telling your story to a changing audience: marketing lessons from a pivoting marketplace
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To A Changing Audience
Marketing Lessons
Telling Your Story
Marketplace From A Pivoting
When Markets Disrupt
Values Shift Vocabularies Change
Velocity Increases
There’s No Pause Button
Campaign Pace Accelerates
Duration Shortens Frequency Increases
Marketing Must Be Nimble These 4 Strategies Can Help:
Synchronization Orchestration
Execution Discipline
Lessons From Our Story
5 Shifts
4 Strategies 2 Disruptions
3 Tactics 1 Ecosystem
The 1st Shift The Outsourcing Appetizer
• Talent Is Untethered From Geography Through Technology
• Just-In-Time Was Working Well for Supply Chain
• Focus Shifts To Program & Process Management
On Demand
Lower Overhead – Lower Cost • Economic Differences à Lower Operational Costs
• External Expertise Offloads Internal Overhead
The 2nd Shift Individual Outranks Enterprise
• Institutional Knowledge
• Process & Technology Expertise
• Site & Solution Specific Insight
Individuals Are Requested Who Possess
Elastic Expertise Becomes The Mode • “One Throat To Choke” Models Resulted in Strangled Supply
• Direct To Expert Required More Responsibility
• Direct To Expert Delivers Better, Faster Results
The 3rd Shift Evolution of ICT
SO – MO - LO • SOCIAL – powers individual expertise location
• MOBILE – powers solution acceleration & expert ubiquity
• LOCAL – powers rapid consummation & community
LAST MILE EXECUTION • Where Offshore & Electronic Deliverables Break Down
• Rediscovery Of The Human Element At Point Of Delivery
The 4th Shift The Great Recession
Trends Converge • ECONOMIC – Boomers & Millennials alike turn to freelancing
• ON DEMAND – cloud computing, Obamacare, consumer marketplaces
• DISENGAGEMENT – dissatisfaction grows as options emerge
SHORTER TERM PROJECTS • Projects & PMOs Go LEAN
• Project Lifecycle Shift Drive Up Reliance on Short-Term Contractors
The 5th Shift The Passion Culture
• WORK – already more than a place we go due to always on technology
• BLURRED BORDERS – between work & life due to shifting expectations
When Work Is Your Identity, Love Who You Are
CONSPICUOUS SUCCESS OF PASSION COMPANIES • Millennials enjoy massive success “doing what they love”
• Ideas are imbued with a new potential energy
• Ideas soak up capital fleeing traditional, recession afflicted, investment areas.
• Social proof & funding via kickstarters, angels & VCs become popular
5 Shifts Redux The Outsourcing Appetizer
The Individual Outranks Enterprise
The ICT Revolution
The Great Recession
The Passion Culture
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2 Disruptions
The Disengagement Disruption
The Freelancer Disruption 12
Disruption 1 Disengagement Disengagement Grows Among Traditional W2 Employees • LOSS OF PURPOSE – Uncertainty of Impact | Lack of Significance
• LOSS OF VISIBILITY – Why What You Do Matters | Why Your Peer’s Work Matters
• EROSION OF CONNECTEDNESS – Belief in Leadership | Access To & Awareness Of Manager
Disengagement Costs • GLOBALLY – 85% Disengagement
• U.S. – 70% Disengagement
• COST - $450 - $550 Billion Lost
Disruption 2 Freelance Boom
• 53 million freelancers in the U.S.
• Increasing spending on contractors and freelance
• 18% of total workforce – 20% in 2 years. (SIA)
• Technology allows direct engagement with experts anywhere the work requires.
2014: 34% of Workforce Freelances
2020: 40-50% of Workforce Freelances • 60 million+ freelancers in the U.S.
4 Strategies
Synchronization Orchestration
Execution Discipline
Orchestration
• Aligns channels, segments & activities
• Requires: single source of truth
• Empowers: development of targeted, segmented, dynamic email | social | web
campaigns
Business Impact: Accelerate Demand à Faster Growth
Synchronization
• Remove guesswork on WHEN to engage
• Predictive issue & opportunity identification with patterns & profiles analysis
• Coordinate B2B campaigns across channels, interaction history, time zones & segment preferences
Business Impact: Boost Capacity Without Adding Cost
Execution
• Consistent execution builds confidence in repeatability & scalability
• Identify, inform & empower prospects with our immediate & free solution differentiates us
• Turn customers into fans with consistent execution & exceeding expectations
Business Impact: Do, Rather Than Plan-to-Do
Discipline
Business Impact: Lean in & Learn • Visibility | Accountability | Control are the key elements in managing the marketing cycle
• Living with the consequences of a BAD DECISION is worse than the humiliation of admitting one
• Don’t lose sight of your purpose; remind yourself why you bother with all of this
3 Tactics How To Profile YOUR Audiences 1
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How To Engage YOUR Audiences
How To Deliver Impact
Tactic 1: Profile Your Audience
• Pardot Campaign Metrics Deliver Insight into Our Audience
• Website Integrated With Sales Cloud for Single Source of Truth
• Pardot Scoring + Salesforce Workflows Automates Prospect Funnel
• Data.com Enriches lead & prospect data for high level segmentation
How We Do It: Pardot | Data.com | Salesforce
Tactic 2: EngageYour Audience
• Multi-faceted Campaigns with Dynamic Lists & Branch Logic in Pardot
• Coordinated Social, Email, Traditional, Web, Landing Page Campaigns
• Timing & Content Response Analysis Guides Next Best Actions For The Team
• Sales Cloud Workflows & Automation Rules Trigger Templated 1:1 Pardot Action
How We Do It: Pardot | Salesforce
Tactic 3: Deliver Impact
• Accelerate the Qualification Process
• Mercilessly Track Performance & Measure Results
• Demand & Conversion Dashboards Deliver Real-Time Results
• Always Ask “What If” “How Come” “Is There Someone Else” & “Why Not”
How We Do It: Salesforce Adoption
1 Ecosystem
5 Marketplace Shifts 4 Marketing Strategies
2 Disruptions 3 Immediate Tactics
1 Ecosystem All Systems Go. Liftoff