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. Bottom-of-the-Funnel (BOFU).

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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. According to SiriusDecisions Demand Waterfall , the middle of the funnel is the area where the marketing to sales hand-off (MQL to SAL) and the sales development representative (SDR) to account executive (AE) hand-off (SAL to SQL) happen.

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PureB2B

JUNE 9, 2022

Demand generation marketing is often measured by the amount of revenue you can influence over a set period of time, or as most marketers call it, lead generation. From a demand generation perspective, generating a lead that is engaged with content consumption, versus one that is passive, makes a huge difference.

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Engagio

JANUARY 20, 2024

Her passion for marketing shines through as she stresses the importance of a well-rounded knowledge base and assembling a strong leadership team to allow for a laser focus on strategy. With a thoughtful approach, she highlights the power of alignment, focus, and prioritization across teams to enable organizations to adapt quickly to changes.

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PureB2B

MAY 10, 2022

Demand generation marketing is often measured by the amount of revenue you can influence over a set period of time, or as most marketers call it, lead generation. From a demand generation perspective, a lead that’s engaged with content consumption versus a passive lead can be the difference between closed-won and closed-lost.

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PureB2B

JULY 27, 2020

Creating these sales-ready leads historically has fallen to outbound sales teams, but due to the recent dramatic changes seen in the B2B landscape due to Covid-19 , there is an opportunity for marketers to implement lead development processes that will yield more sales meetings without the lead churn typically seen in outbound sales.

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PureB2B

JULY 27, 2020

Creating these sales-ready leads historically has fallen to outbound sales teams, but due to the recent dramatic changes seen in the B2B landscape due to Covid-19, there is an opportunity for marketers to implement lead development processes that will yield more sales meetings without the lead churn typically seen in outbound sales.

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B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Brand marketing has been particularly susceptible to this way of thinking in the B2B space. Some marketing pundits have asserted that brand marketing is no longer important for most B2B companies and that new marketing techniques have made B2B branding largely obsolete. This is blindness."

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We’ll focus on three things: Identifying and reaching target accounts. Figuring out who we want to target. Identifying and reaching target accounts. Odds are, you already have a list of accounts that you’re going after (and if you don’t, read all about how to make segmented account lists here !),

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Rev

JANUARY 18, 2023

Whether you’re working at a startup or a large enterprise, demand generation marketing is too good for business to ignore. If you apply what you’re about to learn in this guide, you can start to harness the power of demand generation (demand gen) to increase your sales pipeline with quality leads.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

An intent-based email marketing campaign is one that targets prospective buyers as soon as they show interest in a particular topic. At this time, there are a handful of companies in the B2B space (known as third-party intent data providers ) that can provide you with data on what your prospects are learning and talking about online.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Clean and accurate data is always top-of-mind for B2B marketers because without it, your demand generation team can’t send relevant content to leads and your sales team can’t tailor their conversations with leads during each step of the buyer’s journey. First, let’s talk about data.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 29, 2016

Even more exciting is that our integration enables an expansion of this offline conversion concept to a much broader set of use cases that apply to all marketers , B2B marketers included. Here are a few examples of offline conversion events that come to mind: MQL (marketing qualified lead). Target account. Increase MQLs.

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Launch Marketing

MAY 3, 2023

B2B marketing campaigns can be a work of art, with many components and elements contributing to the overall success. The main objective of these campaigns is demand generation. Generating awareness and in the long run leads and customers can start from one B2B marketing campaign. So, where should you start?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Author: Adam Hutchinson Like the middle child, the middle of the demand generation funnel receives far less attention than it deserves. At Socedo, as well many other B2B organizations, our marketing team focuses on facilitating a successful hand-off to sales. What is the middle of the funnel?

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 2, 2019

Today’s marketing success relies heavily on deep analytics—analytics that allow marketers to act smarter, faster, and with more thoughtfulness than ever before—to not only gain the attention of today’s savvy B2B buyer, but to engage, nurture, and enable that buyer through the end of their decision-making process. Let’s dive in.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The answer is simple: predictive lead scoring enhances your demand generation funnel and works alongside your existing lead scoring. The webinar will highlight how TrackMaven is using Fliptop and Marketo together to better qualify marketing leads, improve MQL to SQL conversion rates, and drive predictable revenue.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2017

It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Focused Team-Leader skilled in consistently delivering innovation, visibility, and sales for on- and off-line marketing and demand programs.

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SWZD

MARCH 15, 2018

When we asked Lynn how CA goes about segmenting target customers, she said with her design background she naturally thinks in terms of people, their needs and user experiences. It’s critical,” Lynn said, “otherwise, without this information, you might be targeting the wrong products to the wrong people.”. Market Segmentation.

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The ABM Agency

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Our recent webinar on the difference between account based marketing, demand generation and B2B lead generation. Well welcome everyone to the ABM agency webinar around demand gen lead gen and ABM. So, you know, creating that personalized content for you know, one to one account outreach is super critical.

