Our Sales Enablement Plan Playbook is a planning methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to help you develop a sales enablement plan that increases your win-rate, deal-size and % reps attaining quota.
Our Sales Enablement Maturity Model was designed to help organizations with a roadmap for improving their sales enablement capabilities. The model provides 4 stages of organizational maturity, which are:
Undefined
Progressive
Mature
World-Class
Additionally, it evaluates 8 components of Sales Enablement, as follows:
- Orientation
- Leadership
- Technology/Infrastructure
- Alignment
- Sales Support Tools
- Processes
- Metrics
- Results
To obtain this document, visit us at http://www.demandmetric.com/register
Use this go-to-market framework to define the activities required to successfully build market-driven products & services that customers will accept. The six stages include research, plan, approve, develop, prepare and launch. Within each stage there are a series of essential activities that need to be performed to ensure alignment between product features and customer needs, and alignment with organizational objectives and priorities.
Download for FREE here: http://www.demandmetric.com/content/modern-go-market-framework
Demand Metric's Playbooks provide frameworks with links to actionable research, tools, templates and training to help organizations operationalize best practices for Marketing.
Our Sales Enablement Plan Playbook is a planning methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to help you develop a sales enablement plan that increases your win-rate, deal-size and % reps attaining quota.
Our Sales Enablement Maturity Model was designed to help organizations with a roadmap for improving their sales enablement capabilities. The model provides 4 stages of organizational maturity, which are:
Undefined
Progressive
Mature
World-Class
Additionally, it evaluates 8 components of Sales Enablement, as follows:
- Orientation
- Leadership
- Technology/Infrastructure
- Alignment
- Sales Support Tools
- Processes
- Metrics
- Results
To obtain this document, visit us at http://www.demandmetric.com/register
Use this go-to-market framework to define the activities required to successfully build market-driven products & services that customers will accept. The six stages include research, plan, approve, develop, prepare and launch. Within each stage there are a series of essential activities that need to be performed to ensure alignment between product features and customer needs, and alignment with organizational objectives and priorities.
Download for FREE here: http://www.demandmetric.com/content/modern-go-market-framework
Demand Metric's Playbooks provide frameworks with links to actionable research, tools, templates and training to help organizations operationalize best practices for Marketing.
Crawl, Walk, Run with Account-Based MarketingSangram Vajre
How do you get started with account-based marketing, then fully execute ABM at scale? In this webinar, Sangram Vajre from Terminus teamed up with Dialpad, LookBook HQ, and Lattice Engines to discuss the steps for successful ABM campaigns.
Customer success continues to be an emerging practice as both technology companies and nontraditional industries move to a new subscription revenue model. A maturity model framework helps companies establish their customer success organizations and initiatives, as well as allowing them to see where they stand and how they can improve as they move through the stages of maturity. www.tsia.com.
Sales Impact Academy Coach, Mark Walker gives a preview of this foundational course.
You will learn:
1. How to identify the real pain points in your target market.
2. Which go-to-market model is best suited to your businesses.
3. Learn about the key success metrics you need to track.
Key Points:
1. Don’t be a solution in search of a problem - Consider the demand in the market first and then build a product for that pain.
2. Frame your key competitors as villain’s - it is a great way of identifying a problem and rallying people behind your product.
3. Be a pill not a vitamin - Is your product a ‘must have’ or a ‘nice to have’?
4. Your ICP should be narrow enough that you are able to streamline your entire operation and make your capital more efficient - you will have to say no to people.
5. A genuine go-to-market model considers every stage of the funnel.
Our Demand Generation Maturity Model was designed to help organizations with a roadmap for improving their Demand Generation capabilities. The model provides 4 stages of organizational maturity, which are:
- Undefined
- Progressive
- Mature
- World-Class
Additionally, it evaluates 6 components of Demand Generation, as follows:
- Orientation
- Leadership
- Tools & Platforms
- Demand Generation
- Budget & Staff
- Metrics
We give you a framework for creating a B2B Sales Playbook - section by section, with key info about questions to consider when writing your own Sales Playbook.
