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B2B Demand Generation Predictions for 2021

The Point

Will B2B marketing, and demand generation in particular, revert to “normal” once the pandemic subsides and economic recovery kicks in, or are recent trends destined to become staple tactics in the months and years to come? B2B Demand Generation Predictions for 2021 Click To Tweet. – Ben, Creative Director. “I

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How To Use the Hero’s Journey for Content Marketing: A Good Story Goes A Long Way

Marketing Insider Group

Here is another example from the world of blockchain: Prompted by the financial crisis of 2008, an anonymous developer (hero) seeks an alternative (journey) to traditional finance (enemy). Ask new writers to read the narrative as part of their onboarding process. Writer onboarding.

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Tech layoffs? Great companies are actively hiring marketing technology talent

chiefmartech

For my inaugural post in 2008 , I did a Google search for the phrase “director of marketing technology” It turned up 7,520 matches. That’s a clear signal of a profession in demand. There are many splendid varieties of marketing technologists. Maybe not bad.

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How Buyer Behavior Will Change Amid COVID-19

Tony Zambito

In the last 100 years, the Great Depression, War World II, 9/11, and the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis come to mind. The digitization of business models and processes will become more the norm as we endure at the minimum, the next two years. As noted above, buyers will demand insights from sellers and partners. Long-Term Outlook.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

But even including that, the first year cost for most of these will be less.) : Manticore Technology : a full-featured demand generation product. See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Just kidding.or Pricing starts at $599 per month. Maybe next week. [I

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Understanding the "Non-Rational" Dimensions of B2B Buying

B2B Marketing Directions

In 2008, two books - Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely and Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein - raised public awareness of behavioral economics and put it on the radar screens of business and marketing leaders. The work of these scientists laid the foundation for a new discipline that would later be called behavioral economics.

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Workforce Planning – Weighing People, Profits, and Potential Impact

Biznology

When the demand for services isn’t there, neither is the need for people to deliver those services. As a communications leader at a major film studio during the 2008 recession, we went through a situation similar to the one the world is experiencing now with COVID-19. Sadly, it all seems cold and clinical but it’s usually necessary.

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