So you have a database of thousands of ‘dead’ leads. How do you find the few that are still interested in hearing from you and get them to love you (again) with content that’s relevant? Watch Bombora's Millie Resnick and Marketo’s Mike Madden, Director of Demand Generation, as they broke down how intent data can help you find prospect love again among new and ‘dead’ leads, and prioritize them for sales.
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Ride the Waves of Intent Data with Bombora
1. Un-Break My Heart: Help Your
Prospects Love YouAgain
Using Intent Data
Mike Madden @ Marketo
Director, Commercial Demand Gen & CoE
Millie Resnick @ Bombora
Director of Product Marketing
2. Housekeeping
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• There is a brief survey after the webinar
3. Ride the waves of Intent data
Millie Resnick, Director of Product Marketing
4. Business buying is a group activity
Each stakeholder’s journey is
distinct across multiple sales
and marketing channels
Social
Website
Email
B2B
Publisher
Tech Review
Site
Search
Source: HBR.org, 2015
The average number of stakeholders involved in a B2B purchase decision
5.4
5. Business and Technology Decision Makers purchase
decisions are influenced by a broad range of content sources
Top 15 Discover Stage Vehicles
North America, Enterprise, All Infrastructure SW Technologies
Business Decision Makers
Technology Decision Makers
Content collected by Bombora
Source: Forrester Business Technographics Global Priorities & Journey Survey, 2016 (Base: 458 BDMs, 306 TDMs in NA Enterprises)
6. And they are almost decided before you reach them
57%How far the average B2B buyer is through the purchase decision
before engaging a supplier sales rep*.
*Source: https://www.cebglobal.com/marketing-communications/digital-evolution.html
7. Intent data tells companies which
products and services other companies
are researching right now.
8. Only
15% Of your target accounts
are ‘in-market’ for what
you sell.
9. Bombora collects B2B Intent data at unprecedented scale
Researching on
3,694 B2B topics
Listening to
2.8M companies
Making the scale of this Intent data unparalleled – globally
It is used to produce Company Surge™ data
Across
1.7B B2B devices
Bombora’s Intent data is gathered from multiple content sources
White papers Case studies Search Webinars
Registration Articles Subscriptions Infographic
Data Co-op
Company Surge™ Audience Verification
Visitors Insights Digital Audience
Builder
Company Surge™
for Email
Company Surge™
for Salesforce
*Figures for Q3 2017 (average of monthly figures from July to September)
10. Organizing Intent data
Topics classificationAccount classification
Individual
IP Address
Domain/Account
23.8 Billion
Monthly Consumption Events
Auto-classified into
4,100 topics
across 12 themes
in our taxonomy
Automatically classifies the
content consumption activity of an
individual to an account, which is a
more reliable indicator of an
organization’s purchase intent.
11. Applying data science to derive Company Surge™
Behavioral interactions and data points feed a Topic Interest Model to
produce a Surge Score from zero to 100.
The Surge Score represents the intensity that a company is researching a
topic during a given week, while considering the context of the
consumption activity against its historical baseline
Content Consumption Events
Topic Score
100
60
0
Significant
drop in
consumption
Significantly above
average consumption
Normal
Consumption
Very low
consumption
Very high
consumption
50
Average
consumption
High
consumption
Low
consumption
*A measure of topic interest across space, time, and company
Factors used to identify B2B business buying intent:
Topic consumption by interactions
The number of interactions from a company on a particular topic
compared to historical baseline
Topic consumption by unique users
The number of people researching a topic from a particular
company compared to historical data
Mean topic relevancy
The density of the article on the topic of interest (i.e. is the topic
the focus of an interaction or mentioned tangentially?)
Engagement metrics
The depth of engagement that a company has per interaction
(e.g. scroll velocity, dwell time, etc.)
13. The ABM Approach by ICP
Non-ICP Accounts
Target Accounts
Named
Accounts
Named Accounts – Hand-
selected by AEs, compensated
more on closing these accounts
Target Accounts – Fit the Ideal
Customer Profile AND have a
Leadspace Account Score > 49.