Find out more about how to create your own Sales Playbook at: https://contemsa.com/sales-playbook/
Marketing automation is powerful technology, but how do you build a business case for it in your company? This presentation highlights key features of marketing automation platforms, and shares tips for planning and implementing your new system.
Learn how marketing automation can grow your pipeline, make your customers happy and close the gap between marketing and sales.
Use this modern go-to-market framework to define the activities required to successfully build market-driven products & services that customers will accept.
Our Demand Generation Program Playbook is a planning methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to help you develop and implement a demand generation strategy that provides a steady flow qualified, engaged leads for your sales team.
The purpose of this deck is two-fold:
1. provide key insights on how to build a highly effective and predictable demand gen engine
2. provide a template for a monthly demand gen dashboard that tracks the value/ROI of your actions
There are numerous other key metrics that are essential for marketing to track but are not represented in this template such as customer experience [NPS, CSAT, etc.], brand recognition & affinity, website analytics, email analytics, PR share of voice, ad campaign effectiveness, and so on and so on.
Additionally, this dashboard is not intended to replace a full sales pipeline dashboard but rather to provide insights on how marketing is contributing to sales effectiveness and revenue.
Slides David Shoenberger recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
Revenue Ops: Our Proven Framework for Massive PipelineSales Hacker
What you'll learn:
- A proven framework to align & organize your revenue teams (sales, marketing & customer success)
- The “Ins & Outs” of Leandata’s & Outreach’s revenue operations
The Customer Success Playbooks You Need to Drive AdoptionAmity
Driving adoption is critical for ensuring that customers get maximum value out of their technology investment. It is also increasingly important for technology providers as they continue to embrace recurring revenue business models.
Customer Success teams equipped with well-defined playbooks are uniquely positioned to deliver on this charter. In this webinar, Neil Jain and Aman Singh of Waterstone Management Group will share key insights and best practices around how to successfully drive adoption through Customer Success playbooks.
The Sales Manager's Guidebook contains all the information you will need to become a top performing sales manager.
Volume 1 will teach you:
- How to create a sales plan
- How to set sales targets
- How to develop an appropriate management style
- How to take over new sales teams
- How to manage the sales effort
- How to recruit and select sales staff
How to nurture good sales leads - Lead GenerationStickyeyes
Lead nurturing is the defining act that turns a lead into a prospect, and a prospect into a sale. Yet it is often the part of the process which is most neglected. Perhaps this is why an estimated 79% of leads never convert into a sale, according to MarketingSherpa.
Stickyeyes webinar, on Thursday 8th November 12.30-1.30 (BST), presented by Stickyeyes Demand Generation Director, Phil McGuin discussed the four key stages of lead nurturing that:
- raise awareness and perception of your brand;
- convince your prospects of your credentials; and
- convert those leads into a positive commercial action.
You can listen to the webinar on-demand at https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/16065/337312
Or view more of Stickyeyes free whitepapers, webinars and blog posts at https://www.stickyeyes.com/
Crawl, Walk, Run with Account-Based MarketingSangram Vajre
How do you get started with account-based marketing, then fully execute ABM at scale? In this webinar, Sangram Vajre from Terminus teamed up with Dialpad, LookBook HQ, and Lattice Engines to discuss the steps for successful ABM campaigns.
Customer success continues to be an emerging practice as both technology companies and nontraditional industries move to a new subscription revenue model. A maturity model framework helps companies establish their customer success organizations and initiatives, as well as allowing them to see where they stand and how they can improve as they move through the stages of maturity. www.tsia.com.
Sales Impact Academy Coach, Mark Walker gives a preview of this foundational course.
You will learn:
1. How to identify the real pain points in your target market.
2. Which go-to-market model is best suited to your businesses.
3. Learn about the key success metrics you need to track.
Key Points:
1. Don’t be a solution in search of a problem - Consider the demand in the market first and then build a product for that pain.
