Webbiquity

MARCH 24, 2015

As reported here previously, content marketing is nearly ubiquitous, with 93% of b2b marketers using content while 88% of business buyers say online content plays a major to moderate role in vendor selection. B2B companies that blog generate 67% more leads than those without blogs. Forbes ). • NewsCred ). • Rocket Post ). •

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chiefmartech

JULY 30, 2022

But it’s only the churn rate of existing martech vendors that I have a dark prediction about. Second, the Dot-Com Bubble Burst in 2000 and The Great Recession in 2008 barely register as tiny dents in the upward slope of this mountain. My best guess? Up to 20% of the current martech landscape could churn before 2024. of total GDP.

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Budget Programs Software Churn Rate Startups 132

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 24, 2014

SalesPredict is a perfect example: a small vendor with a powerful system that just launched earlier this year. Back in, say, 2008, a product like this would be big news. This is somewhat different from predictive modeling vendors who have focused primarily on helping marketers with lead scoring.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Automation Salesforce.com 120

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Between 2008 and 2014, use of cloud-based CRM jumped from 12% to 87% ( source ). Lead prioritization: Sales reps spend much of their time manually qualifying leads. Social media has a 100% higher lead-to-close rate than traditional outbound marketing.

Work Management 225

Work Management B2B Marketing Management B2B Sales 225

The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 11, 2010

This question on a recent LinkedIn discussion thread for the Technology Marketing Community reminded me of when, a couple years ago, I delivered a presentation at the 2008 MarketingSherpa Email Marketing Summit. Excel Template for vendor comparison: you can download and use my template as a starting point. Slides can be seen below.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Budget 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

I only mention this because I’ve recently been looking at a lot of new (to me) vendors and haven’t been able to write about many of them. Optify was founded in 2008 and launched its original product, a search engine optimization (SEO) tool, about a year later. That''s theme number three.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

As of April 29, I've received 40 responses, of which I've discarded two as incomplete and two because they related to vendors I considered irrelevant ( Zoho and Ad Giants PitchRocket). One measure of this is the distribution of vendors reported by the respondents, which clearly doesn't reflect the installed base of the industry.

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Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand Marketing Automation Services 120

The Customer

JANUARY 28, 2021

Data breaches can not only lead to great financial loss, but a loss in reputation and customer trust. Maintain oversight of partners and vendors. Data Privacy Day began in the United States and Canada in January 2008 as an extension of the Data Protection Day celebration in Europe. For Businesses: If you collect it, protect it.

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Privacy Work Management Privacy Policies Transparency 52

Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Shareaholic, a content discovery and sharing tools vendor, yesterday announced Shareaholic Channels , a new way to find the most relevant, fresh content based on topic. Fashion & Beauty. • Social Media Marketing. Personal Finance. . Fashion & Beauty. • Social Media Marketing. Personal Finance. Who is Shareaholic? Check it out !

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Bluetext

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Pallas Advisors / Pallas Ventures / Pallas Foundation: Richard Spencer , former secretary of the Navy (2019) Snowpoint Ventures : Doug Philippone , former Army Ranger (2008) J2 Ventures : Patricia D. Army (2023). Horoho ,former Army surgeon general Insight Partners : Nick Sinai , former White House deputy chief technology officer (2014).

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Startups 36

Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2008 recession accelerated their inability to adapt to changing consumer demand -- and by 2010, they filed for bankruptcy. In fact, making that final step more self-service for the client or customer could streamline sales schedules and allow reps to respond to more or bigger leads. Take Blockbuster, for example.

Digital Transformation 59

Digital Transformation Hubspot eCommerce B2B Sales 59

Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The only good newsletter that I ever received was in 2008. to vendors (boring… congrats you made a bunch of money last quarter… I don’t care.) The post What NOT To Do When Creating Your Newsletter appeared first on Lead Liaison. I’m not kidding. I won, and the rest is history. to those trying to sell me on their brilliance.

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Newsletter Lead Liaison Marketing Automation Services Vendors 55

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This week I’m excited to feature Peter Marcia , CEO of YouDecide where he combines significant experience in HR, employee benefits and investment banking to lead the company’s growth. Review in order of priority: clients, employees, vendors, others of interest. Timmons, Harvard Business School/Babson College (1941-2008).

Work Management 64

Work Management Marketing Management Amazon Vendors 64

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Some of these channel marketing systems focus on lead distribution, some on locally-customizable promotion materials, and some on campaign management. General purpose marketing automation vendors also compete for this business with what are usually called “distributed marketing” options. several vendors offer media buying.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Advertising Agencies Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The table below throws in a reasonable guess for 2008 as well. My records suggest the company had about 25 average employees in 2008, for $5 million in expenses. The company started selling in late February 2008 and my records show it ended that year with 120 clients. at the end of 2008 and dropped to 5.7 million total.

Marketo 120

Marketo Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 9, 2009

Summary: Over the past year, columnar analytical database vendor ParAccel has methodically proven its claims about speed, scalability and easy deployment. Their main claim to fame was a record-setting performance on the TPC-H benchmark, but even the significance of that was unclear since few vendors bother with the TPC process.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Advertising Benchmark Vendors Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2009

Back in December, the Sales Lead Management Association and LEADTRACK published a survey on lead management practices that I haven’t previously had time to write about. Note that none of listed categories included behavioral information such as email clickthroughs or Web page visits, which demand generation vendors make so much of.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Lead Scoring 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). To be fair, many of the vendors below charge an installation of that can be several thousand dollars or more, while Marketo doesn't. I reviewed it here in March.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

WebMarketCentral

JULY 20, 2009

Resources for starting a new business, ideas for naming that business, mistakes to avoid, lead generation strategies to embrace, how to apply some of Warren Buffet's wisdom to online marketing efforts.find all of that and more here in this final collection of the best posts on strategy and branding from the past year. What's in A Name?

