Frequently Asked Questions.

Frequently Asked Questions

Features

  • Do you support In-banner forms in ads?

    Yes, Kwanzoo's in-banner form ads allow collecting form fills directly inside the ad unit (and eliminates the need for landing pages). This works incredibly well with 30%+ higher conversion rates (vs. landing pages) for account-based site retargeting ad programs. The form ads directly integrate with Marketo

  • What technology exists to automate ads based on behavior or sequencing?

    Ad sequencing based on user behavior is supported at the DSP. This will require a deeper discussion between the Customer and the Kwanzoo CS team and may require additional CS services.

  • How do Omnichannel ABM journeys (Programmatic ads, Social, Email, etc.) work? How much work to configure?

    Designing and implementing omnichannel ABM journeys requires specialized messaging and experience design. Kwanzoo offers expert CS services to support these initiatives for our Customers. We can review a complete experience design methodology and process with the Customer's demand generation and content experience team and prepare a customized proposal to fit the Customer's specific needs.

  • Can your omnichannel experience be triggered based on other marketing channels? Or all separate?

    Yes, we can trigger specific actions in the display channel (e.g., retargeting) based on the email channel's same target buyers' actions. Our Kwanzoo CS experts can walk the Customer through our process here, from persona mapping to audience segmentation to journey mapping.

  • Do you have a self-service UI for both ad campaigns as well as analytics/reporting?

    Yes, we provide a self-service UI for both these core capabilities.


Integration

  • Can we easily show sales the account-level engagement inside of the CRM?

    Yes. Kwanzoo has the most complete Salesforce UI within Salesforce CRM. Our cross-account “ABM Tab” shows the complete list of engaged accounts sorted and ordered in multiple ways. 

  • Can we easily show sales the person-level engagement inside of the CRM?

    Each account screen additionally shows the information on all the engaged buyers from that account and their associated activity. For each buyer, we show the entire buyer journey, ordered by date/time - ad click, website visit, live chat along with the product/solution of interest, specific ad creative, website page visited. The Buying Groups tab shows all the buyers (by seniority and department) that have engaged and an easy way to track them down using Linkedin Sales Navigator.

  • What process is used to match your data to account data in the CRM? What's the level of accuracy we can expect to achieve?

    Kwanzoo’s account data is linked to CRM account data using Salesforce CRM account identifiers. Kwanzoo additionally maintains our own account identifiers, which are a composite key (go beyond account names), including account name/ account name/account IP domain/account geo city, state, country, zip / Account type = CorpHQ, Division. We are additionally working on introducing support for account hierarchies (parent-child accounts, sibling accounts).

  • How does the platform integrate with CRM & MAP (SFDC/ELQA/MKTO/other)? What is included with integration?

    With CRM - account list sync is supported today. Opportunity sync for engaged accounts to provide deeper business impact analysis (coming soon.). Our Salesforce ABM Tab shows a cross-account engagement view. The Salesforce lightning component in the account screen shows all anonymous buyer and buying group engagement at that account. With MAP (Eloqua/Marketo/other) - we support in-banner form ads, which enable the capture of leads directly from site retargeting ads into the Customer’s MAP instance. Both immediate and staged form submits from in-banner form ads into MAP are supported. The form includes writing of additional fields (e.g., lead source).

  • Do you have any APIs or connectors?

    The Kwanzoo AWS S3 connector enables writing of Kwanzoo’s account-level engagement data into an S3 bucket. Customers can retrieve the data and use it for in-house analytics efforts across Kwanzoo’s engagement data and other platform’s engagement data (e.g., Engagio)

  • Are you able to share data bi-directionally to improve Ad targeting?

    Many of our Customers use the Kwanzoo engagement data feed to inform their marketing planning and budgeting process, to determine where to focus their media spend in the upcoming quarter. It also helps with prioritizing the correct accounts and personas for upcoming ad programs.

  • Is there a 1:1 CRM to vendor system instance required?

