Mereo

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Based on conversations with executives and from market pulse conversations with our client’s buyers, in 2023 there was a lot of “paralysis” as B2B leaders looked for clarity. This pattern is similar to what we saw in the 2008 / 2009 recession. When they did not have that clarity, they froze.

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Engagio

JANUARY 27, 2021

(And before that he created and co-founded the popular marketing automation software Marketo. In just five short months, he’s led the integration of the B2B, DSP, intent data, and machine learning technology of Demandbase with the marketing automation-based platform of Engagio. And the market started to recognize: You need this.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Now we come to Infusionsoft , which offers marketing automation, CRM and ecommerce for as little as $199 per month. The company’s marketing is tightly targeted at very small businesses (under 25 employees) but its marketing features are competitive with demand generation products aimed at much larger firms.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. That would greatly limit the marketing automation vendors' business. Hubspot has accepted this challenge.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It could supplement a traditional marketing automation system or perhaps replace one. When I reviewed Right On Interactive in a July 2009 post , the company was selling its 5Buckets marketing software as a multi-channel output generation tool that complemented conventional marketing automation systems.

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Directive Agency

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The Oldest Demand Generation Agencies Demand generation is not merely a buzzword. It focuses on hyper-targeting more qualified leads: engaging the right audience, with the right content, at the right time. The Evolution of Demand Generation Agencies Demand generation has evolved significantly over the years.

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MLT Creative

MAY 19, 2010

Once you've grasped the whole marketing automation concept, you're going to need a vendor to help you follow through. Over my next two blogs, I'll highlight different marketing automation vendors, and what they do that sets them apart. Stay tuned next week for information on more marketing automation vendors.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 28, 2012

And while we continue to discuss website effectiveness in terms of conversions – providing content that prospects find interesting enough to be willing to give up some of their own information in order to receive it – now that’s no longer enough.

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SugarCRM

MARCH 15, 2013

. – March 1, 2013 – SalesFUSION™ is the maker of SalesFUSION 360, an integrated sales and marketing demand generation platform. Promotion to focus on how to extract valuable prospect insights from within CRM, using integrated marketing automation. There is gold in CRM and you need that treasure map to find it.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

His 4C’s are: Content – the creation of a steady stream of engaging content Connection – connecting with the audience you wish to attract Communication – communicating with them in an ongoing conversation Conversion – and then converting them at the illusive moment of need What is content marketing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales? Marketing gurus tend to talk about opt-in pages, sign up forms, calls to action and interactive squeeze pages to boost your click through and conversion rates.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. 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.)

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

You can’t surround the conversation with value and branding. Dale Underwood of B2B Conversions Now has a step-by-step procedure for this on his blog. They’ll ask friends at other companies, post queries to industry email discussion groups and boards, ping analysts or surf the Web researching. Do you publish prices on your website?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In contrast, if those same reps are coached or scripted to inquire after the underlying issue, challenge, or topic that the white paper addresses, then you’ll be setting the stage for some very fruitful conversations. Unfortunately, this means that some leads could be as much as a week old by the time your sales reps even see them.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 10, 2015

Let’s explore… As a sales rep, I have to admit that Twitter rubbed me the wrong way once it started to go mainstream circa 2009. People buy from people and Twitter allows you to initiate a conversation with anyone around the world. Right from your phone, tablet, or computer (notice which one I listed last).

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

While conversion may be the ultimate goal, building trust, increasing awareness, improving the company’s reputation, expertise and credibility and encouraging social sharing are all worthy content marketing goals too. The big hurdle they face is in engaging and converting readers into prospects, leads and ultimately customers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

The most simplistic approach to evaluating customer engagement is to measure conversion rates. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Value Creation: From here, the company can create targeted messages and value messaging for each “mapped solution” – as it aligns with a specific business requirement within a market segment. As the conversation gets more serious, ad-hoc sales materials created by the sales team take over and do most of the heavy lifting.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

How do you engage engineers and technical buyers on your website and build deeper relationships and achieve higher conversion rates? To complicate matters even more, it is a moving target since search engines are constantly changing their algorithms and most of it is not public knowledge. And yes, it does cost money.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Marketing automation experience will be key. jocebrown :Frightening number of B2B marketers self taugh with no budget for training according to Sirius.huge performance gap #EE09 lauraramos : #EE09: The Demand Center is a center of excellence for program creation but with advisory, technical, and execution around buyer's journey.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 29, 2009

