Executive Summary
This How-To Guide will help marketers score leads by showing how to set up a simple lead scoring system and then refine it over time.
Lead scoring applies mathematical formulas to rank potential customers. It is chiefly used to identify prospects that are ready for direct sales contact. Because the calculations are automatic, the scores are consistent, current, and can include more variables than any manual assessment. This saves marketers work, ensures that all qualified leads are sent to sales promptly, and keeps non-qualified leads out of the sales system.
Read this brief 11-page guide to learn about:
The case for lead scoring
Setting up a simple lead scoring system
Refinements to improve results over time
Companies that follow this process will quickly gain immediate benefits from lead scoring and have a solid foundation for future growth.
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com to make a content request.
Executive Summary
Business-to-business (B2B) marketing automation systems are among the hottest sectors of the technology industry. Vendor revenues have grown at 50% per year since 2009 and will probably top $1 billion in 2014. Leading vendors including Eloqua, Marketo, and Pardot have been acquired or gone public at tremendous valuations. Major software companies including IBM, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Adobe, and Teradata have purchased B2B or business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing automation products. Venture capitalists have invested several hundred million dollars in start-ups and existing firms.
Yet, despite this growth, fewer than 20% of B2B marketers have purchased an integrated marketing automation system (although many more use email, Web analytics, and other component technologies). Even more alarming, many past buyers do not use their systems fully and a significant portion report little benefit from their investment.
The lesson of these statistics is not that marketing automation doesn’t work. The same studies show that the majority of users are satisfied and productive. Rather, the point is that marketing automation works only when marketers deploy their systems effectively. This How-To Guide will help to ensure that you are among the successful majority of B2B marketing automation buyers, not the unhappy remnant.
This 15-page guide includes the following sections:
What is B2B Marketing Automation?
Core Functions
Specialty Functions
Key Considerations
Vendor Landscape
Best Practices
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Driving Value with Marketing Automation How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
B2B marketers have enthusiastically adopted marketing automation, with industry revenue growing at 50% per year according to Raab Associates estimates. The reason for this adoption is simple: marketing automation works. Users consistently report growth in quantity and quality of leads, in lead acceptance rates, and in marketing revenue contribution. Recent acquisitions by major software vendors including Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft and Adobe further confirm that marketing automation is becoming a standard part of every company’s technology foundation.
But simply deciding you want to make better use of your marketing automation doesn’t end the discussion; it just raises the much more difficult question of how. This How-To Guide will provide you with some answers.
Read this 12-page guide to learn about:
The Marketing Automation Maturity Model
The levels of Marketing Automation Maturity
How to evolve your Marketing Automation strategy at each level
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com
The State of the Sales & Marketing FunnelDemand Metric
The classic B2B sales and marketing funnel is a model that has served marketers well for decades. An entire ecosystem of job titles, roles, responsibilities and technologies now exists around the funnel. Funnel management has evolved as a science with precise measurements that marketers use to manage and optimize a set of complimentary tools, processes and relationships that have to work in harmony to pull things through the funnel. But whether marketers realize it or not, they’re no longer working with their grandfather’s funnel.
A sustained period of barely perceptible change with the funnel has taken most marketers to an unfamiliar place. Top of funnel performance in the not too distant past was often the worst. It was predictably unreliable, with a chronic shortage of leads to feed the more efficient, demanding and hungry sales process at the bottom. An expansive collection of tools, technologies and solutions has been directed at the funnel’s traditionally weak point – the top – to increase the inflowing leads from a trickle, to a stream to now in many cases, a deluge. While marketers welcome the lead flow, for most it simply moves the problem to another funnel location.
The reality for many marketers is they now have more people interacting with their content. There are ever greater numbers of things to follow-up on, to route, to track and to push through the funnel. Demand Metric, in partnership with MRP, has completed a study about the current state of the funnel. The “funnel flow” survey measured how well leads flow through the sales and marketing funnel. This report shares the data and analysis from this research effort, providing insights on how to optimize the flow of leads through the funnel.
Driving SEO with Press Releases How-To GuideDemand Metric
This How To Guide will explain how press releases can boost SEO efforts, how to write press releases for SEO, the pros and cons of doing so and conclude with an action plan on using press releases in your SEO efforts.
For decades, press releases were the basic building blocks of a public relations strategy. A company that wanted press coverage would write and issue a press release. The more skilled the company was at media relations, the better this strategy worked. Press releases still serve this purpose, although a new and important use of press releases has evolved as a tool for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
For companies whose websites are key to revenue generation, the SEO benefits are the primary motivation for writing and issuing press releases. If releases also produce favorable media coverage, that’s viewed as a bonus. The benefits of this SEO strategy result from the links a press release can produce back to the issuer’s website. These links are known as backlinks. The more external, authentic backlinks a website has pointing to it, the higher it ranks on a Search Engine Results Page (SERP). While this strategy is conceptually simple to grasp, executing it effectively requires some insider knowledge of both media relations and SEO.
Read this brief 8-page guide to understand the following:
How press releases boost SEO
Writing press releases for SEO
The pros and cons of a press release SEO strategy
Using press releases in your SEO efforts
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com to make a content request.
Agile Marketing How-To Guide and ToolkitDemand Metric
Your Problem
You need to help your marketing team become more efficient.
Our Solution
Agile Marketing is a powerful and proven tactical approach to improve the processes that empower your marketing team, encouraging constant and swift growth. An Agile approach allows teams to be more capable to adapt to real-time marketing challenges or opportunities. Not only does the Agile process improve a teams speed, but it encourages transparency and rewards adaptability, ultimately leading to happier and less stressed team members and more consistent results. This How-To Guide and Toolkit will help your team achieve an Agile Marketing process that is proven to deliver more results.
Key Benefits
leverage Agile Marketing best practices
quickly discover how to implement Agile
Full toolkit that supports what you learn
Calculating Customer Lifetime Value How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
This How-To Guide details the definition of customer lifetime value (CLV), the advantages of calculating CLV and the standard formula for calculating CLV.
Common sense tells us that the longer a customer is in relationship with a company, the more profitable that customer relationship is. However, many companies put the emphasis on new customer acquisition and not enough effort is made to retain existing customers. This is a mistake, because the financial impact of retaining customers is substantial: companies can increase profits by as much as 100% by retaining just 5% more of their customers. For these reasons, CLV is a crucial metric that most organizations overlook mainly because its definition and purpose are not entirely known. Understanding the monetary value each customer represents to your organization can help you budget correctly for your business needs, strategically plan your marketing initiatives and improve long-term relationships with your customer base.
Read this brief 4-page guide to learn about:
Customer Lifetime Value
The advantages of calculating CLV
The standard formula for calculting CLV
Use the Customer Lifetime Value Calculator to get started!
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Transforming from Call Center to Contact Center How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
If loyal customers are the lifeblood of a successful marketing program, call centers are the heartbeat. It is within the call center that happy customers become loyal advocates or disenchanted. All too often, however, call centers are viewed by marketing professionals as an afterthought instead of a key to customer loyalty, customer satisfaction and as a lead generation.
Modern marketers must move from seeing Customer Care as a secondary supporting function to one of primary importance to marketing programs and lead generation, along with other digital marketing and sales activities.
This How-To Guide challenges marketers to view the call center as a potential source of revenue and lead generation as well as the hub of Customer Care. This report discusses the misperceptions around call centers and shows modern marketers how to transform their call center (cost center) into a Modern Contact Center (profit center) by recognizing its strategy in lead generation and customer experience.
This brief 11-page How-To Guide is designed to provide practical advice for building a Modern Contact Center and outlines the following:
Executive Summary
Opportunities & Challenges of the Call Center
Creating a Modern Contact Center
Contact Center Application Selection Criteria
Action Plan
Bottom Line
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Executive Summary
Business marketers have always advertised in specialized media such as trade magazines, but their audiences have traditionally been too narrow to use television, radio, and similar mass outlets. This limitation has carried over into the digital world, where business marketers could target ads on search terms and industry Web sites but not buy display ads that reach broad audiences. This has become an increasing problem as buyers do more research anonymously on the Web, making them harder to identify and nurture. Tools such as content marketing and social media have filled some of the gap by offering alternative methods of acquiring new names. But those methods are labor and content- intensive, making them difficult to scale. As a result, business marketers have longingly eyed the “insert coin here” efficiency that lets consumer advertisers reliably increase results by raising their display ad spend.
