The Point

JANUARY 17, 2019

Some years ago, our firm conducted a lead management audit for a technology client who was struggling to convert raw, inbound inquiries into sales qualified leads. During the audit, it became quickly apparent that one of the major issues was at the very front end of the lead qualification process. Click To Tweet.

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PureB2B

JUNE 12, 2016

“Demand generation is the process of creating and/or boosting awareness of a particular company or product with the intention of increasing leads. Lead generation is the process of collecting actual leads directly from consumers or client prospects and using those leads to boost revenue.”.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL ) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Glad you asked!)

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The Point

MARCH 22, 2019

Lead scoring – as a fundamental part of a company’s lead management strategy – has officially fallen out of fashion. Two reasons I can think of: One is that lead scoring is routinely set up as part of an initial implementation of a marketing automation platform. So, is lead scoring a dying art?

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Markempa

APRIL 16, 2019

But, in reality, any marketing process can be optimized from demand generation, account-based marketing and, lead generation. I’ll review the basics of reviewing your demand generation funnel. What type of leads works best for Sales in their opinion?

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 19, 2022

It means that relying on a salesperson to guide a lead through all stages of the lifecycle is no longer effective. If you haven’t already, start by understanding the personas you target and the buying stages that each persona will move through. This is how you contact leads at the right point in their journey.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

By Sheena McKinney , Executive Assistant & Operations Specialist at Heinz Marketing. Our own Josh Baez , Client Engagement Manager, recently joined Jim Obermayer, outgoing president of The Funnel Media Group for a great conversation on SLMA Radio entitled: Is Sales Engagement the Most Important Platform in your Marketing Stack?

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The Point

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If your organization is generating plenty of leads but those initial inquiries aren’t converting to sales qualified leads, meetings, or pipeline, a myriad of things could be at fault: 1) sales follow-up may be sub-standard in either cadence, frequency, or message. 2) lead nurturing. 2) lead nurturing.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 30, 2018

Frustrations with Demand Generation. As we were going through a refresh of our targeted personas, we noticed an increase in engagement with leadership roles that have revenue responsibility (sales leaders, business unit leaders, and even CEOs). Why is marketing’s story so different than sales? Lack of Trust in the CMO.

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The Point

JULY 1, 2019

For the last decade or more, it’s been an accepted principle – almost a key tenet – of B2B demand generation that business buyers don’t want to talk to a sales rep until the last possible moment. It’s why, for example, we marketers have assumed control for more and more of the lead funnel. Sales Alerts.

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markempa

JANUARY 12, 2015

Tweet It’s a new year, and you’re likely kicking off marketing and lead generation programs to drive more new leads for 2015. Most new leads go nowhere. It’s not about more leads; it’s about doing better with the ones you already have. Create a marketing funnel, not just a sales funnel.

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Rev

OCTOBER 13, 2018

The Explosion of Marketing Technology. Marketing Technology) landscape. Scott , the VP of Platform Ecosystems at Hubspot and the editor of chiefmartec.com, has been categorizing marketing technology since 2011. A Useful Perspective on the B2B Marketing Stack. The demand funnel. Lead scoring.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 26, 2011

Lead management continues to be a hot topic in the world of B2B marketing as we turn the corner and head into the second half of 2010. As a leader in lead management process development, our firm has seen a lot of confusion in the market about what constitutes lead management.

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The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I may not be a market analyst, but from what I see working with our agency’s B2B clients , it seems to me that, in the language of technology adoption lifecycles, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) stands at that pivotal junction – what Geoffrey Moore calls the “chasm” – between early adopters and early majority.

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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. What is your conversion rate at each lead management stage?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Back in January 2009, Marketo came out with a webinar entitled, The Secret Sauce to Demand Generation: How Marketo Nurtures, Scores and Accelerates Leads through the Revenue Cycle. Originally created to illustrate how Marketo achieved booming marketing results, this webinar soon became Marketo’s most popular resource.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 5, 2011

Today B2B marketers have to take a leadership role in lead generation – it’s not good enough to provide names on a list, you’ve got to create a conversation and hopefully, a relationship for success. In other words, you’ve got to generate and manage demand. Demand marketers use marketing automation.

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Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 18, 2018

Moni Oloyede – Marketing Technology & Marketing Operations Specialist. Key Topics: Martech, Marketing Operations. Bio: Moni is a Marketing Operations specialist with 10 years of Marketing Technology experience. I’m very passionate about marketing operations. No, leads are pushed down the funnel.

