Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2016

When it comes to demand generation, even the most seasoned B2B marketers have fallen into this trap and sabotaged their success without knowing it. Hopefully, I can help you avoid this disaster by shining a light on the most common pitfalls that demand generation marketers may run into. Pre-Existing Biases.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 28, 2021

Are you thinking about using Marketo for your marketing automation needs? Or maybe you’ve already decided to either switch to Marketo or implement Marketo as your marketing automation solution. However, with the right knowledge and tools, you can shorten the time it takes you and your team to learn the Marketo platform.

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Only B2B

DECEMBER 23, 2019

We discussed the differences between lead generation and demand generation on the basis of content marketing strategy earlier. This is an extension of the post wherein we focus on different lead generation and demand generation strategies. Marketo has done it well -You are right.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 9, 2023

Contact targeting is a way to reach people who have already done business with your company, but haven’t yet bought from you in the last few months or are part of your target account list. This will help you target them again with relevant ads that can persuade them to engage with your organization. Introduction.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

In our previous posts about demand generation , we explored some of the ways to drive an effective demand gen campaign. Tracking KPIs for demand generation isn’t about obsessing over every piece of available data. Digital marketing key performance indicators (KPIs). Prioritizing the right digital marketing KPIs.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 29, 2019

Our previous blog post looked at how important strategic content is for your demand generation campaign. Every successful demand gen campaign starts with a final goal in mind. To make sure you’re reaching the right people, you need to think about distribution in the earliest planning stages of your demand generation strategy.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

In case you're wondering, the practical difference between a list and a flow chart is that stages in a flow chart are linked by separate decision icons, while stages in a list are connected directly. Many list interfaces allow decision rules within each stage, so there's not necessarily a functional difference.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. Marketo is certainly a fine product, but marketers should still look around before picking it by default. Just kidding.or Pricing starts at $599 per month. Maybe next week. [I

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Before I lose those of you who are not football fans, I want you to reread the entire opening paragraph with a revised first sentence: “They say the toughest position in a high growth company is the demand generation quarterback.”. What other similarities have you seen between football teams and demand generation teams?

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

I've been having a dandy time analyzing the results of my Demand Generation Implementation Survey. This distribution actually pleases me, since it means we have results from users of many different systems. Responses are still coming in but I thought I'd at least post some preliminary results to whet your appetite.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I’m going to diverge just slightly from my current obsession with usability to talk about a conversation I had today with Marketo President and CEO Phil Fernandez, who previewed the 3.0 Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Author: Mary Kate Francis If you’re a B2B marketer, you’re probably familiar with demand generation in one way or another. Maybe you’ve been working in demand generation for several years or you collaborate with the team on cross-channels campaigns.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. The moments are set up as real time triggers within Marketo.

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The rise of Account Based Marketing has sparked a great debate: should we do ABM or demand generation? If you’ve been really successful with demand generation, how can you start to incorporate ABM into your mix without just creating a hot mess which we don’t want. However, this debate misses the point.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

I spent a good part of yesterday talking with demand generation vendors about the usability scores I've been publishing all week. The relative ranking of the different vendors hasn't been significantly affected. Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 15, 2014

Author: Raymond Coppinger Today, B2B marketers have many core objectives – brand building, customer communications, multi-channel coordination…the list goes on. But regardless of what else your marketing strategy needs to accomplish, demand generation (the process of generating promising buyers for the sales team) probably tops the list.

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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. From Marketo’s perspective, I understand the need to frame marketing automation in ever more mission-critical terms. Systems like Marketo can be used to remind sales reps (via sales alerts) of untouched or stale leads.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

Summary: Marketo continues to follow its own path. I finally caught up with Marketo for a briefing on their Enterprise Edition (announced in March) and Revenue Cycle Analytics (announced in May). Since both are somewhat old news, and Marketo describes them in detail on its Web site, I’ll just make a few comments.

