Refer to the case study.
UNICORN FINTECH COMPANY PROFILE
Unicorn Fintech is a mobile-only financial-servicesstartup created by a consortium of consumer banks to resell savings, checking, loan, transfer/remittance, and other services from a secure smartphone app. The company is venture-funded, and plans to reach profitability before a planned IPO in two years.
Business issues and requirements
Marketing is responsible for acquiring new customers 0 through online, television advertising, and email campaigns, and for cross-selling new services to customers through IM, email, and in-app campaigns. Evaluating the success of these campaigns has been a persistent problem: although the company can track revenue by product line, it can't attribute those revenues to campaigns: for example, did a new loan come from onboarding a new customer, or by cross-selling a savings-account customer? Marketing currently uses
crude, manual tools and guesswork to evaluate the quality and lifespan of new leads, and even the deliverability of emails in its external campaigns. As a result, the department can't allocate spending to the most productive campaigns, or decide how much different touchpoints in multi-stage campaigns contribute to revenue. Operational processes to connect lead data to CRM and other databases are entirely manual.
Staffing and leadership
Unicorn has fewer than 200 employees, and roles aren't always defined in traditional ways. Since customer acquisition and cross-selling are primarily through electronic channels, Marketing and IT roles especially often overlap. The traditional Sales role falls entirely to Marketing, and IT is responsible for the Salesforce CRM system, Google Analytics, and a handful of third-party integrations. The CMO and CIO work closely together on most initiatives, and budgets are typically project-driven rather than fixed annually. Individual contributors to Marketing campaigns include the Marketing Operations Manager, responsible for lead scoring and analytics. Key IT contacts include the CRM Administrator and Web Developer. Incidental contributors are the Corporate Attorney, who signs off on opt-in/out and DMARC policies.
Revenue sources
Unicorn earns commissions on financial services delivered by the banking consortium through its apps, including fixed finders' fees for what the company calls "skips"-customers who initially engage with Unicorn, but then "skip" to receive services directly from a consortium bank. Unicorn needs to attribute revenue from these customers to its own campaigns; currently, it's impossible to attribute ROI to individual campaigns, or provide documentation to claim commissions on "skips."
Current and aspirational marketing technology
Current Marketing technology consists of Marketable,an open-source lead management solution supported by a set of spreadsheets and scripts developed in-house. Marketable offers lead tracking and source attribution, but not multi-touch source attribution. Unicorn Fintech Marketing has difficulty linking the different stages of customer campaign journeys, and relies on scripts to translate Marketable's "sales alerts" into next steps it could use in multi-touch campaigns. IT has worked out scripts to input Marketable qualified leads into Salesforce, but the system is brittle and often requires manual intervention.
Current campaign management processes
A typical email campaign:
* Addresses a purchased (for customer acquisition) or0 in-house (for cross-sell) list. Purchased lists range from 300,000 to 1.5 million addresses
* Is sent from multiple data centers in the US and Canada
* Includes an "unsubscribe" opt-out below the message
* Is static; there are no formula fields
* Uses no deliverability authentication, nor integration 0 with any email management platform.
All campaigns to date direct respondents to a single 0 landing page with the company's "all markets" message. More sophisticated targeting is a high priority.
Current lead management and attribution
Unicorn's lead-management process follows
Marketable's "out of the box" defaults: lead evaluation levels 1 through 3, lifecycle stages "unqualified" and "qualified." The qualification processes are manual, and highly subjective: Marketing staff classify leads according to prospect email responses, including free-form comments. "Sales" followup is by email forms prompting higher levels of engagement. The company intends to phase out Marketable and replace spreadsheets and scripts with native features of whatever solution set it adopts.
Attribution processes are binary: response to a campaign email or web visit is rated a success if it results in a sale: there is no success rating assigned to TV ads that result in web visits, for example. Cost are not allocated to individual campaigns.
The Marketing department plans to expand outreach to social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, in-house and third-party financial blogs), and wants to make sure it can assess the ROI of these channels, and the overall social media program.
Current governance processes
Currently, the Marketing department assigns content development and campaign management duties to team members on a campaign-by-campaign basis. All team members (and IT) have access to all assets and tools, which sometimes leads to duplication and conflicts. The CMO realizes that a more specialization will be necessary to support the social media campaigns, but hasn't decided on the optimal organizational model.
Input of qualified leads from Marketable into
Salesforce is by manual cut-and-paste, assisted by scripts; inconsistency of input practices across Marketing team members is a known problem; individual members have their own "go-to" fields: where one member might check "TV ad" as Lead Source, another would put that in the comments field.
