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Managing Inbound-driven customer growth
should be knowable and scientific, too.
So where’s that methodology
to manage Inbound-driven growth
and delight customers?
13. 1. Truly Understanding
Inbound-fueled Growth
2. Managing A Customer Team
for Inbound-fueled Growth
– Mapping key customer experiences
– Sorting activities to help deliver delight
– Modeling and planning for scale
3. Wrapping up
This Talk
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There are a few things to understand about
Inbound-driven growth that are special
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Inbound works.96% of Inbound Marketers are
experiencing greater or equal
ROI over the previous year
State of Inbound Marketing, HubSpot, 2014
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Inbound compounds.
“Content marketing value compounds.
Marketers should actively invest in
building evergreen content that keeps
contributing to traffic growth [and]
generating sales.”
Thomasz Tunguz, Redpoint Venture Capital
http://tomtunguz.com/content-marketing-compounding-returns/
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As a result, Inbound
growth is steady growth.
Asset-driven, compounding growth is
more predictable than fresh, actively-
driven growth.
Me
5+ years of this stuff at HubSpot
26. 1. Truly Understanding
Inbound-fueled Growth
2. Managing A Customer Team
for Inbound-fueled Growth
– Map key lifecycle stages
– Sort activities to help deliver delight
– Model and plan to scale and grow
3. Wrapping up
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Team activities
to help achieve
Team activities to
help achieve
Team activities to
help achieve
Team activities to
help achieve
Ex: HubSpot software-as-a-service
Close
Welcome
Workflow
Setup
First
Campaign
ROI
1. Positioning
2. Payment
3. Handoff
1. Excitement!
2. Login
3. People intros
4. Contract
1. JS tracking
2. DNS
3. Lead
tracking
4. CRM
1. Define goal
2. Apply tools
3. Get support
4. See impact
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Ex: HubSpot software-as-a-service
Closing call
2 emails
1 CSM call
1 call
2 emails
4 key docs
2+ calls
Many emails, docs,
and classes
Close
Welcome
Workflow
Setup
First
Campaign
ROI
1. Positioning
2. Payment
3. Handoff
1. Excitement!
2. Login
3. People intros
4. Contract
1. JS tracking
2. DNS
3. Lead
tracking
4. CRM
1. Define goal
2. Apply tools
3. Get support
4. See impact
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1 x Salesperson call
2 x Automated email
1x Customer manager call
6 x Implementation calls
4 x Documentation
2 x Email templates
3 x Online classes
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1 x Salesperson call
2 x Automated email
1x Customer manager call
6 x Implementation calls
4 x Documentation
2 x Email templates
3 x Online classes
One-to-One
One-to-Many
Content (None-to-Many)
1 x Salesperson call
6 x Implementation calls
1x Customer manager call
3x Online classes
2 x Automated email
4 x Documentation
2 x Email templates
Ex: HubSpot software-as-a-service
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We’re building customer success structures here.
So far, we’ve:
1. Mapped key lifecycle stages in the customer experience
2. Decided how the customer team will help deliver delight
3. Sorted delivery into formats (e.g. one-to-one) and roles
In short, we’ve structured a simple methodology to
define customer success and facilitate delight.
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One-to-One
Customer Success Manager (owns account & revenue)
Implementation Consultant (owns setup and campaign launch)
Support Engineer (in-the-moment software help)
One-to-Many
Academy Professor (owns a set of classes & materials)
Content
Technical Writer (owns documentation content for customers)
Ex: HubSpot software-as-a-service
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One-to-One
Customer Success Manager
Implementation Consultant
Support Engineer
One-to-Many
Academy Professor
Content
Technical Writer
How HubSpot Staffs
Ratio to number of classes
Need-based
Ratio to customer base
Ratio to new customer flow
Ratio to support tickets
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One-to-One
Customer Success Manager
Implementation Consultant
Support Engineer
One-to-Many
Academy Professor
Content
Technical Writer
How HubSpot Staffs
Ratio to number of classes (15:1)
Need-based (build faster!)
Ratio to customer base (100:1)
Ratio to new customer flow (10:1)
Ratio to support tickets (200:1)
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Why not have everything needs-based?
Wouldn’t that be more agile?Q
A Compounding, steady
customer generation model
Scalable, steady
customer delight
model
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Why not have everything needs-based?
Wouldn’t that be more agile?Q
A
Scalable, steady
customer delight
model
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At HubSpot, we’ve also seen that:
• This approach provides measureable levers to tweak and
experiment with over time
• The model improves over time – eventually, your customer
success model becomes a real institutional asset
• Ratios help tactically define where to hire first when the team
is stressed
• Modeling helps to improve financial/cost forecasting
• Alignment between sales and service is simpler and more
transparent when written down and linked to cost modeling
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Takeaways
1. Inbound Marketing-driven growth is special: it’s measureable,
it compounds, and it’s steady
2. As with a marketing or sales process, customer teams should map key
lifecycle stages in the customer experience
3. Customer teams help to delight customers at those key stages by
defining tasks and sorting them into functional categories
4. Models for scaling & growing a customer team should build ratios,
models, and other structures that exploit the steadiness of
Inbound-Marketing driven growth