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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The momentum and uptick in company growth can be attributed to sophisticated B2B marketers embracing growth-focused demand generation technologies, and autonomous marketing operations as a vehicle for scale. Demand marketers from companies like Zoom, Pendo, Thoughtspot, Okta, Workato, and Vonage have experienced as much as a 4.5X

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Demand generation and lead generation are essential for any company. Your business growth will stall. Demand and lead generation are the lifeblood of any growing company. What is Demand Generation? What is Lead Generation? Lead generation comes after demand generation.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 24, 2021

Is it time to add chatbots (or live chat) to your demand engine? Chatbots are the perfect tool to improve your website conversion rates while seamlessly fitting into your demand engine. Email and social media campaigns are proven ways to generate demand through content. What are You Looking for Out of This?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Last November, after much consideration of alternatives , I settled on Alexa three-month Web traffic rankings as a reasonable way to measure the relative market presence of demand generation vendors.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 25, 2021

That piece of AI technology is revolutionizing the buyer journey today, and it may make you wonder: Is it time to add chatbots (or live chat) to your demand engine? Chatbots are the perfect tool to amp up your website while seamlessly fitting into your demand generation engine. What are You Looking for Out of This?

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 10, 2020

Marketing as a business discipline is ever-evolving. This is particularly true for Demand Marketing, which today finds itself at a crossroads. Answering the question, “What is Demand Marketing,” requires some context – particularly given a substantial shift in its core mission over the past twenty years.

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SnapApp

JANUARY 15, 2019

In the same way, if you tried to build a B2B demand generation strategy based on faulty assumptions–or outright myths–you’d probably fail, too. Demand generation marketers, in particular, have a patchwork of myths to work through. The more pitfalls you can avoid as you plan a B2B demand strategy, the better.

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PureB2B

JULY 2, 2019

After countless conversations with demand generation marketers, it is apparent they are being held to the fire for “better leads” that convert higher and show more signs of being in marker. Find the highest quality that combines persona based targeting and intent data so you can cost effectively funnel those buyers.

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PureB2B

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Demand generation and lead generation are essential for any company. Your business growth will stall. Demand and lead generation are the lifeblood of any growing company. What is Demand Generation? What is Lead Generation? Lead generation comes after demand generation.

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Inbox Insight

JANUARY 14, 2022

Inbox Insight, a technology focused leader in B2B Content Amplification and Demand Generation announces a MBO supported by Mobeus Equity Partners. The recent transaction was funded by Mobeus alongside vendor and management, with no third party debt funding. The MBO was completed on 29th December 2021.

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PureB2B

JULY 14, 2020

The secret sauce is in engaging those in your target persona who have a need/challenge/problem that your solution will solve for. Inbound lead generation challenges are on the rise: On average, inbound lead traffic to B2B technology companies’ websites has declined by more than 40% since 2010. Tough crowd).

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PureB2B

JULY 14, 2020

The secret sauce is in engaging those I your target persona who have a need/challenge/problem that your solution will solve for. Here’s why it should be the foundation of your 2H: Inbound lead generation challenges are on the rise: On average, inbound lead traffic to B2B technology companies’ websites has declined by more than 40% since 2010.

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PureB2B

JULY 14, 2020

The secret sauce is in engaging those I your target persona who have a need/challenge/problem that your solution will solve for. Here’s why it should be the foundation of your 2H: Inbound lead generation challenges are on the rise: On average, inbound lead traffic to B2B technology companies’ websites has declined by more than 40% since 2010.

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SmartBug Media

AUGUST 28, 2019

Allow me to introduce you to something that 87 percent of businesses are already using as a marketing tool: video. Here are six reasons why you need to start using video in your demand generation efforts right now. Video marketing is amazing for demand generation and can be used in every part of your flywheel.

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Metadata

JULY 29, 2020

As we talked about in the last post , I’m proposing a new way to think about account-based marketing (ABM) and how it relates to Demand Generation for 2020. You Need Engagement AND Demand Marketers are still left with a problem. You need programs and technology focused on the demand generation side of your funnel.

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The Point

JULY 17, 2017

Demand Gen Report has published the results of this year’s “B2B Buyer’s Survey,” and the trends identified merit close attention for those marketers involved in B2B demand generation and content development. IMPACT : Use ABM strategies to deliver personalized, relevant content to specific buying roles within large accounts.

