26. More likely to drive revenue from an existing
loyal customer, than a new prospect 1
Cheaper to upsell to an existing customer
than to acquire a new one 2
1. Marketing Metrics
2. Pacific Crest SaaS Survey
3-4X
Why Upsell & Cross-Sell Pay Off
81%
46. Thank you!
Mike Kim
Head of B2B Demand
Generation
Dropbox
Heidi Bullock
VP, Demand Generation
Marketo
Hinweis der Redaktion
Hi Everyone, my name is Heidi Bullock and I am the VP of Demand Generation at Marketo.
I am excited to be here today to walk through some key principles for accelerating revenue growth within your company. For the purposes for this discussion we will really be focused on marketing. I do want to highlight marketing is ONE part of the equation--- there is also product, engineering, etc.– but marketing is a very important piece and becoming even more so. I will do a brief overview with tips, then Mike Kim from DropBox will provide a great example of what they are doing.
To set the stage, I want to highlight what we are all focused on today and this can evolve over time as your business grows. You may initially be more focused on acquisition, and the over time the weights can change.
For example, at Marketo when I started we were heavily focused on acquisition – and over time - this is still a focus, but we are shifting a lot more to thinking about customer marketing – specifically around retention, upsell- cross-sell, and advocacy.
Now many of us want growth – because we all want to work and be part of successful companies.
It would be nice to say it’s as simple as a particular formula – like eat your vegetables and you’ll grow, but it can be more tricky than that…
Why?
There is a rapid evolution of technologies
More data then every before to manage and understand
Due to new technologies and advancements, you often need a new skill set
But how? It can seem daunting.
Here are some key areas in marketing to pay attention to. This is by no means a comprehensive list – but it’s a great place to start.
Revenue model - Prioritize and simplify your marketing goals – marketing and sales model
Org- Key hires and your org structure
Technology – apply new technologies and processes to improve efficiencies and accelerate success
DG performance - Leverage campaigns that have the greatest likelihood of impacting business results
This is really important - think of this as the blueprint for building your house. At Marketo, this was something we did very early on.
I think they key things here are to:
BIG THINGS:
Define stages
SLAs
Making sure people are incentivized the same
You don’t make these decisions in isolation. Several teams need to come together and define these terms – Marketing, Sales, Sales Development (Inside Sales), Marketing and Sales Ops.
We use lead scoring for demographics fit (a VP of mktg. is scored higher than a marketing coordinator)
For Asset scoring, we look at whether it’s an early stage or late stage asset and the level of engagement that’s required to consume it (for example, an infographic is just 1 point, but a 100+ page Definitive guide is 10 points)
Behavior scoring: again, this is different depending on the early-mid-late stage of content and whether the behavior represents buying intent or not. E.g. visit to a pricing page +10, visit careers pages – minus 10
And of course, you need Marketing Automation software to activate the lead scoring and use it for all your campaigns.
So you’ve been running all these great programs
Goals for each team
Do you have an SDR team in your organization? Or does Mktg. pass leads directly to sales?
Identify a few key areas to manage to and watch closely.
Ideal if you can forecast. It is optimal if you can forecast next quarter not just how you are doing today.