Non-ICP Accounts – Accounts
that are not a product or market fit
for Marketo.
14. Our MQL Model
𝑀𝑄𝐿 = 𝑇𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠 (𝑇𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡) + 𝐵𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 (> 19) + 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 (> 29)
• Right Job Title
• First/Last Name
• Valid Email/Phone
• Company Name
• Email Clicks
• Form Completions
• Visited Booth
• Attended Webinar
• Attended Demo
• Downloaded Analyst
Report
• Scoring decay to
capture inactivity
Predictive Account
Score powered by
Leadspace
Looks at:
• Annual Revenue
• Employee Size
• Industry
• Location
• Technologies Used
• Other signals like
hiring trends, funding
levels, social media
activity, etc.
Job Title/Function
Demo
Score
Marketing/Ops -
Practitioner
30
Marketing/Ops -
Manager
38
Marketing/Ops –
Dir/VP
45
Marketing CMO 50
15. Behavior
Score = 0
Early
Stage, No
Activity
Behavior
Score 1-10
Early
Stage
Behavior
Score 11-29
Mid
Stage
Behavior
Score > 29
Late
Stage
We Have 4 Types of Buyers
16. The Buying Stages & Content Strategy
Reactivation
(No Engagement in Past 1 Year)
Early Stage
(Behavior Score = 0 - 10)
Mid Stage
(Behavior Score 11-29)
Late Stage
(Behavior Score > 29)
Any lead, regardless of vertical
or business type, with a last
engagement date before 1 year
ago.
Messaging:
• We Miss You
• It’s Been A While
• Call out unsubscribe
• Click = Reactivation
Content Types:
• Blogs
• Worksheets
• Cheat Sheets
• Infographics
• Slides and Templates
Engagement
Segmentation: In past 1
year
Content Types:
• Blogs
• Worksheets
• Ebooks
• Webinars
• Cheat Sheets
• Infographics
• Slides and Templates
Engagement
Segmentation: In past 1
year
Content Types:
• Blogs
• Worksheets
• Ebooks
• Cheat Sheets
• Webinars
• Analyst Reports
• Sales CTA
• Infographics
• Slides and Templates
Engagement
Segmentation: Past 30
days, past 60 days, past
90 days, & past 1 year
17. Intent Data Overlay - Bombora
Munchkin Code Can
Track:
• Email Engagement
• Web Engagement
• Form Fills
• Asset Downloads
• Landing Page
Performance
What Marketo Can See
18. Intent Data Overlay - Bombora
MKTO
What Marketo Can See
What Bombora Can See
19. How Bombora Works
TOPICS
• Topics show buyer intent and intensity.
• Some examples:
• Marketo
• Pardot
• Email Marketing Automation
• Lead Generation
• Demand Generation
• Marketing Automation
HISTORICAL DATA ANALYSIS
• Gave Bombora a list of all customers
that closed in the past 6 months.
• Bombora mapped historical topic
Company SurgeTM data of recent
customers to all 100 available
keywords over 18 months time
before they closed won.
• We took the top 50 topics to create a
world-class integration.
21. The Three Factors That Matter
Surge Score Specific Keyword Keyword Count
22. The Bombora Weighted Surge Score
Surge
Score
Specific
Keyword
Keyword
Count
Bombora
Weighted
Surge
Score
WHAT WE CAN DO
• Immediate account prioritization for
sales (Call Nows)
• ‘Wake the Dead’ campaigns to
reactivate sleepy subscribers at
highly active accounts
• Extremely targeted digital advertising
efforts for accounts
• More relevant database emails
based on Company SurgeTM topics
• Events based on geolocation of
recent Company SurgeTM
23. Marketo’s Implementation of Bombora
[Sunday]
Bombora
Company
SurgeTM Update
into Marketo via
custom objects
50 operational
campaigns
built for all 50
Company
SurgeTM topics
Campaign flow:
•Update Topic Field
to say ‘Topic’
•Assign Weighted
Surge Score
•Add lead to static
list to keep track of
Company SurgeTM
history
[Monday]
Automated
campaigns run
based on
Weighted Surge
Score thresholds
being met
[Saturday]
Weighted Surge
Score and all
surge topic fields
wiped to NULL
Process
Begins
Again…
24. Ex. Bombora-Backed Wake the Dead Emails
Then Email
Leads at
Account That Fit
Buying Profile
Based on Topic
Cluster
If Account
Spiked,
Weighted Surge
Score Threshold
Met, and ICP
Criteria Met…
Weekly
Company
SurgeTM Update
– Sunday
Evenings
26. Company Surge™ Integration for Marketo
Prioritize the right accounts at the right moment!
