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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. Why Marketing Automation?

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Lead Generation vs. Demand Generation (and How to Develop Content for Both)

Brandpoint

But you can’t get a customer without capturing them as a lead first. Demand generation and lead generation are marketing activities that help with this process. In this post, we’ll describe the difference between demand and lead generation, and what kind of content to create for each.

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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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Did martech break B2B marketing?

Martech

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. Lead capture forms. Lead scoring. Lead ranking. Lead routing. Lead nurturing. It was empowering.

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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.