After completing your onboarding technical setup your next step is to prepare your ABM strategy completing all the steps in the checklist below.
1. Create an Account List using your CRM accounts
A target account is an organization that you have identified as a potential fit for your product and services based on your own unique criteria. With an ABM strategy, you will focus your marketing and sales resources to engage a specific set of target accounts, which is called an Account List.
Once RollWorks is integrated with your CRM, you can create Account Lists and Groups based on your own HubSpot and Salesforce field values. You can customize your Account List filter criteria using Marketo, G2, and a variety of data sources provided by RollWorks such as Company Attributes, Website Activity, Bombora Intent, Keyword Intent, ICP Fit Grade, Journey Stages, etc.
If you are not ready to use your CRM fields to define your Account List logic, you can upload a CSV file of company domains.
| Your tasks | Features unlocked | Instructions |
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| ☑️ Create your first Account List using your own CRM fields. Use a filter logic based on how your sales team identifies the target accounts they are focussing on. |
• See Account progression under Journey Stages. • Segment your Account List into smaller Account Groups. |
• Read this guide to learn how to use the Account List builder in the platform. |
2. Define your Ideal Customer Profile
A key step in engaging the buyers that are most likely to become your best customers is to define your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). Validating your ICP is fundamental to deciding what companies should be added to your Account List.
An ICP is a set of attributes — firmographic, technographic, and behavioral — of a company that’s ideal for your product or service. Defining your ICP is one of the main building blocks of ABM success.
| Your tasks | Features unlocked | Instructions |
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| ☑️ Upload or sync from CRM a list of your best customers to RollWorks as our ICP model. |
• Your ICP model is used to score all accounts in the RollWorks database with a Fit Grade from A to F based on how closely they resemble your ICP. • Segment out your Target Account list by ICP Fit Grade (A & B scores) |
• Follow this guide to upload your ICP model data to RollWorks using a list of your best customers. |
Your ICP model must have a minimum of 200 accounts
You must sync a list with at least 200 accounts as your ICP model training data. If you don't have a list of 200 customers yet, you can supplement the list by including companies in late-stage opportunities, or companies your sales leadership has defined as ideal customers for your company.
3. Align Journey Stages to your buyer journey
Journey Stages is a RollWorks feature that allows you to track the progression of the accounts in your Account Lists along their buying journey to justify your investment. You can then use the accounts within a specific Journey Stage as your audience for your RollWorks advertising campaigns and playbooks to drive pipeline progression.
If you have a Starter Package
| Your tasks | Features unlocked | Instructions |
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| ☑️ Create a 'Sales Ready' stage. |
• Tracking Accounts that are ready to be sent to sales. • Use this Journey Stage to create reports in your CRM for your Sales team. • Target accounts in the 'Sales Ready' stage with advertising and use our partnership integrations to take meaningful actions. |
• Edit the default Journey Stage called 'Engaged' and customize it so that it tracks Accounts that are ready to be sent to Sales based on your own criteria. • Follow the steps in this guide to learn how to. |
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If you have a Standard, Professional, or Ultimate package
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☑️ Edit 'Aware' stage to align to 'Engaged'. ☑️ Create a 'Sales Ready' stage. ☑️ Create an 'Early Stage Opp' stage. ☑️ Create a 'Late Stage Opp' stage. ☑️ Create an 'Upsell/Cross Sell’' stage. ☑️ Create a 'Retention' stage. |
• Tracking Accounts that are ready to be sent to sales. • Use this Journey Stage to create reports in your CRM for your Sales team. • Target accounts in the 'Sales Ready' stage with advertising and use our partnership integrations to take meaningful actions. |
• Create new stages designed to help increase revenue and drive customer success while measuring account progression and identifying the right accounts to engage at the right time. • Follow the steps in this guide to learn how to customize your default stages. |
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4. Select your Bombora Intent Topics & RollWorks Keywords
Intent are dynamic signals that surface insights into which topics of interest are being researched and consumed online by users at a company. RollWorks offers you multiple intent sources and recommends you set them up as soon as possible so you can have insight into what accounts are demonstrating interest in your product category, your company, and your competitors.
