Heinz Marketing

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

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Rev

MAY 21, 2018

If you have a marketing automation platform — like Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot, or Pardot — then you are probably using intent data. Page views, email opens, white paper downloads, site search strings, and so on. In that case, your sales enterprise CRM sales person will likely waste time talking to that prospect.

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

Lead scoring is a core marketing automation functionality, and a key driver for one of the primary benefits of the technology, namely sales productivity. A well-planned, well-designed lead scoring schema ensures that sales reps are spending time with the leads that most merit the investment. Lack of segmentation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

by Seth Resler Did you miss our webinar on inbound marketing? ” In an age where customers prefer to avoid salespeople and do their own research early in the sales cycle, inbound marketing is a vital part of a successful marketing strategy. Marketo and Acquisio employ what they call the Inbound Marketing Multiplier : 1.

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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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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Navicure uses Marketo and Salesforce.com to track marketing ROI.). Ask yourself: if someone actually wanted to be a sales lead upon arriving at your blog, how would that happen? Why then are so many companies failing miserably to generate measurable leads from social media? I, for one, don’t think the reasons are that complex.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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The Point

JULY 13, 2012

Is lead nurturing always about generating measurable response, increasing lead scores, progressive profiling, and moving leads to sales? Or can you get away with a link to content, perhaps content that’s not even your own? More than once every couple of weeks? Not so much.”. What do you think?

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SnapApp

MAY 12, 2015

Rather than asking your prospect to slog through a 30-page white paper, you can offer real-time, personalized results that add value through a 5-question quiz. And that interest is borne out in the results marketers see: a study by Demand Metric found that interactive assessments convert on average 2x better than static content.

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The Point

JANUARY 25, 2012

Information offers (white papers, ebooks, information kits) often work best because they appeal to prospects across a broad segment of the selling cycle. Remember, it’s not the company you’re selling, or the product, it’s that white paper or video or Webinar the prospect gets when he or she fills out the form.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

by Maria Pergolino Demand Generation Managers are responsible for finding and executing the program mix that is going to drive revenue for their organization. Super star demand gen managers know how to create the proper mix of demand by each line of business to ensure happy sales teams.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

by Jon Miller Last month I participated in a webinar on Adding the Human Touch into Your Lead Nurturing with Brian Carroll, author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale and the “godfather” of lead nurturing. At Marketo, our prospect-to-lead conversion rate triples with lead nurturing. from those we do not.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s the shocking reality of B2B lead generation – 79% of marketing leads never convert into sales opportunities. This is because of the prevalent trend of industrial buyers using online resources to go deeper and deeper into their buying cycle before engaging with your sales people. Source: Marketing Sherpa/ KnowledgeStorm).

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Vidyard

JULY 7, 2016

And nobody has more experience working hand-in-hand with customers than Brian Hansford, Director of Client Services for Demand Generation and Marketing Technology. So I actually started my career as an inside sales rep at a startup in the early 90s when Windows 3.1 Times have changed from when I first got into sales.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2011

by Jason Miller Part two of the follow up from our Reaching the Social Customer webinar features our very own Jon Miller, VP of Marketing and co-founder of Marketo. Jon shares his thoughts on content marketing, lead nurturing, social media, and lead generation responding to your questions that were unanswered during the live webinar.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Prior to the Marketo user summit I had heard a few great examples of nurturing programs being created without a lot of content, but after I shared some of these stories at the event I was approached by many others with similar stories. Unfortunately, they only have enough money for one white paper to be written, created and produced.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 11, 2009

To generate demand for your products, it’s not enough to nurture the existing leads in your database. For clients that are using marketing automation platforms like Marketo or Eloqua, there is a bit more integration to do, but the links can still be made to work. Terry: Trials, then webinars, then white papers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

It was easy for the VP of Sales to see my results via a dashboard in the CRM system. Well, that is unless you were a sales rep. I learned the right way fast, becoming a demand generation machine!). Your sales reps know this. Note: I will be presenting a webinar about this next month with Joe Pulizzi and Ann Handley (i.e.

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thePoint

MAY 25, 2018

Some leadership teams know they need to do it but don’t know much about it; They see the budget and wonder what they get since it’s not always as visible as actual revenue (yes, sales people are the heroes aren’t they?). You must have a least one strong advocate in sales leadership. Talk to editors and sales people. No, indeed!

