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150+ Questions for Your Marketing Automation RFP

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: I've posted a list of nearly 200 RFP questions that I hope many people will adopt to their own needs. If it's used widely, buyers and vendors both benefit. Death, taxes and RFPs. For business software vendors, all three are equally inevitable – and it's not clear which they dislike most. So bring it on. -

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Content is the new currency—and your invitation to the dance.

Sales Engine

On the buyer side, when a company was evaluating for a business commodity or a piece of software, they would talk to an analyst and find out who the top vendors were. Then they would invite those vendors in and the sales cycles would begin. You’re going to be well positioned and you may get to help design the RFP.

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Ranking B2B Marketing Automation Vendors: How I Built My Scores (part 1)

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

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Moving From an Old-School Lead Gen Playbook to a Demand Gen Machine

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In: demand-generation. For many years, a focus on lead generation has led to seller-centric strategies and “a shitstorm of gated content.” But now, to borrow from Kaylee Edmondson’s DEMAND fireside chat, Moving From An Old-School Lead Gen Playbook to a Demand Gen Machine —“Lead generation’s just not hitting like it used to hit.”

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Intent Data : How to Use it to Generate Quality Sales and Marketing Leads

DealSignal

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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How to Buy ABM: Part 2 – Assessing Your ABM Readiness

Engagio

The key technologies that you will need to become account-based are lead to account matching to set the foundation, Marketing Orchestration to drive engagement, and analytics to measure impact. The most important step in the 6-step process for ABM is choosing which target accounts. 4) Select the right target accounts.

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Interview with Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions

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This being said, I think this definition sums it up nicely: Content marketing is the practice of publishing contagious content designed to be found by and influence a behavior of your target market(s) to create a positive business result. How important is it in a B2B demand generation strategy to incorporate story telling?