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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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Key Take-aways from 3 Compelling Sessions at #DemandCon

SBI

Meagen Eisenberg , VP of Demand Generation at DocuSign described how she accelerates the pipeline with a content marketing and lead nurturing system. She was generous enough to share how she maps content to each stage in the buying cycle and what the leadflow looks like. You do have an end-goal defined, right?

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Marketing Automation Vendors Are Not Delivering On Marketers’ Needs For Reporting And Analytics. Here’s Why.

InsightSquared

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. However marketers are largely dissatisfied with the reporting their MAPs offer.

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What is an Interactive White Paper?

The ROI Guy

Quantitative content can be established to communicate unique the benefits and value of proposed solutions, and could include: Estimations on derived benefits Configuration and pricing estimates Quick ROI calculations T CO competitive comparisons.

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

The question any marketer needs to ask - Are your marketing efforts adding to the clutter, or driving a valuable dialogue and as a result, connecting meaningfully with prospects to advance the buying cycle? Rounding up the challenges, recent studies indicate that 9 out of 10 of buyers say that when they are ready to buy, they find you.

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Is Account-Based Marketing the Holy Grail for Lead Generation Nirvana? [PowerOpinions Part 5]

Pointclear

In fact, I would argue that all the broad-based demand generation work many companies are doing is the real distraction if their sales model and growth targets focus on a defined universe of accounts. In a recent SiriusDecisions study, 92% of B2B organizations said ABM is “extremely” or “very” important to their marketing efforts.

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How does Alinean decide which customer profile data points to use in order to personalize the Interactive White Paper?

The ROI Guy

From our research of what buyers want, the relevant dimensions to pivot on, in priority order are: Role in buying decision (persona) Stage in buying cycle (discovery, consideration, selection) Pa in points / opportunity / analysis I ndustry Size Geographic Location.