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How to Create ABM Content in 7 Steps

Creating personalized ABM content has never been more important for B2B marketers.

Hushly advocates for in-depth account-based marketing, which means spending a lot of time and effort crafting bespoke marketing campaigns for ideal buyers that your company dreams of working with.

This time and effort can seem daunting, but there are some surefire steps you can follow that will streamline the process and make it easy to learn how to build an ABM strategy.

You should start by identifying your ideal companies, and who within those companies you’ll need to convince to close the deal. Then, personalizing content for these buyers, determining the right content channel, and tracking the performance of that content will be your main goals.

As you learn each of these steps more in depth, your ABM content marketing process will become easier and easier.

Start by putting together a list of companies you’d love to form a relationship with.

1. Target Your Ideal Companies

The first step in creating ABM content is to identify who you’re making the content for.

This should begin with a process of identifying a large number of potential target accounts. These potential targets should represent a range of companies, from the largest and most desirable accounts to smaller accounts that will take less time but yield less revenue.

Proceed by categorizing these potential accounts according to the criteria you’ve defined. Aim for a tier system that you can easily sort companies into and that will provide quick insights to sales and marketing teams.

At the top of the tier list should be those companies for whom you’ll spend the most time developing bespoke marketing campaigns and content. At the bottom of the tier list will be companies for whom you’ll still rely on more traditional 1:many marketing strategies.

2. Identify Key Personas

The next step is to find out who in these organizations has the authority to buy. This step matters a great deal because the whole point of ABM is to design personalized and targeted advertising. Knowing who you’re speaking to is a crucial part of this.

Part of the process of organizing your target companies into their tiers should include evaluating the accessibility of those in charge of buying decisions. Existing relationships, the length of sales cycles, and expected lifetime value are key factors when determining your ideal buyers.

3. Strategize for New Target Accounts

Once you’ve identified your target companies and who you’ll be speaking with, it’s time to determine your ABM tactics. To do this, ask yourself a few questions about your ideal buyers.

  • Who is your persona and who will they be consulting with to make their decision?
  • What can they gain by choosing to work with you?
  • How will they justify their decision to higher-ups?
  • Is there anyone in their organization on your side that can leverage their position to help you close the deal?

Forming a relationship with your buyer is a key part of account-based marketing. Learn what the buyer likes, what goals they have personally, and how they hope to benefit their company. Knowing this information will make designing content for them much simpler.

4. Personalize Content

Now that you’ve established an ABM playbook, you can begin the process of designing personalized content around it.

When crafting content, remember that you’re speaking to a human being. Use the information from the previous step to develop a unique voice for that client that speaks to their unique needs.

Don’t be afraid to be too specific. Speak directly to what the buyer needs, wants, and hopes to achieve. Most importantly, focus on why your company is well positioned to help them achieve their own personal goals as well as benefit their organization.

5. Create Omnichannel Content

Your content should reach your buyer where they are.

B2B buyers research more extensively and engage through more channels than ever before. Your content should meet them at any time and in any format they prefer.

Try to create content that meets the definition of omnichannel. This means:

  • Written Content: Blogs, email campaigns, case studies, and similar types should be consistent with your brand messaging and targeted to the buyer.
  • Media: Each type of content like video, social media, and podcasts has its own strengths and weaknesses. Make sure the themes of the content are appropriate for the channel they’re on.
  • Images: Imagery, including infographics, banners, and website ads, are critical. They’re the fastest way to gain someone’s attention and wow them with some interesting bit of personalization.
  • Personalized Web Assets: You should focus on designing personalized landing pages and dynamic webpages that automatically change based on who is visiting. Creating custom microsites or webpages for unique customers is an easy way to stand out from your competition.

Ultimately, the best type of content will depend on your persona. Hopefully, during the process of identifying your buyer and researching them, the best type of content to reach them will become apparent. In any case, focusing on casting a wide net by creating omnichannel content should cover any base.

6. Update or Remove Existing Content

One of the most useful account-based marketing steps is to frequently review your content for possible updates, removals, and remakes.

Customers expect up-to-date information and content, regardless of what form it takes. Take the time to go through your content archives and figure out what’s still relevant, what needs an update, and if anything needs to be cut entirely.

A regular “content cull” can serve as a controlled burn and clear the deadwood away from your marketing operation, keeping it clean, up-to-date, and relevant for any potential buyer that happens across it.

Reviewing old content is also a great way to farm ideas for new content, making it easier to have a steady stream of updated content to entertain and educate buyers.

7. Try a Content Experience Platform Like Hushly

The easiest way to create and maintain ABM content is to use a platform like Hushly’s.

Hushly specializes in creating state-of-the-art ABM content on all channels. We believe in the principle of providing value upfront, gaining the trust of buyers, and building relationships based on that trust.

Hushly can help you:

  • Create self-nurturing landing pages and dynamic webpages that dynamically display different assets and marketing information based on visitor information.
  • Craft custom ABM email campaigns that will target buyers and speak to them on a personal level.
  • Create adaptive content hubs which also display unique information based on visitors. These content hubs are like rabbit holes of information for your buyers to dive into.
  • Keep track of data and use it to optimize your ABM content experience from top to bottom.

Bonus Tip: Evaluate Content Based on Performance

Keeping track of how well your content is performing will provide some valuable insight. Namely, what types of content does your audience respond best to and how can you continue to reach new customers with that same message?

By identifying which content is working, and which content isn’t, you’ll make the task of coming up with new account-based marketing ideas easy and scalable.

Your ability to create engaging and effective ABM content will depend on the time and resources your company invests in the effort. In short, you get out what you put in.

For marketers in small and medium-sized businesses who are unsure they can manage the added expense required for true ABM, Hushly is here to help.

Learn how Hushly can manage your ABM content for you to maximize your marketing efforts.

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How to Make Successful Campaigns Using ABM Personalization

The age of account-based marketing is here, and personalization is right alongside it.

Since 2020, B2B marketers in every industry have come to understand the value of targeting high-value buyers and tailoring marketing to them on a personal level.

Marketers have several challenges when shifting from traditional inbound/outbound campaigns to personalized ABM strategies, however. Among these are the difficulties in selecting targets, prioritizing them, and defining the metrics that will measure your success.

We’ll discuss some key concepts and suggest a few ways your company can make more successful campaigns using ABM personalization.

What is ABM Personalization?

