ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A key component to success is demand marketing programs that repeatably contribute real, measurable pipeline lift. But far too many demand marketing programs are stuck a tactical, activity-based status quo. Here are 11 things that growth leaders need to know in order to shift to a Strategic Demand Marketing state.

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Only B2B

JULY 5, 2023

In the ever-changing landscape of B2B marketing, demand generation plays a pivotal role in driving business growth and success. As we enter 2023, it is crucial to adapt to the evolving nature of B2B demand generation and discover effective strategies to generate demand and engage target audiences.

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Content Standard

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

and the demand for relevance and personalization across those channels, have made it virtually impossible for marketing teams to keep up with content demand—even with the support of advanced distribution technology.  The post Can AI Help Marketers Meet Rising Content Demand?

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Marketers have traditionally been forced to make hard tradeoffs between their brand and demand activities and decide how to shift budgets when new challenges arise. In most cases, brand-building efforts typically lose out to demand as marketers focus on short-term initiatives to fill the sales pipeline and generate revenue.

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eTrigue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The concept of a “demand center” has emerged at the core of successful marketing organizations as a hub for shared marketing services, infrastructure and process to enable organizations to bring programs to market that leverage key corporate assets and best practices. Digital marketing has transformed how most organizations market today.

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The Point

MAY 28, 2019

However, the more I learn about chatbots, the more I get excited about their potential for B2B marketing, and demand generation. But chatbots aren’t going to replace forms any more than Account-Based Marketing (ABM) has replaced funnel-based demand gen. The post Is it Time to Add Chatbots to Your Demand Generation Engine?

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Rev

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The undeniable reality of demand marketing is that buying behaviors have changed, and the old tried-and-true playbook hasn’t aged gracefully. There was much less information out there, and buyers had to engage with vendors much sooner in the cycle to get that information.” So much info, so much noise. People follow people,” he says. “We

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 18, 2022

The value proposition of intent data vendors is typically that will combine their data (which is third-party data from your perspective) with your website analytics data (your first-party data) to identify companies that are actively looking to buy what it is you sell, and where they are in the buying process. why does adoption remain low?

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Madison Logic

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

You can’t do this at the very end of the customer journey—you need to catch their attention and increase awareness before they begin the research process with a unified brand-to-demand strategy. And while many marketers recognize the benefits of strong brand-building efforts, demand generation still dominates.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Adobe announced that consumer demand for personalized content reached an all-time high in 2018, a theme that underscored some of the most prominent trends of the year. Context will join content at the throne as marketers acquire the insights they need to optimize distribution and show up in more relevant ways.

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NetLine

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

What does it take to properly qualify a lead generation vendor? . We’ve talked about how to find the best B2B vendor before, but when it comes to demand gen, there’s an entirely different set of questions that need to be asked (although The 6 C’s of Vendor Evaluation are quite relevant in this conversation).

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The Point

JUNE 24, 2022

The TrustRadius report focuses primarily on how technology vendors should adapt their selling process to these new buying habits, but it’s also worth considering some of the key findings and their implication for the demand marketer. Key Finding 1: Buyers have all but replaced vendor-provided content.

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ClickDimensions

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In fact, press releases are still very relevant. Just be sure to send quality information that is relevant to the recipient – much like batch and blast no longer works for email marketing, it isn’t an effective approach for media relations either. Below, we explore five reasons why they still matter today. Happy Marketing!

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

These include vendors like Outreach, Revenue.io, Appolo.io, and Groove. As we noted in a past ANNUITAS blog post , which unfortunately remains highly relevant, if you have bad sales processes and data – you will simply amplify those bad practices with a tool like Salesoft.

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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. I recently spoke with one marketing executive who told me they run multiple demand generation campaigns for 90 days.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2017

We are now living in the Engagement Economy where buyers have more power than brands and expect personalized, relevant interactions at every touchpoint. Most recently, SiriusDecisions acknowledged the value of intent data when they unveiled a new Demand Waterfall model at the SiriusDecisions Summit 2017. A Nascent and Confusing Market.

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markempa

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Here’s why: Effective marketing depends on relevant messaging, and relevant messaging depends on how well you know your customers. With all of the demands made of marketers, keeping data clean can be almost impossible to do on your own. That’s why I’m involved in hiring a vendor to support MECLABS with this monumental task.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2020

Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor. There’s a main stage for keynote-style presentations, expo booths where attendees can interact with vendors, breakout session areas, and one-to-one video networking. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 19, 2016

I’m guessing it has something to do with the fact that 76% of B2B enterprise marketers have a content strategy but only 50% say their content aligns to buyer pain points and challenges via ANNUITAS B2B Enterprise Demand Generation Study. There are some personas who use vendor web sites as their go-to source of information.