    We strongly recommend as a best practice that the direct connection to CRM be a Kwanzoo integration user account sync-ed to a CRM user account. No, it does not have to be a dedicated user seat within your CRM; it can be shared across all other integrations into your CRM. 

  • It appears Kwanzoo offers integration of web tracking tag data into GA and SFDC, are those simple to enable, or do they require engineering resources? Also, what data is available to pass, just company page view data?

    Yes, both GA and SFDC integration are available and included. Our CS team can walk you / your web person/sales ops person through the process. GA setup should be less than an hour. SFDC requires more planning. It is configured once all the data is placed correctly in SFDC, again in an hour or so. That would include some testing to make sure all the data is flowing correctly between the systems. Plan on 1 to 2 separate calls to get this done. For SFDC, we would sync your complete account list across SFDC and Kwanzoo. Then present all account engagement in a Salesforce Lightning UI within the Account Screen inside SFDC to your SDR and Sales team. For GA, we add Kwanzoo's account-level engagement data into GA as custom dimensions. That would allow you to understand better incoming site traffic, especially time on page data from GA tied into account engagement data from Kwanzoo. We will provide integration documents to review in advance of the live call to get the integration done.


Intent

  • What is considered "intent" and where does the data come from?

    We support multiple intent data partners. Bombora provides us with “content-consumption”-based intent. Here we get a list of engaged accounts that demonstrate intent to purchase a product/solution based on specific topics (e.g., Customer Data Platform). Another partner, called Budgets.AI, provides us with “self-declared” intent data. Here the expressed intent in bios, job profiles, resumes, SEC filings, and more by B2B buyers or their Company leadership are used to build an “intent graph” of key accounts expressing intent and interest in a specific product or solution category. Kwanzoo’s strategy is to continuously add additional intent data providers to our suite to provide more choice to our Customers.

  • Do you have intent/engagement grading or scoring for accounts?

    Yes, our data partner Budgets.ai provides a rank or score for all the accounts reported as expressing intent in a topic (i.e., product/solution category) such as “Customer Data Platform.” The rank/score also includes the available budget (relative budget) for that product/solution.

Pricing, Service, and Support

  • I understand that you want to bill quarterly, but if we are running a campaign that needs to last a set amount of time, can we have spread out the ads served across a longer time period, such as 4 or 5 months? If so, will we have access to the UI for this additional time as well?

    Yes, you will have ads served during the entire 4-month period (not just access to the UI during the 4th month). The pacing of media delivery is typically a decision between the Client and our CS team, so this will not be a problem.

  • Instead of paying the entire program cost up front, can we split our payment timing so that half is paid at the beginning of the quarter and half is paid at the end of the quarter?

    We absolutely want to earn your business, which is why we have discounted our ABA CPM pricing, leaving us with hard costs for the media and data. Floating hard cost is a significant risk we are willing to take in exchange for an annual commitment based on outcomes. I can go ask our Head of Operations and the Finance team, but I am not hopeful that they will view this ask favorably. All of our clients pay us on a quarterly upfront payment model and there is significant exposure for us with our media partners, around the delayed payment. Our payment terms are Net 30.

  • What are the estimated costs for professional services for initial setup?

    All setup and configuration are included in the cost of the platform. There may be additional fees for managed services at the program management level should the client require support.

  • Does your company provide Account Based Marketing services such as creative, experience, and program management?

    Yes, we provide full creative services and experience design as well as managed services. Creative service is an agency-type model based upon client scope and our managed services is a per program model with minimum quarterly and annual paid media budget commitment. We also provide strategic services to support the proper implementation utilization of the entire martech/sales tech stack.


     A. If yes to question 2, what are the lowest and highest fees associated with this service for Saas for a 1-year term? The average client of your size not wanting to assign an employee to operate our platform will pay 12-15k annually for our CS team to completely manage the platform, build, optimize and report on all programs as an extension of your team. 


    B. What are the determining factors around those fees? Client preference, our platform requires minimal management as you can see by the fee above, any digital marketer, even a jr. employee can manage the platform.

  • What are the estimated costs for professional services for initial setup?

    All initial setup and configuration are included in the cost of the platform. 