To understand what we mean by ABM personalization, let’s break it down into its components.

What is ABM?

ABM is the practice of account-based marketing. It represents a fundamental shift in the way marketers, advertisers, and sales teams pursue B2B customers.

In the past, it was considered enough to produce marketing materials with a wide range of possible targets in mind. The goal of advertising was generally seen as casting a wide net and letting the marketing materials and sales teams find the highest-value customers from those who showed interest.

With the advent of ABM, marketers are now tailoring their marketing content, strategies, and prospecting to those customers who show the most long-term value.

In short, the shift towards ABM is the marketing industry realizing that having a few loyal customers who spend big and can grow alongside you is more valuable than many smaller customers who are always looking for a better deal somewhere else.

What is Meant by Personalization?

Naturally, when targeting individual buyers, there must be a level of personalization in the advertising.

This means attempting to speak directly to specific buyers on a human level. Getting to know your best customers inside and out, and designing materials, sales pitches, and even products around them will naturally lead to an increased level of personalization.

It’s not just B2B customers who expect a level of personalization anymore, either. The switch to ABM and the emphasis on personalization that comes with it will give your company a leg up whether you’re hunting whales or just trying to convert more customers.

5 Steps to ABM Personalization

Personalization means that each advertising campaign and set of marketing materials you create will need to be uniquely tailored to each customer.

But how do you know which customers to target? Who will bring in the most value and, therefore, justify your effort in finding and wooing them?

Once you’ve figured that out, you’ll need to go further to find out how to best personalize every campaign you design.

Though the result should be unique, there are some proven steps you can take to make the design process more streamlined and scalable.

1. Create a Shortlist of Companies to Target

Start by creating a list of dream companies that you’d love to work with. Don’t worry about feasibility or how much time or effort these companies will take, for now. At this point, you’re still in the brainstorming stage and not committed to any decisions.

The point of this step is to illuminate the pool of companies you might be choosing from and give you some idea of what targeting them might entail.

2. Categorize Your Target Companies

Once you have a nice pool of candidate companies, it’s time to rank them based on a few key factors.

These factors should be at least somewhat unique to your business or industry. Here are some general factors you should consider when categorizing your target companies:

  • Size of the target/potential revenue
  • Compatibility and scalability
  • Existing relationships

Try to categorize companies into tiers. At tier 1, you’ll have companies for whom full 1:1 ABM marketing will be appropriate. This means companies for which you’d design custom campaigns, marketing, and all sales materials from the ground up.

At the top of your tier list are the companies for which you’ll be doing true ABM marketing, with no hint of mass production and a great deal of time and energy involved on your part.

Tiers below 1 should be organized based on the same principles, with each lower tier getting a progressively less intensive form of ABM marketing.

At the bottom of the tier listing are companies for whom you may design 1:many marketing that is less specific and, therefore, less personal. This lack of extra time investment should be reflected in how much ROI you expect.

3. Identify the Humans Involved and Design Content for Them

This part will take some research, but it’s very important.

Spending days or weeks designing targeted marketing materials is a huge investment, and it could all be wasted if you end up presenting your marketing materials to someone who isn’t authorized to make buying decisions.

To avoid this pitfall, list the people to target across teams within each company. Create a list of real human beings and what you know about them. Keep a personnel file that will make it easy for anyone from your company to interact with that human and have some knowledge base to draw on. This will increase personalization and consistency.

Focus on creating content for these individuals.

Here are a few types of content you can customize:

  • Landing Pages
  • Webpages
  • Email Campaigns
  • Marketing Content (Blogs, videos, and all other media types)

4. Collect Data, Analyze, and Optimize

Every step of your ABM personalization should generate valuable data you can use to improve the process further.

Before starting your ABM personalization journey, make concrete choices about which metrics you’ll be tracking. You’ll need to decide what success looks like based on these metrics.

What goals are you aiming for and why? Knowing the answer to this will simplify any problems you may have with metrics or data tracking.

5. Try a Content Experience Platform like Hushly

ABM and marketing personalization, in general, require a ton of time, effort, experience, and dedication to get right.

This level of involvement can be enough to give some marketing executives pause. Though the ROI and benefits of ABM are clear, the effort involved in switching can be daunting.

If you think your company might lack the time and resources required to effectively implement an ABM personalization campaign, Hushly is here to help.

Our unique platform is the best tool for ABM personalization from the ground up.

With Hushly, you can:

  • Design custom landing pages with brand elements that will impress your targets and help you stand out from the competition. Best of all, our interface is simple to use and can be updated at any time with just a few drags and drops.
  • Design custom ABM email campaigns that can speak directly to your most important buyers on a human level.
  • Curate dynamic webpages that can be personalized based on who is visiting.
  • Use data-driven AI to optimize every step of your ABM personalization.

ABM and Personalization: A Match Made in Marketing Heaven

Regardless of your experience level with ABM or personalization, making the switch is not quite as daunting as it seems.

There are great ways to reproduce ABM personalization at scale, no matter which companies you’re targeting or your familiarity with them. There are also excellent online tools and platforms, like Hushly’s, which can make your ABM personalization more effective.

By efficiently targeting accounts, prioritizing them, and identifying the individuals involved in the buying process for each one of them, you can succeed at ABM personalization.

Hushly can make the work of personalizing ABM campaigns a breeze. Learn how we can help you scale your ABM personalization today.

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3 Questions That Will Lead to a Smooth ABM Journey

Account-based marketing took off during the pandemic. During this time, businesses everywhere were cutting back and adjusting to new consumer spending habits. In the shuffle, ABM emerged as the best way to offer a new and improved level of personalization in marketing.

While it may have been a necessity that caused the switch, the return on investment is what kept ABM around.

With the rise of personalization in marketing and the need to be more efficient than ever with your advertising dollars, it’s our opinion that ABM is the way of the future.

Yet the transition from traditional inbound and outbound campaigns to a full-scale ABM strategy is bound to uncover some problems. There are some great insight-generating questions you can ask yourself before switching that will make the transition as smooth as possible.

First, let’s talk about why you should consider making the transition to ABM.

Simple Reasons to Make the ABM Journey If You Haven’t Already

76% of B2B marketers agree that ABM delivers better ROI than other marketing tactics. Here are two reasons why.

More Effective Personalization

Account-based marketing means targeting the best accounts and tailoring marketing for them. As part of this process, you’ll naturally learn more about those customers and how to speak with them.

