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. Here are 11 things that growth leaders need to know in order to shift to a Strategic Demand Marketing state.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 18, 2022

The value proposition of intent data vendors is typically that will combine their data (which is third-party data from your perspective) with your website analytics data (your first-party data) to identify companies that are actively looking to buy what it is you sell, and where they are in the buying process. why does adoption remain low?

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Martech

JANUARY 25, 2022

Customer relationship management (CRM) is the technology brands use to nurture relationships with their customers. And because 91% of businesses with more than 11 employees use a CRM, marketers would be wise to learn about all they have to offer. In this piece, we’ll dive deep into CRM systems and their impact on marketing teams.

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Rev

JULY 26, 2023

Frozen, slashed, cut, trimmed, tightened—no matter which word you hear, this is what happens to demand gen budgets in the current economic environment. And this reality is forcing demand gen organizations to rethink the way they operate. Ultimately, we hear how this leads them to create stronger, more focused approaches to demand gen.

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Madison Logic

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

You can’t do this at the very end of the customer journey—you need to catch their attention and increase awareness before they begin the research process with a unified brand-to-demand strategy. And while many marketers recognize the benefits of strong brand-building efforts, demand generation still dominates.

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The Point

MAY 28, 2019

However, the more I learn about chatbots, the more I get excited about their potential for B2B marketing, and demand generation. But chatbots aren’t going to replace forms any more than Account-Based Marketing (ABM) has replaced funnel-based demand gen. The post Is it Time to Add Chatbots to Your Demand Generation Engine?

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ANNUITAS

MAY 5, 2020

It’s a big shift in the marketplace and has been made possible, in part, by the emergence of demand marketing technology and technologist. . Demand marketing technology isn’t new, nor is its impact on how companies can achieve growth. What are the key performance indicators that your demand marketing team uses?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. - These can be loaded into sales and CRM systems to make them easily accessible. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 22, 2016

Last week’s posts introduced our new Raab Guide to ABM Vendors ( buy it here ) and introduced a framework four process ABM steps, six system functions, and six key sub-functions. But the sub-functions are still important for stack design and vendor selection. Let’s start with the first sub-function, External Data.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

These include vendors like Outreach, Revenue.io, Appolo.io, and Groove. In short, you end up turning your salespeople into micro spam engines – sending outbound messages with little context or relevance, and probably at the wrong stage in the Demand Experience.

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Rev

JANUARY 5, 2023

That’s the work of a demand gen team. We recently sat down with Joe Paone , Senior Director of Worldwide Marketing at Splunk, to talk about not only why a mature demand gen engine is critical to a modern marketing team, but how to understand the evolution of that program. And it’s probably a very small team.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

Some vendors only rank leads while others build multiple models for different purposes. • Use of the client''s internal data for model scoring, and whether this extends to sources beyond CRM. Whether the vendor sells prospect lists or only enhance names provided by the client. . • Types of predictive models available.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 1, 2016

One analytics vendor after another is selling you on their ability to analyze and make sense of “any” data. Demand generation leaders know it’s not true, though. So what is the key to better demand generation analytics? We must take a different approach — a structured approach — to demand generation analytics.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2020

Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor. There’s a main stage for keynote-style presentations, expo booths where attendees can interact with vendors, breakout session areas, and one-to-one video networking. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor.

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The Point

MAY 17, 2021

Whatever demand gen channels you use to generate marketing leads, there’s value in always promoting a mix of content and other offers that span the entire buying cycle: early-stage, mid-stage, and late-stage. In fact, a failure to align offers with ad groups can be a prime culprit in poor conversion (click-to-lead) rates.

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Martech

JANUARY 9, 2023

How vendors differentiate on capabilities. The more basic functions of marketing automation have become somewhat commoditized, so platform vendors mostly try to differentiate on the ability to scale (especially to new marketing channels), usability, ease of implementation and customer experience features. Native CRM integration.

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SnapApp

JANUARY 15, 2019

In the same way, if you tried to build a B2B demand generation strategy based on faulty assumptions–or outright myths–you’d probably fail, too. Demand generation marketers, in particular, have a patchwork of myths to work through. The more pitfalls you can avoid as you plan a B2B demand strategy, the better.

