Does this sound familiar? Is this your story?

You use Salesforce and probably bought Pardot (or maybe HubSpot) only to find that you’re not getting enough value.

You’re heavily invested in Salesforce, and thought that your marketing department should use Pardot for marketing automation since it is owned and developed by Salesforce and must integrate and work great with Salesforce. Salesforce and Pardot are world-class, right? So it should be a safe bet to invest in Pardot.

Well, maybe, but these platforms don’t work out-of-the-box to do what you expect or what you need. And frankly Pardot can be very complicated and quirky. You really need to know the ins-and-outs of how to make Pardot work well, and to play nice with syncing data to Salesforce. Otherwise you might as well be using MailChimp.

Are you making the most of MQLs/SQLs? Probably not, and here’s why…

With Pardot and any marketing automation platform you need to layer in systems and processes on top of their built-in features to really get properly qualified leads sent to sales at the right time. Many organizations heavily rely on just ‘form fills’, but aren’t capturing all of the prospect touch points throughout the Buyer’s Journey. This involves a strategic plan for fields, forms, lists, automations, journeys, and more to all work together.

Most organizations fail to plan out and implement the type of well designed system that is required to make marketing automation really fulfill its mission of acquiring, nurturing, and qualifying leads and sending them to sales at just the right time.

How much money and lost opportunity are you losing from inconsistent data collection?

Most organizations don’t have a well planned strategy for data capture and properly syncing data between Pardot and Salesforce, or they just haven’t executed it completely. Most instances of Pardot get initially set up as some type of ‘Quick Start’ package that only includes the ‘bare bones’, but soon you find that you aren’t capturing the kind of data you need, and it isn’t syncing properly with Salesforce, or the data just isn’t useful enough.

So you find you need to hire a consultant to fix things, and it takes months to organize and implement what you thought you bought Pardot marketing automation for in the first place. Many months later you still aren’t getting the data or reports and dashboards that you need. And you’ve lost countless dollars in opportunity cost.

Is hiring a marketing automation ‘Power User’ who’s ‘done this before’ enough to get where you need to be, and fast enough? Probably not, and here’s why…

You end up hiring internal people, but they don’t have the knowledge or experience to set up the necessary systems for you to do effective marketing at scale. Yes they can probably send out email newsletters, and configure a few things, but they haven’t done this multiple dozens of times so they don’t know best practices of how to set up proper scoring, grading, profiling, email templates, preference centers, lifecycle management, MQL triggers, campaign hierarchy, revenue attribution, and so forth.

Maybe you’ve even tried hiring a contractor or independent consultant to fix things, but they are only one person, and even if they had enough experience and could focus enough on your project, they can only do so much in a timely manner so it takes many months to get anything done. And they don’t have the combined breadth and depth of knowledge and experience that an agency has.

Bottom line is you’re not getting enough benefit of what the platform is capable of and that you are paying for, month after month.

Let us help you generate platform ROI. Let us help your story to have a happy ending.

Every lost lead and missed sales opportunity is costing you $$$ by not optimizing.

What is the cost of not addressing and fixing some of your problems? Somewhere at least in the thousands of dollars per month, maybe more.

Not fixing the related problems or optimizing your marketing automation platform, CRM, and marketing and sales processes can result in severe and long term costs.

Costs can be in the form of lost revenue, wasted time, and wasted and burned out human resources.

The cost and risk of engaging with the wrong agency, consultant, or contractor can mean:

Let us know about some of the problems you are facing so we can see how we can help.