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

One of the best things about working as a Demand Generation consultant is that I get to constantly learn new things. This is no slight to the technology vendors. Looks like it’s going to be a busy year. Whether it’s a new industry, product or technology, there are never two days alike and never a lack of things to learn.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. So rather than review them in depth (you can read Manticore’s press release for details), I’ll look at Manticore’s broader business approach as outlined by Marketing Vice President Christopher Doran. First some background.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. The system is aimed at small business but offers an interesting design lesson for everyone. But on reflection I realized that Net-Results offers a full set of demand generation functions.

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The blog series covers how to create a budget, build an ABM team, get your data ready, select your target accounts, personalize your content, and measure and realign. This image illustrates the difference in thought process between a traditional demand generation approach and an ABM strategy. This is it.

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The Point

JUNE 24, 2022

All this and more is documented and analyzed in an informative new report from TrustRadius: “ 2022 B2B Buying Disconnect: The Age of the Self-Serve Buyer ”, the latest version of an annual survey that reviews changes in business technology buying and selling. ( Visit the TrustRadius blog to read a detailed summary and to access a free download.).

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 25, 2013

Last October, KoMarketing Associates announced the launch of research consultancy Software Advice’s B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Survey. In a poll of 155 primarily C-level marketing experts, social media received the largest percentage of votes for demand generation channels that marketers will spend more on in 2013.

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Aberdeen

APRIL 1, 2019

Mass email blasts have gone from engaging to spammy, leaving marketers to rethink how email fits into broader demand gen strategies. But you only see those returns if you’re able to target the right contacts with the right messages at the right times. Improving Account List Segmentation.

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Belkins

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Influence marketing , growth hacking marketing, and now…demand generation marketing, what even is that?!’ To make things easier for you, let’s break down the meaning of demand generation marketing and see why you should do it (and why you’re probably doing it right now). What does it stand for?

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Rollworks

JULY 21, 2019

While launching campaigns quickly may work for more traditional demand-gen tactics, account-based marketing requires a bit more research and groundwork to ensure success. According to TOPO , account-based organizations created a new opportunity for every five accounts they targeted. We’ll get to that now.

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 16, 2021

This short article identifies key shifts in gear when it comes to segmenting and targeting B2B audiences. Interrogating customer databases and constructing carefully thought-out ideal customer profiles (ICP) have enabled B2B marketers to better understand and identify those ‘best fit accounts’ worth investing resources behind.

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eTrigue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The concept of a “demand center” has emerged at the core of successful marketing organizations as a hub for shared marketing services, infrastructure and process to enable organizations to bring programs to market that leverage key corporate assets and best practices. Digital marketing has transformed how most organizations market today.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). To be fair, many of the vendors below charge an installation of that can be several thousand dollars or more, while Marketo doesn't. Pricing starts at $599 per month.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. So I was quite curious to see what they had to offer.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 8, 2009

I had an interesting email conversation last month with a Raab Guide buyer about the nuances of company-level data management in demand generation systems. He started from the perfectly reasonable premise that the demand generation system should give an overview of activity for all leads associated with a given company.

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PureB2B

JULY 2, 2019

After countless conversations with demand generation marketers, it is apparent they are being held to the fire for “better leads” that convert higher and show more signs of being in marker. Find the highest quality that combines persona based targeting and intent data so you can cost effectively funnel those buyers.

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Inbox Insight

MAY 24, 2024

When considering outsourcing your lead generation , selecting the appropriate partner is not just imperative—it’s critical for fueling your sales pipeline and enhancing your ROI. Without vetting potential vendors, there’s a tangible risk of allocating budget towards low-quality leads, affecting your sales funnel.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Marketers have traditionally been forced to make hard tradeoffs between their brand and demand activities and decide how to shift budgets when new challenges arise. In most cases, brand-building efforts typically lose out to demand as marketers focus on short-term initiatives to fill the sales pipeline and generate revenue.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 24, 2009

Summary: let's not forget that most companies are still not even doing simple demand generation. But then it was back to the bubble (so much more interesting than reality) with vendor meetings. The next step, which has barely begun, is for demand generation vendors to deliver solutions that support the new role.

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