Walker Sands

JUNE 13, 2022

From SEM to marketing automation, successful B2B demand generation strategies are key to achieving business goals and reaching your audience. Our work with Sendbird, a chat API startup, spanned essential components of demand generation — encompassing strategy, infrastructure and execution.

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Valasys

MARCH 13, 2023

That’s where email marketing automation comes in as a powerful tool to build strong customer relationships and drive organic revenue growth. By utilizing email marketing automation, businesses can create personalized email campaigns triggered at various touchpoints along the customer journey. (The

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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. 72% of B2B Buyers quote timely response to inquiries as a key factor in vendor selection via @spearmktg.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Finite found that 35% of B2B marketers were struggling to produce enough quality content that could reach and engage with audiences – a situation that is being termed a “content drought.” Embrace marketing automation. Here are four ways to boost your ROI by focusing on your content. Incorporate more video content.

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The Point

AUGUST 20, 2015

Marketing automation has yet to solve the reporting issue. Marketing automation has helped increase lead generation effectiveness by leaps and bounds, but campaign reporting is still a weak link. A recent survey on “marketing automation maturity” reported that only 58% of MA users report on revenue contribution.)

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Webbiquity

MARCH 17, 2017

Getting people involved is lead generation. It occurs as people sign up or exchange their contact information for any asset of value: an informative newsletter subscription, webinar registration, contest entry, white paper or eBook download—the possibilities are almost endless. Marketing Automation.

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Sales Engine

MAY 19, 2016

In the context of digital marketing and demand generation, lead intelligence is the sales rep’s ability to predict high probability pain points that a prospect may have before trying to establish contact so that they may have a more fruitful consultative conversation. This can take several forms: Web pages viewed.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

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. “Marketing automation&# is a misleading term.

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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. Based on first-hand impressions, however, it’s not how the vast majority of clients are employing (or even thinking of) marketing automation. It’s all heady stuff.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2012

The immediate subject of my attentions is next Tuesday’s Webinar “ Marketing Automation: One Step at a Time ”, sponsored by Act-On Software. Ease of use: Let’s lower the wall so marketing automation is easier. Service: Marketers should let specialists do the heavy lifting.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 1, 2019

Linking to your calendar: Enable your prospects to select their own timeslot to book an appointment with you to learn more about your product or service. If your business offers a specialized service or product, you can search for people asking questions about the problems your product or service solves on LinkedIn groups and Quora.

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nDash

MAY 26, 2022

Use B2B marketing tools to engage with current and potential customers and keep the conversation going. Instead of pushing offers, products, or services, increasing engagement involves highlighting relevant information about your industry, your business, and how your products or services solve pain points. Provide Answers.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

B2B lead generation, often shortened to lead gen, is the lifeblood of a healthy business. A typical definition of a lead is any potential customer who has expressed interest in a company’s goods or services. Tools Large companies need multifaceted email marketing software.

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Anteriad

JANUARY 3, 2023

Whether it be behavioral, internal or external, intent data is designed to identify the prospects who are interested in your product or service right now. Quite simply, intent data zeroes in on the signals that indicate a person is in the market for your particular product or service.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Great marketers can differentiate in a crowded marketplace to create a competitive advantage and niche for their brand. In 2006, the marketplace for email marketing automation software was crowded – and getting more so. HubSpot created demand in a different way. Great marketing makes markets. Click To Tweet.

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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2015

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 Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

A strategic marketing plan, which we’re talking about here, combines market research with a situation analysis of your brand. One of the most common ways to get started is by using your marketing agency or internal committee to identify your top five to ten competitors and conduct a SWOT analysis for each.

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The Point

JANUARY 27, 2016

Demand Gen Report just published “ Top B2B Marketers Measure Lead Nurturing Effectiveness to Boost Performance ,” a special report in which they address the whys, whats, and how tos of measuring lead nurturing’s true impact. You can download a free copy of the report here. increased a massive 75 percent.