You can learn the intent signals fundamentals in this guide which includes educational videos.
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☑️ Select the Bombora Intent Topics you want to monitor in RollWorks. ☑️ Select the Intent Keywords you want to monitor in RollWorks. |
• Discover unknown in market accounts that are surging with intent signals: • Interested in your company. • Interested in your product category. • Interested in your competitors.
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• Follow this guide to select your Intent Keywords. We suggest adding your company domain, product category, competitor domains, and your SEO terms. • Follow this guide to select your Bombora Intent Topics from the list of available options. |
5. Segment your Account List using Engagement, Intent & Fit
You can segment your Account Lists into smaller Account Groups with a specific targeting strategy in mind. When creating Account Lists and Groups you can combine these building blocks:
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Intent (Bombora & RollWorks) |
Consuming content on the web related to your company, product category, or competitors. |
| ICP Fit Grade | A to F grading system that scores how closely an account resembles your ICP. |
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Engagement signals |
Activity with your website and your ads: page views, ad clicks, etc |
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RollWorks Company Attributes |
Firmographic filters for more precision in your strategy: Company size, industry, etc |
Follow our recommendation to get you started:
- If you are focused on driving net new top-of-funnel website traffic, use ICP Fit Grade and Intent to target unaware and engaged accounts that are in-market and are a good fit. You can expand from there based on your available budget.
- If you are focused on driving lead forms submissions, segment your account list by creating an account group based on the 'Sales Ready' journey stage.
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☑️ Work with your Onboarding Customer Success Manager to segment accounts based on intent signals, ICP Fit grade, engagement signals, RollWorks Company attributes, or your own CRM data to align with your program goals. |
• Engage the accounts in your Account Lists and Groups with advertising. • Understand the progression of the accounts in your Account Lists using Journey Stages.
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• Read this guide to learn what are the foundational building blocks of best-in-class Account Lists and the most common segmentation use cases. • Read this guide to learn how to use the Account List builder in the platform, data sources available, and how to combine AND/OR statements to segment your Account List into multiple Account Groups. |
6. Use data insights to inform your ABM strategy
RollWorks offers you valuable data insight features to inform your ABM strategy so that you can make adjustments to your strategy to help achieve your business goals.
| Data insights features | Benefits unlocked | Resources |
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| Journey Stages | Track the progression of the accounts in your Account Lists through their buying journey from unaware to deal closed won. | Journey Stages guide |
| Hot Accounts | Identify uncaptured demand by exporting a list of in-market accounts you may not be engaging, sorted by accounts not targeted, missing in your CRM, and without any sales activity. | Hot Accounts guide |
| Website Analytics | Account-based view of your website activity within the RollWorks platform. | Website Analytics guide |
7. Bring over your CRM/MAP contacts
In addition to targeting people in your Account Lists as your main strategy, you should also target contacts that you already have in your CRM/MAP and that you know are key buyers.
Bringing your own contacts to RollWorks as Contact Lists can help you engage these key buyers regardless if they have not visited your website, clicked on your ads, or engaged with your sales reps. In this step, you will decide who those contacts are, and where are they stored (Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Eloqua, or Pardot) so you can bring them over to RollWorks.
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☑️ Think about which contacts you want to bring over to RollWorks and what the source of these contacts is. ☑️ Bring over your contacts to RollWorks using these methods: Imported Contact Lists, Enhanced Contact Lists, and Static CSV files. ☑️ Create an Enhanced Contact list and apply the Journey Stages filter to see contacts that are in a specific buying stage. |
• Launch a Contact Targeting Campaign. • Exclude these Contacts from specific campaigns (playbooks do not support exclusions).
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• Read this guide to learn more about the different methods we offer you to bring your contacts to RollWorks: Enhanced Contact Lists, Imported Contact Lists, and Static CSV files. • Follow the guides below to bring over your contacts based on their source: Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Pardot, or Eloqua. |
Next Steps
Congratulations on completing your strategy setup! Click here to continue with your next onboarding step: Launch your RollWorks advertising ABM program.
