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Interview with Brian Hansford

Onalytica B2B

Key Topics: B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, and Marketing Technology. In 2009 I dove headlong into working with Eloqua and Salesforce and at that point I was hooked on designing demand generation workflow and measuring results. I always enjoy doing webinars and podcasts. Location: Redmond, WA USA.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: On B2B Demand Generation tools and Lead Generation Dashboards

markempa

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. What do you think?

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How to Measure Email Success in 2015: A Call to ROI

The Point

As a B2B agency , our firm creates and executes dozens of email campaigns every month, and that experience tells me that a large percentage of B2B marketers, even at companies that otherwise do a very sophisticated job at demand generation , fail to measure or compare email campaign performance using any metrics other than opens and clicks.

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

One of the biggest challenges b2b marketers face is what to do with all of those “names&# that come into your system that aren’t really “leads&# yet; contacts collected from white paper downloads, webinar registrations, trade shows and other activities. “Demand generation&# is a better term, though still not precise.

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Riding the IoT wave at PTC

SWZD

This week, we spoke to Michell Liro , Vice President of Demand Generation at PTC. Michelle mentioned that another area that PTC develops solutions for is Service Lifecycle Management (SLM). Michelle moved into demand generation as the function grew in the 2000s with the rise of Google and digital marketing in general.

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

Webbiquity

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. However, the purchasing committee will generally include someone from IT, the CFO, and in smaller firms possibly even the CEO.

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You’re Building The Airplane as You’re Flying It — Wise Words from Brian Hansford

Vidyard

And nobody has more experience working hand-in-hand with customers than Brian Hansford, Director of Client Services for Demand Generation and Marketing Technology. Hansford has been with Heinz Marketing for over four years, and came to the agency world from over 15 years of customer-facing roles at tech companies big and small.