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B2B Marketing Directions

MARCH 24, 2019

Demand Gen Report recently published a white paper describing the benefits of using look-alike modeling powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to improve lead generation performance. The white paper argues that B2B marketers can use "AI-fueled" look-alike modeling to get more qualified leads that convert at higher rates.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In a recent post , the folks over at Silicon Angle applied their usual insightful analysis to the results of an industry survey by marketing automation company Pardot , a survey that reports fully 42 percent of respondents (all B2B Marketers) have failed to generate any leads from their social media campaigns.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Relevant content can take marketing automation process to the next level, and it can also help sales and account managers build better relationships with prospects and customers. Leverage insight from your sales and customer service teams to gain insight about frequently asked questions, common concerns, and points of confusion.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

. @ Hubspot – HubSpot – Hubspot in all-in-one marketing software that brings your whole marketing world together in one powerful, integrated system. Marketo – Marketo.com – Marketing software. Marketing automation, social campaigns, inbound marketing, sales apps, ROI reporting – all in one place.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 3, 2009

Second of three posts on demand generation interfaces.) I spoke last week with Marketbright client Michaline Todd, director of corporate marketing at Serena Software , to see how Serena likes Marketbright’s campaign interface. The work was done by an outside agency, Maratona Marketing.

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The Point

MARCH 15, 2016

More marketers start to talk about ABM. Should ABM be your top marketing priority for 2016? Our agency works with a range of B2B companies in the technology sector , and, depending on such factors as 1) target audience, and 2) average deal size, ABM may or not be a great fit for any one of those clients. And … repeat.

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Launch Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The following post is an excerpt taken from the B2B Marketing for Executives: A Deep Dive on the Big Rocks First white paper that dives into the key foundational pieces (i.e. the ‘Big Rocks’) of B2B Marketing including marketing strategy, messaging, lead generation and more! Let’s get into it!

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Vidyard

JULY 7, 2016

To discover how companies are using marketing tech — especially marketing automation — we turned to the experts at Heinz Marketing. And nobody has more experience working hand-in-hand with customers than Brian Hansford, Director of Client Services for Demand Generation and Marketing Technology.

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The Point

MARCH 3, 2010

It’s the working assumption of B2B marketers that prospects don’t want to be sold to. And indeed, when it comes to outreach programs designed to generate net new prospects, more educational offer content (e.g. white papers) tends to perform better than does promotional content (e.g. News and articles, at 84%.

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The Point

MARCH 29, 2017

Earlier this year, I talked to a CMO at a B2B tech company whose sales counterpart was lobbying strongly for the company to adopt Account-Based Marketing (ABM) as part of their demand generation strategy. Inbound marketing doesn’t work, or at best is grossly inefficient. Maybe demand generation isn’t broken.

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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. Automating the “garbage in, garbage out” marketing approach benefits no one.”

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The Point

JUNE 8, 2016

However, a more balanced, integrated nurture program – one that incorporates other communication channels – can help accelerate the lead lifecycle and improve demand generation ROI by maximizing the chances that your nurture message reaches its intended recipient. That’s not because email is going away any time soon.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

When sales teams need marketing to help them make their numbers, the natural response is to go fishing for hot leads. A systematic lead nurturing program designed to cultivate existing prospects can pay dividends equal to or greater than any efforts designed to generate hot new leads.

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The Point

JUNE 18, 2013

(DC) Content Marketing is a major weapon for marketers, but it hasn’t always translated into value in the selling process. Sales teams can be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of case studies, white papers, and other collateral. As marketers, we segment our messages based on which message resonates with different prospects.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2009

Yesterday’s BtoB Leading Edge, Demand Generation in the Digital Age was a great way to make sure your organization’s demand generation programs are best-in-class.   But with so much on a marketer’s plate these days, not all 4300 could attend this half day event.     2.     2.

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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. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

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Velocity Partners

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The first group of content pros emerged from B2B marketing’s primordial soup with a super-hero advantage. They set about driving a step change from the dull, analogue land of colorless white papers into the exciting, digital world of glorious technicolour media. But what does that mean for your own content marketing?

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Televerde

AUGUST 8, 2019

Choosing to outsource all or even some of your demand generation involves lots of research that likely ranks lower on your to-do list than organizing your inbox and (insert tedious manual process you despise). Before embarking on a quest to find the perfect demand generation partner, define your needs internally.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

B2B product marketing budgets are expected to increase on average 3.1% next year–but budgets for B2B services marketing are projected to grow nearly 7%. ( However, spending on digital marketing specifically is projected to rise 14% for B2B products and 20% for B2B services in the coming year. ( MediaPost ).

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