SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with video marketing or you’re a seasoned video marketing pro, there are always ways you can improve your strategies for demand generation. Here are some tips from the panel: Create teaser videos that lead to the actual content you want to promote. Utilize structured data.

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Inbox Insight

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding the key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics associated with B2B demand generation can be a pivotal factor in the success of your marketing efforts. Demand generation refers to any way of creating demand. Why should B2B marketers focus on demand gen KPIs?

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

By Lisa Heay, Marketing Planning Manager at Heinz Marketing. Lead scoring is defined as a shared sales and marketing methodology for ranking leads in order to determine their sales-readiness. Organizations who implement lead scoring often experience lower marketing costs and higher conversion rates.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The lead qualification process helps B2B marketing teams focus their efforts and resources on serious buyers and prospects that are likely to take the next step. In this article, we’ll explain the lead qualification process step-by-step. Why is the lead qualification process critical to marketing success?

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The Point

JUNE 23, 2020

Content marketing is dead. * The MQL is dead. Change in marketing is an evolution, not a coup. Email, as one example, plays a very different (and less dominant) role in the marketing mix than it did only a few years ago, having migrated from acquisition to nurture and customer marketing. Cold-calling is dead.

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Demand generation is important for every business. When you start, your target buyer does not know you exist and you need to work on generating awareness for your product/services. Demand generations are these set of strategies that help you spread awareness about your brand and drive demand for your product/service.

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PureB2B

APRIL 11, 2019

The sales and marketing landscapes are evolving, especially with regard to lead and demand generation. Surprisingly, a successful lead generation marketing campaign may not equate to strong sales conversion rates. MQL Best Practices. Define Your MQL.

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 2, 2017

Most marketing and sales leaders in the business-to-business world know that nurturing leads is important. The reason: it’s essential to maintain a digital connection with buyers who want to learn about a business pain, product, or service—but who are not yet interested in talking to a sales person. The results were striking.

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Inbox Insight

MARCH 29, 2023

When setting out a demand generation or content marketing campaign it’s always important to start with one key question in mind – how will this bring us a return on our investment? Which essentially comes down to asking; how many leads should marketing generate?

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Some marketers see ROI on TikTok ? Google PPC ads still drive a solid cost per lead (CPL)? While we’re all playing from the same B2B marketing playbooks, your interpretation of them will (and should) vary from your peers. The only way to do that is by building a data-driven demand generation engine. Sign me up.

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Sales Engine

JUNE 20, 2016

Most marketing and sales leaders in the business-to-business world know that nurturing leads is essential to maintain a digital connection with buyers who want to learn about a business pain, product, or service—but who are not yet interested in talking to a sales person. The sales rep rejects the lead altogether.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“If your sales and marketing teams are not aligned, it’s going to be much more difficult to hit your number,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. You’ll spin your wheels and get frustrated, leading to turnover, lost productivity, and reduced budget because you can’t get a return on investment.”

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PureB2B

APRIL 11, 2019

The sales and marketing landscapes are evolving, especially with regard to lead and demand generation. Surprisingly, a successful lead generation marketing campaign may not equate to strong sales conversion rates. MQL Best Practices. Define Your MQL.

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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. Why focus on the middle of the funnel?

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Metadata

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Demand generation just isn’t a subset of marketing. It’s the outcome of all kinds of marketing activities working together. It’s no wonder then that, according to a recent survey, only 73% of those marketers feel they are somewhat successful in implementing data-driven demand marketing strategies.

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Modern B2B

JUNE 27, 2019

These days the traditional services offered by an agency aren’t enough. As clients build out their capability with internal agency functions, they’re looking to external partners that are more than just service providers. More and more, clients are bringing services in-house – certainly the bigger clients we deal with.

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Crimson Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2015

HubSpot and Qualtrics recently conducted a survey of 900 management-level marketers in North America and Europe to determine how successful companies have been at demand generation for their respective brands. “Companies with higher annual revenues tend to pay a higher cost per lead. Demand Generation'

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DealSignal

OCTOBER 4, 2021

These critical success factors—which I’ll be sharing in this blog—ensured success with every demand generation program I launched. Best of all, it can be implemented by any marketing organization as long as the effort, determination, and consistency is there. What Is Demand Generation Marketing?

