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The Marketing Funnel Is Dead. Let's Have Dessert.

Customer Experience Matrix

This verges on heresy, but I’m having an increasingly hard time with lead stages as a way to organize a marketing program. Of course, stages make perfect intuitive sense, and they’re ultimately based on the AIDA (Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action) model of the sales process that has been around for more than 100 years.*

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How Do I Create Content for the Customer Journey?

ClearVoice

After all, you’ve embraced the results of a detailed content marketing audit, hired a branding firm to polish your messaging and discovered hundreds of attributes about your target audience. As a marketer, you can dig into the data related to this step to discover common concerns and how potential buyers prioritize their needs.

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Reinvent the B2B Buyer Experience to Grow Revenues

Tony Zambito

Optimizing revenue growth is by far the toughest assignment for sales and marketing today.    While the concepts of the pipeline and the funnel have been around for a very long time, what is different is that finding the right formula for revenue growth predictability is getting tougher and tougher. 

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The New Rules of Lead Generation: Book Review

The Effective Marketer

Prior to Marketfish, David served as VP of Marketing for PeopleSoft and Intermec, and also has Boston Consulting Group and GE in his resume.His His solid business background shows that he is not just a “consultant”, “marketing guru” or some “speaker” But is this book for you? Email Marketing.

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The New Rules of Lead Generation: Book Review

The Effective Marketer

Prior to Marketfish, David served as VP of Marketing for PeopleSoft and Intermec, and also has Boston Consulting Group and GE in his resume. His solid business background shows that he is not just a “consultant”, “marketing guru” or some “speaker” But is this book for you? Email Marketing.

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Creating Data-Driven Buyer’s Journeys

ActiveDEMAND

Too many marketing consultants build buyer and user journeys with anecdotal data: one-off stories they glean from prospect and client interviews that they feel match up with the truth. For the purpose of this article, we’re examining marketing’s impact on the buyer’s journey up to the point of sale.

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Is it Time to Kill Lead Nurturing as We Know It?

Hubspot

Elmo Lewis proposed the AIDA (Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action) sales model.* They’ve survived because they make intuitive sense and because they’re a useful way to organize marketing programs. The fundamental criticism is that decision-making is more emotional than AIDA assumes. To doubt is heresy.