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The Point

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The analysts at Demand Gen Report just published their “ 2018 Lead Nurturing & Acceleration Survey Report ” and one conclusion is no surprise: many B2B companies are still really bad at lead nurturing. It’s not just that 44% of respondents said that their lead nurturing “needs improvement.” Think about that.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 15, 2020

Marketing professionals wear many hats—that’s nothing new. We juggle lead generation, demand generation, CRM management, partnerships, teammate training, securing buy-in, and so much more. Many marketers are sitting on gold and not spending enough time digging. Ownership: Marketing Team.

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Televerde

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Has your marketing funnel dried up? Is your sales team stranded in a barren desert of ‘not interested’ and ‘put me on your do-not-call list’? With rapid advances in technology forcing every organization into an uncertain future, many companies benefit from choosing to outsource their lead generation.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

In one of my meetings these past few weeks I was thinking of an analogy where I could break down the lead management process into much simpler terms so everyone could understand their roles - this is where football comes in. The Players and Coaches Take the Field Quarterback : The marketing team is the QB. Why football?

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard AS runs a highly successful demand generation program, an integrated mix of both online and offline campaigns, to generate a consistent flow of leads to the company’s sales force. Design, build and launch a “Welcome” email program designed to improve follow-up and response to new leads.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2009

You may ask, why should anyone care what I have to say about demand generation? Well, at Marketo , we’ve built a world-class demand generation machine that has helped us in just 10 months to sign up over 130 customers in more than eight countries, including companies such as Thomson Reuters, Reed Business, and CollabNet.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 27, 2015

With Content Marketing World just weeks away, my mind has been on the number of organizations that have increased their marketing spend on the creation of new content. The latest results from the ANNUITAS B2B Enterprise Demand Generation study (due out in September), 54.1% What’s happening?

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

By now, we’ve all heard the analogy “you wouldn’t ask someone to marry you on the first date” when discussing the ways we engage buyers in B2B marketing and sales. So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? Let’s take a step back. Although this may seem obvious, 16.8%

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

By now, we’ve all heard the analogy “you wouldn’t ask someone to marry you on the first date” when discussing the ways we engage buyers in B2B marketing and sales. So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? Let’s take a step back. Although this may seem obvious, 16.8%

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

By now, we’ve all heard the analogy “you wouldn’t ask someone to marry you on the first date” when discussing the ways we engage buyers in B2B marketing and sales. So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? Let’s take a step back. Although this may seem obvious, 16.8%

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The Point

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

For a long time, “ lead nurturing ” was thought of as something you did with the leads that sales didn’t want. The theory was: leads come in, the sales team gets the hot ones, and the rest go to lead nurturing. Today, of course, a comprehensive lead nurturing strategy is much more than that. Do you agree?”.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

If you work in sales, it’s our hope that this list of sales podcasts provides you with some fresh listening material, newfound inspiration, and the tips and tricks you need to excel in the world of sales. Recently, we published The Ultimate List of Marketing Podcasts. The Ultimate List of Sales Podcasts. Listen here.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 13, 2012

If you were in marketing, you had media kits and circulations statements. Then Compuserve and Prodigy … You also had Thomas Register and mailing lists to find leads…. Then Compuserve and Prodigy … You also had Thomas Register and mailing lists to find leads…. In the old days, we had a phone. And a fax machine.

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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. the company is generating the wrong type of leads.

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The Mx Group

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Without a doubt, B2B marketers face challenges in creating meaningful marketing reports. In fact, according to Demand Gen Report’s 2018 Marketing Measurement & Attribution Benchmark Survey , just 7% of U.S. Marketing Reports with Meaningful Metrics. Funnel Analysis. 4 Reports You Should Be Creating.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 26, 2012

Content drives leads into the funnel; content nurtures leads into sales opportunities. Marketing and Sales alignment is essential to a well-oiled lead funnel. My alliance, Frank Donny of Marseli, understands the principles of demand generation, lead management, and pipeline optimization.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Thought I’d give it a shot as well, running through a master list of “resolutions” as preparation for improving your inbound marketing and lead generation strategies for 2012 and beyond. Process: Set your lead generation campaign goals. How many qualified leads. Cost-per-lead.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Social media is hot mainly because it is new news to lots of folks in marketing and across our organizations that “the customer is indeed in charge”. Why is this important? This is a foundational activity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 9, 2009

LeadSloth on Demand Generation: Smart Tools for Lazy Marketers. Here is his interview, part of the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series. Tell us a little bit about how you got into demand generation , and what you like most about it. You can also follow Jep on Twitter ( @jepc ).

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