SBI Growth

JUNE 15, 2017

Modern marketing organizations operate as revenue centers, not cost centers. Revenue attribution models give executives a clear line of sight from the corporate strategy through customer. CEOs at top-performing companies utilize revenue attribution to understand which activities produce revenue bookings.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Revenue Strategy 228

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 2, 2013

As CMO, you’re constantly trying to answer these 2 burning questions: Are customers responding to our marketing campaigns? What are we doing to adjust to the market demands? Perhaps in the past you laid out a multi-year marketing plan, or simply went year-to-year. B2B Demand Generation – Building a Base Plan.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Marketing Buyer Persona 310

SBI Growth

JANUARY 26, 2013

You’re the newly minted marketing leader. Every marketing leader in similar circumstances asks themself these two questions: What do I need to accomplish in year 1? There are four fundamental steps to developing and executing your Year 1 marketing strategy: Develop a Lead Generation Strategy. Implement Demand Generation.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Promotion Demand Generation 300

SBI Growth

APRIL 8, 2013

We engage with a lot of marketing leaders. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. What should the org chart for your marketing department look like? Not all marketing departments are created equal.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 319

SBI Growth

MAY 28, 2013

B2B Chief Marketing Officers are enthusiastic about sharing tangible results. There is a strong desire to connect marketing spend to revenue. Lead Generation is the surest way to drive tangible return on marketing investment. The decks show a healthy growth curve of leads being generated for Sales.

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Top of Funnel Pipeline Opportunity Demand Generation 325

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Acquiring new customers is a marathon event made up of quarterly sprints. Strong demand generation effort is required throughout the year to maintain a steady flow of leads to the sales field. Marketing leaders need a proven framework to unlock the potential of your marketing team. Executive opportunity cost.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Cost per Lead Marketing 326

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 12, 2012

SBI’s CEO Greg Alexander, was recently quoted in Hubspot’s “ 20 Marketing Trends & Predictions for 2013 & Beyond ”. CEO’s are paying more attention to marketing’s contribution and are holding them accountable for revenue generation.”. Marketing leaders need to drive a strong impact to show a return on investment.

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation 333

SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2012

Activity means nothing without understanding how the clicks translate to acquiring new customers. In fact, sales leaders are tired of hearing about traffic stats when all they care about is if any of it is generating leads for the sales force. Is your content marketing strategy working? These foundations provide rich data input.

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ROI Omniture Data Demand Generation 306

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

The biggest impact to acquiring new customers in 2013 will be Direct Content Marketing. This is the adoption of Content Marketing principles into outbound direct marketing. Direct Content Marketing is born. Content Marketing works. Demand Generation - Comprehensive View of Content Marketing.

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Direct Mail Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 319

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

These are just a few pillars that define demand generation. Learn more about how a successful demand generation strategy can help to nurture the long-term relationship between your brand and customers. What is Demand Generation? Demand generation is programmatic.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Paid Content 130

SBI Growth

APRIL 26, 2013

Meeting with their leadership team, I asked “ Do you know your customer? ” Yes… we better know our customer”, was the response from the head of marketing. She mainly talked about their customer surveys. Unfortunately only about 5-7% of customers actually respond to survey requests. Are my customers spending?

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Customer Buyer Persona Survey Demand Generation 316

SBI Growth

JULY 12, 2013

As a CMO you''re constantly being criticized for not measuring the return on marketing spend. The back and forth is: “I need more marketing dollars”. The CEO may even be considering moving marketing under sales. This confusion adds to the “disconnect” between Marketing and the business overall. Think like your customer.

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Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Call-back 323

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What’s the difference between demand generation and lead generation? Many B2B marketers recognize the value of both and incorporate them into the same campaigns. Definition: Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation The difference between demand generation and lead generation is simple.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Lead Generation 130

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The buzz around the water cooler is that marketing botched it from the get-go. As the marketing leader, you play a pivotal role in bringing the new offering to market. Unfortunately, most marketing leaders don’t know or under-estimate what’s involved. Are their new markets to enter? So do careers.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation 288

SBI Growth

MAY 1, 2013

How do you know it’s time to restructure your marketing organization ? We also never thought that Marketing’s technology spend could outpace the IT spend. She inherited a legacy B2B marketing team, no marketing automation or lead generation program. Sales leadership continues to hammer marketing for support.

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Outsourcing Services Marketing Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 296

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2013

As a marketing leader, the CEO is going to measure your 2014 success in three ways: Leads – Number of Sales Qualified Leads delivered to Sales. Opportunities – Percent contribution by Marketing to the Sales Funnel. Wins – Percent contribution by Marketing to Sales Revenue. How many actual customers? The buyer has changed.

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Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Trade Show 293

SBI Growth

JANUARY 8, 2013

Why do my customers buy? These questions are the Holy Grail of sales and marketing. For the marketing leader struggling to produce leads , mapping the buyer’s journey is priority #1. A Buyer Process Map will focus your marketing efforts for maximum demand generation. What drives their buying behavior?

