The Point

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Recently I was asked to contribute some thoughts to Marketo’s new ebook, “ The Definitive Guide to Marketing Automation.” What are the most important things to look for in a marketing automation vendor? How many FT employees (or equivalents) am I going to need to manage the system? Finance, ERP).

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. There will always be prospects who need B2B products or services. 37% of B2B marketers are using marketing automation to generate leads ( source ).

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As I discussed earlier this year in my BLOG “ Executive Insights: World-Class Demand Generation and Corporate Social Responsibility Converge at Televerde ”, I was very fortunate to work with some tremendous partners during my nearly 19 year tenure with SAP Global Marketing.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 24, 2009

Needless to say, Marketing Automation software is very popular today. It can be used for email campaigns, drip marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, landing page management and for brewing coffee. And please share your Marketing Automation “horror&# scenarios in the comments below!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

by Dayna Rothman IDC recently released their 2012 CMO Advisory Service Best Practices Series: Realizing the Vision of the 21st Century Lead Management. Here are some questions that IDC sought to answer with their survey: How do leading companies staff and organize teams for effective lead management?

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

To reach end users, the company relies primarily on a network of channel partners, including satellite operators, telecom companies, and internet service providers. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management. All-hands discovery session yields important insights, priorities.

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NetLine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Cutting through the fluff to get to the core of content marketing and its tie to demand generation, let’s dig in and meet Nathan! How does Content Marketing fit into your overall marketing strategy? Without going into too much detail, content marketing and content strategy are a huge part of what we do.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Effective lead nurturing is crucial to successful b2b marketing. Lead nurturing can help you improve your lead conversions over time. ” “ Lead nurturing will generate an increase in sale opportunities up to 20%. ” “ Lead nurturing can help you build a trusted relationship with your economic buyer.”

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The Point

APRIL 8, 2010

At our agency , when we send emails – for example, to blog subscribers – we include this “update profile&# option in two locations – one immediately under the body of the email (image at right), and another in the footer immediately under the unsubscribe link. If so, please include a link or reference in the comments.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

We discussed the great lead quality vs. lead quantity debate. Maybe this works for your company as long as the number of marketing touches does not annoy the prospect to the point that they want to walk away. In other companies lead nurture is a very formal and well-defined process. So if you: a.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 30, 2011

Relationship expands end-to-end demand generation and lead management service offerings for clients. Grand Rapids, MI – August 30, 2011 – The Annuitas Group, an expert provider of lead management process services, today announced that it has formalized an alliance with Harte-Hanks, Inc.

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Valasys

MAY 31, 2019

HG for Marketo has been designed to link directly to the users’ marketing automation platform & to reflect upon the latest technologies being used by the potential & existing customers. The company offers Engagement Platforms to help brands build value, grow their revenue & prove their impact in the marketplace.

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The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. Data grooming is something that needs to be in every marketing VP’s budget! DT: Let me give two answers here. HS: Thanks David!

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ANNUITAS

JULY 7, 2011

Grand Rapids, MI – July 7, 2011 – The Annuitas Group, an expert provider of lead management process services, today announced that long-time and valued client, USA Financial, has been named in DemandGen Report’s third annual Sales & Marketing Alignment Awards. Watch the USA Financial Video Testimonial here.

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The Point

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Here are my other key takeaways from the report, a recommended read for any demand generation marketer: More than two-thirds (67%) of survey respondents said that they’re measuring the success of their nurture programs based on email click-through rates. News flash: email clicks are not a valid success metric.

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Televerde

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Most companies have some sort of marketing automation tool, but choosing to outsource your lead generation allows you to get the most out of your tool by combining marketing automation and the human touch. Subscribe to our newsletter for more demand generation content.

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The Point

MARCH 3, 2010

But prospects in a nurturing program are different, clearly, because they’ve already engaged with your company and expressed some level of interest, if not in your product specifically, then at minimum in solving the issue or problem that your product or service addresses.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. Automating the “garbage in, garbage out” marketing approach benefits no one.”

