We’ve spent the last 10+ years working to perfect our Demand Gen… But how do you optimize for the right mix of leads and conversions? Introducing the Demand Gen cheat sheet Here’s EVERYTHING you need to know 👇 Let’s do a deep dive, starting with… ▶️ DEFINITIONS 💡 Demand Generation → Creating interest to drive potential customers into your sales funnel 💡Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) → A lead likely to convert, identified by marketing 💡Sales Qualified Lead (SQL) → A sales-validated lead ready for direct sales efforts 💡Qualified Held Meetings (QHM) → The amount of meetings held where the prospect was deemed qualified 💡Lifetime Value (LTV) → Total revenue a customer generates over their relationship with a business ▶️ ROLES 👤Demand Generation Manager 👤VP of Marketing 👤Marketing Automation Specialist 👤Sales Development Representative (SDR) ▶️ MUST-HAVES ✅ Content Repurposing ✅ A/B Testing ✅ Automated Lead Scoring ✅ Retargeting Ads ✅ Social Proof ✅ Influencer Outreach ▶️ MISCONCEPTIONS ❌ Leads = Sales → Leads are important but only if they eventually fill your bottom line! ❌ Email Marketing is Dead → Spraying and praying won’t get you responses. Signal-based targeting will. ❌ Pricing should be a secret → Transparent pricing improves conversions. ▶️ TOOLS & PLATFORMS 🌶️ Chili Piper (represent!) ✉️ HubSpot 🤝 Salesforce 💡 G2 ⚡ Zapier 💎 UserGems 💎 ☁️ Gong ⏹️ Clearbit 🌙 Clay ▶️ CHANNELS • Inbound → Attracting leads through content and organic marketing • Outbound → Proactively reaching out to prospects • Partnerships → Collaborating with other brands for mutual benefits • Product-Led-Growth (PLG) → Driving growth through product usage and experience === That’s our take on Demand Gen… But there’s so much more to say about the topic. What would you add? Join the discussion in the comments below 👇
Well the SDR pic doesn’t look right 😅 And .. where are AMs ? 🤓
I'm guilty of sometimes focusing too much on quantity over quality - it can be tough when growing an audience to remember that just because someone follows you, doesn't mean they'll become a customer!
Email marketing may be the best growth lever you can use to scale conversations as long as you...1) know your customers better than they know themselves 2) can build/deploy the right tool stack to get their attention
I'd add the VP of Sales to the Roles! Sales + Marketing alignment on strategy + execution is gold on most GTM things especially demand gen!
Great job producing this cheat sheet. So much valuable information !
Really killer visual...
I’m going to print this out and place it in front of my desk. This is awesome!!!
Why leave off nearbound?
Wow this is PACKED with nuggets.. as usual. Thank you for sharing 🔥
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1wI like a lot of this but the channels make no sense. You're conflating so many categories here: - "Inbound" and "outbound" are catch-all terms describing who initiated contact, but they are not channels. You can do inbound via SEO or social media or partnerships. You can do outbound via email, paid ads, cold calls, etc. etc. - Some of these are approaches / overall plays rather than channels. "Product-Led-Growth" is not a channel, it's a strategy. Product documentation can be a channel, product support forum is a channel, etc. Same with "account based marketing" - it's a set of tactics that is applied across channels. - The channel mix is... strange and all over the place. Pay-per-click can be on LinkedIn or on paid Google search or on YouTube, etc. Organic is NOT the same as SEO. Social media can be a bunch of platforms. Events and keynote talks are a channel, referrals are a channel, but most of these aren't. Kind of disappointing to see that in a graphic that's otherwise really great.