2. Frame your key competitors as villain’s - it is a great way of identifying a problem and rallying people behind your product.
3. Be a pill not a vitamin - Is your product a ‘must have’ or a ‘nice to have’?
4. Your ICP should be narrow enough that you are able to streamline your entire operation and make your capital more efficient - you will have to say no to people.
5. A genuine go-to-market model considers every stage of the funnel.
Our Demand Generation Maturity Model was designed to help organizations with a roadmap for improving their Demand Generation capabilities. The model provides 4 stages of organizational maturity, which are:
- Undefined
- Progressive
- Mature
- World-Class
Additionally, it evaluates 6 components of Demand Generation, as follows:
- Orientation
- Leadership
- Tools & Platforms
- Demand Generation
- Budget & Staff
- Metrics
We give you a framework for creating a B2B Sales Playbook - section by section, with key info about questions to consider when writing your own Sales Playbook.
Find out more about how to create your own Sales Playbook at: https://contemsa.com/sales-playbook/
Marketing automation is powerful technology, but how do you build a business case for it in your company? This presentation highlights key features of marketing automation platforms, and shares tips for planning and implementing your new system.
Learn how marketing automation can grow your pipeline, make your customers happy and close the gap between marketing and sales.
Use this modern go-to-market framework to define the activities required to successfully build market-driven products & services that customers will accept.
Our Demand Generation Program Playbook is a planning methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to help you develop and implement a demand generation strategy that provides a steady flow qualified, engaged leads for your sales team.
The purpose of this deck is two-fold:
1. provide key insights on how to build a highly effective and predictable demand gen engine
2. provide a template for a monthly demand gen dashboard that tracks the value/ROI of your actions
There are numerous other key metrics that are essential for marketing to track but are not represented in this template such as customer experience [NPS, CSAT, etc.], brand recognition & affinity, website analytics, email analytics, PR share of voice, ad campaign effectiveness, and so on and so on.
Additionally, this dashboard is not intended to replace a full sales pipeline dashboard but rather to provide insights on how marketing is contributing to sales effectiveness and revenue.
Slides David Shoenberger recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
Revenue Ops: Our Proven Framework for Massive PipelineSales Hacker
What you'll learn:
- A proven framework to align & organize your revenue teams (sales, marketing & customer success)
- The “Ins & Outs” of Leandata’s & Outreach’s revenue operations
The Customer Success Playbooks You Need to Drive AdoptionAmity
Driving adoption is critical for ensuring that customers get maximum value out of their technology investment. It is also increasingly important for technology providers as they continue to embrace recurring revenue business models.
Customer Success teams equipped with well-defined playbooks are uniquely positioned to deliver on this charter. In this webinar, Neil Jain and Aman Singh of Waterstone Management Group will share key insights and best practices around how to successfully drive adoption through Customer Success playbooks.
The Sales Manager's Guidebook contains all the information you will need to become a top performing sales manager.
Volume 1 will teach you:
- How to create a sales plan
- How to set sales targets
- How to develop an appropriate management style
- How to take over new sales teams
- How to manage the sales effort
- How to recruit and select sales staff
How to nurture good sales leads - Lead GenerationStickyeyes
Lead nurturing is the defining act that turns a lead into a prospect, and a prospect into a sale. Yet it is often the part of the process which is most neglected. Perhaps this is why an estimated 79% of leads never convert into a sale, according to MarketingSherpa.
Stickyeyes webinar, on Thursday 8th November 12.30-1.30 (BST), presented by Stickyeyes Demand Generation Director, Phil McGuin discussed the four key stages of lead nurturing that:
- raise awareness and perception of your brand;
- convince your prospects of your credentials; and
- convert those leads into a positive commercial action.
You can listen to the webinar on-demand at https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/16065/337312
Or view more of Stickyeyes free whitepapers, webinars and blog posts at https://www.stickyeyes.com/
Our Customer Engagement Plan Playbook is a planning methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to help improve how customers engage with your company and to enable your organization with a customer-centric approach to drive revenue.
