Oceanos is excited to share a new solution called the List Optimizer™ Contact Valuator.   This solution will allow you to improve your contact prioritization, content alignment and overall sales and marketing efficiencies.

To explain how Contact Valuator works in simple terms, it helps you score contact records based on their alignment to an audience definition.   This is accomplished by first enhancing the contacts with social media, firmagraphics and other intelligence attributes.   Rather than evaluating a contact based solely on their job title and company, the appended intelligence provides insight into the person’s roles and responsibilities.  To establish a valuation the model compares each contact’s “ProspectDNA™”.

To illustrate, let’s say a client is targeting technology security professionals within large organizations.  Between client provided data and those contacts procured by Oceanos, the prospect pool contains 35,000 contacts.

One of these prospects is Mr. John Sample, who based on his contact record is an IT Director at UPS.  As we know, a large organization like UPS will have several IT Directors, many of which will have no influence on technology security. Within an IT security campaign, most marketers would suppress John Sample, simply based on his broad job title.  However, using Contact Valuator, John’s “ProspectDNA™” reveals a very different story.

Let’s look at just his LinkedIn profile.   We see the job title on his profile references IT security.  Also, the Summary and Specialties section reveals a wealth of insight…that he is responsible for Global IT Security, holds multiple ISACA security certifications, and specializes in Information Security, Risk Management, Business Continuity, IT Architecture and Regulatory Compliance.

We can also learn more about UPS including their firmagraphics, financials and technology infrastructure.   Other intelligence attributes that might play a role in the valuation process include trigger events.  It’s clear that John Sample would not only be included in the campaign, but would map to a top decile.

 

Just think how differently you would nurture and message this prospect based on a better understanding of his “ProspectDNA™”.  You might route John Sample directly to an experienced inside sale rep, or perhaps he’s the ideal candidate for a direct mail communication with a personal follow-up phone call.   When you know the lead is top grade, it removes risk and opens creativity.

To find out more how the Oceanos Contact Valuator solution can improve your sales and marketing programs, please view our video:  http://ow.ly/hqUN5 or download our solution sheet:  http://ow.ly/hqVgY

Or feel free to contact Brian Hession, President & Founder of Oceanos at bhession@oceanosinc.com

 

 

Designing a federal government demand creation strategy presents data concerns.  The biggest challenge facing marketers is identifying and isolating target contacts.  Many large databases are weak in their ability to delineate federal from state and local contacts, and although the government trade publications have good coverage of the market, they offer broad job function segmentation.  Most marketers tend to accept this limitation, resulting in non-targeted campaigns or in some cases, reaching institutions outside of federal government.

You don’t have to accept weak data.  Oceanos can help you overcome your data challenges and give you a competitive edge.

The first step in designing a data strategy is the development of a robust prospect definition; you must first highlight the characteristics associated with the target agencies and then define the types of contacts to reach.  Oceanos’ objective is to build a named account list with the institution’s demographics, domain and any valuable business intelligence.   Contact identification is imperative because the market for technology products in federal government is diverse.  Although contacts can be categorized based on your unique marketing approach, the default groups are:

  • Decision Makers
  • Influencers
  • End Users

To facilitate job title identification we recommend job title mapping, an analysis that is critical in the identification of the optimal job titles and key words for segment mapping.   The next step is the creation of the balanced data portfolio, which is necessary to ensure repeatable demand creation.  An Oceanos federal government data strategy includes twenty to forty different sources.  When architecting a data strategy, we seek to leverage the strengths of each data source to produce a custom solution that provides a competitive marketing advantage.

There are  five data types within a scalable data strategy:

  • Perpetual crowd-sourced data feeds provide you access to the full contact record.  Oceanos’ List Optimizer is synched to these sources, including crowd sourced providers and select publishers.
  • Perpetual research-based data provides various levels of intelligence to assist sales executives that are actively selling into government institutions.
  • Rental lists include both vertical and horizontal source and are derived from trade publications, associations, show attendees and communities.
  • Leased data allows you to receive the data directly to support predefined nurturing strategies via your internal marketing automation platform.
  • Federal government business intelligence is primarily sourced from RFP’s and outbound calling programs.  This intelligence can be procured and released directly to assist in segmentation, prioritization and messaging.

