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Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation: Which Path Leads to Success?

Inbox Insight

In the realm of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), two terms frequently arise that B2B marketers often struggle to comprehend – demand generation and lead generation. While these two concepts may seem interchangeable, they in fact serve unique roles in any B2B marketing strategy.

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Top 10 Demand Generation Tools for 2024

Oktopost

Therefore, it may not be surprising that 39% of businesses are looking at marketing automation to drive their demand-generation efforts. Demand generation tools leverage automation technologies to help you understand your customers better and make data-driven decisions.

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Making the Most of Modern-Day B2B Marketing Automation

PureB2B

A common challenge in the B2B demand generation world centers around the balance of automation and reporting software. Both of which are tools used in conjunction with your marketing campaigns, meaning your day is mostly full of software management instead of strategic planning. Productivity.

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Seven Powerful B2B Lead Generation Processes and Tools

Webbiquity

B2B lead generation tools help marketers more effectively develop new prospective sales opportunities. They can help generate a bigger and better lead pipeline across any business and industry. It can automate different sales processes like task assignments, email sequencing, and follow-up appointments.

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Did martech break B2B marketing?

Martech

I was a young, freshly minted MBA with a background in computer science, and a two-year stint doing software marketing at IBM. We were one of Eloqua’s first customers and that’s where my adventure with marketing automation began. We were doing it all back then, with very little playbook guidance: Lead magnets.

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The effectiveness crisis in B2B marketing: Why MOps must shift focus now

Martech

In our zeal to harness the tech part of martech, the ops part of MOps and the automation part of marketing automation, MOps professionals have failed to accomplish the most important part of the equation — marketing. B2B marketing is suffering from an effectiveness crisis, having chased efficiency gains for years.

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Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

Customer Experience Matrix

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.