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: How to use content effectively for demand generation? Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. Read on to get their insights. Rebel Brown's blog Phoenix Rising.

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NetLine

AUGUST 2, 2023

B2B demand generation marketers face a growing list of challenges, from navigating complex buyer journeys to breaking through the noise of a crowded marketplace. High-quality, validated, opt-in leads are essential to driving sales and revenue growth, but generating them is no easy task. 3… 2… 1… Blast off!

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The Point

AUGUST 6, 2012

Last week I attended (and was a presenter at) the Seattle edition of Marketo’s 2012 Social Marketing Rockstar Tour , a roving conference/seminar series being held this summer in cities nationwide. Marketo bills the event as an opportunity to hear, learn, and share advice on B2B social media marketing strategy. Infographics?

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 14, 2019

The sales funnel is obsolete. The sales funnel doesn’t help predict anything about buyers: Not their mentality, not their movement through the buyer’s journey , and not when they might make a purchase. From sales funnel to lifecycle marketing: a (brief) history. The sales funnel aligns with that approach. Bold statement?

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In fact, according to BrightTALK , 80% of marketers report that their demand generation efforts are only slightly or somewhat effective. Leads indicate potential customer interest in your product or service either from filling out a form, signing up for your email newsletter, downloading your white paper, etc.

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Conversica

MARCH 12, 2019

In follow-up to our 2019 Predictions webinar, we asked some of our partners to share their predictions for 2019. Conversica Partner Marketing and Sales leaders and C-Level team members at IMPACT, LeanData, Metadata, SnapApp, Uberflip, Vengresso and Vidyard share their top Sales and Marketing trends and predictions for this coming year.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 1, 2018

Marketo is a SaaS platform designed to help B2B organizations automate and measure marketing engagement, tasks and workflows. With Marketo you can centralize all your digital marketing campaign emails, landing pages and other marketing materials. Demand Gen Report. Content Marketing Institute.

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Rev

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Get the AI white paper: “How to Win the Love of Your CEO”. I’ll bet improving the efficiency of B2B sales and marketing is way down the list. Both the world and B2B sales and marketing could use some improvements. The Mystery of B2B Sales and Marketing Innovation. That’s a shame. Again, the list goes on and on.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2016

If you want to optimize different parts of your content empire for specific calls to action, so in this one we want to collect emails, in this one we want to download a video, in this one we want people to sign up for a webinar, what have you, you can absolutely do that with Uberflip very easily as well. Here are all our webinars.

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The Point

APRIL 16, 2014

Marketo announced an open ecosystem platform strategy. • It’s this type of content that will drive a higher level of engagement, build credibility, and ultimately drive a dialogue with sales. Not every piece of content has to be a new, 12-page white paper, however. Marketo has done a couple of acquisitions.

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Valasys

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Therefore, we have compiled the ultimate list of resources for B2B marketers to help them with budget constraints, creative demands, channel decisions & most importantly, to attract, engage, target, convert, delight & retain – the ideal persona. Demand Gen Report: Demand Gen is amongst the foremost resources for B2B marketers.

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Rev

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

CTA: Get the AI white paper: “How to Win the Love of Your CEO”]. I’ll bet improving the efficiency of B2B sales and marketing is way down the list. Both the world and B2B sales and marketing could use some improvements. The Mystery of B2B Sales and Marketing Innovation. That’s a shame.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A Single Source of Truth for Marketing and Sales. Whatever the industry, marketing and sales departments that don’t share a single source of data truth tend to be misaligned because they aren’t operating from the same set of facts. We’ve seen what a difference it can make when sales and marketing share a single source of truth.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 3, 2017

Longer Sales Funnels. Sales funnels and buyer purchasing journeys are entirely different for B2B and B2C organizations. For B2C, a customer can see a post about a sale on shoes and go directly to the store or website and buy the pair that they’re looking for. when crafting a B2B marketing strategy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

There is an amazing amount of great content about B2B marketing out there, ranging from trends in demand generation to best practices in lead nurturing, lead scoring, and landing page optimization to how to buy and select marketing automation systems. Many of these are authored by the team at Marketo, but certainly not all of them.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 19, 2016

Qualities of this visitor: Before we go any further, these visitors are not interested in being pitched by sales. How To Tie SEO With 3 Popular B2B Demand Generation Initiatives. Case studies, whitepapers, eBooks, webinars and industry reports are all good places to start. Stage 1: Brand Awareness. Stage 2: Consideration.

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