Oceanos can serve as the Data Acquisition Hub for all public sector units.  We can assist in establishing standards for all third party data acquisition.  Centralization of the data acquisition will provide your company immediate cost efficiencies and will minimize the procurement of poor quality or duplicate data across business units.

View our List Intelligence Brief:  Architecting a Federal Government Data Strategy at http://youtu.be/5pt7zpwtNAw.  For more information on how Oceanos can help you overcome data challenges associated with federal government, please contact Brian Hession, President & Founder of Oceanos at bhession@oceanosinc.com

 

 

 

On November 8th, Oceanos will celebrate it’s 10th Anniversary – a milestone for our company!   We’ve come a long way from our original start in Marshfield 2002.  From those humble beginnings, Oceanos has thrived and grown into an industry leader in database marketing.  We’ve evolved as a research and advisory firm that designs data strategies to support all types of demand creation strategies.  Our solutions are powered by proprietary List Optimizer™ technology and smart, focused people.   We view ourselves as data consultants, akin to an investment firm, but rather than stocks we analyze data.  This includes both traditional list sources along with all types of business intelligence.

Sales and marketing organizations look to us to architect a data portfolio that aligns to their prospect definition, is scalable and will drive returns.  The expertise we provide is not just selecting data source A over B, but rather the ability to combine pieces of data, from a multitude of sources resulting in a solution that is stronger than the sum of its parts.  It’s maximizing data utility to support both contact prioritization and the ability to segment and align messaging to tightly defined audiences.  This is List Intelligence™  and our blue chip client roster is the proof that we deliver results.

Over the years, we are proud to report that Oceanos has received numerous business and industry accolades including articles in the “Boston Business Journal” as well as being named to “Inc. Magazine’s” Fastest Growing Private Company list for three consecutive years.  Our impressive client roster includes blue chip clients such as Iron Mountain, Autodesk, Bloomberg, Citrix, CA Technologies and Lenovo.   Thank you to all our clients for helping make Oceanos a success.

As Oceanos approaches its 10th anniversary, we are more confident now than ever that our intellectual capital and technology has created a very special company.  To learn more about Oceanos can provide you with a unique data strategy, view our new video: http://youtu.be/zcOiTM30_W4

If you are interested in learning how Oceanos can optimize your demand creation activities, feel free to contact Brian Hession, President and Founder at bhession@oceanosinc.com

 

 

With the traditional list business undergoing rapid change, so has the Oceanos proprietary List Optimizer™. This application has provided us with a platform to seamlessly query across a few large, crowd sourced databases. As a result, we have been able to improve segmentation and reach for our client’s target audience.

Over the past two years, we have improved the List Optimizer™ so that it is not just a list building query tool but a system of List Intelligence™ processes for optimizing demand creation and database building programs. The new List Optimizer™ includes Business Intelligence and Executive Intelligence suite. The business intelligence suite is powered by Bureau Van Dijk, a leading business intelligence provider tracking firmagraphics and financials on 24 million companies. We have also made significant investments in the areas of competitive intelligence social media and other custom data feeds. The List Optimizer™ executive suite is focused on identifying your ideal contact names from across an expansive network of approved data sources.

With an internal KnowledgeBank capturing seven years of list performance metrics our data strategies are best-in-class. The Business and Executive Intelligence processes can be adapted to help you overcome the challenges of optimizing, growing and maintaining your database. Many organizations, large and small, are not realizing the potential ROI present within their own data nor do they know how to begin the process to sort this out.

To find out how the List Optimizer™ can:

  • Validate and enhance house records with firmagraphics, job titles, and email addresses
  • Use custom business intelligence to optimize all types of demand creation and database building programs

Download the updated List Optimizer Ebook at http://www.oceanosinc.com/listoptimizer/

 

We are excited to announce our new blog as a venue for discussion around industry trends in lead generation and demand creation marketing. As the marketing industry matures and evolves, we are excited to move into this new phase of building a community discussion and staying at the forefront of trends. Subscribe to our blog for updates from thought leaders in the demand generation field.

We launched Oceanos ten years ago with the vision of providing marketers with ”List Intelligence™” to optimize their demand creation programs. In 2010, we took another big leap forward with the launch of List Optimizer™, our proprietary software that creates list strategies to support all types of demand creation and database building programs.

In addition, our Data Asset Management Group now partners with select clients to provide risk mitigation, diversification and cost certainty strategies to ensure data investment optimization.  We are able to build custom data sets with unmatched precision and reach.

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