The Effective Marketer

MARCH 10, 2011

Click to enlarge With the new round of financing, HubSpot now leads the pack in terms of VC funding and takes the total amount raised to date by key marketing players to over $220 million. For Eloqua, at least, they say there’s no need to worry since HubSpot is serving a very different market. I know these companies well.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Reading these isolated numbers and trying to use them as your overall goal will only lead to frustration. A good starting point is the major email service providers (ExactTarget, Silverpop, Lyris, Eloqua, ConstantContact, Emma, etc.). Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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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.

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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.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 8, 2009

LinkedIn: Starting an Alumni Group When Linkedin started a groups feature (like Facebook groups) I thought about how I could network with former colleagues. LinkedIn tip : Look for ways that you can create niche groups that pull together people with similar interests. Did you go to ITI?

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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.

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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. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010. I could not agree more with these predictions. (1)

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