Marketing Operations

Creating an Operational Rhythm with Marketing & Technology

Here at Triggerfish, we strive to help companies form a Marketing Operations mindset. This means moving away from a project-driven or “set it and forget it” way of thinking, and evolving your marketing function to operate on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.

Business Strategy

Business Strategy means learning to say “No”. Often, people think business strategy - or strategy in general, is all the cool things that we're going to do. But more often than not, it's being clear about what we're not going to do, so that we can just do one or two things really clearly.

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Digital Strategy

Your MarTech will never be “done”, so instead of reaching for the holy grail end result, think about identifying the right things to work on and making incremental progress over time. From a marketing point of view, what's digital strategy? Why is that important for marketing operations?

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Go-to-market Strategy

Simply, it is our ability to be clear about what we want to get done at a campaign level so that customers understand about our capabilities. Go-to-market is also about defining the success of a marketing strategy especially in relation to things like revenue targets.

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Growth Marketing

The idea of growth marketing is about driving a culture of experimentation. From a marketing point of view, this means ensuring that we're experimenting on key parts of customer acquisition, customer awareness, customer activation, revenue retention, and referral.

Read more about how to use experiments to drive better metrics... right away.

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The Importance of Sales & Marketing Alignment for Marketing Operations

Sales and marketing are two sides of the same coin. Fundamentally, the work that we're doing in marketing is all about selling. Sales and marketing alignment is a must-do and must-have, because all successful businesses must have good sales.

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What makes us tick

Our success is our people. An eclectic blend of some of the industry’s most talented thinkers bonded by the drive to deliver business-changing outcomes.

Creating an environment conducive to producing world-class thinking is our first priority. Our daily practice promotes harmony, flexibility, creativity and most importantly, plenty of time to think.

Building a cross-functional team

When driving marketing operations in organisations, you need access to a variety of different skillsets in a cross-functional team:

developers
analytics
content writers
strategic thinkers
analytical thinkers
marketing technologists
Integrators

In other words, you need a quite broad team to make a marketing operations cadence work.

Gather first-party data with Customer Insights interviews

Getting first-party data and feedback from your customers is one of the cornerstones of marketing. You can’t really claim to understand your customer unless you have this information – and yet we find that many marketing and sales teams haven’t done this.

Done correctly, your customer insights will inform your understanding of:

Your customer journey
Your metrics for success
What activated your customers
What held them back from converting
These are all extremely enlightening things to know.

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Segmentation & Positioning

Segmentation, targeting, and positioning can be characterised by the way we profile customers.

This helps us be clear about the goals, needs, predispositions, preferences, and behaviours of our customers.

It's the base unit for marketing automation and digital marketing in general, and is a fundamental component in the context of marketing technology and customer acquisition/retention processes.

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