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Demand gen vs. lead gen: Have we reached a final verdict?

Martech

Their growth was built on a lead gen model. Demand gen marketers aim to educate and inform their audience. Canberk Beker is the head of growth at HockeyStack, a platform that helps marketers better understand how their marketing tactics contribute to growth. And all of these customers are B2B SaaS companies.

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Marketer of The Month Podcast- EPISODE 089: Building a Marketing Funnel That Understands Your Audience

Outgrow

Why traditional B2B marketing attribution is broken and what you can do about it. Boosting customer acquisition for SaaS through a freemium model. Aligning customer expectations, values, and outcomes. Saksham Sharda: Fill in the blank: An upcoming marketing trend is __. Brendan Hufford: Talking to customers.

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Why Social Media Marketing Attribution Models Are Non-Negotiable

Content Standard

In recent years, sites like Facebook began changing the way their algorithm displays posts in users’ News Feeds in order to prioritize posts from family and friends and devalue posts from branded pages and publishers. If you rely on them to meaningfully understand your brand’s social performance, you’ll be disappointed.

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Analytics CEO makes a passionate case against marketing attribution

chiefmartech

I do not believe in marketingattribution”. Beyond the combined power of algorithms, data, software and professional know-how, the concept is — at its foundation — flawed. It embodies everything marketers ever wanted to get out of data! Plus CMOs can now be held accountable, making CEOs happy. A BLACK HOLE.

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Why Proving the Impact of Marketing is Difficult

B2B Marketing Directions

For several years, marketing leaders have faced growing demands from the C-suite to prove the value of their activities and programs. Marketing accountability has become the mantra for many CMO's, and return-on-investment has become the gold standard for measuring marketing performance.

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The business case for a strong CMO-CIO partnership: A guide

Full Circle Insights

Originally published on Marketing Tech News. Marketing leaders are betting on a digital-focused future by adopting martech solutions at an accelerated pace. In the Gartner CMO Spend Survey , nearly 70% said they expected to increase martech investments over the next 12 months. Focusing on the customer experience.

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The Importance of Thriving, Learning and Experimenting in Your Career

Full Circle Insights

Originally Published on Thrive Global. Larry Ellison taught us all how to be marketers and I got the chance over the years to serve as CMO and VP of Marketing for many Silicon Valley software companies. Can you share a story about the funniest marketing mistake you made when you were first starting?