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Hard Truths and Helpful Tips About Account-Based Marketing (Part 1)

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Hard Truths and Helpful Tips
Are you thinking about ditching your revenue team’s creaky, ineffective sales approach and embracing ABM … but aren’t sure of what you need to know? You’ve found the right blog post.

Today, we’re providing some mind-blowing highlights from a recent webinar hosted by Kerry Cunningham, our Senior Principal of Product Marketing.

The webinar unpacked what matters most for launching an effective ABM program and offers actionable tips for sales and marketing teams. It’s well worth a watch. But if you’re short on time, here are some insights. Kerry started the webinar by sharing some hard truths about the state of selling:

Hard Truth #1: If They’re a Lead, You May Be Too Late

B2B sales used to be all about leads. Even now, many revenue teams lean heavily into the lead-based mindset. But the emergence of Account-Based Marketing brought many revelations to revenue teams, including that account opportunities are far more important than individual leads.

When you turn your (obsessive) attention from solo buyers and instead examine the full spectrum of interest or intent that an entire organization is expressing in your solution, you’re able to dramatically increase the quantity and quality of your sales intelligence.

Without this analysis, your team won’t be aware that buyers are conducting so much research on their own that by the time your team determines that they’re an early-stage “lead,” they may in fact be much farther down the buyer’s journey than expected.

Your team plays catchup after that, putting them at a competitive advantage.

Hard Truth #2: B2B Buyers Aren’t Even ‘Buyers’ Anymore

These days, buyers are no longer individuals, but rather teams of people. On average, buying teams often include 10 people, Kerry explained.

“Not everybody involved in the buying process is going to be sitting at the table at the end of that last meeting when they sign the deal,” Kerry said, “but all of those folks are doing some research.”

How big are these teams? From the webinar’s transcript:

Kerry: “For bigger deals, there may be as many as 20 or more people involved. And again, all of those folks are having interactions. In fact, Forrester Research did a study recently that showed that on average, post-pandemic, buyers are having 27 interactions each. So when you have 10 people or 20 people, and they’re having 20-something interactions each, that adds up.”

But there’s an upside to all this activity, Kerry said. As buyers conduct research, they leave behind digital “breadcrumb trails” or “footprints in the snow” across the internet.

Sellers armed with leading account engagement technologies can track, aggregate and de-anonymize these intent signals. ABM tools help them better understand the buyers’ research and buying processes.

Hard Truth #3: You Might Deal with Multiple Buying Teams

Depending on the scope of your solution’s capabilities, your sellers may contend with more than one buying team.

Here’s an example: Let’s say a company is looking for a solution to handle the needs of many departments or divisions. Each division may task its own buyer or buying team to conduct its own research to find solutions that effectively solves its own business problems.

If your solution can serve the needs of multiple divisions, your revenue team is in a good position, especially if your team can proactively identify the divisions’ unique needs. (Account engagement platforms do a great job of this.)

However, don’t assume that your solution can be everything to every division, Kerry warned.

Kerry: “If you sell multiple solutions — say you’re a big tech company and you have three, four, five solutions — you may be selling to multiple buying centers. But those buying centers may not all be great prospects for your solution. So take into account the fact that some of the buying centers inside those specific accounts may or may not be good prospects for you.”

Hard Truth #4: Buyers Think They Know Everything About Your Solution (But Actually Don’t)

Many buyers believe they can get all the information they need about your solution (and your competitors) exclusively through online research, Kerry said. This is super-convenient for buyers, but sellers can’t fully control the narrative. That leads to big problems.

Kerry: “Not all the information that they get is going to be accurate. It certainly may not be how you’d like to present yourself. So one of the things that’s really important is you have to understand how your buyers are finding out about you.”

This requires identifying other likely sources of information — such as content from competitors or unreliable analysts — and proactively engaging buyers with data and talking points that counter this misinformation.

Conclusion

Pivoting to an account-based approach isn’t always easy, especially for revenue teams that are entrenched in a older sales approaches. But making the change to ABM can revolutionize your business, Kerry said.

“Within the first year, 6sense clients who take all of these new techniques on board are able to produce substantially better results, bigger deal sizes, better win rates, and even shorter sales cycles,” Kerry said. “This is really the way B2B ought to be done.”

We’ve covered a few hard truths in this post, but come back tomorrow for Part 2 of this series. We’ll provide some helpful and actionable ABM tips then.

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Bombora Hires Jeff Marcoux as CMO and Elena Drozd as VP of Data Science

