Demand generation refers to the comprehensive program of sales and marketing initiatives that aim to generate interest for your product or service, nurture high-fit prospects into customers and retaining those customers for the long-term. By executing an effective demand generation strategy, you're not only discovering opportunities, but also creating them; from data-driven business growth to sales and marketing alignment, demand generation allows marketers to make smarter decisions for their companies.
Unlike the traditional marketer, who is measured on the number of leads they bring in, the demand generation marketer is measured on their total contribution to revenue. In other words, the leads that a demand generation marketer passes over to sales must be a truly good fit for the company and therefore have a high likelihood of becoming customers.
Demand generation involves every stage of the marketing funnel — from bringing an unknown visitor to your website, to converting that visitor into a paying customer. It requires complete visibility into your funnel to identify the gaps and opportunities that can be optimized for improved performance. It's time to diagnose your challenges and build a solution for sustainable growth.
Demand generation bridges the gap between your sales and marketing teams for powerful and harmonious inbound growth. But juggling all of your marketing and sales efforts, from
People have to know about your product or service before they can purchase it, so a successful demand generation strategy begins with brand awareness. If prospects aren't even reaching your website in the first place, you could have issues with your brand identity, blogging strategy, SEO strategy, social media strategy or persona development.
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Generating demand in a steady, predictable, data-driven way requires forming your strategy with concrete goals in mind. By setting sales and marketing goals and then aligning those goals with your buyer's needs, you can develop a more focused strategy.
However, setting and achieving goals isn't always an easy process. The goals you set should be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. These are known as "SMART goals," and they help marketers develop true, actionable plans for seeing their dreams to fruition. If your goals are too general, difficult to track or impossible to reach, they won't do anything to help motivate your team.
Having trouble defining your marketing goals for each stage of the sales and marketing funnel? Download our Marketing Goals Calculator Template to work
Successful lead generation begins with buyer personas. Consult your sales and marketing teams and conduct some outside research to understand who your ideal customers are, what their goals are, what their main challenges are, how your solutions solve for their challenges and which messages would resonate most with them.
Once you've developed three to four primary personas, combine external research and current customer data to understand the buyer's journey for each. Ask yourself: What content would be most helpful to my personas at each stage in their buyer's journey? What content is so valuable that they'd be willing to share their personal information in order to reach it? Use this insight to inform and optimize all of your other lead generation tactics.
Aligning your marketing and sales departments is key to developing accurate, comprehensive personas. Download our white paper, "Unify Your Marketing + Sales Teams Today" to learn how to bring these teams together.
Attracting high-fit leads requires fully-optimized on-page SEO, a killer keyword strategy and — when appropriate for your personas and your business — paid search advertising. Once you've developed optimal buyer personas, you can begin determining the key search terms that your personas will use when searching for solutions to their problems.
Use these terms to optimize your on-page SEO from the title to the metadata, create topic pillar pages to build your domain authority, develop an SEM strategy that will put the right ads in front of the right people and continue to audit, update and optimize your content for the best results. Remember, Google now understands the context search terms, so an effective SEO/SEM strategy takes into consideration a searcher's intent.
Ready to optimize your content and attract more high-fit leads to your website? Download "The Ultimate SEO Checklist" to learn how.
If you've poked around the inbound marketing community for any amount of time, then you've probably encountered the phrase "content is king" — and it's true. From video and blogs to checklists and emails, content may be the single most important component of your demand generation endeavor, so it's important to get it right.
Revisit your buyer personas. What information are they looking for? What content would they find helpful? How would they prefer to consume that content? Create or repurpose genuine, relevant and informative content with the goal of educating your prospects and giving them the tools they need to make informed decisions.
It's time to take content marketing to the next level. Download our guide, "Why Content? A Comprehensive Guide to Content Marketing" to learn more.
With an in-depth understanding of your ideal customers, an abundance of content that educates your prospects and builds brand equity and an SEO strategy that attracts quality visitors to your website, you're well on your way to accelerating your lead generation. However, you still need to optimize your website to drive conversions.
