Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I have invited our Panel of B2B Marketing Experts to reflect on 2009 and answer the following question: What was your aha moment in 2009 ? Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. Mapping Content to the Buying Process - Slidecast. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. MarketingSherpa.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 100

LeadSloth

MARCH 15, 2009

It is focused on advanced email strategies, which is an important part of the demand generation process. The focus is on list- and trigger-based emails and on landing pages, rather than on the full Lead Management Automation functionality. Most of the case studies seem to be B2C rather than B2B.

Landing Pages 100

Landing Pages Multi-Channel SMS Trigger Marketing 100

markempa

AUGUST 15, 2006

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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B to B Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Lead Generation 120

B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 1, 2021

The chart shows that from 2000 through 2009 there was a strong correlation (r = 0.992568) between the divorce rate in Maine and the per capita consumption of margarine in the United States. The data does show there was a correlation between the use of predictive analytics and the effectiveness of the respondents' demand generation process.

Customer Surveys 52

Customer Surveys Correlation Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 52

Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 8, 2019

Key Topics: B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, and Marketing Technology. And the buying process needs to be made as easy as possible. In 2009 I dove headlong into working with Eloqua and Salesforce and at that point I was hooked on designing demand generation workflow and measuring results.

Marketing Budget 108

Marketing Budget Budget Programs Demand Generation Agencies Work Management 108

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Eloqua “ The Business Case for Integrated Demand Generation ” offers data from Forrester, CSO Insights and several Eloqua clients. CSO Insights, “Optimizing Lead Generation: What’s the Payback,” 2006 Best in Class Average % higher % reps making quota 66.1% The data is a couple of years old but still valid. 51% win rates 55.6%

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Marketing Qualified Leads 120

Mereo

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This pattern is similar to what we saw in the 2008 / 2009 recession. With an abundance of data available at their fingertips, sales and marketing teams found themselves struggling to filter through the vast amount of information generated by AI systems. When they did not have that clarity, they froze.

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Terms and Conditions B2B Thought Leadership Marketing Management Peer-to-peer 45

Directive Agency

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The Oldest Demand Generation Agencies Demand generation is not merely a buzzword. Essentially, it’s a multi-step marketing process, designed to build and nurture interest in a company’s products or services. Today’s demand generation is a refined process, backed by data and technology.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

How can you efficiently nurture those long-term prospects, learning more about their interests in the process, until they are really ready to engage with sales? Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. Many marketers are starting to get this.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 100

ANNUITAS

JANUARY 10, 2011

Steve has nearly 20 years of experience in brand building, demand generation and corporate marketing. Many demand generation models were first built five or more years ago, and next year will see some updating of those tools based on contemporary marketing approaches. Happy 2011! In your opinion, why is that?

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Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 100

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement. “Only in the last third of the today’s purchasing process do buyers want to engage with sales reps.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 100

B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 9, 2016

The PA report was prepared by a well-known research firm, and the primary focus of the PA survey was to show the impact of predictive analytics on the B2B demand generation process. The PA survey asked participants to rate the effectiveness of their demand generation process as Effective , Neutral , or Ineffective.

Research 40

Research Correlation Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 40

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Good stuff. System scope also extends to inbound marketing.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

markempa

MAY 13, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation ROI Top of Funnel B2B Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

So I believe the future lies with integrated marketing automation systems that combine many different functions while sharing data and processes whenever possible. All that’s missing to be full-blown demand generation system is outbound email and lead nurturing campaigns—which the company has announced it will add.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

markempa

APRIL 5, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Generation Leads Lead 120

markempa

APRIL 19, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Generation B2B Thought Leadership Leads 120

NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Any demand generation expert worth her salt (and consulting fee) will advise you to segment your sales leads. In its simplest form, segmentation is the process of sorting the names in your lead database into neat little piles. Forbes labels those of us over 50 as Generation Wang (as in Wang Laboratories ).

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Segmentation Work Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 100

markempa

JANUARY 24, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Who owns the feedback process: marketing or sales?

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Generation Leads Lead 120

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. campaign reporting: users can manually enter campaign costs, target revenue, and actual revenue.

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

In this 2 nd phase, released in September, 2009, the companies partnered with research firm OTX to validate their findings but this time they presented the survey respondents with actual search engine results pages. This allowed the research to quantify very few differences in actual behavior vs. reported behavior.

Paid Search Agency 100

Paid Search Agency Web 2.0 Customer Satisfaction Keywords 100

markempa

OCTOBER 28, 2005

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Generation B to B Leads 120

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

You need to have a process in place for your content optimization to evolve over time. Keep in mind your marketing content may exist in various forms and formats; company website, blog, email campaigns, press releases, marketing collateral and social networks. Some of these marketing assets will change over time.

Optimization 60

Optimization Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. Sounds simple, right?

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Web 2.0 Allocation 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Over the past six months, their website traffic is up 89%, their free download program is up over 200% and they’ve generated over 1,500 leads. In the video below, Holly explains their process. All I can say is WOW! Listen to her carefully; there are some awesome sound bites and plenty of key takeaways in it.

Budget Programs 60

Budget Programs Education Marketing Budget Lead Scoring 60

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Specifically the convergence of branding and demand generation. 2009 and 2010 became the years of analytics, where marketers began to realize the necessity of possessing activity intelligence. The idea behind activity intelligence is gaining the insight into what potential buyers are doing throughout their research processes.

Demand 48

Demand Brand Identity Branding Demand Generation 48

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Summary: a new survey suggests that marketers are less focused on lead generation than on final sales, growing current customers and building online communities. I don’t know quite what to make of the 2009 Survey on Marketing, Media and Measurement released earlier this month by custom content company King Fish Media. -

Social Media 120

Social Media Customer Surveys Social Marketing Media 120

markempa

AUGUST 30, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Generation B2B Thought Leadership Leads 120

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Passive reading of your content will not move the prospect along in his/her decision making process. A content audit is a process of mapping out the content you already have and matching it to the content you will need as determined by your marketing goals and/or new site map. He/she must take a desired action for that to happen.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

They forgot to first set a strategy that carefully targets prospects with relevant messaging. The tools are wonderful – they do indeed automate many of the tasks you listed (email handling, lead management, nurturing, etc.). But here’s the thing: Inbound Marketing Automation, like most complex issues, is a Process.

Marketing Automation Services 60

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Even though more than half of the marketers saw their roles expanded well into the sales process, 58 percent of those surveyed met with sales just once a month or less and 8% or nearly 1 out of 10, admitted to never meeting with their sales counterparts.

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Web 2.0 B2B Marketing 60

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 6, 2009

damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20. combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0 damphoux : Tom Barrieau, IDC demand generation / lead qualification largest segment of budgets right now #sales20. greenleads : "Sales 2.0

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Marketing BtoB Lead Scoring 120

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The “Mapping Marketing to the Transforming Buying Process,” report released by DemandGen Report revealed serious disconnects. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO. There is a breakdown between the customer’s reality of engagement and the B2B marketer’s perception of it.

B2B Marketing 60

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The chart below shows the variety of content used at different stages of the industrial buy cycle (Source: Understanding the Industrial Buy Cycle: How to Align Your Marketing with Your Customers’ Buying Process from GlobalSpec). In this post, I’m going to focus on content for the early stages of the buy cycle.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 60

markempa

APRIL 3, 2006

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Lead Generation 120

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