AMA: Branch VP International Marketing & Demand Generation, Dan Ahmadi on Account Based Marketing Strategy

1. Sales Leadership If you're in the B2B SaaS space, you'll know that marketing alone does not generate deals. We engage prospects and customers, bring them to the surface, and rely on AEs and sales development to mature that relationship, converting them to meetings and subsequently, deals. If your target account list is not aligned with Sales, the efforts get largely wasted. ABM works when Sales is ready and excited for each of those accounts to engage. Ultimately all accounts on the ABM list ...Read More

I'd recommending focusing a lot more on engagement and less on lead generation or MQLs. In general, you should know the people you want to engage in each account, and you'll have them already populated in your CRM. This completely eliminates the need for any "lead source" tracking to prove effectiveness. Additionally, you'll want your team to keep engaging the important few until they're ready to take the next step with your company, so measuring actual engagement with marketing materials/progra ...Read More

An onboarding plan and a dedicated owner! I'm sure you've seen it before too-- you buy something new and shiny, and it takes a lot longer to implement and use than expected. Fast forward a few months or years and you realize nobody is using it anymore and it's shelfware, ready to be cancelled. I've found it to be super helpful to assign a singular owner to the martech solution, who is in charge of ensuring it's implemented effectively, people are onboarded onto it, and to report out on usage per ...Read More