As personalization in advertising becomes more common, more customers will come to expect it.

Mastering personalization is one of the most important factors in a successful ABM strategy.

Better Data Management

Designing advertising campaigns for individual buyers means you’ll be generating only the most relevant data points for each of those buyers.

ROI and other key metrics can be tracked on a per-buyer basis with a strong ABM strategy.

The data afforded by this kind of strategy can be used to optimize the campaigns even further, strengthening the system in a closed loop.

These are just a couple of the strengths of a good ABM strategy. However, implementing them isn’t always easy.

Challenges When Shifting to Account-Based Marketing

Switching from traditional marketing strategies, which typically conform to a one-size fits all approach, to targeted account-based strategies will come with some growing pains. Here are a few to look out for when you’re making the ABM journey.

A New Marketing Mindset is Required

Your sales and marketing teams will need to get used to the updated philosophy. No longer is every customer treated with a similar level of attention. Instead, your best accounts will receive the lion’s share of attention and resources, not to mention a level of personalization that wasn’t required before.

Front-line sales and marketing reps will have to get used to the segmentation, personalization, and priority that will be given to the largest accounts.

New Reporting Systems

Since the philosophy is changing, so will the reporting and accountability system you’ll have in place. Quotas for each of your account segments (from emerging businesses to large enterprises) will probably change, and so too will the expectations on those responsible for managing these segments.

Change means managing egos and keeping the team on track – two major challenges to a successful ABM switch.

Adjusting Marketing Platforms

Your new strategy will call for updated customer profiles that you’ll need to keep track of within your marketing platform.

Managing this data can take time and resources even if you aren’t making major changes, so a big company-wide shift to ABM will necessitate a good deal of data management and review.

3 Questions to Help Clarify Your ABM Map

Though there will be growing pains on your ABM journey, making the switch to full-scale ABM is important. ABM is more effective and efficient at personalizing ads and optimizing itself with reams of valuable data. Before long, most or all B2B marketing will be done on a one-to-one basis.

Here are three questions to begin with that will help illuminate the path toward ABM and ensure a smooth and effective transition.

1. Do You Need Outside Input?

If your company is new to ABM strategies, it may be a good idea to get someone with some experience to guide the transition.

Regardless of how well you think you understand the process, there will always be a big gulf between preparing for action and undertaking it. If you and your marketing or sales team are new to the process of full-scale ABM strategy, hiring an outside expert could be the best move.

Alternatively, there are many programs and ABM certifications online that your employees could benefit from.

Start with an internal diagnostic that evaluates the speed and effectiveness of your one-to-one marketing strategies.

2. What Skills Do You Need for ABM?

Whether you get help or choose to do it alone, asking questions such as these should help you find the correct path:

  • How effectively are you targeting high-value accounts?
  • What is the state of your preferred metrics, and where do you want to end up?
  • Is your technology modern and dynamic enough to sustain your vision?
  • How well is your current one-to-one strategy being executed?
  • How will you measure success?

3. How Many Accounts Should You Target with ABM?

When it comes to which accounts to target or how many of them, the answer is dependent on how effectively your marketing effort will scale.

We recommend starting by prospecting the largest and most valuable enterprise accounts you can. Not only are these the most worthwhile efforts, but the effort alone will teach you a great deal about how to market to companies in your ecosystem.

You’ll also learn more about what makes your company attractive to potential buyers and, maybe more importantly, what shortfalls your company needs to make up for.

Regardless of what kinds of accounts you plan to target, these general tips should help you clarify your objectives:

  • Your ABM strategy should be tailored to your unique business objectives. A great ABM strategy is flexible, meaning you can adjust it over time as your business needs evolve.
  • Design account-based plays that emphasize the unique aspects of each targeted company, as well as the strengths of your company. Your go-to-market motions should be similarly account-based.
  • Measure execution and success by tracking data and constantly improving your process. No plan is perfect. No matter how well optimized you think you made it the first time around, there will always be room for improvement.

Hushly Can Make Your ABM Journey Easy

Hushly’s unique platform is designed from the ground up to facilitate easy account-based marketing.

Our interface is simple to learn and use. With drag-and-drop features, you can create, update, and maintain account-based landing and webpages in just a few clicks.

Hushly can help you design custom ABM email campaigns and templates and include targeted brand elements that will help you stand out among the competition.

Best of all, our platform can help you measure the performance of your ABM with closed-loop data attribution and scale your campaigns alongside your growth.

Whether you’re looking for the expertise and flexibility that would justify the cost of switching to ABM or better ways to scale your ABM efforts, Hushly can help.

If you’d like Hushly to help manage your ABM campaigns, request a demo of our platform.

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How to Create and Run an ABM Campaign

Account-based marketing is a strategy that involves tailoring marketing content to specific accounts, or buyers, that your company has identified as being high-value.

The idea is that a few high-quality, loyal, and scalable partners are more valuable than many smaller partnerships that don’t develop over time. To keep clients interested in doing business with you long-term, you need to keep them coming back to you with individualized treatment and content. In other words, account-based marketing (ABM).

ABM campaigns can take many forms, but all of them have a few key features in common. We’ll go over the broad details of ABM campaigns, how to create one, and the steps you should take when running one for the first time.

What is ABM?

ABM stands for account-based marketing. It’s a marketing strategy predicated on the concept that each buyer, even B2B buyers, are individuals with unique desires and needs. Catering to these needs is the best way to deliver value to these buyers and convert them from prospects into buyers.

What is an ABM Campaign?

An ABM campaign is a concerted effort on the part of a marketing team to create content and marketing materials directly targeted to convert idealized buyers.

Account-based means each prospective buyer you’re working with should receive unique information and communications. These communications should be tailored to the business’s specific needs and the things the buyer has indicated are important to them.

It’s important to conceive ABM campaigns because, ideally, a prospect should find themselves on a journey that starts with them encountering customized content that addresses their specific problems and promises solutions. Then, a natural stream of content should unfold that proves your in-depth knowledge of the customer’s pain points and why your solutions are proven to work.

At the end of the campaign, the customer should trust that your solution is right for them and be ready to buy.

5 Steps to Create and Run an ABM Campaign

If you’re going to market soon and are interested in creating your own ABM campaign, here are a few things to plan for when starting.

