Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. One distinct disadvantage is that most small business marketing automation systems offer their own low-cost alternative to Salesforce.com, while HubSpot does not.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The company made the announcement at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Although the improved UI is the big change, the new version also adds integration with SalesForce.com for AdWords campaigns and improved lead generation capabilities. Share this on del.icio.us. Post this on Diigo. Share this on Reddit.

Manticore 100

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Although Hubspot positions itself as an “inbound marketing system,” it actually does more than the search engine optimization, blogging, social media interactions and related analytics needed to generate Web traffic. For example, the blogging system automatically connects the blog to social media sites that help to redistribute content.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. Salespeole working with Salesforce.com can see a list of their leads with priority ratings. Neolane may be the most similar, since it also straddles the business and consumer marketing worlds. Good stuff.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

The panel of experts included: Brian Vass, Sant Corporation; Robin Daniels, salesforce.com; Rasmus Mencke, salesforce.com; Wouter Hoeberechts, WorldMedAssist LLC; Paul Uppal, ActiveConversion. His suggestions embraced these ideas: Have a blog and social media presence. Go Viral - Encourage sharing in your email.

Email Marketing 48

Email Marketing ActiveConversion Salesforce.com Work Management 48

Digital B2B Marketing

JULY 6, 2011

In late 2009, Bob Evans, then with Information Week, wrote an open letter to Larry Ellison , taking Oracle to task for not allowing companies the freedom to control their own expense structures. Last year, HP was rumored to be moving from Oracle CRM to Salesforce.com. We see this change playing out today. Filed under: Business.

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Lock-In Salesforce.com Amazon Opinions 100

markempa

JULY 7, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. Neither Salesforce.com nor Sugar CRM are. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation Leads 120

markempa

MARCH 18, 2005

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. « Paper Direct Mail is Not Dead | Main | Sales Leads Via RSS via Salesforce.com » Give Lead Generation Some Respect Dean Rieck argues that lead generation is the Rodney Dangerfield of marketing - some give it no respect.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Generation Leads Lead 120

Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances. I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies.

Social Media 116

Social Media Enterprise Management Media Webinar Metrics 116

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Judging from the press releases on their Web site, this may be due to a new release last October that added Salesforce.com integration. As the entries in the first column indicate, I've reviewed nearly all these vendors in either this blog or the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. The links all point to blog entries.)

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Craig is the author of the blog The Funnelholic and is an expert on b2b lead generation so I decided it would be great to do an impromptu rapid-fire interview with him on his thoughts regarding b2b lead gen and publish it here: Mike: How should marketers adjust to the downturn? When everyone else cuts back, play offense!

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Generation Salesforce.com Leads 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Craig is the author of the blog The Funnelholic and is an expert on b2b lead generation so I decided it would be great to do an impromptu rapid-fire interview with him on his thoughts regarding b2b lead gen and publish it here: Mike: How should marketers adjust to the downturn? When everyone else cuts back, play offense!

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Generation Salesforce.com Leads 100

markempa

MARCH 27, 2005

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. « Sales Leads Via RSS via Salesforce.com | Main | My Mention In Writers Digest » Podcast: How Trigger Events improve Lead Generation Have you ever wondered why some sales happen twice as fast others?

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Marketing Budget Generation B2B Thought Leadership 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a. We can also be confident that the feature trends I described in my review of 2009 will continue: better support for social media, greater access for sales departments, and more flexible reporting. business-to-business marketing automation. What will 2010 bring?

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2010

I hear "woe is me" time and time again, but if it's any indicator that things are changing, our business tripled in 2009. The client opened up the market with an aggressive appointment setting campaign and and an inbound lead gen effort of whitepapers, blogs and webinars. after two years of recession, the economy is growing again."

Demand 100

Demand Jigsaw Budget Programs Lead Gen 100

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2009

Clarity - B2B Marketing Savvy , July 28, 2009. Lessons on Using LinkedIn for Lead Generation - B2B Lead Generation Blog , July 29, 2009. Buzz Marketing for Technology , July 23, 2009. Genius is Bringing GURLs to the Social Party - Marketing Interactions , July 28, 2009. ScoopD - B2B Marketing Savvy , July 23, 2009.

Social Media 40

Social Media B2B Sales Twitter Market2Lead 40

Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

Squarespace is a generally well-regarded tool with reasonable design functionality for building natively search-optimized websites and blogs. Though the product had issues in its original incarnation, Adobe has fixed many of these issues since acquiring it in late 2009 and continues to invest in product development.

