Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

We were one of Eloqua’s first customers and that’s where my adventure with marketing automation began. We were doing it all back then, with very little playbook guidance: Lead magnets. Lead capture forms. Lead scoring. Lead ranking. Lead routing. Lead nurturing. SQLs (Sales Qualified Leads).

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2012

B2B lead generation and lead management is a complicated process that can’t be detailed all in one book. It’s easier said than done which is why firms like mine exist, to implement proper lead generation tactics that build revenue. Books are listed by funnel category. Search Marketing. Matt Bailey.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. Do I get SEO credit for using “top of the funnel”?) mid-market leadership may be up for grabs. lots of new vendors. We''ll see.

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Biznology

JANUARY 19, 2018

So meet this year’s fascinating B2B marketers, and let’s not forget the outstanding members of my lists in 2016 and 2015. . Katie Martell coined the term “on-demand marketer” to describe herself and her business. Hats off: Marketo is well-established there now. We all need some of that. This guy knows his stuff.

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 24, 2018

If you haven’t implemented LinkedIn’s Lead Generation Forms into your demand generation strategy, then it’s safe to say you’re missing out! By generating more leads with lead gen forms, the cost per lead was 59% lower , allowing our client to reap the benefits and get more with their budget!

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams. Step 5: Scoring Model.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Paul Albright boasts a 30-year track record of success in Silicon Valley, including executive roles at companies such as Marketo, SuccessFactors, NetApp, and Informatica. PA] If you think about how marketing has evolved, you need to get your back-office systems sorted out before you attack the top of funnel opportunity.

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Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 18, 2018

Bio: Moni is a Marketing Operations specialist with 10 years of Marketing Technology experience. She has worked with all the major marketing automation companies – Marketo, Eloqua, HubSpot, and ExactTarget. I’m very passionate about marketing operations. No, leads are pushed down the funnel.

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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. All campaigns were built and launched in Marketo, a leading marketing automation platform.

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 3, 2023

MQLs represent more than just prospects; they embody potential customers who have ventured deeper into your sales funnel, demonstrating a keen interest in your products or services. Must Read: MQL Criteria: Identifying Potential Customers Effectively Why Are MQLs Important for B2B Lead Generation?

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 30, 2009

As a response to my posts 7 Reasons Why Marketing Automation Projects Fail and Marketing Automation ROI , several people mentioned that the benefits of Marketing Automation are not just increased sales. Marketing Automation Increases Revenue. Marketing Automation & Efficiency.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 15, 2014

Author: Dayna Rothman Lead generation describes the marketing process of stimulating and capturing interest in a product or service for the purpose of developing sales pipeline. Lead generation helps your company increase brand awareness, build relationships, generate qualified leads, and ultimately close deals.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 29, 2015

Leads who watch videos as part of their journey to close cost an average of 20% less. The days of video as solely a top-of-funnel, dare we say “fluffy” asset, have passed. And that’s why, over the last couple of years, we’ve seen a phenomenal shift in the way marketers are using video. And you’re not alone.

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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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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. It can be a bit tricky if you are new in the market. Marketing Insider Group. Website: [link].

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Leadspace

JULY 14, 2016

If you spend your days as a B2B demand generation marketer trying to generate more leads—and better leads—too many leads might not sound like a problem. While you could just dump them all into Marketo or Oracle Marketing Cloud or HubSpot and hope for the best.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Author: Adam Hutchinson Like the middle child, the middle of the demand generation funnel receives far less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The top 3 barriers to effective implementation of marketing strategies were considered to be lack of brand awareness, lack of leads generated and lack of automation of processes. The top 3 2022 marketing priorities include funnel conversion, lead generation and marketing automation.

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 12, 2019

Lead generation is an essential element of demand generation but if you think the work stops there, here’s some bad news…. 79% of marketing leads don’t convert ( HubSpot). But before you hang up your coat, here’s a collection of lead nurturing best practices worth exploring. Reading time: 4 minutes.

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Leadspace

AUGUST 10, 2016

This is the 3rd installment of our Demand Gen Pains series. In Part Two: I Have Plenty of B2B Leads – They Just Don’t Know We Exist ; in Part One: My Database is a Piece of *. B2B lead-generation marketers have all had one (or many): the campaign with unprovable ROI and abysmal lead conversion rates.

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Vidyard

MARCH 23, 2021

You’re peppering them into your marketing, sales, support, and elsewhere throughout your business. You’ve even integrated your video platform with your customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platforms to track views on the lead and account level. Lead Generation and Qualification 5.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 19, 2018

This focus on intro calls meant that 90% of the time, the sales team couldn’t focus on down-funnel activity. To correct our course, we designed a step-by-step plan to rebuild our lead generation strategy. First, we created a new lead qualification workflow. We were wasting talent, time, and opportunities. What We Did.

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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. So, what does it mean to be a demand generation marketer?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 18, 2012

MOFU is the M iddle O f the FU nnel stage in a marketer’s lead funnel or revenue cycle. Far too often, a blockage develops in the MOFU stage where sales leads stagnate, wither, and die. Sales teams focus their time on closing the opportunities (bottom of the funnel activities.)

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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. It can be a bit tricky if you are new in the market. Marketing Insider Group. Website: [link].

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 1, 2022

Think Beyond the Funnel. Funnel imagery permeates marketing. Fill the funnel with a lot of sales leads, then move on to ultimately reach a narrow, well-defined goal. It’s like catnip for sales and marketing teams. Sales may be sending more emails than marketers. The Changing Role of the CMO.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The ultimate objective of marketing is to increase revenue performance , and one key way to achieve this is to optimize the entire sales funnel. In his presentation, he covers a five-step process to optimize lead management, get marketing and sales alignment , and make the most of your entire sales funnel.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This requires a constant re-loading of the sales funnel with new, expensive leads. Note: the source for this statistic wasn’t quoted, so if someone from Marketo reads this, feel free to provide any source reference in the comments.]. Why is Marketo’s percentage so much higher than the average?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 2, 2016

They talk about account-based marketing (ABM), of course! ABM has recently gained momentum in the B2B community as an alternative to traditional demand generation strategies. It is a strategic approach to lead generation in which your time and resources go into targeting a key group of specific accounts.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2018

After seeing numerous visualizations of marketing technology stacks from companies throughout B2B last year, we wanted to share one of our own. Below is a simple overview of our key tools broken up by general sales funnel stages. Like most marketing technology stacks, this is constantly a work in progress. Little Bird.

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 29, 2018

Nurturing known contacts via marketing automation email nurtures, generating MQLs and pushing prospects through the sales pipeline. If you want to learn more about building audiences for each stage of the funnel check out our Cross Channel B2B Audience Strategy blog ). What this looks like today. The big opportunity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 16, 2015

This year, Marketo set out to make a splash at the event. in the middle of all the action—we had a fun mix of engaging marketing thought leadership sessions, plenty of places to charge your devices and relax, a sweet photobooth, swag, and a taco bar! Transformational Engagement Marketing Through Brand Activation and Consumer Nurturing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 28, 2014

Today’s CMOs are held accountable for revenue generation, which requires a more systematic approach to market engagement, and a deeper understanding of technology. According to a study from MarketingSherpa, here are the top priorities of today’s CMOs: Achieving or increasing measurable marketing ROI. Optimizing the sales funnel.

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Walker Sands

JULY 16, 2019

Fueled by advances in data analytics and marketing automation, a well-designed and executed ABM campaign can speed up your sales cycle and dramatically increase conversion rates. So, it’s imperative to begin the process by having sales and marketing work together and agree upon granular-level goals for each targeted customer.

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