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The CMO’s Achilles' Heel

SBI Growth

B2B CMO''s largely do not have direct reports with expertise in demand generation. The specialist roles involved in executing world class B2B marketing in 2014 is complex. In any $100M+ B2B organization, the CMO can no longer fill the gaps alone. These seasoned professionals lack a passion for B2B marketing.

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CMO: Is Your 2014 Marketing Plan Obsolete?

SBI Growth

In this post we’ll focus on the B2B Demand Generation (DG) plan. Download the 2014 B2B Demand Generation Planning template here to get started. B2B Demand Generation – Building a Base Plan. This is agile coaching; agile demand generation is no different.

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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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Generate 25%+ of Sales Pipeline Opportunities from Marketing

SBI Growth

B2B Chief Marketing Officers are enthusiastic about sharing tangible results. Lead Generation is the surest way to drive tangible return on marketing investment. Building a robust B2B Lead Generation program requires the adoption of best practices in two areas; Demand Generation and Lead Management.

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How to Measure the Success of Lead Generation

Zoominfo

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. What happens when you turn suspects into prospects?

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4 Ways Virtual Events Are Reimagining Themselves

Sales and Marketing Management

MarketingProfs sought to solve that disconnect by taking the opportunity to rethink its approach to its flagship event, the MarketingProfs B2B Forum. Downloadable swag like customized Zoom background or freebies like an ebook is easy and even obvious. The to-do list that grew longer during your time away.) Once More… With FEELING.

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Do you have the Right Marketing Team for Customer Acquisition?

SBI Growth

Few marketing teams of $100M+ companies are built for modern demand generation. B2B CMO’s are being asked to increase the impact of customer acquisition in 2013. Evolution is constant in today’s world-class B2B marketing teams. Building World-class Lead Generation programs begins with assessing current state.