Navigate the Channel

JANUARY 18, 2018

The new buzzword for improving interest in your products and services is demand generation , which is fast becoming a vital metric for many companies. Not only does good demand generation help the supply chain, it also leads to happier customers and more alignment between sales and marketing. Automate and Centralize.

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Metadata

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Demand generation just isn’t a subset of marketing. It’s no wonder then that, according to a recent survey, only 73% of those marketers feel they are somewhat successful in implementing data-driven demand marketing strategies. We’ll walk you through our approach to creating a winning B2B demand generation strategy.

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of B2B marketing, where competition is relentless, and digital marketing strategies continuously shift, the importance of Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) stands out like a guiding light. Must Read: MQL Criteria: Identifying Potential Customers Effectively Why Are MQLs Important for B2B Lead Generation?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“If your sales and marketing teams are not aligned, it’s going to be much more difficult to hit your number,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. You’ll spin your wheels and get frustrated, leading to turnover, lost productivity, and reduced budget because you can’t get a return on investment.”

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 22, 2012

A must-watch presentation, though, is the keynote address “ The State of Demand Creation “, by Tony Jaros , SVP Research for SiriusDecisions. The State of Demand Generation 2012. Why is demand generation so important? Create sufficient content (how can we possibly keep up with demand for content?).

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2020

Over the past few years, Account Based Marketing (ABM) has emerged to be one of the key components of demand generation strategies across all marketing organizations and it has been delivering tremendous results especially for growth marketing teams that are leading the charge for revenue marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 4, 2020

This added step of observing the current condition corresponds to the principles of Lean manufacturing and can, to this day, be found embedded in the Toyota Production System. Develop a new or improved design of a product, service, or process. Another variation is OPDCA, where the O stands for Observation.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

So if your ad is not getting clicked on, then it’s not going to be presented first or as often,” says Lauren Temmler, senior demand generation manager at ZoomInfo. But the more complicated your product is, the less likely suggested keywords are to be relevant. Although related, it’s probably not relevant to your product.

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Ledger Bennett

MARCH 11, 2019

TAKE THE DEMAND GENERATION MATURITY INDEX SURVEY NOW In fact, I can’t even count the number of times a CMO has pressured timescales. Greg Dorban Demand Generation Maturity. In order to guide conversations and manage expectations, we developed the Demand Generation Maturity Index. The index provides 4 main use cases for clients.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. At the bottom of the funnel, marketing helps close the sale by creating urgency and helping prospects make the business case for purchasing the product or service. What exactly is the middle of the funnel? Improve Lead Velocity with Lead Scoring.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

“Your company puts out products in the market to solve problems for people — which naturally begets the messaging,” says Mitchell Hanson, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. “In all likelihood, you’ll have multiple different messages because the product solves different things for different people.”

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Engagio

MAY 22, 2017

In 2006, SiriusDecisions introduced their revolutionary Demand Generation Waterfall, which defined the stages B2B orgs use to measure and optimize demand creation. Hence, in 2017, SiriusDecisions revealed their new Demand Unit Waterfall at SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit. Introducing the SiriusDecisions’ New Demand Unit Waterfall®.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL ) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Leads are no different. So, what qualifies as a good lead?

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MKT1

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Many founders, sales leaders, product leaders, and even marketers themselves think B2B marketing teams are just a service organization to sales—marketing only exists to generate leads this quarter. Own communication channels: Marketing should handle one to many communication and automating communication across multiple channels.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams. Getting Started with Marketing Automation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2017

People are leaving digital clues about their interests and intentions in many places across the web, including when they visit your website or click on your emails (1st party data), visit websites you don’t own, and go to social networks to discuss business issues and products (3rd party data). A Nascent and Confusing Market.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard AS runs a highly successful demand generation program, an integrated mix of both online and offline campaigns, to generate a consistent flow of leads to the company’s sales force. All campaigns were built and launched in Marketo, a leading marketing automation platform. This article originally appeared in Demand Gen Report.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 30, 2009

As a response to my posts 7 Reasons Why Marketing Automation Projects Fail and Marketing Automation ROI , several people mentioned that the benefits of Marketing Automation are not just increased sales. Marketing Automation Increases Revenue. Marketing Automation & Efficiency. Is productivity improved?

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SalesIntel

JANUARY 12, 2023

Businesses can use this information to inform better decisions, whether it’s maximizing productivity or optimizing marketing campaigns. Or, actionable data could be Buyer Intent data letting your marketing team know that a specific company is in the market for your product or service. Let’s go over a couple of examples.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Author: Mary Kate Francis If you’re a B2B marketer, you’re probably familiar with demand generation in one way or another. Maybe you’ve been working in demand generation for several years or you collaborate with the team on cross-channels campaigns. If they are, then the lead becomes a sales qualified lead (SQL).

