Marketing Operations

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Erika Barbosa
Erika Barbosa
Observable Head of Growth MarketingFebruary 1
I highly recommend building rituals around campaign briefs, kickoff meetings, project check-ins, and retrospectives. Essentially, you'll want to consistently convey what is working and what isn't working on a regular cadence. This not only helps inform future strategies but also aids in developi......Read More
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Erika Barbosa
Erika Barbosa
Observable Head of Growth MarketingFebruary 1
I recommend starting by modeling out the forecasted results. Once you have these estimates, you can better determine the contribution by each channel, which will help you allocate the percentage of spend accordingly. I would also consider reallocating the budget once you have data and a better u......Read More
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Erika Barbosa
Erika Barbosa
Observable Head of Growth MarketingFebruary 1
First and foremost, I prefer to define how we are going to measure success. What does success look like? It's helpful to define the overarching goal, but I recommend getting everyone on the same page at the inception of the campaign regarding how that goal will be measured. You should also consi......Read More
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Erika Barbosa
Erika Barbosa
Observable Head of Growth MarketingFebruary 1
I would start with historical data, if available. Based on past trends, you can identify your safe bets, as they have proven to be effective over time. Suppose you are in more of an experimentation phase. In that case, I would focus on identifying where your customers and prospects trust and pre......Read More
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Erika Barbosa
Erika Barbosa
Observable Head of Growth MarketingFebruary 1
Utilize your personas, jobs to be done, ideal customer profile, etc., as the basis for your research. Begin by documenting the goals you aim to achieve with this campaign. Based on these documented goals, determine the target audience that will drive the desired business outcome. Typically, you ......Read More
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Nicolette Konkol
Nicolette Konkol
Morningstar Global Head of Demand GenerationJuly 21
Campaign operations and demand generation are part of the same value chain of campaign creation, so it depends on the size and scale of your teams as well as the specialization you chose to prioritize. Often in startups, you have demand gen and ops in one person, as the org scales, you begin to i......Read More
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Moon Kang 🚀
Moon Kang 🚀
Front Director, Digital Demand GenerationJuly 20
OOH is admittedly something I am not too experienced in. In the past, I've run geofenced display and paid social ads but those were more or less attributable to that region, so it was a hybrid OOH and digital campaign (probably closer to a directly attributable digital campaign).  However, my ......Read More
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Nicolette Konkol
Nicolette Konkol
Morningstar Global Head of Demand GenerationJuly 21
This question is specific to scaling a business. No one size fits all answer, what you choose to centralize or decentralize has a lot to do with what growth stage you are in and your priorities. In the case of Morningstar, we have central marketing functions (like brand, PR, demand, and customer ......Read More
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Nicolette Konkol
Nicolette Konkol
Morningstar Global Head of Demand GenerationJuly 21
First one would be a sound campaign planning process that starts with the outcome you are trying to achieve, who your target audience is, and an understanding of where they "live" i.e. where they spend time with their peers learning about new solutions. Second would be an airtight Q/A process tha......Read More
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Moon Kang 🚀
Moon Kang 🚀
Front Director, Digital Demand GenerationJuly 20
Some of the insights I've seen that led to direct action items are misalignment on lead follow-up and poor multi-threading practices.  If a lead comes in after seeing an ad about purple bananas, searches on Google for "purple bananas" and clicks on our ad that claims we have the best purple ba......Read More
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