ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

A Memo from CEO Adam Needles to ANNUITAS clients on the Adobe Acquisition of Marketo. You probably saw that late yesterday Adobe bought Marketo. For those of you with Marketo in your Demand Process technology stacks, your next question is probably what does this mean for me ? Good morning. Maybe not so much in this case.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

In our previous posts about demand generation , we explored some of the ways to drive an effective demand gen campaign. Pipeline value? If you don’t have a solid understanding of how your campaign leads to real business impact, you don’t have anything at all. And what’s at the heart of this evolution? ROI measures.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. MQLs (Marketing Qualified Leads). SQLs (Sales Qualified Leads). SALs (Sales Accepted Leads).

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Author: Mary Kate Francis If you’re a B2B marketer, you’re probably familiar with demand generation in one way or another. Maybe you’ve been working in demand generation for several years or you collaborate with the team on cross-channels campaigns. Bottom-of-the-Funnel (BOFU).

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The rise of Account Based Marketing has sparked a great debate: should we do ABM or demand generation? The same goes for ABM and demand gen. The question that always follows is “so, how do you do demand gen and ABM at the same time?” Brandon: How do you do demand gen and ABM at the same time?

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Build a campaign as a list of stages Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 Build linear campaigns outside of a larger campaign structure. The flow of leads among these independent campaigns may be managed either through explicit routing (i.e.,

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 15, 2014

Author: Raymond Coppinger Today, B2B marketers have many core objectives – brand building, customer communications, multi-channel coordination…the list goes on. But regardless of what else your marketing strategy needs to accomplish, demand generation (the process of generating promising buyers for the sales team) probably tops the list.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Lead scoring is defined as a shared sales and marketing methodology for ranking leads in order to determine their sales-readiness. It should be a foundational element of your sales and marketing alignment strategy, but it’s often overlooked, or deemed too complex to implement for a lot of organizations.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We want to share it with you, our marketing community, and others in the industry so we can have real conversations about what is going on in the crazy world of demand marketing. . Each one of these evangelists is an expert in their field as well as a practiced demand marketing specialist. . Expertise: Demand marketing strategy.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard AS runs a highly successful demand generation program, an integrated mix of both online and offline campaigns, to generate a consistent flow of leads to the company’s sales force. Design, build and launch a “Welcome” email program designed to improve follow-up and response to new leads.

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The Point

AUGUST 1, 2013

Lead scoring has quickly become an integral part of a demand generation marketer’s arsenal. A well-planned, well-designed, and optimized lead scoring schema can be a key contributor to sales productivity, sales engagement, and the rate at which inbound leads convert to Sales Qualified Leads, opportunities, and deals.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2009

You may ask, why should anyone care what I have to say about demand generation? Well, at Marketo , we’ve built a world-class demand generation machine that has helped us in just 10 months to sign up over 130 customers in more than eight countries, including companies such as Thomson Reuters, Reed Business, and CollabNet.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A prospective client asks: “We’re just getting our demand generation programs ramped up, and I’m not sure I’m ready for marketing automation. Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. It enables you to deploy lead nurturing programs that are more timely, relevant, and, ultimately, effective. Comments welcome.

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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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Martech

MAY 2, 2024

Accounts, especially at larger companies, may have a number of different buying teams looking at different buying opportunities. Traditionally, salespeople had to rely on networking and intelligence gathering to painstakingly identify the members of a target account’s buying group.

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The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

How can ABM best coexist with a more traditional funnel-based demand generation model? In the giddy, early days when solutions like Marketo first arrived on the scene, the reigning view was that the technology was all a company needed to solve their lead management and email marketing woes. Measuring the wrong thing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 5, 2011

Today B2B marketers have to take a leadership role in lead generation – it’s not good enough to provide names on a list, you’ve got to create a conversation and hopefully, a relationship for success. In other words, you’ve got to generate and manage demand. So, what does it mean to be a demand generation marketer?

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ABM in Action

MAY 18, 2023

Are leads alive, are they dead or do they just need some life support? New research from ABM platform RollWorks is coming out swinging with an answer: 62% of sellers said leads will never become obsolete, while 56% of marketers don’t believe the MQL is dead.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2009

I just reviewed Marketo 's recently released Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing. Don't let the vendor logo fool you, this is a document that is a must read for all demand generation professionals. What I found most useful were the examples of calculating the ROI of Lead Nurturing. It's a must read.

