How to Attain Maximum Result Through Account-Based Marketing

Introduction

#1 Find Out What Matters to Your Customers

At its core, account-based marketing is about focusing on specific accounts rather than trying to get everyone at once. This means that you will need to know as much as possible about this specific group of accounts you will be targeting in order to be able to create the necessary environment for them to purchase your products or services.

Before you start using account-based marketing, you need to do as much research about your target accounts as possible. Check what products they visited on your website and maybe even added to their Wishlist. How long did they browse through a certain section with your lipsticks or headbands or something else?

A good idea would also be to create customer personas even though you are actually dealing with a more specific group of potential customers rather than a huge target audience that you would segment. In other words, customer personas will help either way.

#2 Define Your Targeting Criteria

For example, if you sell skincare products and you have a certain new release that you want to promote. Your targeting criteria might then include past customers that purchased similar products before because it will be easier to sell this new product to them as they will already be interested in it to an extent.

Targeting criteria should help you set aside the accounts that will be most suitable for you to target in your particular case. Remember that depending on the targeting criteria you choose, you will select certain accounts, and depending on the accounts you select, your chances of successfully selling your products or services will increase or decrease.

#3 Develop Specific Offers

For example, if your target accounts are, once again, interested in face creams, you will need to offer them face creams. But you will also have to make sure that the face creams you offer are relevant: they have the necessary properties, they come at a reasonable price, and perhaps they even have an option to be offered in a kit.

Whatever way you choose to offer your products, you should make sure that your target accounts will get interested in these specific offers and purchase your products or services as a result of your account-based marketing. Here are some tips for creating specific offers:

  • Relevancy: The products you are offering to your target accounts are relevant to them because they bought similar products before or showed interest in similar products.
  • Value: The products you are offering are valuable or the services you are offering provide enough value to your potential customers.
  • Price: The prices of your products correspond to their quality and the value they have for your customers.
  • Other: You have additional options for the products you are offering.

#4 Personalize User Experience

There are different ways you can personalize user experience, but everything always starts from your website. You should track the actions of your site visitors and offer them special discounts for the products they just viewed, for example. Some other things you need to think about for personalization include:

  • Content: The content you put out for your target accounts — whether these are the emails you send them or something else — has to be personalized just like you personalize your offers. You can do this by hiring a writer from a writing service reviews site like Best Writers Online who will have enough experience and the necessary skills to create such content.
  • Offers: Not much to say about this because everything has been explained in the previous tip: your offers have to be personalized.
  • Long-Term Relationships: Lastly, you need to maintain long-term relationships with your returning customers by providing them with all kinds of personalized bonuses, discounts, offers, and so on.

#5 Test Your Emails

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Though emails are seemingly a part of your content, they deserve a separate section about how to manage these emails properly — and more importantly, how to test your emails. Testing emails is an essential part of any account-based marketing strategy which means you will definitely need to go through this step at one point or another.

Testing emails allows you to better understand what works and what doesn’t. Though you will be personalizing them as much as possible, you will still have some of the more “general” emails to send out. You will need to pay particular attention to these.

Besides, testing your emails is not as difficult as you might think. First, you will need to consult your customer personas and create your emails. Then, you will need to send out these emails to experts or other employees to test them. Of course, you can simply consult experts to get feedback on these emails and whether or not they fit the customer personas you created. It comes down to your personal preferences as long as you test the emails in some way.

#6 Conduct Surveys

For example, surveys can assist you in checking how satisfied your customers are with your newest products that you sold to them with the help of account-based marketing. You can include such questions as “How much are you satisfied with the product?”, “Would you like to have additional features?”, “What concerns or issues do you have with the product?”, and so on. Make sure that the questions are not biased and have enough options for answers.

Google Forms is known to be one of the most popular tools for creating and sharing surveys thanks to its user-friendliness, but you can definitely find an alternative if Google Forms isn’t something you prefer using.

#7 Track Performance

But you need to remember that tracking performance concerns several parts of your marketing and not just how big your revenue is. Here are the aspects you need to keep in check when using account-based marketing:

  • Sales: What are the sales goals you have set yourself? How long does it take you to meet those goals? What is your revenue for a certain period of time? How many sales do you usually have to make to meet the goals?
  • Engagement: How much traffic do you generate on your website? How many likes and comments do you get on your social media accounts? How many site visitors use your live chat option?
  • Exposure: How often is your website or brand being mentioned on other websites and blogs? How many shout-outs do you get when you collaborate with others? How often do experts talk about your brand?
  • Expenses: How much do you spend on every aspect of your marketing, production, and so on? Do you have any losses?

Final Thoughts

Originally published at https://www.unboundb2b.com on May 1, 2020.

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