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Aberdeen

APRIL 1, 2019

Mass email blasts have gone from engaging to spammy, leaving marketers to rethink how email fits into broader demand gen strategies. With quality intent data at your disposal, there are 3 key ways you can improve your demand gen strategies. Relevant, personalized emails deliver 6x higher transaction rates.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2020

This engagement activity suggests interest or demand from an audience that they want to purchase a product or service. Accuracy: Generally speaking, the closer a vendor is to the data source — the more accurate the data will be. If a vendor did nothing to maintain the accuracy of their data, they would have very few customers.

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Zoominfo

MAY 23, 2023

This information can be analyzed to identify account intent, or how likely prospects at a particular company are to engage with a particular vendor. By using intent data, you can identify which industries are showing the most interest in those services and which specific solutions are most in demand.

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Strategic-IC

MAY 14, 2019

In this video, taken from our March 2019 event, John Clarke CEO of B2B intent platform Cyance, explores common challenges that marketers face when looking to build intent-driven campaigns, and how an intent-model built on context, timing and relevance can deliver value. Related: Timing, Relevance and Context. And then relevance.

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Marketing Interactions

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

A good customer experience must be relevant. As I stated in my book, Digital Relevance, “…a process for continuous improvement will enable your marketing team to tweak and refine strategy progressively to keep your brand relevant in the face of change.”. Context: The Cornerstone of Relevance.

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Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2023

This is especially true during uncertain economic times — it’s a (near-term) waste to try creating demand that isn’t there. Everyone wants to be the first vendor in the door when accounts start showing interest in solving problems that you can help address. Wondering how to incorporate AI and automation into your ABM strategy?

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Content4Demand

JULY 7, 2021

According to the recently released 2021 B2B Buyers Survey Report from Demand Gen Report, here are a few of the top trends: Buying committees continue to become more prevalent, and committees are growing larger. Demand Gen Report’s latest survey confirms that the buying committee continues to expand. Relevance for Every Role.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Summary: Yesterday's post described the objectives of my product fit scores for B2B marketing automation vendors and how I set up the original weighting for individual elements. I decided I could base this on the features each set of vendors provided. A higher average means that more vendors provide the feature.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 24, 2014

Great until you come back to the office and have 200 emails and voice mails from people (vendors) you have not met. The idea behind integrating events into an overall Demand Generation Strategy is something that most marketers believe in. How to integrate events into a Demand Generation Strategy?

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unfortunately, 57% of those same buyers say vendors have failed to meet their expectations. Takes the best of ABM (personalized attention) and the best of Demand Marketing (ability to scale) and marries the two together. Brings a strategic lens to both customer engagement and demand. Help buyers along a self-education journey.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

The vendors respond. A great number of ABM vendors provide everything from all-in-one platforms to enable ABM strategies, to adjacent services like data enrichment, identity resolution, analytics, and interaction management/orchestration to B2B marketers ramping up their programs. Consolidation of ABM and demand gen.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In channel sales, companies (here we’ll call them vendors) sell through intermediaries. Partners for delivery and implementation: Are you expecting accelerated growth or an uptick in demand? You might position your program as simple, lucrative, collaborative, or in high demand from their own customers.

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Rollworks

MARCH 27, 2019

Before you commit to a long-term ABM strategy, ask your ABM vendor these questions. Not all account-based marketing vendors are created equal and since most B2B deals can take months (if not years) to close, it’s important to figure out exactly what you’re getting with that expensive ABM contract. ' Click To Tweet.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In order to do that, we must place customer insights ahead of internal demands. It must be relevant to where a customer is on her journey. It’s just not relevant. In a survey of decision-makers about the content they receive , there were complaints about relevance. It’s not that you don’t get relevance.

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Rollworks

MARCH 27, 2019

Before you commit to a long-term ABM strategy, ask your ABM vendor these questions. Not all account-based marketing vendors are created equal and since most B2B deals can take months (if not years) to close, it’s important to figure out exactly what you’re getting with that expensive ABM contract. ' Click To Tweet.

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The Point

APRIL 22, 2020

However, as much as it has a reputation as a way to generate “guaranteed” leads, content syndication is not a cure-all, and indeed, more than most demand generation channels, is likely to generate sales leads that gravitate towards the early stages of the buying cycle. Set appropriate thresholds for sales follow-up.

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Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

However, you have to go much deeper and broader than just that to logically move your audience through the funnel with relevant content. Seamless partnerships: Streamline onboarding and set expectations for industrial marketing agencies or external vendors with clear guidelines. focusing on those your buyers use most.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 22, 2012

A must-watch presentation, though, is the keynote address “ The State of Demand Creation “, by Tony Jaros , SVP Research for SiriusDecisions. The State of Demand Generation 2012. Why is demand generation so important? Create sufficient content (how can we possibly keep up with demand for content?).

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