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The State of Demand Generation

The Effective Marketer

The State of Demand Generation 2012. Buying cycle control (you need to facilitate the buying process and understand what is required of you as a result). Buying cycle control (you need to facilitate the buying process and understand what is required of you as a result). Content Creation Challenges.

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Key Takeaways from IDC’s 2012 CMO Advisory Service Best Practice Series: Realizing the Vision of the 21st Century Lead Management

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman IDC recently released their 2012 CMO Advisory Service Best Practices Series: Realizing the Vision of the 21st Century Lead Management. Passionate and a problem solver: enthusiastic about relevant topic or skill, pushes boundaries, intelligent, likes to learn, wants to be the best. Productivity improvement.

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How B2B Buyers Really Use Social Media: Insights from the 2012 Buyersphere Report

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Note: The report surveys buyers in the UK, France, Germany, and Italy so is obviously focused on European buyers, but I believe the insights below are relevant to all markets.). Some key findings: Overall use of social media in buying is still somewhat low. The full report can be downloaded at [link].

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B2B Lead Generation: The Best of PowerViews

ViewPoint

Rich Vancil, IDC, talked about the need to focus on sales enablement as his advice to CMO’s for 2012: Click to start video at this point —In response to a CMO asking him for one area to focus on for the balance of 2012, Rich recommends sales enablement. Buying cycles are changing.

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32 Influential B2B Social Media Profiles (People) to Follow on Twitter

KoMarketing Associates

Research from Optify’s 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report supports these statements. While the report reveals that, in 2012, social media as a whole brought in a smaller fraction (5%) of traffic and leads to B2B websites, it shows great potential. Director of #Marketing and #Content #Strategy @SAP. Video Gamer.

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PowerViews with Tim Riesterer: Targeting Prospects via Status Quo Clusters

ViewPoint

2012 Surprise: Getting the “At Bats” — But an Increase in “No Decisions”. Click to start video at this point — Asked about what has or hasn’t happened in marketing and sales in 2012 that surprises him, Tim notes that lead generation and sales activity are up—providers are getting the “at bats.”. The Perils of Ignoring “Why Change?”

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Content Investments Effective When Aligned to Facilitate Buyer’s Journey

The ROI Guy

Marketers continue to invest a substantial portion of their marketing budget on content, with new research from the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs indicating that content currently consumes 26% of marketing budgets on average. And the challenges don’t end there.