Roger is responsible for P&L, sales, leads, marketing, business development, pipeline, operations, commission design, planning, and budgets for client organizations. He establishes and maintains successful relationships with partners/customers building custom digital solutions including Social, AI & RPA solutions, B2X Digital Platforms, Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, and Blockchain applications, Renewable Solar Energy, Adtech, Health-tech, Supply Chain & Logistics, MSO's, Direct To Consumer App, Telco and Pay TV operators and OTT platforms in Media & Entertainment domains.
Roger advises on sales & marketing pipeline management activities to ensure profitable revenue targets are met and manages the level of risk vs. desired goals to accelerate revenue. He plans, designs, and executes sales and marketing, speeding up strategies, and adds positive revenue results from all targeted revenue streams.
►Proficiently produces new opportunities that deliver improved marketing and enlarge SaaS revenue across all client disciplines.
►Increases performance of all RevOps functions within the organization, including Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success.
►Serves as a Head of Sales & Marketing with ownership of the “marketing technology stack” including marketing automation, sales-force automation/ CRM, digital channels, the web and social, business intelligence, and data management.
►Accountable for all sales goals.
►Motivate and coach a team of 68 people consisting of sales leaders, AEs, AMs, ISRs, SDRs, operations, and marketing.
►Define and manage GTM strategy to acquire new customers while retaining and expanding across existing customers.
►Hire fantastic new talent around the world to meet the demands of customers.
Skills: Sales Strategy · Build Strong Relationships · Team Building · FinTech · Complex Sales · Go-to-Market Strategy · Sales & Marketing · Sales Planning · Sales Pipeline Management · Team Management · Strategy · Problem Solving · Executive Management · International Sales · Startups · Business Analysis · Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) · Online Advertising · Salesforce.com · Digital Media · Sales Operations · SaaS · Start-ups · Sales Management · B2B Marketing · Business-to-Business (B2B) · Sales Process · Solution Selling · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Software as a Service (SaaS) · Management
Skills: Go-to-Market Strategy · Startups · Analytical Skills · Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) · Business Development
Skills: Enterprise Software · Software as a Service (SaaS)
Our Shopper Marketing Playbook is a planning methodology that highlights our premium tool-kit of tools & templates to help you develop and implement a shopper marketing strategy that increases sales, builds shopper insights, and grows brand awareness.
Driving Marketing Automation Success Across the Enterprise: Revenue Funnel MarketoEnterpriseContent
Join Marketo for a webinar on best practices for optimizing each stage of your revenue funnel. You'll learn:
• How to manage the entire funnel from end to end
• Best practices for evaluating your overall technology stack
• Tips on defining the stages of your funnel
OpsStars NY Session | A B2B Revenue Ops Success Framework and Maturity ModelLeanData
Matt Heinz – President & Founder, Heinz Marketing
Learn the seven components of revenue operations success in B2B, including the strategy, alignment, process and technology components necessary to create a predictable, repeatable and scalable sales pipeline development engine. Matt Heinz will share results from his latest RevOps survey. You’ll walk away with a specific framework and maturity model to implement within your organization.
OpsStars Boston Session | A B2B Revenue Ops Success Framework and Maturity ModelLeanData
Matt Heinz – President & Founder, Heinz Marketing
Learn the seven components of revenue operations success in B2B, including the strategy, alignment, process and technology components necessary to create a predictable, repeatable and scalable sales pipeline development engine. Matt Heinz will share results from his latest RevOps survey. You’ll walk away with a specific framework and maturity model to implement within your organization.
ABM Analytics Super Bowl 4: Up Your Game: Activating Your ABM Content to Meas...Engagio
In this session, we would explore the key measures you need to establish a benchmark prior to embarking on an ABM Pilot. If you can’t show where you’ve been, in an open and honest manner, you’ll never get the buy in necessary to propel ABM in your org.
