ANNUITAS

JANUARY 21, 2020

How to know if your marketing and sales efforts are eroding your growth. How would you describe your current marketing and sales motion? Do you have a finely tuned, highly repeatable, highly predictable model for generating demand and closing business? How do you know if you engage in random acts of marketing?

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Data Driving Personalization and Account-Based Marketing While Protecting Buyer Privacy. In this new world where 42% of buyers become “annoyed” by non-personalized content, adoption of account-based targeting strategies and innovative marketing technology solutions is growing rapidly in marketing organizations.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 19, 2022

As early as 2017 two-thirds of buyers preferred finding information on their own instead of getting help from sales reps. It means that relying on a salesperson to guide a lead through all stages of the lifecycle is no longer effective. Your sales team has a limited window for meaningful conversations with your prospects.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 28, 2016

I had a conversation with a prospect today about their demand generation challenges. As is often the case in these discussions, the topic of the sales team came up. This comment is not all too uncommon from what I hear from many marketing department heads who are wanting to transform their approach to demand generation.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 10, 2014

About two years ago I wrote a blog post on Why BANT No longer applies for B2B Lead Qualification. Given the environment in which we live as B2B Marketers, BANT (Budget, Authority, Need and Timeframe) is not a trustworthy indicator of the qualification status of the leads. BANT is not Aligned to a Buying Process. “I

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 1, 2016

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? We must take a different approach — a structured approach — to demand generation analytics. Garbage in; garbage out. closed revenue).

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 21, 2023

Dynamic Chat gets More AI and Improved Routing Chat is obviously a top trend among marketers , especially as ChatGPT continues to both excite and worry a lot of marketing professionals. New advancements include improved sales routing, to get prospects inside an automated or assisted chat routed to the proper sales rep faster.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The potential use cases for artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI (GenAI), in go-to-market (GTM) are perhaps too numerous to count. Amid an overly-optimistic marketplace outlook for AI, growth leaders — across marketing, sales and customer success — are increasingly turning to AI and/or AI-enhanced technology tools.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing AI Sales Management 130

ANNUITAS

APRIL 17, 2014

It turns out there are some common pitfalls among marketers. A couple emails, a webinar and three white papers do not make a marketing strategy. Is your company trying to gain market share or drive incremental revenue? Content is obviously a key part of any marketing strategy. Delivering unqualified leads to sales.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Modern B2B marketers like numbers. We want to know conversion rates, cost per lead, revenue generated and a host of other stats. 76% of content marketers are forgetting sales enablement , according to a study by HubSpot. 76% of content marketers are forgetting sales enablement , according to a study by HubSpot.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2014

Take a look at an excerpt from a Leadspace Radio via Sales Lead Management Association with Carlos Hidalgo , CEO and founder of ANNUITAS. I never heard a Buyer say, ‘I’m in the sale acceptance stage of my buying process.’ How can we STOP DOING lead nurturing campaigns? We eat it up.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 5, 2016

Marketers are often eager to get started on the road to Demand Process Transformation℠. Three common mistakes can wreak havoc on demand generation planning, no matter how ready you think you are to move forward. A research-based, customer-centric strategy must always drive the development and approach of any Demand Generation program.

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A key component to success is demand marketing programs that repeatably contribute real, measurable pipeline lift. But far too many demand marketing programs are stuck a tactical, activity-based status quo. Because of this legacy, the rest of the organization often thinks of marketing as a cost-center and a tenuous relationship exists.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 30, 2024

Overview During the National Retail Federation’s NFR 24 conference, Salesforce and Google released a slew of AI-powered tools aimed at reducing go-to-market (GTM) friction. On the surface, much of these product announcements seem aimed at B2C GTM teams and general retailers.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2020

Both ask the same, fundamental question when analyzing demand marketing budgets: What real sales ‘lift’ am I getting from this spend? A Nielsen blog post notes : Marketers in every industry have one common goal: Prove that marketing efforts help drive more revenue… . What do CFOs and CROs have in common? Incrementality.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 29, 2020

ANNUITAS CEO Adam Needles recently discussed what makes up a Strategic Demand Marketing Plan, one of the main offerings of what we do at ANNUITAS, in this eBook. Stay tuned each week as we explore what strategic demand marketing really means, and showcase how it can truly provide lift to your opportunity pipeline. .

