Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

If you’ve been in the Marketing Operations or Revenue Operations world for a while, you’re probably familiar with demand waterfalls. The original demand waterfall was published by SiriusDecisions (now part of Forrester) back in the early to mid-2000s. We recommend using a lead-to-account (L2A) matching tool to do this for you.

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Tiecas

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a disruptive and transformative force in B2B marketing for industrial companies. This technological advancement offers unprecedented opportunities for personalization, efficiency, and insight- and data-driven strategies, enabling marketers to meet the complex demands of the industrial sector.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Been part of numerous B2B marketing analytics journeys across various organizations, I have been witnessing how data and analytics have become the core of modern B2B marketing execution. CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Been part of numerous B2B marketing analytics journeys across various organizations, I have been witnessing how data and analytics have become the core of modern B2B marketing execution. CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Been part of numerous B2B marketing analytics journeys across various organizations, I have been witnessing how data and analytics have become the core of modern B2B marketing execution. CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders.

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Automated Lead Qualification, also known as Automated Lead Scoring, has emerged as a dynamic tool to streamline and enhance this vital process. What is Automated Lead Qualification? Automated Lead Qualification leverages specialized software and algorithms to mechanize and optimize the lead qualification process.

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SalesIntel

JANUARY 12, 2023

The year has just started, and like every year so far in the 2020s, it’s on track to be a challenging and unique experience in marketing. Making sense of this data is essential for marketing teams. That’s where a B2B data provider comes in. You see the high buying intent for the company in your data platform.

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Modern B2B

JUNE 27, 2019

These days the traditional services offered by an agency aren’t enough. As clients build out their capability with internal agency functions, they’re looking to external partners that are more than just service providers. More and more, clients are bringing services in-house – certainly the bigger clients we deal with.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2017

This type of data can help you identify in-market buyers who haven’t yet engaged with you, prioritize your existing leads, nurture leads with personalized emails, invest in advertising more strategically, personalize your website, and more. This data then helps organizations determine where to aim their outbound marketing efforts.”.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Some of the statistics that have attracted marketers to ABM include: 87% of account-based marketers say that ABM initiatives outperform other marketing investments ( ITSMA ). 80% of marketers say ABM improves customer lifetime values, while 86% say it improves win rates. Evaluate Marketing Technology You’ll Need.

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6sense

JANUARY 20, 2022

And we’ll aggressively address the growing demand from the Financial Services, Manufacturing, and Health and Life Services industries, eager to transform their go-to-market capabilities. . At no time in the history of B2B sales and marketing has there been such a need for this kind of profound transformation.

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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 top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

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Metadata

APRIL 25, 2023

We spared you the pitch slap in 6 Reasons You Shouldn’t Buy Metadata to help demand gen marketers learn why Metadata might not be the marketing OS for them. To help demand gen marketers feel more confident about buying Metadata before the DocuSign email comes through. The goal this time around?

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The Point

JANUARY 27, 2016

Demand Gen Report just published “ Top B2B Marketers Measure Lead Nurturing Effectiveness to Boost Performance ,” a special report in which they address the whys, whats, and how tos of measuring lead nurturing’s true impact. Most of our clients follow the SiriusDecisions waterfall model (MQL, SQL, etc.),

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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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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. As the market evolved, so too did the thinking about how to go to market. Introducing the SiriusDecisions’ New Demand Unit Waterfall®.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Marketing Automation is on its way to the peak of the hype cycle. People start adopting software because it’s cool, not because they know what to do with it. However, there are a couple of B2B Marketing experts who understand how to avoid inflated expectations. An MQL is also called a sales-ready lead.

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SnapApp

AUGUST 2, 2018

We’ve added a new tool to the SnapApp platform – SnapApp for PDF – that’s going to dramatically change how you approach your standard white papers and ebooks. We constantly are looking for customer feedback and incorporating new ideas into our platform and tools based on what marketers need. Marketers <3 PDFs.