1. Target Buyers

Your list of ideal buyers will be unique based on your industry and products. To keep it simple, try to identify which portion of your customer base is most valuable. This should be based on things like loyalty, scalability, and how confident you are in your ability to solve problems for that client.

Once you have a list of companies, you can decide if true one-to-one marketing or a one-to-few approach makes more sense.

2. Personalize Content

Next, you’ll need to work on creating personalized content that users will engage with. This content should be tailored to these buyers.

If using a one-to-one approach, you can speak directly to the buyer who the content is for. One-to-many marketing will require a more general message – be careful it doesn’t get watered down too much by trying to speak to too many people at once.

3. Engage Through Multiple Channels

There is no best way to reach buyers. This means you should try and cast a wide net. Your content should reach buyers through ABM email campaigns, texts, phone calls, organic search results, and more.

4. Synchronize Sales and Marketing

Regardless of how you get them on board, your sales team needs to be in sync with your marketing strategy. Make sure sales leaders understand the process you’re using to capture and enrich leads, and implement their feedback to make the process as smooth as possible for all involved.

5. Define Success

Finally, you’ll need to make sure all parties involved in the creation of the strategy understand what success looks like for them. This may mean picking and choosing certain metrics that everyone agrees are important.

No matter how you define success, ensure that everyone understands their role and is held accountable for it before starting any strategy.

Tip: You can create ABM campaigns with an account-based experience platform like Hushly. Hushly makes it easy to create self-nurturing landing pages, dynamic web pages, and deep customer insights that will help you tailor products and content to drive conversions.

Examples of Successful ABM Campaigns

What does an ABM campaign look like? There is no right answer to this question because each ABM campaign should be unique to your company, buyers, and industry at any given time.

ABM campaigns are right for B2B sales at any scale and in any industry. This is because the basic principle behind ABM is customer focused. Since every industry has customers, every industry is capable of catering content and marketing directly to consumers with their best interests in mind.

We’ve collected three examples of companies that hired Hushly to be their ABM campaign manager. These examples provide proof of concept. They could also serve to inspire your next ABM campaign.

Mindtickle

Mindtickle’s goal was to increase the rate at which prospects consumed content to quickly eliminate obstacles to the buying decision. The challenge here is that while your content might be valuable no matter who is reading it, not every customer consumes content at the same rate or with the same interest.

Together with Hushly, Mindtickle created visitor and account-based personalized websites, landing pages, and content experiences. These personalized landing pages and websites were designed to improve the customer experience and drive engagement.

The result was an impressive 50% rate of click-throughs on landing pages and content.

Smart Selling Tools

Smart Selling Tools realized independently that individualized landing pages made sense from a customer point of view. However, as their number of clients grew, founder Nancy Nardin realized she couldn’t justify spending the time it would take to customize hundreds of landing pages herself.

Not willing to give up, Smart Selling Tools hired Hushly, which made it easy to turn one landing page into many distinct ones with just a few button clicks. The result was conversion rates 8x higher than the industry average and an increase in leads and lead quality thanks to Hushly’s unique back-end enrichment process.

NVIDIA

NVIDIA knew that personalizing content for individual users was the best way to improve lead capture, lead quality, and get those leads into the hands of sales to drive conversions. Hushly made it easy for them to create self-nurturing landing pages, personalized webpages, and dynamic websites that can be tailored to speak to individual buyers and customers.

Moreover, NVIDIA was able to implement Hushly’s solution across their entire organization with no pain points.

Account-Based Marketing Isn’t Going Anywhere – It’s Time to Join In

Customers’ expectations regarding content quality, ease of access, and value are only going up. The day may come when all customers, B2B and B2C alike, demand personalized content everywhere they go.

Until that day comes, companies and marketers who use proven ABM campaign techniques will have a leg up on their competition.

Hushly can help take your content marketing to the next level with easy-to-create ABM campaigns. Request a demo, and see how Hushly can help your business grow.

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How to Dynamically Personalize Account-Based Marketing (ABM) for Every Target Account

How to Dynamically Personalize ABM Destinations for Every Target Account

Taking on the challenge of implementing an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy is more than worth the effort when you see the alignment across sales and marketing as well as when you see the revenue impact. But that doesn’t take away from how much effort it takes to get it up and running operationalizing it but also optimizing it.  One of the most important aspects of scaling ABM efforts is how to effectively use your tech stack. In the spirit of driving efficient growth, we wanted to show you what true ABM at scale can look like! 

Combine ABM pages with intent data for efficient growth  

Scaling relevant content for tens or even thousands of accounts requires fewer resources and less tech than you might think. With the help of an ABM platform and a buyer experience and conversion platform you can be much more efficient and extremely effective in your ability to execute on ABM campaigns. 

ABM marketers know the value of high-quality content wrapped in personalized experience. The benefits of integrating your ABM platform with a buyer engagement and conversion platform like Hushly allows you to:

  • Create ABM pages that dynamically swap out copy, content, and creative
  • Accelerate the buyer journey 
  • Serve the right content at the right time with AI-powered content recommendations
  • Help the sales team engage their target accounts and arm them with the engagement insights they need to tailor their conversations

Hushly integrates with five of the leading ABM and intent data providers 6Sense, Demandbase, Bombora, RollWorks and Zoominfo to help you offer website personalization, personalized content offers, and rich, dynamic account-based experiences.

source: Hushly

Now let us show you what this looks like in action! Here is an example of a destination page we built for our Hushly & 6sense partnership.

Below you can see how we can further operationalize those intent data signals and dynamically change elements on one of our abm pages or on any one of your website pages.

How to dynamically personalize ABM pages

source: Hushly ABM Experiences

You can easily see how powerful it is when you leverage these technologies together. It is an amazing way to dynamically personalize ABM destinations and the overall account experience. This experience can also expand to your website. 

By embedding content across your website you can dynamically personalize the content being recommended to match what the account is seeing on their ABM page. 

Hushly Personalized Embed Stream

Along with content embeds another great way to leverage your intent data for a better experience is to use it for website personalization. Creating a great web experience is critical even for your non-target accounts. You can provide a personalized website experience for every visitor that comes to your website and further personalize the content through content personalization. So now you can offer bespoke account landing pages and microsite to your target accounts, dynamic destinations for your in-market accounts, and personalized web experiences and content journey’s for visitors not in-market but starting on their education about your brand and the solutions you offer that will help them solve their business problems.

