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Simplifying your martech stack: From pipeline efficiency to brand affinity

Martech

This article explores how conventional martech infrastructure alienates most potential buyers and suggests steps to adapt tools and strategies for better long-term brand affinity and demand generation. In reality, B2B buying committees have grown in size and different members will be at different stages of the buying cycle.

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An Interview with Andrew Gaffney – Editor-in-Chief of Demand Gen Report

ANNUITAS

The Annuitas Group: As the Editor-In-Chief of Demand Gen Report you are continually speaking with marketing executives. A few years ago that simply meant generating some leads and some new names for the sales team to pursue, but we are now seeing marketing teams play an active role on engaging prospects at each stage of the buying cycle.

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Prevent Demand Generation Failure with Buyer Personas

Tony Zambito

Recently, Adam Needles, Left Brain Marketing’s VP of Demand Generation Strategy, posted a thought provoking article entitled Why Do (Well-intentioned) B2B Demand Generation Efforts Fail?   Adam gives us a good sense of the numbers and dollars being invested in demand generation and marketing automation. 

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Sorry, But “How Many Touches Does it Take to Make a Sale?” is No Longer a Valid Question

The Point

Here’s Kathleen Schaub, now Vice President of the CMO Advisory Practice at IDC, interviewed back in 2011 : “The Internet and social media have triggered a turbulent change – the rich dialog has shifted online and away from the sales person. B2B Marketing Campaign Strategy Demand Generation lead generation Sales 2.0

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A Conversation on 7 Buyer and Sales Trends to Watch in 2011

Tony Zambito

  My recent post entitled Seven Buyer and Sales Trends to Watch in 2011 is one of those instances for me personally.    And Apple has done a masterful job in branding the entire buying experience.  Trend 7: 2011 will be The Year of the Buyer.   I think that 2011 will be one exciting year. 

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Brand and Demand Convergence Required

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Specifically the convergence of branding and demand generation. Now in 2011, everything has come together into one conglomerate of automated demand generation, nurturing processes, and active engagement. If you happen to be skeptical of brand and demand convergence, I’ll leave you with a few statistics to ponder over.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. The Death of a Salesman?