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Benchmark Your Demand Generation Content in 4 Quick Steps

SBI Growth

It offers a basic 4 step process to benchmark your demand generation content. Demand generation content refers to web pages, blogs, eBooks, white papers, webinars, newsletters, and many others. Its role is to generate leads. Content marketing has gone from a nice-to-have to a must-have in 2012.

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Be Provocative in 2012 As More Of Buyer’s Budgets Are Up for Grabs

The ROI Guy

Being provocative is a sales and marketing requirement in order to get your fair share of deals in 2012, this according to the annual B2B Buyer’s survey of Demand Creation Specialists (DCS). Proactively, buyers need to be convinced that the status-quo is not adequate, and that there is a cost-of-doing-nothing.

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The Pipeline ? Death Of Salesman 2.0?

The Pipeline

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. While we are all impressed with Watson’s success, that is a long way from creating demand, generating leads, dealing with all the variables that human interactions involve when it come to risk, money and emotion.

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The Pipeline ? Is Cold Calling Dead?

The Pipeline

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. In fact studies have shown that next to referrals, it is the most effective, time and cost efficient way to engage with potential buyers, especially those who have not declared themselves as being in the market. Demand Generation.

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The Pipeline ? Not Different ? Sales eXchange ? 132

The Pipeline

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. Demand Generation. Your email address will not be shared. Sign up for our Email Newsletter. For Email Newsletters you can trust. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011.

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The Pipeline ? Mine the Gap!

The Pipeline

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. Demand Generation. Your email address will not be shared. Sign up for our Email Newsletter. For Email Newsletters you can trust. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011.

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How B2B Buyers Search for Tech Solutions

Tenfold

There have been several studies on today’s buyer behavior, and one stand-out commonality is that B2B buyers go online first before reaching out to a sales team (if ever they do). According to the CEB study, you only get a 12 percent mindshare (public awareness) for each typical buyer who goes through the buyer’s journey.