CMS Development 100

CMS Development Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation Services 100

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. Pardot : another pretty powerful product; see my blog review from December 2008. I did publish a real review in July 2009.] Just kidding.or They focus on email nurturing campaigns and marketing measurement.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 24, 2009

How are the best in class companies still reaching their 2009 targets? Heather Foeh over at the Marketing Insights blog has delved further into some tactics that marketers can employ which I would recommend having a look at. This can be in the form of a newsletter, webcast, blog or podcast. Come Together.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 12, 2009

There are many new features for marketer to check out in the Summer 09 release of Salesforce.com. After July 2009, you can create Custom Fields on Campaign Member Records.   Once you are ready to create these rules, go to Setup | Create | Workflow & Approvals | Workflow Rules in Salesforce.com to get started.

Features 48

Features Salesforce.com Top of Funnel Landing Pages 48

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Applications such as Salesforce.com already let sales staff keep track of existing customers or potential customers, but Demandbase Stream falls into a newer category of tools designed to help them find new customers in the first place. Last week, his company released a tool, called Demandbase Stream, that aims to answer this question.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 40

Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Around this time last year I wrote about some Predictions for 2009 and while I would say 8 out of 10 have already materialized and the other 2 are on their way, it has become clear that this year was the year we past the point of no return on Social Media. Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon. Send this page to Print Friendly.

BtoB 100

BtoB Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Mobile Advertising 100

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Top Posts 26 Must-Have Negative Keywords for B2B PPC Campaigns 7 Mistakes To Avoid In Your Next Webinar Invitation Salesforce.com Webinar Invitation Gets It Right The First (Almost) Clickable Direct Mail Eloqua’s “Juan Eloqua” Campaign: Email Creative at Its Best Subscribe Email Click Here to receive a monthly summary of new posts via email.

Demand Generation Agencies 40

Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency RSS Paper 40

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate. When you are ready to start researching something before making a purchase, you read a blog, you search Google, you ask friends for recommendations, you post questions in forums, etc.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 7, 2009

One piece of news is the demise of LucidEra , which this blog profiled almost exactly one year ago. There has been some learned discussion of the causes of LucidEra’s collapse on Timo Elliot’s BI Questions Blog. When I spoke with them again in October 2008, the number was 50 and it was still at 50 when we spoke in April 2009.

Marketing Management 120

Marketing Management Salesforce.com Ideal Customer Profiles Budget Programs 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The company’s new marketing automation platform enables users to create complete websites as well as microsites and landing pages, automatically send emails triggered by specific actions, configure lead scoring, and integrate with Salesforce.com. Note: this post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in September 2009.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Microsite Salesforce.com 100

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Written by Adam Blitzer June 16, 2009 at 5:38 pm Posted in Design , Marketing Strategy SpamAssassin Rules and what they Mean for your Emails leave a comment » For the past several years I have been following SpamAssassin’s rule set and I am always amazed by how many seemingly innocuous things (e.g. Clarity gets the point across.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services B2B Marketing 40

The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

A Forrester Report (B2B Lead Management Automation Market Overview, Sept 2009) says: “…we estimate that currently between 2% and 5% of B2B firms have invested in full-featured LMA functionality …&# Eloqua (via CMO Brian Kardon) feel 5-7% market penetration is closer. Blog at WordPress.com. One data point concerns me.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 100

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Plenty of good blog fodder for analysts for the foreseeable future -- this whole area can use all the help it can get in trying to figure it out! Salesforce.com actually works well when there are marketing automation tools and processes feeding it with filtered and sales ready leads vs the other way around. The good news?

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 - B2B Lead Generation Blog , April 29, 2010 The single biggest issue for B2B marketers is effective lead generation. Content means web copy, blog posts, videos, interactive presentations, social elements, diagrams or other pieces of information used to engaged users / visitors.

Forecasting 40

Forecasting Social Media B2B Marketing Social Marketing 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 9, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Aaron Ross, formerly with salesforce.com and founder of PebbleStorm:CEOFlow. I've long been a fan of his blog Build a Sales Machine and I learn something new every time we interact. Where better to learn that than doing sales at salesforce.com?

Thought Leadership 48

Thought Leadership Lead Management Sales Leads Work Management 48

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Online blog needs various marketing methods to get converted into big business. Facebook Insights. Google Analytics.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Work Management Marketing Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Home How it works Solutions Customers Company Free Trial Blog Get updates via email: What is ReadyContacts? I ll buy again:) mikel Says: January 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 pm i think you discuss some important subject. ReadyContacts is a provider of role-based contact lists for targeted demand generation campaigns.

Sales Qualified Leads 40

Sales Qualified Leads ReadyContacts High Quality Lead netFactor 40