Challenge
For each of CA’s 100 plus software products the marketing team created a wide host of marketing assets, but most were not designed to work in a sequential fashion. Other smart content CMS platforms were evaluated to allow teams to group traditional assets into ‘lookbooks’ but it proved challenging to engage IT and the web team in launching such an initiative for just one product group let alone to ensure adoption and launch across the organization.
Additionally, CA’s marketing efforts were not set up to nurture Buyers throughout the entire buyer’s journey but would only nurture prospects until they became a lead. After that, leads were flipped to the BDR teams who would try to convert them, and if they did convert, they would go to direct sales. All nurture stopped at that point since that was how Marketo was designed.
It was often challenging to launch new nurture emails and assets and this process would often take several months with no success.
In short, CA struggled in the following areas:
- Bridging the gap between lead generation and the buyer’s sales journey
- Ineffective collaboration between marketing and sales teams
- Lack of sequential, smart content design and limited lead nurturing
- Difficulty in launching new content and assessing campaign success
Solution
CA Technologies engaged Splashmetrics for its hyper-personalized sales-oriented SplashMaker smart content. The first key benefit marketing teams saw was the fact that Splashmetrics simplifies the buyer’s journey and enables the prioritization of quality content versus an endless amount of floating content offered up without prioritization. The embedded process allowed CA and Symantec content owners to prioritize the most valuable pieces of content based on the solid purpose behind them and the value they provide in the buyer’s journey.
The second key benefit was that it gives buyers immediate pre-purchase feedback based on their inputs and that provides the sales teams much deeper buyer-direct data in the CRM that they don’t otherwise have from traditional content.
The engagement began with a pilot program where SplashMaker smart infographic/assessments were built for three product groups. Buyer engagement with this content surged 800% over what was previously used. CA then scaled this infographic/assessment initiative to eight more product groups.
With further success of the initiative, CA then added SplashMaker eBooks and ROI calculators, aligned with its sales pipeline stages – and grew the product group footprint to fifteen.
From these content assets, a completely new class of Buyer Data was pushed into the CRM for sales to leverage. And the powerful analytics capability in Splashmetrics provided insights and data not available in other platforms in CA’s stack.
In short, Splashmetrics provided:
- Improved collaboration between teams across the organization
- Integration with MA/CRM systems like HubSpot for a more strategic approach to demand generation and content programs
- Streamlined tracking and reporting mechanisms
- Analytics and insights into the usage of interactive content