Using a data-driven approach, determine the most effective conversion pathways for each of your primary personas. These pathways will start with relevant, ungated top-of-the-funnel content, lead into premium content offers via compelling calls-to-action and end with landing page forms and delivery of the offer. By optimizing your website for conversions, your prospects will be able to navigate the buyer's journey without any additional input from you.
Conversion Optimization gives your website the power to sell for you. Download our guide to learn how to turn your website into a lead generation machine.
Traditionally, a marketer's job ends as soon as they pass leads over to sales — not anymore. The modern demand generation marketer works closely with the sales team to align lifecycle stages, offer support and develop a holistic strategy for closing more deals and retaining more successful customers.
Make sure that your sales and marketing teams are aligned on lifecycle definitions, and meet regularly to discuss any ideas or challenges that come up. Using the lead information you've gathered in forms, market to leads in your pipeline with relevant and personalized content. Create sales enablement content, such as case studies, demo videos
Successfully generating demand for your business requires an optimized sales strategy as well. Download our guide, "The Complete Guide to Inbound Sales" to learn more.
Because demand generation is an inherently data-driven, technology-enabled tool for growing your business, you can't effectively generate demand without the right technology. From drawing customers into your website, nurturing them to convert into customers and measuring the results, these tools will help you generate demand the right way.
A CMS allows you to easily create, edit, manage and track the success of the content on your website, including blog posts, landing pages, site pages
We use HubSpot's integrated CMS solution to streamline our content development process. Learn more about HubSpot's CMS in our cheat sheet. DOWNLOAD THE CHEAT SHEET.
A CRM system is where you store all of the information captured when a prospect fills out a form and converts on one of your gated content offers. Without an effective CRM, it would be next to impossible for your sales and marketing teams to organize contacts, qualify leads and nurture prospects into a sale.
New Breed favors HubSpot's CRM system for its flexibility, scalability
Marketing automation software can make your life so much easier, but only if it's a good fit for your company's needs. Find out if it's time to switch in our webinar, "It's Not You, It's Me: When to Break Up with Your Marketing Automation Software. WATCH THE WEBINAR.
Effective demand generation marketers are driven by complete, comprehensive and accurate data. Data allows you to drill down into the truth of your marketing and sales cycles, better understand your ideal buyers and make more informed decisions for the future. But there's so much data out there, it can sometimes feel like you're drowning in it.
That's where BI tools come into play. BI tools allow marketers to retrieve, analyze and report business insights. Using BI tools like InsightSquared, DataBox or Stitch can help you prove the value of your demand generation efforts and understand where you need to optimize in the future.
Conversational marketing is the new future of marketing. By combining automation with a conversational interface, chatbots give prospects the chance to engage with your brand, consume relevant content and offer important contact information with fewer sales and marketing calories required from your team. They're a great way to retain that human touch even as your business scales.
Don't believe us? Since we implemented our conversational marketing tool at New Breed, our chatbot has improved our lead-to-opportunity conversion rate by 85.7 percent!
The tools and strategies we've outlined are proven to increase website traffic, boost demand generation and drive the best results for B2B businesses. Not convinced? Check out a few of the companies who significantly accelerated their demand generation efforts with New Breed's data-driven approach.
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Sine-Wave, an internet of things platform provider, came to New Breed because they were struggling to meet their sales goals and they needed new strategies for growing their business. By helping them redefine their buyer personas, create a persona-driven website navigation, identify KPIs to track and measure throughout the engagement and implement an inbound marketing campaign, Sine-Wave saw a 1327 percent — yes, you read that right! 1327 percent! — increase in organic traffic and a 28 percent increase in conversion rates on landing pages. Click here to learn more about Sine-Wave's demand generation success.
Linium, a leading information technology and services company, came to New Breed for help revamping their website and implementing inbound best practices into their marketing strategy. As part of our full demand generation suite of services for attracting, converting, nurturing and closing more customers, we delivered full-funnel solutions including a website redesign, inbound content development and sales and marketing alignment. Linium saw a 413 percent return on their investment after just six months with New Breed. Click here to learn more about Linium's demand generation success.