Best Practices of World-Class Sales Organizations and their performance against Key Performance Metrics; Data for specific industry segments is available; call or eMail Medio Waldt, 610 659 3489, medio.waldt@millerheimangroup.com
Optimize lead. Management to Align. Sales and MarketingMrSeller Zograf
New pressures for marketers
Today’s marketers are under mounting pressure to demonstrate the direct connection between marketing programs and sales impact.
Measuring return on marketing, particular marketing investment is hardly possible. Marketers need to show a positive feedback between outreach activities and bottom-line result such as new customer acquisition or even beter - sales revenue. But for many companies,mesurign marketing effort is still unreachable and therefore deficient lead management practices keep getting in the way.
The landscape of business-to-business marketing has profoundly changed. Marketers face the formidable challenge of tracking leads from an ever-expanding array of channels in an increasingly complex purchase-decision process.
In the past, marketing teams focused largely on raising brand awareness through creative work,
but this is no longer true.
Marketing departments now must be able to show—proof-positive—that their efforts directly contribute to new leads, customer acquisitions, sales, and revenue growth.
Marketers working in the new landscape of business-to-business marketing face yet another challenge: how to manage an ongoing digital dialog with prospective customers.
Today’s buyers use social media extensively, marketers need to be agile enough to
keep them engaged and informed—not just in the early stages, but throughout the marketing and sales lifecycle.
New solutions: a holistic approach
Marketing automation software, which automates the process of moving leads through
the sales funnel, can be part of this solution but clearly technology alone cannot make the difference.
The solution lies in synchronizing processes and technology to better align marketing and sales and improve lead management.
Marketing operations offers a way to coordinate people, processes, and tools. Marketing operations principles offer a holistic approach to optimizing lead management and provide
the way from marketing spend to revenue through realized sales—one that examines how people, processes, and tools come together throughout the marketing and sales lifecycle.
And evaluated software tools are improving both marketing and sales force automation.
By taking steps to coordinate people, processes, and tools to manage leads, marketing leaders can more accurately measure and maximize return on marketing investment.
The holistic approach focuses on three key activities:
• Synchronize the efforts of cross-functional teams
• Optimize lead management workflows
• Close critical gaps in software systems
Need to synchronize team efforts
Marketing and sales teams often are not aligned in their processes and goals.
Lack of synchronization between marketing tactics and sales objectives magnifies the difficulty of measuring performance.
Marketing staff contend with the pressure of keeping the sales pipeline primed with leads.
At the same time, sales personnel rout
Parth\'s in it\'s endeavour to manage sales effectively with real time communication tools ,developed the crm,which will guide companies towards excellence in customer relationship.
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
For far too long, the emphasis on video content marketing has been on production quality; the higher the quality, the more marketing value a video is presumed to have. While quality is certainly an important aspect of video content, producing quality video does not guarantee video content marketing success. Success is very much a function of how well video content and viewing data integrate with the marketing technology stack, and how the sales team leverages the intelligence. In this fifth annual video content marketing report, Demand Metric and Vidyard partnered on research to better understand the use of video for sales and marketing, how performance is being measured, and what impact video is having. This study’s focus is on the use of video in marketing, the maturity indicators such as measuring video content performance, and how video viewing data is integrated with marketing automation platforms (MAP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. This report shows what progress, if any, has been made in the fifth year of this study. These study results provide insights and data useful for helping marketers get the highest possible return on their video content investment.
Download the PDF: https://www.demandmetric.com/content/digital-marketing-best-practices-report
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
Download the PDF: https://www.demandmetric.com/content/content-marketing-solution-study
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.
Download the PDF: https://www.demandmetric.com/content/seo-technology-overview
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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Lead Scoring: Five Steps to Getting Started How-To GuideDemand Metric
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
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.
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.
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
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.