It’s possible to drive more demand with less resources 

Driving revenue through marketing programs is what gets our team more budget and resources. Leveraging tools like Hushly alongside your ABM platform is what will allow for you to truly personalize the experience for your accounts at scale and generate more revenue. After seeing the results, it will make it easier for you to prove to leadership that investing in ABM is the best way to drive efficient growth. 
Are you currently using one of the top ABM platforms we listed above? If so, we would love to show you how you can integrate them with Hushly to dynamically personalize your ABM destinations. To schedule some time with us, head on over here.

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The 6 Content and ABM Experiences You Need to Drive Demand and Efficient Growth

We all know a good experience can make all the difference. An impressive customer service experience, a negative experience browsing a website — a good or bad experience can ultimately make or break someone’s purchasing decision. And as marketers, we’re in the business of experiences — it’s our job to make people feel heard, help them get educated, and pique their curiosity enough to want to know more about how we can help them solve their biggest challenges.

To create and generate demand, we need to invest in the experience. I know this can be daunting, and you might not even know where to start. But building remarkable experiences that drive your buyers to take action does not have to be difficult. 

Our customer Mindtickle has made the commitment to invest in its experience and we have seen it firsthand pay off big. Below are 7 examples of ways their marketing teams is using digital experiences to educate buyers, generate pipeline, and close revenue.

  1. Build a resource center that updates based on your buyer’s browsing behaviors and interests

Create a resource center (Content Hub) mapped to your solution areas and content pillars to drive organic traffic. Then layer in first party and intent data to customize the experience for target accounts. Mindtickle is using Demandbase to serve the right content based on factors like stage of the journey, industry, and intent. 

  • 2. Create event experiences to leverage on-site and as part of the follow-up experience 

There is a lot that goes into events and they are typically a large investment. Mindtickle develops custom event destinations to leverage at every stage of the event lifecycle.

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Develop an experience with content and ‘know before you go’ details. Make sure there is a way for someone to book a meeting.Instead a carrying around a bunch of collateral with you or sharing a bunch of links you can build a digital experience. Not only will it make it easier for buyers to learn about your brand with everything in one place. You can also track exactly what they are looking at. Once the event is over, curate follow-upmaterials and provide an opportunity to book a meeting. Set up notifications for you sales team if target accounts are engaging with the experience post-event. 

Pro tip! Make sure to add a chatbot to the event
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3. Turn your email nurture programs into an experience 

Curating email nurture destinations is an amazing way to drive content consumption and accelerate the buyer’s  journey. Content is at the center of every nurture so it only makes sense to package up it all and curate it into a digital destination where your prospects can binge.

You can serve up tailored content recommendations, and provide the option to request a demo if they are loving what they are seeing. 

4. Get personal with your ABM programs in a scalable way

Technology really is a wonderful thing! Mindtickle uses Hushly to build ABM pages to engage target accounts at scale. They could easily swap in account logos, headline, descriptions, videos, and even the sales reps headshot and content information.

Then as accounts visit the experience they dynamically swap out content and copy based on variables such as segment, buying stage, industry, country, etc. They even added a chatbot on the page so their sales reps can speak to prospects when they hit the page.

5. Level up your website experience with content recommendations that change as your buyers engage

Leveraging Hushly’s content embeds Mindtickle placed content across all their key website and landing pages to ensure their buyer’s always found the information they were looking for.

The best part! The content would dynamically swap in and out based on custom account segments they built in Demandbase based on buying stage, industry, and page topic. Once they added this functionality they noticed the velocity across buying stages accelerated by approximately 20% (Read MIndtickle case study). 

6. Accelerate opportunities with buyer’s toolkit that adapts to their needs

Last but not least (this one is our favorite). The marketing team was asked to help sales educate and accelerate opportunities that were getting stuck in the sales process. The team came up with the idea to build out what they call the buyer’s toolkit to support pipeline acceleration. 

They curated solution overviews, datasheets, case studies, product videos, and more, to ensure buyer’s had all the information they needed to make a decision.

As soon as someone entered the sales process, the experience would automatically begin to distribute across the right channels. They serve it up across sales reps email signatures, on LinkedIn, and in display ads.

Experience drives demand. Period.

Hopefully, these examples of ABM and demand experiences have gotten your gears turning about how you can switch things up to better personalize and scale your marketing programs. It’s time to get creative and build experiences throughout the buyer’s journey that not only engage your buyers but also help you drive demand and sell your product.

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8 Ways to Optimize Your ABM Experience for Business Growth

You may be totally confident in your ABM experience strategy today and unsure of how it’s going to scale tomorrow. This is a reality many small-to-medium business owners and marketing executives face and brings the problem of scalability into sharp focus.

For decades, companies have relied on traditional lead generation in the form of regular advertising and content marketing. There is nothing inherently wrong with this approach. In fact, it’s still a great way to generate sales and is the bread and butter for many industries and companies.

However, as your revenue increases, so too will the cost of generating a high volume of decent-quality leads.

As knowledge of how to create and execute scalable account-based marketing (ABM) improves, it becomes more important that companies targeting B2B clients at least try them out.

In today’s list, you’ll find information on how ABM works and eight actionable steps you can take to begin the process of optimizing ABM experiences today.

What is an ABM Experience?

Account-based marketing is the practice of crafting marketing content, sales strategies, and experiences tailored to individual B2B buyers. The main idea behind the ABM experience is to keep your biggest and best customers happy long term. These are your partners who you should be growing alongside, hopefully becoming indispensable to them in the process.

A company using ABM will hope to build these relationships with the effort of the entire sales and marketing departments.

How Does ABM Experience Work?

Targeting high-quality clients with customer-focused engagement strategies represents a big shift in the traditional attitude towards marketing.

In the past, the sales funnel involved generating as many leads as possible and converting the small percentage of them who will go on to become customers. The process of generating leads can be costly and, more importantly, inconsistent with regard to quality.

The ebbs and flows of lead quality, combined with similar fluctuations in content quality, economic conditions, and sales and marketing performance, can all contribute to a lack of accountability among sales and marketing teams.

A Different Philosophy

ABM is all about flipping the sales funnel on its head.

Instead of generating many leads and hoping that a few of them will close, ABM strategies identify and go after the largest targets in their industry.

In doing so, they pick up invaluable insights into market conditions, the happiness of their customers, and any growing needs that new or improved products could address.

