The Three Building Blocks for Effective B2B Demand Generation -- Lead Management, Marketing Automation and Content Marketing

Adam Needles covers how lead management, marketing automation and content marketing combine to help B2B marketers better connect with buyers through demand generation [...]

Where Do You Start With Lead Management?

Carlos Hidalgo addresses what B2B marketing organizations can do to get started with understanding and implementing lead management [...]

Forrester on Using B2B Lead Management to Pump Up Your Pipeline

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The potential benefits to B2B marketers of adopting marketing automation are significant, but the technology, by itself, cannot singlehandedly deliver sales.   This is the story of any business technology:  Gaining the benefits often requires process change and re-alignment that the technology will amplify, but that it cannot affect on its own.

This is why the practice [...]

How Do You Get Your Arms Around the 'Brave New World' of B2B Marketing? Where Do You Start?

Given a challenging environment for B2B marketing today, where should a B2B marketer start? How can we get our arms around this ‘brave new world’? Adam Needles outlines a series of basics for B2B marketers to focus on to help rationalize their more-complex [...]

Key Issues to Consider When Deploying B2B Marketing Automation Globally

Adam Needles discusses factors that B2B marketers should consider when deploying marketing automation on a global [...]

The Danger of an Either/Or B2B Marketing and Sales Mindset

Adam Needles looks at the importance of viewing sales and marketing activities in an integrative mindset and putting them in the context of the buyer’s processes and [...]

Four Keys for Success Using Buyer Personas to Focus B2B Marketing Automation Campaigns

I posted a new piece on my Propelling Brands blog this past week that examines the application of buyer personas in the B2B marketing arena — which I wanted to follow up on.

B2B marketers find a growing challenge when it comes to actually implementing their marketing automation campaigns. First, complex, multi-step logic can be [...]

Seven Principles for Building More Buyer-centric B2B Marketing Programs

Adam Needles explores ways that B2B marketers can build more buyer-centric marketing [...]

Advanced Lead Scoring Secrets — Moving from ‘Good’ to ‘Great’ as a B2B Marketer

Adam Needles presents working insights for ‘advanced’ lead scoring secrets that can help B2B marketers take their games to the next [...]