SEO as the Backbone of Digital MarketingFelipe Bazon
In this talk Felipe Bazon will share how him and his team at Hedgehog Digital share our journey of making C-Levels alike, specially CMOS realize that SEO is the backbone of digital marketing by showing how SEO can contribute to brand awareness, reputation and authority and above all how to use SEO to create more robust global marketing strategies.
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?Cut-the-SaaS
Discover the transformative power of AI in content creation with our presentation, "Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?" by Puran Parsani, CEO & Editor of Cut-The-SaaS. Learn how AI-generated content is revolutionizing marketing, publishing, education, healthcare, and finance by offering unprecedented efficiency, creativity, and scalability.
Understanding
AI-Generated Content:
AI-generated content includes text, images, videos, and audio produced by AI without direct human involvement. This technology leverages large datasets to create contextually relevant and coherent material, streamlining content production.
Key Benefits:
Content Creation: Rapidly generate high-quality content for blogs, articles, and social media.
Brainstorming: AI simulates conversations to inspire creative ideas.
Research Assistance: Efficiently summarize and research information.
Market Insights:
The content marketing industry is projected to grow to $17.6 billion by 2032, with AI-generated content expected to dominate over 55% of the market.
Case Study: CNET’s AI Content Controversy:
CNET’s use of AI for news articles led to public scrutiny due to factual inaccuracies, highlighting the need for transparency and human oversight.
Benefits Across Industries:
Marketing: Personalize content at scale and optimize engagement with predictive analytics.
Publishing: Automate content creation for faster publication cycles.
Education: Efficiently generate educational materials.
Healthcare: Create accurate content for patients and professionals.
Finance: Produce timely financial content for decision-making.
Challenges and Ethical Considerations:
Transparency: Disclose AI use to maintain trust.
Bias: Address potential AI biases with diverse datasets.
SEO: Ensure AI content meets SEO standards.
Quality: Maintain high standards to prevent misinformation.
Conclusion:
AI-generated content offers significant benefits in efficiency, personalization, and scalability. However, ethical considerations and quality assurance are crucial for responsible use. Explore the future of content creation with us and see how AI is transforming various industries.
Connect with Us:
Follow Cut-The-SaaS on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Medium. Visit cut-the-saas.com for more insights and resources.
How to Use AI to Write a High-Quality Article that Ranksminatamang0021
In the world of content creation, many AI bloggers have drifted away from their original vision, resulting in low-quality articles that search engines overlook. Don't let that happen to you! Join us to discover how to leverage AI tools effectively to craft high-quality content that not only captures your audience's attention but also ranks well on search engines.
Disclaimer: Some of the prompts mentioned here are the examples of Matt Diggity. Please use it as reference and make your own custom prompts.
Core Web Vitals SEO Workshop - improve your performance [pdf]Peter Mead
Core Web Vitals to improve your website performance for better SEO results with CWV.
CWV Topics include:
- Understanding the latest Core Web Vitals including the significance of LCP, INP and CLS + their impact on SEO
- Optimisation techniques from our experts on how to improve your CWV on platforms like WordPress and WP Engine
- The impact of user experience and SEO
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
SMM Cheap - No. 1 SMM panel in the worldsmmpanel567
Boost your social media marketing with our SMM Panel services offering SMM Cheap services! Get cost-effective services for your business and increase followers, likes, and engagement across all social media platforms. Get affordable services perfect for businesses and influencers looking to increase their social proof. See how cheap SMM strategies can help improve your social media presence and be a pro at the social media game.
Come learn how YOU can Animate and Illuminate the World with Generative AI's Explosive Power. Come sit in the driver's seat and learn to harness this great technology.
The What, Why & How of 3D and AR in Digital CommercePushON Ltd
Vladimir Mulhem has over 20 years of experience in commercialising cutting edge creative technology across construction, marketing and retail.
Previously the founder and Tech and Innovation Director of Creative Content Works working with the likes of Next, John Lewis and JD Sport, he now helps retailers, brands and agencies solve challenges of applying the emerging technologies 3D, AR, VR and Gen AI to real-world problems.