Happily, new methods have now made online display advertising a more effective, higher volume option for business marketers. Improved audience targeting expands the number of prospects marketers can reach and how frequently they can be contacted. Business marketers must learn a few new tricks to take advantage of this opportunity. But in return they gain a greater control over the flow of new names and more precise targeting of the messages for each individual. This Guide will ease your entry to the new world of effective B2B display advertising. Let the journey begin.
This brief 11-page How-To Guide is designed to provide practical advice for B2B Display Advertising and outlines the following:
What is Display Advertising?
Display Advertising For Marketers
Challenges
Resources
Action Plan
Bottom Line
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Executive Summary
Business-to-business (B2B) marketing automation systems are among the hottest sectors of the technology industry. Vendor revenues have grown at 50% per year since 2009 and will probably top $1 billion in 2014. Leading vendors including Eloqua, Marketo, and Pardot have been acquired or gone public at tremendous valuations. Major software companies including IBM, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Adobe, and Teradata have purchased B2B or business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing automation products. Venture capitalists have invested several hundred million dollars in start-ups and existing firms.
Yet, despite this growth, fewer than 20% of B2B marketers have purchased an integrated marketing automation system (although many more use email, Web analytics, and other component technologies). Even more alarming, many past buyers do not use their systems fully and a significant portion report little benefit from their investment.
The lesson of these statistics is not that marketing automation doesn’t work. The same studies show that the majority of users are satisfied and productive. Rather, the point is that marketing automation works only when marketers deploy their systems effectively. This How-To Guide will help to ensure that you are among the successful majority of B2B marketing automation buyers, not the unhappy remnant.
This 15-page guide includes the following sections:
What is B2B Marketing Automation?
Core Functions
Specialty Functions
Key Considerations
Vendor Landscape
Best Practices
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Driving Value with Marketing Automation How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
B2B marketers have enthusiastically adopted marketing automation, with industry revenue growing at 50% per year according to Raab Associates estimates. The reason for this adoption is simple: marketing automation works. Users consistently report growth in quantity and quality of leads, in lead acceptance rates, and in marketing revenue contribution. Recent acquisitions by major software vendors including Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft and Adobe further confirm that marketing automation is becoming a standard part of every company’s technology foundation.
But simply deciding you want to make better use of your marketing automation doesn’t end the discussion; it just raises the much more difficult question of how. This How-To Guide will provide you with some answers.
Read this 12-page guide to learn about:
The Marketing Automation Maturity Model
The levels of Marketing Automation Maturity
How to evolve your Marketing Automation strategy at each level
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com
The State of the Sales & Marketing FunnelDemand Metric
The classic B2B sales and marketing funnel is a model that has served marketers well for decades. An entire ecosystem of job titles, roles, responsibilities and technologies now exists around the funnel. Funnel management has evolved as a science with precise measurements that marketers use to manage and optimize a set of complimentary tools, processes and relationships that have to work in harmony to pull things through the funnel. But whether marketers realize it or not, they’re no longer working with their grandfather’s funnel.
A sustained period of barely perceptible change with the funnel has taken most marketers to an unfamiliar place. Top of funnel performance in the not too distant past was often the worst. It was predictably unreliable, with a chronic shortage of leads to feed the more efficient, demanding and hungry sales process at the bottom. An expansive collection of tools, technologies and solutions has been directed at the funnel’s traditionally weak point – the top – to increase the inflowing leads from a trickle, to a stream to now in many cases, a deluge. While marketers welcome the lead flow, for most it simply moves the problem to another funnel location.
The reality for many marketers is they now have more people interacting with their content. There are ever greater numbers of things to follow-up on, to route, to track and to push through the funnel. Demand Metric, in partnership with MRP, has completed a study about the current state of the funnel. The “funnel flow” survey measured how well leads flow through the sales and marketing funnel. This report shares the data and analysis from this research effort, providing insights on how to optimize the flow of leads through the funnel.
Driving SEO with Press Releases How-To GuideDemand Metric
This How To Guide will explain how press releases can boost SEO efforts, how to write press releases for SEO, the pros and cons of doing so and conclude with an action plan on using press releases in your SEO efforts.
For decades, press releases were the basic building blocks of a public relations strategy. A company that wanted press coverage would write and issue a press release. The more skilled the company was at media relations, the better this strategy worked. Press releases still serve this purpose, although a new and important use of press releases has evolved as a tool for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
For companies whose websites are key to revenue generation, the SEO benefits are the primary motivation for writing and issuing press releases. If releases also produce favorable media coverage, that’s viewed as a bonus. The benefits of this SEO strategy result from the links a press release can produce back to the issuer’s website. These links are known as backlinks. The more external, authentic backlinks a website has pointing to it, the higher it ranks on a Search Engine Results Page (SERP). While this strategy is conceptually simple to grasp, executing it effectively requires some insider knowledge of both media relations and SEO.
Read this brief 8-page guide to understand the following:
How press releases boost SEO
Writing press releases for SEO
The pros and cons of a press release SEO strategy
Using press releases in your SEO efforts
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com to make a content request.
Agile Marketing How-To Guide and ToolkitDemand Metric
Your Problem
You need to help your marketing team become more efficient.
Our Solution
Agile Marketing is a powerful and proven tactical approach to improve the processes that empower your marketing team, encouraging constant and swift growth. An Agile approach allows teams to be more capable to adapt to real-time marketing challenges or opportunities. Not only does the Agile process improve a teams speed, but it encourages transparency and rewards adaptability, ultimately leading to happier and less stressed team members and more consistent results. This How-To Guide and Toolkit will help your team achieve an Agile Marketing process that is proven to deliver more results.
Key Benefits
leverage Agile Marketing best practices
quickly discover how to implement Agile
Full toolkit that supports what you learn
Calculating Customer Lifetime Value How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
This How-To Guide details the definition of customer lifetime value (CLV), the advantages of calculating CLV and the standard formula for calculating CLV.
Common sense tells us that the longer a customer is in relationship with a company, the more profitable that customer relationship is. However, many companies put the emphasis on new customer acquisition and not enough effort is made to retain existing customers. This is a mistake, because the financial impact of retaining customers is substantial: companies can increase profits by as much as 100% by retaining just 5% more of their customers. For these reasons, CLV is a crucial metric that most organizations overlook mainly because its definition and purpose are not entirely known. Understanding the monetary value each customer represents to your organization can help you budget correctly for your business needs, strategically plan your marketing initiatives and improve long-term relationships with your customer base.
Read this brief 4-page guide to learn about:
Customer Lifetime Value
The advantages of calculating CLV
The standard formula for calculting CLV
Use the Customer Lifetime Value Calculator to get started!
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Transforming from Call Center to Contact Center How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
If loyal customers are the lifeblood of a successful marketing program, call centers are the heartbeat. It is within the call center that happy customers become loyal advocates or disenchanted. All too often, however, call centers are viewed by marketing professionals as an afterthought instead of a key to customer loyalty, customer satisfaction and as a lead generation.
Modern marketers must move from seeing Customer Care as a secondary supporting function to one of primary importance to marketing programs and lead generation, along with other digital marketing and sales activities.
This How-To Guide challenges marketers to view the call center as a potential source of revenue and lead generation as well as the hub of Customer Care. This report discusses the misperceptions around call centers and shows modern marketers how to transform their call center (cost center) into a Modern Contact Center (profit center) by recognizing its strategy in lead generation and customer experience.
