Carlos, CEO and founder of Annuitas, is an innovative thought-leader with over 20 years experience as a B2B marketing practitioner and industry visionary.

He’s widely recognized for his expertise in strategic integrated marketing, Demand Process, Demand Transformation and marketing automation.

Carlos is one of the 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management for the last five years and a Who’s Who in BtoB Marketing in 2011 and 2012.

He tells us how to drive demand and market revenue, on this episode of Revenue Chat.

=Highlights=

• 04:12 It started with opportunities in working with some smart marketers.
• 04:53 What are the challenges marketers will likely face in the near future?
• 05:19 More people added to the buying committee; buying process taking longer.
• 06:03 How to engage in a conversation without trying to go for the kill every time?
• 06:57 Reference to Scott Brinker’s super graphic as it grows and grows.
• 07:22 There’s no better time to be a BtoB marketer.
• 07:54 What are the types of content we should be creating, and when we should use them to reach our audiences?
• 08:14 We have a lot of content producers, but not content marketers.
• 10:17 How do we get into the buyer’s head to find out what content we should be delivering?
• 10:56 Questions to ask our customers about their buying.
• 11:24 Accessing available industry reports about your buyers so that you can write good content.
• 12:43 How do we build a marketing process that sets us up for success?
• 14:20 What does it mean to “drive demand” within an organization?
• 15:20 Organizations need to change how they traditionally performed sales and marketing.
• 16:49 Can you define and tell us more about Demand Generation Strategy and Execution?
• 17:35 Buyers don’t start and stop. A segment is always in a buying process.
• 17:52 We need to develop a perpetual program. First and foremost.
• 18:15 It’s a marketing and sales discipline.
• 19:07 The execution is really building it out, creating the content.
• 19:29 What are the channels and the tactics to push the content out to buyers?
• 20:12 How does predictive analytics fit in?
• 20:35 You should be starting your program with a standard set of KPIs.
• 22:17 Hey everyone! We’re in a new era and this is how it should be: Transforming Demand Generation.
• 23:22 Our buyer has transformed. We have to transform.
• 24:33 How Carlos Hidalgo sees the future.
• 24:43 Sales has to come to terms they are no longer the sole revenue engine of the company.
• 26:21 Sees a vision where marketing and sales groups come together and align around the buyer.
• 28:15 Technology by itself does nothing. You need the human element to put it all together.
• 28:55 Parting shot: Do everything you can to get into the shoes of your buyer.

Carlos Hidalgo provides a very informative and very educational interview on understanding our buyer and on the cohesion between sales and marketing.