Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What Is Lead Generation? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. What does a “good lead” look like anyway?

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Pointclear

JANUARY 4, 2018

For example: “The average cost per lead across all the companies surveyed is almost $200 ($198.44).Admittedly, see marketing charts analysis of HubSpot’s “2017 Demand Generation Benchmarks Report” ). I review a lot of content on this topic and am amazed at what I find written about lead cost.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In the demand generation stages of Capture, Nurture and Convert, rely on eBooks, white papers, webinars and third-party content like analyst reports and case studies to validate why you’re right vendor. Examples: A new channel or tactic to unearth new opportunities for the business. Sweat the tactics. Find a big idea.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2022

Remember, nobody buys business software for its own sake. People invest in business software to solve specific problems. With better profiles, demand generation teams can craft stronger advertising campaigns. Buyer personas are “fictional” examples of your prospective customers.

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Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2021

Let’s say you work at a financial technology (fintech) company that sells software for credit unions, investment firms, and commercial banks. For instance, in the fintech example, why would you willingly waste marketing spend on retargeting the perfect and not-so-perfect prospects? One business is an ideal fit. Not so much.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 25, 2018

For example, when we we did demand generation as a small company, we’d build random list of people, cleanse the data, load it into our Marketing Automation Platform … and whatever came in – great. Take our Sales Development team as another good example. Henry : Coupa software filed to go public this year.

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Mereo

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

JD Edwards, then one of the top three or four providers of enterprise software, was reaching a critical juncture. The previous 18 months had seen investments in lead generation stop, all existing leads dry up and revenue drop by $200M. Market Segmentation and Past Sales Success Laid a Framework for Demand Generation.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

. “Your company puts out products in the market to solve problems for people — which naturally begets the messaging,” says Mitchell Hanson, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. For example, let’s say you sell marketing automation software. Similarly, you can also segment by lifecycle stage.

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Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2021

Let’s say you work at a financial technology (fintech) company that sells software for credit unions, investment firms, and commercial banks. For instance, in the fintech example, why would you willingly waste marketing spend on retargeting the perfect and not-so-perfect prospects? One business is an ideal fit. Not so much.

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Ideal Customer Profile Google Analytics Strategy Google 130

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While there are countless KPIs you could track, we’re laying out the ones specifically tailored for demand generation marketers. For example, if you send an email to 10,000 people and 9,900 receive the email in their inbox, the deliverability rate is 99%. If your rate dips under 95% — that is reason for concern. Intent lift.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For example, if you’re a new business trying to penetrate a market that has little knowledge of you and your solution, the sequence might need to be longer than one for an established business with a great deal of brand awareness. At a full 30-day workload in our example, that’s about three hours of daily work. No problem, right?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

So if your ad is not getting clicked on, then it’s not going to be presented first or as often,” says Lauren Temmler, senior demand generation manager at ZoomInfo. For example, if it’s small business owners, they often work every day of the week, so running ads on the weekends might make sense. Another factor is audience data.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“We’re in a time of uncertainty,” says Hussam AlMukhtar, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. You may need content calendars, social listening tools, post scheduling software, and employee advocacy systems. For example, a new website management tool might promise to double the number of leads you generate.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In the demand generation stages of Capture, Nurture and Convert, rely on eBooks, white papers, webinars and third-party content like analyst reports and case studies to validate why you’re right vendor. Examples: A new channel or tactic to unearth new opportunities for the business. Sweat the tactics. Find a big idea.

Marketing 120

Marketing eBook Social Media Trade Show 120

Zoominfo

MARCH 28, 2022

“Firmographic and demographic data are table stakes,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Let’s say your company sells cybersecurity software and you learn that a prospect company is searching for “best cybersecurity software 2022.” That’s where intent data comes into play.”

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

Step 1: Open Google calendar or comparable scheduling software. Other examples of technology that make it easier than ever to connect include calendar and scheduling platforms. What all these examples have in common is that they use technology to simplify processes, thus adapting to a world that expects a more simple solution.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 22, 2025

These real-world examples offer valuable lessons and inspiration for sales teams looking to innovate and adapt in a rapidly changing market. The blog regularly features case studies and success stories from industry leaders, providing real-world examples of how effective sales strategies can lead to increased revenue growth.

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Corporate Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Anyway, the other thing I remember about olden times was that demand generation and marketing campaign professionals used to be experts at direct response copywriting! Unfortunately for many demand generation professionals today, their inability to write a compelling, cohesive story is no exaggeration. More Quick Tips.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 30, 2023

Whether they’re building a brand, fueling revenue generation, or supporting the customer journey, marketers are constantly looking for ways to highlight their value and increase ROI. Prospects at the bottom of the funnel are often handed over to sales as a marketing-qualified lead (MQL) or marketing-qualified account (MQA).