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Engagio

JANUARY 20, 2024

Dowling covers several key topics, including the importance of clearly articulating marketing’s value and ROI, integrating brand and demand generation efforts, building alignment by collaborating with sales pursuits, prioritizing simplicity, and focusing on supporting team members. “I feel like MQL ‘s are totally useless.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 10, 2020

Once you know what makes someone a good fit for your offering and the actions that indicate they’re sales ready, combine the two to define a marketing qualified lead (MQL). A MQL could be qualified as good, bad, ready or not ready. Make the meetings as short, frequent, and productive as possible. Video on Demand.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 15, 2021

Shouldn’t sending people who actively engage and show interest in solving the problem be the core qualification for a marketing qualified lead (MQL)? Product pages can fall somewhere in the middle. If a lead submits a demo request, that’s an immediate trigger to MQL and a push to sales. Downloads and Events (webinars).

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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2015

As a B2B agency , our firm creates and executes dozens of email campaigns every month, and that experience tells me that a large percentage of B2B marketers, even at companies that otherwise do a very sophisticated job at demand generation , fail to measure or compare email campaign performance using any metrics other than opens and clicks.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

So if Bill watches a few minutes of your latest social video , but Sandra sits through a 30-minute product video who is the more qualified lead? Spoiler alert: this includes your marketing automation platform (MAP). In other words, what video should we score higher?

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6sense

JANUARY 20, 2022

We’ll continue to up our investments in the people and technology we need to deliver against our aggressive product roadmap vision and innovation strategy, including integrating recently acquired Fortella and Slintel. And, like all revolutions, a series of events need to come together at a moment in time to ignite demand for change.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Isn’t it demand generation with a new name? In the epiphany stage they want education and unique perspectives; in the awareness stage they want product information and subject matter experts (SMEs); and in the interest stage they want benchmarks and best practices.". Are outbound and cold calling really dead? Simplified. : "Trust me.

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PureB2B

JULY 7, 2021

Use Automation. You can deliver highly targeted communications to leads and cut the marketing cycle by using marketing automation solutions. Through helpful emails, follow-ups, social media involvement, and other methods, automated lead nurturing helps you connect with consumers and decide whether they are genuinely sales-ready.

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6sense

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Instead, marketing worked to build awareness through advertising, while in-house product marketers built messaging and content to support sellers and channel partners. Fortunately, as Cunningham explains, what the MQL approach gets wrong, the new web-enabled form of ABM gets right. Mass-marketing became commonplace. Scoring Errors.

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Modern B2B

JUNE 28, 2023

It’s funny, because he carries this around with him, bringing it to meetings and using it as a cue to anchor strategic discussions around customer experience, marketing technology, database structures, communications and automation. From this, you can design the workflows, personalisation and automation later in the journey.

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SnapApp

AUGUST 1, 2019

As a demand gen marketer, you’re responsible for building a pipeline your sales team can turn into revenue. You send over MQLs based on forms completed, events attended, white papers downloaded, or some combination of activities that yielded the right lead score. What is most important to you in a new product?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2013

Rockefeller were a marketer today, there is no doubt that he would be finding success using marketing automation for lead scoring, lead management, lead nurturing, and so much more. We spend a lot of money on demand generation programs that give us very little return. He even had physical plants to process oil “waste” products.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Deb Calvert, People First Productivity Solutions , President. There are many reasons for this, but also just as many opportunities for these groups to finally get on the same page and operate more efficiently, productively and successfully moving forward.” Dave Brock, Partners in EXCELLENCE , President.

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OutboundView

JANUARY 19, 2024

Automated Messaging on LinkedIn : The prevalence of automated bots on LinkedIn has diluted the impact of outreach on this platform. The sheer volume of automated messages has made it more difficult to engage buyers through standard LinkedIn messaging. The first was inbound leads and MQL (Marketing Qualified Lead) follow-up.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

They can focus their time on the leads that are more likely to turn into opportunities, and increase productivity. Maybe your partner webinars are a great source of opportunities, but your demand generation webinars aren’t. Win-win for all. Preparing for Successful Lead Scoring. You need to do a database audit. Check it out!

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DealSignal

MAY 8, 2023

If, like most B2B marketers, you’re measured on leads (MQL/SQL), pipeline (opportunity conversion), and contribution to revenue, time could be running out to hit your numbers for the quarter or even the year. By analyzing this data, businesses can identify accounts that are active in the market for their products or services.

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SnapApp

AUGUST 2, 2018

Gated PDFs have long been the cornerstone of B2B demand gen – but the download-MQL-sales call process is ineffective, and really not at all in line with how prospects actually buy today (check out our research into what your buyers really want during the process). We have soooo many PDFs!”. Marketers <3 PDFs.

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