.com/encyclopedia
42. Inbound marketing campaigns
Concentrated efforts that align all of your marketing channels
around a single offer and goal.
43. Offer
to
Generate
New
Email
Contacts
Adver7se
Offer
On
Your
Website
Market
Offer
to
Exis7ng
Contacts
A@ract
Leads
Through
Blogging
Use
Social
Media
To
Promote
Measure
Performance
with
Data
Inbound
Marke7ng
Campaigns
Offer
LP
+
CTA
Email
Blog
Social
Analy8cs
Offer
LP
+
CTA
Social
Blog
Email
Before we do that, though, we need to take a step back and ask an even more basic question:
What is a buyer persona, anyway?
I keep saying that our personas are absolutely essential to an effective inbound marketing strategy--and we’re going to dive into how to create those personas in just a couple minutes--but before we do that we need to take a step back and think about what buyer personas really are.
At their root, Buyer personas are Semi- fictional representations of your ideal customer based on real data and select educated speculation about customer demographics, behavior patterns, motivations, and goals.
Woah—now what does THAT mean? That definition has A LOT going on- it’s pretty complex!
The best way to start to tease apart some of what exactly a buyer persona is is by actually seeing one in action here—what a real, live buyer persona actually looks like.
So we saw with example of Marketing Mary, there, what exactly these personas look like
And we’re starting to get a clearer idea of what buyer personas really are.
They’re fictional characters that we CREATE, through research, analysis, and taking a close look at who’s already buying from us—that represent our DREAM customers.
Notice this says “customers” though! A lot of companies actually have more than one buyer persona- on average, they probably have between 3 and 5 buyer personas. How you know you’ve reached the “edge” of one persona and the other one begins is when those shared generalities disappear. When you’re creating your personas, you’re probably going to notice that your customer base falls into one of a couple different buckets, or broad categories. Those buckets are your personas.
Now that’s a little better definition of what a buyer persona is,
So we want to use our buyer personas to…
Create killer content that converts. Beyond just guiding us to create content that really works to convert, close, and delight customers, our buyer personas can also help us get found and attract more people to our site, too!
Google’s getting better and better at filtering out content that’s not designed specifically for users—that content that’s not valuable– and they’ve stopped showing a lot of those sites in their search results. Integrating our buyer personas into our content is one of the easiest, most foolproof ways we have to make that valuable content that our users are going to love, they’re going to find helpful, and Google will like, too!
So let’s look at how we go about doing that.
THE EASIER IT IS TO BUILD AND POSITION CONTENT that underscores the benefits of your products
and your company’s value proposition FOR THEM
So we’ve spent quite a bit of time thinking about what our personas need, what their goals and challenges are, how they approach the world– we can now start
Regardless of the type of content- emails, blogs, or otherwise--what you want to do is to really tailor your content to each persona.
And we can start to create content around customers’ challenges.
So you can create all kinds of content, but Here’s a classic example of a blog article – it’s addressing a challenge—”I want to use social media, I want to beat my competitors, how do I do that”
If you’re struggling to develop blog content or you’ve kind of hit a wall, remember,
now that you’ve developed your personas, you can go back to your those questions you asked when creating your personas and the answers to those questions to write good content around them.
You can often take the exact way that they phrased or wrote that question – if you look in the Linkedin questions, or in the forums- and use that same language to make a blog post out of it.
And we can start to create content around customers’ challenges.
So you can create all kinds of content, but Here’s a classic example of a blog article – it’s addressing a challenge—”I want to use social media, I want to beat my competitors, how do I do that”
If you’re struggling to develop blog content or you’ve kind of hit a wall, remember,
now that you’ve developed your personas, you can go back to your those questions you asked when creating your personas and the answers to those questions to write good content around them.
You can often take the exact way that they phrased or wrote that question – if you look in the Linkedin questions, or in the forums- and use that same language to make a blog post out of it.
And we can start to create content around customers’ challenges.
So you can create all kinds of content, but Here’s a classic example of a blog article – it’s addressing a challenge—”I want to use social media, I want to beat my competitors, how do I do that”
If you’re struggling to develop blog content or you’ve kind of hit a wall, remember,
now that you’ve developed your personas, you can go back to your those questions you asked when creating your personas and the answers to those questions to write good content around them.
You can often take the exact way that they phrased or wrote that question – if you look in the Linkedin questions, or in the forums- and use that same language to make a blog post out of it.
And we can start to create content around customers’ challenges.
So you can create all kinds of content, but Here’s a classic example of a blog article – it’s addressing a challenge—”I want to use social media, I want to beat my competitors, how do I do that”
If you’re struggling to develop blog content or you’ve kind of hit a wall, remember,
now that you’ve developed your personas, you can go back to your those questions you asked when creating your personas and the answers to those questions to write good content around them.
You can often take the exact way that they phrased or wrote that question – if you look in the Linkedin questions, or in the forums- and use that same language to make a blog post out of it.
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Before we cover why we want to create campaigns, we have understand the difference between a campaign and an inbound marketing campaign. Let me ask you all, what do you think of when you think about campaigns? What comes to mind?
Political campaign?
Email campaign?
Ad campaign?
Events campaign?
Around a marketing offer?
By definition, a marketing campaign is a specific, defined series of activities used in marketing a new or changed product or service or in using new marketing channels and methods. But the tools, the channels, and the results were all disconnected pieces, so a lot was left to chance.
inbound marketing campaign takes into account the varied way that people learn online and encompasses many channels.
An inbound marketing campaign is concentrated efforts that align all of your marketing channels around a single offer and goal.
So now with an inbound marketing campaign, you can relate your separate blogging, email, pay-per-click or any other individual campaigns together.
Before we cover why we want to create campaigns, we have understand the difference between a campaign and an inbound marketing campaign. Let me ask you all, what do you think of when you think about campaigns? What comes to mind?
Political campaign?
Email campaign?
Ad campaign?
Events campaign?
Around a marketing offer?