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 27, 2021

There are countless examples of alignment and collaboration problems within sales itself, or marketing, or customer experience. For example, product management/marketing, strategic planning, finance, legal, HR, manufacturing, logistics, operations… Each part of the organization has dependencies on each other.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 22, 2020

That’s because Associate Manager, Demand Generation at PandaDoc, Jan Aclan, AKA the guy who architects all of our follow-up cadences, said that he turned to this article on cadences when he was first creating ours. Here’s an example cadence that Jan built for inbound leads that came in from a research report. Give me an example.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While we may call most of our campaign activities “demand generation,” does anyone really believe that marketing alone can create demand for a complex 6- or 7-figure solution? The first is that the industry terminology itself can mislead you — into over-weighting your focus on top-of-funnel volumes.

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Mereo

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Throughout my career, I have led solution marketing teams for several large enterprise software providers and have developed a repeatable and successful method you can use to differentiate your offerings, supercharge sales enablement, and drive pipeline and revenue growth.

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Allbound

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

For example, working as part of their team to bring highly targeted firepower to the partners’ market opportunities. For example, I run a digital marketing agency. First, educate partners on proper demand generation. What content, tools, and tactics are really going to educate, engage, and enable their Partners?

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Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2012

Prior to joining Aberdeen Group, he spent years in the trenches with companies including Progress Software, LogMeIn, and SuccessFactors. He shares an example of a prospect boarding a flight with a few minutes of downtime to check email. Trip is also an author, a speaker, and a blogger. ” The Role of Social Media.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

For example, Ferrer explains, Sales Ops might determine your salespeople are moving too quickly through the discovery stage of the sales process — and hurting close rates. A few examples from this list include: "Automate operational tasks and challenge case queue with a new workload". At HubSpot, we call this our "How".

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Mary specializes in leveraging modern learning techniques and tools to enable and train global software sales teams to achieve revenue objectives in a fast-paced, competitive environment. She’s a sales enablement leader with over twenty years of experience in the software industry, who began her career in sales at AT&T.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Whereas, other examples are just hints; mind you, though, when combined, these hints could be enough for you to speed things up and ask the person out. Leads are no different.

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Pointclear

MAY 5, 2015

Fact is that most organizations and even many consultants have viewed lead nurturing as a separate event (not part of an integrated Demand Generation Strategy) and in doing so, have made success elusive. Rather, nurturing is a key stage in the overall progression of a holistic Demand Generation Program.

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Engage Selling

MARCH 28, 2012

Greenfield Services is the premier demand generation consultancy in North America dedicated to two main markets: hospitality & meeting industry suppliers such as hotels, resorts, conference venues and destination marketing organizations, and membership-based, professional & trade associations.I

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Some examples of the questions Marchewitz asks: Where will the role be located? Say, for example, that I’m working with a series B startup, making their first big VP of marketing hire with just a couple other people on the team. Or is demand generation a bigger priority? Who does the role report to?

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

For example, when you’re driving on the highway and someone cuts you off, your immediate reaction is to assume that the person is a jerk. For example: You’re responsible for selling marketing automation software to help manage a company’s marketing campaigns, social media presence, and demand generation efforts.

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Mereo

JUNE 24, 2021

The major offenders have not been in sales and marketing either, where metrics, pipeline and demand generation reviews abound and are, anecdotally, probably more tuned-in to the data and related analytics. In software this is often thought of as re-platforming.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

Even if your sales team isn’t split up exactly like this, giving certain salespeople instructions on which specific part of the B2B lead generation process they’re responsible for is beneficial to creating a steady pipeline and keeping leads flowing. Tools Large companies need multifaceted email marketing software.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 11, 2020

For example, a message to the chief information officer of a large bank will be drastically different than a message to the engineering manager at a software company. An outbound strategy may require hiring either a dedicated BDR team for demand generation or sales reps with specific prospecting skills and networks.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2020

Nicole is the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io, a company that helps ISVs sell their software through the cloud marketplaces. She’s the VP of marketing at Tackle.io, a company that helps ISVs sell their software through the cloud marketplaces. About Nicole Wojno Smith & Tackle [3:09]. It’s not just pretty things.”

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Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Trade Show 85

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

In the above example, Jim Keenan of “A Sales Guy” has done the following: Used a cover image to showcase his book (authority). Wix, for example, provides a drag-and-drop user interface, allowing you to build a website without having to learn code. What are your biggest demand generation challenges? The good news?

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