Three Critical CRM Success Factors You Should Know

Segment – ensure prospects hear a message suited to their needs

Contextualize – explain in clear terms why it’s useful

Personalize – make them feel valued and loved

CRM Success Factor: Segment

The average consumer is bombarded by promotional messaging and sees anywhere between 5000-1000 advertisements per day.

Think about the last time you were relaxing and browsing on your phone, maybe doing a bit of online shopping, checking in on social media, reading the news. How many irrelevant adverts did you see?

“Today only – 50% of all organic aloe vera & chili peanut butter cups!”

“Door, doors, doors! Get your doors from Acme doors!! Big doors, small prices!”

“Crypto, something or other.”

We bet this week alone you’ve closed down at least one web page because the advertising ruined the online experience for you. But there’s a bigger danger for marketers lurking in the internet shadows than angry prospects. Something much scarier… Apathy!

When your consumer doesn’t feel like your messaging has direct relevance to their life at that moment, they’ll tune out. This is why a CRM is vital to modern marketing. If you don’t understand your customer, you can’t give them the content they need when they need it in a way that works for them

But the good news is you already have the answer to the problem in your marketing arsenal – the data in your CRM. From that data, you can isolate specific groups of customers by wants, needs, and readiness to buy.

In minutes, you can build a list of all contacts in the third month of their current contract – would they benefit from a useful upsell to complement their existing package?

How about targeting every prospect that’s visited your pricing web page more than once in the last 30 days by sending them a discount code?

Obviously, the same messaging isn’t going to work on both of those two groups. But with a small amount of thought, each will get messaging they’re likely to welcome because it solves a specific problem they have.

 Manually tracked custom behavioral events enable you to define and track events that are unique to your business. Custom behavioral events can be tied to contact properties, which you can then use across HubSpot’s tools. Manually tracked events use the analytics API, and require a developer to set up.

 This is a tool available in HubSpot Marketing Hub Enterprise that allows you to track more advanced analytics on your website or from external third-party apps to gain richer context about the full customer journey.

Learn how this tool works in this article>>

Every buyer for every product must pass through the three key buying stages of Awareness, Consideration, and Decision.

But depending on your product or service, those stages often vary. A thirsty person on a hot day will travel from Awareness to Decision about buying a cold drink faster than a Project Manager looking at new forecasting software for a global Saas business. One is made in minutes, the other could be months.

Although while the journey may change, one fundamental remains consistent throughout: consumers need specific buying stage-specific content before they can decide.

Think about it – before a Project Manager becomes aware your forecasting software even exists, they first need to either experience or recognize they have a problem: the pain caused by poor planning tools. `Then, with a problem to solve, they will look for a solution – which could be several options ranging from integrating a new tool right through outsourcing the entire problem.

Consider the below content that was created for buyers at each stage of the journey, triggering emails and messages for the prospect that are linked to where they find themselves in the buyer’s journey will ensure that content is relevant to their needs. Put yourself in the buyer’s shoes and ask yourself what they need at each stage of their journey to purchase.

Awareness:

Blog: Why Project Managers never have enough hours in the day

Consideration:

Guide: 10 ways to become a more effective Project Manager.

Decision:

Case study – why company X chose our technology to solve their forecasting problem

By labeling prospects in your CRM depending on their customer journey, you can ensure they see suitable messaging for their journey. Like you’re probably unlikely to propose marriage on a first date, you also don’t want to bombard a prospect with technical data when they’ve only just discovered they have a problem. Keep sending well-timed, useful pieces of information like a small trail of breadcrumbs that draw the buyer in rather than forcing your product on them too soon.

By segmenting your audience, you can ensure they receive relevant, contextually relevant sales messaging to nurture prospects and improve convention rates.

HubSpot Smart content allows you to create different content based on a set of rules. Your emails, landing pages, and CTAs can display differently depending on what is known about a prospect or contact.

For example, rather than taking time to manually send context-specific content to prospects, you can adapt your HubSpot pages to react to their needs instead. You can use the data in your CRM to show Awareness, Consideration, or Decision-related content depending on their needs. Allowing you to tailor content to the stage of the buyers’ journey.

By understanding which prospects need to see your messaging, you reduce admin, boost conversion rates, and drive more revenue with less effort.

Yes, you can use HubSpot to personalize sales messaging on any standard or custom properties (the various data points you collect on contacts).

But effective personalization doesn’t just mean greeting somebody through email by name. It may have been disruptive fifteen years ago, but the modern consumer is both tech and data-savvy.

Modern personalization means sending relevant messaging in a timely fashion using the right language, tone, and subject matter.

Imagine this: receiving an email greeting you by name. Nice, but you’ve already had four others doing the same that morning alone. You can spot an automated email by now.

But what about four weeks before the renewal for your company-wide HR software is up for review, you receive a timely message specific to your HR management problem?

 The power of personalization can be shown by the following example: You’ve started a small business in the last 6 months, and you receive a persuasive message from an invoice management software vendor on the perils of not completing your tax returns in time?

You want your prospects to feel a sense of serendipity. Ultimately, we know it was effective CRM management because you created a HubSpot workflow to message either HR managers one month before their next renewal date or small business owners who’ve set up shop in the last year. But prospects will feel a connection with your brand because the message is aimed at their needs at the right time.

To learn more about CRM-powered marketing, download our Ultimate Guide to CRM-Powered Marketing ebook.

Source: HubSpot