Demand Generation

DEMAND GENERATION

Demand Generation is focused on creating and raising your customers’ awareness and desire for your product or service.

It accomplishes this brand awareness and desire through various marketing approaches such as nurture campaigns. When demand generation is successful, it trickles into every part of marketing and sales by creating a long-term relationship between a brand with a potential buyer. It also gauges and develops a prospect's interest in the brand's products and services.

Demand generation can also be thought of as an umbrella term that includes and covers most top of the funnel tactics, with a scattering of mid and bottom-funnel tactics for good measure. Establishes thought leadership on topics related to your product or services. It offers reasons for why people would want to come to your business and continue using your product or services. And it builds relationships with your customers.

A true demand generation strategy accounts for every touchpoint in the buyer’s journey — all the way from anonymous visitor to delighted customer and throughout the customer’s lifetime. It leverages data to align your marketing and sales teams, track marketing's contribution to revenue and, most importantly, drive growth for your organization.

In order to generate demand, people must know who you are. The first step is to develop brand awareness, the extent to which contacts and customers recollect and recognize your brand.

DEMAND GENERATION ARTICLES

Follow Your Buyer: An Introduction For Innovative Marketers
Your marketing and sales activities should help your customers accomplish their outcomes, but often marketers think it’s easier to sell their products and services than it is to truly understand what customers need and want. That’s why we developed Follow Your Buyer. Simply stated, it’s a methodology to help your customer, not sell your customer. Learning to follow your buyer requires a change in mindset where you’ll get to know your buyers from the inside out and embrace a collaborative role in solving their challenges.

Creating Brand Awareness With B2B Content Marketing

An effective content marketing strategy can do more than generate demand; it can create brand awareness without breaking the bank like traditional marketing tactics.
Redistributing Budget Away From Tradeshow Events

If you use tradeshows primarily for demand generation and secondarily for brand reputation and awareness and are reeling from show cancellations and postponements, then this post from Ashley Shailer with Inverta is for you.