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The stats, guides and tips to effective lead nurturing abound in the B2B marketplace and yet with all of this information, still only a fraction of B2B companies are using or effective in the use of lead nurturing according to MarketingSherpa. This is why fewer than 4% of marketing generated leads are ever converted into sales.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

As we go into event season-it’s good to remember that building a Demand Generation Strategy isn’t easy. In reading many of the blogs and listening to some of the webinars and speeches that have been given about Demand Generation one would think that the path to Demand Generation is just a few simple steps away.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 10, 2020

Marketing as a business discipline is ever-evolving. Arguably the only ‘constant’ in marketing today is constant change. This is particularly true for Demand Marketing, which today finds itself at a crossroads. What does Demand Marketing mean today? Managing go-to-market processes, technology systems and data.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 18, 2015

Marketing automation has forever changed the way B2B marketing is conceived and executed. In fact, the shiny new tactical capabilities that a marketing automation platform brings to the table can be so exciting that they often distract from deeper, more strategic planning that is essential for marketing automation to be effective.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 20, 2021

For most companies, the challenge of regularly delivering enough leads and opportunities to hit growth targets has historically meant building a strategy around producing high volume, low quality marketing and sales campaigns. Sixty percent (60%) of marketers create at least one piece of content each day.

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Top of Funnel Campaigns Enterprise Management Work Management 147

ANNUITAS

MARCH 24, 2016

With #FlipMyFunnel , the San Francisco event only a few weeks behind us, it seems as if Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is now the “shiny new object” that has captivated the attention of B2B marketers. The Chief Marketing Technologist? This Does Not Mean the Death of Inbound Marketing.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 28, 2014

Once again 2014 will be a year that Content Marketing is front and center for a majority of B2B marketing departments. While the buzz about content marketing continues, it still seems to be quite a challenge for most marketers. Add all of these together and you have a “qualified lead.”

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. They have built personas and conducted market research.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 27, 2014

In reading many of the blogs and listening to some of the webinars and speeches that have been given about Demand Generation one would think that the path to Demand Generation is just a few simple step away. Is success on impacting pipeline and generating demand really just a few simple steps away?

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 6, 2015

As we start 2015, the one thing that B2B marketers can be assured of is that our market and the approach our buyers take to purchase will continue to change and become all the more sophisticated. Generally it is another campaign that is focused on an asset or event and lacks continuity to the action the buyer took before.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Many of our clients have been very interested in Account-Based Marketing, and understanding the implications of adjusting their strategies to focus more on targeted accounts rather a demand strategy focused on volume. Is sales not involved in that decision string? Say that it takes 100 leads to generate 10 MQLs.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 27, 2014

Do you know what a salesperson looks at first when they look at a batch of leads that has been delivered to them from marketing? When added together, these factors should add up to a minimum requirement for that lead to be passed over to sales. That’s the first thing they look at … the company a lead is coming from.

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Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 100

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2022

My most recent blog posts have proposed a new approach for B2B go-to-market teams — a Converged Growth organizational model. This new organizational model represents a complete rethink of traditional B2B sales, marketing and customer service roles, with blended teams, organized around stewardship of customer journey phases.

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Lead Ranking Paid Search Agency SIC Research 130

ANNUITAS

MAY 24, 2016

Everywhere we turn, study after study claims marketing and sales leaders have “already implemented or are planning to implement predictive analytics in the coming 12 months.” A starting place for structuring your demand generation data is building a progressive profiling model. Everybody’s doing it, right?

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ANNUITAS

JULY 21, 2022

Spoiler alert: The ‘classic’ B2B go-to-market organization and approach is fundamentally broken and out-of-date; moreover, trying to course correct by working on ‘sales and marketing alignment’ is inadequate and unattainable. 1 – Orient Around End-to-End Customer Lifecycle – Pre- and Post-Sale.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 7, 2016

When I explain that I’m a Demand Generation Strategy Consultant the confusion and lack of understanding is further magnified. What is Demand Generation? We do this using buyer research, technology, content, data and lead management best practices. Others are curious enough to ask questions such as “consulting for what?”

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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. So what are these myths?

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

However, when it comes to Demand Generation Strategy there are a few rules that if not followed, will lead to poor results, wasted money and effort, and a frustrated marketer. Learn your market, your customers and your competition. Too many marketers think they already know everything about their market.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 19, 2020

Business leaders and marketing and sales teams are struggling now, more than ever, to not only drive new demand, but to replace the loss of existing demand in the marketplace. Here are our top four recommendations to (re)focus demand marketing through this current crisis and beyond: 1. this is not cold calling). .

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Top of Funnel Planning Demand Elasticity 232

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2020

One of the key ingredients to achieving growth goals in demand marketing has always been the customer experience. That formulaic approach is still widely applied today, but organizations that offer a considered purchase with a long sales cycle are finding that traditional growth marketing isn’t working for them.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

However, when it comes to Demand Generation Strategy there are a few rules that if not followed, will lead to poor results, wasted money and effort, and a frustrated marketer. Learn your market, your customers and your competition. Too many marketers think they already know everything about their market.

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