This brief 11-page How-To Guide is designed to provide practical advice for building a Modern Contact Center and outlines the following:
Executive Summary
Opportunities & Challenges of the Call Center
Creating a Modern Contact Center
Contact Center Application Selection Criteria
Action Plan
Bottom Line
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Executive Summary
Business marketers have always advertised in specialized media such as trade magazines, but their audiences have traditionally been too narrow to use television, radio, and similar mass outlets. This limitation has carried over into the digital world, where business marketers could target ads on search terms and industry Web sites but not buy display ads that reach broad audiences. This has become an increasing problem as buyers do more research anonymously on the Web, making them harder to identify and nurture. Tools such as content marketing and social media have filled some of the gap by offering alternative methods of acquiring new names. But those methods are labor and content- intensive, making them difficult to scale. As a result, business marketers have longingly eyed the “insert coin here” efficiency that lets consumer advertisers reliably increase results by raising their display ad spend.
Happily, new methods have now made online display advertising a more effective, higher volume option for business marketers. Improved audience targeting expands the number of prospects marketers can reach and how frequently they can be contacted. Business marketers must learn a few new tricks to take advantage of this opportunity. But in return they gain a greater control over the flow of new names and more precise targeting of the messages for each individual. This Guide will ease your entry to the new world of effective B2B display advertising. Let the journey begin.
This brief 11-page How-To Guide is designed to provide practical advice for B2B Display Advertising and outlines the following:
What is Display Advertising?
Display Advertising For Marketers
Challenges
Resources
Action Plan
Bottom Line
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Executive Summary
Social media are now part of every business and consumer activity, joining telephone, Web, broadcast, and face-to-face interactions as primary communication channels. This means that all marketing, sales, and service organizations should include social media as part of their basic activities. Yet social media are still new enough that many organizations are still struggling to learn how to use them, while others are learning how to use them most effectively.
This How-to-Guide provides an overview of social media applications and emerging best practices for deploying social media at your company.
Read this 9-page guide to learn:
The definition of social customer relationship management (CRM)
The main functions needed for social CRM
The vendor landscape for social CRM
Social CRM best practices
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
The State and Impact of Content ConsistencyDemand Metric
The creation and dissemination of content is at the heart of the modern marketing organization’s work. Any digital marketing endeavor is fueled by content, and prospects who embark on a buying journey are most likely to first encounter a selling company through its content.
This report summarizes the results of a survey used to collect the study’s data, sharing the key findings and insights that came from the data analysis.
Executive Summary
This How-To Guide will explain the components of a Marketing Resource Management (MRM) system, provide an action plan for deployment, and conclude with a plan for implementation.
Marketing Resource Management (MRM) systems control the administrative processes that support customer-facing marketing programs. This distinguishes MRM from marketing execution systems that store customer databases and deliver marketing messages through email, Web ads, and other channels. MRM may be sold independently or as a component of comprehensive marketing management systems which also provides execution.
MRM functions fall into two primary clusters. The first involves functions related to company-level marketing management, including program planning, scheduling, budgeting, and cost reporting. The other cluster relates to program management, including task lists, purchasing media and materials, and content creation, approvals, storage, and distribution. Some MRM systems specialize in a few of these functions. Others specialize in additional functions such as customizing content for local offices or dealers or in marketing reporting and analysis. Systems may also be tailored to specific industries or companies of a certain size.
Companies buy MRM systems when their marketing programs become too complicated to run in a less systematic fashion. This, along with the systems’ high cost, originally meant that MRM was used almost exclusively by large marketing organizations with hundreds of marketers in multiple offices. More recently, the growth of digital marketing has meant that even small marketing organizations need to manage many different programs and content versions across multiple channels, and to introduce new versions more quickly. This expanded complexity has rarely been accompanied by a corresponding expansion of staff, adding to the pressure for more efficient operations. At the same time, costs have decreased as MRM capabilities were added to integrated marketing suites and as stand-alone MRM products became available as vendor-hosted services (Software as a Service, or SaaS). The result has been increased use of MRM systems among companies of all sizes.
Read this 7-page guide to learn about:
The components of a Marketing Resource Management (MRM) system
An action plan to deploy an MRM system
How to implement an MRM system
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
This report presents the findings of Inbound Marketing research, providing all marketers with a useful set of benchmarks to compare their use of these approaches.
This document summarizes a study on the use of predictive analytics in B2B demand generation. The study found that:
1) Organizations using predictive analytics were more likely to have an effective demand generation process.
2) Inaccurate or poor quality data hinders effective demand generation and use of predictive analytics.
3) Marketers targeting large enterprises were more actively analyzing data than those targeting smaller businesses.
This document is a benchmark report on event marketing that was sponsored by Cvent and conducted by Demand Metric. The report provides an executive summary of its key findings from surveying primarily B2B and B2C marketers about their event marketing strategies and effectiveness. It finds that events are considered a medium to high priority investment, with the primary goals being customer engagement and demand/lead generation. More effective events with higher attendance and value for attendees lead to higher ROI and more leads. Measurement of event marketing metrics is important for satisfaction levels.
This document provides an overview of taking a data-driven approach to content marketing. It discusses establishing a content strategy with data at the core, using data to inform content ideation, analyzing distribution channels, optimizing the content experience, and measuring content performance. Specific metrics, tools, and tactics are provided for each stage of content marketing to help understand what is and isn't working and make better decisions based on data. The overall goal is to implement a structured yet agile process informed by analytics at every stage of content creation and distribution.
Agile Marketing is a tactical approach that allows marketing teams to adapt quickly to challenges and opportunities. It focuses on completing projects incrementally to get faster results and continuously improve over time. Following an Agile process encourages transparency, adaptability, and happier team members who can produce more consistent outcomes. This guide provides an overview of Agile Marketing, how it works, and tools to help teams implement it.
Marketing Automation sounds like the perfect solution, but perhaps it hasn’t delivered quite as well as you thought? Here are 10 reasons why Marketing Automation missions fail, and the solutions behind them!
A quick guide on what Marketing Automation is, steps to success in launching your campaigns, how to optimise activity and enables sales to help drive revenue.
This document discusses the challenges of marketing departments becoming fragmented as marketing functions specialize and new digital channels emerge. This can lead to inconsistent goals, siloed teams focusing only on their own KPIs, and a lack of integrated strategies. It recommends centralizing marketing functions and having a single, clear organizational goal and inbound marketing strategy to guide all teams. It also stresses the importance of a unified marketing automation platform to integrate disparate customer data sources and enable personalized, triggered communications. Centralizing content production and implementing a content marketing framework can help address challenges around dispersed content creation and inconsistent quality.
This How-To Guide will outline the key elements of an infographic, how infographics benefit marketers, and provides an action plan on how to create infographics that will become valuable marketing tools.
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2016 Lead Nurturing Report In Partnership With Salesforce PardotVeena Glover
Lead nurturing is a powerful marketing strategy and it is evident that marketers would like to continue reaping the rewards of their nurturing programs by setting a variety of objectives that revolve around this indispensable tool.
emedia and Pardot set out to discover the latest and greatest lead nurturing strategies currently deployed by the top tier marketers to drive their prospects through the buying cycle.
This report draws its conclusions from a 2016 survey that polled a large sample of B2B marketers based in EMEA and US/NA.
Insight into the mind of your peers: Discover the benefits that marketers have reaped, challenges they've faced and the future goals that they're now aspiring to.
You'll find top tips on numerous topics including segmenting data, personalising programs and marketing automation. This report will fuel your future plans and help you to design and implement successful lead nurturing campaigns.
The State of Digital Marketing for Associations 2017Demand Metric
The State of Association Marketing Benchmark Study is now in its fourth year. From its inception, the study’s purpose has been to help associa- tions become better at marketing. To do this, the study inventories associ- ation marketing practices and through analysis attempts to identify those associated with the highest level of marketing effectiveness.
The importance of member understanding has continued to emerge as a key success factor in association marketing. A deep member under- standing is crucial for many reasons, not the least of which is so asso- ciations can better allocate their budgets. Those associations that have certainty about the needs of their members will allocate line items in their budget to better serve them.