Bombora | December 01, 2022

Bombora, the leading provider of B2B Intent data solutions, today announced that it has hired Jeff Marcoux as Chief Marketing Officer and Elena Drozd, Ph.D, as Vice President of Data Science. Marc Johnson, the current CMO & GM, will shift to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Marcoux, a veteran marketer who has twice worked with Bombora as a customer, has been working closely with Bombora’s marketing team as a consultant for the past year. Prior to that, he was Head of Product & Vertical Marketing at Icertis. He has also held leadership roles at TTEC and Microsoft. Marcoux is also a professor of marketing at Oregon State University, teaching advanced digital marketing and demand generation courses. Drozd joins Bombora from Oracle, where she most recently served as Senior Director, Data Science & Advanced Analytics. Across more than 16 years with Oracle, Drozd built and managed a global team of data scientists, data engineers, and marketing analysts. At Bombora, she will oversee the proprietary and patented methods and models that make Bombora the only company to witness the complete buyer’s journey across its data cooperative. Johnson joined Bombora as CMO & GM in 2016 and has built the company into the most widely known and respected brand in the B2B data space by making the Company Surge® product synonymous with Intent data. As COO, he will focus on alignment and operational efficiency across the company. “Data has never been more important to the sales and marketing professions, and Bombora plays an important role in helping B2B organizations unlock their potential through insights,” said Erik Matlick, CEO and co-founder of Bombora. “Data has never been more important to the sales and marketing professions, and Bombora plays an important role in helping B2B organizations unlock their potential through insights,” said Erik Matlick, CEO and co-founder of Bombora. “As former customers, both Jeff and Elena have seen firsthand how our unique product can drive results across an enterprise. Meanwhile, Marc has been instrumental in the company’s growth, in terms of both reputation and the bottom line. These are three incredibly critical roles and I’m grateful to have such exceptional talent and experience to add to our organization.” The new hires come on the heels of a strong year that saw Bombora recognized by some of the advertising and technology world’s biggest awards. In November, the company was the gold winner for the top small- and medium-sized business marketing program in the 25th Annual Marketing Excellence Awards from Momentum ITSMA. Earlier this year, Bombora was named one of AdExchanger’s 2022 Top 50 Programmatic Power Players. The company was also a finalist in the Digiday Technology Awards in the Best Data Team category and the Adweek 2022 Readers’ Choice: Best of Tech Partner Awards. Bombora’s Company Surge® data tells marketing and sales leaders about which businesses are researching the products or services that they and their competitors sell. With this understanding, sales and marketing teams can be more relevant and consistent and improve performance across all activities. About Bombora Bombora tells businesses which companies are researching their products and services. With this understanding, sales and marketing teams can be more relevant and consistent and improve performance across all activities. This intent-driven approach revolutionizes the way businesses market and sell to other businesses through transparent data built on an ecosystem of quality, collaboration and innovation. With direct integrations with dozens of leading data and media-buying platforms, Bombora is building a world in which business buyers value sales and marketing for its relevance, timeliness and accuracy. To learn more, visit www.bombora.com.

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RollWorks Announces Open Beta of Contact Insights

RollWorks | November 04, 2022

Account-based marketing platform RollWorks, a division of NextRoll, today announced the beta version of Contact Insights, a capability that helps B2B sales teams prioritize and develop more personalized and refined account-based strategies. Contact Insights surfaces contact-level data (name, email, title, department) in a single source of truth, and provides the ability to add contacts directly to a sales sequence from within Sales Insights, helping sales teams streamline workflows, build out the buying committee at a target account, and easily prioritize and personalize outreach. "Sales' ability to deeply segment allows them to be more compelling and relevant with the entire buying team based on where they are in the sales process, but also on stakeholder goals, challenges, and success measures," said Shawn Cook, VP of New Business Sales, RollWorks. "Sales' ability to deeply segment allows them to be more compelling and relevant with the entire buying team based on where they are in the sales process, but also on stakeholder goals, challenges, and success measures," said Shawn Cook, VP of New Business Sales, RollWorks. "With Contact Insights and the Outreach integration, sellers can move prospects into sequences by fit and behaviors based on what's happening in the sales cycle. Imagine sequences for accounts where fewer than three contacts are engaged with the goal of driving consensus. Or triggering a competitive differentiation sequence automatically when a competitor's name is raised in a call. Who wouldn't want to trigger digital responses without the manual approach?" RollWorks' new integration with Outreach enables organizations to take timely action by adding contacts directly to an Outreach sequence right from within the CRM. With RollWorks Contact Insights, sales teams can: Streamline their prospecting by accessing account and contact-level data in one place and take timely action by adding contacts to a sales sequence from their CRM Get more responses by prioritizing contacts and personalizing messaging for each persona Identify gaps in the buying committee and determine contacts needed to get multi-threaded Upcoming Contact Insights features will surface additional first party activity data, such as email opens and campaign touchpoints, for known contacts within the CRM platform to help sales better prioritize contacts for outreach and personalize messaging based on engagement activity. RollWorks Contact Insights is part of RollWorks' larger Sales Insights solution, which prioritizes accounts for sales outreach using data science models to uncover signals of an account's engagement with a company's website and ads. Contact Insights is available to all RollWorks customers that have Salesforce or HubSpot CRM integrated and an Outreach subscription. Learn more about how RollWorks Contact Insights can help you better prioritize and personalize your outreach. About RollWorks RollWorks, a division of NextRoll, offers ambitious B2B companies an account-based platform to align their marketing and sales teams and confidently grow revenue. Powered by proprietary data and machine learning, RollWorks' solutions address the needs of organizations large and small — from those with best-in-class ABM programs to those just beginning their exploration. By empowering teams to identify their target accounts and key buyers, reach those accounts across multiple channels, and measure program effectiveness in their system-of-record, RollWorks is an indispensable platform for marketers and sellers who believe that an account-based approach is just good business. To learn more visit www.rollworks.com.

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