Building and Managing Your Demand Generation Funnel
1. Building and Managing
Your Demand Generation
Funnel
Alex Shipillo
Marketo User Group – Toronto
November 10, 2015
2. About Me
• Director of Demand
Generation at Influitive
• Startup Junkie
• Reformed B2C
marketer, now falling in
love with B2B
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3. The Influitive Story
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NEW CATEGORY:
Advocate Marketing
20 MONTHS:
7x MRR Growth
SALES ORGANIZATION
GROWTH:
5 to 33
$30.5M
SERIES B – JULY 25
~65%
OF PIPELINE CREATED
BY MARKETING-DRIVEN
RESPONSES
5. Culture
• Growth-oriented CEO
• Core value: design our business
for scale
• Marketing is not a second class
citizen
• Marketing owns a number and
is accountable to achieving it
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6. 6
People
• Executive team leads the way
• Very analytical, right-brained
demand generation team
• Anyone can learn the system –
no prior experience necessary
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Process
• Start with establishing your
funnel – keep it simple
• Align with the Sales team -
everyone needs to be
measuring the same goals
• Figure out the mechanics,
fields and SLAs
• Add more “features” later
through future iterations
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We’re just getting started
• Incorporate new Outbound SDR strategy into
our lead management process
• Campaign Influence 2.0
• Improve lead scoring
• Implement an account-focused strategy
• Start thinking about CAC, ROI