We identified the critical integration points between sales and marketing in demand generation, knowledge management, sales readiness and metrics. As a sales professional in 2009 you must be able to tell them something they don’t know or can’t find on their own to gain their attention and respect.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 11, 2009

We identified the critical integration points between sales and marketing in demand generation, knowledge management, sales readiness and metrics. As a sales professional in 2009, you must be able to tell them something they don’t know -- or can’t find on their own -- to gain their attention and respect.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. In order to generate leads marketers have to know how to use the analytics. Many marketers focus on conversion rates of specific phrases or banners and are ignoring other valuable information. MarketingSherpa.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2009

Summary: Entiera is a sophisticated consumer marketing automation system, offered as a service and at a lower price than conventional competitors. Entiera Insight is a marketing automation system primarily for companies that sell to consumers. Marketing Automation in the Resources section of the Raab Guide site for more on this topic.)

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

The tool suite results in over 1,000 leads per month, with estimated 4 to 5% conversion rate of leads to sales. AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=44424232&rKey=435a40c76fd43920 For more information on Value Selling Tools: Demand-Generation (Marketing) Sales Enablement Posted by Tom Pisello at 12:19 PM Email This BlogThis!

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Hubspot

APRIL 8, 2013

That led Weidert to a conversation that uncovered a client’s goals, what they have or don’t have in place to accomplish those goals, the challenges they’re facing, and what their timeline is. After spending 2008 learning how to do inbound marketing, in 2009, McTigue began using blogging and social media to get Kuno found online.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Marketers are scrambling to address the power shift and overcome lead generation and conversion issues by delivering more content and tools over more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers. So why are the sales enablement investments not paying off?

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In 85+ Predictions on Content Marketing in 2019 , you’ll see thoughts from experts on the role new technologies like AI and voice response will play in our content strategies; how our usage of techniques like email, video, and social media might shift; which storytelling formats and platforms will drive our audience’s conversations; and lots more.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

APRIL 5, 2010

B2B Online Marketers Focus on Lead Gen - eMarketer , March 4, 2010 Lead generation for B2B Marketing. B2B Marketing Online , March 11, 2010 How social media applies to our target audience of business professionals, and help us achieve our B2B revenue goals. Best Social Media Stats and Market Research of 2009 , March 31, 2010.

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SnapApp

APRIL 25, 2018

For an entire week in March, we dedicated 100% of our content to helping businesses learn about how they can optimize the buyer's journey with conversational marketing best practices. Websites and emails have to work harder and be more strategic about who they're targeting. . Nandini Jammi. Margaret Kelsey. Rachel Ferrigno.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

And it’s not clear to me if lead management automation deserves to be a separate category or to be subsumed as part of the broader marketing platform. (I My point: B2B marketers are looking elsewhere for help generating demand. I know Suresh Vittal includes lead management as a component of his enterprise marketing platform.

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SnapApp

APRIL 25, 2018

For an entire week in March, we dedicated 100% of our content to helping businesses learn about how they can optimize the buyer’s journey with conversational marketing best practices. Websites and emails have to work harder and be more strategic about who they’re targeting. Nandini Jammi. Margaret Kelsey. Rachel Ferrigno.

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B2B Marketing Work Management Enterprise Management Marketing Management 91

The ROI Guy

APRIL 21, 2010

In 2009, Alinean and IDC updated annual research conducted since 2003 on the ROI from implementing business value tools. In this research, we examine the monthly activity and usage reports of at least 15 Alinean customers to determine the tangible value these programs were delivering.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

was having a conversation with clients the other day about this and it seemed to underline a much wider point - what is possibly the biggest obstacle between B2B marketers and success in social media marketing. 1. Develop a plan – Ask yourself these three questions: WHO – Who is your target audience? Name your blog. Daily Clicks.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 9, 2009

In The Fatal Mistake Boards and VP Sales Will Make In 2009 Planning , I discuss how lead generation causes new customer acquisition and salespeople fullfill it. They're relatively meaningless until you include "lead-to-opportunity" conversion rates so that you can measure the rate of qualified leads generated.

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