Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Author: Tom Urie, President and CRO, Optymyze Early in my career, I made the not-so-typical move from engineering to marketing and spent 15 years innovating and creating events, programs, content, processes, and systems that challenge the status quo. You know what you need to win the deal – you’ve already compiled the checklist.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2012

A common mistake is to attribute total success to the original lead source without careful analysis of the chain of events. That's where SBI's demand generation programs benefit from ProForma campaign measurement tools. The ProForma is used for Demand Generation campaign pre-planning. Author: Vince Koehler.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 14, 2013

You can also sign up for this free event to get an in-depth review. When trained and armed with the battle-tested tools, an Internal Content Marketing team can produce high quality demand generation content consistently. However, most marketing leaders are still faced with challenges that are surprising.

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Tony Hughes

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). Using LinkedIn as the engine room for trigger event selling by passively looking for Trigger Events.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 27, 2023

With changing buyer behaviors and growing focus on distributed marketing teams, asynchronous interactions through virtual and hybrid events are becoming a mandate to deliver digital-first customer experiences.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 27, 2023

With changing buyer behaviors and growing focus on distributed marketing teams, asynchronous interactions through virtual and hybrid events are becoming a mandate to deliver digital-first customer experiences.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 12, 2022

My undergrad degree is in civil engineering. Events disappeared overnight with COVID. People are slowly getting more comfortable in coming back out with in-person events. Then we have an account based marketing team, as you would imagine, being a MarTech company that is focused on ABM. So I decided to go to business school.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 18, 2019

If you’re like most companies, you focus the lion’s share of your growth budget on-demand generation and customer acquisition. Clearly, there’s a significant, yet overlooked opportunity for businesses to tap into customer expansion as a growth engine. Not customer expansion. Train Customer Success for Sales Opportunities.

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 1, 2018

Truth be told, customer success storytelling is more than a content marketing and demand generation exercise. Engage me to speak or conduct an interactive workshop at your next corporate or association event. Where are your organization’s hidden stories? Then start moving one more millimeter forward with me, today.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 15, 2018

Here’s the thing: Outbound lead and demand generation strategies WORK. In fact, you won’t be able to find a single company that is growing after it hit $20m in revenue, that doesn’t have an outbound engine. That’s something you can’t get with re-targeting, or SEO, or SEM, or conferences and events. They all do.

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The Pipeline

MAY 20, 2011

The Googler: an increasing sales challengeBusiness Marketing Online (BMON): the industrial website engineers. The Googler: an increasing sales challengeBusiness Marketing Online (BMON): the industrial website engineers. Demand Generation. Trigger Events. The Pipeline [.]. May 31st, 2011. [.] Jim Keenan. Guest Post.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

A recent study analyzed data from thousands of events over a five year period and found that approximately 70% of professional event speakers are male. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Rethink Events Ltd.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 10, 2018

We started by developing personas forthe Heads of Sales, Head of Marketing, Business Development, Sales Development, Demand Generation, Sales Ops, andInside Sales – since our outreach is persona-based for ABE. The event was a dinner and a panel discussion with enterprise execs in HR roles. But the results proved it out.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 1, 2019

Every team -- Sales, Sales Development, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, Product, Engineering, and the C-suite -- must be aligned. According to TOPO senior demand generation analyst Eric Wittlake, having an ICP lets you decide whether to target an account without bringing together your entire leadership team.

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Green Lead's B2B

JANUARY 25, 2017

The sales and marketing industry is flooded with events, conferences, web events, you name it. Last year I was invited to attend the TOPO Summit in San Francisco – the inaugural event from TOPO. New events are hard to pull off. You could make it your full time job just trying to attend every one of them.

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Babette Ten Haken

JUNE 6, 2018

When we build a solid referral base, enhanced by social selling and demand generation activities, opportunities come our way. Engage me to speak or conduct an interactive workshop at your next corporate or association event. When things start to sound too good to be true, that is my trigger to leverage my SOGOP Policy.

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LinkedFusion

AUGUST 23, 2023

Ready to rev up your engines for this lead-fueled adventure? What Is the Lead Generation Process? Lead generation is the process of identifying potential leads and prospects who have the highest possibility of becoming interested in the solutions your organization has to offer. Let’s roll!

