ANNUITAS

MAY 21, 2020

Throughout my career at ANNUITAS, I have probably spent more time thinking about and enabling Marketing Attribution models than any other activity. Over the years, I have seen Marketing Attribution models transform from a nice-to-have tool to help demonstrate marketing’s performance into a must-have core business planning component.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Also not surprising, nearly every facet of the Salesforce portfolio received an injection of GenAI – with the Marketing Cloud platform perhaps receiving the most generous dose. Common AI Use Cases Made Safer in Marketing Cloud Salesforce previously announced that its Marketing Cloud would support generative AI use cases.

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Marketing AI Marketing Analytics Tools Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 130

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Do you have a marketing professional on your list this year? From keeping the business afloat during “unprecedented times” to staring down the barrel of an impending financial downturn (and not to mention layoffs) it has been quite the year for marketers! . Marketing can’t live with them, but can’t live without them.

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Planning Work Management Marketing Management High Quality Lead 130

ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Once upon a time, there was a marketer named Randolph. Randolph, let’s call him “Randy,” lived in upstate New York as a marketer. Not just a marketer, though—Randy considered himself a growth marketer, and he had a vision. There was no time or appetite to revamp their entire marketing strategy.

Marketing Analytics Tools 130

Marketing Analytics Tools Planning Peer-to-peer Ideal Customer Profiles 130

ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Our marketing and sales motions are the lifeblood of our top lines, yet too often, when they are not delivering, we are unable to objectively assess what is going wrong. I’ll talk more below about ‘what’ the ANNUITAS Go-to-Market Assessment is, but first I’d like to talk about ‘why’ we need this assessment.

Planning 130

Planning Paid Search Agency Marketing & Strategy Act-On 130

ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In fact, according to Sherpa’s 2012 Lead Generation Report, 64% of respondents say they are passing all responses from marketing campaigns directly to sales. To be clear, lead nurturing is not an isolated activity or a stand-alone “campaign” as so many in the industry have described it. Clearly, not best practice. 4 The impact?

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Go-to-market strategy and execution is rapidly evolving – driven by a combination of customer drivers, technology innovation and changing organizational strategy. Budget issues: Amid uncertainty, driven by the Fed’s rate hikes, CFOs began slashing marketing and sales budgets in late Q3 of 2022. This may never change.

Marketing Analytics Tools 130

Marketing Analytics Tools Paid Search Agency Planning Budget Programs 130

ANNUITAS

MARCH 4, 2020

The Growth Marketing movement (aka growth hacking ) – now nearly ten years old – has had a significant and positive impact on the efficacy of demand marketing. Yet ‘first generation’ Growth Marketing has hit a wall. Yet ‘first generation’ Growth Marketing has hit a wall. It’s time for Next Generation Growth Marketing.

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Growth Marketing Top of Funnel Demand Enterprise Management 247

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For decades vanity metrics have been the guiding light for measuring marketing success – largely because the capabilities didn’t exist to measure closed-loop KPIs. As a result, marketing has become thought of as a cost-center with very little measurable output. Here are five vanity metrics your marketing team needs to be wary of. .

Blast Campaigns 147

Blast Campaigns Elasticity Eye-Tracking B2B Thought Leadership 147

ANNUITAS

JANUARY 21, 2020

How to know if your marketing and sales efforts are eroding your growth. How would you describe your current marketing and sales motion? If you had another dollar to invest in sales and marketing, do you know what impact it would have? How do you know if you engage in random acts of marketing? Build a brand.

Ideal Customer Profiles 238

Ideal Customer Profiles Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Budget Programs 238

ANNUITAS

JULY 29, 2020

ANNUITAS CEO Adam Needles recently discussed what makes up a Strategic Demand Marketing Plan, one of the main offerings of what we do at ANNUITAS, in this eBook. Stay tuned each week as we explore what strategic demand marketing really means, and showcase how it can truly provide lift to your opportunity pipeline. .

Planning 162

Planning Demand Marketing Plans Paid Search Agency 162

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 4, 2016

B2B marketers are always pressed for time. Marketers build strategies, run programs, manage technologies and teams, so how do we make the most of our time? Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are often referred to as the “Swiss Army Knife” of technology. Here are a few marketing automation hacks you need to try: Tokens-.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Work Management 230

ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A key component to success is demand marketing programs that repeatably contribute real, measurable pipeline lift. But far too many demand marketing programs are stuck a tactical, activity-based status quo. Because of this legacy, the rest of the organization often thinks of marketing as a cost-center and a tenuous relationship exists.