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DealSignal

OCTOBER 4, 2021

These critical success factors—which I’ll be sharing in this blog—ensured success with every demand generation program I launched. Best of all, it can be implemented by any marketing organization as long as the effort, determination, and consistency is there. What Is Demand Generation 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.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 14, 2020

Amid the day to day progression of the coronavirus, companies are seeing one of their major lead generation programs dry up – event marketing. Event marketing had been on the upswing with between 20%-25% of the typical marketing budget being spent on tradeshows, roadshows, etc.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 28, 2020

What is the value of a lead if it cannot be converted into a sale? In the past, a “lead” was defined as someone willing to pay for something you have. But in today’s highly digitized world, competition is fierce, and leads are practically a dime a dozen. Challenges Associated with MQL. Overwhelming Lead Volume.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 2, 2023

Business-to-business (B2B) marketing campaigns come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and it can be difficult to decide which style is best suited to your marketing goals. In this blog post, we’ll be exploring the three most popular B2B marketing campaigns: account-based marketing (ABM), B2B lead gen and demand generation (Demand Gen).

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2020

Over the past few years, Account Based Marketing (ABM) has emerged to be one of the key components of demand generation strategies across all marketing organizations and it has been delivering tremendous results especially for growth marketing teams that are leading the charge for revenue marketing.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard® Availability Services™ ( Sungard AS ) in Wayne, Pennsylvania is a global leader in disaster recovery, business continuity, and managed IT services. Design, build and launch a “Welcome” email program designed to improve follow-up and response to new leads. Spear is a Marketo agency partner.) “A

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PureB2B

JANUARY 28, 2020

What is the value of a lead if it cannot be converted into a sale? In the past, a “lead” was defined as someone willing to pay for something you have. But in today’s highly digitized world, competition is fierce, and leads are practically a dime a dozen. Challenges Associated with MQL. Overwhelming Lead Volume.

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The Point

JANUARY 27, 2016

Demand Gen Report just published “ Top B2B Marketers Measure Lead Nurturing Effectiveness to Boost Performance ,” a special report in which they address the whys, whats, and how tos of measuring lead nurturing’s true impact. Most of our clients follow the SiriusDecisions waterfall model (MQL, SQL, etc.),

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The Point

AUGUST 25, 2020

Messaging/Value Narrative. – How prepared is your organization to communicate 1:1 messaging for high-value accounts? Lead Management Definitions/Processes. – Do you have an account scoring model in place? How you define lead and/or account stages (e.g.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

“When you create a lookalike audience off of your remarketed audience, you go down a rabbit hole of bad leads. Sure, your cost per lead might be cheap, but your cost per marketing-qualified lead (MQL) will skyrocket,” says Colin Chang, a marketing programs manager at ZoomInfo. Generate pipeline?

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Envy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Marketers are grappling with a cookieless world - where it is extremely difficult to say where a contact came from, paid media or social or something else. Not only that but the number of touchpoints ( one article recently reported 21 ) needed before a lead is ready to be contacted has almost doubled recently. So what can we do?

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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. What is this funnel I speak of?

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PureB2B

MAY 20, 2019

Marketing teams spend all their time and effort to find the best sales leads for their company. While staying within budget, companies strategize to stay ahead of competitors and generate ROI. Without leads, there wouldn’t be any sales, and without sales, companies would not achieve revenue goals.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Someone once told me that CEOs don’t care about leads. Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales?

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Only B2B

MARCH 7, 2018

Guide To Choosing The Right Demand Generation Partner For Your Business Needs. If you are reading this, you are thinking of outsourcing demand generation for business this year. Are you expanding your business and need someone to get you a rock-on demand generation strategy? Know your needs first.

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PureB2B

JUNE 4, 2019

These businesses usually engage in demand generation to create awareness and attract new potential customers. For existing medium sized businesses and enterprise organizations, the challenge is even bigger—how to continuously generate leads in order to generate revenue. Higher MQLs.

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Inbox Insight

JUNE 7, 2020

Ultimately though, all companies want to increase their leads, and they also want to convert those leads into customers. Not just any old customers either – the biggest draw of inbound marketing is that it generates repeat, brand-loyal and high-value customers. Customers – how many new buyers have you acquired?

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PureB2B

DECEMBER 7, 2020

At some point in your marketing campaign pathway, you’re going to come across additional budget that you need to use. In fact, more than 60% of demand generation marketers claim that they finish the quarter with unused budget. Paid MQL Campaign. Yes, it’s true, you can in fact pay for MQLs. Lead Warm-Up.

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