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markempa

OCTOBER 21, 2013

With all of the demands made of marketers, keeping data clean can be almost impossible to do on your own. That’s why I’m involved in hiring a vendor to support MECLABS with this monumental task. There’s a multitude of data vendors and sometimes it can be easy to go with whoever is the cheapest. Compile a list of vendors.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2020

This engagement activity suggests interest or demand from an audience that they want to purchase a product or service. Accuracy: Generally speaking, the closer a vendor is to the data source — the more accurate the data will be. If a vendor did nothing to maintain the accuracy of their data, they would have very few customers.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

For those of you with Marketo in your Demand Process technology stacks, your next question is probably what does this mean for me ? And what does this mean for our ANNUITAS Perpetual Demand Generation ® (PDG) investments? As ANNUITAS clients, you all already have tightly integrated CRM + MAP + CMS … the way it SHOULD be.

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Aberdeen

APRIL 1, 2019

Mass email blasts have gone from engaging to spammy, leaving marketers to rethink how email fits into broader demand gen strategies. With quality intent data at your disposal, there are 3 key ways you can improve your demand gen strategies. Your demand generation efforts shouldn’t be static. Those days are long gone.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Drift Engage is now generally available and is a new real-time scoring engine ( powered by Lift AI ), which includes real-time intent scoring (using machine learning to focus more on how actions equal intent, rather than just leveraging a pre-built activity-based scoring matrix), real-time playbook targeting, and improved CRM sync.

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Valasys

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Engagio has grabbed the number one position among the top 20 Account-Based Marketing vendors deduced from 1,500 manager surveys, analyst opinions & vendor evaluations. In a press release by Research In Action GmbH, Engagio ranked first on the matrix & outlasted the other Top 19 global vendors.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“We’re in a time of uncertainty,” says Hussam AlMukhtar, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Marketing Intelligence & Automation This will help your demand generation team interpret data and put it to good use. Ask the potential new vendor about their onboarding and training processes.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Allowing every salesperson to define their buying group differently, and record it differently in the CRM, no longer works in ABM. You need someone with “ops” in their title to lock that down in the CRM because otherwise, it throws off the whole organization’s forecasts and worse—it skews your perception of who actually buys.

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DealSignal

MARCH 8, 2021

CRM data quality is a critical variable in ensuring a strong ROI for your investment in a CRM system. Judging by this lack of out-of-the-box support, you would think that data is expected to be miraculously keyed into CRMs perfectly without the possibility of decay. Example of how CRM data quality decays over time.

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DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

Comparing vendors on a third-party review website. This is something not typically provided by vendors—you would get this from your internal tech stack. This can be vendor comparison guides, case studies, and more. For example, Bombora and Demand Gen Report would be typical vendors of third-party intent data.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

The vendors respond. A great number of ABM vendors provide everything from all-in-one platforms to enable ABM strategies, to adjacent services like data enrichment, identity resolution, analytics, and interaction management/orchestration to B2B marketers ramping up their programs. Consolidation of ABM and demand gen.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Forrester recently released a vendor evaluation for midmarket CRM vendors. If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. However, Forrester states that Microsoft Dynamics CRM may actually be a better CRM product. What does CRM integration mean?

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NetLine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Fortunately, there are plenty of tools and vendors in the MarTech space designed to focus on these challenges. To accomplish this, your organization looks to vendor partners to streamline the process and maximize its success rate. In many scenarios, determining which vendor fits you best comes down to organizational preference.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In part 3, you’ll learn how to evaluate the myriad of ABM vendors in the B2B space so you end up with the best solution that meets your needs. How to evaluate and pick the right ABM vendor for you. A successful implementation of ABM relies on a great customer-vendor fit. View the ABM RFP template. Account-Based Plays.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 16, 2011

I’ve long believed that B2B marketing automation is just a passing phase: that, ultimately, B2B marketing automation systems will be absorbed into CRM systems instead of operating independently. But there are also a few vendors who have bet in favor of merged systems, so it wouldn’t be fair to ignore their view entirely.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This puts pressure on marketing automation vendors, who also want to provide Web analytics and content management, and who are already being pressed by customer relationship management (CRM) vendors. This sets up a new clash between marketing automation vendors and Web CMS vendors. billion makes perfect sense.

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Metadata

JANUARY 27, 2022

Hiring the right person to lead your demand generation effort is tough. Very few can back up their experiences with an in-depth understanding of successful, modern demand gen. Many of the questions I ask are to understand a candidate’s perspective on demand gen. My top interview questions for demand generation managers.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 8, 2009

I had an interesting email conversation last month with a Raab Guide buyer about the nuances of company-level data management in demand generation systems. He started from the perfectly reasonable premise that the demand generation system should give an overview of activity for all leads associated with a given company.

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