Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.”. Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. Develop and Invest in Marketing ROI Metrics.

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Metadata

JANUARY 27, 2022

Hiring the right person to lead your demand generation effort is tough. Plenty of candidates can “talk the talk”—dropping buzzwords and impressive metrics as they move through the interview process. Very few can back up their experiences with an in-depth understanding of successful, modern demand gen. Let me know how it goes.

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NetLine

JUNE 22, 2023

The pain B2B demand gen marketing pros experience whenever sales fails to act on leads or dismiss them prematurely can be quite painful. Sales, conversely, pulls its collective hair out whenever marketing overpromises and underdelivers on quality buyer-level information.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

At the time, I was leading a large online demand generation program and had some thoughts about the state of the marketing and sales funnel. And I agree with Craig Rosenberg at Focus, that “every organization should make the effort to depict its revenue funnel on one page. There is no beginning and no end.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The greatest opportunity is to provide critical strategic and executional leadership in go-to-market and to be the steward of the customer’s Demand Experience (DX) – a remit that makes the CMO a critical stakeholder in the company’s Growth Engine. – Marketing is viewed as a cost center: The numbers are telling.

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MKT1

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Marketing gets a bad rap. Many founders, sales leaders, product leaders, and even marketers themselves think B2B marketing teams are just a service organization to sales—marketing only exists to generate leads this quarter. They also need to influence conversion throughout the funnel.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 30, 2018

Frustrations with Demand Generation. As we were going through a refresh of our targeted personas, we noticed an increase in engagement with leadership roles that have revenue responsibility (sales leaders, business unit leaders, and even CEOs). Why is marketing’s story so different than sales?

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

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? What should I know about Account-Based Marketing?

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ViewPoint

JUNE 7, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Set sales straight—it’s a win win.

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Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 16, 2024

In other words: which marketing efforts are driving the most revenue, and what is the return on investment of the marketing spend? The best way for your marketing department to provide this kind of data to the CEO is to track marketing campaigns in your company’s CRM system, such as Salesforce.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 26, 2020

Could this be why I’m hearing about 50-80%+ sales and revenue drops? C-19 is stopping virtually everything in its tracks to create what Roger Sanford (Co-Founder of Stop the Sales Drop) coined as the “Great Pause.”. The actions you take today will determine your future market position.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2020

While digital clearly topped her list, it also included Account-Based Marketing (ABM) and the way we manage the Customer Experience (CX). We have come a long way from the “one-size-fits-all” and “spray-and-pray” marketing tactics of the past. The concept of one-to-one or one-to-few marketing is hardly new.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 9, 2016

Your sales team likes nothing better than getting leads with a high probability of closing soon. So much so that many reps often ignore every lead they don’t consider hot. Longer-term opportunities increase marketing ROI. Here’s an example: Marketing spends $60,000 to generate 80 leads.

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Binary Demand

JUNE 22, 2023

It is the process of capturing the attention of intent-rich leads to contact and nurture them for sales. It begins when sales and marketing teams employ a range of B2B lead generation strategies to pique the target market’s interest and lead prospects through the sales funnel.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 26, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Among other differences between B2B and B2C influencer marketing , the consumer side is larger, has more established processes, and has a more extensive ecosystem. In 2017, when influencer marketing was still a fairly new practice, it required a lot of manual work and it was difficult to find the right influencers.

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 8, 2018

It is more time consuming, more demanding and more of a drain on your resources. But what exactly is content marketing? Content marketing is the approach of fitting your content within a structured and measurable process to create better results in attracting leads and transforming them into customers — and increasing revenue.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 10, 2023

This comprehensive guide will delve into the intricacies of account-based marketing, exploring its benefits and challenges while providing actionable insights on how to effectively implement an ABM strategy.

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Madison Logic

JANUARY 5, 2023

2023 will pose challenges to B2B marketers as they navigate global economic uncertainty and a push to maximize their marketing spend and ROI on account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns. Listen to the on-demand recording and read on to learn about three key takeaways from the discussion. .

