ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This is the second year that ANNUITAS has conducted its Enterprise B2B Demand Generation Survey with the goal of gaining better insights into the approach that enterprise organizations take to demand generation. always on” so that the buyer can engage with the vendor according to their preferred cadence.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 24, 2016

In what has become perhaps the most over-promised and most under-delivered demand generation trend in recent years, everyone is throwing around the phrase ‘predictive analytics’ as one of their top B2B sales and marketing priorities, and yet there is no strong evidence anyone is really doing it. Why is this?

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

Few people would suggest you learn salesmanship from the play Glengarry Glen Ross ,* but its central message rings true: good leads are the lifeblood of a sales organization.** Some vendors only rank leads while others build multiple models for different purposes. • At least a dozen firms are now following that path.

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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. Deep account-based sales intelligence benefits an organization in the following ways. Better demand generation.

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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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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. billion in 2019. EVALUATING ENTERPRISE MAPS.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 25, 2008

When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. They even cited one demand generation vendor that had turned to them for help. (In

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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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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 19, 2022

It means that relying on a salesperson to guide a lead through all stages of the lifecycle is no longer effective. Buyers spend nearly half their time researching independently ; another 22% is spent talking to other decision makers, and only 17% of their ‘buying’ time is spent meeting with potential vendors.

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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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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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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 21, 2009

My own take is that the main factor is how well the marketers know what they want to do – that is, do they understand their data, know what marketing campaigns they want to set up, have the materials in hand and process flows defined, know what their scoring rules should be, etc. Of course, I’ll report on results when I have some.

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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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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

This trend shows that buyers are determined to do their due diligence before making purchase decisions, raising the importance of the personalized, targeted experiences enabled by ABM technologies. The vendors respond. Consolidation of ABM and demand gen. Meanwhile, Terminus and Dun & Bradstreet are unifying around a CDP.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

So if your ad is not getting clicked on, then it’s not going to be presented first or as often,” says Lauren Temmler, senior demand generation manager at ZoomInfo. However, make sure you consider your target audience. You might split a campaign where half of it targets MQLs and the other half targets opportunities.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Account-based marketing is used by most B2B companies, and it’s easy to see why: it promises to bring marketing and sales closer together, target accounts as one revenue team, and drive bottom-line results. Poor data quality leads to targeting the wrong accounts at the wrong times and in the wrong way.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 2, 2014

Our basic value proposition was all about making it easy to send large files without having to deal with email attachment size limits or using FTP clients that are too complicated for the non-tech savvy. With this newly gained insight, we got more laser-focused with our value prop towards this particular segment.

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Biznology

AUGUST 8, 2019

Martin: Twenty years ago, we would buy databases from trade publications and data vendors, and use them to cold call, trying to reach senior executives. Sellers—even smaller brands—are using marketing automation like InfusionSoft, Marketo and a local provider called Doppler emBlue to conduct event-triggered campaigns. Martin: No.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement. If you can help frame the discussion, your company will be seen as a trusted advisor and thought leader.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

From Web Analytics to Demand Generation. Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Lead Scoring. Lead scoring configuration. An anonymous prospect record. Form builder.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 17, 2015

You’ve vetted the vendors, selected your features, sized your database and scheduled your implementation; you are now ready to deploy your marketing automation platform, right? With multiple years of experience, this user has every certification available from the marketing automation vendor. The Power User. This user knows it all.

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Engagio

APRIL 11, 2018

For years, targeting key accounts has been a cornerstone of effective B2B growth. Today, over 90% of B2B organizations believe Account Based Marketing is a “must-have” tactic, according to SiriusDecisions. One reason is the immense amount of data that is now available to us to make account-based strategies more efficient.

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Attendify

MAY 14, 2019

Because when time is money, quickly getting event leads into the hands of your sales team, marketing function or sponsors is directly linked to long-term ROI. You can’t afford not to have a speed-to-lead event data strategy. Tip 1: Get smart about event lead scanning. Instead, start categorizing your leads when you scan them.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 7, 2015

23% stated “identifying triggers/sales signals that indicate issues you can resolve”. 45% stated “creating a targeted prospecting strategy”. 4% stated “creating value and insight during the conversation with the client”. . 59% stated “gaining appointments”.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2014

According to Sirius Decisions, 75 percent of those that own marketing automation state they are not getting the full value from it. A recent Forrester study showed that of 25 different tactics listed, B2B organizations are using on average 15 different tactics in their demand generation mix. So where is the disconnect?

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 7, 2013

Lead Nurture Planning. Considering that around 80% of leads never turn into sales, you need a proper lead nurturing plan, including lead scoring, with the goal to transform those leads you do have into potential sales opportunities. Save time following up on bad leads. . Shortening of sales cycles.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Email campaigns can execute as batch projects or trigger dialogs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Marketing automation vendors entering this market are essentially betting that they can make their systems powerful enough to be useful and easy enough for a small business to run. Hubspot has accepted this challenge.

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Only B2B

JULY 20, 2020

Only B2B’s premium demand generation campaigns proliferate growth, awareness, boost sales pipelines and accelerate deal progressions for Technology companies. Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite – Charles Spurgeon. Must Read: Selecting The Right B2B Telemarketing Vendor.

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Biznology

APRIL 24, 2015

With responsibility for demand generation, Sechrist is mired in database marketing. First, we target the right accounts. In short, Five9 is creating an ideal customer profile, and going out in the market place to find similar accounts, a process known as lookalike modeling.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 12, 2009

The new service, called QuickStart, will also be delivered by Eloqua partners, giving them an opportunity to start a relationship that could lead to future paid business. The difference in scope between QuickStart and SmartStart provides a useful reminder of the importance of digging into the details of vendor claims about deployment.

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Inbox Insight

MARCH 20, 2023

The emergence of AI in B2B demand generation has only facilitated this further. This is our webinar: 4 Ways AI is Revolutionizing Demand Generation. (00:12) How is AI changing B2B demand generation? (00:22) Who is your brand trying to target, and who could you bring into the fold?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 3, 2009

I think one mistake many marketers make is to think of their lead management requirements too narrowly — and to be honest, quite a few demand generation vendors make this mistake as well. Lead scoring to know when to pass leads to the sales team – and when to keep them in marketing for further nurturing.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

We discussed the great lead quality vs. lead quantity debate. And when quality is required, you need to be able to deliver leads that convert. The debate often goes like this: Sales wants more leads. Sales says they want better leads. However, you must continue to nurture those leads that are not yet ready to buy.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Genius Enterprise expands the company’s beachhead in marketing by adding automated lead nurturing and lead scoring. This makes it more of a competitor to traditional demand generation systems, although Genius Enterprise still lacks landing pages and surveys. This is part of the system’s real-time approach.

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