Using Technology to Automate Your Customer Lifecycle Management Strategy

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Partner Experience Architect, Global Customer Success Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Automation

Process Analytics

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Using Technology to Automate Your Customer Lifecycle Management Strategy

Pete Davis@pjdavis71

Director, Global Customer Success Cisco Systems, Inc.

Anvi Bui

Marketing Automation Architect Global Customer Success Cisco Systems, Inc.

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#successtalkAccording to a study conducted by the Global Center for

Digital Business Transformation, 4 of the top 10 incumbents in the industries studied will be displaced in the next five

years.

Digital disruption: displacing incumbents, reshaping markets

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Reality #1 Reality #2

Your customer is in the drivers seat.

We live in a subscription based economy.

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Audience Discussion:

What key areas do you think you could focus on to improve your adoption practice, customer retention or time-to value?

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In a subscription economy…adoption is the new gas pedal and customer value realization is a journey.

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“The revenue a supplier receives from its customers is increasingly tied to the successful consumption of the product.”

J.B. Wood, Todd Hewlin, Thomas Lah – B4B

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Initial sale Post-sale

Greatest revenue opportunities

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Customers must actively adopt your services and expect to realize value quickly.

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64% of people say customer experience is more important than price in choice of brand. By 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.

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Reduces cost to serveIncreases revenue/wallet shareImproves customer retentionPromotes sticky featuresIdentifies expand opportunities

Driving adoption fuels your business.

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Automation is the answer.

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Audience Poll

Do you currently use an automation platform to target and scale your customer success practice?

Yes No

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Sources: Sirius Decisions, 2014; Gartner 360 Summit; CEB, 2013

67% 2020 57%

Of the buyer’s journey is now done digitally

Customers will manage 85% of their relationship with the enterprise without

interacting with a human.

The buying process has changed

Of the purchase decision is complete before a customer

even calls a supplier

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The new buying process

Reading our blog

Requesting a Demo

Searching on Google

Engaging via Social Media

Reading our email campaigns

SalesMarketing

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What to Look for in a Marketing Automation Tool.

Integrations/Tool Management

Content Creation

Tracking

Contact Management

Automate Programs

Contact Health

Reporting/Analytics

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Define your audience

Create targeted segments for your campaign.

• Profile Data

• Behavioral Data

• Exclusions

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Design your campaign workflow

Define the customer journey for your campaign.

• Timing

• Entry point

• Calls to action (offers)

• Trigger responses

• Conditional touches

• Follow-up communication (sales call)

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Create campaign content

Work with your marketing team to create content customized for your audience.

• Emails

• Landing pages

• Forms

• eBooks

• Infographics

• Whitepapers

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Analyze & Optimize

Create reports, dashboards, and graphs that provide insight into customer behavior.

• Opens

• Clicks

• Views

• Downloads

• Deliver ROI

• Optimize campaign

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Eloqua Engage

Marketing developed and approved content

Consistent messaging

No need to recreate emails

Track engagement

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Prospect Profiler

See customer information quickly

See contact details and behavioral engagement

Activity Notifications

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Expand

Renew

Refresh

2nd Chance Attach

Welcome

Adopt

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Discover who the players are on your adoption team and what makes them critical to your future success.

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Learn how transforming values through thought leadership protects recurring revenue.

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Find out how to improve the conversation to strengthen customer relationships.

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Thank you.

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