Here’s an example of a marketing organization that is better fitted to adhere to the principles I talked about earlier, 2 impt things:
There is an upstream team (Strategic) and a downstream team (Tactical) so there is a clear division of labor
This fits nicely with the customer funnel (which I will talk about later) in terms of the customer buying journey
Adheres to Principles:
Content Machine: how is it created, make sure that it’s done
Agility: Dynamic, organized for agility, react to external factors quickly
Culture of Analytics & Testing (google), In God we Trust, everyone else bring Data
Fail, Quickly, Measure
Embrace Technology: have a demand center that absorb tech, create best practices, chief marketing strategist
Set shared revenue targets and reward systems
Integrate Sales and Marketing metrics
Red box is really where Marketo’s Marketing Automation comes to play – helping to focus and streamline Global Programs, Demand Center, and Marketing Operations
Themes:
Provides information about customers & their needs
Help businesses plan more effectively
Better serves customers through distribution, pricing, credit, customer services
Increase customer satisfaction
Help businesses become more profitable by coordinating activities and controlling costs
Principles:
Content Machine: how is it created, make sure that it’s done
Agility: Dynamic, organized for agility, react to external factors quickly
Culture of Analytics & Testing (google), In God we Trust, everyone else bring Data
Fail, Quickly, Measure
Embrace Technology: have a demand center that absorb tech, create best practices, chief marketing strategist
Demand Center is especially impt for a transformational organization – must have a focus/skill set on Data, Tele, Webmarketing that’s part of the Hub and the Spoke then focuses on program assembly, teleservices, nurturing, and account management
Teleservices can sit under the Demand Center as your SDR (inside sales team) is compensated generally on sourcing new leads (same as marketing) where as sales is compensated on closing revenue
Principles:
Content Machine: how is it created, make sure that it’s done
Agility: Dynamic, organized for agility, react to external factors quickly
Culture of Analytics & Testing (google), In God we Trust, everyone else bring Data
Fail, Quickly, Measure
Embrace Technology: have a demand center that absorb tech, create best practices, chief marketing strategist
Desire to learn: The shelf-life of knowledge today can be measured in months--so knowing how to learn and doing it, constantly, is crucial. These employees are insatiably curious and coachable. They have mindsets of continuous improvement and actively seek feedback.
Ability to thrive amidst ambiguity: High-growth companies value people who are resilient, and can take initiative, assuming a role as a leader through uncertain and stressful circumstances.
Perseverance. “Being able to deal with adversity is a huge component of what makes people successful in these circumstances [the usual rapid change of growth companies] so they can help the company advance.”
Relentless optimization. “Employees who think they can find a way to do whatever they're doing better and faster, and are always striving to work harder and be stronger, provide the kind of relentless optimization high-growth companies need to get ahead.”
Excellence at collaboration: Highly collaborative individuals are motivated more by the performance of a cohesive team over their own glory. They build strong professional relationships through trust and communication, and by showing appreciation for the contributions of their coworkers.
Scrappiness & grit: These people exhibit the persistence, confidence, and can-do attitudes to make things happen, and are able to deliver results with limited resources and information.
Full of passion!
A frankenstack, a set of individual siloed tools an organization tries to make work together, is what you should try to avoid. A well constructed marketing stack has a CRM as the central hub – it’s where data is maintained and leveraged. Large enterprise organizations have ecosystems that are made up of more than just one platform. There may be a need for a CMS, CRM, and ecommerce platform just to name a few.
What could be the norm in marketing technology now could change in the future. Depending on the organization type the needs change – some B2Cs need more robust ecommerce platforms while others don’t. The best way to avoid a frankenstack is to have a complete view of what your organization needs and wants to accomplish with the use of technology – without this an organization can mistakenly pick up one-off tools for specific tasks. Also, when both sales and marketing are aligned it decreases the chances of mistakenly purchasing tools that everyone doesn’t agree work best.
Perfection is the enemy of good
Special tips
Yet, Marketers mostly focus on Acquisition – according to data from Forrester online survey, only 12% of content marketers focus on retention, yet A 2% increase in customer retention has the same effect as decreasing costs by 10%
If you keep your customers happy, its 4 times more likely that you’ll generate more revenue from them than to acquire new prospects
And, it’s 81 % cheaper to upsell to an existing customer
It’s very important to have a framework and a time frame for measuring the results of your programs. Let’s consider our email nurture program and what you might measure over a 6 month period
Engagement score (combination of clicks, opens, content downloads)
May (in 5 months): Compare the results to historical – pre-nurture or to a control group that hasn’t been nurtured; in this example, nurture resulted in 4x the #of fast leads and 2x number or MQLs
6 months – 2x the number of opps
Success Secret # 3 – Evaluate programs with a DG lens
444/lead = not good
Here are out actual metrics…
Focus on the very low conversion from MQL to SQL… since we are lose about MQL definition and don’t want to miss any deals…. But strict about what we pass to sales.
We want that 75% SQL to Opp, since you want sales to value marketing leads… if it goes below 50%, sales doesn’t jump on SQLs as fast.