Flexible and Powerful

The beauty of ABM experiences is in their adaptability. By definition, you’ll be catering experiences to individual B2B customers. This allows you a lot of room to sculpt messages, branding, and even products for those buyers.

This level of commitment is a form of marketing all on its own: Imagine the impression you’d leave on a buyer if your company created a whole new product just to make their lives easier.

8 Ways to Optimize Your ABM Experience

Keeping your best customers happy is not as easy as it sounds. But there are ways you can improve the ABM experience for your customers:

1. Make Sure Your Data is in Order

If you’re relying on first-party B2B data that’s been generated with landing pages or by other means, you need to be aware that your data could be unreliable.

Even if you invest in third-party data to shore up your own reserves, it’s important to parse that data to ensure its quality is high enough to act on.

Remember that you’re flipping the sales funnel on its head: You can no longer count on a high volume of leads to offset a low conversion rate. ABM is about targeting the accounts you really want, meaning each one is critical to the success of your business.

Asking these few questions each time you uncover a promising ABM lead can help offset the effects of unreliable data:

  • How old is the data?
  • Are key personnel at my target company still the same?
  • How certain are we of their intent?
  • Are our solutions still right for this company’s niche?

2. Define Success

While it’s important to be open-minded and patient with a large shift in strategy, you also need to know what your goals are. These should be established well in advance, ideally with the input of all who have skin in the game. This means marketing and sales working in concert with senior management.

3. Target the Right Accounts

Selling to the wrong account will offset all of the great work your sales and marketing team will put into the campaign. If your company’s solution doesn’t address any of the pain points the client cares about, you won’t make the sale. The specificity of ABM campaigns means these kinds of interactions can make or break the sale.

4. Identify Key Personnel

Once you’re certain the company is a good fit, you need to know who to impress at that company to make the sale. Find the decision-makers and get them involved as soon as possible. These are the people ABM is meant to work on, so focus on building this relationship first and foremost.

5. Choose the Right Messenger

Just like your client has key decision-makers, your own company has personnel whose strengths lie in account management. If you have contacts in your own organization familiar with your target, get them involved. A friendly face can go a long way towards closing a sale of any size.

6. Use Multi-Channel Content

Focus on creating a mix of content that works through multiple channels. Mix emails with videos and personalized written content. Utilize social media, your blog, and other resources.

When coordinating this content creation, always keep in mind who you’re marketing to. You should also aim to coordinate the timing of these campaigns for maximum impact.

7. Measure Results and Take Stock

Stay accountable to your original plan. If you decided on metrics in advance, now is the time to measure those and take stock of how well your strategy is performing.

Though ABM strategies close at a far higher rate than traditional leads, they will still be less than 100%. Look at where your failures are coming from, and you’ll see the clearest paths toward improvement.

8. Try Hushly

A content marketing and management platform like Hushly can eliminate the stress of creating ABM experiences for clients. Hushly makes it easy to deliver personalized account experiences with our platform.

Our solutions will scale with you, adapt to meet your needs and those of your customers, and promise to create unique account experiences for every client you approach.

ABM Scales with You

ABM experiences do not need to be a costly investment or even a major commitment.

They can start simply with just a few personnel on your side finding key targets and potential problems those targets may have. From there, you can set yourself to convince the target that your solution is the best one they’re ever going to find.

Once you’ve landed a few key targets, the ABM experience can begin in earnest because you can really begin to impress your new client with the level of effort and dedication to their growth. Your own growth will naturally come as a result, which makes ABM an easy choice for scalable marketing solutions.

Check out Hushly’s eBook, Efficient Growth at Scale, for more information on how to maximize your ABM experiences.

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10 Use Cases Proving AI is the Secret to Success in Account-Based Marketing

You can’t read anything marketing-related these days that doesn’t mention artificial intelligence in some capacity.

Sometimes, you might not even realize AI is the topic. AI is just that ingrained in so many marketing activities today.

Data analysis, personalization, martech tools, communication, chatbots – almost everything marketers do requires some kind of AI or automation.

When it comes to AI in account-based marketing, the two are nearly synonymous. ABM only exists today for small- and mid-size businesses due to the accessibility of AI-powered tools.

That’s why high-performing teams say ABM automation and related technologies are a top priority:

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AI is such a normal part of our lives today that it’s hard to pinpoint precise use cases, especially if you’re just getting started with account-based marketing.

Use this summary of use cases as a checklist for building or optimizing your account-based marketing strategy.

10 Vital Use Cases for AI in Account-Based Marketing

Don’t look for places to shoehorn AI in account-based marketing – especially not just because your competition uses AI a certain way. You’ll just wind up with a bloated martech stack and lackluster results.

Instead, analyze your current processes and compare them to how you’ve met your goals over the past year or quarter.

Where could you use more staff or time? Which tactics and processes take the longest? What problems do you struggle with the most? Where is there a disconnect between your target accounts and your team/material?

Talk to your team. Answer the questions above and you’ll know exactly where to use AI in account-based marketing.

Getting a little more specific, using AI in the examples below can help you really reap the full range of benefits of ABM you hear so much about.

1. Identifying an Account’s Stage of the Journey

What’s the secret weapon behind every winning ABM campaign? Intent data.

Intent data exposes the context behind how accounts interact with your site.

AI tools use intent data to understand an account’s stage of the buyer’s journey, what competitors they’re considering, and even their opinion of your brand.

2. Predicting Account Churn and Improving Customer Service

Pairing intent data and AI in account-based marketing also lets you monitor accounts, making sure they use every available feature to solve their pain points – especially as you release new features!

Remember, customer retention is central to ABM. AI tools with intent data can let you know if an existing account downloads a competitor’s lead magnet or spends considerable time on their site.

3. Preventing Fake Leads from Entering Your System

Gartner expects 80% of B2B personalization strategies to fail by 2025 largely from bad data. AI-driven ABM tools eliminate the problem by vetting contacts before they enter your system.

Plus, AI smart forms only ask for a business email and country – no intrusive firmographic questions. AI fills in the details correctly based on public data sources.

4. Cleaning Your Existing Database

Unlike consumer data, all B2B data has an expiration date. Job roles, titles, duties, market share, company size, pain points, even contact details – these all change more often than you think.

You just can’t afford dirty data in ABM. It’ll sink your strategy. Fortunately, AI tools can analyze data on a schedule to remove and update entries.

