Only B2B

JULY 5, 2023

In the ever-changing landscape of B2B marketing, demand generation plays a pivotal role in driving business growth and success. As we enter 2023, it is crucial to adapt to the evolving nature of B2B demand generation and discover effective strategies to generate demand and engage target audiences.

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DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

Intent data allows you to identify and target these specific folks, almost in real time. The type of intent signals a user is leaving and the strength of those signals can indicate a user’s interest in your product, which is invaluable for creating targeted marketing campaigns or delivering strong sales cadences.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

I spent a good part of yesterday talking with demand generation vendors about the usability scores I've been publishing all week. There might still be some others: two of the vendors haven't spoken with me, which could mean they agree with my ratings but, more likely, means they just haven't been paying attention.

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Demand Generation Work Management 120

PureB2B

JUNE 9, 2022

Demand generation marketing is often measured by the amount of revenue you can influence over a set period of time, or as most marketers call it, lead generation. Too often, content syndication programs are plagued with poor-performing leads due to the vendor not truly addressing the challenge at hand.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 25, 2013

Last October, KoMarketing Associates announced the launch of research consultancy Software Advice’s B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Survey. In a poll of 155 primarily C-level marketing experts, social media received the largest percentage of votes for demand generation channels that marketers will spend more on in 2013.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. This applies to all types of campaigns — from emails to display ads to content syndication. While it can be used to help you qualify leads, it’s also an excellent strategy to segment audiences.

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DiscoverOrg

APRIL 20, 2017

When it comes measuring the health of our prospect data, we’re used to showing raw growth in the number of contacts and accounts, or a coverage percentage for target accounts or personas. Activity : Emails sent, calls made, requirements written. What does the new generation of data offerings look like?

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 12, 2019

Lead generation is an essential element of demand generation but if you think the work stops there, here’s some bad news…. 79% of marketing leads don’t convert ( HubSpot). But before you hang up your coat, here’s a collection of lead nurturing best practices worth exploring. Reading time: 4 minutes.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2008

Now that I have that long post about analytical databases out of the way, I can get back to thinking about demand generation systems. But, as I think I wrote in a comment since then, I now believe the best approach is to define several applications and score the vendors in terms of their suitability for each.

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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. My top interview questions for demand generation managers. After all, you’re looking for someone who can run the demand gen gamut.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Whatever the reason, unused funds are a lost opportunity for both the partner and the sponsoring vendor. What’s your unique selling proposition (USP) in the context of your partnership with this particular vendor? What is the value-add that makes you distinct from other partners in a way that customers would want to work with you?

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Leadspace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

If you work in sales or marketing, there probably hasn’t been a day where you have not heard about implementing or operationalizing intent data to target and engage your prospects effectively. Intent signals are indicators that identify accounts that are actively researching your products on the web. But what is Intent data?

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Metadata

JANUARY 25, 2023

In: demand-generation. For many years, a focus on lead generation has led to seller-centric strategies and “a shitstorm of gated content.” Kaylee is the VP of Revenue at Refine Labs, and former Director of Demand Generation at Chili Piper. What is demand generation? Out: gated content.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

As the industry matures, second-generation products are designed to improve on the original products, either by adding new capabilities or by delivering the same capabilities faster, easier or cheaper. This leads to more variety as vendors experiment with different approaches to a now-defined problem.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. But on reflection I realized that Net-Results offers a full set of demand generation functions. Let’s run through the standard demand generation process to see how this works in practice.

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Martech

MAY 4, 2022

“It’s provocative [for us] to position ABM as entirely different from the status quo of demand gen,” said Jodi Cerretani, senior director of demand generation at RollWorks, in her presentation at The MarTech Conference. Cerretani distinguishes ABM with these three pillars: Identifying high-value targets.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. It’s actually quite a long story, dating back to the company’s initial sales automation system in 1997, followed by its MarketingView demand generation product in 1999. So now the story can be told.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

KPIs should also hold each team member accountable for hitting their number and doing their part. While there are countless KPIs you could track, we’re laying out the ones specifically tailored for demand generation marketers. You can monitor your email program holistically or segment by type of email.

