ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Given unclear demand patterns – and unending debate over the condition of the economy – it is a good time to take a step back and reflect on how your go-to-market might be categorized in 2023. Yet research supports that uncertainty and periods of when you should invest in not only maintaining, but truly innovating, your go-to-market.

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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

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. How can we STOP DOING lead nurturing campaigns? Number two is really the way that most organizations do lead scoring today is really, really poor. We eat it up.

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Top of Funnel Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

ANNUITAS

MAY 8, 2012

According to a 2011 study by MarketingSherpa , 74% of B2B marketers stated that their biggest challenge was generating high quality leads. The next biggest challenge was a distant second: 49% cited “generating a high volume of leads”. However, lead generation is irrelevant in today’s b2b marketing climate.

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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 13, 2024

“[A] growing contingent of marketers think gating content is a tacky, intrusive tactic that undermines the power of good content and exacerbates the tension between marketing and sales departments,” asserts Built In editor Hal Koss. That’s a strong statement, but reflects the prevailing winds.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Lead Ranking Multi-Channel Differentiation 130

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Over the past two weeks, we have covered the definition of strategic demand marketing and introduced you to the first phase in our process, the insights phase. It is at this stage that we define the critical customer journey and begin to build the Strategic Demand Marketing Plan. . The Core Elements of the Demand Marketing Plan.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Go-to-market strategy and execution is rapidly evolving – driven by a combination of customer drivers, technology innovation and changing organizational strategy. Wordstream’s annual Google Ads benchmarks study for 2023 reported that average paid search conversion rates went down 10% and cost per lead increased 20%, year-over-year.

Marketing Analytics Tools 130

Marketing Analytics Tools Paid Search Agency Planning Budget Programs 130

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Sales is wasting time looking for demographic data that will “pre-qualify” leads while ignoring the personalized information that the marketing team is already collecting (or has the potential to collect). A mature marketing organization is tracking its users’ online behavior. Step 1: Agree on the Information You’re Collecting.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I have been to many conferences and read many marketing articles about having marketing get a seat at the table. In working with many clients and speaking with marketing decision makers, here are some of the most important areas I believe CMOs need to show stronger leadership in: Leading Change in Their Organizations.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Sales is wasting time looking for demographic data that will “pre-qualify” leads while ignoring the personalized information that the marketing team is already collecting (or has the potential to collect). A mature marketing organization is tracking its users’ online behavior. Step 1: Agree on the Information You’re Collecting.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Do you have a marketing professional on your list this year? From keeping the business afloat during “unprecedented times” to staring down the barrel of an impending financial downturn (and not to mention layoffs) it has been quite the year for marketers! . Marketing can’t live with them, but can’t live without them.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 28, 2012

Fifteen years ago I worked for a B2B marketing agency that had an outbound call center focused on lead generation. We were quite successful in developing these programs for our clients and the leads were graded based on the answer to the BANT questions. We are smack in the middle of marketing 2.0, Group Thinking.

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Lead Qualification Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Leads 100

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 28, 2012

Fifteen years ago I worked for a B2B marketing agency that had an outbound call center focused on lead generation. We were quite successful in developing these programs for our clients and the leads were graded based on the answer to the BANT questions. We are smack in the middle of marketing 2.0, Group Thinking.

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Lead Qualification Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Leads 100

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 30, 2018

These business leaders had legitimate concerns about the performance of their Demand Generation efforts, which often manifested in a number of ways: sales leaders needing to add headcount to “fill in the gaps” around lead generation shortcomings, or a distrust driven by a disconnect between marketing and sales when it comes to performance reporting.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Marketing has already made their list this year , so it’s time to hear from sales! . More Leads of Quality not Quantity . The lifeline of any sales person focused on closing new business is leads, so it makes sense that this is the top of our list this year. Marketing Alignment . Data We Can Trust .

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I want to share with you a new service from ANNUITAS – one designed to help go-to-market (GTM) organizations continuously improve their performance. As Growth Leaders , we find ourselves at a crossroads with our go-to-market efforts. Let’s tackle ‘the why’ and dig into how this service works.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 130

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

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? If you had another dollar to invest in sales and marketing, do you know what impact it would have? How do you know if you engage in random acts of marketing? Build a brand.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Budget Programs 238

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 21, 2023

We see this challenge in the approach many organizations take to optimizing their go-to-market (GTM) programs. DX is the sum of ALL of the points of interaction between a company’s marketing, sales and customer success organizations and the resultant impact on initial sale and longer-term growth of a customer’s account. CX is not DX.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Demand Optimization Work Management 130

ANNUITAS

JANUARY 19, 2022

It means that relying on a salesperson to guide a lead through all stages of the lifecycle is no longer effective. With this information in hand, sales and marketing teams can build a flexible model of engagement that guides users through a journey while unobtrusively tracking sales-readiness. How is a sales-ready lead defined?

