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Demand Generation Strategies & Lead Management Processes First

ViewPoint

Lack of clarity and erroneous assumptions about demand generation, lead management and marketing automation are effectively addressed in two recent Software Advice whiteboard videos by Carlos Hidalgo, CEO, Annuitas Group , and Executive Director, Marketing Automation Institute. Nonexistent lead management processes.

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Demand Generation and Lead Management Explained

The Effective Marketer

Last week Carlos Hidalgo , CEO of the Annuitas Group , shared on the Software Advice blog a nice video explaining two basic concepts that are often used interchangeably by vendors and even analysts in the Marketing Automation space but should in fact be treated as separate concepts: Demand Generation and Lead Management.

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4 Ways to Optimize the Middle of the Funnel | Lead Management

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

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. Accelerate More Leads from Specific Segments.

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Demand Generation – It’s Not That Easy

ANNUITAS

*This post first ran in the ANNUITAS blog on March 27, 2014. As we go into event season-it’s good to remember that building a Demand Generation Strategy isn’t easy. Is success on impacting pipeline and generating demand really just a few simple steps away?

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3 Common Mistakes in Demand Generation

ANNUITAS

Three common mistakes can wreak havoc on demand generation planning, no matter how ready you think you are to move forward. However, without sound strategy that puts the buyer as the focal point, new content is at risk of missing the mark with target personas and ultimately, buyers. Trust the process.

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A Structured Approach to Demand Generation Analytics

ANNUITAS

Demand generation leaders know it’s not true, though. So what is the key to better demand generation analytics? How can we better tie buying and content/channel interactions to opportunities and closed revenue in a closed-loop fashion — to fuel our demand process optimization ? Garbage in; garbage out.

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Enterprise Demand Generation: How Are You Doing?

ANNUITAS

There are some great studies out there focusing on content strategy (specifically) or buyer behavior, but nothing that really shines a light on how large companies run Demand Generation … with an emphasis on large. The research survey is targeted to those in the demand generation function in large, enterprise B2B organizations.