Top 10 Things The Chief Sales Officer Needs to Know About Demand Generation

Strategic Demand Generation is about building sustainable revenue and maximizing customer lifetime value. Work with Marketing to create shared pipeline and revenue goals instead of being rewarded on different KPIs. Executing on this will have bottom line impact and make sales more successful

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Lane Four is a boutique consulting firm with 30+ years of collective experience in the Salesforce community. Since 2013, we’ve helped over 100 growing startups and non-profit organizations work faster and smarter using the power of their Salesforce CRM.

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Account-Based Strategies In Europe

whitePaper | September 2, 2022

According to Christian Weiss, director ABM EMEA at Autodesk, Germany languishes behind English-speaking countries when it comes to account-based maturity, often due to their reluctance to be the first to try something new. “Germans aren’t always keen on trying and testing from scratch and have a tendency to overthink,” he says. “While other cultures might try new approaches and technologies and fail, at least they’ve tried it. And this is a huge aspect of making account-based principles work. It requires deep change across culture, people and technology – and this isn’t always a good fit for people who are hesitant to embrace change, which isn’t traditionally part of a German’s DNA.”

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Building Reliable Revenue Streams: How the Most Successful Demand Generation Teams Do It

whitePaper | August 31, 2022

This whitepaper assembles key perspectives and insights culled from our interviews with marketing leaders who have charted a steady course through the choppy waters created when decision-making is placed in the hands of corporate buying committees. Find out what digital demand generation strategies are employed by marketers of enterprise technology solutions who are charged with attracting a steady supply of qualified leads to be processed by their respective sales teams. We found that effective execution of some basic building blocks is essential to advancing and contending to be an “expert” marketing operation.

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Better Pipeline > More Leads: How to Shrink Time to Revenue in 4 Steps

whitePaper | December 10, 2022

With pressure on the rise to prove value AND generate results fast, marketers can no longer rely on just quantity. While the goal remains to maximize on the volume of leads, the bigger focus now is on the quality of leads (your best-fit accounts!) Quality leads are best-fit accounts for your business that are ready to buy based on high fit scores, levels of intent, spikes in engagement, data, and more!

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Making insight intelligent for ABM

whitePaper | July 13, 2021

Insight is the difference between what makes ABM truly distinct from just ‘marketing to accounts.’ In truth, it can make or break the success of ABM in even the most mature of programs. But knowing how to extract the right insight at the right time from the sea of data available can often leave marketers feeling overwhelmed. Supported by ITSMA thinking throughout, our practical guide, "Making Insight Intelligent", offers best practice advice helping you demystify the effective gathering and use of insight across some of the most common use cases within ABM. Inside we'll cover: The need, the landscape and the opportunity for insight in 2021 How to build an insight-first program How to create the right structure and processes for success, and establish robust measurement The insight you should leverage to drive business outcomes Five typical use cases: examples of the types of insight used to drive tangible outcomes in ABM

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7 Ways to Supercharge Your ABM Strategy with Real-Time Intent

whitePaper | December 23, 2022

Selling or marketing to someone you have limited insights on is like trying to hit a piñata blindfolded. You have a general idea of where it is, but without knowing its exact whereabouts, you’re taking swings in the dark, and more often than not—you’ll miss your target. Gaps in buyer insights—pain points, account needs, and goals—are a huge issue for accountbased marketing (ABM) teams looking to deepen relationships with existing customers and target high-value prospects. Personalization lives at the core of ABM, and yet, personalization at scale toward target accounts (35 percent) and developing targeted content for accounts and personas (30 percent) are in the top five ABM challenges, according to Demand Gen Report.

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Leveraging AI to Clean, Organize, and Optimize Customer Registries for Increased Sales and Marketing

whitePaper | April 10, 2023

In today's fast-paced, data-driven world, managing critical data is essential for businesses to remain competitive, efficient, and effective. Our AI-powered MDM solution addresses key industry challenges, including the need for customer centricity, hyper-personalization, adherence to regulatory and privacy mandates, and streamlining data explosion. With a 360-degree view of data and advanced analytics capabilities, our solution provides a comprehensive approach to defining and managing an organization's data, serving as a single source of truth for all functions. This unified, accurate, and streamlined data management system delivers better business insights for breakthrough customer experiences.

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