A Growing MarTech Landscape Provides Unparalleled Opportunity for Marketers
The MarTech landscape has grown tremendously over recent years. With so many solutions and tools to choose from, marketers now have thousands of options when it comes to building out their marketing...
View ArticleUsing Salesforce.com to Track Demand Funnel Volume and Velocity
Let’s talk about the demand funnel. Are you getting the most out of having implemented a demand funnel in your organization, in terms of knowledge that adds value to your marketing efforts? If you’d...
View ArticleIf You Blog It, They Will Come: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Attracting the...
During this time of heavily reduced in-person meetings and tradeshows (and, in most cases, canceled altogether), rethinking how you bring in net-new leads should be at the top of your to-do list. With...
View ArticleList Size: It’s Quality, Not Quantity
Sometimes we’re in such a hurry to meet a deadline that we keep our messaging general in an attempt to appeal to as many people as possible. But if you send an email to tens or hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleMarketo at Enterprise Scale: Key Strategies to Build a Robust CRM Integration...
Running Marketo at Enterprise Scale, that is an instance with more than a million records, requires a much greater level of knowledge and careful design to keep the lead machine running smoothly. As we...
View ArticleDemandGen Launches New Data Management and Implementation Services for...
Combined offerings provide strategic and operational services for marketing and sales operations teams needing to overcome the challenges of maintaining a healthy database. San Ramon, CA — June 4,...
View ArticleDon’t Let A Dash Ruin Your Email Campaign
Em Dash vs En Dash vs Hyphen: Let’s Dash it Out! Unfortunately, that is what we often do. We are in a hurry. The deadline is looming, and we type away in Word, creating our brilliant (or what we...
View ArticleThe Best Kept Secret to Running Successful Marketing Campaigns
The best-kept secret of all marketing campaigns? It is easier than you may think. You must know where you’ve been to see where you are going. How do you do this? Start by understanding whom you’re...
View Article3 Ways to Measure Your Demand Funnel
Back in 2006, SiriusDecisions launched its first Demand Waterfall framework. While the model has gone through several iterations over the years, it fundamentally tracks movement through various stages...
View ArticleThe 7 Food Groups of MarTech
Our global economy is in the midst of a dramatic transformation where digital marketing and ecommerce are overtaking traditional forms of marketing and selling. To keep pace with how buyers learn about...
View ArticleCoach Your Own Revenue Championship Team: The Playbook for Getting the Most...
Sales and Marketing alignment has been a hot topic for as long as I can remember. And not just for me. One of the most popular episodes of DemandGen Radio is all about Sales and Marketing alignment....
View ArticleHow to Handle the Project Black Hole
Let’s face it. We have all had a project or three that, once turned over to the requester for approval, falls into the Project Black Hole. You know that project: the one the requester hands to you and...
View ArticleThe 3 Most Common Mistakes Marketers Make with Lead Acquisition
Like any good marketer, I’m sure your team is tasked with bringing new leads into the sales pipeline. What this typically looks like is partnering at trade shows, sourcing lists, and hosting private...
View ArticleWho’s on First, What’s on Second? – Setting Technology Priorities
Read Part 1: Choosing the Right MarTech Tools for Your Demand Factory® It’s complicated and sometimes confusing, for sure – but building a Demand Factory doesn’t have to feel like a Laurel and Hardy...
View Article4 Ways to Protect Your Time and Avoid Burnout in an Always-On World
Despite all of the challenges people have experienced over the past year, one bright spot has emerged: the value of time. How we valued our time before the pandemic isn’t necessarily how we value it...
View ArticleThe Modern Marketing Organization: How to Structure Your Team for...
Great leaders credit success to their teams. That’s why you’ll often hear marketing leaders say things like, “I only want to hire rockstars.” The people component is critical when it comes to...
View ArticleHow To Repair An Email Campaign: The Uh-Oh Email
Do you remember launching your first email campaign? All your co-workers gathered around you, and your palms were slightly sweaty as you all counted down, “4, 3 ,2 ,1, SEND!” Ping! It arrived in your...
View ArticleRevenue Operations in a Crisis: What Should Marketing and Sales Be Doing —...
These uncertain, novel times are challenging enough for us all to navigate personally — let alone as marketers. So, it’s no surprise that the question I’m being asked the most by my fellow Revenue...
View ArticleGetting to Meaningful Metrics: How Frameworks Underlie Your Ability to...
Don’t worry, I’m not going to talk about the “frameworks” that typically come out of the all-day strategy workshop with stale coffee that results in zero action and a waste of everyone’s time. So, why...
View ArticleA Client’s Journey—What, How, and Why?
We talk a lot about journeys in our business, usually in the context of a “customer or buyer’s journey” or a “project roadmap.” Broadly speaking, a journey can be defined as a passage or progress from...
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