The Point

MAY 28, 2009

Either by the time you read this (or, if not, soon thereafter) this blog will have undergone a design facelift, its first since we launched it two years in April 2007. The new design is in sync with a similar upgrade (coming soon) of the CDI Website, as well as the monthly bulletin that [.].

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

by Dayna Rothman Marketing automation is not a new concept, according to the Google Ngram Viewer, the term was first used in 1980, and then started to gain traction in the late 1990s, peaking around 2004. The term then started to decline in usage, reaching a low point in 2007 before slowly rising again. What is the history?

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The Point

MARCH 12, 2012

I’ve made the case previously in this space how one of the easiest way to gain a quick return from any investment in marketing automation is to apply the technology towards more efficient and systematic follow-up to inbound leads. Plainly put, simply calling or contacting every lead isn’t enough. Big mistake.

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Rev

MARCH 13, 2016

This week we explored how LeadCrunch does for lead gen what “moneyball” does for winning World Series. . developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms that helped the Chicago Cubs go from the third worst team in Major League Baseball in 2006 (0.407) to winning the National League Central Division in 2007.

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markempa

APRIL 18, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. But while this cycle is simple, the actual boundaries of business marketing are not so clearly marked. Leads can enter from channels other than email. Registration is no longer required.)

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public?

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markempa

AUGUST 24, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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Onalytica B2B

DECEMBER 13, 2017

My entrepreneurial career began in 1999 when I emigrated from Scotland to California, where I set up my own online marketing consultancy. I specialized in e-commerce, information products, email marketing and business development coaching. WHAT AREAS OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING ARE YOU MOST PASSIONATE ABOUT?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 2, 2014

Author: Tony Yang It was 2007 and I had just finished business school and joined my first startup — a small bootstrapped SaaS company that offered a large file transfer solution. At that time, I was the only marketer and employee #5 in the company, and we were starting to get some real traction in customer acquisition.

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ViewPoint

MAY 15, 2012

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Marketing managers regularly ask me how to predict the number of leads (really raw inquiries) needed to achieve quota (I wish more sales managers would also ask).

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SmartBug Media

MAY 11, 2020

Migrating from another marketing automation tool into Marketo is no different. Here’s a short list of folks who should know their roles in advance: Project manager: Lead the implementation plan; communicate honestly. CRM administrator: Plan the order of your sync; lead any special integration needs.

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Valasys

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

MonoByte, a marketing and advertising firm headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan (MI), recently developed and launched a custom integration application to sync the CRM data for the NetSuite and HubSpot customers. Optimized ROI: The lead sync feature will allow proper orchestration and follow-up of the HubSpot lead.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 1, 2022

Fill the funnel with a lot of sales leads, then move on to ultimately reach a narrow, well-defined goal. It’s like catnip for sales and marketing teams. Instead of marketing handing off the baton of warm leads to sales, today’s relationship functions more like a symphony than a relay race. Social media.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

Jesubi was the result, and more than doubled LeadJen’s touches per hour when it was introduced in 2007. Yes, it does list segmentation, emails and multi-step campaigns, but these are not the outbound email blasts or unattended lead nurturing campaigns of a conventional demand generation system. Just thought I’d point that out.

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Biznology

JANUARY 6, 2016

Jim Obermayer, founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. I’ve known Jim for years as a consultant and author specializing in lead management—a generally under-appreciated subject that Jim uniquely understood to be a critical success factor in business selling. Ichiro Niwayama is founder and CEO of Symphony Marketing Co.,

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. Look, I know online marketing is important. And, while we’re on the subject, they need REALLY TIGHT integration between marketing and sales automation, if not one shared system.

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markempa

DECEMBER 21, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! " Related post: U.S.

