Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2009

Green Leads' new service offering: Unified Demand Gen SM - noun (y??'n?-f?'d·di-mand·jen): The efficient use of inbound marketing and outbound marketing techniques to maximize lead generation. Essential b2b lead generation best practices. You heard it here first on October 3, 2009. More later.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As regular as Halloween and football, this time of year Green Leads usually hears the following questions from both new and existing clients. Why should we do appointment setting or lead generation during the holiday months? Here are some points to ponder and they are relevant to all marketing pipeline generation programs.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Green Leads' new service offering: Unified Demand Gen SM - noun (y??'n?-f?'d·di-mand·jen): The efficient use of inbound marketing and outbound marketing techniques to maximize lead generation. Essential b2b lead generation best practices. You heard it here first on October 3, 2009.

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Smashmouth Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Two weeks ago I hosted participated in Focus.com's Demand Gen Freestyle (replay here) discussions. Craig Rosenberg hosted the Demand Gen centered discussion, with a panel of Adam Needles of Left Brain Marketing , Cody Young of Reach Force , and Tom Searce of Searce Market Development and myself. It was a great discussion.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 9, 2019

There were days in my lead gen life where I could have easily left for lunch and not come back for four hours. Gerhard Gschwandtner of Selling Power just highlighted last year's MIT / InsideSales.com study of outbound prospecting lead conversion. For many reps, unless territory comes into play, lead gen exists in a three-time-zone map.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Craig Rosenberg, the demand gen expert from Focus.com recently asked me to participate in putting together the eBook, The Focus Experts Guide: Sales and Marketing Pipeline and Funnel. I took a different approach to the discussion, and came up with the concept of a Demand Gen Cloud: With the advent of Social, Sales and Marketing 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2010

Lead Generation is an "industry" in New England, going back to the early days of the Route 128 Technology Highway. Now there are over 1500 third-party lead gen employees in the area, not to mention all the companies that have based their outbound efforts in the area. Good Leads. Green Leads. Marketing Connections.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 14, 2010

My domain expertise is B2B Marketing and Sales, especially Demand Gen. Sales Enablement - Monitor sales and marketing asset libraries. Subscribe to the best in Lead Nurturing, Lead Generation, and B2B Marketing. What other B2B Marketing and Sales Demand Gen use case thoughts can you find?

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

I believe this applies to demand gen as well. Most marketers do not spend enough time looking at the investment they make at each phase of the funnel. They look at stages and lead scoring, but are they looking at the value of a lead and a demand generation/lead nurturing program? So back to poker.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

This past week I was reading HubSpot's study on the state of inbound marketing , and understandably, with HubSpot being in the inbound marketing business, the study showed that the marketing spend on inbound marketing is rising. What is the equity value of those leads - the lead equity ?

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

I believe this applies to demand gen as well. Most marketers do not spend enough time looking at the investment they make at each phase of the funnel. They look at stages and lead scoring, but are they looking at the value of a lead and a demand generation/lead nurturing program? So back to poker.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2009

I just reviewed Marketo 's recently released Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing. Don't let the vendor logo fool you, this is a document that is a must read for all demand generation professionals. What I found most useful were the examples of calculating the ROI of Lead Nurturing. It's a must read.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

If you are here for a two paragraph good marketing tip, you're in the wrong place. Back in November I posted an article, Poker Equity and Marketing - Lead Equity. It lead to me reposting the original article, and then to my responding to several questions by email asking me to elaborate. What is Lead Equity?

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 11, 2010

Once we started working together, the folks there realized that I always have an opinion, especially as it pertains to Demand Gen. Most of my recent discussion has been about Unified Demand Gen(sm) -- the philosophy of blending inbound marketing and outbound marketing to maximize your lead generation activity.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 11, 2009

Check out the interview of me discussing how having good data impacts lead generation success on ReadyContact's Blog. Tags: data lead gen interviews demand marketing sales2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2010

Last night I heard a few sound bites in Obama's State of the Union Address that brought to mind what I hear from sales and marketing folks daily. So here are a few interpretations had the president been talking about Demand Gen. "We This is about Sales and Marketing Alignment. As demand gen experts, we have to change.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 3, 2009

If you are here for a two paragraph good marketing tip, you're in the wrong place. Back in November I posted an article, Poker Equity and Marketing - Lead Equity. It lead to me reposting the original article, and then to my responding to several questions by email asking me to elaborate. What is Lead Equity?