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Steve is a thought leader in the world of marketing automation and lead management and is also a prolific writer on topics related to demand generation and the current transitions within the marketing profession. To dig into this a bit further, it’s first worth exploring what we mean by a marketing qualified lead.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads 100

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Inside sales teams serve as the bridge between marketing and sales, which makes alignment between all teams critical for success. There are two must-have components to building alignment between marketing, inside sales, and sales. What is a marketing qualified lead called and what does it signify?

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Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads 130

ANNUITAS

APRIL 3, 2013

March 13 Read Lead Gen is Overrated Q&A with Carlos Hidalgo, CEO and Principal, ANNUITAS in Marketing Magazine Australia. News & Press'

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 8, 2022

And while a majority of companies see the value of chat ( a recent report by Drift found that 74% of its survey respondents were planning to add a chat solution to their marketing strategy) unfortunately, most companies aren’t maximizing their investment. Is user behavior tracked, attached to a lead record, and used to influence next steps?

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Tools Top of Funnel 130

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 24, 2021

Most organizations are facing a need for transformation of their go-to-market in order to drive predictable and sustainable growth. Holistic, demand-side transformation touches everyone from sales, marketing, and leadership to IT, operations, and finance. ANNUITAS has led organizations through dozens of go-to-market transformations.

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Peer-to-peer Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Work Management 130

ANNUITAS

MAY 21, 2020

Throughout my career at ANNUITAS, I have probably spent more time thinking about and enabling Marketing Attribution models than any other activity. Over the years, I have seen Marketing Attribution models transform from a nice-to-have tool to help demonstrate marketing’s performance into a must-have core business planning component.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 28, 2020

Our current world environment has proven the need for companies to build marketing strategies that can withstand pivots when necessary. What’s the problem with sales and marketing in financial institutions today? These teams spend countless manhours connecting offline with each lead in their portfolio.

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Work Management Marketing Management Service Paid Search Agency 165

ANNUITAS

JUNE 8, 2017

While some marketers may use the term to refer to a series of “drip” emails that a group of leads receive in a row, it can also be used to describe a perpetual engine serving up relevant content based on a lead’s persona and their place in their buyer’s journey.

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Ad Building Buyer Personas Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel 153

ANNUITAS

APRIL 19, 2022

But while customers have had massive changes in their engagement channel preferences, traditional marketing hasn’t kept up. Then, apply the findings not just to your engagement channel strategy, but to your entire marketing strategy. Read more: The Anatomy of a Strategy Demand Marketing Plan: The Insights Phase.

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Top of Funnel Advertising Channels Peer-to-peer Elasticity 130

ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2023

We’re living in a marketing world that is inundated with buzzwords. In our Behind the Buzzwords content series, ANNUITAS breaks down the complex jargon you see trending in go-to-market thought-leadership and helps you cut through the noise to contextualize it for your organization. Sometimes, they make sense. What’s the Problem?

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Ideal Customer Profiles Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Lead Ranking 130

ANNUITAS

MARCH 1, 2023

As companies look to embody a Converged Growth mindset , a CGO is needed to lead the charge from both a strategic and “day to day” perspective. We’ve tried to cover the bases when it comes to both the role and responsibilities, as well as the type of individual that would be best to lead the Converged Growth charge for the organization.

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Positioning Marketing Analytics Tools Enterprise Management Customer Satisfaction 130

ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

According to Drift , “between 2019 and 2020, using a Conversational Marketing solution to schedule a meeting, purchase an item, or add yourself to a mailing list more than doubled.”. Then, they get flooded with customer service inquiries or new qualified leads that they aren’t prepared to handle. Read this page ).

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Demand Enterprise Management Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy 130

ANNUITAS

JULY 16, 2020

A well-orchestrated demand marketing program is a beautiful thing. Lead flow is consistent and predictable. Marketing interactions align to the customer journey. It may come as no surprise to most that sales and marketing alignment is one of the most oft-cited issues with demand marketing. What could go wrong?

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Management 147

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

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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