The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

Clear header with big title and date/time of the event. Big but concise lead-in. Big lead-in helps keep users reading. What I Don’t Like: Lead-in copy “Explode six direct marketing myths&# doesn’t tell me much, poor choice of words (although ‘myths’ tend to get people to read).

Marketing Budget Creation 100

Marketing Budget Creation Design Email Marketing Planning 100

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

April 30, 2009 — Laura Ramos Email, Search, and Direct Mail Deliver Results Over Time I am very appreciative to Roy Young and Ann Handley at MarketingProfs for partnering with Forrester and me on the B2B marketing budget trends and effectiveness survey. Email and e-newsletters use now equals tradeshows in popular use.

Marketing Mix 40

Marketing Mix Tactics Work Management Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables. In addition, they support wait periods and can send leads and alerts to the sales system.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

You may be saying – wait a minute, ski jumping is an Olympic event so what’s the problem? The “problem” is that these athletes are women and the IOC has not sanctioned women’s ski jumping as an official event making it the only Winter Olympics activity that does not allow women to compete in.

Email Marketing 100

Email Marketing Advertising Benchmark SMS Autoresponders 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

nbr responses vendor 8 Marketo 6 Eloqua 3 Genius.com 3 LoopFuse 3 Pardot 2 Market2Lead 2 Treehouse Interactive 1 eTrigue 1 Vtrenz (Silverpop) 7 No Response 36 Another intriguing bit of contextual information is the deployment date of the systems. One repondent reported deployment on 4/24/09 (i.e., Fair enough. the system itself 0.67

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand Marketing Automation Services 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

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.) The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Lead Generation. FOLIO: Staff. --> Suppliers. --> Webinars. --> Events Industry Events. 2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. Business-to-business marketers are underutilizing social media and its potential, according to new data from Eloqua , a marketing automation company. Digital Editions. eMedia & Technology.

B to B 40

B to B Paid Content Social Media CMS Development 40

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 24, 2009

MarketingSherpa's 2009 Social Media & PR Benchmark Guide (PDF) provides a wealth of useful statistics and guidance. Paid search—one of the most cost-effective and measurable lead generation tactics—was actually in line for cuts by slightly more respondents than increases. Here's some research on how to do that. technologies."

Social Media 20

Social Media Paid Content Paid Search Agency Web 2.0 20

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « We’re renaming the blog | Main | New networks in the news » April 16, 2008 Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Recently I saw a preview of Eloqua’s spring release and it got me thinking about the role lead scoring plays in determining campaign effectiveness.

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Enterprise Management Work Management 40

The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

That points to the evolving nature of the market, and the key functions of lead nurturing, scoring, and automated triggers becoming part of email marketing and other marketing solutions. Note: I used publicly available data and wasn’t able to find Eloqua’s Series A, so I deducted based on valuation of their second round.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 100

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Eloqua Experience 2010 , October 20, 2010 This week I attended the Eloqua Experience, Eloqua’s user conference in San Francisco. That was very intuitive.

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing Enterprise Management Planning Work Management 40

LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Steve Woods , CTO, Eloqua. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep. Therefore, their lead generation and nurturing programs often focus only on email and web channels. Marketing has none.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Sales Management Automation 100

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

HP, P&G) to the channel… The Difference Between B2B Leads and Personas - Marketing Interactions , April 17, 2010 B2B marketers have relied on lead definitions to define their marketing programs for years. I wrote an eight part series on building an effective lead generation program a while back. I like numbers.

Forecasting 40

Forecasting Social Media B2B Marketing Social Marketing 40