Applying Timely, Targeted and Tailored Insight to Improve the Pipeline
This program explores CMO conversations and engagements around best practices in customer selection and connection, as well as how marketing is optimizing the sales process through more effective consumer targeting.
Program Description
This requires “selecting and connecting” with the right prospects, as well as examining every facet and phase of campaign design, staging, implementation and delivery to extract greater efficiency, yield and impact.
Effective demand generation campaigns have to be massively database-driven, highly automated, more personalized and targeted, as well as diligently tracked, measured and multiplied with continuous contact and cultivation. ROI metrics are no longer just about reach, frequency, brand recognition and CPM rates. They are much more about relevancy, response, recurring relationships and business return. This requires disciplined and clinical approaches to improving information and list access, opt-in/opt-out practices, contact governance, database maintenance, market segmentation, customer profiling, audience value, content relevance, email deliverability, search optimization, web site performance, traffic quality, channel strategy, alternative media usage, and closed loop measurement and recalibration.
Connecting with the right audiences, at the right time, with the right message in the right place is the mantra of digital marketing. Leveraging new channels of engagement, initiating conversations, and acquiring deeper customer knowledge and insight have become fundamental to campaign success, market mobilization and customer conversion. Activating and amplifying advocacy through trusted business networks and social media channels are also becoming vital extensions of campaign initiatives to maximize spend and word-of-mouth.
“Know More to Grow More” is a new thought leadership initiative by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council, the Customer Experience Board, and the Coalition to Leverage and Optimize Sales Effectiveness (CLOSE). This initiative will enable CMO conversation and engagement around best practices in customer selection and connection. It will explore the level of sophistication in database marketing and the level of satisfaction with current CRM tools, information sources and customer profiling capabilities. It will tap perspectives from both sales and channel organizations, as well as audit and assess marketing’s role in optimizing the process of targeting, profiling and providing sales-ready opportunities and additional entry points to existing accounts.
In addition to a full report culminating from the findings developed from a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews with leading marketers, the initiative will also entail a number of Dinner Dialogue events in a host of different cities, providing marketers with the opportunity to gather with their peers across multiple industries to discuss their successes and challenges in this area. See the Past Events section to learn more, and check back often to learn about dates and locations for new events to be held in the coming months.
Program Sponsor
Dun & Bradstreet is the world's leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses, enabling companies to Decide with Confidence® for 171 years. D&B's global commercial database contains more than 215 million business records. The database is enhanced by D&B's proprietary DUNSRight® Quality Process, which provides our customers with quality business information. This quality information is the foundation of our global solutions that customers rely on to make critical business decisions.
D&B provides solution sets that meet a diverse set of customer needs globally. Customers use D&B Risk Management Solutions™ to mitigate credit and supplier risk, increase cash flow and drive increased profitability; D&B Sales & Marketing Solutions™ to increase revenue from new and existing customers; and D&B Internet Solutions™ to convert prospects into clients faster by enabling business professionals to research companies, executives and industries, over the web.
This report explores to what degree chief marketers are unifying and extracting value from multiplying customer data sources through the quantitative insights of 150 senior marketers and highlights insights from qualitative interviews with leading marketers at Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Disney ABC Television, See’s Candies and more.
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Research highlighted in the latest report from the CMO Council and CLOSE—entitled “Know More to Grow More”— reveals that marketers have notable deficiencies when it comes to obtaining valuable customer data and providing actionable intelligence to sales. Full report is available for purchase via CMO Council.
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As more executives are being held accountable for sales optimization, alignment of sales and marketing is becoming a critical imperative versus a luxury of company culture.
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Lead generation is “Job One”: B2B marketers’ single most important objective. Maximizing Lead Generation brings together everything you need to know to do it right. Fast-paced and 100% practical, it will help you achieve outstanding results in any B2B marketplace—from enterprise technology to industrial equipment to professional services.
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Emerging markets are set to account for 50 percent of the world’s total consumption by 2025. - McKinsey
Asia's retail sales will grow by 8.5% in US dollar terms by 2016, higher than the global average growth rate of 5.6%. - Marketing Interactive
By 2018, it is estimated that Asian retail sales will amount to US$10 trillion, much of which will be driven by India and China. - Marketing Interactive
The average business-to-business purchase is 57 percent of the way through the decision to buy before a supplier sales representative is engaged. - Google
During the last five years, the average sales cycle has become 22 % longer, typically with three more decision makers participating in the buying process. - Technically Marketing
When it comes to sales leaders, marketers, and customer service leaders, the info metrics shared say 81% plan to increase their use of CRM, 80% plan to increase mobile app usage, 82% plan to increase social media, and 81% plan to increase customer analytics.
On average, 23% of an organization’s data is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.
15 percent of respondents at end-user organizations who report full integration among customer-facing systems.
- Score More Sales
Almost seven in 10 (68%) of the 701 marketers attending the DMA2012 and Forrester Research conferences in October 2012 who were surveyed said they will increase data-related marketing expenditures either slightly (20%) or greatly (48%) in 2013.
Delving beyond simple spending, the survey also found that only 12% of marketers have no plans to improve customer data methods this year.
Forty-nine percent of respondents said web analytics is the best channel for generatin - CMSWire
50% of leads are qualified but not yet ready to buy.
Only 25% of leads are legitimate and should advance to sales.
Research shows that 35-50% of sales go to the vendor that responds first.
79% of marketing leads never convert into sales. Lack of lead nurturing is the common cause of this poor performance.
61% of B2B marketers send all leads directly to Sales; however, only 27% of those leads will be qualified.
57% of B2B org - HubSpot
Companies that excel at lead nurturing generate 50% more sales ready leads at 33% lower cost
Nurtured leads produce on average a 20% increase in sales opportunities versus non-nurtured leads.
- Customer Think