5. Mapping Trends and Patterns for Content

Predictive analytics are among the most intriguing use cases of AI in account-based marketing.

The points above mostly describe managing accounts on an individual level but imagine the broader patterns you could uncover when you use intent data, behavioral data, and AI.

Look for patterns among accounts or verticals to create better content around new pain points or parts of the journey you’ve neglected.

6. Personalizing Your Content Experience for Each Account

Content is the lifeblood of any successful account-based marketing campaign. However, you can’t expect target accounts to spend time digging through your blog categories to find everything that applies to them.

Instead, AI tools use Netflix-like algorithms – studying intent data and on-site behavior – so everyone gets 100% personalized content recommendations based on their industry, stage, and pain point.

7. Offering Custom Pricing and Details for Each Account

61% of buyers say they like to call sales teams for custom pricing and another 58% reach out to learn about custom configurations.

With AI in account-based marketing, your visitors can each have a unique webpage for their company. Custom pricing, configurations, tutorials, and an assigned sales rep are all laid out just for them:

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8. Synching Data from Multiple Platforms into One Dashboard

Impressively, AI-powered tools link data from your website, social media accounts, email, and CRM. In one place, you can analyze complete behavior for better insights and broader patterns.

9. Streamlining Communication Between Departments

ABM is an advanced type of marketing that demands ongoing cooperation between marketing, sales, and customer service.

Unifying data and contacts in one dashboard gives every department instant access to insights. It encourages cooperation based on goals and customer wellbeing.

That’s likely why 63% of marketers say they share the same CRM with sales and customer service.

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10. Managing Your Digital Assets

AI brings unprecedented control to your content assets. You can automatically tag, filter, and retrieve assets as you need them for specific accounts and job roles. No more clunky content storage.

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Most B2Bs are running bloated martech stacks. They spend a fortune on technology each month but they don’t use each tool’s full range of features. They might even end up paying for several tools with overlapping features!

Companies trust Hushly because we design tools that help you reach the full range of benefits of ABM. Your ABM can only deliver results if it prioritizes the user’s website experience. Our tools help you personalize every website touchpoint with custom pricing, offers, content recommendations, and so much more.

Are your ABM landing pages customized enough for your accounts? Visualize the new Hushly custom 1:1 ABM Campaign Pages on your site!

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8 Lesser-Known Benefits of Account-Based Marketing (That Aren’t ROI)

By now, you’ve no doubt heard about the benefits of account-based marketing on ROI.

The returns are most of the appeal.

After all, 87% of marketers say ABM outperforms their other tactics while 91% say ABM helps them increase average deal size.

Those 13% and 9% minority groups saying otherwise probably either:

  • Aren’t running the best ABM strategy
  • Don’t understand their ideal target accounts
  • Aren’t using the right tools correctly
  • Or don’t have the best product/service/mission to begin with.

When done right, ABM’s ROI is unmatched – but the real question is, why?

Unearth that “why” and you’ll find a whole range of account-based marketing benefits. You’ll also realize how ABM revolutionizes the entire B2B marketing process.

What is Account-Based Marketing (ABM)?

Instead of throwing a bunch of marketing material at the proverbial wall and focusing on what sticks, ABM changes how you approach the entire process.

You identify the target accounts first and work backward:

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Since you’re targeting specific accounts instead of entire markets, your process instantly becomes more efficient. No generic content. No tossing around multiple pain points and use cases. Just laser-focused marketing material that either appeals to accounts or doesn’t.

ABM is really the natural progression of personalized B2B marketing under the age of AI and automation.

With so much data available and automation tools at your fingertips, why even bother with the old clunky tactics?

Plus, the early research stages of ABM help you figure out whether accounts are even the right fit for your brand to begin with. Transparency is critical for trust today in B2B so half of your job is knowing who not to target and nurture as well.

You’re not the best solution for everyone and ABM forces you to confront that and deal with it properly. That’s a good thing!

8 Benefits of Account-Based Marketing That Don’t Get Enough Attention

Digging deeper into the “why” behind ABM’s massive ROI uncovers a ton of awesome benefits. Remember, these benefits of account-based marketing only happen when you run an optimized strategy with the right tools.

1. Uniting Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service

ABM really forces companies to address the disconnect between departments.

One of the best benefits of account-based marketing (and main goals) is customer retention, for example. You can’t effectively retain customers with customer service and marketing working in isolation.

Sales, marketing, and customer service need to develop almost a diplomatic channel for communication where they can evaluate data together and decide the best course of action.

The benefits of this honest and open communication ultimately flow over into every activity by encouraging goal-focused cooperation.

2. Engaging Stakeholders

Most ABM strategies identify, create content for, and engage key stakeholders at the target company. If your marketing team manages to earn the attention of a well-known company leader, don’t you think your own leadership might pay more attention too?

Of course, your company’s stakeholders aren’t marketers but they’d certainly pay more attention to what marketing is up to and why your activities are critical to business growth.

Not only is this useful for marketing but engaged stakeholders on both sides can lead to better long-term planning at your company so you can position yourself as a solution.

3. A Better Website Experience Overall

ABM eliminates the need to gate your entire content inventory, demanding contact details in exchange for access.

You already know who you’re targeting!

Instead, you can let visitors freely browse your website with minimal intrusion. Everyone gets a better website experience from you.

4. More and Better Personalization

Account-based marketing is personalization. That’s why you work backward, identifying your target accounts, teams, and individuals.

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You already have your segments laid out. You just need to personalize the content, experience, offers, and service to fit.

And when you optimize the personalization for your ABM, you collect data to help you improve personalization for everyone.

5. Better Understanding of Your Market

B2Bs often struggle today because they don’t properly understand the daily problems of their target audience – much less niche teams and individuals.

Data and research are the backbone of successful ABM.

We’re still witnessing the infancy of widespread ABM. After optimizing your ABM for years, your analytics will reveal patterns that tell a story about your target market’s experience.

6. Deeper Understanding of Your Own Mission

Naturally, by understanding your target audience and competition on a deeper level, you’ll have a better grasp of how your company fits into the equation.

This perspective puts you in a better situation to plan your long-term goals. Long-term planning like this matters tremendously to high-value clients and enterprises.

Ultimately, you’ll know how to position your company as the perfect solution for years or decades of benefits.

