The 3rd annual B2B Marketing Leaders Forum Melbourne will be held in-person on the 9-10 November 2022.
300+ B2B marketing leaders will gather to discuss our roles as business leaders driving revenue and growth, with a firm seat at the leadership table while ensuring we personally stay relevant as modern marketers.
Tickets for the Sydney Forum in May sold out six weeks before the event so please secure your spot early!
We’re seeing a large skills gap today in B2B marketing, and it’s conferences like these that help fill that gap as this is the only place they’re going to get this kind of education`` - Carlos Hidalgo – Customer Experience Strategy, B2B Demand Generation and Change Management Expert (USA)
Rated one of the best marketing conferences in the world by Forbes Magazine, there is no other marketing conference where you’ll have the opportunity to learn from over 30 B2B CMOs on:
Topics that will be covered at Melbourne's largest B2B marketing conference focused on revenue, growth, leadership and personal career advancement!
Learn from CMOs turned CEOs how you earn credibility and trust of your CEO, CFO and board to deliver on business objectives and speaking their language
Understand how you build constructive cultures in marketing teams – how you show up as a constructive marketer, growing as an engaging leader and growing an engaged team
Career advice and paths for emerging leaders, the importance of building your personal brand, how to build business acumen and financial literacy, the biggest skills shortages in B2B marketing and how you transition from peer into a leadership position.
Learn how to start and scale your revenue marketing transformation with practical advice to help you firmly establish marketing as an authority on revenue generation, with a firm seat at the leadership table
Understand how The Growth Engine Revenue Generation Value Chain™ will help you identify the drivers of revenue performance and its correlation to the four stages of marketing maturity; crawl, walk, run, and leap and tools and practices you need to move up the revenue marketing maturity stages
As the most exciting and revenue rewarding marketing and sales initiative in B2B marketing, ABM, where treating individual accounts as markets in their own right is finally gaining huge momentum in APAC
Learn how to get started, organisational pre-requisites and how to set up for future scale from scratch
How to build the business case for ABM, starting with a proof-of-concept and winning the support of the sales and senior stakeholders internally that ensures internal adoption
Account selection, account mapping and scoring – Learn how to identify and choose the right target accounts
Building the team – What sort of expertise you need in your organisation to enable a strong ABM strategy, plan and execution
Kick start your career in ABM – Personal career development and professional development
Understand how to establish customer marketing strategy as a critical function to retain, engage and grow revenue from customers
Learn the building blocks of a “Platinum Experience Program”
How to leverage customer engagement, advocacy and voice of the customer programs
Learn how to develop your Ideal Customer Profile, Persona and Customer Journey Maps that visualises every experience and touchpoint, both digital and physical your customers have with you
Understand how to tap into the organisation’s insight, experience and data to map out the customer journey
Learn how to execute on your journey maps
Review examples of unexpected customer journeys and what you can learn from them
Understand marketing’s role in building customer-centric cultures that consistently predict enhanced, sustainable business results
The CMO’s role in building CX capability, structure and culture: how to influence departments and generating impact without direct authority
Customer Centricity – alignment between customer value and commercial outcomes – does your board truly understand the customer connection?
The role of data and tech to support CX strategies and a 360 degree view of the customer
To maintain credibility and budgets, marketers must be able to quantify marketing’s contribution to pipeline and revenue. Yet, over 50% of marketers in APAC don’t have a ROI or pipeline contribution target
What earns marketing a seat at the leadership table is knowing your ROI, revenue contribution and being able to walk into a board room and report and defend your data
Learn the skills, processes and tech needed to set up attribution, ROI and reporting frameworks for communicating the value of marketing to the businesses – aligning metrics to business financials
In order to make any kind of data-driven decisions, derive insights and slice and dice your data it has to first be clean, stored in one place, with a 360 view of the customer
So, what do you or don’t you know about your data?
How do you identify segments and where is the balance between personalisation and scale?
How do you act on insights that truly benefit your customers and help guide them down the decision making journey
What if you don’t have a data science team, how can you as a marketer develop the data-insights and curiosity mindset?
Awareness and acquisition to increasing customer engagement and share of wallet from existing customers, how do you balance sales’ and the businesses focus on short term (monthly and quarterly) focus with building long term thought-leadership and focus on lifetime customer value?
How do we pivot digital engagement in crowded environments?
How do we create and support sales alignment in digital mid and lower funnel and how can we drive pipeline acceleration to speed up the sales process?
We’ll be sharing examples of what mutually agreed and clearly defined sales and marketing lead management process and lead definitions and the SDR/ISR functions
Learn how to convince HQ to supplement your content strategy with a pilot – local, non-branded newsroom to drive demand and inbound leads and generate strong thought-leadership in the local market – in a heavily content-cluttered marketplace
How to identify an “empty” content niche by analysing existing local content players, and how to own bespoke and industry-respected research reports
The strategy behind building for a local audience, but leveraging HQ intelligence while balancing local and global content to avoid cannibalising
The best distribution strategies for content amplification
The methodologies, measurement models and data used to prove the effectiveness of content efforts and how it drives business and revenue
Key metrics for content and how they tell a story on what to improve
Using content to progress conversations during long selling cycles and customer journeys
In this session we’ll focus on communicating value to, through, with and for channel partners. The right approach depends on the go-to-market strategy and the objectives a business wants to achieve
Today’s partners typically work with 5–25 vendors at any given time. The constant flow of information coming in from these vendors can be disruptive, overwhelming, and confusing
Vendors who understand how to better engage and align marketing with their channel ecosystem are the ones winning the customers’ mindshare
We’ll discuss revenue contribution, partner engagement, partner led demand creation, marketing contribution, ROI and how to drive better engagement and fuelling marketing performance with partners
During this interactive session we’ll share real life examples of brand campaigns and strategy and discuss the role of brand in sustainable revenue and business growth, from brand to demand to loyalty and advocacy
The balance between brand and revenue investments (and the budget allocation split) and how you build your “board and CFO friendly” brand strategy – ensuring they understand how brand investments create growth over time
Measuring brand health, brand measurement tools and metrics
How great brands are established through culture and why delivering on your brand purpose starts (and ends) with your employees
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