Engagio

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The blog series covers how to create a budget, build an ABM team, get your data ready, select your target accounts, personalize your content, and measure and realign. This image illustrates the difference in thought process between a traditional demand generation approach and an ABM strategy. Part 1: Build a Budget.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The momentum and uptick in company growth can be attributed to sophisticated B2B marketers embracing growth-focused demand generation technologies, and autonomous marketing operations as a vehicle for scale. firmographic, technographic, demographic, buyer intent) using their proprietary targeting graph of over 1.4

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Rollworks

JULY 21, 2019

According to TOPO , account-based organizations created a new opportunity for every five accounts they targeted. So before rushing into building your account-based programs, you’ll need to take the time to build the right audience of accounts. Optimizing: Build and tier your TAL.

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The Point

JUNE 24, 2022

All this and more is documented and analyzed in an informative new report from TrustRadius: “ 2022 B2B Buying Disconnect: The Age of the Self-Serve Buyer ”, the latest version of an annual survey that reviews changes in business technology buying and selling. ( Visit the TrustRadius blog to read a detailed summary and to access a free download.).

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 1, 2016

One analytics vendor after another is selling you on their ability to analyze and make sense of “any” data. Demand generation leaders know it’s not true, though. So what is the key to better demand generation analytics? Successful demand generation analytics must bridge the two. closed revenue).

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 6, 2015

Marketers will again be challenged to keep pace with these advancements and will need to do more in order to connect with their buyers and show demonstrable ROI as a result of their Demand Generation and Content Marketing Strategies. Not all Demand Generation content is created as equal. Don’t Treat All Content The Same-.

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Metadata

JULY 29, 2020

As we talked about in the last post , I’m proposing a new way to think about account-based marketing (ABM) and how it relates to Demand Generation for 2020. Unfortunately for us marketers, most of the original ABM platforms determined that the focus should be account engagement. It’s not one or the other; it’s both.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 24, 2016

*This post first ran in Demand Gen Report , April 19, 2016. We’re all running at the shiny object but not really thinking through what it means to really build and leverage predictive analytics as a component of outcome-based demand generation. Everybody’s doing it, right? Are you doing it? Probably not.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“We’re in a time of uncertainty,” says Hussam AlMukhtar, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. A well-designed technology stack increases your productivity, efficiency, reporting capabilities, and most importantly, revenue. Think buying signals, engagement, and account-based marketing.

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Navigate the Channel

JANUARY 18, 2018

The new buzzword for improving interest in your products and services is demand generation , which is fast becoming a vital metric for many companies. Not only does good demand generation help the supply chain, it also leads to happier customers and more alignment between sales and marketing. Automate and Centralize.

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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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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

A new report called The Reinvention of B2B Marketing , from eConsultancy shows there is still quite a disparity between B2B marketing and sales organizations. Almost half (46%) of buyers still prefer creating a short list of vendors before making the decision to communicate with a sales rep.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

From the marketer’s point of view: you get more precise with your messaging and personalization, gain a better view of your total addressable market (TAM) , spend your budget more efficiently, and improve your reporting. Are they still learning about their problem, or are they deciding between vendors? Have they purchased it before?

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LeadSloth

JULY 10, 2009

In the spirit of Twitter’s Follow Friday I’d like to finally publish the remaining Demand Generation blogs that I enjoy reading. Earlier I published the Top 10 Demand Generation vendor blogs and the Top 10 Marketing Automation Blogs. DemandGen Report. B2B Marketing Zone. Ken Molay, Webinar Blog.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

I've been having a dandy time analyzing the results of my Demand Generation Implementation Survey. As of April 29, I've received 40 responses, of which I've discarded two as incomplete and two because they related to vendors I considered irrelevant ( Zoho and Ad Giants PitchRocket).

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 8, 2009

I had an interesting email conversation last month with a Raab Guide buyer about the nuances of company-level data management in demand generation systems. He started from the perfectly reasonable premise that the demand generation system should give an overview of activity for all leads associated with a given company.

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The Point

JULY 17, 2017

Demand Gen Report has published the results of this year’s “B2B Buyer’s Survey,” and the trends identified merit close attention for those marketers involved in B2B demand generation and content development. 72% of B2B Buyers quote timely response to inquiries as a key factor in vendor selection via @spearmktg.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2012

One of my favorite parts about putting out a new edition of the VEST report is I get to dive into a pile of new data about industry trends. Indeed, with 208 data points on 22 vendors, there’s so much data that it’s a challenge to make sense of it. vs. 1.28), suggesting that vendors who add them are more leaders than followers.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2009

Last week’s post on Web traffic rankings of demand generation vendors generated a couple of private responses from vendors, pointing out that the Alexa statistics include traffic to operational subdomains for client landing pages and user log-in.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 24, 2009

Summary: let's not forget that most companies are still not even doing simple demand generation. But then it was back to the bubble (so much more interesting than reality) with vendor meetings. The next step, which has barely begun, is for demand generation vendors to deliver solutions that support the new role.

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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

JULY 28, 2010

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. Changes include a drag-and-drop design tool (similar to Microsoft Powerpoint); integration of opportunities and custom objects from Salesforce.com; better reporting on Web site visitors; and, real time sales alerts on Web activity.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 21, 2009

Yet my impression from industry vendors and consultants is that most deployments start with a fairly extended planning stage where companies either document their existing campaigns and processes or, more likely, define a large number of new ones. Of course, I’ll report on results when I have some. Click here to take survey.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2011

I suspect you may be getting tired of reading about the features in my new report comparing B2B marketing automation vendors, and want some actual information. Soon, I promise: the final data is all ready and only some light editing stands between you and a completed report. And, alas, it won't work on your iPad.)

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The Point

MAY 17, 2021

That’s not simply because prospective customers will engage more readily with content that better aligns with whether they’re researching best practices, actively evaluating potential vendors, or somewhere in between. Photo by Niklas Ohlrogge on Unsplash.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

This leads to more variety as vendors experiment with different approaches to a now-defined problem. Demand generation systems are in that second stage. This means new products reflect the lessons each vendor has drawn from the industry’s history to date. But if Giese is right, they will be.

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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. ROI reporting.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 27, 2014

In fact, according to some preliminary results from our currently in-progress B2B Enterprise Demand Generation Survey , ‘net new leads’ was the most-measured KPI with 72% of marketers tracking it. Build a target account list. Adjust your lead scoring to add bonus points if a company is on your target list.

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) has not only altered the trajectory of B2B marketing; it has fundamentally reshaped the way companies go to market. Platforms enable the creation of target account lists by unifying first- and third-party data.

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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

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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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. Read next: A deep dive into changes in the ABM space — our new ABM Marketing Intelligence Report. The vendors respond. More M&A.

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