Email Campaign Management
Campaign management is an important and growing part of the Marketing and Sales departments. Campaign management is the process of nurturing a prospect and keep a client. By defining a prospects interests, using digital intelligence, you can then target your content with more effective messaging.
How do you target the right message at the right time to the right prospect?
B2B companies often face the unique challenge of defining specific messaging for multiple channels, products, services and prospect types. Sales cycles are longer and require a “soft touch” messaging approach to lead prospects down the sales funnel. But these messages need specific timing and focused content.
Campaign Management is the process of identifying the prospect, defining the message, developing the content and scheduling the delivery. Using Marketing Automation, CRM and Digital Footprinting tools, companies can plan and automate deep and robust nurturing campaigns. These tools, used with solid strategy are helping companies increase ROI, sales productivity, prospect engagement and revenue.
What are the attributes of good Campaign Management?
- Segmentation: Define a prospects or clients interest and behavior. Then push or pull them into a segment that allows you send message based on actual interest and not a sales initiatives or branding campaigns.
-Business Logic: Garbage in, garbage out the old saying goes. In order to target the right message based on digital behavior and interest, you need to develop business logic into your MA tools that follows a prospect down a defined sales funnel.
- Digital Footprinting: To really target your prospect with right message, you need to understand what they are interested in and to what degree they are engaged. Marketing Automation allows you to monitor and develop a profile of each prospect based on the interaction with your website, email communication, content and marketing . This is called a Digital Footprint.
- Message Targeting: Writing content for most companies is an after thought. Many times the experts in the company are left out of the marketing loop when it comes to content. Marketing teams develop messaging with a sales focus, when many prospects value information over advertising. This is especially true when the sales cycle is longer. By developing marketing content that adds value, you can raise trust and nurture the prospect.
- Scheduling: Scheduling a well times campaign series and follow based on interest and engagement is a main function of Marketing Automation.The timing of campaign is an important part of nurturing a prospect. Frequent messaging can become unwelcome, random messaging can get lost in the shuffle, late or delayed messaging can harm trust or lose engagement.
- Analytics and Reporting: Campaign reporting, monitoring and analyzing are the only way to make true adjustments to ongoing nurturing campaigns. These reports should deliver actionable statistics that can be used by the sales team to drive revenue. Some of the stats to monitor are deliverability, open rates, website interactions, content interests, digital intelligence and should be married to your CRM records for effective follow up.
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