  • Are there separate modules that make up your offerings and if so, what is the pricing model?

    Yes, we package our products into three core offerings: Account-Based Advertising, Account-Based Selling, and Account-Based Intelligence. Account-based Advertising programs start at $35,000 per quarter. Reach and engage buyers from your target accounts, and bring qualified traffic to your website—a minimum of one-quarter commit per program. Account-based Selling programs start at $22,800 per year. Convert engaged accounts to sales opportunities through your SDR/BDR team includes 1MM ads for site retargeting, account-level analytics off your website, personalized on-domain banners, and a Sales UI providing insights on target buying groups for your SDRs/BDRs within Salesforce.com. Minimum annual commit. Account-based Intelligence starts at $10,000 per year for one custom topic (e.g., application security, supply chain management). Topic is built specifically for your product/solution category. Get a prioritized list of target accounts and buying groups with available budgets for your solutions by site location—minimum annual commit.

  • Do you offer professional services?

    Yes, we offer Platform Management and Execution, ABM Segmentation Services, Business Impact Analysis (for all tactics), and ABM Campaign Experience Design and Execution. 

  • Can you please describe your pricing for various service levels?

    The Platform Management and Execution service is priced at $750/quarter per Ad, Retargeting or On-Domain banner program, ABM Segmentation Services is priced at $3000 per quarter for up to 10,000 accounts, Business Impact Analysis (for all tactics) is also $3000 per quarter, and ABM Campaign Experience Design and Execution is quoted by SOW.

  • Does a dedicated CSM come with every tier of account?

    Yes, subject to Customers signing up for, or renewing annual contracts.

  • Are support options available for our Account-Based programs?

    Yes, Kwanzoo Customer Success and Support Services are included with annual contracts. Enhanced Customer Success services (managed services) are offered at the rate of $750/quarter per Ad, Retargeting, or On-domain banner programs over and above what’s included with quarterly program minimums. Additionally, the Customer Success Engagement Model is provided to all Customers.


Pricing, Service, and Support

  • I understand that you want to bill quarterly, but if we are running a campaign that needs to last a set amount of time, can we have spread out the ads served across a longer time period, such as 4 or 5 months? If so, will we have access to the UI for this additional time as well?

    Yes, you will have ads served during the entire 4-month period (not just access to the UI during the 4th month). The pacing of media delivery is typically a decision between the Client and our CS team, so this will not be a problem.

  • Instead of paying the entire program cost up front, can we split our payment timing so that half is paid at the beginning of the quarter and half is paid at the end of the quarter?

    We absolutely want to earn your business, which is why we have discounted our ABA CPM pricing, leaving us with hard costs for the media and data. Floating hard cost is a significant risk we are willing to take in exchange for an annual commitment based on outcomes. I can go ask our Head of Operations and the Finance team, but I am not hopeful that they will view this ask favorably. All of our clients pay us on a quarterly upfront payment model and there is significant exposure for us with our media partners, around the delayed payment. Our payment terms are Net 30.

  • What are the estimated costs for professional services for initial setup?

    All setup and configuration are included in the cost of the platform. There may be additional fees for managed services at the program management level should the client require support.

  • Does your company provide Account Based Marketing services such as creative, experience, and program management?

    Yes, we provide full creative services and experience design as well as managed services. Creative service is an agency-type model based upon client scope and our managed services is a per program model with minimum quarterly and annual paid media budget commitment. We also provide strategic services to support the proper implementation utilization of the entire martech/sales tech stack.


     A. If yes to question 2, what are the lowest and highest fees associated with this service for Saas for a 1-year term? The average client of your size not wanting to assign an employee to operate our platform will pay 12-15k annually for our CS team to completely manage the platform, build, optimize and report on all programs as an extension of your team. 


    B. What are the determining factors around those fees? Client preference, our platform requires minimal management as you can see by the fee above, any digital marketer, even a jr. employee can manage the platform.

  • What are the estimated costs for professional services for initial setup?

    All initial setup and configuration are included in the cost of the platform. 

