Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I have invited our Panel of B2B Marketing Experts to reflect on 2009 and answer the following question: What was your aha moment in 2009 ? Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. At least three vendors (Eloqua, Marketo and Silverpop) introduced new features aimed at improving marketers’ ability to use social media. But enhanced reporting was the most common improvement of all.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality. Share this on del.icio.us. Post this on Diigo.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Using the system, we found that these are the hottest topics in B2B Marketing for 2009. Why are these the hottest topics during 2009? 2009 Big List of B2B Marketing and Sales Blogs , August 27, 2009. Twitter Analytics: Five Practical, Lesser Known Free Tools for B2B Professionals , August 31, 2009.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

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% The data is a couple of years old but still valid.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 19, 2009

Sean is exposed on a daily basis to the latest best practices in B2B marketing and is chock full of practical demand generation advice. What are your top 3 tips to help B2B companies improve their demand generation ? Lead nurturing and lead scoring seem to be coming into the mainstream.

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Engagio

JANUARY 27, 2021

And before that he created and co-founded the popular marketing automation software Marketo. In many ways, it feels like what happened with marketing automation back in 2009 where there started to be a handful of players with complete solutions. It’s kind of like having more leads.” to What solution should I buy?

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

One of the goals of marketing is to generate leads. What is the next logical step once you have managed to get high quality leads? Yes, getting those leads into the sale pipeline. Salespeople need leads—right now. How do marketers overcome this roadblock? So marketing tries to feed the pipe.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Since our first entry in August of 2006, the Marketo team has published nearly 300 posts read by hundreds of thousands of marketers seeking to step up their b2b marketing game. We dug into our web analytics to pull out your favorite content on lead nurturing , social media marketing , demand generation and all topics in between.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content? Within a 3-month period of execution for the program, the combination enabled the company to reactivate dormant leads and add $4.5M

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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. campaign reporting: users can manually enter campaign costs, target revenue, and actual revenue.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

Leading Lights: Marketing and PR Strategist David Meerman Scott – video interview. Blog Modern B2B Marketing Twitter Marketo InboundMarketer. "Simple Content Creates Quality Leads!" She has also written for many marketing blogs, and is a frequent contributor to Marketo ’s popular blog, Modern B2B Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

In a recent webinar which Marketo conducted with MarketingProfs, we looked at the tips and tricks you will need to develop a powerful content marketing strategy. Get Content Get Customers , by Joe Pulizzi (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Director of Marketing, Marketo. Posting it on your website is just the beginning. Ann Handley.

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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. Now, with LinkedIn, it’s easier than ever to directly get ahold of the person who handles demand generation or IT infrastructure. In short, it seemed like a monumental waste of time.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Sewell is president of Spear Marketing Group , a full-service agency with offices in Silicon Valley and Seattle that specializes in demand generation, lead management, and ROI-based marketing. How to Choose Your Carrot: Effective Lead Generation Offers for High-Technology Marketers (White Paper). via Beth Harte).

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

Leading Lights: Marketing and PR Strategist David Meerman Scott – video interview. Blog Modern B2B Marketing Twitter Marketo InboundMarketer. "Simple Content Creates Quality Leads!" She has also written for many marketing blogs, and is a frequent contributor to Marketo ’s popular blog, Modern B2B Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Specifically the convergence of branding and demand generation. This leads to 2008 with the emergence of social media. 2009 and 2010 became the years of analytics, where marketers began to realize the necessity of possessing activity intelligence. Enter the recession.

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MLT Creative

MAY 19, 2010

Eloqua Eloqua provides you with contact management, campaign management, lead management and marketing measurement, all in one platform. Genius Genius is the only marketing automation system that facilitates both lead-nurturing work flows and real-time prospect qualification alerts. This is your chance to set the record straight!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 15, 2009

Barry is also a member of the Marketo Board of Advisors. The webinar will be held this Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 11:00am Pacific/2:00pm Eastern. Third, track the life of each lead to its conclusion and close the loop; so much could be learned if this actually occurred on a consistent basis. Sign up today!

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Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 18, 2010

50 newsletter signups (potential leads). They were generated from 2,174 Playbook downloads that resulted from dozens of blog post references, hundreds of Tweets, a press mention and the strong traffic pull, credibility and reputation for content value that Junta42 has established over the last few years. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead? See my December 2009 post for a more detailed discussion of HubSpot's capabilities; basically, they are still pretty weak in outbound email, lead scoring, and nurturing, which are all core components of standard B2B marketing automation.

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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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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Read these interesting blog posts on B2B marketing ROI: Kevin Joyce's Untangling B2B Marketing Campaigns ROI , Jon Miller's Improving B2B Marketing ROI: Thought Leadership With Merry Elrick , Tom Scearce's Three metrics that are more useful than Cost per Lead. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Get Customers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

They are a great way to promote thought leadership and generate leads. Using lead management and marketing automation systems, we can narrow our focus and choose a target audience based on industry, job role, and previous interest. But registration doesn’t necessarily lead to attendance. In 2009, it was the Kindle.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Nurture leads long-term with targeted, qualified prospects. Reading some pundits and blogs, you might be deluded into thinking that social media is a quick path to leads. But the truth is while you can create connections quickly with social communications tools, long-term lead nurturing is still a must to actually make sales.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: How to use content effectively for demand generation? Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009.

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software enables marketers to build microsites and use content marketing to capture leads and nurture them through the buying process. Pricing starts at $199 per month for a single user and microsite, with no limit on the number of leads in the account, plus $8.50

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The account-based revolution isn’t over. There’s a reason why everybody has adopted account-based, but traditional demand generation is fishing with a net, whereas account-based marketing is fishing with a spear. People know Jon Miller as the co-founder of Marketo , but his OG status goes beyond that.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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chiefmartech

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Of those that remain, some of them, such as Emma, Lithium, iPerceptions, Marketo, and (sort of) Sitecore, were actually acquired by private equity firms, but kept operating as stand-alone brands — so I didn’t circle them in red. Even with a constant conversion rate, you generate more net leads. But I suppose we could.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Manager, Inbound Marketing, Marketo. David Raab , Raab Associates & author, Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 9, 2009

Getting into lead generation was an accident. I had more ego than understanding about lead generation and professional selling. So, I started literally at the bottom, responding to inbound website and 800# leads. That started my journey into lead generation, marketing & sales.

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