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 27, 2014

In reading many of the blogs and listening to some of the webinars and speeches that have been given about Demand Generation one would think that the path to Demand Generation is just a few simple step away. Is success on impacting pipeline and generating demand really just a few simple steps away?

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In uncertain economic times, Market Development Funds (MDF) can be a precious resource for channel partners (resellers, distributors, ISVs) looking for budget to fund sales and marketing activity. By some measures, that may add up to $15 billion of unspent marketing budget every year in the US alone.

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Martech

JUNE 28, 2022

Marketers play a large, proactive role in the buying-selling process to generate revenue across the entire buyer lifecycle – from generating a new customer, to contract renewal, to solution expansion and cross-sell/upsell. The B2B buying process has gone primarily digital; most B2B sellers and teams have not. We know the facts.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

As we go into event season-it’s good to remember that building a Demand Generation Strategy isn’t easy. Attend workshops, sessions and learn from industry experts and peers and keep in mind this is a complex process that won’t be solved immediately.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

4 Marketing Learnings From a Study. Breakdown of marketing spending between organic and paid channels was most commonly 75% organic – 25% paid, followed by 50% organic – 50% paid. The top 3 most effective marketing channels as reported by respondents were social media, organic search and content marketing.

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Content Standard

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As physical marketing spend shifts to digital channels, brands are looking to sales enablement and demand generation. The Marketing Insider Group recommends three basic tactics that serve marketers well in any B2B communication: Simplify your language. Eliminate jargon. Focus on readability.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 27, 2015

With Content Marketing World just weeks away, my mind has been on the number of organizations that have increased their marketing spend on the creation of new content. The latest results from the ANNUITAS B2B Enterprise Demand Generation study (due out in September), 54.1% What’s happening?

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Inbox Insight

OCTOBER 9, 2023

By focusing on high-value target accounts that are more likely to convert, businesses can optimize their marketing spend and achieve a higher return on investment. It’s no wonder 58% of marketers plan to increase their spending on ABM over the next 12 months. Scalability Finally, ABM is highly scalable.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 27, 2023

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. We might bring your comment up on screen.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Many challenges facing Sales and Marketing have been around since the beginning of time. Experience has taught me that only 5% to 15% of inquiries are ready to speak to Sales.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.” Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. Spend 10% of Revenue on Marketing.

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ViewPoint

MAY 20, 2016

Make marketing accountable for sourcing revenue is the third of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Measuring marketing’s contribution to revenue.

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Televerde

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Similarly, your demand generation strategy has a shelf life. If don’t want to make your prospects sick with day-old demand gen, you need to revamp your strategy and work to ensure freshness. What will it take to generate demand in 2020? Is your demand gen strategy industry-specific? Persona-based? Personalized?

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

The CFO and CMO relationship doesn’t get the same tradeshow airplay and blog coverage as sales alignment. But the Finance and Marketing p artnership is likely the most important to build and maintain. Bannister and Pick shared powerful insights that can help marketing leaders with any size organization and different growth goals.

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Computer Market Research

MAY 2, 2017

Computer Market Research. Channel Co-op & Market Development Fund (MDF) Best Tactics. Bring Definitive Validation Into The Importance Of Joint-Marketing Incentives. Channel executives demand the expense of channel marketing investments and activity (Channel Co-op/MDF) to be well justified.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Revenue CMOs are growth marketers who are going beyond the traditional marketing execution role. They actively engage with the sales and finance teams to sign-up for driving top-line revenue for their organizations. We have been using demand waterfall performance to help answer this question.

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SnapApp

JULY 26, 2018

Today we’re going to explore what it takes to be a modern demand gen marketer in this crazy new marketing world. So You Want To Be A Demand Gen Marketer? Demand generation marketers have become a hot commodity as companies are all striving to generate qualified leads at scale.

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