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Marketing Automation SimplifiedThe Small Guide to Big Ideas
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What is Marketing Automation?A modern marketing system of record
What is Marketing Automation?
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The Modern Marketing Era
People have no interest in being inundated with product specs.
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Automation Makes Marketing More Valuable
Old school marketing methods don’t cater to today’s buyer.
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What You Need in Your Toolkit
The 5 Tenets of Modern Marketing
1. Targeting. 2. Engagement 3. Conversion 4. Analysis 5. Marketing Technology
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Get to Know Your Audience’s Digital Body Language
Analyzing behavioral insight helps you:
Increase revenue performance with qualified marketing leads.
Align marketing to sales with process and system integration.
Demonstrate marketing value and accountability.
Establish a Modern Marketing system of record.
Tenet 1: Targeting
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Get Down with Data Make the most of what you already know…
With the right strategies you can enhance campaigns and provide relevant offers.
Campaigns suffer when built with bad data.
Tenet 1: Targeting
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Target Your Communication
Segmenting your database can be hard!
Buyer profiles help marketers understand where to focus marketing resources.
“If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there”— Yogi Berra
Tenet 1: Targeting
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What Social Says About Buyers
Social media enables you to capture:
- Interests- Influence- Connections- Sharing behaviors
Tenet 1: Targeting
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Triggering Content Fire When They’re Ready!
Marketing automation supports content delivery based on interest, inquiry, and engagement.
When a prospect clicks on your Facebook Page, predefined rules help you present information specific to their topical interests.
Tenet 1: Targeting
Rules of Engagement
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Right Time, Real Time Not on Your Time
Automation helps you deliver content to the right person at the right time.
Tenet 2: Engagement
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Email Centralizes Multi-Touch Communication
Email is still the hub that supports marketing communications.
Tenet 2: Engagement
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Report Beyond Opens and Clicks
Get visibility into which email elements make the most impact.
Then you can fine tune your trigger-based marketing campaigns and serve the right message.
Tenet 2: Engagement
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Social Media + Content = Inbound Influence
“If content is fire, social media is the gasoline that fuels it.” — Jay Baer, Author, “Youtility”
Tenet 2: Engagement
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Buyers Leverage All Sorts of Channels to Find Out About You!
Automation helps you cultivate a role in the independent discovery process.
Tenet 2: Engagement
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How do you find out what they need?
Circulate and track content based on buyer profiles and segment your prospects and customers according to their roles, interests, or other attributes that make sense for your business.
Make your marketing work for your audience, and for you!
Tenet 3: Conversion
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Lead Management
Make sales and marketing BFFs with a 3-step lead qualification process
1. Define each stage of the buying cycle.
2. Determine what criteria will be used to arrive at those definitions.
3. Create a lead scoring model.
Tenet 3: Conversion
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Automation helps you get your buyers where they’re going
Tenet 3: Conversion
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Routing your leads helps organize your marketing AND give your audience the right content they need
Tenet 4: Ana l y s i s
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Before they’re ready to buy, can you act on the fly?
You just need a little nurturing!
Tenet 4: Ana l y s i s
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Before they’re ready to buy, can you act on the fly?
Nurturing offers an innovative approach to managing different types of leads, based on interest or other profile attributes.
Tenet 4: Ana l y s i s
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Marketing automation has automated lead scoring in place so prospects actively opening all communications sent by marketing receive the appropriate response.
Tenet 5: Marketing Technology
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It’s not just about closing the deal!
Help your sales reps become the information concierge buyers need to succeed.
SiriusDecisions estimates that the buyer’s journey is 70% complete by the time they contact a sales person.
Tenet 5: Marketing Technology
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Drive Smart Marketing
Business Intelligence, or BI, is the brains of your strategy and sales operations.
Richer profiles feed sales intelligence, such as prospect scoring, to help salespeople identify likely buyers.
Tenet 5: Marketing Technology
But wait, there’s more!
Automation helps yield key data, including:
Reporting to understand how marketing activities and campaigns are driving pipeline, revenue, and ROI.
Website analytics reporting for insight into demand generation performance
Database health reporting to help diagnose the health of the marketing database
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Find the balance of marketing art and science
Marketers are streamlining campaign execution to better target, engage, convert, and analyze business in more meaningful ways.
Tenet 5: Marketing Technology
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