Julian Archer
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Applying Campaigns in Global Markets: Four Key Building Blocks
- Many campaigns are conceived and planned by a global team without sufficient consideration of the buyers’ needs in different regions or countries
- Although the required activities of campaign deployment may be clear, misalignment regarding the allocation of roles and responsibilities can cause frustration
- The building blocks for campaign success sit in the sequencing of tasks and due consideration of internal company operating models and external market factors
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Are You Prepared to Be Data-Driven?
- Many organizations talk about being data-driven, but few know what this concept really means
- A data-driven organization identifies the insights it needs data to inform, effectively manages that data, and empowers its team to use the data
- Conduct a proficiency assessment to drive capability improvements in insight requirements, data management, and team enablement
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What Can Customer Data Platforms Do For You?
- Data fuels the marketing engine, but most B2B marketers have low confidence in the quality and reach of their data and data management skills
- Customer data platforms (CDPs) promise a packaged solution for these critical challenges
- All data system acquisition decisions must adopt a rigorous evaluation process to ensure investment is justified and will add business value to the overall tech stack
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Seven Steps to Data Confidence
- Account and contact data confidence is only achievable through governance and individual discipline, which involve irksome, tedious and thankless tasks
- SiriusDecisions’ seven-step approach gives organizations confidence in an effective marketing data strategy
- The steps provide a tried and tested approach to data management, clarifying how data should be treated to be the efficient fuel that drives business activity
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Three Tips for Running a High-Performance B2B Revenue Engine
- A holistic view of the revenue engine aligns the operations team for sales, marketing and customer success
- By talking less about leads and more about buying groups, marketing teams can finally speak the same language as their sales colleagues
- Focusing on the revenue engine prompts the sales team to consider the lifecycle of an opportunity – including pre-pipeline opportunity activity
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Happy Birthday, GDPR – Here’s Your Report Card!
- The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) raised the bar on personal data protection and became enforceable on May 25, 2018
- Companies around the globe adapted data processes to ensure compliance with GDPR, and other jurisdictions are implementing GDPR-like legislation
- The one-year report card on GDPR can be summarized as “good beginning, but we need to see continued follow-through”
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Forty Percent of Budget Spend and You Still Can’t Measure Event Success?
- Executives are demanding proof of ROI due to the significant cost required to execute in-person events
- Marketers provide a credible account of an event’s total value by connecting measurement fundamentals to event goals
- Different metrics may be required to produce relevant event reports that are tailored to different audiences
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Completeness of Contact Data Records: A Two-Layered Approach
- Data acquisition efforts must not operate under the assumption that more names are better; instead, properly assess demand generation requirements
- Organizations need to assess the viability of existing contact records and their ability to support marketing campaigns
- SiriusDecisions recommends a two-layered approach to evaluating contact completeness
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Can I? Can’t I? Demanding Consent for a Marketing Asset
- EU privacy laws have ensured that capturing opt-in consent to receive electronic marketing-oriented communication is top of mind for most B2B organizations
- Certain prescribed conditions must be met for consent to be compliant
- Many marketers ask whether it’s permissible to require a data subject to provide consent in exchange for the provision of a marketing asset
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Consent Capture: Four Categories of In-Person Event Data
- GDPR is now a fact of life, and personal data privacy is not going away
- Investing in event contact capture capabilities can ensure effective and compliant growth of your company’s contact database
- Employees from the sales and marketing teams must play an active role in capturing contact consent
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GDPR Compliance: Data Maintenance
- Many marketing functions are choosing “consent” as their preferred lawful basis for processing personal data under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Companies must adopt steps that allow data stewards to consistently evaluate the current state of the marketing contact database for compliance
- In preparation for when GDPR is enforced on May 25, activating compliance initiatives to drive consent capture is becoming the norm
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Summit 2018 Preview: Demand Unit Waterfall®: The Data Model
- The SiriusDecisions Demand Unit Waterfall represents the reality that B2B sales and marketing teams face when promoting and selling their solutions
- The Demand Unit Waterfall relies on knowing the composition of typical buying groups, and organizations tend to capture that information poorly
- At this year’s Summit, Julian Archer and John Donlon will present the Demand Unit Waterfall Data Model, which helps organizations structure and capture demand unit data
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GDPR Compliance Client Snapshot: Data Intake
- Companies have embarked on a journey toward General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance
- Most SiriusDecisions clients have reviewed their data intake via a port-of-entry analysis and are taking steps to improve compliant data intake
- Having a compliance plan is an essential part of GDPR readiness
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The Five Building Blocks of GDPR Compliance
- The severity, reach and importance of GDPR requires business improvement across five key areas of data lifecycle management
- The Data Compliance Model allows marketing leaders to understand and consider key elements to drive a compliant marketing engine
- Having a contact’s permission offers a greater ability to personalize communication and instill contact confidence and trust in the company
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The Six Factors Driving Corporate and Regional Marketing Alignment
- Tension exists between many corporate and non-corporate teams, both inter-functionally and intra-functionally
- To make marketing alignment more than a mere wish, marketing leaders should agree to coordinate corporate and regional activity around six key factors
- Alignment is not static – achieved once, then a permanent fixture; it develops and changes over time
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Technology Support: Data Privacy Regulation GDPR
- Companies should emphasize that a focus on gaining prospects’ opt-in permissions can fuel business growth
- The good news is that technology is available to facilitate and enforce compliant data privacy policies
- Three areas have caught our attention: consent management, data inventory management and preference management
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Four Golf Shots, Four Approaches to Demand Creation and Engagement
- Companies often struggle to understand how traditional demand creation should be aligned with account-based marketing
- The SiriusDecisions Demand Spectrum considers account insight, joint marketing and sales participation, and available account-specific customization
- Evaluate the elements along the demand spectrum to align internally in accordance with the most appropriate demand creation and engagement approach
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Five Components of an Evolving Preference Management Strategy
- Preference management enables organizations to use data privacy investment to deliver compliance and choice to prospects
- Integrate consent management and preference management, and connect all programs and prospect touchpoints to the preference center
- Follow an agreed-upon “evolution” plan as part of a coordinated approach to improved contact engagement
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To Localize or Not to Localize: That Is the Question
- Balancing the business benefit of localization and the investment required is an age-old conundrum solved by using a disciplined criterion-based scoring system
- Evaluate elements from two groupings – market factors and company factors – to prioritize monetary and resource investment across applicable markets
- Individuals in certain countries and industries are more willing than others to communicate in English
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Tata Communications: Programme of the Year Award Winner at SiriusDecisions EMEA Summit 2016
- Tata Communications recognized that it needed to align marketing and sales to enable a continuous conversation across the buyer’s journey.
- Tata Communications has witnessed a 32 percent year-on-year growth in pipeline and moved the win rate from 27 percent to 39 percent
- By moving to focus on sales enablement as well as lead generation, there has been a step change in marketing’s contribution to the business
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