Leadership Metrics Flashcards
Describe roles of sales and marketing in traditional businesses.
Sales was responsible for meeting revenue targets, and the job of Marketing was only to support Sales.
What drove ROI in traditional businesses?
Sales-driven metrics based on closed-won deals.
What was the biggest challenge for marketing, traditionally?
Did not understand how Marketing influenced the bottom line.
True or false: In traditional businesses, marketing was considered to be a cost center.
True.
True or false - in traditional businesses, leadership could not understand the validity of traditional marketing metrics such as clickthroughs and open rates.
True.
Leadership needed visibility into _____, not the day-to-day operational metrics of Marketing.
revenue attribution and pipeline.
With _____, marketers can measure and share relevant data.
automation
In the case study, what did Alex’s company get data on through Eloqua?
Website visitors, emails opened, forms submitted, Campaign responses.
Leadership wants to know how much ____
How much revenue is earned or expected by the quarter end?
Leadership wants to know how effective __
How effective are our marketing campaigns?
Leadership wants to know what is the profit ___
What is the profit forecast for the next quarter?
What do you need in order to map Marketing’s contribution to revenue?
Some metrics from Sales.
The ___ recommend an integrated sales and marketing funnel.
RPM best practices
The integrated sales and marketing funnel helps you map the customer’s purchase process to ___
your internal selling process.
Suspects are…
potential buyers who show interest in your product.
An ___ could be a form submit or a certain number of website visits.
inquiry
A suspect who shows interest in your products has a __ level of engagement.
minimal.
By implementing a ____ for sales acceptance, accountability for lead quality is distributed across marketing and sales.
service level agreement
If Alex knows the conversion rates from one stage to the next, what can he do?
Work backwards to determine the number of prospects Marketing needs in order to reach the company’s goal.
Working backwards allows Alex to reduce the size of his _____ while still achieving his revenue targets.
overall pipeline
To go from a 50% acceptance rate to a 75% acceptance rate, Alex will need to work with Sales to…
define acceptance and rejection criteria and SLA’s
What should you do with suspects in the funnel?
Monitor and remove inactive contacts.
What should you do with inquiries in the funnel?
Define inquiries based on past data.
What is the key to converting MQL’s to SAL’s?
Make sure your lead scoring criteria suit the buying process.
In a typical environment, marketing and sales use different _____
systems and databases.
Three examples of data to share include:
(1) Digital body language (2) Demographic information (3) Lead score
By syncing marketing and sales data you get a more complete picture of
the buyer’s journey overall.
Step 1 of funnel building is to define each stage of your sales / marketing funnel, including __
Define each stage of your sales / marketing funnel, including lead scoring parameters.
Step 2 of funnel building - Create ___ to track prospects
Create Contact fields and date fields to track prospects.
Step 3 of funnel building - create Segments and Filters in Eloqua for __
Create Segments / Filters in Eloqua for each funnel stage.
Step 4 of funnel building - build a program to date stamp ____
MQL’s
Last step (5) of funnel building -
monitor the funnel and track results.