Marketing & Strategy 20

Marketing & Strategy Brand Identity Branding Best Practices 20

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

Summary: Right On Interactive's 5Buckets connects lists from external customer management systems with many types of output vendors (email, print, fax, text message, automated voice). 5Buckets was introduced in early 2008 and currently has about 30 implementations shared by about 300 organizations.

Multi-Channel 120

Multi-Channel Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Channels 120

Versium

AUGUST 14, 2018

Versium’s LifeData Predictive Lead Score service, launched in 2016, is a self-service solution that lets marketing professionals, agencies and application providers rapidly build predictive models and visualize a marketing campaign’s projected performance without requiring expertise or experience in data science.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Marketing AI Work Management Marketing Management 40

Versium

AUGUST 14, 2018

Versium’s LifeData Predictive Lead Score service, launched in 2016, is a self-service solution that lets marketing professionals, agencies and application providers rapidly build predictive models and visualize a marketing campaign’s projected performance without requiring expertise or experience in data science.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Marketing AI Work Management Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

This leads to more variety as vendors experiment with different approaches to a now-defined problem. This means new products reflect the lessons each vendor has drawn from the industry’s history to date. For example: - emails and Web forms can be personalized with lead data, but don’t incorporate rule-selected content blocks. -

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Digital Asset Management Demand Marketing Management 120

KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 2, 2014

In late 2008, Google announced the release of their crawl error report in Webmaster Tools. When considering your B2B link building tactics, don’t forget regular discussions between business groups (or client/vendor relationships), which can lead to new information discovered, spurring new link building ideas.

Link Building 120

Link Building Tactics Ad Building B2B 120

KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 2, 2014

In late 2008, Google announced the release of their crawl error report in Webmaster Tools. When considering your B2B link building tactics, don’t forget regular discussions between business groups (or client/vendor relationships), which can lead to new information discovered, spurring new link building ideas.

Link Building 120

Link Building Tactics Ad Building B2B 120

6sense

JULY 17, 2017

It was 2008 when small home-sharing start-up Airbnb came on the scene. Back in early 2012, I signed on as vice president of global customer success and services at Okta , a leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. Because they see how it can fuel lead generation and conversion. Let me show you why.

Enterprise Management 48

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Forrester 48

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

It is critical that your company be found early and often in the initial phases if you hope to make it to the short list of vendors who are asked to submit a RFQ. You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. Not every action needs to be scored.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 60

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Marketing automation vendors entering this market are essentially betting that they can make their systems powerful enough to be useful and easy enough for a small business to run. Hubspot has accepted this challenge.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 14, 2010

According to their post: “Last week in San Francisco, 211 business-to-business marketers spent two days sharing insights, case studies and advice on social media marketing, lead generation, Sales and Marketing alignment, and other hot-button issues on the West Coast swing of MarketingSherpa’s seventh annual B2B Marketing Summit.&#

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Planning Work Management B2B Marketing Marketing Management 100

Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Widen’s consistent delivery of high quality educational content builds trust and respect, and creates an affiliation deeper than simply using a tool from a software vendor,” adds Jake Athey, vice president of marketing.@WidenEnterprise’s WidenEnterprise’s high quality content builds trust and respect with prospects and customers.

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Class Digital Asset Management Education Webinar Metrics 102

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

His Convince & Convert Media division owns a leading content marketing blog, multiple podcasts, and many other educational resources for business owners and executives. My goal is to help you win at work, succeed at life, and lead with confidence.”. Featured Video: Lead Generation Strategies: Risks Involved. Entrepreneur.

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Youtube Advertising Channels Work Management Marketing Attribution 220

Rev

OCTOBER 9, 2019

While some blow off the talk as just that, we’ll never forget what surprised us in 2008. Customers expected more of their vendors because they themselves had to makeup for their own shortfalls, and with less budget to boot. People lost their jobs and I feared losing my own after hearing first-hand what was on the table in the C-Suite.

Marketing AI 100

Marketing AI B2B Marketing SIC B2B 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

As a our new video The Dawn of Marketing Automation states, “In a primitive world, marketers were forced to dig up leads, a miserable job at best. Finding the most unqualified leads at the bottom of the barrel. Trend #2: The 2008 recession permanently altered how companies approach revenue generation and measurement.

Marketing Automation Services 48

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 48

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Also see a very interesting post from Junta42, “Engage and Inspire Employees First, Customers Second.” ) Because of the longer cycles and the complexities of B2B and industrial sales, marketers find it very difficult to associate leads to specific marketing content. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

B2B Marketing 60

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer 60

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

His Convince & Convert Media division owns a leading content marketing blog, multiple podcasts, and many other educational resources for business owners and executives. My goal is to help you win at work, succeed at life, and lead with confidence.” Featured Video: Lead Generation Strategies: Risks Involved.

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Youtube Advertising Channels Work Management Marketing Management 100