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Demand Work Management Budget Programs Planning 130

ANNUITAS

APRIL 29, 2021

Go-to-market strategies have an Achilles heel. You have a clear go-to-market approach, but you cannot operationalize it. As a result, your go-to-market unspools as an infinite string of random acts of sales and marketing. Consider this challenge: You have a clear idea of who you want to target. INSIDE-OUT VS. OUTSIDE-IN.

Planning 130

Planning Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Cold Calling 130

ANNUITAS

MARCH 19, 2020

Business leaders and marketing and sales teams are struggling now, more than ever, to not only drive new demand, but to replace the loss of existing demand in the marketplace. Whether it’s trade shows, local events or more intimate sales dinners, in-person interactions are a much relied-upon component of every company’s demand marketing mix.

Top of Funnel 232

Top of Funnel Planning Demand Elasticity 232

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 4, 2016

B2B marketers are always pressed for time. Marketers build strategies, run programs, manage technologies and teams, so how do we make the most of our time? Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are often referred to as the “Swiss Army Knife” of technology. Here are a few marketing automation hacks you need to try: Tokens-.

Marketing Automation Services 181

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Work Management 181

ANNUITAS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Would You Change Your Marketing Team KPIs If You Could? In 2018 we began to evaluate our own buyers as part of an internal marketing exercise. As we interviewed our buyers, we realized that more and more of the prospects reaching out to us (and partnering with us) were not marketers. “ 54.7%

CMO 164

CMO Demand Generation Business Correlation 164

ANNUITAS

MAY 28, 2020

A few weeks ago, my colleague Scott Parent wrote about the immediate impact the COVID-19 pandemic was having on marketing. In it, Scott offered four actionable ways to quickly and effectively shift your demand marketing plan to accommodate the changing business environment. But he didn’t just present these ideas in a blog post.

Top of Funnel 147

Top of Funnel Demand Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 147

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The quest for excellence shouldn’t be confused with pursuing perfection, yet it’s a trap many marketers fall into. Many enterprise marketers get caught up in producing the “perfect” campaign or the “perfect” web site. So, what’s a marketer to do? Perfect is the enemy of Good.

Enterprise Management 212

Enterprise Management Demand Generation Deliverability Marketing & Strategy 212

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I just received the latest issue of ABM in Action (October 2016), a monthly eMagazine dedicated to Account-Based Marketing from the publishers of Demand Gen Report, and I had to comment on the lead article. It is near impossible to demonstrate value when the approach to marketing changes continually…”.

Account Based Marketing 168

Account Based Marketing Marketing Management Planning ABM 168

ANNUITAS

MARCH 18, 2019

Battling Random Acts of Demand Marketing. A recording is now available for the March 2019 Demand Marketing webinar featuring speakers Mika Yamamoto (VP/GM of Marketo, an Adobe Company) and Adam Needles (CEO, ANNUITAS) titled Digital Demand Transformation – Demand Marketing’s Next Step.

Demand 113

Demand Planning Paid Search Agency Webinar Metrics 113

ANNUITAS

JANUARY 21, 2016

Tactical marketers are everywhere – cloaked in their favorite colors from the branding guidelines, blasting the database while crouched behind a promising mission statement. The problem with being a tactical marketer is that it doesn’t typically drive perpetual revenue. These are the questions a strategic marketer asks. #2:

Tactics 100

Tactics Top of Funnel Demand Generation Buyer Personas 100

ANNUITAS

JULY 31, 2014

While the research is still ongoing there have been some key findings in the area of content marketing that are quite revealing. There seems to be quite the disconnect between what marketers are saying “we have a content strategy” and what they are actually doing. Marketers Have Traditionally And Still Do Focus on Tactics-.

Webinar Metrics 100

Webinar Metrics Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy Buyer Personas 100

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

This was my third consecutive Content Marketing World (this was the fourth edition of the show), and I couldn’t help but notice a pretty radical shift from years past. Once upon a time, the focus was on the actual creation of content in all of its flavors: How do I convince my boss that content marketing is important?

