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Inbound Marketing & HubSpot CMU Tepper Business School – November 30, 2009. Mike Volpe VP Marketing @HubSpot Twitter: @ mvolpe. Marketing is Changing. 1950 - 2000. 2000 - 2050. Outbound Marketing. Outbound Marketing is Harder. 800-555-1234 Annoying Salesperson. The Good News….
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Inbound Marketing& HubSpotCMU Tepper Business School – November 30, 2009 Mike Volpe VP Marketing @HubSpot Twitter: @mvolpe
Marketing is Changing 1950 - 2000 2000 - 2050
Outbound Marketing is Harder 800-555-1234 Annoying Salesperson
The Good News… Inbound Marketing: Get Found using Google, Social Media and Blogs #4 Marketing Book on Amazon InboundBook.com
Budget vs. Brains Flickr: Refracted Moments Flickr: Gaetoan Lee
Stop thinking like a marketer or advertiser.
Start thinking like a publisher and socializer.
How does HubSpot market itself?
Inbound Marketing • Publish • Promote • Optimize • Convert
Case Study: Website Grader • Free interactive tool • 1.7 million URLs • 40,000 inbound links • 5,000 websites w/ badge & link • 4,500 Del.icio.us bookmarks • Great PR coverage (TechCrunch, RWW) • 50,000+ visitors from StumbleUpon • 100,000+ opt-in emails & leads
Case Study: HubSpot TV • Weekly video podcast • 80-100 live viewers • 1-2K views / episode • Top 5 marketing podcast in iTunes • 70,000 views in first year • Guests: MC Hammer, Biz Stone, David Meerman Scott, Chris Brogan
Case Study: HubSpot Blog • Top 3 source of leads • ~10% visit company website • ~10-20% lead conversion rate
Case Study: B2B Music Video • Video • 40,000 views first week • 10,000 views first day • Social Media • #1 source = StumbleUpon • #2 source = Twitter • #3 source = Facebook • SEO • Page 1 for “inbound marketing” • 50+ inbound links to blog article http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-lGe5MnBlY
HubSpot Marketing Blog IM.com Paid $$ SEO Social Graders Prospect Email DB (HI-IQ) Nurturing HubSpot.com Landing Page Leads Scoring Un-Qualified Leads Nurturing Qualified Leads (SALES) Nurturing Did not buy Demos / Customers
Analysis and Measurement Flickr: akisra
…By Channel or Source Visitors Leads Sales SEO Social Media
What is HubSpot’s business model?
What’s HubSpot? • Marketing software for SMBs • Over 1,900 customers in 3 years • 100+ employees, lots of MIT grads • $33m raised in three VC rounds
HubSpot Software • All in one integrated system • Target small and medium businesses • Easy to buy, deploy, and use • Very broad, not very deep
Search Engine Optimization Keyword Grader Link Grader Page Grader
Blogging & Social Media Business Blog Software Blog Analytics Social Media Monitoring Social Media Publishing
Lead Capture and Intelligence • Landing Pages • Lead Intelligence • Lead Alerts • Visitor Profiling
Marketing Analytics • Assess the effectiveness of your marketing on a campaign-by-campaign level • Optimize resource allocation to maximize sales
Saas Business Model • Software-as-a-service (Saas) • Customers pay for access to online software • Salesforce.com, Netsuite, Omniture
Saas Business Model Mechanics • Cost of Customer Acquisition (COCA) • Total Lifetime Value (TLV) • Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) • Retention Rate (Churn) • Very similar to buying bonds
Key Saas Metrics • Magic Number • (Qt Rev – Qt-1 Rev) / Qt-1 Sales + Mktg • COCA / First Year Rev • Revenue Based Churn Rate • (QtRev* – Qt-1 Rev) / Qt-1Rev Rev = subscription (recurring) revenue Rev* = subscription (recurring) revenue excluding revenue from new customers added that period
HubSpot Business Model • $250 to $1000 per month • 97%+ retention rate • Very good magic number ;)
Mike’s Background • Bowdoin College (Econ) • 4 years in San Francisco • Tech Industry I-Banking • Marketing / Biz Dev at Startups • MIT Sloan MBA • 4 yrs Dir Mktg at $300m software co. • Joined HubSpot as #5 in Q1 2007
Hiring for Inbound Marketing • Digital • Analytical • Reach • Content • Super Smart • GSD
Marketing Team @ HubSpot Convert Get Found Jeanne Hopkins Rebecca Corliss Rick Burnes Pamela Seiple Prashant Kaw Partner / BizDev Ellie Mirman Shannon Sweetser Carol Ortenberg Product Evangelism Peter Caputa IV Pats Dev / Free Tools Dan Zarrella Kirsten Knipp Jordyne Wu + Developers (from Dev team) Mike Volpe
Thank You / Q&A www.HubSpot.com www.MikeVolpe.com Today’s Slides: www.MikeVolpe.com/CMUTepper Mike Volpe VP Marketing @HubSpot Twitter: @mvolpe