GTM 107: Fueling Growth with AI-Powered Marketing Experiments | Adriana Gil Miner
Aug 13, 2024
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Adriana Gil Miner, CMO at Iterable, discusses her extensive marketing experience and innovative strategies that drive customer engagement. She dives into leveraging AI and ChatGPT for alarming ad-testing efficiency, generating over 300 ads in record time. Adriana emphasizes the significance of post-sale marketing, often overlooked but crucial for customer retention. She also highlights emerging B2B trends, such as the essential role of SMS in communication. Tune in for insights on building authentic influence through community engagement and digital marketing evolution.
Maintaining a beginner's mind fosters continuous growth and innovation by encouraging openness to new ideas and perspectives in organizations.
Focusing on post-sale marketing strategies is essential for boosting customer lifetime value, retention, and enhancing the overall customer experience.
Deep dives
The Value of a Beginner's Mind
Maintaining a beginner's mind is essential for continuous growth and innovation, regardless of experience level. This approach allows individuals and teams to remain open to new ideas and perspectives, fostering creativity and adaptability. By embracing this mindset, organizations can position themselves to effectively respond to emerging trends and market shifts. This philosophy emphasizes that learning and curiosity should be lifelong pursuits, which can lead to more engaging and effective outcomes.
Maximizing Post-Sale Engagement
In the B2B sector, focusing on post-sale strategies is crucial for optimizing customer lifetime value and ensuring retention. Companies often prioritize acquisition over lifecycle management, which can lead to missed revenue opportunities. By enhancing customer engagement through thoughtful marketing initiatives and tailored communications after a sale, businesses can activate customer loyalty and increase profitability. This shift in strategy not only benefits the bottom line but also creates a more positive customer experience.
Harnessing the Power of AI in Marketing Campaigns
Utilizing AI tools, such as generative models, can significantly enhance the efficiency and creativity of marketing campaigns. A notable example includes an internal competition where a company generated over 300 ads using AI in a short time frame, enabling rapid testing and optimization. This approach resulted in record-breaking demo sign-ups, showcasing how AI can streamline processes while maintaining high-quality outputs. Embracing AI not as a replacement but as a collaborator can yield impressive results in marketing efforts.
The Untapped Opportunity of SMS in B2B
As traditional communication channels become saturated, SMS is emerging as a critical tool for engagement in B2B marketing. Many organizations still require business phone numbers on forms, failing to recognize that modern practices have shifted towards mobile communication. Capitalizing on SMS offers a new way to reach clients directly and engage them in a more personal manner. This underutilized channel presents a significant opportunity for marketers to connect with audiences effectively and drive conversions.
Adriana Gil Miner is CMO at Iterable, the AI-powered customer communication platform. Passionate about customer engagement, her leadership has contributed to Iterable's success in helping brands like Redfin, Priceline, and Volvo deliver individualized, harmonized and dynamic communications at scale. Prior to her role at Iterable, Adriana held influential senior leadership positions at Tableau, where she significantly contributed to the company's remarkable growth from $250 million to over $1 billion, culminating in the successful Salesforce acquisition. Her leadership also left an indelible mark on Qumulo, a data storage startup, and Artefact, with its spinoff—10,000ft—acquired by Smartsheet in 2019. Gil Miner’s 20+ years of marketing experience span prominent names like American Express, Digitas, and Weber Shandwick.
Discussed in this Episode:
Leveraging AI and ChatGPT for creative, high-volume ad testing and optimization.
The importance of post-sale marketing and customer lifecycle management.
Applying B2C marketing strategies to enhance B2B customer engagement and retention.
Emerging B2B marketing trends, including SMS as a core communication channel.
Building authentic influence through community, word-of-mouth, and organic channels.
The declining relevance of traditional PR and analyst relations in the face of digital influence.
Highlights: (13:45) Using ChatGPT to generate and test 300+ ads, breaking demo request records. (20:25) The untapped potential of post-sale marketing and customer lifecycle in B2B. (25:30) SMS predicted to become a key B2B engagement channel. (29:56) Iterable's marketing team now has a dedicated expansion pipeline goal. (33:39) One thing revenue leaders believe to be true that Adriana thinks is bull$***.(36:47) One thing that is working for Adriana in go-to-market right now.
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