CMO
The CMO's most important concerns are:
* The current solution has too many manual steps to scale with anticipated growth
* Without more sophisticated attribution, the company will overinvest in less productive campaigns, and underinvest in better ones
* In general, analytics integrations are manual, slow, and unreliable
* The current system completely misses "skips"-customers switching from the Unicorn app to consortium banks-an important source of revenue
* Documenting the value of Unicorn's Marketing processes is essential to the success of the planned IPO, and millions of dollars in stock valuation hangs in the balance.
CIO
The CIO is concerned primarily with:
* The amount of time his team spends patching up Marketing campaigns and CRM data transfers, at the expense of other, critical initiatives
* Quality and reliability of the Analytics information his team provides to Marketing
MARKETING STAFF
Marketing Operations staff concerns:
* Campaigns require so much work that they can't run as many of them as they need to
* Multi-touch cross-selling campaigns (for example, savings accounts to loans) with excellent margins, but no way to know which campaign touches perform best
* Getting swamped with manual record-keeping; for example, spreadsheet mistakes take hours to find and
fix
* Poor integration with third-party tools for preparing, sending, and evaluating campaign materials, for
Example.
o Webhook not firing,
o Reaching API limit
o Synchronization errors with third-party tools and Salesforce
* Inadequate number of lead stages and qualification levels, making it difficult to evaluate lead value, especially in multi-touch campaigns
Despite the absence of an external Sales team,
Marketing Operations would like to improve the granularity of their lead tracking, including both lifecycle stages and quality levels, with "no score" and negative levels.
Some of Unicorn's customers use their financial products and services. Marketing wants to roll out a "Weekly rollup" email to customers who are opted in for email. This email will show a quick snapshot of how each product/service those customers have with Unicorn perform.
The data to send these emails must be set up to sync to the Adobe Marketo Engage instance for each customer. Each customer can own multiple of the same product, or a number of products/services.
How should this data be pushed into Marketo Engage to be used most effectively?
Building two Custom Objects, one called ''Products'' and one called ''Services'' to link onto Person with relevant fields is the best way to push the data into Marketo Engage. This way, you can store multiple records of products and services for each person, and use an Email Scripting token in the email to personalize it for each recipient. Syncing this data on the ''Person'' level in a number of fields for ''Product'' or ''Service'' would limit the number of products and services you can store for each person, and would require building Segmentations for Product and Service and adding Segments into the Email as Dynamic content for personalization. Creating a maximum of 3 fields for each piece of data for both Products and Services onto the ''Person'' level would also limit the number of products and services you can store for each person, and would require adding each field into Email Scripting tokens then use to turn the module on or off if they have less than 3 products.
Refer to the case study.
UNICORN FINTECH COMPANY PROFILE
Unicorn Fintech is a mobile-only financial-servicesstartup created by a consortium of consumer banks to resell savings, checking, loan, transfer/remittance, and other services from a secure smartphone app. The company is venture-funded, and plans to reach profitability before a planned IPO in two years.
Business issues and requirements
Marketing is responsible for acquiring new customers 0 through online, television advertising, and email campaigns, and for cross-selling new services to customers through IM, email, and in-app campaigns. Evaluating the success of these campaigns has been a persistent problem: although the company can track revenue by product line, it can't attribute those revenues to campaigns: for example, did a new loan come from onboarding a new customer, or by cross-selling a savings-account customer? Marketing currently uses
crude, manual tools and guesswork to evaluate the quality and lifespan of new leads, and even the deliverability of emails in its external campaigns. As a result, the department can't allocate spending to the most productive campaigns, or decide how much different touchpoints in multi-stage campaigns contribute to revenue. Operational processes to connect lead data to CRM and other databases are entirely manual.
Staffing and leadership
Unicorn has fewer than 200 employees, and roles aren't always defined in traditional ways. Since customer acquisition and cross-selling are primarily through electronic channels, Marketing and IT roles especially often overlap. The traditional Sales role falls entirely to Marketing, and IT is responsible for the Salesforce CRM system, Google Analytics, and a handful of third-party integrations. The CMO and CIO work closely together on most initiatives, and budgets are typically project-driven rather than fixed annually. Individual contributors to Marketing campaigns include the Marketing Operations Manager, responsible for lead scoring and analytics. Key IT contacts include the CRM Administrator and Web Developer. Incidental contributors are the Corporate Attorney, who signs off on opt-in/out and DMARC policies.
Revenue sources
Unicorn earns commissions on financial services delivered by the banking consortium through its apps, including fixed finders' fees for what the company calls "skips"-customers who initially engage with Unicorn, but then "skip" to receive services directly from a consortium bank. Unicorn needs to attribute revenue from these customers to its own campaigns; currently, it's impossible to attribute ROI to individual campaigns, or provide documentation to claim commissions on "skips."
