Active Campaign CMO Shares How They 6x’d Revenue In 6 Years
Sep 28, 2023
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Active Campaign CMO, along with several previous podcast guests, discuss strategies for revenue growth, exceptional leadership, scaling paid advertising, and outbound strategies for incremental revenue.
Active Campaign built a customer activation team to provide personalized onboarding support and enhance user experience.
Active Campaign's CMO, Shea Howe, brings a unique perspective to marketing due to his diverse background in design, engineering, and product management.
Deep dives
Customer Activation Team and User Experience
Active Campaign built a customer activation team to provide personalized support and assistance to users during their onboarding process. The team's role is to ensure that users have a smooth experience and help them navigate any challenges they face. They offer Zoom calls to answer questions and guide users through different features and processes. This personalized support aims to enhance the user experience and drive user engagement.
Unconventional Career Path to CMO
Shea Howe, the CMO of active campaign, had a non-traditional path to his role. Starting with a background in design, he gradually delved into engineering and product management. This diverse experience equipped him with a holistic understanding of different aspects of the business. His unconventional journey and varied skill set allowed him to approach marketing from a unique angle and bring a broader perspective to the role of CMO.
Product-Led Growth (PLG) Strategies
Active campaign has implemented various strategies under the umbrella of product-led growth (PLG). These strategies focus on designing for the end user, delivering value upfront before capturing it, and leveraging product usage as a driver for go-to-market efforts. They prioritize providing a seamless onboarding experience, personalizing interactions, and offering self-service implementation tools. They also utilize their strong domain rating and invest in content marketing for organic search visibility. Additionally, they employ outbound strategies with targeted vertical approaches to reach specific audiences.
Paid Advertising and Attribution Challenges
Active campaign allocates a substantial budget to paid advertising, spending around a million dollars per month. They have encountered challenges in attribution and determining the true impact of paid campaigns. They have discovered that paid advertising not only affects direct conversions but also influences other channels, such as organic search. Additionally, they have found that spending on branded terms is essential to maintain visibility and defend against competitors. However, they also highlight the need to balance paid and organic efforts to avoid cannibalization. Attribution and measurement of paid campaigns require a comprehensive approach beyond just looking at direct paid conversions.
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