Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2014

the marketing automation space is due to grow by 60% this year and reach overall revenues of $1.2 The continued rise in revenue is indicative of the increased sophistication of the B2B market and the need for marketers to be more strategic in driving demand for their organizations. So where is the disconnect?

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Valasys

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

On the 30 th of September 2019, BrightTALK announced its new insights tool to aid in the level of precision of its buying intent-based marketing product named Intent Leads. The tool helps customers gauze the buying behaviors of their niche-specific prospects.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. But they’re just that: tools.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Ask yourself and answer these questions: Do I understand my buyers’ buying cycle? You need to be able to map out your typical buyer’s buying cycle. It is the basis of any good nurturing campaign since you will building your nurturing campaign content and messages on each step of the buying cycle.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2012

by Jon Miller Marketing automation is a technology that streamlines and automates marketing tasks so companies can increase operational efficiency and grow revenue faster. In other words, companies don’t buy marketing automation to automate their marketing. Consider just a few studies.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. But I can share some examples and insights that should help any new team.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. But I can share some examples and insights that should help any new team.

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 30, 2020

Marketing technology buyers are results-driven and often choose vendors that are leaders in their field. If you want to reach the right people , generate leads and convert these leads into sales , it’s crucial to know how your audience think. The more expert content vendors can get out there, the better their brand awareness.

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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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Crimson Marketing

JULY 23, 2015

Once a lead is qualified and converted into an opportunity, Marketing can continue to help in the following ways: Pipeline acceleration programs to help Sales with more individualized programs for opportunities that haven’t moved forward. More target marketing touches to help Sales get a prospect moving.

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6sense

JUNE 16, 2016

Demand Generation Is a Game of Diminishing Returns . With experience in B2B marketing comes the knowledge that finding the right audience is more than half the battle. Pivotal purchasing decisions in companies are made over the span of many months and include large buying committees. The missing ingredient was scale.

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6sense

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

If you enjoy the blog post, learn more at our webinar: Making Account Based Marketing Work with Marketo’s VP of Demand Generation Heidi Bullock. Demand generation is the lifeblood of a strong revenue engine. Incorporating analytics into demand generation processes is essential to achieving this goal.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

When talking to sales professionals about following up with webinar attendees, the most common complaint I hear is: “The webinar attendees aren’t the decision makers.” The rise of webinars Webinars have become a key strategy for B2B marketers in the content marketing mix.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs. Not every action needs to be scored.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Debbie Qaqish is Principal Partner and Chief Revenue Marketing Officer for demand generation agency, The Pedowitz Group. A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue. But all is not lost.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Its one thing to know the demographics of your target audience; but it’s another thing to understand what makes your prospects make business decisions to purchase; the pain points; business needs; drivers; purchase cycles. D- Demand Generation. M- Marketing Automation. N- NuSpark Marketing.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Marketing Expertise. B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Demand Gen and Lead Management. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. News & Events. Sales Empowerment. Bottom-line Results. Technology Expertise.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 17, 2009

By the way: on August 19th Marketo has a webinar about lead nurturing and on August 20th Silverpop has a webinar about lead scoring (hopefully a recording will be available afterwards). Both vendors suggest to look at conversion metrics between buying stages: from inquiry, via qualified lead and opportunity to a closed deal.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Understand the power of social media and search engines in the buying process; and do consider more time/resources/financial allocation towards inbound marketing and demand generation strategies that attract prospects to your funnel. Those objectives include revenue, market share, branding, and lead generation objectives.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Honeywell, (NYSE:HON), Fiberlink (an IBM company), Intralinks and SevOne have recently turned to Vidyard to maximize their ROI on video and become more strategic with their demand generation and content marketing programs. They use video at every stage of the buying cycle to engage, educate, qualify and convert business.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Honeywell, (NYSE:HON), Fiberlink (an IBM company), Intralinks and SevOne have recently turned to Vidyard to maximize their ROI on video and become more strategic with their demand generation and content marketing programs. They use video at every stage of the buying cycle to engage, educate, qualify and convert business.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Honeywell, (NYSE:HON), Fiberlink (an IBM company), Intralinks and SevOne have recently turned to Vidyard to maximize their ROI on video and become more strategic with their demand generation and content marketing programs. They use video at every stage of the buying cycle to engage, educate, qualify and convert business.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

To find answers to that question, I went to HubSpot’s Lead Generation Marketing Hub and I found an incredible video featuring Holly Allison , vice president of marketing at Vico Software , a successful Boston-area startup that provides construction software to engineers and contractors.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Not a sophisticated strategy, but referrals were obviously effective and this was a time before the demand generation marketer even existed (at least under that moniker). Nowadays, there are much better ways to do this for the investment industry and beyond using a marketing automation platform.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. Passive reading of your content will not move the prospect any closer to his/her decision to buy from you.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2011

by Jason Miller Part two of the follow up from our Reaching the Social Customer webinar features our very own Jon Miller, VP of Marketing and co-founder of Marketo. Jon shares his thoughts on content marketing, lead nurturing, social media, and lead generation responding to your questions that were unanswered during the live webinar.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

I am referring to updating, maintaining and sometimes marketing their industrial websites. My opinion is somewhat biased because I am an industrial and B2B marketing consultant. I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites. Is that a good thing?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims. Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Scott is responsible for digitally driven demand generation and he discussed how he is taking the wealth of online information available to marketers and turning it into actionable insights. This data then helps to create the messaging that HP delivers in their marketing. It’s about people selling to people,” he says.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. You can read his entire blog post here.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

It is heartening to see that content is at the center of most discussions about the state of B2B marketing today. However, industrial marketers face a challenge when it comes to producing a steady stream of fresh content to keep their target audience engaged. This kind of sales oriented marketing content is no longer effective.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

It seems obvious that there is a big disconnect between the goals of B2B content marketing and true customer engagement. It is not just a matter of measuring better ROI metrics or using the tools of marketing automation du jour. How about you, do you see the disconnect? Leave a comment and share your thoughts here.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Savvy B2B email marketers are being very creative in order to rise above the noise, get their lists to open their emails and take a desired action. Are you targeting final decision makers, users and/or influencers? WHAT : What do you expect your list to do? According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

However, it is not so easy to translate features into benefits that really engage and speak directly to your target audience. I have come across two tools for helping you dig deeper and create marketing content that focuses on benefits over features. and professor of marketing at the University of Missouri.

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