Current and aspirational marketing technology
Current Marketing technology consists of Marketable,an open-source lead management solution supported by a set of spreadsheets and scripts developed in-house. Marketable offers lead tracking and source attribution, but not multi-touch source attribution. Unicorn Fintech Marketing has difficulty linking the different stages of customer campaign journeys, and relies on scripts to translate Marketable's "sales alerts" into next steps it could use in multi-touch campaigns. IT has worked out scripts to input Marketable qualified leads into Salesforce, but the system is brittle and often requires manual intervention.
Current campaign management processes
A typical email campaign:
* Addresses a purchased (for customer acquisition) or0 in-house (for cross-sell) list. Purchased lists range from 300,000 to 1.5 million addresses
* Is sent from multiple data centers in the US and Canada
* Includes an "unsubscribe" opt-out below the message
* Is static; there are no formula fields
* Uses no deliverability authentication, nor integration 0 with any email management platform.
All campaigns to date direct respondents to a single 0 landing page with the company's "all markets" message. More sophisticated targeting is a high priority.
Current lead management and attribution
Unicorn's lead-management process follows
Marketable's "out of the box" defaults: lead evaluation levels 1 through 3, lifecycle stages "unqualified" and "qualified." The qualification processes are manual, and highly subjective: Marketing staff classify leads according to prospect email responses, including free-form comments. "Sales" followup is by email forms prompting higher levels of engagement. The company intends to phase out Marketable and replace spreadsheets and scripts with native features of whatever solution set it adopts.
Attribution processes are binary: response to a campaign email or web visit is rated a success if it results in a sale: there is no success rating assigned to TV ads that result in web visits, for example. Cost are not allocated to individual campaigns.
The Marketing department plans to expand outreach to social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, in-house and third-party financial blogs), and wants to make sure it can assess the ROI of these channels, and the overall social media program.
Current governance processes
Currently, the Marketing department assigns content development and campaign management duties to team members on a campaign-by-campaign basis. All team members (and IT) have access to all assets and tools, which sometimes leads to duplication and conflicts. The CMO realizes that a more specialization will be necessary to support the social media campaigns, but hasn't decided on the optimal organizational model.
Input of qualified leads from Marketable into
Salesforce is by manual cut-and-paste, assisted by scripts; inconsistency of input practices across Marketing team members is a known problem; individual members have their own "go-to" fields: where one member might check "TV ad" as Lead Source, another would put that in the comments field.
CMO
The CMO's most important concerns are:
* The current solution has too many manual steps to scale with anticipated growth
* Without more sophisticated attribution, the company will overinvest in less productive campaigns, and underinvest in better ones
* In general, analytics integrations are manual, slow, and unreliable
* The current system completely misses "skips"-customers switching from the Unicorn app to consortium banks-an important source of revenue
* Documenting the value of Unicorn's Marketing processes is essential to the success of the planned IPO, and millions of dollars in stock valuation hangs in the balance.
CIO
The CIO is concerned primarily with:
* The amount of time his team spends patching up Marketing campaigns and CRM data transfers, at the expense of other, critical initiatives
* Quality and reliability of the Analytics information his team provides to Marketing
MARKETING STAFF
Marketing Operations staff concerns:
* Campaigns require so much work that they can't run as many of them as they need to
* Multi-touch cross-selling campaigns (for example, savings accounts to loans) with excellent margins, but no way to know which campaign touches perform best
* Getting swamped with manual record-keeping; for example, spreadsheet mistakes take hours to find and
fix
* Poor integration with third-party tools for preparing, sending, and evaluating campaign materials, for
Example.
o Webhook not firing,
o Reaching API limit
o Synchronization errors with third-party tools and Salesforce
* Inadequate number of lead stages and qualification levels, making it difficult to evaluate lead value, especially in multi-touch campaigns
Despite the absence of an external Sales team,
Marketing Operations would like to improve the granularity of their lead tracking, including both lifecycle stages and quality levels, with "no score" and negative levels.
The social media team at Unicorn Fintech has been running paid search, paid social, and retargeting ads for the past year. Each of these is an Adobe Marketo Engage program channel and is set up to capture program member success and cost. The newly formed Account Based Marketing team (ABM) also wants to run paid social and retargeting ads but has their own budget. They want to report on their ABM efforts and ROI of their specific programs separate from the social media team. The social media team wants to be able to see how all campaigns are performing as well as easily separate the ABM efforts.
How should the Marketo Engage Architect set up the program structure to achieve these reporting goals?
Creating new ABM channels for paid social and retargeting is the best way to set up the program structure to achieve the reporting goals. This way, the ABM team can have their own channels with their own success and cost metrics, and report on their ROI separately from the social media team. The social media team can also see how all campaigns are performing by using the existing channels, and easily separate the ABM efforts by filtering by channel. Using the existing paid social and retargeting channels and adding ABM to the program name would not be a good solution, as it would not allow for separate cost and success metrics for the ABM programs. Using the existing paid social and retargeting channels and adding a tag for ABM would not be a good solution, as it would not allow for separate cost and success metrics for the ABM programs, and it would require manual tagging of each program.
