Alex Shipillo - Director of Demand Generation, Influitive
Circulate Conference - April 11, 2016
W Hotel, San Francisco
Absract:
The role of marketing in B2B organizations is changing rapidly. Find out the secrets to building a strong foundation for data-driven marketing. Then, learn how you can expand beyond that baseline to drive better communication, transparency and ultimately, change across the revenue team. Alex will share how Influitive has built the marketing processes that have enabled 10x growth over the last two years.
http://alexshipillo.com/speaking
http://circulateconference.com
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Setting the Stage
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INFLUITIVE
FOUNDED
2010 2012 NOV 2013 FEB 2014 JUL 2014 JUL 2015
SEED ROUND &
SERIES A FUNDING
GO LIVE WITH
FULL CIRCLE
JOIN AS 5TH MEMBER
OF MARKETING TEAM
100 CUSTOMERS
RAISE $30.5 MILLION
SERIES B & CROSS 100
EMPLOYEES
170 EMPLOYEES | 15 PERSON MARKETING TEAM + 3 INTERNS
$35K ASP | 3 MONTH AVG BUYING CYCLE | SELL TO MARKETING/CMO
I N F L U I T I V E T O D A Y :
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Demand Generation Starting Lineup
Revenue
Operations
Cohort
Analysis
Key Business
Metrics
Campaign
Influence
SDR Process
Response
Management
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Demand Generation Starting Lineup
Revenue
Operations
Cohort
Analysis
Key Business
Metrics
Campaign
Influence
SDR Process
Response
Management
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Our system is built on the Campaign Member object
Goaltender: Response Management
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• Pipeline: MQL, SAL and SQO this month
• Trend – Current and Prior Quarter
• Inbound vs. Outbound Performance
• New Logo MRR per Month
• Key Campaigns – by Opportunity and $ Value
Left Defenseman: Key Business Metrics
WHAT WE MEASURE
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Left Wing: Revenue Operations
Marketing
Operations
Sales
Operations
MARKETING SALES
Data Intelligence
(Data Operations)
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Chantelle Jonathan
Dean
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Right Wing: Cohort Analysis
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ONE SINGLE
CAMPAIGN
RESPONSE
GROUP A MONTH OF
RESPONSES
TOGETHER
MEASURE HOW
RESPONSES
PROGRESS DOWN THE
FUNNEL
COMPARE “COHORTS”
OF MONTHS AGAINST
EACH OTHER
MONTH X MONTH X
MONTH X
MONTH Y
MONTH Z
CAMPAIGN
RESPONSE ON DAY X
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Center: SDR Process
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RESULTS
• VP Marketing and VP Sales
• Director of Demand Gen
• Director of Sales Production and
Enablement
• Revenue Operations: Marketing,
Sales, Data
• Inbound and Outbound SDR
Managers
Create more pipeline!
• Simplify rules of engagement
• Improve workflow rules
• Align lead scoring
• Change DQ Rules
• Integrate directly with Salesloft
(SDR tool)
• Measure success of outbound
efforts
• Move from Passive to Active
Mode (Full Circle)
GOAL
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TASK FORCE
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Offense and Defense at Influitive
Revenue
Operations
Cohort
Analysis
Key Business
Metrics
Campaign
Influence
SDR Process
Response
Management
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
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Impact
From Primarily Inbound
to Inbound + Outbound
GROWTH
WHERE WE ARE SKATING TO NEXT:
10X
MRR
10X
Generating 4000 – 5000
Inquiries / Month
Revenue: Top of Funnel:
8X
2 Reps to a Sales
Organization of 40+
Sales Team Growth:
From TOFU Content
to ABM Strategy
Investing in New
Revenue Channels
Thank you.
Honoured to be back at Circulate for a second year. Can’t believe how far it’s grown
Intimidating following Bonnie and Brent.
Spelling is weird – Canada vs US. Defense / Offense.
About Influitive – Customer Advocacy Software
Fast Growth
Sophisticated marketing
$50K in Funding
300 customers
ASP – Climbing fast
GIVE YOU CONTEXT FOR OUR BUSINESS-
Bonnie – Challenged Me with the Theme – So I went stereotypical hockey
Goaltender
2 Defenders
2 Forwards and a Center
I’ll take about all of these positions and what they mean throughout this presentation
RINK that we play on – Is SFDC…. Very important
For anyone that has used 3rd party tools, excel spreadsheets, terrible. Everything is in SFDC.
