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  • It's not an exaggeration to say digital content can make or break your marketing campaigns. So if you're not attracting and connecting with the type of audiences you seek, it's time to level-up your content efforts. Get ready to discover how to engage with more—and better—prospects. Sponsored by Act-On.

  • Getting the right content—content that directly corresponds to a prospect's need—in front of the right people, at the right moment, is a big challenge for today's marketers. But, with the right data and tools, it can be done. And it can drive business growth. Sponsored by Selling Simplified.

  • Buyer journeys are independent of your sales funnel, which is why so much of those journeys is hidden. But there's a way to be there when they set off on their journey. You just need to see the signals.

  • Not every conversion means making a sale—especially in B2B, where every customer goes on a long journey before deciding whether to buy. That journey is made up of micro-conversions. This article provides more information about identifying and tracking them.

  • There may be no magic bullet for increasing lead generation, but tweaking your marketing content can still boost the response to it—and improve lead quality. Here are six easy ways to do that.

  • This recent infographic from LinkedIn Marketing Solutions explores how focusing on both brand and demand marketing can drive exceptional performance for marketers.

  • Content is the lifeblood of your demand gen automation program. But odds are there are things you're not getting right. Learn why content is so important to demand generation automation, how to use it to move consumers through the awareness stages, and which content programs work the best for each life cycle marketing phase.

  • The Ultimate Automation Journey

    Master Class Lesson

    How do you combine the key elements of the demand generation automation journey—buyer psychology, life cycle marketing, and content—into a program that delivers results? In this lesson, instructor Kenda Macdonald shares how to do that using her award-winning, 10-step blueprint for creating a world-class automation journey.

  • Creating an effective content plan is all about understanding and catering to the buyer's awareness stages—unaware, problem aware, solution aware, product aware, and most aware. This lesson digs into each awareness stage and how to use them when planning your attract and engage content. (This lesson includes a worksheet listed under "Supplementary Resources.")

  • Attract and Engage: Lead Magnets

    Master Class Lesson

    Believe it or not, a lead magnet isn't just top-of-funnel content for lead generation. You can (and should) use them throughout the sales process to demonstrate your authority, educate your consumers, and increase lead quality. In this lesson, you'll learn what makes a good lead magnet, what types of content and offers work as lead magnets for top-, middle-, and bottom-of-funnel activities, and where buyer psychology fits in.

  • When done well, lead nurturing campaigns are demand generation automation at its finest: they boost engagement in the short term and maintain that engagement over the long haul. This lesson covers the three fundamentals of an effective demand generation automation nurture program—short-term nurture, long-term nurture, and sales-supporting nurture.

  • Welcome campaigns are your chance to welcome and wow, set expectations, and provide context to new-to-file subscribers. Learn how to develop this must-have campaign, so you aren't wasting valuable follow-up and nurture time introducing yourself.

  • Sales Campaigns

    Master Class Lesson

    Demand generation marketers aren't just responsible for generating leads and warming them to marketing qualified lead (MQL) status—they're always thinking of conversions. Sales campaigns are structured communications designed to get people to purchase. Learn how to qualify and move customers through the sales pipeline using this campaign type.

  • Sales Pipelines

    Master Class Lesson

    Marketers too often think of sales pipelines as some kind of secret outbound magic squirreled away by the Sales team. But it shouldn't be that way. This lesson covers how demand gen marketers can provide the tools and structure to make the Sales' processes more automated and effective, so Sales can do what they do best—build the 1:1 relationships that close deals.

  • Demand generation doesn't end with conversion. Boosting customer happiness after the sale is equally important if you want to eliminate buyer's remorse and increase adoption, delight, loyalty, and, ultimately, customer lifetime value (CLV). This lesson on customer onboarding covers two vital parts of that equation best driven by good demand generation marketing: new customer welcome campaigns and ongoing, post-purchase nurturing.

  • Demand generation marketers must support the sales process, including activities often overlooked after the contract is signed. Learn how to combine your automation expertise with upsells, cross-sells, and down sells to generate more marketing-attributed revenue.

  • If you think of progressive profiling as gathering new demographic data collected using signup forms, you're only partially correct. This lesson covers how to use modern, effective progressive profiling rooted in psychographics, not just demographics, so you're tracking how your consumers speak to you through their behavior.

  • Let's face it: your newsletter is probably completely pants. (That's British for "rubbish.") A good newsletter—one that builds an ingroup and makes readers feel part of something valuable and important—is a fantastic long-term nurture tool. Learn how to make yours better by combining some fundamental dos and don'ts with a little bit of behavioral science. (This lesson includes a worksheet listed under "Supplementary Resources.")

  • Data-Driven: A Definition

    Master Class Lesson

    For more than a decade, marketers have thrown around the term "data-driven." But what does that even mean? It's not just being a report monkey, nor is it simply iterating specific tactics based on last month's lag indicators. Kenda Macdonald breaks it all down in this quick and dirty lesson.

  • Building With Data in Mind

    Master Class Lesson

    Data, data, everywhere, but which metrics measure? From click-through rates to monetary return, discover which you should prioritize. Learn marketers' most common mistakes, what you should do instead, and the metrics that matter. (This lesson includes a worksheet listed under "Supplementary Resources.")