Biznology

APRIL 24, 2015

While preparing case studies for book, I had the fun of interviewing a bunch of very smart B2B marketers to learn how they were applying data and analytics to their marketing objectives. With responsibility for demand generation, Sechrist is mired in database marketing. First, we target the right accounts.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Case Studies Case Study Marketing Management 80

The Point

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Similarly, marketing automation helps companies get more from their investment in demand generation by nurturing and cultivating the vast majority of leads that aren’t immediately sales-ready. Tags: B2B Marketing CRM Database Marketing Lead Management Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

My response: I strongly believe offering direct links to resources without landing pages is a bad idea, especially because you can easily present pre-populated landing pages that demand very little of the reader. In addition: 1.

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Landing Pages Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead Nurturing 100

The Point

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Regardless of how good your inside sales team is, putting in place automated lead response via marketing automation ensures that every inbound lead receives a prompt, systematic, personalized response, and that none fall through the cracks. Increased demand generation ROI due to improved conversion of leads to sales opportunities.

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The Point

MAY 6, 2010

Or even if the processes with which those leads are shepherded along the sales cycle are woefully inadequate, a company may not generate the volume of inquiries necessary in order for marketing automation to make a difference. Do sales leads routinely enter the funnel only to die a lonely death in the CRM database?

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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The clients we work with are concerned with more basic, day-to-day issues: enhancing sales productivity, converting more inquiries to sales-ready leads (or trial users to paying customers), better leveraging their marketing database, and increasing demand generation ROI. I’m just not sure the rest of us are quite there yet.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Although the world has certainly changed since the late 1990’s, I see no reason to expect a different pattern among demand generation vendors. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors. Microsoft is another possibility, although its Dynamics CRM is sold mostly to smaller businesses than the typical marketing automation system.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

Oktopost

JULY 20, 2023

The introduction of CRM happened way back in the 1980s, when databases were just starting to make the rounds in the corporate world. In some ways, it was clear where it was all headed; in others, the marketing and sales execs of the 80s couldn’t have dreamed of the level of insight and details we could extract from a CRM in 2023.

Social Media 62

Social Media CRM Media Work Management 62

The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management. The company must direct end user inquiries promptly and efficiently to the sales channel, while responding to prospective partners and end users with a message tailored to iDirect’s specific experience in that company’s market.

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Hinge Marketing

MARCH 1, 2016

The following are just a sampling of the marketing technologies that we use every day: Customer relationship management (CRM) systems that manage and analyze interactions with clients and prospects throughout their engagement with a firm. Database marketing systems that personalize communications with prospects and clients.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

5 LinkedIn Sales Navigator enables sales teams to manage and integrate their LI target account lists into their CRM, as well as get notifications of new, relevant matches and activities done by those accounts. 5 ZoomInfo is a B2B data supplier offering several platforms for sales, marketing, people management, and operations.

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The Point

JANUARY 6, 2014

It’s a new year, so what better time to get your demand generation strategy “in shape” for improved performance? If you don’t have that capability in place, look at marketing automation platforms like Marketo or reporting solutions like Full Circle CRM that can give you the data you’re looking for. Improve campaign measurement.

Demand Generation Agencies 100

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Autoresponders 100

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. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

At one end of that spectrum are commodity products – CRM, for example – people know these products exist, they understand the problem that the products solve, and they recognize when they have that problem. Whether a company should predominantly use inbound or outbound marketing; 2. Where does your product fit on the spectrum?

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Paid Search Agency Demand Generation Inbound Marketing Lead Gen 100

The Point

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Case in point – we’re currently developing an integrated demand generation campaign for a client targeting a select group of contacts at key accounts. The client sourced the names from their CRM database and outside lists and has taken great pains to verify the contact information.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Microsite 100

The Point

APRIL 30, 2012

I’ve written previously in this space about how to reduce unsubscribes by giving prospects and customers the option to update their contact information rather than forcing them to opt out of email entirely.

Marketing Management 100

Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Data Hygiene Ideal Customer Profiles 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2009

I’m highlighting this because most of my recent posts have been about B2B marketing automation (demand generation) systems, and the two types of systems are quite different. But consumer marketing automation systems generally have more advanced database, segmentation, planning, project management and analytics.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. It’s really only possible in a reactive sense via social CRM, where individual complaints or questions can indeed be handled. link] jeff_molander Fascinating, Mike. Especially the competitive aspect.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

If this is a marketing exercise, you’re neutering its impact from the beginning. There’s a reason why everybody has adopted account-based, but traditional demand generation is fishing with a net, whereas account-based marketing is fishing with a spear. The account-based revolution isn’t over.

Account Based Marketing 88

Account Based Marketing DemandBase Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel 88

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

To give you an idea of the scope of MarketingPilot, here is a set of headings from its Web site: Alerts - Analytics/Performance Measurement - Approvals - Budgets - Calendars - Campaign Management - Collateral Management - Contract Management - CRM - Digital Asset/Document Management - Direct Marketing - Direct Response - Editions - Email Marketing (..)

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Resource Management Digital Asset Management Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

problem: 1) Web analytics – typically the stronghold of companies like Coremetrics, Omniture, and WebTrends, the analytics area bleeds over into lead management as companies go online to generate demand. My point: B2B marketers are looking elsewhere for help generating demand.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

They have added new capabilities for delivering highly personalized direct mail, SMS/voice reminders, and on-demand fax and RSS delivery – interesting stuff that, while I’d need to talk to a client or two to be convinced of their specific usefulness, show that Eloqua is delivering a broader range of lead nurturing, drip marketing capabilities.

Lead Ranking 40

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