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SnapApp

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We all know how fast demand generation evolves, and we need to evolve with it. To give you some inspiration – or maybe just to back up what you’ve already decided to do – we’ve assembled ten proven tactics for demand generation success in 2019. Think Beyond Personas (B2B customers are B2C customers, too). And it should.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard® Availability Services™ ( Sungard AS ) in Wayne, Pennsylvania is a global leader in disaster recovery, business continuity, and managed IT services. 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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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2015

No matter what your marketing resolutions this year – more content, better creative, etc. – Since email continues to be a dominant channel for most B2B marketers, let me suggest that a good candidate for #1 on your “to do” list for 2015 is to improve the way you measure email campaigns. MQLs/Cost Per MQL.

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The Mx Group

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Without a doubt, B2B marketers face challenges in creating meaningful marketing reports. In fact, according to Demand Gen Report’s 2018 Marketing Measurement & Attribution Benchmark Survey , just 7% of U.S. I’m sure your technology budget is already strained and you don’t want to just plug in more platforms.

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SnapApp

AUGUST 2, 2018

We’ve added a new tool to the SnapApp platform – SnapApp for PDF – that’s going to dramatically change how you approach your standard white papers and ebooks. We constantly are looking for customer feedback and incorporating new ideas into our platform and tools based on what marketers need. Marketers <3 PDFs.

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Only B2B

MARCH 7, 2018

Guide To Choosing The Right Demand Generation Partner For Your Business Needs. If you are reading this, you are thinking of outsourcing demand generation for business this year. Are you expanding your business and need someone to get you a rock-on demand generation strategy? Know your needs first. Explore processes WITH them.

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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.

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DealSignal

MAY 8, 2023

The eye in the sky doesn’t lie Best marketing play to quickly and effectively put more points on the board Leverage Your B2B intent data Run personalized email campaigns Work closely with your sales team Enrich your inbound leads Run pre-event marketing campaigns Is your team prepared to run the winning marketing play?

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Your demo request form may generate high quality leads, but your content syndication platform may not. Maybe your partner webinars are a great source of opportunities, but your demand generation webinars aren’t. Do you have an append service to fill in missing information? 7 B2B Lead Scoring Best Practices for 2021.

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6sense

JANUARY 26, 2016

published a report looking ahead to what they believe will be B2B marketing’s new mission in 2016. The report highlights new marketing strategies, predictive analytics, marketing automation tools and content messaging. Marketing will continue to transform from an art to a science.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 20, 2015

These include: Lead and demand generation: How are we attracting and engaging the target audience in building a consistent flow of prospective buyers? You’ll also want to pull engagement reporting out of your marketing automation platform and CRM. Step 3 – Data Analysis. Step 4 – Results and Report.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. You need to rethink your business model first and fast.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

by Fergus Gloster Marketing automation solutions bring significant benefits in terms of demand generation to a wide range of companies. It’s very clear that marketers can now generate, score and nurture leads to a level that was not possible just a few years ago.

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6sense

APRIL 13, 2016

In their March Tech Go-to-Market report, Gartner notes that “predictive lead scoring is now a “must have” for B2B technology marketing leaders with high volumes of leads from inbound channels and events.” It also speaks to the live implementation of predictive tools and the tangible economic impact organizations are seeing.

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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. With marketing automation you can follow John D.

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Engagio

JANUARY 12, 2021

In the past five to ten years, B2B CMOs around the world have made great strides in improving marketing analytics. But with the rise of Account-Based Marketing, B2B marketers need new metrics—ABM metrics—to guide how they measure and prove their results. ABM requires account-based metrics. Enough said. (OK,

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

Author: Jingcong Zhao At this point, many marketing organizations have adopted a digital marketing platform. Your prospects are bombarded with pitches from different vendors. Using Social Intent Data in Your Marketing Campaigns. There’s a wealth of behavioral data that exists within social media platforms.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Everyone talks about the importance of tracking data and making decisions based on it, but no one tells you how to do it and what a data-driven marketing organization looks like. Here at Marketo, the marketing operations team owns all things data–cleaning our lead database, appending data from 3 rd party sources, and segmenting our data.

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