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RevOps

Demand Generation

How to Automate Your Processes With RevOps

How to Automate Your Processes With RevOps 

Revenue Operations (RevOps) is a framework that helps SaaS brands to streamline growth marketing, sales, and customer success through data. This approach facilitates revenue growth by improving the customer experience.

The challenge for companies is that they are lost on where to start, as RevOps is a new concept. For instance, you don’t know what kind of customer data you need to collect in a typical customer lifecycle.

Honestly, it is challenging, considering the complexity of optimizing revenue generation.

But don’t worry. A lot of those internal processes consist of repetitive tasks, and with the help of the right automation tools, you exceed your revenue goals.

Below, we have explained how you can collect relevant data, analyze it to integrate it with your process, and use it to improve the revenue of your SaaS brand.

RevOps Automation Benefits

Internal processes and business functions improve by leveraging automation in revenue operations in the following ways:

  1. Improve revenue. Automation lets you do more with fewer resources. For instance, with marketing automation, you can simultaneously nurture many leads to motivate them to take the next step in the customer journey.

  1. Reduce reliance on human labor. This will decrease or eliminate bottlenecks or dependencies within your team. For example, sales teams won’t be waiting for approval to implement a new strategy for increased revenue generation. 

  1. Embrace marketing innovations. RevOps teams can implement new operations processes quickly. For example, if the data shows that email automation is necessary, transitioning to it will be simple.

How To Embrace RevOps

Now let’s take a look at how marketing, sales, and customer success teams can use automation solutions to adopt RevOps.

Use it in Email Marketing

You can implement it in two ways:

  1. Automated emails. The right RevOps strategy will automate multiple processes by automating customer interactions. For instance, sending follow-up emails can be tedious if you are doing it manually.

  1. Targeted emails. Send the right message to the right audience. For instance, it doesn’t make sense for you to send the features of using Product A if a lead has signed up from a landing page featuring Product B.

It will help to use email automation platforms like HubSpot.

Source: HubSpot

Smarten Your Sales Calls

Sales reps are humans in the loop who carry out a crucial part of the sales process: making direct contact with the prospect by calling them.

This step is important as it helps you establish rapport with your potential customer and make the sales pipeline efficient. However, it can be challenging due to factors like the volume of calls or managing the details of each lead you are calling.

RevOps software like WhatConverts can help sales teams reach their leads on time with features like automated data entry and profile updates.

Source: WhatConverts

Take Up Task Tracking

Teams that follow agile methodologies must constantly adapt to changing conditions. It becomes even more challenging when there are multiple departments involved during processes like project management.

RevOps automation tools such as Zapier and Process Street help cross-functional teams complete their tasks within deadlines.

Source: Zapier

Automate Lead Scoring

One of the most tedious tasks that operations teams have is estimating the likelihood of a lead converting. If this step is not carried out properly, the sales team will not only spend a lot of resources but also will have a hard time closing deals.

As data comes from multiple sources, tools like Zoho CRM and Freshsales use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to forward the hot leads to sales.

Source: Zoho CRM

Use it in Customer Health Scoring

Customer health scoring is a technique to gauge and improve customer satisfaction so that they keep returning for more.

The challenge here is that this process will add more powerful tools to your tech stack that you need to spend time and labor on. Fortunately, ops teams can rely on process automation to make this step easier.

Need Help With RevOps? Try Matter Made

RevOps automation helps brands save resources such as time and labor by automating certain tasks through data. Operation teams can embrace it in their sales, marketing, and customer success process in the following ways:

  1. Nurture leads and market better to your existing customers by automating email marketing with the help of CRM tools.
  2. Call your leads with the relevant details at the right time to get to the deal stage faster through calling tools.
  3. Ensure all the team members are aware of tracking and capable of finishing their tasks through AI-powered task management tools.
  4. Collect information from various data sources so that you forward the qualified leads to sales.
  5. Track how happy your customers are, as customer retention is crucial for growing revenue.

To get the full benefits of RevOps for your company, you need an experienced team that can identify areas of improvement and build data-backed automated processes that drive efficiency. 

That’s where we come in.

Matter Made has unlocked the full potential of many brands through RevOps automation. Be it streamlining marketing and sales ops, building PLG sales funnels, managing multiple promotional campaigns, or building end-to-end pipelines — we have done it all.

Interested? Let’s talk.

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Demand Generation

Growth

It's normal to ask if there is a difference between demand generation vs. lead generation. On the surface, they sound like two sides of the same coin—like calling your pipeline the Buyer's Journey vs. a Sales Funnel.

But demand gen and lead gen are different concepts.