Lead Ranking 130

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DealSignal

AUGUST 3, 2023

According to research from ActiveCampaign , the ROI of email marketing is a whopping 4200% (or $42 for every $1 spent). However, not all email marketing campaigns are created equal. The best email marketing campaigns target the right audience with engaging, personalized emails at the right time.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. So I was quite curious to see what they had to offer.

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DealSignal

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The Ultimate Checklist: Questions to Ask B2B Data Vendors What types of intent data are there? Intent data allows you to identify and target these specific folks, almost in real-time. The Ultimate Checklist: Questions to Ask B2B Data Vendors. Comparing vendors on a third-party review website. GET THE CHECKLIST.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 20, 2010

Summary: A survey of business-to-business salespeople finds they (still) consider themselves their best source of qualified leads. But marketing-generated leads are gaining increasing respect and salespeople are increasingly looking for help from outside data vendors.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 13, 2022

Intent data takes the mystery out of how to prioritize and create your marketing campaigns," says Mitchell Hanson, Senior Director of Demand Generation at ZoomInfo. "It According to a Demand Gen Report survey of companies leveraging intent data in marketing: 80 percent say intent helped account prioritization and scoring.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This is an enticingly huge market for marketing automation vendors, and one that seems largely untapped. The largest marketing automation vendor in the segment, Infusionsoft , has under 20,000 clients. Many small businesses do their marketing through CRM, email, and search advertising. This is barely scratching the surface.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 23, 2023

Success or failure in account-based marketing (ABM) hinges on account prioritization. By focusing on high-value accounts you can create personalized experiences that foster long-lasting customer relationships. To do so, you need to know who these accounts are, who the decision-makers are, and what they care about.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? You wouldn’t expect someone to even commit to a date based on only one conversation, text or even one really long email, would you? The focus of most campaigns are generally all about the organization itself or their product.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Campaigns Work Management 100

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? You wouldn’t expect someone to even commit to a date based on only one conversation, text or even one really long email, would you? The focus of most campaigns are generally all about the organization itself or their product.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Campaigns Work Management 100

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? You wouldn’t expect someone to even commit to a date based on only one conversation, text or even one really long email, would you? The focus of most campaigns are generally all about the organization itself or their product.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Campaigns Work Management 100

Binary Demand

JUNE 29, 2023

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/]Understanding the intentions and interests of potential buyers is crucial for driving successful campaigns and maximizing return on investment (ROI). This information can be used to create highly targeted marketing campaigns, enhancing customer engagement and boosting sales.

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Smarte

JUNE 28, 2022

A Marketing Qualified Lead sits at the top of the funnel. These leads are exploring various solutions to solve their pain points by reading/ accessing your company’s content or responding to a cold email. A Sales Qualified Lead is further into the funnel. How do you move a lead from MQL to SQL?

Lead Ranking 52

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Binary Demand

JUNE 29, 2023

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/]Understanding the intentions and interests of potential buyers is crucial for driving successful campaigns and maximizing return on investment (ROI). This information can be used to create highly targeted marketing campaigns, enhancing customer engagement and boosting sales.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

But ranking in the search results doesn’t happen overnight. It requires ongoing technical work, such as website optimization, as well as local SEO, which is the process of using a company’s geographical location to rank a business higher than its local competitors. Account-based marketers don’t concern themselves with lead quantity.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I’ve long observed that B2B marketers focus too much on lead generation, and not enough on current customer expansion and retention, which is, after all, where the bulk of profits lie. For years, B2B marketers have focused on demand generation, or top-of-the-funnel activities. This is a mistake. What’s that?

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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Finally, the new 2013 B2B Lead Generation Report is available! Download it here: [link] ) The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted the 2013 lead generation survey to better understand how B2B marketers are adjusting to new challenges, and to identify new trends and best practices. The results are in.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Lead Generation Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management 100

KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Their answers ranged depending on their industry, but we found that most were interested in attempting new strategies and techniques for the B2B market, like artificial intelligence, paid social media campaigns, and virtual reality, while others wanted to focus budget dollars on tried-and-true tactics that work.

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