  • Are there separate modules that make up your offerings and if so, what is the pricing model?

    Yes, we package our products into three core offerings: Account-Based Advertising, Account-Based Selling, and Account-Based Intelligence. Account-based Advertising programs start at $35,000 per quarter. Reach and engage buyers from your target accounts, and bring qualified traffic to your website—a minimum of one-quarter commit per program. Account-based Selling programs start at $22,800 per year. Convert engaged accounts to sales opportunities through your SDR/BDR team includes 1MM ads for site retargeting, account-level analytics off your website, personalized on-domain banners, and a Sales UI providing insights on target buying groups for your SDRs/BDRs within Salesforce.com. Minimum annual commit. Account-based Intelligence starts at $10,000 per year for one custom topic (e.g., application security, supply chain management). Topic is built specifically for your product/solution category. Get a prioritized list of target accounts and buying groups with available budgets for your solutions by site location—minimum annual commit.

  • Do you offer professional services?

    Yes, we offer Platform Management and Execution, ABM Segmentation Services, Business Impact Analysis (for all tactics), and ABM Campaign Experience Design and Execution. 

  • Can you please describe your pricing for various service levels?

    The Platform Management and Execution service is priced at $750/quarter per Ad, Retargeting or On-Domain banner program, ABM Segmentation Services is priced at $3000 per quarter for up to 10,000 accounts, Business Impact Analysis (for all tactics) is also $3000 per quarter, and ABM Campaign Experience Design and Execution is quoted by SOW.

  • Does a dedicated CSM come with every tier of account?

    Yes, subject to Customers signing up for, or renewing annual contracts.

  • Are support options available for our Account-Based programs?

    Yes, Kwanzoo Customer Success and Support Services are included with annual contracts. Enhanced Customer Success services (managed services) are offered at the rate of $750/quarter per Ad, Retargeting, or On-domain banner programs over and above what’s included with quarterly program minimums. Additionally, the Customer Success Engagement Model is provided to all Customers.


Personalization

  • Can we use personalized ads (company name is dynamically inserted into the ad from the target account list) in an account based advertising program? What about during a trial program?

    Yes, we support this at an additional cost. There are two use cases: (a) personalized on-domain banners and (b) dynamic ads with account names dynamically inserted into the ad. It's a $3 CPM add-on to your CPM pricing for the website page views, or dynamic ads served. It would be outside the scope of this initial POC, but we can offer it to you after getting past the opt-in via an SOW add-on to the current contract. 


Program Launch

  • Will we see significant results within a week of our account based advertising or retargeting ad campaign? When is a good point to start reviewing results and optimizing our programs?

    Please note we will be limited by the 4-month pacing goal of how many ads served in the first week after launch. There is also a period when cookies are syncing at the DSP early on, and ad volumes go up. You can learn more about this from our CS team. While there will be some brand exposure across your target accounts, we would caution you on expecting significant results within one week of launch for this specific webinar.


Reporting and Activation

  • What information can we get on engaged unknown visitors?

    We report on the account (i.e., Company) of the anonymous buyer (unknown visitor), their seniority and job function/department, geolocation, specific product/solutions of interest (based on the ad creative clicked or pages visited), live chat interaction through Drift. We can additionally show session time for this visitor in Google Analytics. Kwanzoo places a Website Visitor Tracking (WVT) tag on our Customer’s website. When a visitor (also known as target buyer) visits the website, the WVT tag identifies key attributes of the target buyer from a third party cookie on the buyer’s browser to resolve to the buyer’s account (e.g., HPE Inc) and persona (e.g., VP of Marketing). The buyer account, persona, and geolocation are mapped through Kwanzoo’s Salesforce UI that connects into LinkedIn Sales Navigator to map to a set of relevant contacts. These buyers have NOT filled out a lead form on the Customer’s website, and therefore these buyer attributes from third-party cookies are the best alternative way to track down these buyers for further Sales outreach.

  • What information is available for engaged contacts (i.e., job titles, job roles & geo)?