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Demand Generation Assessment
You might already have a demand generation strategy set in place, but are you seeing the results you need?
Content Audit
Maybe you already have a wealth of content at your disposal — but are you maximizing its worth for rapid lead generation and business growth? Our content audit will help you understand if you're speaking to your personas, mapping your content to the buyer's journey and optimizing your demand generation efforts. Learn more about how our content audit can help you boost conversion rates and generate demand for your business.
SEO Audit
If you're not generating enough high-quality leads, your problem could lie in your SEO strategy. Our SEO audit will comb through your website to uncover technical SEO errors, discover quick wins and provide actionable recommendations for optimizing your SEO strategy and driving lead conversions on your website. Learn more about how our SEO audit can help you generate demand for your business.
HubSpot Audit
Marketing automation and analytics platforms like HubSpot can power your demand generation strategy for maximum results — but only if you're using them to their fullest potential. As a top-tier HubSpot partner, we know the platform top to bottom. Our detailed review of your HubSpot portal and processes can help you realize the software's true potential. Learn more about how our HubSpot audit can help you make the most of the platform for demand generation success.
The first step to effective demand generation is gaining a deep understanding of your buyer personas, developing a website that has the power to convert and properly configuring your marketing automation tools. Our foundational services can set you up with these demand generation basics.
Growth Acceleration Workshop
An effective demand generation strategy begins with fully-developed buyer personas, a roadmap for each persona's buyer's journey and clear metrics to track your success. In our Growth Acceleration Workshop, we bring together your sales and marketing teams to discuss your goals and challenges, gain organizational consensus on your ideal customer profiles and develop a plan for generating demand and scaling your business. Learn more about how our Growth Acceleration Workshop can set you up for demand generation success.
Sales-Ready Website
To generate more qualified leads, your website needs to be more than a standard digital brochure — it needs to be fully optimized to drive conversions and generate leads. Our Sales-Ready Website redesign process helps you develop a persona-driven architecture that encourages web visitors through conversion paths and puts them in front of the content most relevant to them. Learn more about how our Sales-Ready Website can transform your website into a demand generation machine.
Inbound Readiness
Successfully attracting visitors, nurturing leads and closing sales requires the operational infrastructure that can support your strategy. During the Inbound Readiness program, our team of experts will configure your marketing operations and platforms to ensure a successful execution of your sales and marketing strategy. Learn more about how our Inbound Readiness program can give you the backend operational functionality you need to generate demand.
Our premier services can help you create powerful demand generation initiatives that work well with your ongoing strategies and programs.
Content Premier Services
Content helps you attract high-quality traffic, convert leads into visitors and create long-term brand evangelists. Our content strategists will work with you to create a content plan that will speak to your personas, guide your prospects through conversion paths and encourage visitors to convert into leads. Learn more about how we can help you produce high-quality content that drives conversions.
SEO/SEM Premier Services
Organic demand generation begins with a Google search. Our SEO strategists will work with you to increase your search visibility, boost your website's authority ranking and attract more of the right traffic to your website. With an effective and ongoing SEO strategy, you can optimize all areas of your site for high-quality visitors and lead conversions. Learn more about how we can help you develop an SEO strategy to attract, nurture and convert more leads.
Inbound Premier Services
Effective demand generation requires a well-rounded inbound marketing strategy. Our inbound strategists will work with you to define your goals and KPIs, grow your marketing efforts and create search engine optimized content that will drive demand generation and help you hit your revenue goals. Learn more about how we can help you develop an inbound marketing plan that helps you generate demand.
Marketing and Sales Operations Premier Services
The most successful demand generation strategies are built on three things: Sales and marketing alignment, clean, comprehensive data and powerful tech stack. Our revenue operations support team will help you clean up your Salesforce and HubSpot portals, unify your sales and marketing teams with a service-level agreement and offer on-call troubleshooting for critical issues. Learn more about how we can help you streamline marketing and sales operations and unify your team.