Everything starts with the Campaign Member.
Beauty of Campaign Member = Works for both Leads and Contacts = One Report
Since then we’ve layered in a lot of aspects:
Lead Scoring
UTM Parameters
Campaign Prioritization
Owner Profiles
Inbound vs Outbound
Sales Driven Cadences
Revenue Metrics 2.0
HUD Display – how are we doing right now?
Are we on track to achieve our goals for the month/quarter/year
Need to see this right away…. Daily access and visibility
CFO, CEO, Emailed weekly to the executive team.
Campaign Influence – how are things that we are doing creating value.
We have overall dashboards that show campaign influence by campaign or type.
But biggest thing we’ve done this year is create a simple button on the top campaigns.
Anyone – Paid Ads, Events, Content, can look at it and with one click, see all the results.
Here is our most popular campaign. Advocate Marketing Playbook. SFDC seems to show $2.1M in Opportunities, $320k won…. If you click the button you can see the details.
All powered by Full Circle.
You can see a lot more value that has been here
… it’s in a SFDC report so it’s very easy to pivot by other factors (geography, reps, deal size, industry, etc).
Now lets get to the good stuff…. we’ve got a strong defense and foundation in place. Now we are ready to move onto the attack.
Historically, we had marketing ops and sales ops but they were in a silo, mostly consulting within their teams. We routinely had things go wrong because there wasn’t great communication between both sides.
A second challenge appeared. Data was a big hairy thing that no one wanted to deal with. It got messier and messier.
We decided to put up a job posting for a “Database Wizard”. Reporting in Marketing under the demand gen team. Didn’t really know what we would find or the profile that we were looking for.
Cross Functional Group.
Cross trained in technologies.
We’re not the only one doing this. Vidyard is as well.
Significantly scaled our ops intiatives.
Way more communication between all parties.
Ops doesn’t feel like they are figuring stuff out by themselves. They now have a team to align on.
Primary areas of responsibility:
40 Pieces of Software in Our Stack – many that work between marketing and sales together.
How is your business changing over time?
Every business is constantly in flux… so how do you measure it?
B2B Funnels are complex, with a long time to see results… you can’t afford to wait until the length of your sales cycle see what’s working or what’s not working.
Enter Cohort Analysis. Very well known in B2C world where you had so many transactions that you can’t look at them individually ( you have to group them together).
What if you grouped together your campaign responses? What kind of stories can you tell?
Tell a story.
Discover how the number of inquiries affect conversion rates
Where the leaks in your funnel are (SAL to SQO conversion rate)
The affect of lead scoring
BIG SHIFT – we’ve made a big change to go into active mode – so this no longer just shows things that started as marketing campaign responses – we now track the entire Marketing and Sales funnel here – big stuff. Very important data. Your Board cares about this.
The more responses we create, the worse conversion gets.
SDRs don’t report to Marketing… they report to Sales. – Ask to raise hands if they report into Marketing or Sales.
We’ve been able to significantly affect the Sales Development process
Cross Functional Marketing and Sales Task Force
Goal: Improve SDR Process
Simplify rules of engagement
Change workflow rules within salesforce:
Simpify definitions for DQ
Change DQ stages
Integrate directly with Salesloft
Move to active mode
Measure success of outbound efforts directly in SFDC
Human Operations is key. Scripts, SLAs, Templates, Workflow, Data…..
WE GOT APPLAUSE FROM OUR SDR TEAM
The best defense is a good offense.
The best offense is a good defense.
If you have really good data about how marketing and sales work together, then you can demonstrate good success.
Because we’ve had good defence, we can go on offense.
Very hard to go on offense if you don’t have a good defence.
Very hard to expand Influence across other departments and create value if you don’t have that.
DEFINITION OF OFFENSE – EXPANDING INFLUENCE BEYOND DEPARTMENT.
Growth –
This has allowed us to scale without blowing up
2 Reps and 3 SDRs, Sales Team of 45.
Were we are going to next:
Magnet of Inbound to Spears of Outbound
TOFU content to ABM Strategy
Investing in New revenue channels: BD Team (Agencies and Partners) – Customer Strategy (New Divisions and Expansion). They need the same tools and data.
I’m here all day. Happy to chat about all of these things.
Break right after the session.
Happy to find you and explain all details.