Same media spend.
More media value.
A Connected Media Strategy from Horizon Business will change how you manage, distribute, and measure the impact of your media, and recalibrate your compass towards lasting success.
Blueprints for Action
Four blueprints. Over 50% return when they work together.
Blueprint
B2B Audience Data
+17% return on media investment
Harmonize audience data and prioritize targets.
Harmonizing personal identity information with account structures and job roles will increase the value of your media investments. Data-driven segmentation and audience targeting enable persona-based messaging, dynamic advertising, and personalized digital customer experiences — the foundations for superior media plans and account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns. Access to all available insights from first-party and third-party customer data sources is required, and customer data platforms (CDPs) can serve as one source for aggregating, integrating, and modeling customer data sources.
Launchpads
- 01Aggregate audience data, improve the ideal customer profile, and prioritize at the account level
- 02Focus first on targeting the most lucrative audiences and microsegments
- 03Use these enhanced customer profiles to create persona-based audience targets
- 04Leverage data-driven targeting to move deeper into the Revenue Cycle
Blueprint
B2B Content
+15% return on media investment
Thread consistent, personalized messaging at scale.
Commercial buyers want both a demonstration of expertise and the creation of an emotional connection with their suppliers. Complex solutions make this more difficult since they require both education of the target audience and significant time investments in solution design work. Persona-based messaging, dynamic advertising, complementary digital experiences, and account-based media strategies cannot operate without high-quality, consistent, and compelling content delivered in the right form at the right time. These important activities require marketing content that bridges the core brand positioning, brand value story, and personalized value propositions with tactical execution in campaigns, conversations, and other customer touchpoints. Consistent, connected content is vital.
Launchpads
- 01Align your content with your growth strategy
- 02Create connected content assets
- 03Activate content across as many channels and stages as possible
Blueprint
B2B Integrated Programs
+14% return on media investment
Manage and activate omnichannel programs.
The average B2B organization relies on over 25 different sales and marketing solutions, tools, and data sources to engage, activate, and convert media impressions into revenue. Media in B2B must be an integrated, cross-functional program to succeed, even though most media plans operate in fragmented silos by media type. Successful marketing programs orchestrate the activation of media across many channels and connect them with other commercial teams, systems, data, and operations. Managing complex, multithreaded marketing programs more effectively drives revenue growth but often requires better capabilities and infrastructure than the typical marketing organization has.
Launchpads
- 01Implement an ABM platform to orchestrate omnichannel activation
- 02Establish joint expectations around marketing and sales collaboration
- 03Use emerging media channels that “force” omnichannel behavior
- 04Unify commercial operations using Revenue Operations
Blueprint
B2B Measurement
+6% return on media investment
Create a closed-loop measurement system.
Fragmentation across channels, processes, data sets, and systems stifle media performance and impact. The integration of systems, processes, and data flows into a closed feedback loop can significantly improve the ability to tune and adapt targeting, messaging, campaigns, and resource allocation. It allows media teams to spend more time responding to and optimizing customer responses, efficacy of touchpoints, buying signals, and feedback information. A closed-loop system also allows teams to shrink planning cycles to adapt more quickly to changing competition, market forces, and customer behavior.
Launchpads
- 01Develop a connected media measurement framework
- 02Establish closed-loop media optimization processes
- 03Establish cross-functional teams to evaluate media
- 04Develop incentives to cooperate across teams, agencies, and functions
