Enable Your Sales Team

Keys to Driving Growth Through Sales and Marketing AnalyticsBryant Lau

Bryant Lau• Digital Marketing

Manager @ Highspot• Growth Focused

Demand Gen Marketer• Hiker• Dog Owner

Who Am I?

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• Top 5 Keys to Growth-Driven Analytics• Examples of Actionable Reports• Summary Takeaways

Agenda

Where should we invest?

Key Question

The Right Funnel for You• KISS• Align to sales process• Work closely with sales

Key #1: Build a Demand Waterfall

The Highspot Funnel• MQL = Ready for Sales• SAL = Sales Agrees• SEL = Discovery Call• SQL = Demo Scheduled• Opp = BANT*

*Budget, Authority, Need, Timeline

Key #1: Build a Demand Waterfall

How We started...• Two fields per stage

• Boolean• Date

• Used MKTO Smart Campaigns to populate fields

Key #2: Measuring Your Funnel

But there were problems...

Non-linear Sales Funnel• What happens when a

recycled lead/contact has another sales engagement?

• Capturing multiple entry and exits from Sales Funnel

Key #3: Capturing the Real-world Funnel

Reporting Requirements• Highly extensible• Ability to edit data

• Real-time• Automated Funnel

Progression Tracking• Accessible by all• Report on entire funnel

Key #4: Gathering the Data

(Hint: Full Circle Insights does all of this ☺)

Performance-Driven Marketing• Create hypothesis and

apply critical thinking• Failures are valuable• Focus on low-hanging fruit

& find usual suspects• Tribal Knowledge

Key #5: Make the Data Actionable

Attribution via “Activation”

• Activates Sales Engagement

• Great fit for ABM

Example Reports

Example Report - Activation

Example Report - Activation

Influence - Report• Uses a weighted attribution

model to measure the contribution from multiple programs

• Best for measuring programs after a few months have passed

• Can measure influence across both leads and contacts

Example Reports

Example Report - Influence

Example Report - Influence

Planning & Performance• Making the data actionable• Becoming a performance-

driven marketing team

Example Reports

Example Report - Planning & performance

Key Takeaways• Ask the right question• Put data in context

• Retain control of your data

Recap

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