Demand Gen Made Simple

How should you measure demand gen using HubSpot? What are the go-to reports you should be using? How to set up HubSpot to support a demand gen model? Kasey Bayne joined Janelle Amos to discuss the best way to report demand gen leveraging the marketing automation tool, HubSpot. 

Andrew discusses how he transformed Webex Events by Cisco's paid social advertising strategy from lead gen to demand gen. He talks buy-in, budget testing, creative testing, as well as results, and ways you can do it too. 

Katy provides fractional CMO and CRO services to growth-focused organizations so she is well-versed in building a marketing plan from scratch. She provided a step-by-step framework that marketing leaders can follow to build a functional, well-oiled marketing engine, as well as shared ways to forecast marketing. 

Knowing 'what' demand generation is and actually 'doing' demand generation are two different things. Companies can hire a demand gen team to execute campaigns and still not see any real traction. Why is that? It comes down to the company's core foundation on orchestrating demand gen. It's the lack of enabling demand gen from more than just within marketing. In this episode I talk more about those gaps and identify ways you can better enable your demand gen teams to thrive. 

In this power episode, Marissa Homère outlines what smart marketing leaders should be doing right now during these hard months as we battle a recession. She talks about establishing executive credibility, building a sustainable marketing engine, accounting for budget cuts, and identifying how to know if a company "gets" marketing or not. 

As a demand gen marketer, you likely know how hard it is to report and advocate for demand gen initiatives and budget. In this episode, Ellen Schwartze, Sr. Director of Digital Demand Generation at Knotch, joins Janelle on why reporting demand gen is so hard, the best way to showcase demand gen results to executives, and, how to articulate the impact of your demand gen work. 

In this episode, I break down the difference between a good chatbot experience and a poor one. In today's B2B demand gen world, chatbots are often used a best practice "check the box" tactic, when they should be thought of an additional tactic to engage with the audience. Chatbots were built to be so much more, but companies don't give them the time of day. Why is that? I break all this down, and more. 

In this episode, Janelle Amos, founder of Elevate Growth, discusses her journey to entrepreneurship and why she feels it is important to have a moral code and strong work ethic when starting your own business.

Janelle talks about how she started her business with the help of people who believed in her. She recalls how she struggled with self-doubt and how important it was for her to seek guidance from those who had already been successful. Together with Raul, they discuss how important it is to keep a record of your successes, in order to remind yourself that you are capable of achieving great things.

Episode Resources

In this episode, Janelle talks with Linda Melone on what demand gen is, how it helps B2B companies, and the relationship demand gen has with copywriting. 

In today's episode, Sam Jacobs, CEO of Pavilion joins us to talk about the correct go-to-market order for startups and how investing in marketing first doesn't mean no sales, which is a common misconception for many startup founders. 

Sam also has a new book out, "Kind Folks Finish First" that is available now. Grab your copy now.