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Now is the Time to Get Real About Creating Demand

Madison Logic

B2B marketers faced with shifting buyer behaviors need to pivot their focus on strategies that generate and capture demand. While demand capture is critical for sales, creating demand is necessary for long-term growth and success. Now, more than ever, marketers need to balance capturing demand with creating it.

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Is Direct Marketing Relevant Anymore?

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DM News, the venerable tabloid that I remember reading while cutting my direct marketing teeth back at Oracle in the late 1980s, is switching from a weekly to bi-weekly publication schedule. This prompted a discussion on LinkedIn wondering if the change augured tougher times ahead for direct marketers.

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5 Tips to Improve Through-Channel Demand Gen

Content4Demand

This year’s ChannelWeek Series put on by Channel Marketer Report was full of great advice for marketers who want more impact from their programs for partners. I especially liked the session Through-Channel Demand Gen Done Right … Finally , which featured Heather Margolis, founder and CEO of Spark Your Channel.

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Buyerology Trend: Think Demand Fulfillment vs. Demand Generation

Tony Zambito

.  This article looks at how buyers are seeking fulfillment in their efforts to achieve goals and what this means to the future of demand generation.  Buyer Trend: On A Quest to Be Demand Fulfilled. The conventional as well as social buyers of today can be said to be on a quest to have their demands fulfilled. 

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10 Tough Questions to Evaluate Your Target Account List

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In a far-gone era, when demand generation was “direct marketing,” it was often said that for any campaign to be successful, the list was paramount. Fast-forward 20 years to a world of Account-Based Marketing (ABM) , and little has changed. Do everything else right (message, offer, creative, etc.),

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Carl Fremont On Brand – and On Demand: Epi 11

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Carl has held senior roles in the media/marketing industry for decades, and explained how his longest tenure – 16 years with Lester Wunderman – gave him skills that are still applicable today. Direct marketing" does not mean you abandoned brand." And yes, I found an opportunity or two to sing to him.

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Branding is Not Demand Generation. Stop Pretending That It Is.

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Demand generation is hot. It’s the marketing movement of the moment. It’s why demand generation managers are suddenly as common as, well, marcom directors. It’s why systems consultants are reinventing themselves as “demand generation agencies.” OK, I confess: “demand fulfillment” is news to me. Hey, I get it.