Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% Here's a bunch. The data is a couple of years old but still valid. Statistics include: • 16.5%

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Marketing Qualified Leads 120

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. This one caught me by surprise.

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B Sales 60

The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

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). Clear header with big title and date/time of the event.

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. This is our second joint endeavor on this topic. What’s making a comeback?

Marketing Mix 40

Marketing Mix Tactics Work Management Marketing Management 40

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of the biggest challenges b2b marketers face is what to do with all of those “names&# that come into your system that aren’t really “leads&# yet; contacts collected from white paper downloads, webinar registrations, trade shows and other activities. How do you separate hot leads from long-term leads from tire-kickers?

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 100

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.

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Enterprise Management Hubspot 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

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

Obviously any survey based on 36 net responses (and self-selected at that) has little statistical value, but I still think the broad results are extremely interesting. Tags: marketing automation software deployment low cost marketing software lead management demand generation implementation demand generation. Fair enough.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand Marketing Automation Services 120

MLT Creative

MAY 19, 2010

Eloqua Eloqua provides you with contact management, campaign management, lead management and marketing measurement, all in one platform. Eloqua can work with a company that's just getting started, or improve the sophistication of existing marketing efforts. This is your chance to set the record straight!

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Sometimes it’s What’s Missing That Counts I was reading MarketingSherpa’s 2009 Email Marketing Benchmarking Guide looking for useful metrics and tips. These emails should be sent using a marketing automation system like Eloqua. We’ll come back to this story – let’s focus back on email marketing. Database Accuracy Metrics.

Email Marketing 100

Email Marketing Advertising Benchmark SMS Autoresponders 100

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

Webbiquity

JANUARY 12, 2011

We’ve seen these before—meaningless, over-used goobledygook buzzwords in press releases—but here Adam Sherk provides an updated list for 2010, topped by “leading,&# “unique,&# “solution&# and “innovator&# and proceeding through “customer-centric,&# “outside the box&# and “peak performance.&#

PR 100

PR Tools Tips Blogger 100

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

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

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

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 per 1,000 emails sent.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Microsite Salesforce.com 100

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

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

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

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. How do you PROVE the value of Twitter? Eloqua Experience 2010 , October 20, 2010 This week I attended the Eloqua Experience, Eloqua’s user conference in San Francisco.

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing Enterprise Management Planning Work Management 40

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