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Strike Gold: How to Find Leads with External Intent Data

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Achieving AIDA to ABC. In the B2B world, the notion of AIDA is key: A ttention. Further validating the correlation between intent and engagement, their sales team reported that when they followed up with customers by phone, the individuals from the surge group were more engaged and their conversations much more in-depth.

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Dump the Sales Funnel in Favor of Lifecycle Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

The concept of marketing stages originated with the AIDA model – awareness, interest, desire, action – developed by E. Ardath Albee, who has been a longtime pioneer in our industry, spoke about “ lifecycle marketing ” on the Marketo blog. From sales funnel to lifecycle marketing: a (brief) history. Elmo Lewis in 1898.

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Key Takeaways from attending 7 Talks at B2B Ignite 2018

Onalytica B2B

He spoke of the AIDA marketing model (Awareness, Interest, Desire and Attraction) to describe the stages that occur from the time when a consumer first becomes aware of a product or brand through to when the consumer trials a product or makes a purchase decision. Previously, he was the senior manager of social media strategy at Marketo.