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PathFactory

MAY 28, 2019

The marketing qualified lead (MQL), as B2B marketers know it, is dead. Okay not totally dead, but let me explain… If you’ve ever been a B2B buyer, you know what it is like to try to access a white paper that’s hidden behind a gate. On the flip side, as marketers, we rely on these forms for lead generation.

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Metadata

JANUARY 8, 2024

Liam Barnes , Head of Demand Generation at Bionic, whipped out the 2023 version of this adage during his DEMAND session : “If you don’t measure them your campaigns, you’re screwed.” As a demand generation marketer , you’re under more pressure than ever to prove your paid campaigns are driving pipeline and revenue.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 25, 2012

A scheduled series of targeted emails and flow steps takes the campaign participant on a journey to marketing qualified lead(MQL). Those with high lead scores, based on their demographics, participation in this campaign, and participation in other campaigns (online and off) are then sent to sales as a marketing qualified lead (MQL).

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Engagio

JUNE 4, 2023

Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of being part of two revolutions: the advent of demand generation fueled by marketing automation, and the breakthrough of account-based marketing brought to life by ABM platforms. None would be flagged as an MQL, but there’s clearly something brewing.

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SWZD

JULY 31, 2019

Demand Generation at MicroStrategy. How does a company bring together its demand generation data from disparate silos to create a unified strategy? This was what we learned in the fascinating conversation we had with Elizabeth Clor , Vice President of Demand Generation at MicroStrategy. About MicroStrategy.

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6sense

JANUARY 11, 2022

Be held accountable, using pipeline growth as a key KPI . Another group chatted about the Dark Funnel — the anonymous “digital breadcrumbs” that B2B buyers leave behind as they conduct research. Demand generation. Accept the fact that MQL is dead. Remember: your target account list is not aspirational.

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Traditional Go-to-Market (GTM) processes – and technologies – are built around the lead, the individual buyer who progresses along your funnel until becoming a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) and is then passed like a baton from Marketing to Sales. This is your one-stop on-demand streaming hub for all the latest in B2B Go-To-Market.

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that and we’re going to attempt to explain why that is, and how to best navigate this challenge to ensure that your demand generation needs don’t fall by the wayside in the process. The Marketer’s Demand Generation Challenges. Sales Development Process Falling Under Sales Leadership.

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that and we’re going to attempt to explain why that is, and how to best navigate this challenge to ensure that your demand generation needs don’t fall by the wayside in the process. The Marketer’s Demand Generation Challenges. Sales Development Process Falling Under Sales Leadership.

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Inbox Insight

MAY 7, 2019

A step-by-step guide to turning knowledge about your target DMU into actionable buyer personas. This article is part of our marketing mini-series on B2B Marketing Segmentation , designed to help marketing professionals advance their targeting techniques to drive performance. Reading time: 4 minutes. DMU Buyer Persona Template.

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6sense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Marketing and sales teams are increasingly using predictive intelligence to uncover insights into their customers and prospects from the data generated by their campaigns, captured by their marketing technology stack and created by their prospects across the broader B2B web. Account-Based Digital Advertising.

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6sense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Marketing and sales teams are increasingly using predictive intelligence to uncover insights into their customers and prospects from the data generated by their campaigns, captured by their marketing technology stack and created by their prospects across the broader B2B web. Account-Based Digital Advertising.

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PathFactory

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It’s hardly a shock that traditional B2B marketing tactics aren’t cutting it anymore. Gated landing pages, 30-page whitepapers, and disjointed resource libraries just aren’t cutting it with today’s B2B buyers. Today’s buyers are demanding a better buying experience. Today’s buyers are demanding a better buying experience.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2016

It was a great gathering of B2B thought leaders, innovators, and account-based marketing practitioners that highlighted how marketing and sales professionals are winning with ABM. Prioritize resources to select proper accounts and contacts. He drew the funnel on a napkin and then flipped it on its head.

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SWZD

AUGUST 1, 2019

Demand Generation at MicroStrategy. How does a company bring together its demand generation data from disparate silos to create a unified strategy? This was what we learned in the fascinating conversation we had with Elizabeth Clor , Vice President of Demand Generation at MicroStrategy. About MicroStrategy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 18, 2017

I still remember the incredible energy, passion, and enthusiasm shared by thousands of Marketo customers, partners, employees, and industry thought leaders to this day. Learn from the brightest minds in the industry and stay up to date on trends, tips, and ABM best practices in these thought leadership sessions.

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SnapApp

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The lead gen funnel is a tool for defining who your best leads are, understanding where they are in the lead generation process, and outlining how your business will move leads down the funnel and have them come out at the end as paying customers. . . Despite this, 68% of B2B organizations have not mapped out a lead gen funnel! .

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