Social media analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data from social networks to improve business decisions. It allows marketers to spot trends, quantify returns on investment of campaigns, and analyze performance of social media platforms and posts. Key metrics that should be tracked include interactions, followers, click-through rates, audience demographics, competitor performance, ad spending metrics, influencer engagement, and customer sentiment. Tracking these metrics enables optimization of social media strategies and content.
Sales and Marketing Alignment Benchmarking ReportDemand Metric
How influential is sales and marketing alignment on achieving revenue goals? A Demand Metric Benchmark Study concluded that sales and marketing alignment is more than just “happy talk”; it has a real effect on revenue performance.
In June 2013, Demand Metric conducted a benchmarking study to assess the influences on sales and marketing alignment and how in turn in impacts revenue performance. Key findings from this study include:
• Not an “all or nothing” proposition: complete alignment of sales and marketing goals is related to the highest revenue achievement, but even partial alignment is far superior to none.
• Rose-colored glasses: Presidents, CEOs or owners of their firms are more likely to perceive strong or complete sales and marketing alignment than their sales and marketing teams.
• Two is better than one: Organizational structure is related to achievement. Separate sales and marketing teams outperform organizations where sales and marketing operate as a single, combined team.
• The one with the best tools wins: Mature implementations of sales and marketing systems, such as marketing automation or CRM, are having a significant impact on revenue achievement.
• Integration = Revenue: The highest level of revenue achievement coincides with the highest level of integration effectiveness between sales and marketing systems.
• Diminishing returns: once qualified leads account for 10% of total leads generated, revenue achievement remains flat even as the percentage of qualified leads increases.
Learn more about the impact of sales and marketing alignment on revenue performance by downloading a copy of the report.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Executive Summary
3. Research Methodology
4. Revenue Goal Acheivement
5. Perception of Alignment
6. Organizational Structure
7. Alignment & Technology
8. Leads & Lead Quality
9. Analyst Bottom Line
10. Acknowledgements
11. About Demand Metric
Research Methodology
The Demand Metric 2013 Sales & Marketing Alignment Survey was administered online over a period of June 24th through June 30th, 2013. During that time, over 600 responses were collected, 550 of which were complete.
All members of the Demand Metric community received email invitations to participate in the survey, and participation was encouraged through a random draw incentive for an iPad Mini.
While respondent email addresses were collected in order to facilitate the prize drawing, no identifying information was retained or considered in the analysis of the survey data.
Following collection of the survey data, Demand Metric used IBM SPSS statistics software to analyze the results and draw statistically significant conclusions.
The document provides guidance on building permission-based email marketing lists. It defines permission-based marketing as requiring formal consent from recipients to receive emails. There are various methods for gaining permission, including opt-in, confirmed opt-in, and double opt-in forms. Lists can be built in-house from customer data or rented from external sources, following best practices like incentivizing opt-ins, collecting subscriber interests, and maintaining CAN-SPAM compliance.
High Performance ABM Capabilities Benchmark ReportDemand Metric
This report will present the framework, the maturity milestones it represents, recommended actions to achieve maturity with ABM and therefore maximize its revenue impact.
The organizational chart shows the hierarchy and structure of a company. At the top is the CEO, who oversees several vice presidents in charge of key departments like marketing, sales, operations, finance, human resources, and IT. Each VP then manages directors who oversee specific functions and managers within their department.
This partnership application form requests information from companies interested in becoming an authorized partner, including company contact details, background, competition, familiarity with products, marketing plans, and sales estimates. Applicants are asked to indicate how they want to partner as a distributor, manufacturer, or agent and provide details on their company, marketing strategies, and projected annual revenue from the partnership. By signing the form, applicants consent to verification of the information provided.
Executive Summary
Social media are now part of every business and consumer activity, joining telephone, Web, broadcast, and face-to-face interactions as primary communication channels. This means that all marketing, sales, and service organizations should include social media as part of their basic activities. Yet social media are still new enough that many organizations are still struggling to learn how to use them, while others are learning how to use them most effectively.
This How-to-Guide provides an overview of social media applications and emerging best practices for deploying social media at your company.
Read this 9-page guide to learn:
The definition of social customer relationship management (CRM)
The main functions needed for social CRM
The vendor landscape for social CRM
Social CRM best practices
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The State and Impact of Content ConsistencyDemand Metric
The creation and dissemination of content is at the heart of the modern marketing organization’s work. Any digital marketing endeavor is fueled by content, and prospects who embark on a buying journey are most likely to first encounter a selling company through its content.
This report summarizes the results of a survey used to collect the study’s data, sharing the key findings and insights that came from the data analysis.
Executive Summary
This How-To Guide will explain the components of a Marketing Resource Management (MRM) system, provide an action plan for deployment, and conclude with a plan for implementation.
Marketing Resource Management (MRM) systems control the administrative processes that support customer-facing marketing programs. This distinguishes MRM from marketing execution systems that store customer databases and deliver marketing messages through email, Web ads, and other channels. MRM may be sold independently or as a component of comprehensive marketing management systems which also provides execution.
MRM functions fall into two primary clusters. The first involves functions related to company-level marketing management, including program planning, scheduling, budgeting, and cost reporting. The other cluster relates to program management, including task lists, purchasing media and materials, and content creation, approvals, storage, and distribution. Some MRM systems specialize in a few of these functions. Others specialize in additional functions such as customizing content for local offices or dealers or in marketing reporting and analysis. Systems may also be tailored to specific industries or companies of a certain size.
Companies buy MRM systems when their marketing programs become too complicated to run in a less systematic fashion. This, along with the systems’ high cost, originally meant that MRM was used almost exclusively by large marketing organizations with hundreds of marketers in multiple offices. More recently, the growth of digital marketing has meant that even small marketing organizations need to manage many different programs and content versions across multiple channels, and to introduce new versions more quickly. This expanded complexity has rarely been accompanied by a corresponding expansion of staff, adding to the pressure for more efficient operations. At the same time, costs have decreased as MRM capabilities were added to integrated marketing suites and as stand-alone MRM products became available as vendor-hosted services (Software as a Service, or SaaS). The result has been increased use of MRM systems among companies of all sizes.
Read this 7-page guide to learn about:
The components of a Marketing Resource Management (MRM) system
An action plan to deploy an MRM system
How to implement an MRM system
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This report presents the findings of Inbound Marketing research, providing all marketers with a useful set of benchmarks to compare their use of these approaches.
This document summarizes a study on the use of predictive analytics in B2B demand generation. The study found that:
1) Organizations using predictive analytics were more likely to have an effective demand generation process.
2) Inaccurate or poor quality data hinders effective demand generation and use of predictive analytics.
3) Marketers targeting large enterprises were more actively analyzing data than those targeting smaller businesses.
This document is a benchmark report on event marketing that was sponsored by Cvent and conducted by Demand Metric. The report provides an executive summary of its key findings from surveying primarily B2B and B2C marketers about their event marketing strategies and effectiveness. It finds that events are considered a medium to high priority investment, with the primary goals being customer engagement and demand/lead generation. More effective events with higher attendance and value for attendees lead to higher ROI and more leads. Measurement of event marketing metrics is important for satisfaction levels.
This document provides an overview of taking a data-driven approach to content marketing. It discusses establishing a content strategy with data at the core, using data to inform content ideation, analyzing distribution channels, optimizing the content experience, and measuring content performance. Specific metrics, tools, and tactics are provided for each stage of content marketing to help understand what is and isn't working and make better decisions based on data. The overall goal is to implement a structured yet agile process informed by analytics at every stage of content creation and distribution.
Agile Marketing is a tactical approach that allows marketing teams to adapt quickly to challenges and opportunities. It focuses on completing projects incrementally to get faster results and continuously improve over time. Following an Agile process encourages transparency, adaptability, and happier team members who can produce more consistent outcomes. This guide provides an overview of Agile Marketing, how it works, and tools to help teams implement it.