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Televerde

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

We’ll be joined by other marketing, sales, and demand generation professionals across Europe for the 2018 SiriusDecisions Summit Europe event. As a platinum sponsor, we are presenting with Marketo (oh, to be a fly on the wall at Marketo during these exciting times !) Hence why I love Bizible. Marketing Operations.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The subject of hot vs. cold leads was a prime topic at a Marketo roadshow event I attended earlier this month, when Paul Albright , the company’s Chief Revenue Officer, gave a compelling presentation on marketing metrics and some of the factors behind his company’s rapid success. Why is Marketo’s percentage so much higher than the average?

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. This pricing is low even among SMB demand generation systems.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

Next, you’ll learn how to develop a target account list that aligns with your objectives. Continuously Update Your Ideal Customer Profile Develop a Target Account List A. Prioritize Accounts Based on Fit & Engagement Level C. Segment Your Target Account List D.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. It’s easy to overlook the middle of the funnel because it involves many different priorities, from quality to quantity to speed to customer experience, and it can be the most difficult stage to manage.

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The Point

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Demand Generation Report just published their 2018 Outlook Guide: The State of Marketing Automation. I was honored to be invited to contribute my thoughts as part of the report, reproduced (with permission) below. There’s talk already about this capability being on the short-term horizon, and it could be a game-changer.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

That’s why forward-thinking marketers are prioritizing account-based marketing —determining together with sales which accounts to target, why they should be targeted, and when they should be targeted. Previously, sales teams would create a target account list based on the sales data they had available in their CRM.

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The Point

MARCH 18, 2014

Over at marketing automation firm Marketo , CEO Phil Fernandez just wrote a full-throated rant against the evils of unsolicited email and purchased email lists used indiscriminately: “How does anyone think that these are sensible emails to send to the CEO of a fast-growing public company? Fernandez as an example – will never respond.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

Without this step, it’s impossible to define target account lists and prioritize accounts. Another roadblock is building the right target account list to support the strategy. As a result, successful ABM’ers can ensure they have a list justified by data, instead of opinions.

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PureB2B

JULY 6, 2022

A common challenge in the B2B demand generation world centers around the balance of automation and reporting software. Here is a quick snapshot of some of the benefits marketing automation offers B2B demand generation marketers: Personalization. Lead Generation Campaigns. Productivity.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 4, 2020

Too often Growth Marketing in practice is just an evolution of a tactical lead generation mindset – where the ‘value’ seems to get lost in translation. And demand generation is often tied to creating a new customer only. Essentially, Growth Marketing is often defined as marketing for customer acquisition + customer retention.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

by Maria Pergolino So you bought into social media as a B2B demand generation channel. You built your company Facebook page, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts and you sat back and waited for the prospects to bang down your door. What went wrong? Am I Utilizing My Keywords? Who Do I Really Want To Reach?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 10, 2011

by Carol Fox Demand generation is a core component of an evolved lead generation program. The distinction between traditional lead generation and evolved lead generation is that with the latter, leads are qualified before they go to sales. So the next challenge is: How do you measure success?

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

40+ Demand Generation Blogs You Should Follow Now! Demand generation is one of the arching umbrellas of strategies consists of numerous ideas and strategies to generate demand for your business. You probably must be searching for all demand generation blogs possible to read and capture the best you can.

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Rollworks

MAY 8, 2019

While lead-gen and ABM work differently, they can actually complement each other very well. Using your lead-gen campaign to qualify your accounts. When starting a new ABM program, B2B marketers tend to think they need a list of target accounts to build the program around.

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Only B2B

JANUARY 18, 2018

Lead Generation vs. Demand Generation: Top 6 Strategies Which Work! We discussed the differences between lead generation and demand generation on the basis of content marketing strategy earlier. With marketers who use demand and lead generation interchangeably, this is an expected result.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a B2B strategy in which sales and marketing teams work together on a clearly defined set of target accounts to serve personalized campaigns uniquely designed for each individual account. Finally, “fit indicators” show you how likely each account is to turn into an opportunity.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2020

People use the word “incrementality” to mean different things. Strictly defined, it’s the lift that marketing and advertising provide above native demand—the increase in leads, sales and other key performance indicators (KPIs) gained that would not have occurred without marketing efforts. Ah, the dirty little secret!) .

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