Demand Generation Resources

Using AI to Build Your Personas: Don't Lose Sight of Your Real-World Buyers

Using AI to Build Your Personas: Don't Lose Sight of Your Real-World Buyers

When building buyer personas, all that glitters is not AI gold. At least not yet. Want the reality of AI in today's personas process? Here's what you can and can't do with AI.

AI Use Across the Customer Journey Means Aligning Across Teams

AI Use Across the Customer Journey Means Aligning Across Teams

The time for experimenting with AI for one-off tasks is over. It's time to use AI across the customer journey—and that means cross-functional collaboration to ensure impactful results. Dive deeper now.

Four Types of Webinars That Convert Prospects Into Customers

Four Types of Webinars That Convert Prospects Into Customers

How can you get the best results from your webinars? The secret is to use different types of webinars at each stage of the marketing funnel, carefully curating the buyer's journey to maximize conversions.

How to Adapt to the Evolution of B2B Buying: Four Tips for Addressing Buyer Pain Points

How to Adapt to the Evolution of B2B Buying: Four Tips for Addressing Buyer Pain Points

Discover how the digital era is reshaping B2B buying behaviors and expectation. See how you can improve marketing and sales by addressing self-service buyers' key pain points. Read more.

Segmentation Is Dead: Rethinking Micro-Targeting (And B2B Marketing) in the Algorithmic Age

Segmentation Is Dead: Rethinking Micro-Targeting (And B2B Marketing) in the Algorithmic Age

The era of micro-targeting B2B decision-makers with narrow targeting attributes is over. Opt-outs are surging, data collection is limited, and once-granular targeting options are fading. It's time to face reality.

The Selling Styles B2B Buyers Prefer Most

The Selling Styles B2B Buyers Prefer Most

Which sales approaches resonate most with B2B buyers? How important is it for B2B buyers that salespeople show an understanding of their business and personalize pitches? To find out, researchers surveyed 500 buyers in the UK.

The New 'Content Continuum': A Six-Stage Marketing 'Funnel'

The New 'Content Continuum': A Six-Stage Marketing 'Funnel'

Learn about the Content Continuum, a six-stage approach that updates the traditional marketing funnel. Discover how to apply it to your own marketing and content strategy.

Mastering the Customer Review Process: How to Ask for Reviews

Mastering the Customer Review Process: How to Ask for Reviews

Explore practical tactics on how to source customer reviews so you can harness their power to boost your brand and B2B marketing effectiveness by fostering trust and engagement. Learn how.

Four Ways to Improve Demand Generation Performance in a Tight Economy

Four Ways to Improve Demand Generation Performance in a Tight Economy

Discover four key insights to turbocharge the impact of your B2B demand generation efforts. Learn what tactics top marketers are using for better results. Dive in.

The B2B Sales Pipeline: A Simple Guide

The B2B Sales Pipeline: A Simple Guide

Grasp the essentials of building and managing a sales pipeline, identifying promising leads, and guiding them toward successful deals. Get started now.

Here They Come! B2B Marketing in a Gen Z World

Here They Come! B2B Marketing in a Gen Z World

Explore essential B2B marketing approaches for engaging and connecting with the next generation of B2B buyers—a digital-first generation that values authenticity and seamless customer experience. Learn more.

Boosting Conversions: The Power of Multitouch Engagement in Sales and Marketing

Boosting Conversions: The Power of Multitouch Engagement in Sales and Marketing

When potential customers see and interact with your brand multiple times, they become more likely to become interested in what you're offering. And when sales and marketing teams work together to make multitouch lead gen even more effective, the inevitable result is a boost in conversions.

Ditch the Sales Script If You Want to Make More Sales

Ditch the Sales Script If You Want to Make More Sales

Most salespeople are required to learn sales scripts before contacting prospects. And to ensure all the information is conveyed exactly as the company prefers, they're discouraged from adding anything to the script. Basically, they're hired to be human commercials. No wonder it doesn't work.

10 Guiding Principles of Sales Enablement, Inspired by 'Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?'

10 Guiding Principles of Sales Enablement, Inspired by 'Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?'

Sales enablement can feel worse than untangling a giant knot of half-burned-out Christmas tree lights. Luckily, a series of MarketingProfs articles undertook that metaphorical untangling. The lessons now unwound from that effort shine brightly as guiding principles of sales enablement.

How Salestech Can Embrace Customization at Scale

How Salestech Can Embrace Customization at Scale

In an age when every digital interaction by potential buyers leaves a trace, salestech can help sellers and marketers harness a wealth of data. As a result, customization, at scale, is both possible and necessary.

B2B Tech Marketers' Budget Expectations for 2024

B2B Tech Marketers' Budget Expectations for 2024

Most marketers who work for B2B technology firms expect their marketing spend to increase this year, according to recent research.

Do More With Less: Six Smart Ways to Balance Brand & Demand to Drive Growth in Tough Times

Do More With Less: Six Smart Ways to Balance Brand & Demand to Drive Growth in Tough Times

For marketers, belt-tightening is back for 2024. Balancing brand and demand investments, however, doesn't have to hurt. In fact, taking these six steps can increase impact, build resilience, and pave the way for long-term growth. Do more with less.

When Do B2B Buyers Contact Vendors?

When Do B2B Buyers Contact Vendors?

B2B buyers generally do not contact vendors until they are very far along in their journey and they have finalized most of their requirements, according to this research.

Attract High-Value Leads With This Five-Step Process

Attract High-Value Leads With This Five-Step Process

The process of attracting high-value leads has evolved into a blend of science and art. This article dissects what constitutes a high-value lead and explores how you can craft a balanced, targeted approach to lead generation.

The Availability Heuristic, Sharks, and Your Marketing

The Availability Heuristic, Sharks, and Your Marketing

The availability heuristic is a mechanism used by the brain to recall and label information, and it can cause lots of biases in buyers. Some brands attempt to use those biases to their benefit—through awareness advertising, for example. Ethics aside, it's probably not a good idea...

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