● Account-level Intent Data
● Native Marketo Integration
● Enrich your target accounts with a Surge Score
and topics based on buying intent
● View which of your accounts are actively
researching specific topics related to your
business
● Largest exclusive B2B Intent Data Co-op
Data Co-op
Acme Inc.
Surge Score: 78
Topics: 4
1. Campaign Analytics
2. Attribution Reporting
3. Marketing Automation
4. Marketing ROI
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Notas do Editor
Starts with talking about business buying. Business buying is a group activity and each person in the buying group will have his/her own journey across multiple pieces of content across many channels during their research phase. There are many statistics out there and this one is from Harvard business review that says there are about 5.4 stakeholders involved in an average B2B purchase decision and when it’s an even larger enterprise purchase, it can often be in the double digits. Beyond the stakeholders in the buying group, you also need to consider that there are multiple other influencers within a company that may be involved during different phases in the buying cycle, for example if you’re selling video conferencing software, it’s not just IT that you need to be reaching but folks in other departments like sales, marketing, and others.
What types of online content do those business and technology decision makers use to influence their buying decisions? In this study by Forrester, they’ve outlined 15 of what they call discover stage vehicles that decision makers use during the research process. These range anywhere from tech analyst sties to whitepapers, IT forums, and other sources across the web.
The result of all this research that’s done is that most buyers are already pretty far down the purchase decision path before they ever engage with a sales rep or with marketing content and become a lead.
It’s also important to understand that not all of your target prospects are in-market for all products or services all the time. According to research we’ve done, on average only 15% of companies are ever in-market for certain products or services at one time. As marketers, we often try to go after the entire market when most of the companies are not looking for that video conferencing software right now, when on average only 15% of your target companies are looking for that product. Making it even more critical that you have an understanding of which companies are in-market so you can focus your marketing efforts on them right now.
Given that context, Bombora has created a cooperative of B2B websites that consists of broad B2B sites like Forbes and The Wall Street Journal to niche special interest sites and analyst firms to collect of this rich content consumption activity that occurs when people in buying committees are doing research on products or services that they may be interested in purchasing.
And what we do with that is classify that individual’s content consumption activity with an account because as we talked about, business buying at a company is a group activity, and then we classify that piece of content that they are consuming with the over 4100 topics, which are related to B2B products and services, in our taxonomy.
With all the data that’s collected and organized, we then apply data science to it. For each company, we establish a historical baseline of activity across several factors like the number of content consumption interactions, the number of people performing those interactions, the relevancy of the content, and how engaged the users are with the content. From there, we can determine if there’s an increase or decrease in intent and how we derive Company Surge. Company Surge uses a Surge Score from 0 to 100 to represent the intensity of that increase or decrease in research activity compared to the baseline.
Company Surge can be used across many marketing and sales use cases. It’s now integrated directly within Marketo. Pass over to Mike to talk about specific use cases, how he’s applied them at Marketo and the results he’s seen.
Other Hero Statements:
Prioritize the accounts that are ready to engage!
Prioritize your accounts based on who’s ready to engage!
Prioritize your accounts based on active buying intent!
Prioritize your accounts based on current buying intent!
Prioritize the right accounts at the right moment to engage!