In this webinar, Vladimir will be covering the following topics:
Applications of 3D and AR in Digital Commerce,
Benefits of 3D and AR,
Tools to create, manage and publish 3D and AR in Digital Commerce.
For too many years marketing and sales have operated in silos...while in some forward thinking companies, the two organizations work together to drive new opportunity development and revenue. This session will explore the lessons learned in that beautiful dance that can occur when marketing and sales work together...to drive new opportunity development, account expansion and customer satisfaction.
No, this is not a conversation about MQLs and SQLs. Instead we will focus on a framework that allows the two organizations to drive company success together.
First Things First: Building and Effective Marketing Strategy
Too many companies (and marketers) jump straight into activation planning without formalizing a marketing strategy. It may seem tedious, but analyzing the mindset of your targeted audiences and identifying the messaging points most likely to resonate with them is time well spent. That process is also a great opportunity for marketers to collaborate with sales leaders and account managers on a galvanized go-to-market approach. I’ll walk you through the methods and tools we use with our clients to ensure campaign success.
Key Takeaways:
-Recognize the critical role of strategy in marketing
-Learn our approach for building an actionable, effective marketing strategy
-Receive templates and guides for developing a marketing strategy
A.I. (artificial intelligence) platforms are popping up all the time, and many of them can and should be used to help grow your brand, increase your sales and decrease your marketing costs.In this presentation:We will review some of the best AI platforms that are available for you to use.We will interact with some of the platforms in real-time, so attendees can see how they work.We will also look at some current brands that are using AI to help them create marketing messages, saving them time and money in the process. Lastly, we will discuss the pros and cons of using AI in marketing & branding and have a lively conversation that includes comments from the audience.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about LLM platforms, like ChatGPT, and how they work, with preset examples and real time interactions with the platform. Attendees will learn about other AI platforms that are creating graphic design elements at the push of a button...pre-set examples and real-time interactions.Attendees will discuss the pros & cons of AI in marketing + branding and share their perspectives with one another. Attendees will learn about the cost savings and the time savings associated with using AI, should they choose to.
Financial curveballs sent many American families reeling in 2023. Household budgets were squeezed by rising interest rates, surging prices on everyday goods, and a stagnating housing market. Consumers were feeling strapped. That sentiment, however, appears to be waning. The question is, to what extent?
To take the pulse of consumers’ feelings about their financial well-being ahead of a highly anticipated election, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey. The survey highlights consumers’ hopes and anxieties as we move into 2024. Let's unpack the key findings to gain insights about where we stand.
1. SALES ENABLEMENT
Maturity Model
Orientation
STAGE 1 - Undefined
STAGE 2 - Progressive
STAGE 3 - Mature
STAGE 4 - World-Class
Technology/
Infrastructure
No defined, evaluated or
implemented Sales Enablement
functions or applications.
No CRM, Marketing Automation,
Knowledge Management or other
Sales Enablement applications in
place. Sales reps use their own
systems and technology to support
their sales efforts.
CRM and/or Marketing Automation in
place with 80%+ rep adoption.
Exploring Sales Enablement applica-
tions such as playbooks, portals,
CPQ, etc.
Marketing Automation & CRM are
highly integrated and Sales Enable-
ment applications are being used.
Defined process for testing and inte-
grating new applications in place.
Mature, integrated Sales Enablement
infrastructure in place built on a CRM
platform with multiple applications inte-
grated & adopted. Reporting available
in one interface.
Operational in nature, reacting to
requests. Loosely defined function in
place for less than two years.
Working from a plan, balanced between
strategic and operational. Defined func-
tion in place for 3+ years.
Highly strategic orientation, docu-
mented plans in place. Defined Sales
Enablement function in place for 5+
years.
Leadership No perceived need for sales enable-
ment. No funding or dedicated staff.
Senior management view Sales
Enablement as one of many success
factors. Funding available for small
pilot projects for testing.
