It’s safe to assume that marketers these days are familiar with the term account-based marketing (ABM).
The goal of ABM is to focus marketing efforts on growth engines that the company previously defined as strategic, even if they aren’t necessarily more profitable. It’s a highly centralized procedure with a more accurate funnel than traditional digital marketing methodologies have to offer.
But just in case you’re not familiar, or if you’d like to get better acquainted, ABM is a strategic business approach that targets specific companies and decision-makers within a market and utilizes personalized campaigns to upsell, cross-sell, and maximize retention. This tactic requires input from both the marketing and sales teams, and is most effective when they can identify highly qualified leads and agree on key accounts.
The ABM method usually dictates predefined and focused marketing activity for a very limited target audience. In order to produce a successful campaign of this kind, it is necessary to integrate personalization at the highest level—potentially leading to a significantly greater ROI (return on investment).
There are 3 main layers to each ABM campaign:
- A wide audience (One-to-many)
- Dedicated customer events based on industries or personas (One-to-few)
- Focusing on a specific person in a particular organization (One-to-one Field Marketing)
So now that we’ve familiarized ourselves with ABM, how can you actually create an ABM campaign? What are the next steps you need to take?
Personalize your content for your target audience
If you’d like to learn more, register for our joint webinar with WalkMe on The Do’s and Don'ts of ABM Strategy for Marketeers. The event is intended for mid-senior marketers and anyone who is curious about ABM or marketing in general. The webinar will be in English and is taking place on November 3rd (5:30 PM IST).
What you will learn:
- How to devise an ABM strategy from scratch
- What makes ABM stand out from other marketing strategies
- What are the key challenges to building an ABM strategy
- How to identify and understand your ABM persona
- How to reach your target audience
- How to create the best, personalized content for your persona
- How to create synergy between marketing and sales
- How to define KPIs for success
Meet the Speakers
Alison Lolis – RVP, Global Field Marketing at WalkMe
Alison established the Field Marketing infrastructure and now leads the ABM In-Person strategy. With an MBA from the University of Redlands, she has more than ten years of experience in the high-tech marketing space.
Mickael Bizouati – Marketing Operations Manager at WalkMe
Mickael is one of the ABM strategy leads at WalkMe, with over ten years of experience in the B2B SaaS industry and an alumnus of the DemandBase ABM training program. He’s a double MBA from the Institute of Technology in Mexico and the KEDGE Business School.
Jordan Lang – Content Marketing Writer
Jordan is WalkMe’s Content Writing Specialist. He began his journey at the company as an SDR, and is now a part of the marketing team, making his mark on the ABM program with incredibly personalized content that speaks to our personas.
Rachel Zall -- Customer Lifecycle Marketing Manager
Rachel has held various marketing roles over the last 15 years, primarily focused on the tech industry. With a passion for integrated marketing and customer lifecycle initiatives, she brings expertise in various marketing tactics, including ABM, to aid in the evolution of WalkMe’s overall integrated marketing campaigns.
Tom Orbach Growth Marketing Director at Mine & marketing consultant for startups using behavioral tools in products and campaigns
Tom Orbach is the Growth Marketing Director at Israeli startup Mine and serves as a marketing consultant for startups using behavioral tools in products and campaigns. He has established the largest professional community in Israel of marketing and product managers in high-tech dedicated to behavioral economics, which includes more than 5,000 members. Tom collaborates with academic institutions to find smart ways to apply behavioral insights in the world of technology and promote the accessibility of research in the fields of social psychology and behavioral economics. Among other things, Tom is a guest lecturer at Reichman University in Herzliya. Tom is a former lawyer with a master's degree in business administration from Tel Aviv University
About WalkMe
WalkMe is an Israeli company that was founded in 2011 by President Rafael Sweary and CEO Dan Adika. The company developed a Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) that doesn’t require additional code to be written. Its goal is to help enterprises assess, promote, and act in order to maximize the impact of digital transformation, and that way to improve the efficiency of software used by the company. The WalkMe product line serves both its clients' employees and their customers.
Currently, the company has over 2,000 customers, including 155 Fortune 500 companies. WalkMe is currently public on the NASDAQ and experiencing monumental growth.
Alongside the main product, WalkMe is building a new category called DAP, and it includes an academy, a marketplace, and even a new profession generator: a dashboard for adopting digital tools. The background that’s highlighting the need for the product is the fact that 70% of companies have reported digital transformation failure. This is where WalkMe enters the game.
For more details and applications
About WizTime
A series of digital events about technology, entrepreneurship, and everything in between. As part of the series, we host key figures from the local high-tech and entrepreneur scene. The project is in cooperation with Geektime, the largest tech and entrepreneurial media in Israel; and the social organization Wize, one of the biggest production companies in Israel, producing nearly 400 annual events, webinars, and workshops in order to help make data and information accessible to the general public. WizeTime's activities are carried out in collaboration with and with the support of the high-tech companies and leading investment firms in Israel and are widely exposed through its partners’ communities: Geektime (more than 700,000 unique visitors a month) and Wize (more than 150,000 uniques through the organization's media assets).