7. Streamlining Automation

You can’t run a successful ABM without AI and automation. There’s just no efficient way to personalize the experience for each account or individual without AI-powered features like:

  • Custom ABM campaign pages
  • Content recommendation engines
  • Embedded content streams
  • Minimalist smart forms
  • Lead verification

Ideally, your ABM strategy should also implement automation for internal processes too. Data collection, analysis, and contact management can all benefit from AI help.

8. Reduced Waste and Inefficiencies

A focused team is an efficient team. With well-researched ABM, you’ll never invest in content you don’t need, generic material, or dead-end conversations.

You understand the account’s pain points, needs, and goals. Every action from there out – whether sales, marketing, or customer service – should serve a specific purpose and make total sense in that moment.

Those benefits of account-based marketing from waste reduction only get better with time too.

Reap the Full Benefits of Account-Based Marketing with the Right Tools

Marketers can only enjoy the benefits of ABM today – including ROI – thanks to the growing accessibility of AI, automation, and data integration.

The tools you choose make successful ABM possible. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to manage data from multiple sources, draw insights, create engaging content, and reach accounts at the right moment.

That’s why so many B2B marketing teams trust Hushly for their most important account-based marketing tools like ABM campaign pages, website content personalization, abandonment popups, and minimalist smart forms.

See how Hushly’s all-in-one platform can skyrocket your ABM engagement and retention.

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6 Vital Basics for a Winning Account-Based Marketing Strategy

Imagine how you feel when you open an email from your favorite brand.

It mentions your first name in the To field. The subject line is something simple like “Happy Friday.”

The body is filled with personalized clothing recommendations based on what you’ve bought and browsed before. They might even let you know the expensive piece you’ve had your eye on for months dropped in price this week.

Although almost every part of that email was automated, it still feels personal.

Most importantly, it’s relevant and useful.

You can achieve a similar feeling and result for your B2B clients through account-based marketing.

Following these account-based marketing basics ensures your content and messages are always completely relevant and useful.

What is Account-Based Marketing?

You’ll often see ABM described as an inverted funnel:

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Instead of casting a wide net to lure prospects and nurture leads, you identify target accounts and leads first. Building backward, you study each individually.

Your account-based marketing framework can focus on an entire organization, segments of the team, or individual employees. It all depends on what you know about the account, how your brand fits in, and what you want to achieve.

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You create relevant content, engage leads earn their trust, and hopefully convert them into customers.

Finally, you use what you’ve learned about each account and any new data to build their loyalty and keep their business.

ABM is much more sustainable than traditional marketing because it incorporates post-purchase nurturing in a way other strategies can’t.

In 2019, nearly a quarter of marketers said they had no active ABM strategy. By the same time next year, less than 6% reported to have no ABM. 

This surge in adaptation – during the squeeze of a global pandemic no less – just proves the benefits of ABM like:

  • Increased ROI compared to traditional B2B marketing
  • Retaining existing customers and improving customer service
  • Accelerating the sales funnel and improving nurturing

Furthermore, successful ABM requires that sales, marketing, and customer service don’t just play nice but remain actively engaged in each other’s work. As you can imagine, that benefit reverberates throughout your entire organization in more ways than you can quantify.

How to Set Up Your Account-Based Marketing Framework and Tactics

Even ten years ago, small- and mid-size businesses would never even dream of launching ABM. Only major corporations with massive budgets could afford spending the time and resources targeting specific accounts.

Today, AI-driven technology and automation make it easy for anyone to develop an account-based marketing framework.

Here are the account-based marketing basics every marketer needs to know if they want to see results.

1. Select Your Target Accounts

Think long-term here. One high-value sale sounds nice but with ABM, you want long-term customer retention. It’s just more cost-effective and efficient.

As you build your list of potential target accounts (which can range from 50 to over 1,000), ask questions like:

  • What is the account’s estimated lifetime value?
  • What kind of post-purchase customer service and support will they need?
  • How much will it cost and how long will it take to win this account?

2. Create Personas for Each Account and Segment

Your personas depend on which type of ABM you run:

  • One-to-one
  • One-to-few
  • One-to-many

With your type of account-based marketing framework in mind, you can figure out whether you need to build hyper-focused personas for individuals, teams, or more general personas for accounts.

Of course, more details are always better but when you’re targeting hundreds of accounts, you can only do so much.

3. Unite Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service

Of all the account-based marketing basics, this one is the most important.

Why? Well, ABM is not like traditional marketing tactics, so a traditional team approach won’t work either.

Consider just the customer retention stage of ABM:

  • Customer service reps are the first human touchpoint for questions/concerns – not sales.
  • Marketing must produce educational content that reduces the need to contact customer service.
  • Sales must coordinate with marketing and customer service for upsells and renewals.

Ongoing conversations and internal educational content are key to pulling off successful ABM.

4. Research and Develop a Content Strategy

Your account persona research should drive your content. Your biggest job now is to set KPIs for your content and plan the strategy.

With ABM, there’s no excuse for generic content because you already know who you’re targeting. Make sure to include details like:

  • How you can help them reduce costs, using case studies for similar accounts as examples.
  • Why you can solve their specific problems better than the competition.
  • How you can scale and grow with them long-term.

5. Optimize Your Website for User Experience

Personalization is a top priority here.

When someone from a target account visits your website, you ideally want them to see a custom version with all the content, discounts, service, and pricing you’ve created just for them.

An AI content recommendation engine helps here.

The AI system will study which case studies, topics, and other pieces of content a visitor browses. The AI notes the specific industry, account, and stage of the funnel to suggest the next best piece of content.

Custom ABM campaign pages are also important.

Use templates to personalize content assets, case studies, pricing, and offers by industry. Then break the pages down further for each target account – complete with logo and an assigned rep. Like so:

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6. Launch, Connect, Measure, and Adjust

The personal nature of ABM means there’s plenty of room for mistakes – or improvement depending on how you look at it.

Evaluate your engagement/awareness KPIs after a month or two and your sales/retention figures quarterly. Don’t forget to rerun your account research before tweaking content or overhauling your landing pages.

Account-Based Marketing Basics: Start with the Right Tools

Behind every winning account-based marketing framework you’ll find carefully configured tools. For countless B2Bs, Hushly powers the bulk of their ABM tools.

From customizable ABM campaign pages and AI-powered content recommendation engines to smart microforms and engaging exit-intent popups, we always have your back and your audience’s best interests in mind.

Rethink personalization with Hushly’s customizable ABM Campaign Pages and templates.

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