An Adobe Marketo Engage Consultant is assigned to audit an existing Marketo Engage instance. The instance is 2 years old and follows a de-centralized model for program execution. Therefore, all marketers within the organization have been trained to operate and build in the Marketo Engage instance independently. During the audit, the consultant discovers:
1. Naming convention does not exist. Therefore, all program names are named arbitrarily.
2. There are four Marketo Engage Admins: The marketing operations manager, the demand generation manager, the CRM administrator, and the IT manager. All four admins have access to everything and have been creating fields on their own to fit individual business needs.
3. There is one workspace for the entire instance. However, the company has paid for additional workspaces.
4. There are two Revenue Lifecycle Models: a prospect lifecycle and a customer lifecycle.
The CMO wants to prioritize the following goals:
1. Ability to pull quick reports for prospect programs and customer programs from a reporting tool like Tableau.
2. Change the operating model from de-centralized to centralized so the marketing operations manager and CRM administrator are the only two people managing the operational side of the Marketo Engage instance and a new agency will manage the campaign execution on the behalf of marketing.
Which three recommendations should the Consultant make? (Choose three.)
The three recommendations that the Consultant should make are to create two workspaces: A prospect workspace and a customer workspace, to create a naming convention that tags customer vs prospect campaigns, and to reduce the access for the demand generation manager and IT manager to a limited role that cannot create fields. These recommendations will help the company to achieve their goals of pulling quick reports for prospect programs and customer programs from a reporting tool like Tableau, and changing the operating model from de-centralized to centralized. Creating two workspaces: A prospect workspace and a customer workspace will enable the company to segment and organize their programs based on their target audience, as well as to leverage their existing workspaces feature. Creating a naming convention that tags customer vs prospect campaigns will enable the company to standardize and identify their programs based on their purpose, as well as to facilitate reporting and analysis. Reducing the access for the demand generation manager and IT manager to a limited role that cannot create fields will enable the company to centralize and control their field management process, as well as to avoid field duplication or inconsistency.
An Adobe Marketo Engage Architect at Cookieless Monsters Inc. is creating a report on Revenue Explorer to track Marketing Influence on Opportunity Closed-Won by First-Touch (FT) and Multi-Touch (MT) attribution models of Marketo Engage.
Which two factors should the Architect consider while setting up FT and MT attribution reports on Revenue Explorer? (Choose two.)
The two factors that the Architect should consider while setting up FT and MT attribution reports on Revenue Explorer are that credit is split evenly, and credit cannot be given for something that happened in the past, and that FT attribution answers, ''Which programs are good at acquiring profitable new names?'' and MT attribution answers, ''Which programs are most influential in moving people forward in the sales cycle over time?''. These factors will help the Architect to understand and apply the logic and purpose of each attribution model. Credit is split evenly means that each program that a person interacted with in their journey will receive an equal share of credit for influencing the opportunity or revenue outcome, regardless of the timing or impact of the interaction. Credit cannot be given for something that happened in the past means that a person must have interacted with a program before becoming an opportunity or a customer, otherwise the program will not receive any credit for influencing the outcome. FT attribution answers, ''Which programs are good at acquiring profitable new names?'' means that this model assigns 100% credit to the first program that a person interacted with before becoming a known lead, which measures how well a program is generating new leads for the pipeline. MT attribution answers, ''Which programs are most influential in moving people forward in the sales cycle over time?'' means that this model assigns partial credit to multiple programs that a person interacted with throughout their journey from lead to opportunity to customer, which measures how well a program is influencing and nurturing leads along the funnel stages.
An enterprise software company sells its products directly to its B2B customers but also sells their product through third-party sellers. The company runs marketing campaigns directly to their B2B target audience. They also provide funds to the third-party sellers to run campaigns on the company's behalf. In return, the leads and engagement are provided by the third-party seller when a campaign is complete. Any data must be passed to Salesforce due to reporting being done in Salesforce.
Programs and channels should be set up to report on the efficacy of direct marketing and investment to third-party seller/partner marketing to determine how budget should be spent the following year.
How should this requirement be met?
The requirement should be met by creating one set of channels and using separate program statuses to designate Direct or Partner. This will allow the company to report on the efficacy of direct marketing and investment to third-party seller/partner marketing, as well as to determine how budget should be spent the following year. Creating one set of channels will enable the company to use consistent and standardized metrics and definitions for each channel type, such as webinar, paid social, virtual event, etc. Using separate program statuses to designate Direct or Partner will enable the company to differentiate and track the performance and ROI of each marketing channel based on whether it was executed by the company or by a third-party seller.