Marketing Automation sounds like the perfect solution, but perhaps it hasn’t delivered quite as well as you thought? Here are 10 reasons why Marketing Automation missions fail, and the solutions behind them!
A quick guide on what Marketing Automation is, steps to success in launching your campaigns, how to optimise activity and enables sales to help drive revenue.
This document discusses the challenges of marketing departments becoming fragmented as marketing functions specialize and new digital channels emerge. This can lead to inconsistent goals, siloed teams focusing only on their own KPIs, and a lack of integrated strategies. It recommends centralizing marketing functions and having a single, clear organizational goal and inbound marketing strategy to guide all teams. It also stresses the importance of a unified marketing automation platform to integrate disparate customer data sources and enable personalized, triggered communications. Centralizing content production and implementing a content marketing framework can help address challenges around dispersed content creation and inconsistent quality.
This How-To Guide will outline the key elements of an infographic, how infographics benefit marketers, and provides an action plan on how to create infographics that will become valuable marketing tools.
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2016 Lead Nurturing Report In Partnership With Salesforce PardotVeena Glover
Lead nurturing is a powerful marketing strategy and it is evident that marketers would like to continue reaping the rewards of their nurturing programs by setting a variety of objectives that revolve around this indispensable tool.
emedia and Pardot set out to discover the latest and greatest lead nurturing strategies currently deployed by the top tier marketers to drive their prospects through the buying cycle.
This report draws its conclusions from a 2016 survey that polled a large sample of B2B marketers based in EMEA and US/NA.
Insight into the mind of your peers: Discover the benefits that marketers have reaped, challenges they've faced and the future goals that they're now aspiring to.
You'll find top tips on numerous topics including segmenting data, personalising programs and marketing automation. This report will fuel your future plans and help you to design and implement successful lead nurturing campaigns.
The State of Digital Marketing for Associations 2017Demand Metric
The State of Association Marketing Benchmark Study is now in its fourth year. From its inception, the study’s purpose has been to help associa- tions become better at marketing. To do this, the study inventories associ- ation marketing practices and through analysis attempts to identify those associated with the highest level of marketing effectiveness.
The importance of member understanding has continued to emerge as a key success factor in association marketing. A deep member under- standing is crucial for many reasons, not the least of which is so asso- ciations can better allocate their budgets. Those associations that have certainty about the needs of their members will allocate line items in their budget to better serve them.
Social media analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data from social networks to improve business decisions. It allows marketers to spot trends, quantify returns on investment of campaigns, and analyze performance of social media platforms and posts. Key metrics that should be tracked include interactions, followers, click-through rates, audience demographics, competitor performance, ad spending metrics, influencer engagement, and customer sentiment. Tracking these metrics enables optimization of social media strategies and content.
Sales and Marketing Alignment Benchmarking ReportDemand Metric
How influential is sales and marketing alignment on achieving revenue goals? A Demand Metric Benchmark Study concluded that sales and marketing alignment is more than just “happy talk”; it has a real effect on revenue performance.
In June 2013, Demand Metric conducted a benchmarking study to assess the influences on sales and marketing alignment and how in turn in impacts revenue performance. Key findings from this study include:
• Not an “all or nothing” proposition: complete alignment of sales and marketing goals is related to the highest revenue achievement, but even partial alignment is far superior to none.
• Rose-colored glasses: Presidents, CEOs or owners of their firms are more likely to perceive strong or complete sales and marketing alignment than their sales and marketing teams.
• Two is better than one: Organizational structure is related to achievement. Separate sales and marketing teams outperform organizations where sales and marketing operate as a single, combined team.
• The one with the best tools wins: Mature implementations of sales and marketing systems, such as marketing automation or CRM, are having a significant impact on revenue achievement.
• Integration = Revenue: The highest level of revenue achievement coincides with the highest level of integration effectiveness between sales and marketing systems.
• Diminishing returns: once qualified leads account for 10% of total leads generated, revenue achievement remains flat even as the percentage of qualified leads increases.
Learn more about the impact of sales and marketing alignment on revenue performance by downloading a copy of the report.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Executive Summary
3. Research Methodology
4. Revenue Goal Acheivement
5. Perception of Alignment
6. Organizational Structure
7. Alignment & Technology
8. Leads & Lead Quality
9. Analyst Bottom Line
10. Acknowledgements
11. About Demand Metric
Research Methodology
The Demand Metric 2013 Sales & Marketing Alignment Survey was administered online over a period of June 24th through June 30th, 2013. During that time, over 600 responses were collected, 550 of which were complete.
All members of the Demand Metric community received email invitations to participate in the survey, and participation was encouraged through a random draw incentive for an iPad Mini.
While respondent email addresses were collected in order to facilitate the prize drawing, no identifying information was retained or considered in the analysis of the survey data.
Following collection of the survey data, Demand Metric used IBM SPSS statistics software to analyze the results and draw statistically significant conclusions.
The document provides guidance on building permission-based email marketing lists. It defines permission-based marketing as requiring formal consent from recipients to receive emails. There are various methods for gaining permission, including opt-in, confirmed opt-in, and double opt-in forms. Lists can be built in-house from customer data or rented from external sources, following best practices like incentivizing opt-ins, collecting subscriber interests, and maintaining CAN-SPAM compliance.
High Performance ABM Capabilities Benchmark ReportDemand Metric
This report will present the framework, the maturity milestones it represents, recommended actions to achieve maturity with ABM and therefore maximize its revenue impact.
The organizational chart shows the hierarchy and structure of a company. At the top is the CEO, who oversees several vice presidents in charge of key departments like marketing, sales, operations, finance, human resources, and IT. Each VP then manages directors who oversee specific functions and managers within their department.
This partnership application form requests information from companies interested in becoming an authorized partner, including company contact details, background, competition, familiarity with products, marketing plans, and sales estimates. Applicants are asked to indicate how they want to partner as a distributor, manufacturer, or agent and provide details on their company, marketing strategies, and projected annual revenue from the partnership. By signing the form, applicants consent to verification of the information provided.
How to Launch a Mobile App Guide How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
A mobile app is a software application designed for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices that has been built on a mobile operating system such as iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows.
Mobile apps were originally developed for productivity and information retrieval. Today, over 91% of all U.S. citizens have their mobile device within reach 24/7 (Morgan Stanley). The rising use and accessibility of mobile phones has influenced many companies to enter this growing market with new and innovative use cases.
This How-To Guide discusses the benefits of creating a mobile app, things to consider before building a mobile app and an action plan to help you launch your new app.
Read this brief 5-page guide to understand the following:
Benefits of creating a mobile app
Things to consider
Action plan for launching your mobile app
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Sales Compensation Solution Acquisition Best Practices ReportDemand Metric
This guide suggests a better process for acquiring an ICM solution. For many companies, sales compensation is the largest component of Sales, General and Administrative (SG&A) costs. The monthly calculation and payment of variable sales compensation is often an arduous, manual process that must accommodate a number of exceptions and changes: rarely does a sales compensation plan start and end a fiscal year intact.
The plan must survive the attrition and addition of sales representatives. It must accurately calculate and pay commissions on time, as there are risks and trust issues involved when it doesn’t. While the sales compensation plan is, theoretically, an enabler of revenue growth, these characteristics prevent it from scaling as the business grows.
This guide will examine the problems that motivate ICM solution acquisition, the limitations of acquiring one through a traditional RFP, a recommended approach, an example project plan and conclude with a discussion of associated risks and rewards.
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This document outlines a partnership agreement between Company ABC and Company XYZ. The agreement establishes the purpose and scope of the partnership, which is to leverage each company's resources, but these are not specified. It lists goals and metrics for evaluation but does not state what they are. The agreement also outlines benefits, marketing commitments, governance structure, terms, and termination conditions for the partnership at a high level.
This document provides a summary of a benchmark report on the impact of content effectiveness on sales and marketing. Some key findings of the report include: 1) 51% of sales organizations feel their feedback is not utilized well by marketing to optimize content; 2) Marketing teams that receive regular feedback from sales experience 31% higher content usage; 3) When alignment between sales and marketing is high, marketing content meets sales' needs 81% of the time versus 35% when alignment is low. The report provides insights on improving the relationship between sales and marketing around content creation and use.