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Leadspace

JULY 14, 2016

If you spend your days as a B2B demand generation marketer trying to generate more leads—and better leads—too many leads might not sound like a problem. While you could just dump them all into Marketo or Oracle Marketing Cloud or HubSpot and hope for the best. But that’s hardly a best practice.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

When sales teams need marketing to help them make their numbers, the natural response is to go fishing for hot leads. This requires a constant re-loading of the sales funnel with new, expensive leads. In contrast, for Marketo, the proportion of sales derived from slow leads is an astounding 50 percent.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

A vertical approach can be very effective when marketing to target accounts as well, helping you and your organization deliver a more personalized experience. At Marketo, we have team members who are dedicated to verticals of interest. Call scripts: General guidance on what to say when cold calling prospects.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Back in January 2009, Marketo came out with a webinar entitled, The Secret Sauce to Demand Generation: How Marketo Nurtures, Scores and Accelerates Leads through the Revenue Cycle. It discusses how Marketo leverages its own Sales 2.0 tools and techniques to achieve success.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 9, 2017

But for many marketers, webinars are a one-trick pony: running the webinar program , getting the leads, following up on questions, and then you’re done. You can even ask for the same lead information: name, email, job title, and anything else. Segmenting and Nurturing Leads. Not exactly. Pressed Play. 25% Viewed. 50% Viewed.

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Only B2B

JANUARY 18, 2018

Lead Generation vs. Demand Generation: Top 6 Strategies Which Work! We discussed the differences between lead generation and demand generation on the basis of content marketing strategy earlier. With marketers who use demand and lead generation interchangeably, this is an expected result.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2009

I just reviewed Marketo 's recently released Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing. Don't let the vendor logo fool you, this is a document that is a must read for all demand generation professionals. What I found most useful were the examples of calculating the ROI of Lead Nurturing. It's a must read.

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We know Demandbase, a titan lead generation company acquired Engagio. In one of the interviews Tribilo’s CEO, Andre Yee, said “Right off the bat it offers better targeting, and if ABM is about anything, it’s about better targeting.” ABM is about quality leads and engaging active buyers. Triblio is acquired by IDG.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A recent study by Ascend2 shows that 25% of respondents state that their cost per lead (CPL) is increasing. For years marketers have been keen to show cost per lead (or in the words of Jon Miller from Marketo – investment per lead) as a metric that has meaning. 14%) to get a lead that could drive a deal of $125,000.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

Next, you’ll learn how to develop a target account list that aligns with your objectives. Validate Your Assumptions With Sales Team Input D. Continuously Update Your Ideal Customer Profile Develop a Target Account List A. Identify High-Value Prospects B.

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The Point

AUGUST 8, 2013

When a client says “We set up lead scoring but sales doesn’t pay any attention,” it’s a sure sign that something is amiss – and more likely the problem doesn’t rest with sales. Here’s Part 2 of our discussion of the most common B2B lead scoring mistakes.

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Biznology

JULY 26, 2017

David Rowe , SVP marketing and business development at Enli Health Intelligence , spoke at the BrandHIT marketing conference in Las Vegas last month, and candidly shared some of his firm’s experiences in migrating from traditional B2B demand generation to an ABM strategy. Together, we merged the marketing and sales funnels.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 10, 2011

by Carol Fox Demand generation is a core component of an evolved lead generation program. The distinction between traditional lead generation and evolved lead generation is that with the latter, leads are qualified before they go to sales. Track trends over time.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

40+ Demand Generation Blogs You Should Follow Now! Demand generation is one of the arching umbrellas of strategies consists of numerous ideas and strategies to generate demand for your business. You probably must be searching for all demand generation blogs possible to read and capture the best you can.

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Unbound B2B

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Quick Summary: Account-based marketing is a strategic sales and marketing technique that engages and converts highly-targeted audiences. ABM is all about focusing your marketing efforts on high-value accounts that have the maximum potential of converting into sales.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2014

Author: Maggie Jones What happens when a rock star marketer, an excitable mascot, and Marketo employees with phenomenal dance moves get together? Lead generation, of course! In today’s complex, multi-channel world, how do you fill your database with qualified leads? Been searching high, been searching low.

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