    For known contacts in MAP (e.g., Marketo), we track the engagement data as if they were an anonymous buyer/visitor. The information we can capture for Known Contact interactions is the same as for anonymous buyers as described above. We also provide a “jump out” or link to LinkedIn Sales Navigator, so the SDR / BDR can track down all key information about this known contact or anonymous buyer. 

  • Do you have reports for buyer engagement that shows ad impressions, clicks and website visits?

    We offer several different reports, in multiple report formats and data formats, on buyer engagement. The Account Engagement Report (AER) shows a list of engaged accounts for any duration rank-ordered by the aggregate number of ad clicks and website visits across multiple buyers from that account. The Sales Insights Report (SIR) shows each individual engaged buyer’s journey - from ad clicks to website visits, to live chat, and more. The Buyer Engagement Report (BER) shows a cumulative trend graph by a week of account-level engagement across multiple buyers from that account. We additionally provide a reach report that shows the complete list of accounts that had ads served.ABA Email Targeting - Target and serve ads to prospects based on their email address by uploading in-house or 3rd party email lists and matching them to online cookies. These cookies resolved from the contact’s email address are then used to serve ads. 

    • ABA IP Targeting - Map the list of target accounts to a set of business IP range(s) for each account. Serve ads to target buyers that browse the web from those accounts. Track and report on buyer engagement in terms of the specific accounts that Sales should pursue further conversation.
  • Are you able to include engagement data from Marketing Automation, CRM, and other 3rd-party systems (e.g., Engagio) to rate spiking accounts?

    We can support this requirement through a business impact analysis and reporting engagement through the Kwanzoo CS team. This is not a native capability in the current Kwanzoo platform. We will need to export Kwanzoo’s engagement data feed, push the data periodically into a BI / Analytics platform, and build out the integrated account engagement views/graphs across Kwanzoo’s engagement data for anonymous buyers and the known contact engagement data that is retrieved from the Customer’s MAP, CRM, Engagio and other related systems.


Targeting

  • What methodologies do you use to identify relevant contacts for account based programs?

    We support multiple third-party data provider partners for targeting the right accounts, buying groups, and specific buyer personas at those accounts. We can also start with contact data from our internal marketing database (email contacts) that match the target accounts and buyer personas. When starting with accounts and personas, we use Bombora and Oracle|Bluekai to identify relevant cookie-based audiences for those contacts. Alternatively, when we source email addresses, we match them to online cookies using 180byTwo and other cookie-to-email matching partners to identify those contacts online for ad targeting. Finally, for specific global geos where we do not have cookie reach, we support IP-based identification of buyers at those accounts, so we can serve ads and engage those buyers.

  • What percentage of contacts are identified via cookie vs. IP?

    Kwanzoo identifies the target buyers that engage with the Customer’s display ads or visits the website using third-party cookies (and IP as a backup strategy). Cookie-based identification of any specific target buyer can be up to 40% of the time that Kwanzoo’s platform attempts to resolve the account and other buyer attributes.

  • What other technologies does Kwanzoo leverage for targeting?

    Besides third-party cookie targeting using Bombora and Oracle|Bluekai based audiences (also known as ABA Cookie Targeting) Kwanzoo additionally offers ABA Email Targeting and ABA IP Targeting:

    • ABA Email Targeting - Target and serve ads to prospects based on their email address by uploading in-house or 3rd party email lists and matching them to online cookies. These cookies resolved from the contact’s email address are then used to serve ads. 
    • ABA IP Targeting - Map the list of target accounts to a set of business IP range(s) for each account. Serve ads to target buyers that browse the web from those accounts. Track and report on buyer engagement in terms of the specific accounts that Sales should pursue further conversation.
  • What plans are in place to supplement the loss of browser cookies as they continue to lose support?

    There is a move across the industry from third-party cookies to first-party (opt-in) cookies. These are cookies directly set by the marketer or advertiser with opt-in by the target buyer or prospect. Kwanzoo has recently started work on building out first-party cookie support within our platform. We will enable support of first-party cookies as target buyers visit our Customer’s websites. We will additionally enable placement of first-party cookies when the Customer’s SDR and BDR team sends out Sales emails to their target buyers and prospects. Finally, we will enable the serving of different display ads to audience segments created off the direct “first party cookie” audiences that are created and managed by Kwanzoo for our Customers on our DSP media delivery platforms.