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I’d say that the distinction that I would make here is that after the deal is done and through the handoff, there needs to be continuity and managing that relationship through the renewal events and over time. Marketing was about demand generation, marketing was about building a pipeline. I don’t know.

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Vengreso

MAY 5, 2022

Make sure you’ve got something of value to give and then upscale those traditional marketing skills like demand generation and content creation. Listen to this episode of the Modern Marketing Engine podcast to learn more about her perspective on sales enablement and marketing: Sales Enablement Resources.

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Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2012

While still in the early days of companies adopting it and developing best practices, Aberdeen is seeing social media marketing moving from being around awareness and thought leadership to really being around demand generation and lead management and so forth.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

Remember, you're now creating demand upstream prior to "trigger events" leveraging this strategy. Understand each others' pain and come to the center with insight generation which leads to demand generation rather than reactive servicing of demand. Track and harness trigger events.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2023

Challenge #2: Turning MQLs into SQLs It’s a common complaint for sales teams: They can’t act on leads from marketing — like form fills or event lists — because they simply don’t have enough reliable information. What we’ve engineered here is something that is much more sophisticated than a traditional lead routing structure.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

With inbound marketing, potential customers find you through channels like blogs, search engines, and social media. Their sales blog features advice from industry experts, background information about important sales events, and shines a light on important sales research. The Hubspot sales blog is one of the best in the business.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

With inbound marketing, potential customers find you through channels like blogs, search engines, and social media. Their sales blog features advice from industry experts, background information about important sales events, and shines a light on important sales research. The Hubspot sales blog is one of the best in the business.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Webinar Metrics 170

Zoominfo

JUNE 18, 2018

Here’s the thing: Outbound lead and demand generation strategies WORK. In fact, you won’t be able to find a single company that is growing after it hit $20 million in revenue, that doesn’t have an outbound engine. That’s something you can’t get with re-targeting, or SEO, or SEM, or conferences and events. They all do.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Their annual event, Unleash Summit Series, is back. We’re around 50 employees today, and adding more to more engineering and product sides. She’s creating demand through SDRs, focusing on creating infrastructure scalability. Focus on creating demand, opportunities, and infrastructure through Revenue Ops.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

They’ve got a new website to learn how Outreach performs the act of outreach, how the team follows up with every lead in record time after virtual events, how they turn leads into revenue. Is it engineering? They’ve been a sponsor for a long time, since the inception. Sam Jacobs: Those 500, is it mostly in sales?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

What are your biggest demand generation challenges? Therefore, you should measure each target publication against these metrics: Domain authority (DA): A search engine ranking score that predicts how well a website is likely to rank on Google. Most event pages have a registration process for speakers.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And not just the salespeople but those who support the process, such as consultants, sales engineers, and so on. How it works: With this methodology, salespeople should focus on connecting buyers with relevant content and continually engaging them via a number of channels, such as social media or in-person events.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

Sales and marketing event season just ended. If you weren’t overwhelmed with the number of technology choices out there, you didn’t go to the same events I did! You need to get your sales and marketing engine firing quickly, efficiently, and without a 50-person team behind it. Test up to 5 demand generation tactics.

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Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 270

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 2, 2019

But I’m also doing the job of demand generation and customer marketing and product marketing, and sales development for my new business … without enough tools or time to do it all!”. Opportunity alerts often take the form of funding events, hiring events, new initiatives, and CXO moves – which indicate investments (i.e.,

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and lives in Los Altos, California with her two children. Emmy Johnson.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 2, 2019

How To Build A Sales Pipeline Identify Target Buyers Build a List of Prospects Develop Relevant Messaging Test Demand Generation Tactics If you are thinking, “ Account-Based Marketing – yeah, sounds great. Test a variety of demand generation tactics. The event and topic should not focus on your own product.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We hold events to break the stigma of sales as a man’s world, and to recruit women who never would have thought of pursuing it as a career. Senior Director, Demand Generation at Unitrends. Building out a new enterprise development team, and scaling it from 3 to 14 reps over a one-year period. . Jessica Dodge.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 22, 2018

Once you've started building an online presence and creating awareness for your business, you need to generate the leads that will close into customers. What does a successful lead generation process look like? Here are some helpful resources to help you spread awareness, build your online presence, and get the leads you need for free.

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