Sales Enablement a key corporate func-
tion. Major initiatives funded, dedicated
staff & budget.
Sales Enablement a critical success
factor driving revenue and growth.
Fully funded and supported by
senior management.
Alignment
Cross-functional SE group formed with
leaders from all departments. Shared
revenue responsibilites. Compensation
may be tied to revenue growth.
Marketing and sales operate in
distrinct silos with minimal align-
ment on goals and activities. Typical
‘hand-off’ style working relationship.
Some marketing/sales alignment
forming on key processes such as lead
scoring, no shared revenue responsi-
bilities yet. Able to ‘coordinate’ efforts
like follow up on campaigns.
Marketing/sales & others ‘collaborate’ on
multiple processes to generate revenues.
SLAs and/or standard definition for SQLs
in place. Goals set for contribution to
pipeline.
Sales
Enablement
2. SALES ENABLEMENT
Maturity Model
Sales
Support Tools
Processes
Metrics
Results
No formal lead generation or sales
opportunity management process;
Sales process & buying processes are
not defined.
No formal support or tools for asset
management, CPQ, communica-
tion or other tools. No centralized
portal for collateral (email templates,
proposals, playbooks, etc.) Reps
expected to create their own sales
support material.
Sales enablement success metrics
unknown and not tracked. Revenue ($)
tracked but not necessarily tied to goals.
Lead quality and scoring is unknown
and not tracked.
New reps hit quota in 9-12 months.
30-50% of new sales hired unsuccessful.
Opportunity win rate is less than 10%.
Revenue growth rate is less than 10%.
Metrics in place to measure effec-
tiveness such as #opportunities,
sales productivity metrics, #leads
generated, CPL in some cases
known. No regular monitoring,
reports pulled ad hoc when results
not desirable.
New reps hit quota in 6-9 months.
20-30% of new sales hires unsuc-
cessful. Opportunity win rate is
10-15%. Revenue growth rate is 10-20%.
Known success metrics for top
performing reps. Cost of acquisition
(CAC) known, #downloads from portals,
CRM adoption rate, cost per opportu-
nity measured. Reports monitored and
reviewed at regular intervals (weekly,
monthly, quarterly, annually).
New reps hit quota in 4-6 months.
10-20% of new sales hires unsuc-
cessful. Opportunity win rate is
15-20%. Revenue growth rate is
20-40%.
Marketing ROI, TCO, age of opportuni-
ties, customer lifetime value, retention
rate, pipeline velocity, reps have visi-
bility into team’s productivity & perfor-
mance metrics (may be gamified inside
of CRM), closed loop reporting system
for all campaigns and metrics.
New reps hit quota in 3-4 months.
Less than 10% of new sales hires are
unsuccessful. Opportunity win rate
is 20%+. Revenue growth rate is
40%+.
Sales process defined but not mapped
to buying process. Opportunity
management is ad hoc and unreliable
for forecasting. No sales enablement
processes established yet.
Basic asset management and/or sales
portal with collateral, manual CPQ,
conferencing tools provided. May
have manual sales playbooks, sales
intelligence data sources, competitive
analysis info, formal product training.
Formal lead acquisition process, solid
opportunity management, Sales process
mapped to buying process, defined
process for sales enablement including
strategy planning.
Extensible platform supports MRM, asset
management with ratings, feedback and
version control, sales performance/incen-
tive management, CPQ, conferencing,
playbooks integrated with CRM, field
presentation tools for tablets, etc.
Lead scoring & nurturing, content
mapped to buying and sales process
by persona & journey maps, prioritiza-
tion of sales enablement strategy plan
is done regularly.
Sales organization fully supported
across entire sales cycle from lead
generation to quoting and contracting.
Reporting and feedback effectively
drive development of sales support
infrastructure. Surveys held regularly to
solicit feedback and ideas.
STAGE 1 - Undefined STAGE 2 - Progressive STAGE 3 - Mature STAGE 4 - World-Class
Sales
Enablement