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Fred Love , VP of Enterprise Marketing, Partner
A seasoned veteran with 30 years of experience in Silicon Valley and Tokyo, Fred loves marketing and looks forward to his work every day. Drawing on experience at global brands like Disney, Sony, and HP, he helps startups punch above their weight with kick-ass websites and next-level digital marketing. But enough talk -- let’s raise some unicorns.
October 5, 2020 | Gain Knowledge
Create marketing content that just sells your product. Watch it sit unread and unloved.
Use marketing automation for your database and email. Use CRM to manage your sales activities. Pat yourself on the back for doing the bare minimum.
Report stats that make you feel good: likes, shares, page views, retweets.
Publish LinkedIn posts. Run LinkedIn Image Ads. Sponsor LinkedIn Message Ads. Wonder why your cost per lead is so high.
Put some customer quotes and logos on your homepage.
Thank your customers when they refer sales prospects—if that ever happens.
Create marketing content such as case studies and best practice guides that help your prospects do their jobs better, look good to their bosses, and get home by 6:00. Your prospects will be happy to give you their email address to view this valuable content (building your lead pipeline), and with the affinity you’ve developed, you’ll set your sales team up for success.
Integrate your marketing automation and CRM platforms to get full visibility into your lead-to-deal pipeline. Leverage that visibility to optimize each stage and maximize ROI.
Report stats that measure the success of the business: marketing-qualified leads, lead conversion rate through the pipeline, marketing ROI, and marketing attribution to revenue. Leverage these stats to determine which marketing activities you need to dial up, fix, or eliminate.
Develop integrated LinkedIn campaigns that align organic posts, sponsored posts, ads, and messages so each element amplifies the other. Schedule them in short, high-impact “lightning strikes” that cut through your competitors’ marketing clutter. Slash your cost per lead.
Customer references are your most valuable marketing tool; treat them as such. Develop a formal referral program that rewards customers for logo use, quotes, and case studies. Add a customer reference clause to your sales contract and offer a discount for referenceability. Then launch an ongoing series of case studies that prove your value proposition to customers, media, analysts, and investors.
Your customers know your services and they know their peers. Develop a formal referral program that encourages customers to introduce sales prospects. Create an online form that’s easy to use, promote it in your customer newsletter, and provide valuable thank-you gifts for introductions that lead to a deal. (The last time I ran a referral program, it drove 101 deals and $8.3 million in revenue, all for the price of one thank-you iPad per deal.)
With tactics like these, you can show your organization that marketing isn’t just a business expense, it’s a revenue center that’s critical for growth in uncertain times. Isn’t it time you earned your seat at the revenue table? Visit our enterprise marketing page or drop me a line if you’d like to learn more.
Hat tip to my marketing mentors Carol Broadbent, Dan Leary, Tom Hogan, and Christopher Lochhead for insights like these that moved the needle for dozens of Silicon Valley enterprises.
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