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Customer Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets How To 331

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Corporate Visions Are marketers and salespeople so focused on early stage demand generation that they’re missing other big opportunities to drive revenue? When marketers and salespeople align on something —  anything! — our Not so fast. Blind spots: Detected.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Marketing 237

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 30, 2012

If you run a $5B company, you need a strategic presence in your marketing organization. However, if you think you need a highly experienced marketing strategist to take your company from $50M to $100M, think again. CEOs of emerging growth companies need ‘doers’ leading marketing. New customer revenue. .” – Peter Drucker.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Hiring Leads 331

SBI Growth

JULY 7, 2013

Two years have passed since the SEC published its Customer Purchase Decision Timeline study. In this ever-changing environment, how does a marketing leader keep pace with the Informed Buyer? With so much coming at the buyer, how does a marketer stay relevant? Using a BPM means the buyer and marketing are aligned.

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Marketing Lead Nurturing Demand Generation Agencies Social Media 310

LeadBoxer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Business-to-business (B2B) demand generation is important for any business. Awareness of your business’ products and services involves demand generation marketing strategies. You can skip some parts of the post and jump ahead: What is Demand Generation Marketing?

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Top of Funnel 105

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The ability to demonstrate marketing's return on investment is at the top of every CMO's plan for 2013. The ROI picture has been elusive as marketers struggle to capture the full impact of marketing’s contribution. It could have been that an acquisition marketing activity started the entire process that ended in a closed sale.

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 293

SBI Growth

JUNE 1, 2013

I recently had a conversation with a marketing VP of an equipment manufacturing firm. Her key objectives were: Generating demand at the top of the funnel & acquiring new customers. Justifying her marketing spend and showing an ROI on her initiatives. There are tons of metrics marketing leaders track.

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Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 296

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. There are two steps to evaluate why the field ignores/rejects marketing leads. Download the Sales & Marketing 10-Point Checklist to Lead Generation Alignment to evaluate with your peer in sales.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 239

SBI Growth

JANUARY 31, 2013

Yet, as you walk down the hall – you have this feeling of hoping that customers will get your message. Pinpointing exactly how to communicate your brand message to a target audience can be one of the most perplexing challenges in marketing. Pre-Internet, marketing communications is where messaging mattered most.

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Buyer Persona Demand Generation Agencies Customer Scale 330

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The annual CMI/MarketingProfs B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks study validates the move toward Content Marketing. Marketing leaders understand that content marketing is King. We are seeing marketing budgets increasing the content development line item. What is the Internal Content Marketing Offering?

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing How To Face-to-face 316

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Over the past year, there have been many great Marketing & Lead Generation blog posts. I offer you an executive summary of key takeaways from SBI’s marketing related posts. I have compiled the top 15 questions to evaluate your performance against best-in-class marketing operations. I created Buyer Personas ?

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Marketing Face-to-face Buyer Persona Lead Rank 297

SBI Growth

JANUARY 17, 2013

Recent enhancements to LinkedIn’s social network should be leveraged to generate leads. Engaging with these enhancements will drive Demand Generation. The Marketing team can help support sales rep social sellers by growing their own networks. In a time strapped environment, what are the “Must do’s” for Marketing teams?

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LinkedIn Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Networking 332

Pointclear

MAY 14, 2013

My guest today is Michael Brenner, Vice President of Marketing and Content Strategy at SAP and Managing Editor for the SAP Business Innovation site. At SAP, Michael’s challenge is to transform social business and content marketing to reduce cost-per-acquisition of new customers. The Battle for Customer Attention.

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Top of Funnel SAP Cost per Acquisition Customer 260

SBI Growth

MARCH 5, 2013

Your background is in operations, not sales and marketing. When you ask why the number is getting missed: Sales tells you they aren’t getting enough leads from marketing. Marketing says sales can’t convert leads to orders. Demand Generation – Creating interest and attracting new potential customers.

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Education Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation 320

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Marketing leaders can gain a competitive advantage by executing a high value exercise Develop a Persona Ecosystem. For marketing leaders tasked with acquiring new customers this is the most valuable exercise you will perform all year. Dive in head first to enhance your 2013 Marketing Plan. Step 1: Identify the Market.

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Exercises Lead Scoring Lead Rank Marketing 310

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Social Selling Buyer 214

Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2023

A few years ago, companies looking to expand into new markets and territories might see a big budget as the surest sign of a serious campaign. At ZoomInfo, our demand generation team engages hundreds of thousands of global customers and prospects every month using our MarketingOS platform.

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Cost per Lead Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Lead Rank 130

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is an executive-level overview of the Internal Content Marketing Agency (ICMA). What is an Internal Content Marketing Agency? It helps you make the number by producing custom content for you. It can be located within your Sales or Marketing organizations. What does it mean to use an Internal Content Marketing Agency.

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Hiring Demand Generation 267

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. There are two steps to evaluate why the field ignores/rejects marketing leads. Download the Sales & Marketing 10-Point Checklist to Lead Generation Alignment to evaluate with your peer in sales.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 276