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Sales and Marketing Alignment Starts with Content Marketing
What’s Inside
•What marketing traditionally surfaces to sales about the buyer’s journey: Digital Body Language• Why interactive content marketing provides untapped potential for buyer insights and deeper lead profiles through the Digital Dialogue
Digital is more than half
of a Buyer’s Journey
Demand Metric Digital Body Language Benchmark Study, June 2015
of buyers go through their buying journey before talking to a sales rep
chiefmarketer.com
70 %
And
The way this digital journey gets surfaced to
sales is through Digital Body Language
What is Digital Body Language?• Website visits• Email opens/clicks• Content downloads• Social media touches• Form Data• Marketing automation scoring
Digital Body Language
A Salesperson’s View Of
It amounts to a list of emails sent, opened, clicked & pages visited & assets downloaded
50 %Say digital body language identifies interest & specific needs
Demand Metric Digital Body Language Benchmark Study, June 2015
29%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
DBL Data identifies interest& specific need
18%
DBL Data identifies interest& hints at needs
But there’s a problem
36 %of salespeople say they never use digital body language
Demand Metric Digital Body Language Benchmark Study, June 2015
25%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Not at all Significant gaps
11%
Why doesn’t sales use digital body language?
Because it’s HardIt’s noisy, it’s confusing, it’s open to interpretation and it doesn’t help build empathy or understanding of the buyer.
• Noisy. An active prospect may be generating tens, or even hundreds, of signals and parsing out the key insights to help have a better sales conversation is next to impossible.
• Open to interpretation. Is a prospect who clicks the ‘getting started’ link really a hot lead? Maybe, maybe not.
• Undifferentiated. Every sales rep knows that an unqualified lead can generate a digital body language trail that looks frighteningly similar to a highly qualified, hot lead.
What sales wants to receive about a prospect is a far richer lead profile, helping to illuminate potential needs, pains, challenges, readiness and fit.
Digital body language surfaced from marketing automation into the CRM tends to be:
This is What Sales Really Want To Know
81%
37%
19%
20%
44%
23%
20%
21%
14%
Contact information
Firmographic data (e.g. industry segment)
Role in purchase decision
Potential ROI from solution purchase
Budgeting for a solution
Decision timeframe
Specific pain points motivating purchase
Readiness to buy
Anticipation barriers to acquisition
Data Type Currently Receive Want to Receive
16%
55%
61%
66%
41%
66%
71%
72%
75%
78% of respondents indicate that access to thistype of information would yield higher close rates:
What does all this have to do with content marketing?
Content – defined as all information components produced by marketing to
communicate ideas and transfer knowledge to buyer and seller audiences – plays a critical role
in driving demand. But when the type of content created does not align with buyers’
and sellers’ needs, it fails to support the types of conversations that are required to
move the buying process forward.
Sirius Decisions
“
”
of B2B marketersare creating more content
than they did a year ago
2015 B2B content marketing trends, Content Marketing Institute
70 %
But only 38% of marketers say their content marketing
is effective!
2015 B2C Content Marketing Trends, Content Marketing Institute
say their content doesn’t create any opportunity for engagement
58 %
Demand Metric, Enhancing the Buyer’s Journey,
And…
Why?
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Because static content provides limited opportunity for content
engagement, rich lead profiles and buyer insights.
81%
37%
19%
20%
44%
23%
20%
21%
14%
Contact information
Firmographic data (e.g. industry segment)
Role in purchase decision
Potential ROI from solution purchase
Budgeting for a solution
Decision timeframe
Specific pain points motivating purchase
Readiness to buy
Anticipation barriers to acquisition
Data Type Currently Receive Want to Receive
16%
55%
61%
66%
41%
66%
71%
72%
75%
Remember all that stuff sales said they wanted to receive about their leads?
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interactive content can solve for this
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interactive content can engage your buyer
in a radically more effective manner while surfacing richer insights
to sales that helps to drive revenue.
But how do you deliver it?
Assessments Quiz Solution Builders
Solution Finders Calculators
Shows Intent
Identifies Need
Shows Engagement
Knowledge Gap or
Opportunity to Sell Into
Ideal Customer Profile
How does this support the sales person?
Qualification
Product Configuration
ROI - Does the Solution
Make Sense to the Buyer
Price Expectations
Point of Interest
The Tale of Two JourneysStatic content versus interactive content experiences & how
it impacts sales ability to win deals.
