How to Be a Marketing Agency in a Smarketing World

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How to Be a Marketing Agency in a SMarketing World: Recommendations From HubSpot's VP of Sales Mark Roberge (@markroberge ) #smarketing

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Advice from Mark Roberge, HubSpot's VP Sales, about how agencies should focus on needs of their clients' sales teams as well as marketing team's needs; should focus on a niche instead of being everything to everyone; should stop fitting into their clients budgets and pre-defined projects and selling and providing ROI through retainers.

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How to Be a Marketing Agency in a SMarketing World: Recommendations From HubSpot's VP of Sales

Mark Roberge (@markroberge ) #smarketing

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Agenda

• What are Agencies Currently Offering? • What do I want from an Agency?• What Should Agencies Do: Retainers• What Should Agencies Do: Focus on the Leads• What Should Agencies Do: Predictable New

Business

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There’s Too Much Focus on “Branding”

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There’s Too Much Focus on “Fluffy” Services

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There’s Too Much Focus On the Marketing Team

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• What are Agencies Currently Offering? • What do I want from an Agency?• What Should Agencies Do: Retainers• What Should Agencies Do: Focus on the Leads• What Should Agencies Do: Predictable New

Business

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Inbound Marketers: Focus on The Funnel

Target Market

Website Visitors

Leads

Opportunities

Customers

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Generate more Web Visitors: Blog & Social Media

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Convert Visitors to Qualified Leads: Test Conversions

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Leads to Customers: Email, Nurturing, Lead Intelligence

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Measure Every Step

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4 Steps = More Traffic, More Leads, More Sales, Analyze

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Agenda

• What are Agencies Currently Offering? • What do I want from an Agency?• What Should Agencies Do: Retainers• What Should Agencies Do: Focus on the Leads• What Should Agencies Do: Predictable New

Business

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One-Off Projects = Tough; Retainers = Scalable

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Stop Trying to Fit Into a Client’s Project or Budget

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Focus on Ongoing Services and Retainability

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Move from “Projects” to “Processes”

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Think About First Project as “Bait” to Upsell Retainer

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• What are Agencies Currently Offering? • What do I want from an Agency?• What Should Agencies Do: Retainers• What Should Agencies Do: Focus on the Leads• What Should Agencies Do: Predictable New

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Focus on “Turning on” the Leads

Photo: Flickr, Jacob Barss-Bailey

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Focus on the Services that Make Leads Possible

Blogging/SEO/Social Media

Landing Page Creation / Testing

Sales & Marketing Alignment

Marketing ROI Analysis

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Set a Leads Goal – Both Quantity and Quality

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Agenda

• What are Agencies Currently Offering? • What do I want from an Agency?• What Should Agencies Do: Retainers• What Should Agencies Do: Focus on the Leads• What Should Agencies Do: Predictable New

Business

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Consider Niche-ing Yourself

By GeographyEx: Boston

By ServiceEx: Blogging

By IndustryEx: Law

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Example: Demand Creation Specialists

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Example: The Service Coach

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Example: Park Street Designs

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Don’t Get Lost – Stand Out!

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