Doors open, light breakfast, tea and coffee
Commercial Excellence Forum
How can you transform marketing from a cost centre to a profit centre? How can you align marketing and sales to deliver measurable pipeline value?
The core themes of the day will be lead generation and nurturing, lead scoring, B2B digital channels, orchestrated digital marketing plays and how to align top and bottom-of-the-funnel metrics.
In most cases, B2B sales is very relationship-driven. Consequently, many B2B companies devote very little energy to digital marketing. But what if the consequence of this is that you don’t even get the chance to build a relationship with a potential customer?
Research shows that the buying process of customers is already 57% complete by the time they reach out to sales reps. To engage with customers early in the buying process, you need to engage through digital channels (as well as physical channels).
This means that if you are not present digitally with the right content, in the right formats and in the right channels, you might be missing out on a lot of potential customers. This is, in part, due to the “great divide” between sales and marketing.
All too often, marketers focus on top-of-the-funnel metrics, like traffic and brand exposure, instead of the downstream value created. In traditional marketing, top-of-the-funnel metrics may be all that is available, but digital marketing offers unparalleled traceability throughout the funnel and enables cost-effective, scalable lead generation, nurturing and scoring.
… But it’s not easy. The field of digital marketing is littered with buzzwords and ill-understood technologies. Consequently, it can be challenging to derive value from it.
We want to change this, and we will start the journey at the Commercial Excellence Forum in November, where you will receive a toolbox to help you succeed with digital B2B marketing and get inspired by two real life cases.
Doors open, light breakfast, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction
Digital marketing demystified
Implement Consulting Group will share perspectives on bringing marketing and sales closer together and how you can use digital marketing to generate leads and drive pipeline value.
How to find the needle in the haystack – success with B2B digital marketing
Glenn Myklebust, CEO of the media agency Mindshare, will talk about how to use digital account-based marketing to target niche prospects.
Short break and networking
Case: Stora Enso, Digital Sales Enablement
Nils Von Essen, Marketing Manager at Stora Enso (a global renewable materials company), will present how they are currently developing a digital lead generating/nurturing model including pilot market selection, target audience profiling, value proposition design, channel selection, content (key messages and formats) and marketing automation flows.
How can you build a successful digital marketing model? Five lessons learned the hard way.
How to succeed in finding the needle in the haystack, five lessons and a panel discussion with Nils Von Essen, Glenn Myklebust and Implement Consulting Group.
Networking and light lunch
Implement Consulting Group
Munkedamsveien 35
N-0250 Oslo
Norway
Free of charge