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Account-Based Marketing vs Demand Generation: Distinct but Better Together

Only B2B

Demand Gen: Casting a wide net to catch potential fish, then selecting only the best and discarding the rest. ABM: Spearfishing for a select few big fish, nurturing and feeding them. Two distinct yet powerful approaches, when combined effectively- can create a winning marketing strategy. What’s Account Based Marketing?

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Account-Based Marketing (ABM) at Twenty: A Benchmark for Success in 2023 and Beyond

Marketing Insider Group

It’s now been 20 years since the team at ITSMA coined the term Account-Based Marketing (ABM). I was very fortunate to work with ITSMA (now Momentum ITSMA after their merger) during a good part of my nearly two decades with SAP Marketing (and beyond). ABM is no longer a “nice-to-have” – far from it.

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Report: B2B Marketers Continue to Prioritize Account-Based Marketing

KoMarketing Associates

As more B2B marketers experiment with account-based marketing (ABM), new research suggests that they are diverting more of their budget to this tactic. This was followed by content marketing (60%), sales enablement (48%) and personalization/customization (43%).

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How to Get Started With Account-Based Marketing in 8 Steps

KoMarketing Associates

Account-based marketing has been around for several years now. Some of the statistics that have attracted marketers to ABM include: 87% of account-based marketers say that ABM initiatives outperform other marketing investments ( ITSMA ). Start Small and Design for Scale.

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What's Working Now: ABM + Demand Gen

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

Discover how combining ABM and demand generation can help you get more qualified opportunities and grow your pipeline. Learn the latest trends and tactics for 2023 and gain the confidence to implement a successful strategy that aligns with sales to drive revenue growth. Are you struggling with a stagnant pipeline?

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Maximizing your B2B spend: Is account-based marketing worth it?

Martech

In B2B marketing, the traditional approach of casting a wide net is increasingly being challenged by a more targeted and personalized strategy: account-based marketing (ABM). This method focuses on identifying and engaging with specific high-value accounts, treating each as its own distinct market.

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The Marketing Book Podcast: “The ABM Effect” by Alisha Lyndon

The Forward Observer

The ABM Effect: How to Win, Retain, and Grow Valuable Clients for Market-Beating Growth by Alisha Lyndon About the Book Conventional sales and marketing strategies typically involve pitching to broad markets to establish brand recognition and stimulate demand, ultimately leading to revenue generation.

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GDPR & Demand Generation: What Your Team Needs To Know

Speaker: David Crane, Head of Content & Thought Leadership, Integrate

The coming month will test the boundaries of change management for marketing organizations (and their colleagues in sales, finance, IT and legal) as they ready their teams for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will go into effect May 2018. May 2 2018 9:30 AM PDT 12:30 PM ET 5:30 PM GMT.

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A Pragmatic Guide to ABM Success

Speaker: Howard J. Sewell, President of Spear Marketing Group

Your Exclusive Step-by-Step Guide to the Opportunity-Based Marketing (OBM) Framework That Will Enhance the ABM Strategies Used by Your Marketing and Sales Teams. The keys to ABM success are rooted in a disciplined approach and a series of distinct, practical steps.

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How to Improve Demand Generation with Empathy

Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO & Founder of markempa

The highest priority for B2B marketers is effective demand generation (increasing lead quality and quantity). However, we can get so caught up in our ABM strategies, systems, tools, and investments that we lose sight of building deep empathy for the people in the accounts.