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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% Statistics include: • 16.5%

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Have We Really Improved Marketing Productivity?

B2B Marketing Directions

One indicator of B2B marketing and sales productivity is the efficiency of the demand generation process. The 2008 conversion rates largely reflect marketing productivity before many of the marketing innovations mentioned above had become widely adopted.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time. I worry that this tool only ends up helping sales pick out cold calls to make, and is not used by marketers enough to segment, collect, and improve their prospecting databases. I’m sure I forgot a few.

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High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

And that reality of the flooded inbox is very evident from steadily dropping response rates of only 1% to 3% range for traditional email marketing. WHEN : When on the sales cycle do you expect to engage with your prospects? According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 email campaigns per week, up from 15.4

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Best of 2008: Random but Interesting, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

Response rates for email are down as inboxes fill up and your message has a harder and harder time standing out; meanwhile, the volume of physical mail has declined to the point where a well-crafted direct mail piece has a better chance of being noticed now than it has in 20 years.

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The Future of B2B is Changing. Are You Ready?

Engagio

In this era, Marketing began to own the top of the funnel, using marketing automation tools to send emails, capture and nurture leads, and pass them to Sales who, in turn, owned the deal close and post-sale growth. Marketing is playing a bigger role at the bottom of the funnel. Increased focus on post-sale revenue.

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I Predicted Marketing Automation and it Changed Everything – Here’s My Next Big Prediction

Engagio

In this era, Marketing began to own the top of the funnel, using marketing automation tools to send emails, capture and nurture leads, and pass them to Sales who, in turn, owned the deal close and post-sale growth. Marketing is playing a bigger role at the bottom of the funnel. Increased focus on post-sale revenue.