4 ways to improve your customer performance measurementObservePoint
1. Marketers need answers to what is working, what isn't working, and why. However, most solutions only provide limited insights that marketers don't fully trust.
2. To gain a complete picture, marketers must evaluate the entire customer journey beyond just marketing touchpoints, using holistic and unified data from across the customer experience.
3. Marketers also need to measure success using broader financial metrics like revenue and profitability, not just initial conversions, and optimize for customer lifetime value over single transactions.
Predictive lead scoring uses machine learning algorithms to analyze large amounts of internal and external data to more accurately predict a lead's likelihood of converting. It assigns scores based on thousands of attributes and signals, including behaviors and demographics. This removes reliance on assumptions and intuition, provides a deeper understanding of prospects, and allows companies to base important decisions on data rather than opinions. When implemented, predictive lead scoring typically improves marketing and sales alignment and ROI.
Predictive lead scoring uses machine learning algorithms to analyze large amounts of internal and external data to more accurately predict a lead's likelihood of converting. It assigns scores based on thousands of attributes and signals, including behaviors and demographics. This removes reliance on assumptions and intuition, allowing companies to prioritize leads most likely to convert and improving marketing and sales alignment. Predictive scoring also identifies previously unseen patterns that can optimize a company's lead scoring system over time.
Six steps to revenue boosting lead generation programsJaslynn joan
Here are six steps B2B marketers can take to enhance their lead generation programs.
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Digital Marketing on a Budget - Content Marketing for your Independent Insura...Paul Fuller
Digital marketing, specifically content marketing, can be an effective and affordable strategy for independent insurance agencies even with limited budgets. The document outlines tools, strategies, execution, and measurement for a content marketing approach. It recommends developing buyer personas, identifying key topics and formats for an editorial calendar, distributing content via email, social media and SEO/website efforts, and tracking metrics like traffic, leads and engagement over time. The goal is to implement a consistent content marketing process that can continually improve an agency's marketing success.
Connect Marketing to Revenue With Performance MeasurementObservePoint
As your company becomes increasingly data-driven, it can be easy to get caught up in markers of success such as leads, bookings, or site visits. But what about the most important metric to your business—revenue?
In this tip sheet, Connect Marketing to Revenue with Performance Measurement, you'll learn how to:
- Gather clean, complete data
- Bridge the gap between marketing, sales, and service
- Increase the scope and capabilities of your attribution strategy
Commerceblend helps you to scale up your personalization. Create a personalized web experience for customers become more and more important to increase engagement rate and conversion rate with us.
Inbound marketing metrics are a major struggle for marketers. Since every organization is like a snowflake, what metrics are right for you. The following SlideShare contains three universal B2B inbound marketing metrics to use as a starting point.
Top Five Metrics for Revenue Generation MarketersC.Y Wong
This document discusses key metrics that B2B marketers should track to measure revenue generation. It recommends tracking:
1) Number of leads produced, close rate (new customers/new leads), and revenue per new customer to understand lead generation, nurturing, and quality.
2) Adding metrics like average time to close and cost per new customer.
3) Breaking down the buying process into stages and tracking movement through each stage via funnel reporting.
Sales and marketing alignment is crucial for business success. While marketing automation can help generate leads, sales automation is needed to move leads through the sales funnel and close deals. The two functions have different motivations and roles in the buying process - marketing is passive and aims to make prospects aware, while sales is active and builds connections. To be most effective, marketing and sales automation solutions need to work together to prepare prospects for well-timed outreach from sales representatives, with marketing educating buyers through content and sales converting buyers. Marketing automation alone cannot close deals, and sales automation alone cannot generate enough leads, so aligning the two processes is key.
Online Lead Generation - Forward Vision Marketingjerianasmith
According to the 2013 Lead Generation Marketing Effectiveness Study conducted by the Lenskold Group, 63 percent of companies that were outgrowing their competitors that year were using an integrated marketing automation system.
Best Metrics to Optimize B2B Demand GenAsad Haroon
B2B marketers who need to do more than simply create brand awareness through outbound marketing have adopted Account Based Marketing (ABM) in order to focus on key accounts. Successful ABM campaigns can produce highly qualified, valuable prospects.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a provider of digital marketing automation and analytics software and services. It was founded in 2000 under the name Exact Target
150803_Marketing ID_5 Data-Driven Marketing Mistakes To AvoidHawthorne
This document discusses 5 common mistakes companies make with data-driven marketing and how to avoid them. The mistakes include not considering consumer motivations beyond just numbers, overlooking extracting actionable insights from data, not thoroughly researching key consumer trends, not fully utilizing available technology tools, and shifting focus away from ultimate consumer engagement. By avoiding these mistakes, companies can better analyze data to build stronger customer bases and improve returns from marketing investments.
Predictive data science will soon be a widespread strategy for business of all sizes.This guide contains the 7 most important action items that can give you clearer guidance about the tools.
Business analytics has many applications across different business functions and sectors including finance, marketing, HR, customer relationship management, manufacturing, and credit card companies. Some key uses of business analytics include using financial data to determine pricing and advise on investment performance, analyzing customer behavior and demographics to improve marketing strategies, predicting employee retention and attrition rates to inform HR practices, and examining customer transactions to help retail and credit card companies target customers. Marketing analytics specifically helps evaluate the effectiveness of marketing efforts, optimize campaigns, improve customer targeting, and support real-time decision making. While business analytics provides benefits, organizations also face challenges of data integration, selecting appropriate metrics, and ensuring privacy. HR analytics applications include measuring employee performance, informing promotion and salary decisions
Introduction to integrated marketing sales and marketing alignmentNuno Fraga Coelho
This document discusses the importance of alignment between sales and marketing teams. It provides 7 steps to achieve alignment:
1. Get sales and marketing to agree on buyer profiles and prospect traits.
2. Develop an integrated content strategy by auditing current assets and ensuring content meets buyer needs.
3. Agree on common metrics and definitions like what qualifies a "sales ready" lead to ensure both teams are measuring the same things.
4. Establish SLAs that set targets for lead generation and handoff between teams to increase accountability.
5. Create a clear process for handing off leads from marketing to sales and feedback loops.
6. Develop a shared sales/marketing pipeline for increased visibility
This document provides a quick start guide for marketers to implement marketing automation. It outlines six steps: 1) Get organized by assembling data and content, 2) Sync with sales by setting up a lead management program, 3) Assemble a high-performance team with the right competencies, 4) Implement a pilot automated program to test the process, 5) Optimize and measure results using tactical and strategic metrics, and 6) Reap the rewards of increased qualified leads, revenue, and return on investment that marketing automation can provide. Keeping the initial setup simple and focusing on the basics allows marketers to quickly see results and accelerate their ROI.
The Impact of COVID-19 in B2B MarketingDemand Metric
In Q2 2020, we asked marketing leaders at mid-sized B2B companies in the USA abouthow the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their plans for the year.
Here’s what we found.
In 2018, Return Path and Demand Metric partnered to study the state of email marketing to equip marketers with data and best practices to improve the use of email.
Engagement is the key to getting email into subscriber inboxes. This relationship to deliverability made engagement a logical next candidate for the study. Return Path and Demand Metric partnered again to study engagement and its relationship to email deliverability.
Infographic Vidyard Video Marketing 2018Demand Metric
This document summarizes the key findings from a 2018 report on the state of video marketing. It finds that over 80% of marketers see video as an important content format and its usage is increasing year-over-year across social media, webinars and emails. The most common types of videos produced are webinars, demos and social media videos. It also finds that using advanced video features and integrating video data with sales and marketing systems can help improve results.
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It has been said that “All Marketing is Digital Marketing.” And with good reason! In the last decade (or less), the marketing environment has been transformed.