of buyers go through their buying journey before talking to a sales rep
chiefmarketer.com
70 %
72 %say the role of personal selling is
significant in closing deals
Demand Metric Digital Body Language Benchmark Study, June 2015
But also…
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A Typical Journey through Static Content• View an infographic• Register to download a white paper• Click through an email to download a best
practices guide• Read a blog post• View product pages• Download a solution
brochure• View the “getting started”
page• Attend a webinar• Watch a video• Contact sales
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• Interact with an interactive infographic
• Interact with an interactive white paper
• Register to download awhite paper
• Answer a 15-question self assessment
• Configure a solution builder• Use an ROI calculator • Use an implementation
calculator• Contact sales
A Typical Journey through Interactive Content
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The Tale of Two Buyer Journeys
• View an infographic • Register to download a white
paper • Click through an email to
download a best practices guide
• Read a blog post • View product pages • Download a solution brochure • View the “getting started”
page • Attend a webinar • Watch a video • Contact sales
Pass/fail of static content with digital body language
• Interact with an interactive infographic
• Interact with an interactive white paper
• Complete a quiz • Register to download a white
paper • Answer a 15-question self
assessment • Configure a solution • Use an ROI calculator • Use an implementation calculator • Contact sales
Rich lead profiles and buyer insights with digital dialogue
VS
It’s hard to surface buyer insights & meaningful digital
body language without interactions.
Let’s take a closer look at what this looks like…
Early Stage
A visitor clicks on a tweet and engages with an interactive infographic. We know every element he interacts with.
Early Stage
Marketing places a cookie on the visitor for marketing automation & retargeting.
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At This Point, We Know
STATIC INTERACTIVE
VSWe know a visitor viewed the infographic
Sales knows which stats the visitor interacted with
Early Stage
The visitor is retargeted with specific banner ads that pick upwhere his affinity for the infographic left off. He clicks!
Early Stage
He lands and engages with an interactive white paper. Sales knows every element he interacts with, and how much of
the white paper he consumed.
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At This Point, We Know
STATIC INTERACTIVE
VSWe know a visitor hit a landing page
We know which sections of the white paper content the visitor interacted with,
how much of the white paper was consumed.
Early Stage
He decides he wants the PDF version emailed to him.
Now he converts from an anonymous visitor to Bill. Our new prospect.
Early Stage
+
Bill is added to a nurture campaign.
Early Stage
Bill gets an email offering an assessment.
Mid Stage
Mid Stage
Bill completes the assessment.
Mid Stage
Bill’s key behaviors and responses are being recorded and surfaced to sales in their Sell Side view.
Bill starts to show up as a high scored lead in the MAP notifications to sales. Sales reviews all of the rich data provided in Sell-Side to start to understand
prospect profile, need, interests, etc.
Mid Stage
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At This Point, We Know
STATIC INTERACTIVE
VSWe know he downloaded an
assessment document
We know how Bill answered each
assessment question and his ultimate score. Sales knows his pains!
Mid Stage
Marketing’s next nurture email to Bill is triggeredbased on his previous responses.
Mid Stage
Bill clicks through and uses a solution builder.
Mid Stage
Bill bubbles up to sales as an active lead in the MAP. Sales sees Bill’s responses in the Sell Side, and reaches out to begin a dialogue,
starting at his point of interest.
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At This Point, We Know
STATIC INTERACTIVE
VS Sales knows the solution Bill configured based on his specific
situation without talking to him..
We know Bill downloaded a
product brochure & hit a solution page on our
website.
Late Stage
Sales reaches out to Bill with a compelling, specific, targeted message and voicemail that speaks directly to the needs and
pain that Bill has surfaced throughout his digital dialogue.
After their call, sales sends Bill an ROI calculator.
Late Stage
Bill’s data is captured and surfaced to sales.
Late Stage
Late Stage
Sales is able to answer Bill’s questions specifically and support the results of solution Bill built and the ROI he uncovered based upon the gaps that were
revealed from Bill’s interaction with the assessment.
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At This Point, We Know
STATIC INTERACTIVE
VS Bill’s specific ROI
1. We know
Sales sent an email
2. We know Sales
captured all notes in the CRM
Late Stage
Bill & sales discuss set up, using an implementation configurator together.
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At This Point, We Know
STATIC INTERACTIVE
VS All the implementation
details, timelines, stakeholders, roles are all
recorded in the CRM and sell-side
timeline.
We know sales and the buyer talked about
implementation details
Late Stage
Bill is thinking and planning his implementation details and program goals. Bill is talking to procurement and doing legwork.
Sales wins the deal! Bill is a new customer.
What does the Digital Body Language from interactive
content look like?
Well, it can look like this…. Just like Digital Body Language from static content:
Typical View Of Interactive Content Insights
Typical View of Interactive Content Insights
But there’s a better, easier way to decode the insights from
interactive content: viewing it as a digital dialogue.
What does the digital dialogue look like?
(We call it a “Sell-Side” view, created just for sales people.)
Send a Sell-Side Specific Link to the CRM Record
A sales person clicks a link on a lead record in their CRM…
They see a visual timeline view of that lead’s interactive content interactions
They dive into each piece of content to see meaningful data about the buyer
interactions, like content consumption…
…and how the buyer answered questions in an online assessment…
…even inputs they selected in a calculator, with price results shown in context.
What does this meanfor the organization?
Content that your audience wants to
consume—that they will engage with and use
Better engaged/educated prospects
Sales can meet the buyer at the point
of interest
Better sales and marketing alignment
Moreopportunities for sales
Morecustomers
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