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. Her presentation about using LinkedIn successfully to generate leads was popular with the audience. Of those, about 10,471 are fairly well-targeted into our niche of B2B marketing.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Here's my Lead Generation Tip for today. Look at the other top experts in the Lead Generation section of LinkedIn. Tags: hubspot blogs fast company socialmedia SMM marketing tips facebook b2b marketing twitter b2b drivel demand gen green branding SEO inbound marketing linkedin SEM.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 30, 2009

What can Obama teach us b2b marketers? I was recently in a debate with a friend about Obama's marketing efforts. I started exploring how the same three guidelines can be applied to marketing, especially as it pertains to demand generation. The examples I used were Cold Calling and Blog Marketing.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 26, 2009

What can Obama teach us b2b marketers? I was recently in a debate with a friend about Obama's marketing efforts. I started exploring how the same three guidelines can be applied to marketing, especially as it pertains to demand generation. The examples I used were Cold Calling and Blog Marketing.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2009

I just reviewed Marketo 's recently released Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing. Don't let the vendor logo fool you, this is a document that is a must read for all demand generation professionals. What I found most useful were the examples of calculating the ROI of Lead Nurturing. It's a must read.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. We published the Top 20 tweets of each day of the conference here: MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 1 MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 2.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I know my colleagues in the sales consulting industry are going to fill this page with comments telling me why their Lead Gen Tip of the day would be to craft the perfect voicemail script. Tags: cold calling linkedin b2b marketing inside sales demand gen polls b2b sales. My response is -- Don't Bother. Leave one or Don't?

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2017

The sales and marketing industry is flooded with events, conferences, web events, you name it. These two guys know sales and marketing and I figured I’d most likely come back with something valuable. damphoux : Green Leads has been doing Everything Account Based for years, why move the word "Everything" to the back end?

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2009

When we're selling our outbound marketing demand gen solutions, we get asked all the time, where can I find inexpensive b2b sales leads ? So below is a collection of data sources we've used in our lead generation work. By far the best value on the market for the quality you receive. million companies.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There were days in my lead gen life where I could have easily left for lunch and not come back for four hours. Gerhard Gschwandtner of Selling Power just highlighted last year's MIT / InsideSales.com study of outbound prospecting lead conversion. For many reps, unless territory comes into play, lead gen exists in a three-time-zone map.

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Lead Generation Tips Lead Gen Generation 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 31, 2011

Green Leads is pleased to announce that we will be a Gold Sponsor at the SiriusDecisions 2011 Summit--B2B Sales and Marketing: Forging a New Alliance. Each year, the theme focuses on aspects of how sales and marketing can, and should, intersect. The event is scheduled May 4-6 at the Fairmont Scottsdale Resort.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2009

relevancy -- just a little fun ;) For years the world of b2b marketing has used outbound marketing as a source of lead generation. Services such as appointment setting, lead generation and list development are pervasive and a very common tool in the demand gen arsenal. Classic inbound marketing.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 22, 2009

There was a definite overlap of key discussion points that I believe is critical for all sales and marketing execs to consider. These are the areas that impact both the marketing discipline and the sales discipline, and where critical mass may be for your company's success. Conference in Boston. ROI for every program , etc.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

As buyers become savvier and inbound marketing demands increase, he said, "We see our clients' outbound demand generation initiatives augmenting the process to provide sales with intelligent leads that fully meet the criteria for direct sales involvement. The impact on demand gen?

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 29, 2009

His insight and knowledge regarding sales and marketing was deep. We were talking last week and I asked him if he would put some thought to a few questions regarding sales and marketing alignment. What are you seeing as the top actions sales and marketing execs can do to make this alignment happen and to make it impact their companies?

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 8, 2009

GinnyBartosek : Sales doesn't view quality of leads the same way as Mktg. Monitor profit generation. Marketing is about relationships 3. require a login,else stay open Last, but my favorite (yes, from me, but it was Karin that said it): damphoux : Karin McEwen, Mathworks: What is the most effective lead gen program?

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 8, 2009

There was a definite overlap of key discussion points that I believe is critical for all sales and marketing execs to consider. These are the areas that impact both the marketing discipline and the sales discipline, and where critical mass may be for your company's success. Alignment of Sales & Marketing. Demand Generation.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2009

Just a quick post to point readers to an interview of me on Marketo 's blog, Demand Generation and Social Media: Thought Leadership with Mike Damphousse of Green Leads. And why is it important to marketers? When it comes to leads, quality or quantity ? Questions discussed: What is B2B appointment setting ?

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 26, 2010

Since I was spouting all about LinkedIn at Chris Brogan's New Marketing Experience last month, he has recently been on a LinkedIn crusade to find all the tips and tricks burried inside. Looking for companies in the field of Demand Gen that work with Appointment Setting ? Let's try another one.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2009

For years the world of b2b marketing has used outbound marketing as a source of lead generation. Services such as appointment setting, lead generation and list development are pervasive and a very common tool in the demand gen arsenal. Classic inbound marketing. Then there was the Google.

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