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Demand Generation Advice for the CEO

SBI Growth

This post is written for CEO’s who need to increase demand for their products. Demand generation is the science of stimulating latent demand. A definition of latent demand is a prospect is unaware of a problem. This is a reallocation exercise. When the prospect becomes aware of the problem, you win a sale.

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Persona Ecosystem – High Impact Exercise to Dial-in your 2013 Marketing Plan

SBI Growth

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. Perform this exercise and then test the Ecosystem for accuracy to the mid-market, and so on.

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Your Personal Demand Generation

Anthony Iannarino

Instead, they generate their own demand, while exercising radical personal accountability. Instead of making excuses, those who produce the results they want demand that they do the work. You promise yourself you’ll exercise after work, so you can sleep a little longer in the morning.

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Do CEOs Need ‘Doers’ or ‘Strategists’ Leading Marketing?

SBI Growth

They focused on things like branding exercises and awareness campaigns with PR firms. Pipeline Creation – Demonstrated results from Demand Generation, Inbound Marketing & Content Marketing campaigns. You went for “been there, done that” experience. Revenue got missed. Why ‘Strategists’ Won’t Deliver the #.

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How You Accelerate Getting Promoted

SBI Growth

Marketing needs to be running demand generation campaigns in advance so sales has leads. Have them complete the exercise. There is a best practice to get the sales force ready to sell the new product. You need a segmentation plan and buyer access plan. How will the channel be enabled? The complete list can be found here.

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The 6 Worst Decisions Sales Leaders Make

SBI Growth

As a bonus, you can click here to receive an exercise developed especially for an SBI client. It can be wonderful for helping you stimulate and manage latent sales demand. The process defines your demand generation and lead management workflow. Below are six of the worst decisions we’ve seen senior sales leaders make.

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The Pipeline ? Who's Expectations? ? Sales eXchange ? 119

The Pipeline

We often do an exercise with teams centered on expectations of roles, the frontline reps and their managers. Sales eXchange – 119 – We often do an exercise with teams centered on expec… [link]. Sales eXchange – 119 – We often do an exercise with teams centered on… [link]. Demand Generation.

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