Picture this: You’re a marketing superhero battling overwhelming ideas, time constraints, siloed business units, and a team stuck in reactive mode. It’s time to assemble your super squad and implement a strategic marketing operations model. In this blog, we’ll explore the six pillars that will transform you into a marketing Avenger: business, customer & customer experience, marketing tactics, tools, project management, and team.
Before we get started there is something critical to building a successful marketing operating mode. The 6 pillars all need to be aligned with one another. Imagine you’re building Tony Stark’s Mansion, where everything is seamlessly interconnected. From the slab to the roof. Keep in mind that just like any house or mansion it isn’t built overnight. You start from the ground up and keep adding levels as your requirements evolve. You need to build marketing operations maturity. More on that in another article… For now, let’s get started with understanding the pillars you’ll need to build a marketing operations mansion good enough for Tony Stark himself…
Learn about the Marketing Maturity Model here.
Business, Pillar 1: Harnessing the Infinity Stones of Strategy:
Like Thanos seeking the Infinity Stones, a marketing operations model helps you align your marketing efforts with your business goals. It’s the cosmic force that ensures your team’s efforts are laser-focused on achieving success. With a clear strategy in place, you can prioritize initiatives, optimize your resources, and measure your impact accurately. Think of it as wielding the power of the Infinity Gauntlet, where every marketing campaign is a perfectly executed snap that drives your business forward.
When building your marketing operations model take action by aligning your marketing efforts with your business goals. Develop a clear strategy that prioritizes initiatives, optimizes resources, and accurately measures impact. Treat it like wielding the power of the Infinity Gauntlet, where each marketing project becomes a perfectly executed snap propelling your business forward. Embrace this cosmic force to ensure laser-focused success and unleash the full potential of your marketing operations.
Customer & Customer Experience Pillar 2: Crafting Experiences Fit for Superheroes:
Just as Tony Stark designed the ultimate Iron Man suit, your marketing operations model equips you with customer insights to create tailored experiences. Dive into the depths of data like Aquaman exploring the ocean, understanding your customers’ desires, preferences, and pain points. With this knowledge, you can create personalised marketing campaigns that make your customers feel like they have superpowers. It’s like giving them their very own Iron Man suit—empowering and irresistible.
When building your marketing operations model make an effort to gain deep customer insights across the entire customer journey. Dive into understanding your customers’ desires, preferences, and pain points. Gather insights from things like Voice of Customer Survey to Reviews! Then Armed with this knowledge, create personalised marketing campaigns that make your customers feel like superheroes.
Take action in Pillar 2, take our FREE customer journey mapping course
Marketing Tactics Pillar 3: Supercharging Your Arsenal:
Rev up your marketing operations model and unleash an array of powerful tactics across various channels from email welcome series to brand partnerships. Harness the potential of targeted marketing tactics to reach your ideal audience with laser precision.
Take action in this pillar by building creative and compelling content that captivates and resonates with your customers, driving engagement and brand loyalty. Leverage data-driven insights to optimise your campaigns aligned with the various customer journeys. Streamline your marketing channels by evaluating and discarding ineffective activities and focus on optimising those with maximum impact. By taking this action, you’ll transform your marketing efforts into a formidable force that drives results and sets you apart in the market. At MI Academy we use a tool called the “Priorities Matrix” to help you start evaluating your effort Vs impact when it comes to your marketing tactics.
Marketing Tools and Technology Pillar 4: Equipping Your Arsenal
Empower your marketing operations with cutting-edge tools and technology. Create a robust digital arsenal that enhances functionality, user experience, and design. These resources will attract and captivate customers, giving you a competitive edge. Embrace the power of technology, like Batman relies on gadgets, to conquer digital challenges and establish your reign in the online realm of retail and eCommerce.
Take action and equip your marketing operations with cutting-edge tools and technology. In the ever-evolving digital landscape, conducting a comprehensive technology audit is crucial for optimizing your marketing operations. Think of it as a diagnostic check-up for your digital arsenal. By assessing your existing tools and technologies, you can identify gaps, eliminate redundancies, and uncover opportunities for enhancement. Understand where you have inefficiencies and tech capability double-ups. Pay attention to this, a tech stack audit can save you a lot of money and expose even more opportunities.
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Pillar 5: Time-Turner Project Management – Mastering Time like a Wizard:
Time is your most valuable superpower, and effective project management is like having a Time-Turner from the world of Harry Potter. With this magical tool, you’ll plan, execute, and monitor marketing initiatives with ease. Where most founders or marketing teams get caught up is not having any streamlined project management process.
Good project management will help you allocate your resources wisely, set clear deadlines, and eliminate bottlenecks. You’ll be the master of time, always staying one step ahead of your marketing challenges and delivering campaigns with superhero speed.
As you become more sophisticated here you’ll be able to find a balance between Proactive and Reactive work.
Get started with Project Management 101: Implement effective WIP (Work in Progress) meetings
Team Pillar 6: Assembling the Avengers of Marketing:
Every superhero knows that teamwork makes the dream work. Break down the siloed walls that separate your team members and foster a culture of collaboration and camaraderie. It will help you solve problems, speed up your project timeframes and build revenue faster than ever. It’s like bringing together the Avengers, a group of diverse and talented individuals who combine their unique skills to save the day. Encourage your team to unleash their inner superheroes by providing training and development opportunities.
Build your project management and business pillar to empower them to take ownership of their work, transforming them from reactive sidekicks into proactive champions. Together, you’ll create a super squad that can tackle any marketing challenge that comes your way.
As a founder or marketing manager, implementing a marketing operations model is your secret weapon to overcome the challenges of overwhelming ideas, time constraints, siloed business units, and a reactive team. By harnessing the power of the six pillars—business, customer & customer experience, marketing tactics, tech tools, project management, and team—you’ll transform your team into a marketing superhero’s. With a supercharged approach, you’ll save yourself time and give you the space to lead your business to success.
Embrace your inner leader, assemble your super squad, identify your weaknesses, build an effective strategy in each piller, and get ready to soar to new heights in the ever-changing landscape of retail and eCommerce.
If you’re ready to understand the opportunities of harnessing marketing operations model can bring to your business, you can start with our CMO BluePrint.