Infer and Synthio Webinar Slides: #ABM for the Win...But What About Leads?
1.
2. Housekeeping
• Questions? Enter them in the chat window to the right or
tweet us @Synthio_ and we will answer them at the end
of the webinar.
• Recording? We will send you a copy within 24 hours.
• Share! We encourage you to share the webinar and
anything you learn on your social channels.
• @Synthio_
• @InferInc
3. Meet Your Presenters
Emily Wingrove
• Director of Marketing, Synthio
• Synthio’s very first marketer, and 8th employee
• Rebranded the company from Social123
Synthio
• Named a Top 40 ABM Superhero Inducted into
the 2016 Marketing Hall of Femme
4. Meet Your Presenters
Nikhil Balaraman
• Director of Product Marketing, Infer
• First Customer Operations hire
• Identified and implemented digital marketing
technologies for Target.com
• Worked for Google to increase conversion
rates for Apps for Business customers
5. What is ABM?
• Account-based marketing; a strategy
• Shifted from capturing and nurturing leads
Focusing on target accounts
• Forces the alignment between marketing and sales
• Must rely on one another to meet metrics and goals
“Traditional demand generation is like fishing with a net for leads. You don’t care which specific
‘fish’ you catch, you only care if you catch enough. But Account Based Marketing is more like
fishing for named accounts with a spear. You reach out to the right people at the right accounts with
targeted, relevant messages.” – Jon Miller, founder Engagio
6. What Does Being Lead-Focused Mean?
• What is a lead? A person who has demonstrated
an interest in your product or service, in some
way
• Lead generation is a marketing strategy
• Involves capturing leads, nurturing them over
time, and ultimately motivating them to buy a
product or service
“Lead Generation is a way of warming up potential customers to your business and getting them
on the path to eventually buying.” - Hubspot
7. Lead Gen vs. ABM
Lead Gen ABM
• People-centric
• Larger quantity, smaller accounts
• Tends to be more inbound focused
• More of a traditional mktg practice
• Results in net-new customers
• Doesn’t necessarily require strong
personalization
• Larger audiences
• Account-centric
• Smaller quantity, larger accounts
• Tends to be more outbound focused
• More of a traditional sales practice
• Results in customer cross-sell/upsell
• Requires strong personalization and
relevance
• Smaller audiences
9. Manual
• Following your gut; guessing
Automated
• Using hard data and scoring models
Predetermined
• Account selection has already taken place
Combining Lead Gen & ABM: Phase 1
Identify the accounts you should be targeting.
10. 1. Look at closed-won ACCOUNTS
2. Start at the COMPANY level, not the CONTACT level – look at fields like:
• Industry
• Revenue
• Employee Count
• Location
• Technology Usage
Manual Account Selection
12. Pioneering Predictive for Sales &
Marketing
Which prospects are the best fit?
Automatically research every prospect and identify those that are a good fit to buy your product.
Fit Model Types
● Leads
● Contacts
● Opportunities
● AccountsOrganized funnel
after applying Fit Model
13. Infer is the Line Judge
Send to Sales
Do Not Work
14. Predetermined Account Selection
You can’t change it…
• So familiarize yourself with
the accounts
• And align tightly with
sales/mktg/customer
success
16. Combining Lead Gen & ABM: Phase 2
Identify the personas you should be targeting.
ACCOUNTS PERSONAS
17. Combining Lead Gen & ABM: Phase 2
Identify the personas you should be targeting.
ACCOUNTS PERSONAS
18. Combining Lead Gen & ABM: Phase 2
Identify the personas you should be targeting.
Manual
• Following your gut; guessing
Automated
• Using hard data and scoring models
Predetermined
• Persona selection has already taken place
19. 1. Look at CONTACTS at closed-won accounts – separate segments like:
• End users
• Decision makers
• Influencers
2. Start at the CONTACT level, not the COMPANY level – look at fields like:
• Titles
• Skills
• Education
• Technology usage
• Employment history
• Industry
Manual Persona Selection
20. Automated Persona Selection
Data Driven Selection
• Identify top signals based
on statistical performance
• Build campaigns to
resonate with your highest
performing segments
21. Data
Science
Predetermined Persona Selection
Technographic segmentation for
expansion strategies
Profiling & target account list
building to drive prospects to local
events
Personalized outreach campaign
increased top prospect attendance
by 20% for regional events
ELENA ROWELL
Product Marketing Manager
35. Account & Lead
Scoring of Net
New
Identify Net-New
Contacts &
Accounts
Account & Lead
Scoring of
Existing DB Targeted Social Engagement
(mktg + sales)
