The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

Design #9 Email Sender: Eloqua Email Title: Using Social Channels What I Like: This is a really nicely designed email. The only “download&# link seems to be the red button to the right, I would have added a couple more ‘download’ options either within the text or right after it. United States License. United States License.

Marketing Budget Creation 100

Marketing Budget Creation Design Email Marketing Planning 100

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

Lead generation and lead nurturing have been put on the backburner and clients are interested only in finding leads that are ready to buy now (see my previous post, “The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to Revenue Generation.” ).

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B Sales 60

Vidyard

JANUARY 14, 2015

“Businesses will need to invest in a Video Marketing Platform to fuel the success of their marketing and sales efforts, and Vidyard is leading the way in both product innovation and customer value.” Salesforce has invested in more than 100 enterprise cloud startups since 2009.

Advertising Agencies 50

Advertising Agencies Enterprise Management Video Marketing Eloqua 50

Vidyard

JANUARY 14, 2015

Businesses will need to invest in a Video Marketing Platform to fuel the success of their marketing and sales efforts, and Vidyard is leading the way in both product innovation and customer value.” Salesforce has invested in more than 100 enterprise cloud startups since 2009.

Advertising Agencies 50

Advertising Agencies Enterprise Management Video Marketing Eloqua 50

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. Pattie McBride Says: June 29, 2009 at 1:31 PM Enjoyed the Blog!

Marketing Mix 40

Marketing Mix Tactics Work Management Marketing Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

So what is it about some content syndication programs that create leads that sales reps don’t want? In today’s economic climate, content syndication is one of the lowest risk lead generation vehicles there is. You are free to unsubscribe at any time. RSS Feed Click Here to receive new posts instantly via RSS.

Demand Generation Agencies 40

Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency RSS Paper 40

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.) Among other stuff.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Lead Generation. 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. Of 548 b-to-b marketers surveyed by Eloqua, about 40 percent say they are not yet using social media marketing.

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

The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

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. Also interesting to note that if you break down the fundraising of each of the above vendors into a timeline (like I did below), most of the investment has been made in the past couple years.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 100

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

I hadn’t seen the product in a while and was impressed with the UI improvements the Eloqua team has produced. With these changes, I see Eloqua – like many of the other firms I mentioned in my prior post – moving the B2B marketing conversation ahead in an important direction.

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Enterprise Management Work Management 40

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.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

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. Is social media creating a generation of cowards? The big news of this event is the launch of Eloqua 10. They are raving about Eloqua 10. It scored 8.6.

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. David Raab , Raab Associates & author, Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. Steve Woods , CTO, Eloqua. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Sales Management Automation 100

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

The biggest disconnect for companies is that a marketer’s definition of a lead can often be quite different than how sales defines what they need to accept a lead as qualified for follow-up. I wrote an eight part series on building an effective lead generation program a while back. But Facebook? April 12, 2010.

Forecasting 40

Forecasting Social Media B2B Marketing Social Marketing 40