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Survey: 80% feel demand-gen campaigns falling short

BizReport

Demand generation efforts are struggling according to a new survey from Corporate Visions. After surveying more than 400 sales people and executives, researchers found a startling 80% believe their demand-gen campaigns are not helping them meet sales or marketing goals. ”This quarter’s survey results clearly show us that organizations are facing serious challenges when it comes to creating and executing effective demand generation campaigns,” said Tim Riesterer, chief strategy and marketing officer for Corporate Visions. “Ironically, the survey revealed that the two largest disconnects are the two most important factors to achieving demand generation success: creating engaging content and developing messages that clearly address customer pain points. If salespeople and marketers are able to work together to implement these two strategies successfully into their campaigns, they will be able to motivate prospects and win more business.”

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CPMs Don’t Reflect Whether Ads Are Viewable, Targeted

MediaPost

Earlier this year, comScore revealed some key findings from a broad study of online brand campaigns in connection with the launch of its ad verification service called Validated Campaign Essentials. Among the highlights, it found that nearly a third (31%) of online display ads are never seen, and 72% of campaigns had at least some ads running next to objectionable content.

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Exclusive: Marketers to Add More Video, Mobile to Content Marketing Campaigns, Altimeter Study Finds

Content Marketing Inst.

A new content marketing study by Altimeter Group, an advisory firm that conducts independent research on new technologies, found that marketers plan to add more video, images and infographics to content marketing campaigns, as well as implement more mobile- and location-based initiatives. These changes come as marketers become more ambitious technologically and try to reduce reliance on advertising.

Outlook 2012: Marketers planning new ad campaigns – Survey shows customer acquisition top goal

BtoB 

With the primary goals of gaining new customers and raising brand awareness, 66% of b2b marketers will launch new ad campaigns this year, according to BtoB’s “2012 Outlook: Marketing Priorities and Plans” study.

The report, now in its ninth year, was based on an online survey of 343 b2b marketers, conducted between Nov. 21 and Dec. 12. It found that the top goal of b2b marketers this year is customer acquisition (cited by 75% of respondents), followed by brand awareness (15%) and customer retention (10%).

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When Will Social Media Measurement Mature? Marketers have a chance to establish metrics that matter

eMarketer 

Marketers know that counting fans, “likes” and followers is not the best way to measure success in social media marketing. Yet these metrics are often the top benchmarks for performance. It’s not surprising, then, that marketers consider calculating return on investment to be the biggest challenge of using social media, and that a majority of them believe they cannot measure social media campaigns effectively.

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Measurement Challenges Stump Marketing Executives Social media is one of the most difficult forms of marketing to measure

eMarketer 

Most marketers know that company executives want to be able to measure marketing tactics and campaigns. But as the marketing mix evolves and becomes more interconnected, this has grown more challenging.

Voice-based marketing automation platform Ifbyphonesurveyed marketing professionals for its “2011 State of Marketing Measurement Report” and 82% said their executives expect every campaign to be measured.

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Click-through rates significantly higher for rich media campaigns: Jumptap

Mobile Marketer

Mobile advertising campaigns run with rich media ad units show a significant performance lift over those with standard media, according to a new report from Jumptap.

The latest Jumptap MobileSTAT Report compared advertisers’ use of standard mobile ads units such as banner ads with rich media ad units and found click-through rates are significantly higher for the latter. In one example, a major retailer saw a 337 percent lift in click-through rates with rich media ad units compared with its standard mobile banner campaign.

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4 Ways to Integrate B2B Social Media into Marketing Plans

Social Media B2B

B2B marketers have long known that to succeed with social media they can’t view it as a stand alone campaign or tactic, but must integrate social media into their marketing plans. Here are four suggestions for doing just that.

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The Case for Creative Integration – Ignore at Your Own Peril

ClickZ

Try asking anyone in an agency environment or in a marketing department how great creative contributes to the marketing campaign. They’ll quickly reply with all the best practice approaches like marrying good creative with good placement, bringing creative professionals early into the planning stages, and blah, blah, blah. The reality is usually something far different and it shows. Our digital world is littered with forgettable ads, dumb websites, and other digital experiences that don’t apply what we know about our prospective audience. These efforts don’t give a clear next step, don’t use the power of creative to tell an interesting story, or fail to communicate a relevant and memorable message. Read more

Ad Nets Must Use Data More Effectively, Keep Goals In Sight

MediaPost, 11/2/10

While it may seem obvious, marketers had better understand the metrics that ad networks are using to measure campaign success — both short-term and long-term — according to Anne Hunter, Vice President of Advertising Effectiveness Products at comScore.

“If the network thinks that clicks are the goal (but they’re not), it’s going to miss the ultimate objective,” Hunter explained during an afternoon keynote at the OMMA Ad Nets conference on Tuesday.

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