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markempa

JULY 7, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 18, 2007

I recently caught up with Unica Vice President Andrew Hally as part of my review of developments at the major marketing automation vendors. On the product front, they continue their long-time strategy of offering all the software a marketing department would need. So perhaps the replacement market will be bigger than it seems.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

nbr responses deployment date 1 10/09 1 8/09 3 4/09 3 3/09 1 2/09 3 1/09 12 2008 2 2007 2 2006 1 2005 1 1990 6 No Response 36 One final bit of more data, this more substantive: I asked how well their experience with deployment and their systems as a whole had met their expectations. . the system itself 0.67

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Nobody knew they needed an iPhone in 2007 when Steve Jobs stood onstage and introduced the revolutionary device to a bewildered audience. Great marketers can differentiate in a crowded marketplace to create a competitive advantage and niche for their brand. To generate leads/potential customers at the top of the funnel (87%).

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LeanData

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

With that in mind, three notable B2B figures came together recently to unburden themselves on a webinar they titled: “Confessions of Former Lead Marketers about the Move to Account-Based Marketing.” Today, though, Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) metric means little to him.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 12, 2009

In MS Outlook 2003 and 2007 you can color code your calendar items so that you can visually identify types of meetings scheduled throughout your week or month. If using MS Outlook 2007, you are lucky! In Outlook 2007 they got smarter and merged the labels from the Calendar with the categories from the Tasks.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Here are a collection of the best online articles and blog posts to help you think about the big picture and answer the big questions about brand-building and marketing strategy. This, in turn, will build customer loyalty over time because your customers will know that you are focused on meeting and exceeding their expectations."

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

We had real problems with lead quality.” “We The common thread amongst these complaints is lack of 1) sales satisfaction and 2) lead quality. So what is it about some content syndication programs that create leads that sales reps don’t want? We couldn’t reach half the contacts.”

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Getting Stuff Done with MS Outlook Note: the tips I give below work in MS Outlook 2003 as well as 2007 version. An Effective Marketer gets things done. Easy, simple, and efficient!

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

Of these, I found WickedReports the most interesting: they use customer tracking to do multi-channel lead attribution and customer value analysis. ThinkingChat promised "artificial intelligence lead capture agents" engage site visitors and capture contact information. I’m pretty sure they’re right. Two other vendors also caught my eye.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

For example, its approach to revenue reporting is no better than average: the system imports revenue from the sales automation opportunity records, and then assigns it to the first campaign of the associated lead. Pardot was spun off about two years ago and launched its product at the end of 2007.

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LeanData

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

With that in mind, three notable B2B figures came together recently to unburden themselves on a webinar they titled: “Confessions of Former Lead Marketers about the Move to Account-Based Marketing.” Today, though, Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) metric means little to him.

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LeanData

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

With that in mind, three notable B2B figures came together recently to unburden themselves on a webinar they titled: “Confessions of Former Lead Marketers about the Move to Account-Based Marketing.” Today, though, Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) metric means little to him.

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Terminus

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

When it comes to shifting from lead generation – in which marketers produce as many leads as possible before qualifying them later in the process – to account-based marketing, where an organization strategically considers and communicates with prospects, there’s a simple quote to sum it up. Irrelevance is wasteful.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Tags: demand generation software marketing automation lead management software selection vendor evaluation crm software. Just kidding.or

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Look for bloggers in your industry to help, or review the masthead for the leading trade magazine in your industry who are freelancers. For marketing automation , look at Marketo , Eloqua Oracle or Act-On Software. For example, we did this in the content marketing niche in 2007. Don’t fall into that trap.

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Hubspot

MAY 9, 2016

Whether you're new to marketing or decades into your career, conversion rate optimization is an ever-changing topic and necessary asset in your marketing playbook. How about growing your business by improving lead flow? Larry Kim founded WordStream in 2007. Moderated by: Meghan Keaney Anderson , VP of Marketing, HubSpot.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 29, 2009

We learned the importance of integrating sales and marketing technology in terms of the marketing automation platform, core SFA and sales productivity applications like knowledge management, automated methodology or prospect development among many other valuable takeaways. How does marketing play in Sales 2.0?

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ClickDimensions

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A Director at Cebex3 Solutions, Victor Soler Bigas is experienced in customer engagement, relationship management and route-to-market strategies. He enjoys combining business expertise with technological tools like CRM and marketing automation — specifically ClickDimensions – to gain a competitive edge in today’s business environment.

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