Email Nurturing
Ad Targeting
Content
Curation/Measurement
Personalized Video
Email and Phone Nurturing
via BDR team
Combining Lead Gen & ABM: Phase 4
EXECUTE
Existing DB
37. Questions?
Emily Wingrove
Director of Marketing
@Synthio_
sales@synthio.com
1.888.530.6723
Synthio.com
Nikhil Balaraman
Dir. Product Marketing
@InferInc
sales@infer.com
1.800.393.6125
Infer.com
ABM for the WIN…but what about LEADS
38. Thank You!
Emily Wingrove
Director of Marketing
@Synthio_
sales@synthio.com
1.888.530.6723
Synthio.com
Nikhil Balaraman
Dir. Product Marketing
@InferInc
sales@infer.com
1.800.393.6125
Infer.com
ABM for the WIN…but what about LEADS
Editor's Notes
JAMIE
JAMIE
JAMIE
JAMIE
EMILY
NIKHIL
EMILY leads pass to Nikhil
NIKHIL
NIKHIL
Manual
Following your gut on what accounts you THINK you should target
Then manually building a list of those target accounts
If you do it this way, at LEAST work with your sales and customer success teams
Automated
Using hard data and scoring models to determine best fit accounts
Predetermined
Account selection has already taken place – and you won’t be convincing anyone to change those at this point
EMILY NIKHIL
If you fall in the manual bucket, be sure to take a close look at your customer ACCOUNTS to determine some basis of data
NIKHIL
NIKHIL
NIKHIL
NIKHIL EMILY
EMILY
EMILY
EMILY
EMILY
Manual
Following your gut on what contacts/personas you THINK you should target
Then manually building a list of those target CONTACTS…AT your targeted ACCOUNTS
If you do it this way, at LEAST work with your sales and customer success teams
Automated
Using hard data and scoring models to determine best fit contacts/personas
Predetermined
Persona selection has already taken place – and you won’t be convincing anyone to change those at this point
EMILY
Again, if you fall in the manual bucket, be sure to take a close look at your customer CONTACTS to determine some basis of common data. Think about segmenting out KNOWN end-users, decision makers, influencers, and then analyze the commonalities separately.
NIKHIL
NIKHIL
EMILY
EMILY
EMILY
You need to MATCH the targeted contacts and personas with the targeted accounts. This is one of the bigger roadblocks of implementing ABM
NIKHIL
Manual
For EXISTING: going through your CRM or MAP by hand to match companies to contacts
For NEW: going to social media and the web to try to find contacts that you don’t have at targeted companies.
If you go this route – give yourself tons of lead time…this will take a while
Automated
Using account to contact matching – this can be done to an existing DB in a CRM/MAP, but it can also be done for net-new
Predetermined
If both your target accounts and contacts have been identified, now would be a good time to start thinking about enriching as much of that data as possible. We will talk a little bit later about the importance of personalization and relevancy.
EMILY
Manual
For EXISTING: going through your CRM or MAP by hand to match companies to contacts
For NEW: going to social media and the web to try to find contacts that you don’t have at targeted companies.
If you go this route – give yourself tons of lead time…this will take a while
Sales Team Downs – takes a lot of time, may not be accurate
Call Center Downs – takes a lot of time, may not be accurate
Intern Downs – an 18 year old is managing your most important asset
EMILY
Speak to using suppression so as to not buy contacts you already have
EMILY
Push straight to CRM/MAP from here
EMILY
If you’ve got both your targeted accounts and targeted personas, the best next steps would be to Enrich these contacts and companies with as much information as possible
AND
You’ve spent all this time matching and targeting, it would be wise to invest in a data partner that can keep that data fresh and updated in an ongoing fashion
EMILY
If you’ve got both your targeted accounts and targeted personas, the best next steps would be to Enrich these contacts and companies with as much information as possible
AND
You’ve spent all this time matching and targeting, it would be wise to invest in a data partner that can keep that data fresh and updated in an ongoing fashion
NIKHIL
We’ve covered selecting and scoring target accounts, as well as how to get net-new contacts that match those target contacts/accounts
Now its time to EXECUTE
NIKHIL
So we’ve bee extremely ABM-y so far – now its time to take our ABM base that we’ve built and turn it into a lead gen machine
Demonstrating that you can have an ABM approach with a lead gen spin. It doesn't HAVE to be a small targeted pool of accounts, as the definition of ABM dictates, AND it doesn’t have to be some big crazy spray and pray.
NIKHIL
Nikhil to speak to it
NIKHIL
Nikhil to speak to it
EMILY
First Infer scores our existing db
Then we use our own app to go find more people and companies like our high scorers
Then we run those through infer against our model and score them to ensure we got the right folks
Then we funnel the data into our marketing automation platform, sales acceleration platform, and email service provider