Understanding that difference transforms the effectiveness of B2B SaaS marketing strategies. It re-focuses your efforts on what matters at the end of the day—the quality of the lead.

At the same time, you'll avoid wasting your limited time, resources, and talent on leads who will never—I repeat "never"—become paying customers.

When you're finished here, you'll know the difference and how/when to use both to get more out of your SaaS marketing.

Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation: The Definition

Demand Generation is the act of deploying marketing campaigns to create demand for a product or service. It uses data to determine when, where, and how to accomplish this effectively.

Lead Generation is the act of leveraging marketing to collect contact information from people who may be interested in your product or service now or in the future.

The Purpose

With demand generation, you create buzz. Get the right people excited and talking about a problem your SaaS fixes. You want them to want you and see you as the solution to their business problems. As demand progresses, you become the missing link to meeting their goals, something they can't do without.

While demand gen does generate leads through landing pages, its purpose is to play the long game. You want awareness and positioning that can only happen over time.

By doing so, demand generation expands your reach and becomes a magnet for your ideal customers.

Lead generation, on the other hand, focuses on capturing identifying information, like an email. This allows you to personalize and continually improve the effectiveness of your nurturing.

Through it, you achieve a higher and faster MQL-to-SQL and Lead-to-Close Ratio in the shorter term. You increase your ability to deliver the most relevant marketing messages and content.

Additionally, that data reveals the precise moment a lead meets qualified lead criteria. This makes it possible to time the hand-off to sales and Speed the Lead expertly.

In the long term, you're gathering both quantitative and qualitative data. This helps you understand which leads are worth your time and energy. What are the signs that a lead is ripe for a conversation with sales?

Now, take this information back to the demand generation side. Through it, you improve your demand generation targeting precision.

And it comes full circle.

You have a clearer understanding of who to target. As a result, you generate demand from the right people, refining your top-of-funnel.

In doing so, you generate higher quality leads. And the cycle begins again, leading to exponential outcomes.

So it's no wonder 78% of marketers say they plan to commit a higher percentage of the marketing budget to demand gen, or at least keep it the same. While the top priority is generating leads, they recognize demand gen is critical to meeting that KPI.

Timing

Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation isn't an either/or proposition. You need both to grow your company effectively, but timing matters.

You have to create the buzz first. Any lead generation efforts will trickle if you're not implementing strategies to generate that demand first.

You can break this timing down into three stages of awareness:

  • Stage 1. Non-aware. They don't even know they have a problem. Top-of-funnel (ToF)
  • Stage 2. Problem-aware. They know about the problem but not how to fix it. Middle-of-funnel (MoF)
  • Stage 3. Solution aware. They know solutions exist but aren't sure which is right for them. Bottom-of-funnel (BoF)

This all comes down to the right message, the right time. One way to achieve this timing is through educational content.

This serves two primary purposes.

  1. It generates awareness. Of the problem, then the solution.
  2. It builds authority. Why should people listen to you in the first place? Content builds your authority and expertise. At the end of the day, they have a reason to choose your brand over another.

You'll focus on creating demand by ensuring the right people see the right content at the right time. To this end, specific content formats work well at each stage.

  • Stage 1. Non-aware. Make it easy and "low-risk" to start learning about their problem. Become present where they are but don't push them. Use long-form guides, blog posts, etc.
  • Stage 2. Problem-aware. Get them to take action toward learning more in-depth information. At the same time, you build trust and authority. Offer white papers, eBooks.
  • Stage 3. Solution aware. Help them finalize their decision. Share case studies, free trials, and demos.

Timing matters. Throwing problem-aware and solution-aware content at non-aware people will bounce right off. Sadly, a lot of B2B companies are doing just that.

Only 2% of B2B companies create non-aware content at ToF. This represents a tremendous opportunity for those who do.

At any given time, many more people don't know they have a problem.

Creating Demand

The gurus can argue all day long about whether demand is created or products merely fill a void already there. Both are true to some extent.

The problem exists. It's real, and it's impactful.

But with so many moving pieces in the typical business, it's not always easy for your future customers to name it, let alone find a fix.

If people aren't talking about the problem, few are aware of how impactful it is. They don't know others share the same frustrations. So it doesn't cross their minds that there could be a better way.

You need to create that buzz. That's where demand comes from.

By doing so, you start a chain reaction.

More leads. Better leads. More Leads. Better leads. Higher and higher revenues. Exponential growth.

Time to Create that Demand

It's all about timing. It's time to take your business to its next growth stage—generate demand, so high-quality leads come to you.

Curious about the power of demand gen? See how Dropbox increased targeting engagement by 6.5X.

Ready to drive efficient demand?

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