SmartBug Media

APRIL 15, 2020

We juggle lead generation, demand generation, CRM management, partnerships, teammate training, securing buy-in, and so much more. Among all the responsibilities, one that continues to be a challenge is generating the right amount of traffic and leads for organizations. Stage: Top of funnel.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A prospective client asks: “We’re just getting our demand generation programs ramped up, and I’m not sure I’m ready for marketing automation. Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. It enables you to deploy lead nurturing programs that are more timely, relevant, and, ultimately, effective. Comments welcome.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

It expects to focus on finding trigger events and advising salespeople about the best ways to approach each prospect. 6Sense finds new prospects using behavioral data gathered from a network of "several thousand" Web publishers rather scanning public sources like others in this list.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 19, 2009

Sean is exposed on a daily basis to the latest best practices in B2B marketing and is chock full of practical demand generation advice. What are your top 3 tips to help B2B companies improve their demand generation ? Lead nurturing and lead scoring seem to be coming into the mainstream.

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 12, 2023

Here’s a list of 10 leading platforms to consider for your platform: HubSpot : This tool excels in lead generation and allows businesses to create and automate detailed, personalized workflows. Moreover, nurtured leads make 47% larger purchases than non-nurtured leads.

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The Point

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Progressive profiling is an ideal method for capturing both additional demographic data (company size, industry) to drive campaign segmentation, and behavioral data that can help identify hot leads. Landing pages help drive further engagement. You’ll never know if your content was read by someone else.

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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. Email campaigns can execute as batch projects or trigger dialogs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

On Monday, Genius.com announced “the first free, instant-on demand generation solution”, a description carefully crafted to distinguish their offering from the free version announced by LoopFuse in June. So far so good, but let’s be clear: the proxy server only captures visits that begin with a Genius-generated URL.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Users can import lists, compose and send emails, build landing pages, execute multi-step event-triggered campaigns, monitor Web behaviors, score leads, exchange data with SugarCRM or (soon) Salesforce.com , and run reports. **sigh**) The system also provides a solid set of standard capabilities.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

We nurture our prospects and customers with the goal of increasing conversions and generating revenue, yet many of us are struggling to engage enough of our audience via email. Rather than sending out an email once a week, we send out behavior-driven emails as soon as our prospects take relevant actions (i.e.

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Cintell

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Erika has over 15 years of B2B marketing, public relations and demand generation expertise. At ANNUITAS Erika manages all aspects of marketing including demand generation, content marketing, social media and public relations helping to build pipeline and drive results for the ANNUITAS team.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com. In Fernandez’ view, this reflects a fundamental philosophical difference from his competitors: Marketo sees marketing as reacting to prospect-initiated behaviors, not executing company-driven interaction paths.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Instead, links embedded in a Genius-generated email point to a proxy server that relays the visitor to company Web pages but keeps a record of the interactions as they pass through. This allows it to track all site visits, not only those routed to the proxy server by a Genius-generated link.) So much for the theory.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 3, 2009

I think one mistake many marketers make is to think of their lead management requirements too narrowly — and to be honest, quite a few demand generation vendors make this mistake as well. Lead scoring to know when to pass leads to the sales team – and when to keep them in marketing for further nurturing.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Lead Nurturing Marketing Management 48

The Point

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

A client asks: “Now that we have our marketing automation system in place, is it really necessary to use registration forms in our lead nurturing (follow-up) campaigns? After all, we already know who these people are, correct? Can we do without?”.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Behavioral tracking methods through marketing automation follows a user’s path through your website and helps your marketing team understand prospects’ interests and where they are in the purchasing lifecycle. Pros: The User Interface is simple, clean, and streamlined for the demand generation marketers.

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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. Combining List- and Trigger-Based Campaigns.

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markempa

AUGUST 30, 2011

In many industries, for example, executives are scrutinizing much smaller transactions, so lead generation, lead nurturing and sales enablement tactics must address this shift in buying behavior. In such cases, lead nurturing and campaigns targeting more senior executives can be of value.

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The Point

OCTOBER 26, 2010

It works in tandem with inside sales by eliminating the chance that new leads will go without follow-up due to issues of bandwidth or lack of profile data (i.e. which leads merit sales investment and which don’t.) Tags: B2B Marketing CRM Database Marketing Lead Management Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Aside from enhanced revenue and ROI tracking, the biggest difference for companies making the transition from an ESP will be the ability to create automated, multi-step, triggered campaigns. Increase the rate and volume of qualified leads passed to field sales.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2011

by Jen Howard Events are a vital component of demand generation and brand reinforcement platforms and represent a huge slice of total B2B marketing spend. One of Marketo’s most significant events to attend and sponsor is Dreamforce ; every year we make an effort to get the most from this critical industry-leading conference.

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PureB2B

MARCH 22, 2017

It has withstood the test of time and remains a strong force to contend with in lead generation and management, as well as customer engagement. Putting segmentation into action enables you to track your leads’ activity according to what category they belong to. Plus, let’s not forget email. Offer Well-Tailored Content.

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Email Marketing Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads 80

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 30, 2009

My personal definition of demand generations systems (see Introduction to Demand Generation Systems from the Raab Guide site) explicitly states that they do not incorporate sales automation. See Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems? for whether this will change.)

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. Ardath Albee's blog Marketing Interactions.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 27, 2020

It is no secret that personalization is incredibly influential on consumer behavior. Once you get this right, you can use “ website heatmaps ” to track user interactions with various elements of your pages and find out exactly how these elements influence their behavior in conjunction with your copy and content.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 17, 2009

The heart of my presentation on Wednesday ended up as a list of 37 “best practices” for marketing automation / demand generation programs. A bit of context: the presentation listed a sequence of steps for marketing campaign creation, deployment and analysis. The marketer assembles information about the target audience.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 6, 2010

Summary: Genoo provides a simple Web site, demand generation and social marketing for $199 per month. I’m somewhat grandly labeling it a “Web marketing system” rather than “demand generation” because its microsite could replace a small company’s primary Web site. Each lead can be tagged with multiple lead types.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Treehouse has since enabled imported data to trigger campaign actions, and promises behavior-based triggers in the near future. The system can now generate HTML code to embed forms within external Web pages, allowing users to create standard Javascript or Facebook -compatible non-Javascript versions, or both.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2010

It feels like every month a new marketing automation vendor hits the scene making grandiose promises ranging from immediate ROI increases to more effective marketing to the delivery of lead management.    While marketing automation can automate lead management, it cannot deliver lead management. 

Work Management 100

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

There is an amazing amount of great content about B2B marketing out there, ranging from trends in demand generation to best practices in lead nurturing, lead scoring, and landing page optimization to how to buy and select marketing automation systems. Lead Nurturing: Triggered Emails, Newsletters and Webinars (blog post).

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Martech

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering numerous benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. Target customers. Target customers. Target customers.

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