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

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

MARCH 4, 2020

The Growth Marketing movement (aka growth hacking ) – now nearly ten years old – has had a significant and positive impact on the efficacy of demand marketing. Yet ‘first generation’ Growth Marketing has hit a wall. Yet ‘first generation’ Growth Marketing has hit a wall. It’s time for Next Generation Growth Marketing.

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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Spoiler alert: The ‘classic’ B2B go-to-market organization and approach is fundamentally broken and out-of-date; moreover, trying to course correct by working on ‘sales and marketing alignment’ is inadequate and unattainable. ” In my last piece, I also outlined a new strategy tack.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Once upon a time, there was a marketer named Randolph. Randolph, let’s call him “Randy,” lived in upstate New York as a marketer. Not just a marketer, though—Randy considered himself a growth marketer, and he had a vision. There was no time or appetite to revamp their entire marketing strategy.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 17, 2023

As customers put more and more value on personalized experiences, there’s a huge opportunity for data-driven marketing to drive growth in your organization—if you do it right. How to Define Data-Driven Marketing You’ll find many varying descriptions of what data-driven marketing means, and it can be challenging to cut through the noise.

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Our marketing and sales motions are the lifeblood of our top lines, yet too often, when they are not delivering, we are unable to objectively assess what is going wrong. I’ll talk more below about ‘what’ the ANNUITAS Go-to-Market Assessment is, but first I’d like to talk about ‘why’ we need this assessment.

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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 7, 2013

According to Wikipedia, the definition of lead scoring is, “A methodology used to rank prospects against a scale that represents the perceived value. Blog B2B Marketing demand process Lead scoring marketing automation'

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 4, 2016

B2B marketers are always pressed for time. Marketers build strategies, run programs, manage technologies and teams, so how do we make the most of our time? Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are often referred to as the “Swiss Army Knife” of technology. Here are a few marketing automation hacks you need to try: Tokens-.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2011

The transparency of online marketing has made measurement a priority, but most organizations are still struggling with what to measure and what kind of benchmarks they should expect from various initiatives and investments. Click here to Register and see the entire line up for the Marketing Metric Workshop Series.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A recent study by Ascend2 shows that 25% of respondents state that their cost per lead (CPL) is increasing. For years marketers have been keen to show cost per lead (or in the words of Jon Miller from Marketo – investment per lead) as a metric that has meaning. 14%) to get a lead that could drive a deal of $125,000.

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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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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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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. Shifting to a strategic demand marketing state allows you to perpetually drive scalable, sustainable growth.

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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

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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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. Whether it’s trade shows, local events or more intimate sales dinners, in-person interactions are a much relied-upon component of every company’s demand marketing mix.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

There is perhaps no more challenging role in the C-suite than that of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) within a B2B organization. It’s an approach to organizational design akin to taking the Pragmatic Marketing chart and just circling all of the functions. Defining the CMO role in this way tends to lead to the next issue.

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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

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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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

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For decades vanity metrics have been the guiding light for measuring marketing success – largely because the capabilities didn’t exist to measure closed-loop KPIs. As a result, marketing has become thought of as a cost-center with very little measurable output. Here are five vanity metrics your marketing team needs to be wary of. .

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 29, 2021

Go-to-market strategies have an Achilles heel. You have a clear go-to-market approach, but you cannot operationalize it. As a result, your go-to-market unspools as an infinite string of random acts of sales and marketing. Consider this challenge: You have a clear idea of who you want to target. INSIDE-OUT VS. OUTSIDE-IN.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 4, 2016

B2B marketers are always pressed for time. Marketers build strategies, run programs, manage technologies and teams, so how do we make the most of our time? Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are often referred to as the “Swiss Army Knife” of technology. Here are a few marketing automation hacks you need to try: Tokens-.

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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

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

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… . Assessing the Impact of Demand Marketing.

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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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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 11, 2011

More and more marketing organizations are looking to derive more value from their technology investments. While marketing automation continues to grow, companies are still looking to get the value from their investments and show their impact on revenue. How marketing automation enables lead management.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 28, 2020

A few weeks ago, my colleague Scott Parent wrote about the immediate impact the COVID-19 pandemic was having on marketing. In it, Scott offered four actionable ways to quickly and effectively shift your demand marketing plan to accommodate the changing business environment. But he didn’t just present these ideas in a blog post.

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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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ANNUITAS

JUNE 17, 2020

Aligning stakeholders around a large, new initiative or transformation has to be one of the largest challenges demand marketing teams face. All your stakeholders are aligned and your marketing and sales teams are working cohesively and efficiently as one unit focused on achieving growth. There’s a common goal.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 31, 2023

The tremendous moment to jump in and help so many companies fix their underperforming marketing and sales motions. Macroeconomic issues, combined with fundamental flaws in enterprise marketing and sales operations, are opening up what we call an “arbitrage opportunity” for firms like ANNUITAS. We are at a unique moment.

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