Marketing has moved from an environment in which traditional marketing, brick and mortar storefronts and Digital Marketing options all competed for the time, attention and resources of the marketing department to one in which Digital Marketing reigns supreme – with an occasional nod in the direction of the storefront, or traditional marketing (direct mail, print advertising, etc.)
One of the biggest challenges of Digital Marketing is the speed of which it has taken over the marketing organization, often in an ad hoc, uncoordinated fashion.
Demand Metric’s research has consistently shown that Digital Marketing has a very significant and positive impact on the organizations that are employing it when they do so by following best practices and processes in a coordinated, holistic approach.
In this Best Practices Report on Digital Marketing we will cover the Digital Marketing landscape in five distinct categories - Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Video Marketing and Public Relations
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Our Content Marketing Solution Study presents the insights, landscape and vendors within the content marketing space. Demand Metric defines content marketing as the strategies, processes and software technology that enable marketing departments to automate, measure and improve the performance of marketing strategies, activities and workflows.
These strategies and activities include: Email Marketing, Multi-channel Campaign Management, Inbound/Search Marketing, Landing Pages, Lead Generation, Lead Management, Lead Scoring, Lead Nurturing, Social Marketing, Marketing Resource Management, Event Management, Engagement Marketing and Marketing Analytics.
The three foundation functions of marketing automation systems are – email marketing, campaign management and lead management. While the most advanced and sophisticated marketing automation systems have extending capabilities far beyond this base, these functions are core to a Marketing Automation system.
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SEO is no longer just about search.
In fact, SEO, which in its early days focused primarily on keywords
(finding, optimizing, ranking), is now a baseline factor of a broader Internet
Marketing strategy across the Enterprise.
This new SEO-driven market segment that has been called Web
Presence Management (WPM) is based on the reality that keywords no
longer drive search results, but rather optimized content does.
As the SEO market matures, quality measures, such as reputation, trust,
content relevance and author authority, are replacing the old quantity
metrics, such as keyword rankings and link volume.
Advanced SEO solutions now weigh campaign performance metrics
(based on brand building, site traffic and conversion) more heavily than
keyword rankings.
This reality is based on changes in the way customers search, the
increasingly integrated omni-channel marketing environment and,
most notably, changes to Google’s Search Engine Results Page (SERP)
algorithms that favor page content freshness, density and content-rich
media over standard keyword search.
All of this means that Modern Marketing Organizations (MMOs) must
re-evaluate their SEO strategies, processes and campaigns.
In this report we will examine the state of the market, share results from the
SEO Benchmark Study, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of 15 top
SEO solutions in our vendor landscape to help organizations choose the
best solution for them, highlight the current trends in SEO that will have an
impact on Enterprise SEO initiatives and provide some recommendations
for the way forward as SEO is redefined right before our eyes.
Demand Metric defines Search Engine Optimization Platforms
as those frameworks, tools and technologies that use searchrelated
functionally to secure high visibility and web presence
for brands, products, services and companies through the use
and management of elements, such as keywords, links, content
relevance and social signals tracking.
In its fourth year, this report on video marketing metrics highlights best practices including video hosting to how video viewing integrates with the sales funnel.
The document outlines a 4-stage maturity model for public relations:
1) Undefined - No defined PR strategy or processes, relying on sporadic press releases.
2) Progressive - Focus shifts to building media relationships and trial-and-error strategy development.
3) Mature - Sustainable strategy produces consistent results, and PR is recognized as important.
4) World-Class - PR is a critical success strategy with advanced metrics and executive support.
Formalizing the Sales Support Function How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
At the highest level, the Sales Support function is responsible for ensuring that the Sales & Marketing departments have the tools, resources, and systems they need to achieve current and future sales revenue targets.
Read this brief 2-page guide to learn:
Director of Sales Support Roles & Responsibilities
Action Plan for formalizing the sales support function
Read this report to learn how to assess your current level of effectiveness, and if necessary, hire an experienced Director of Sales Support.Download our Director of Sales Support Job Description to get started!
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Getting Started with Agile Marketing How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
Agile Marketing is a method for planning and executing a marketing plan borrowed from the world of software development. Instead of long, “waterfall” methods of development that too often result in delayed or out-of date products launching later than planned, the Agile method follows a simple process of build, measure, and learn. Marketers all over the world are adopting this method to the extent that 2013 has been dubbed “the year of Agile Marketing".
This How-To Guide defines why Agile Marketing is important and outlines its key principles and identifies and action plan for getting started.
Read this brief 5-page guide to understand the following:
How to apply agile methods to marketing
Important terminology
How Agile Marketing is currently being used
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Entering the European Market Successfully How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
Leaving your domestic comfort zone to operate in another country or even continent requires careful planning. Expanding into new geographical markets is very exciting, but also very nerve-wracking. Any firm considering entering into international business transactions must understand that doing business abroad is not a simple task. It is stimulating and potentially profitable in the long-term but requires much preparation and research prior to the first transaction.
Europe is probably the most heterogeneous continent on our globe, making understanding market potential more challenging than in more homogeneous markets. Because of the European Union, it’s tempting to view Europe as a single market. In reality, you must consider each country as a market, because each country has a different mix of history, culture, language and business etiquette.
This How-To Guide will describe the steps required to successfully expand into the European market.
Read this 7-page guide to understand the following:
Understand market potential
Identify product-market comibinations
Identify a local partner
Launch and start selling
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com (link sends e-mail) to make a content request.
Optimizing Asset Management for Sales Success How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
Asset Management has historically been seen as a marketing and branding function. This technology is used to deliver materials to sales but is not within the sales teams’ direct control or influence. Today, as more organizations focus on marketing and sales alignment, many tools and technologies that were once managed exclusively by marketing have become shared marketing and sales functions.
Despite this alignment progress on many fronts, Asset Management has tended to remain squarely in the hands of marketing. Demand Metric believes that marketing organizations that retain control are missing an opportunity to use Asset Management to its fullest capability.
The purpose of this How-To Guide is to provide Modern Marketers with a clear understanding of how to effectively use Asset Management Systems as a Sales Enablement tool.
This 6-page guide includes the following sections:
What is Asset Management?
The Sales Benefits of Asset Management
Asset Management & Marketing Automation
Asset Management Vendor Selection Criteria
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About the Sponsor
Mindmatrix is a cutting-edge marketing automation and sales enablement company. Our platform incorporates all the functions and metrics essential to your sales and marketing departments into a single software package.
Mindmatrix’s marketing automation platform will help you generate leads, cultivate interest and excitement about your organization, and ultimately… close sales. From the initial contact with a potential customer all the way through to their first purchase, and beyond, we have your sales and marketing teams covered.
Your Problem
You need to prepare your organization for a crisis, and need to learn best practices for getting the job done.
Our Solution
A crisis communications plan is the first line of defense for your organizations reputation, and in some cases can actually help save the lives of your employees themselves.
In this How-To Guide you will discover how to:
Build your Crisis Communications Team
Empower them with a step-by-step plan for any crisis
Describe exactly who they should contact and when
Explain the entire crisis management process from start to end
Throughout this guide we will also be linking to ‘Resources’, in the form of ‘Tools’, ’Templates’ and ‘Checklists’ you can leverage to prepare your organizations crisis response. With these resources and processes in your company's tool belt, you can rest assured that if a PR-related emergency occurs, you will be ready to protect your brand from disaster, and guard your employees from harm.
Key Benefits
leverage PR Crisis Communications best practices
understand the five stages for any crisis response
links to 24 additional PR Crisis tools
Shopper Marketing is a core B2C (business to consumer) marketing strategy used to activate your brand in the online and offline retail world. From omnichannel marketing, to analyzing shopper insights, this guide distills a best practice approach to Shopper Marketing that will superpower your strategy and lead you in the direction of success.