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DealSignal

JANUARY 20, 2023

They are a hot asset for any B2B company, as they are the easiest leads to convert into sales. Hot leads have the budget and decision-making authority, provide a clear-cut timeline for closing the deal, and know how your product or service can solve the problem they’re facing. So: How do you identify hot leads?

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The Mx Group

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Sample Stakeholder Question: “How much demand for our product or service is Marketing really generating?”. Creating and sharing marketing reports that represent your campaigns within the entire funnel illustrates the demand generation value Marketing is driving. Funnel Analysis.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum. All thoughts are welcome!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Growth Fusion is a boutique integrated marketing agency with a strong focus on ROI-driven Customer Acquisition and Demand Generation. Marketo’s recent acquisition of Crowd Factory is a good example of how the sophistication of automated B2B marketing campaigns will continue to increase the impact of social media.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 20, 2010

Marketers have changed the way they handle online demand generation by using thought leadership like white papers, surveys and videos to drive interest in their industry or solution. But for many companies, leads from these inbound methods don’t necessarily mean an increase in potential sales opportunities.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Social media is hot mainly because it is new news to lots of folks in marketing and across our organizations that “the customer is indeed in charge”.

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Televerde

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Fred Isbell, Research Director at Dresner Advisory Services, High Technology Veteran, and former Senior Director at SAP Global Marketing. I worked with Deanna Ransom , Televerde’s Global Head of Marketing and Marketing Services and Chairperson of Diversity and Inclusion for many years in SAP North American Field Marketing.

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PureB2B

MARCH 22, 2017

Putting segmentation into action enables you to track your leads’ activity according to what category they belong to. With this information in hand, you can come up with different customer personas such as those interested in demand generation, data management, or sales leadership, to name a few.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Author: Tanya Chu What do the marketing leads look like? Where are all our leads going? On the marketing operations team, we get asked these questions often by the demand generation and sales teams. We get asked all the time about the validity of a lead or why a lead was routed to a certain person or team.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Brian Carroll, CEO of InTouch , is part of MECLABS Group (MarketingExperiments, MarketingSherpa, InTouch) and author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale and the B2B Lead Generation Blog with expertise related to B2B marketing, lead generation and complex sales. Number of leads?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

We are excited to have Jep Castelein of popular lead management and marketing automation blog, Lead Sloth , contribute a guest blog post. For many of them, product trials are an important lead generation tactic. They can do this via the Web Services Interface. More about this below.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2010

Summary: Eloqua's SmartStart gets marketers rolling in less than one week. It does require extensive preparation, but Eloqua leads you through that too. Let's face it, folks: putting a good demand generation program in place is real work. Skeptical creature that I am, I wanted to hear the details before writing about it.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Circle Studio

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Understanding the meaning of marketing terms is not only helpful for working alongside your firm’s internal marketing team, but also vital in conversing with your marketing agency. E.g. testing two versions of a landing page or email and choosing the version that leads to more conversions.

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The Point

JULY 13, 2012

I’m not sure I’d have much patience for a company, regardless of any interest I might have expressed in their product or service, that wanted to share links to educational and entertainment-type content with me via email, particularly if those links arrived with any frequency. But maybe that’s just me. Occasionally?

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markempa

AUGUST 16, 2016

What are the five ways you can immediately improve your account based marketing (ABM) and selling? I recently did an interview on CRMRadio.today with Jim Obermayer founder of Sales Lead Management Association and Funnel Media Group. Brian, what are the five ways to immediately improve account based marketing and selling? .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 9, 2011

Some of these best practices include common definitions for a qualified lead between marketing and sales; lead scoring to identify suspected quality leads; a strong lead management process to manage the handoffs; and the use of marketing automation to power the whole thing. Conclusion.

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Inbox Insight

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Have your audiences got a clearly defined need and is it compatible with your product/service offering? If you’re using forms as a lead capture mechanism, consider adding qualifiers such as ‘Objectives’ as a field. In B2B marketing actions really do speak louder than words. How can I capture this insight?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 9, 2009

There are some great lead generation tools today for salespeople (like ConnectAndSell and Lead Insight for Sales ). When the organization focuses on number of qualified leads generated than just raw lead volumes, it becomes easier to compare apples-to-apples results between marketing and sales investments.

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