Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

One of the goals of marketing is to generate leads. What is the next logical step once you have managed to get high quality leads? Yes, getting those leads into the sale pipeline. Salespeople need leads—right now. How do marketers overcome this roadblock? So marketing tries to feed the pipe. in January 2008.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content? B2B buying cycles are lengthening. And that requires a lot of relevant content mapped to each stage of that buying process.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 19, 2009

Sean is exposed on a daily basis to the latest best practices in B2B marketing and is chock full of practical demand generation advice. What are your top 3 tips to help B2B companies improve their demand generation ? Lead nurturing and lead scoring seem to be coming into the mainstream. Test social media channels.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

A messaging storyline for a marketing strategy is a documented approach to address the informational needs of each buying segment (persona), at each stage of the buying process in relation to the problems your offerings address. What obstacles must they overcome to buy? Blog Modern B2B Marketing Twitter Marketo InboundMarketer.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. This is our second joint endeavor on this topic. What’s making a comeback?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 10, 2015

Let’s explore… As a sales rep, I have to admit that Twitter rubbed me the wrong way once it started to go mainstream circa 2009. People buy from people and Twitter allows you to initiate a conversation with anyone around the world. In short, it seemed like a monumental waste of time. Let’s go deeper though.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

" Match Content to the Buying Process " Ardath Albee's Bio. Matching Content to the Buying Process is the Determining Factor for Content Development. When planning for content creation, B2B marketers need to take into account the information buyers need at different stages of the buying process. Ardath Albee.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

When I reviewed Right On Interactive in a July 2009 post , the company was selling its 5Buckets marketing software as a multi-channel output generation tool that complemented conventional marketing automation systems. lead scoring: users can define separate scores for customer fit and activities. But there's more.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Sewell is president of Spear Marketing Group , a full-service agency with offices in Silicon Valley and Seattle that specializes in demand generation, lead management, and ROI-based marketing. How to Choose Your Carrot: Effective Lead Generation Offers for High-Technology Marketers (White Paper). Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

In fact, 88% said Web sites were important in helping them decide what to buy. B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time.

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Velocity Partners

APRIL 16, 2024

The other day, I had the privilege of sitting down with Jon Miller, founder CEO of Marketo and Engagio and most recently CMO at B2B Go-to-Market powerhouse Demandbase. This is the sixth in a series we’re running about the new B2B GTM playbook. You can find the other five blogs in the series here. SW : Hi Jon. What are you seeing?

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Read these interesting blog posts on B2B marketing ROI: Kevin Joyce's Untangling B2B Marketing Campaigns ROI , Jon Miller's Improving B2B Marketing ROI: Thought Leadership With Merry Elrick , Tom Scearce's Three metrics that are more useful than Cost per Lead. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Get Customers. Ardath Albee.

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Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 18, 2010

50 newsletter signups (potential leads). Blog Demand Generation Twitter abneedles. Craig Rosenberg is Vice President, Products and Services at lead generation company Tippit. Prior to Tippit , Craig was a consultant helping venture-backed Silicon Valley startups build their inside sales and lead generation teams.

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. Get Content.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: How to use content effectively for demand generation? Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software enables marketers to build microsites and use content marketing to capture leads and nurture them through the buying process. Pricing starts at $199 per month for a single user and microsite, with no limit on the number of leads in the account, plus $8.50

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There’s a reason why everybody has adopted account-based, but traditional demand generation is fishing with a net, whereas account-based marketing is fishing with a spear. And if you like what you hear today, and I imagine you will, we have over 250 episodes available on demand at salespipelineradio.com.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Manager, Inbound Marketing, Marketo. David Raab , Raab Associates & author, Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep. Demand Generation?

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. Get Customers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Despite successful cost reductions that improved the bottom line, and in several cases resulted in attractive profits, Wall Street turned its attention on the top line, demanding to see more progress on revenue performance. This certainly isn’t an earth shattering call-to-action for CEOs. I face them as well. Viva la revenue revolution!

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

HP, P&G) to the channel… The Difference Between B2B Leads and Personas - Marketing Interactions , April 17, 2010 B2B marketers have relied on lead definitions to define their marketing programs for years. I wrote an eight part series on building an effective lead generation program a while back. I like numbers.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Certainly in this era where people actively seek information that is pertinent for their needs, questions or buying journey, personalized and valuable content is crucial. Whether it’s trying new business models or pioneering sponsored posts, he is our canary in the coal mine, exploring the leading edges of our field. know how to read.

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Single Grain

JULY 21, 2020

First of all, to answer the question in the title: Yes, Netflix is a SaaS company that sells software to watch licensed videos on demand. There is no need to deploy extensive infrastructure to install the SaaS software, and the need to buy additional hardware is also avoided. SaaS is not a new concept. B2B or B2C?:

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