With input by experts in the shopper marketing world, this guide will take you from the basics and into the challeneges, tactics and metrics you need to follow. After all of the best practices are shared, there is a stage by stage, step by step action plan with tools and templates designed to immediately help your organization leverage best practices.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Evolution of Shopper Marketing
The Essence of Shopper Marketing
What Shopper Really Is, What it isn’t, and Who’s Profiting
The Key Differences Between Consumers and Shoppers
The Incredible Importance of Shopper Insights/Analytics
The Non-Linear Omni-Channel Shopper Journey
Powerful Statistics that Make the Business Case
Case Study: Scotch Tape
The Nuts and Bolts of Shopper Marketing
Processes and Best Practices
Know Your Shopper(s) Before You Begin
Channels, Trends, Seasonal Events and Tactics
Common Challenges in the Shopper Marketing World
Watching Your Competition Closely for Insights
Case Study: Allegra
What You Need to Succeed
Digital & Social Acumen
Partnership With All Levels (Retailer, Brand, and Agency)
Retailer Led Marketing
Brand Led marketing
Case Study: Alcon
Exploring the Future of Shopper Marketing
Neuromarketing and Behavioral Insights
Tracking, Testing and Simulations
Seamless Shopping Experiences
Final Thoughts
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Shopper Marketing action plan & toolkit
Become a better storyteller through the four powers of stories. By understanding these fundamental powers, we can recognize and capitalize on other opportunities to make our stories resonate with our audiences.
Key Takeaways:
In this session, Scott will teach you how to craft compelling narratives that engage your audience, evoke empathy, create memorable moments, and drive action.
The Power of Digital Marketing in the Modern Age.pdfDavid Thomson
Digital marketing leverages online platforms to promote products and services through targeted advertising, SEO, and social media engagement. It provides real-time analytics and measurable ROI, enabling businesses to optimize their strategies. This approach is crucial for reaching a global audience and driving brand awareness in today's digital age.
Cutting-Edge Digital Marketing: Latest Strategies and Channels for SuccessMuhammad Talha Rafiq
Explore the cutting-edge strategies and channels in digital marketing with this detailed presentation by Muhammad Talha Rafiq. Designed for marketers, entrepreneurs, and business owners, this SlideShare delves into the various facets of digital marketing, offering practical insights and actionable tips to enhance your online presence and connect with your target audience effectively.
Key Sections Covered:
Introduction to Digital Marketing: Understand the fundamentals and importance of digital marketing in today’s business landscape.
Digital Marketing Channels: Detailed exploration of key channels including SEO, SEM, email marketing, social media optimization (SMO), social media marketing (SMM), content marketing, affiliate marketing, and influencer marketing.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization): Learn the techniques to improve your website’s ranking and drive organic traffic.
SEM (Search Engine Marketing): Discover how to leverage paid advertising for instant visibility and traffic.
Email Marketing: Strategies for crafting effective email campaigns that yield high ROI.
Social Media Optimization (SMO) and Marketing (SMM): Best practices for optimizing and advertising on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
Content Marketing: Creating and distributing valuable content to attract and retain your target audience.
Affiliate Marketing: Understand the process of earning commissions by promoting other companies' products.
Influencer Marketing: Leveraging influencers to boost your brand’s reach and credibility.
Additional Insights:
Copywriting vs. Content Writing: Differences and purposes of copywriting and content writing in digital marketing.
Email Marketing Journey: Workflow for achieving maximum results from email campaigns.
Real-World Examples: Case studies and examples to illustrate successful digital marketing strategies.
Stay ahead of the curve by mastering these digital marketing techniques and elevating your brand’s online presence. This presentation is a valuable resource for anyone looking to thrive in the digital marketing arena.
Lead Generation Simplified: Essential Steps for Successdheerajpansare88
Simplify your lead generation process with our essential steps infographic. This guide covers four key areas to help you generate and nurture quality leads:
Market Research: Conduct thorough research to understand your target market. Identify their needs, pain points, and preferences to create tailored marketing campaigns.
Content Creation: Develop engaging and informative content that addresses your audience’s challenges and interests. Use a mix of content formats such as blog posts, videos, infographics, and whitepapers.
Channel Promotion: Promote your content through a variety of channels to increase visibility and reach. Utilize social media, email marketing, SEO, and paid advertising to distribute your content.
Lead Tracking: Monitor your leads using advanced CRM and analytics tools. Track their engagement with your content and tailor your follow-up strategies to their behaviors and needs.
By following these steps, you can enhance your lead generation efforts and drive business success. For more tips and professional services, check out Arkentech Solutions.
Dear Readers,
Client service management encompasses a range of functions aimed at ensuring optimal client satisfaction and fostering long-term relationships. Key functions include client support, where issues and inquiries are addressed promptly and effectively, and client on boarding, which involves guiding new clients through the initial setup and integration processes. Account management is another crucial function, involving regular communication and updates to keep clients informed and engaged. Additionally, client service management involves monitoring and analyzing client feedback to continuously improve services and address any emerging needs. Overall, these functions work together to create a positive client experience and drive business growth.
Here are few function explanation for better understanding.
Happy learning
Scan to Success: How to Leverage QR Codes for Offline and Online Marketing PowerAggregage
Join this webinar with Flowcode's Corey Daugherty and Georgette Malitsis to explore the transformative power of QR codes in bridging offline and online marketing worlds. Get ready to gain practical knowledge on using QR codes to increase conversion rates, optimize customer journeys, and ultimately unlock a new realm of marketing potential!
How to write great content for SEO (search engine optimisation)Ben Foster
In today's digital world, getting found online is crucial.
But with millions of websites vying for attention, how do you make your content stand out?
The answer: Writing for SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
Learn how to write compelling content that not only engages readers but also ranks higher in search engine results.
Digital Marketing Session for IIHMR By Neha Agarwal.pdfNeha Agarwal
Neha Agarwal's Digital Marketing Session for healthcare founders associated with IIHMR Startups. With 15 years of industry expertise, Neha brings a wealth of knowledge on leveraging digital strategies to enhance patient engagement, boost online presence, and drive growth in the healthcare sector. This session covers key components of digital marketing including SEO, content marketing, social media, email marketing, and paid advertising. Attendees will learn practical tips for optimizing healthcare websites for search engines, creating compelling content, managing social media effectively, and utilizing email marketing to maintain patient relationships. Neha also delves into the importance of UI/UX in healthcare websites, sharing best practices for improving user experience and accessibility. Through real-world case studies, she demonstrates successful digital marketing campaigns and provides actionable insights for healthcare startups looking to thrive in the digital age. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from an industry expert and take your healthcare startup to the next level!
Generation AI report by Cheil India__.pdfSocial Samosa
31% expect AI to provide expert advice, replacing visits to specialists. 41% fear that overdependence on AI will reduce creative or critical thinking skills.
How to do SEO with free tools - Arnout HellemansSearchNorwich
This talk from Dutch SEO legend, Arnout Hellemans is about how to use free tools to get started in SEO and start finding things that you can easily improve.
This isn't just for beginners in SEO, even seasoned SEOs have new things to learn.
Everything from Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to Google Sheets and the most helpful Chrome extensions.
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Duda + Google Ads Liaison webinar, Ads and AIAnton Shulke
this presentation is part of #dudawebinar
Explore new tools and features unveiled at Google Marketing Live and how they can be applied to your marketing strategies.
Gain insights into how AI can enhance the creative elements of your ads with improved personalization and enhanced optimization.
Learn how to balance the latest technologies with the core, timeless aspects of good marketing.
The Future of B2B Audience Targeting with LinkedInTajul Islam
Tired of pouring money into LinkedIn ads that don't convert?
A marketer’s guide to unlocking the full potential of LinkedIn’s extensive targeting resources and partner tools.
There's a better way. This guide unlocks the secrets to laser-targeting your ideal B2B audience on LinkedIn. Forget generic campaigns. We'll show you how to combine LinkedIn's advanced features with your existing customer data to reach high-value decision-makers directly. Imagine reaching the exact companies and people who can benefit most from your product or service.
Download our free eBook and discover a data-driven approach to LinkedIn marketing that delivers real results. Stop chasing the wrong audience – start targeting the right ones today