  • Can you segment target account contacts by titles, geographies, and intent data?

    Yes, we support segmentation based on different personas from job titles that are mapped to job levels (senioritis) and job functions, across global geos. We can apply intent data to account selection. We can also apply intent data to narrow down the account-based third-party cookie audiences to those buyers that are demonstrating intent around specific topics.

  • Which DSPs are used and what is the size of the available pool?

    Our primary DSP partners are DV360 (Google), Xandr/AppNexus & Adelphic. We can additionally serve out ABA cookie-based, email, and IP targeting programs through a range of additional DSPs (MediaMath, TheTradeDesk among others). We are able to set up advertising programs on DSPs to match specific industries and global geos that we want to target. We recommend third-party ABM audiences with 20,000+ cookies to deliver deeper engagement from target buyers across a set of target accounts.

  • Can you please describe the method of maintaining recency & accuracy of data?

    We refresh our third-party cookie audiences at a minimum quarterly (i.e. every 90 days) from our data partners. Our data partners regularly refresh their active cookie pools to make sure the cookies are actionable and active in our account-based audiences used for targeting. We also refresh IP data associated with target accounts quarterly (i.e. every 90 days) from our IP data partner. Our email data that is used for ABA email targeting programs are refreshed overnight (i.e. every 24 hours) from our data providers.

  • Do you have dynamic target audience segmentation based on engagement/intent, and triggering into next funnel actions?

    Many of our Customers work with the Kwanzoo CS team to define target audiences that are specific to key industries, account stage in their pipeline (prospect, active opportunity, customer, partner), persona. Audience segments for retargeting are segmented by the target buyer’s actions on the Customer’s website (i.e. specific pages visited, or landing page sections and content consumed). Ad creative messaging is then tailored to specific target segments. Building the proper “next funnel stage” actions requires planning and experience design. Kwanzoo provides this as an add-on service through our CS team.

  • Is programmatic ad serving rotational or behavioral based?

    We support individual campaigns with multiple ad creative. The specific ad creative from that campaign that is presented to the user is based on round-robin ad serving and the selection of a creative at random to be served. We additionally support setting up multiple retargeting programs. Each program is associated with a specific retargeting audience segment. The retargeting audience can be assembled based on the target buyer’s on-site behavior (i.e. pages visited, landing page content consumed).

  • How should we provide the personas we are targeting for our ABA and ABS programs? Is there a template for this process?

    Please refer to the Personas tab from this template for examples of the data format we need.

  • We are close to finalizing our target account list. Will you be able to take it and quickly tell us how many of the accounts you will be able to reach through your network?

    Yes, that's a standard process for us. Once you have supplied us with additional accounts and personas, we will send you a google sheet template to fill out and share. Our CS team will share back available cookies and help select the right accounts to launch. We will cover this and more as we walk you through our onboarding process once we have the contract in place. We will introduce you to your Kwanzoo CS contact, I will be on the call for the handoff, and we will make sure you have all the help and support you need from our team. 

  • Do target account lists need to be uploaded in a specific template? Can we sync to an account list that is already in our database/CRM?

    Here is the template to fill out in two tabs -  e.g.: (a) the account list - we require account names / IP domains and country (which we know is the United States).


Timeline

  • How long should we expect to launch a program once onboarded? For the fastest program launch, what do you need from us and when?

    As soon as we receive your account list, we can set up the ABM cookie audience, push it to DSP and work on the launch. It takes 5-7 days from when we push the audience to activate at the DSP. If we can finalize/sign the contract today/tomorrow and provide us with the account list, we will get the audience creation going. Our CS team will then discuss creative, LP URLs, pixels/tags, and an onboarding call (ideally Monday). The retargeting ads will take a bit longer as it requires some level of site traffic to build.

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