Content Marketing 100

Content Marketing Planning Content Demand Generation 100

ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Account based marketing (ABM) has been a popular technology for years , but it’s always fallen short of expectations. While companies learned to efficiently handle the data and implement systems, the concept has consistently slipped farther down into the Digital Marketing Trough of Disillusionment. Stop campaigning.

Account Based Marketing 147

Account Based Marketing ABM Ideal Customer Profiles Ad Building 147

ANNUITAS

APRIL 30, 2015

It’s been about a month since Oracle’s Modern Marketing Experience (#MME15) in Las Vegas and I’m still thinking about some the themes of the event. There were so many areas covered at the event, but a few topics that were all the rage at Eloqua Experience in 2013, e.g. content marketing, weren’t hot topics this year.

Lead Ranking 100

Lead Ranking Eloqua Demand Generation Lead Scoring 100

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I just received the latest issue of ABM in Action (October 2016), a monthly eMagazine dedicated to Account-Based Marketing from the publishers of Demand Gen Report, and I had to comment on the lead article. It is near impossible to demonstrate value when the approach to marketing changes continually…”.

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Marketing Management Planning ABM 100

ANNUITAS

JULY 30, 2015

When I think about starting my career in marketing automation, I think of the complete confusion of how everything should be setup. This wasn’t just for our marketing team — it included our CRM admins, the sales team, communications and so many other parties. Start simply with the basics. Resources Are Key-.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Lead Ranking Automation 100

ANNUITAS

MARCH 17, 2015

You’ve vetted the vendors, selected your features, sized your database and scheduled your implementation; you are now ready to deploy your marketing automation platform, right? Without the correct staffing your marketing automation investment might as well be a car that sits in the garage, collecting dust.In The Marketing User.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Work Management Automation 100

ANNUITAS

MAY 5, 2020

It’s no big surprise, marketing is expected to do more today than ever before. No longer is marketing only responsible for brand and events – it’s now responsible for generating leads and tying performance back to impact on revenue. Demand marketing technology isn’t new, nor is its impact on how companies can achieve growth.

Marketing Automation Services 130

Marketing Automation Services Demand Work Management Marketing Management 130

ANNUITAS

JANUARY 6, 2015

As we start 2015, the one thing that B2B marketers can be assured of is that our market and the approach our buyers take to purchase will continue to change and become all the more sophisticated. Typically these campaigns promote a singular asset or event like a white paper, webinar, or an eBook. Don’t Start With Technology-.

Demand Generation 100

Demand Generation Demand B2B Marketing Marketing Automation Services 100

ANNUITAS

APRIL 28, 2020

Our current world environment has proven the need for companies to build marketing strategies that can withstand pivots when necessary. What’s the problem with sales and marketing in financial institutions today? Meanwhile, marketing teams are facing similar challenges. But what if marketing could do more?

Work Management 165

Work Management Marketing Management Service Paid Search Agency 165

ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

During an increasingly competitive time in the digital marketing landscape, it can be easy to get lost in the ever-changing trends and customer needs in the B2B space. So how then can you take advantage of personalization to meet expectations in the B2B market? Don’t lose sight of the scope of your market.

Personalization 147

Personalization Buyer Personas B2B Marketing Management 147

ANNUITAS

MARCH 11, 2014

I posed a few questions at the end of the post — is a Marketing Technologist role really the approach we should be taking to managing marketing’s growing investment in technology? Should the marketing technology stack be led across the business? Should it be strategically managed across marketing, IT, and the C-Suite?

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management CMS Development Planning 100

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. According to Raab Associates, Inc.

Paid Search Agency 100

Paid Search Agency Enterprise Management Marketing Management Automation 100

ANNUITAS

APRIL 28, 2015

Perhaps you have read the latest marketing book, Experiences: The 7th Era of Marketing ? The book, written by Carla Johnson and Robert Rose , provides insight into what marketers need to focus on today and it has nothing to do reach or campaigns. We know this is so important- how can marketers start to do this today?

Work Management 100

Work Management Paid Search Agency Marketing & Strategy Organic Leads 100

ANNUITAS

JANUARY 30, 2024

Overview During the National Retail Federation’s NFR 24 conference, Salesforce and Google released a slew of AI-powered tools aimed at reducing go-to-market (GTM) friction. Users can quickly build new target segments that can be activated across marketing, commerce, service touch points for tailored journeys, offers, and recommendations.

Marketing Analytics Tools 130

Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Automation Services Google Tools 130