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Marketing KPIs are changing. Here’s why.

Zoominfo

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. But as B2B sales gets more competitive and complex, simply knowing who sourced a lead may no longer be good enough. In 2015, they found that 70% of B2B marketing organizations reported the amount of pipeline they sourced as a KPI.

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Demand Generation In the Face of Frugalnomics and Internet Fueled Decisions

The ROI Guy

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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What are the 5 stages of sales and marketing alignment?

Showpad

Research tells us that experiences play a large (and growing) role in the purchase decisions of B2B buyers , even more than other factors like product and price. After all, these are the teams interacting with buyers on a daily basis and developing content and experiences to effectively reach them at all stages of the buying cycle.

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Holistic revenue performance series I: Demand progression

Mereo

At Mereo, we have developed a unique approach to revenue performance that leverages the inherently interdependent operational disciplines of demand progression, solution marketing, solution management, sales operations and sales enablement. This phase focuses on: Aligning the sales process to the buying cycle. Learn more here.

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Who is teaching the CMO how to sell?

Pointclear

Debbie Qaqish is Principal Partner and Chief Revenue Marketing Officer for demand generation agency, The Pedowitz Group. A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue. But all is not lost.

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Alinean Adds Six New B2B Customers

The ROI Guy

Leading Value-Based Sales and Marketing Tool Provider Continues Record Growth in Q2 2010 Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today announced the addition of six new customers in the second quarter of 2010, expanding its marquee list of leading B2B vendors.

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5 Ways to Better Leverage Your CRM Data for ABM

SugarCRM

Something all B2B marketing and sales teams have in common is an abundance of CRM data and challenges around how to make the most of it. Demand Generation is one of the most common uses for ABM, but if poorly aligned to sales, can often result in low conversion or regression into basic “MQL” programs.