Trinity Nguyen, seasoned SaaS marketer and technology advocate, discusses topics like champion tracking, multi-threading for account success, SDR reporting to Marketing, and making the intangible tangible in ABM programs.
Using champion tracking can provide opportunities for sales teams to sell to previous customers who have changed organizations and help identify risks of churn for customer success teams.
Aligning SDRs with marketing in an ABM program can lead to higher efficiency, a focused target persona, and a higher win rate for multi-threaded deals.
Deep dives
User Gems: Tracking and Capitalizing on Customer Job Changes
User Gems is a software for revenue teams that tracks customer job changes and use cases. For sales and marketing teams, when a champion from a target account changes organizations, it presents an opportunity to sell to them again. On the customer success side, when a champion leaves the organization, it signals a risk of churn. User Gems helps enrich contact information and relationship data, making it actionable within CRMs. By targeting accounts where previous customers have joined, User Gems employs a personalized Account Based Marketing (ABM) approach. This has resulted in successful campaigns where they received impressive demo requests by focusing on 10 accounts and orchestrating consistent messaging with their SDRs. The use of multi-threaded ads has led to a 33% higher win rate for opportunities.
The Benefits of Aligning Sales Development Reps (SDRs) with Marketing
User Gems addresses the ongoing debate of where SDR teams should report, whether to marketing or sales. In their case, aligning SDRs with marketing works due to their early adoption of ABM as a strategy. The decision was driven by limited resources and a desire for quicker results. By tightly aligning their ABM program with the SDRs, they ensure coordination and orchestration among different teams to maximize effectiveness. This approach has proven successful, resulting in higher efficiency, a focused target persona, and a higher win rate for multi-threaded deals.
Manufacturing Dark Social: Leveraging Ads and Multi-threading
User Gems has leveraged unique strategies to create a 'dark social' effect by generating buzz and conversation among target accounts. By running ads that mention they are engaging with the sales or marketing team of specific accounts, they stimulate curiosity and encourage employees to bring User Gems into internal discussions. These multi-threading ads have achieved impressive click rates and have been shared organically among users. The strategy of multi-threading throughout the sales cycle has resulted in a 33% higher win rate. User Gems encourages marketers to adopt a similar mindset and advises starting small, learning from experiments, and being patient with scaling.
In this episode of Let's talk ABM, Declan chats to Trinity Nguyen, VP of Marketing at UserGems. Trinity is a seasoned SaaS Marketer and a passionate technology advocate. Her experience spans developing and executing go-to-market strategies, Product Marketing, Demand Generation, Account-based programs, and Sales enablement.
Here's what they cover:
- What Champion Tracking is
- Why multi-threading is key to account success
- Trinity’s rationale for SDR reporting to Marketing
- How to make the intangible tangible
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