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Posted on 21 June 201713 August 2021 by prosar

Is Your Company Beneftting from Account-Based Marketing?

Account-based marketing (ABM) is nothing new; it is a strategy that successful salespeople have been employing for decades. The recent trend is its adoption at the enterprise level, and that has been fueled by software that enables data collection, comprehensive analysis, marketing automation, and ongoing tracking. In fact, due to affordable software and the need for businesses to evolve to the changing sales dynamic, ABM is quickly becoming a go-to solution for strategic growth.

Most applicable for B2B, account-based marketing is understanding and addressing the specific needs of chosen clients/prospects, by collecting and using data strategically, as well as harmonizing marketing and sales efforts. Sounds logical, even obvious, however very few companies take such a customized and client-centric approach. It requires a significant amount of planning and process, and the willingness for sales and marketing to play nice together.

Thanks to cost-efficient software solutions, ABM is now attainable by smaller companies. Many marketing agencies have specialized and offer strategic automated marketing services; and it no longer requires deep pockets and extensive in-house expertise for SMEs to fully manage their own ABM campaigns. Competent and dedicated sales or marketing professionals can learn the basics and wield the controls to show results relatively quickly. Good automated marketing software solutions enable companies to:

  • Align sales and marketing teams on one platform
  • Develop personas and segmented lists
  • Personalize communication via dynamic landing pages, dynamic emails, dynamic forms, list segmentation
  • Create customized action groups and workflows
  • Monitor progress using workflow analytics, form insights, behavior tracking and lead scores
  • Track and measure ROI

The automated marketing tactics above are critical. According to research by Ascend2 and SharpSpring, the primary hurdles to making ABM work effectively are coherence in sales and marketing, increasing sales opportunities and reducing the sales cycle. This chart illustrates challenges.

Ascend2 - SharpSpring: Listing of critical challenges to achieving Account-Based Marketing success, starting with unifying sales and marketingUsing software to help guide the process, facilitate implementation and monitor progress is invaluable in getting on track and reaping the rewards of ABM. Having the strategic guidance is the obvious first step, but without the actual implementation process you’l not be travelling far. A critical aspect of the strategy, and benefit of using marketing automated software, is better aligning sales and marketing.

The study by Ascend2 and SharpSpring went further to identify the best tactics for ABM. The following chart shows what tactics provided the best results. Again, highlighting the strategic benefit to using marketing automated, or inbound marketing, software.

Ascend2 - SharpSpring: List of most effective tactics for Account-Based Marketing starting with identifying high-value accountsNo longer a tactic just for savvy salespeople and Fortune 500 companies, account-based marketing is a useful and successful strategy for small-to-medium size businesses.

What are your experiences with account-based marketing, or the use of automated marketing tactics?

 

NB  PROSAR Inbound Inc. is a certified SharpSpring Partner. Despite our bias to SharpSpring as an ideal solution for SMEs, we encourage companies to consider any software that helps them plan, implement and measure a strategic approach to sales and marketing.

 

Charts credit: Ascend2 and SharpSpring, published March 2017

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