Martech

MAY 2, 2024

Traditionally, salespeople had to rely on networking and intelligence gathering to painstakingly identify the members of a target account’s buying group. Here’s how AI-powered platforms are enabling more effective identification and engagement of B2B buying groups. Specifiers How is this thing better than the competition?

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ViewPoint

MARCH 1, 2012

Lack of clarity and erroneous assumptions about demand generation, lead management and marketing automation are effectively addressed in two recent Software Advice whiteboard videos by Carlos Hidalgo, CEO, Annuitas Group , and Executive Director, Marketing Automation Institute.

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The blog series covers how to create a budget, build an ABM team, get your data ready, select your target accounts, personalize your content, and measure and realign. This image illustrates the difference in thought process between a traditional demand generation approach and an ABM strategy. This is it.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 1, 2016

One analytics vendor after another is selling you on their ability to analyze and make sense of “any” data. Demand generation leaders know it’s not true, though. And most marketing and sales data is just that — garbage. So what is the key to better demand generation analytics? Garbage in; garbage out.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Summary: Our new B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) has been carefully crafted to help marketers at every step of the selection process. Explanations What It Is: This is basic information for people who are just starting to explore marketing automation.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

For those of you with Marketo in your Demand Process technology stacks, your next question is probably what does this mean for me ? And what does this mean for our ANNUITAS Perpetual Demand Generation ® (PDG) investments? Adobe GETS marketing. – This could also take marketing automation more into e-commerce.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is Lead Generation? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. The Lead Generation Process. Inbound Marketing.

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Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 240

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 25, 2009

Summary: Consumer-oriented marketing automation systems have been slower to adopt the Software-as-a-Service model than business marketing (demand generation) systems. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is now the standard model for business-to-business marketing automation (a.k.a.

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DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

The essence of B2B intent data is to proactively identify potential buyers searching online for similar products and services that your company is selling. Wouldn’t it be great to communicate directly with folks in the market, actively looking for solutions that your company offers? Comparing vendors on a third-party review website.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

Last year, Forrester Research found the average number of buying interactions occurring during the purchase process soared by 10 to 27 in 2021. This trend shows that buyers are determined to do their due diligence before making purchase decisions, raising the importance of the personalized, targeted experiences enabled by ABM technologies.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Account-based marketing or ABM is a B2B marketing strategy that aligns sales and marketing efforts to deliver targeted advertising, as well as personalized content and messaging, to high-value accounts. Types of account targeting. What ABM tools do. ABM isn’t new, though.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 6, 2015

Marketers will again be challenged to keep pace with these advancements and will need to do more in order to connect with their buyers and show demonstrable ROI as a result of their Demand Generation and Content Marketing Strategies. Not all Demand Generation content is created as equal. The best news?

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

you know that I see a lot of demand generation systems. Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. They look good in demonstrations and can lay out simple processes quite nicely.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I was a young, freshly minted MBA with a background in computer science, and a two-year stint doing software marketing at IBM. We were one of Eloqua’s first customers and that’s where my adventure with marketing automation began. Lead generation was at an all-time high. For a while, all was well in B2B marketing.

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Navigate the Channel

JANUARY 18, 2018

The new buzzword for improving interest in your products and services is demand generation , which is fast becoming a vital metric for many companies. Not only does good demand generation help the supply chain, it also leads to happier customers and more alignment between sales and marketing.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 17, 2015

You’ve vetted the vendors, selected your features, sized your database and scheduled your implementation; you are now ready to deploy your marketing automation platform, right? Without the correct staffing your marketing automation investment might as well be a car that sits in the garage, collecting dust.In

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 25, 2008

When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. They even cited one demand generation vendor that had turned to them for help. (In

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 8, 2015

Now that you’ve selected your marketing automation platform (MAP), it is time to implement. Marketing automation is not a one size fits all approach and each implementation must be done to align with the current business systems and processes currently in place. What is your Demand Generation Strategy?

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The Point

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For some, it may be the hassle of navigating an onerous MDF approval process. For others, it might be a lack of marketing resources. Whatever the reason, unused funds are a lost opportunity for both the partner and the sponsoring vendor. Don’t let last-minute security protocols prevent you from getting a campaign in market. *

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By fostering a deep alignment between marketing and sales teams, ABM enables businesses to approach their target accounts with the precision and personalization that today’s competitive landscape demands. Beginning in 2022, a new term emerged: account-based experience (ABX).

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Marketing AI Account Based Marketing Peer-to-peer Marketing Automation Services 62

Inbox Insight

MAY 9, 2024

How does lead generation outsourcing work? Businesses hire a third-party company to handle the entire lead generation process. These companies adopt a variety of techniques, such as email marketing, social media outreach, and cold calling, to identify and engage potential customers on the company’s behalf.

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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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Paid Search Agency Demand Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer 241

The Effective Marketer

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Last week Carlos Hidalgo , CEO of the Annuitas Group , shared on the Software Advice blog a nice video explaining two basic concepts that are often used interchangeably by vendors and even analysts in the Marketing Automation space but should in fact be treated as separate concepts: Demand Generation and Lead Management.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

About 15 years ago, marketing automation technology came on the scene, designed to help marketers more effectively and efficiently market across channels. It has grown in popularity, and according to SiriusDecisions , 40% of organizations will own automation by next year. So without further ado: Eloqua.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 27, 2011

Salesforce.com is the cloud computing darling of customer relationship management (CRM) software. They have significant control of mind share in that space, and their legacy in customer service and sales force automation software is strong. It is made up of sales, service and—wait for it—marketing!

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Capstone Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Marketing automation is a straightforward way to increase a company’s efficiency and effectiveness in demand generation. It also helps marketing become a more predictable and measurable revenue producing function. When using marketing automation at scale, several platform attributes become critical.

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Televerde

MAY 13, 2024

A standout top-of-the-funnel marketing strategy is a must for brands that want to catch the attention of their target prospects and win them over their competitors. Quick Takeaways: Most buyers ch oo se a vendor from their day-one list, making early and effective top-of-the-f unne l engagement essential.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. But is it so much easier than the other products I just listed?

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So marketing automation vendors are understandably eager to support it in their systems. I recently took a quick tour of vendor sites to see what social features they’re offering. I need to stress that I’ve only credited vendors for features they list on their site.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Cross-reference your competitors’ SWOTs against your company’s own analysis to uncover the whitespace—areas where the market is severely lacking or strengths that only your company brings to the table. Partner with a Marketing Agency. Partner with a Marketing Agency. But ranking in the search results doesn’t happen overnight.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What Is Lead Generation? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. Marketing Campaigns Campaigns are what make companies memorable.

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Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 177

KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Samantha Stone , Author, Founder & CMO, The Marketing Advisory Network. As we go into 2018 marketers must make data integrity a higher priority. This includes investing in data quality processes against internal data sets but also acquiring and integrating third-party data. Elena Britton , Head of US Marketing, Indusa.

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Metadata

JANUARY 27, 2022

Hiring the right person to lead your demand generation effort is tough. Plenty of candidates can “talk the talk”—dropping buzzwords and impressive metrics as they move through the interview process. Very few can back up their experiences with an in-depth understanding of successful, modern demand gen.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. When Net-Results ’ showed me their marketing automation system, the demonstration ended so quickly that I wondered what was missing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets. (To It shouldn't be hard to figure out which one suits you better. Maybe next week.

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