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. Sales access. Could marketers finally be ready to spend on measurement?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 11, 2009

Here at Marketo, everyone is very excited about the upcoming SiriusDecisions 2009 Summit being held May 13-15 in Scottsdale, Arizona.      Last year attendees made big leaps in integrating their sales and marketing teams during the event.  through opportunity completion and beyond. 

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Analyzing the '09 plans and the resulting sales, what worked, what didn't, what should've, what failed. The sales team was nestled all snug in their slumber, assured that their quotas they'll soon meet in number. So here at Marketo we did a quick list, of our views and misses and targets and hits.

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Conversica

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Prior to Janrain, Jim was the Vice President and General Manager for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), one of the largest global IT service providers, where he was responsible for a P&L of $1B in revenue, leading a 7,000-employee business unit responsible for delivering digital applications across a broad number of verticals.

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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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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. Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping! Salespeople need leads—right now.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 15, 2009

Barry is co-founder of CSO Insights , an analyst firm that benchmarks the challenges faced by today's sales and marketing organizations, tracking the trends in the usage of people, process, technology and knowledge to improve sales effectiveness. Barry is also a member of the Marketo Board of Advisors. Sign up today!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

At this Dreamforce 2009 session led by Fernando Obregon Almazan, salesforce.com; Lorena Vales, salesforce.com; and Jonathan Hersh, salesforce.com, marketers learned about how and why companies should participate in social networking to generate brand awareness and create a viral effect when clients or prospects recommend their products.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 9, 2020

Users will not take the step you’re looking for in the marketing and sales funnel unless you give them a reason to. This tactic has the power to significantly influence how you optimize your websites, which leads to a boosted number of leads or sales generated overall. Hello, growth. . People are Incentive-Driven.

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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% Statistics include: • 16.5% But lots of people do anyway.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 10, 2011

This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention?

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Engagio

JANUARY 27, 2021

And before that he created and co-founded the popular marketing automation software Marketo. Jon shares things like his hearing loss journey, his distaste for super-sucker DSPs, and (of course) his vision for the future of B2B sales and marketing and how Demandbase One is driving the train. It’s kind of like having more leads.”

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

Sales reps are sharing webinar recordings with prospects, the CEO is blogging his latest thoughts on the industry, the human resources manager is updating the company’s LinkedIn page. What used to be clear roles (i.e. the copywriter writes copy for the ad while the designer makes the ad look pretty), is now morphing into a free for all.

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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? Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping! "Simple Content Creates Quality Leads!"

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Conversica

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Prior to Janrain, Jim was the Vice President and General Manager for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), one of the largest global IT service providers, where he was responsible for a P&L of $1B in revenue, leading a 7,000-employee business unit responsible for delivering digital applications across a broad number of verticals.

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Enterprise Management Marketing Management Gartner Sales Qualified Leads 40

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. The leaders among demand generation systems are still Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo. The only vendor with a really major drop in ranking was Lead Genesys , another long-time industry participant. Pardot and (perhaps) Genius.com look particularly strong.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. This is our second joint endeavor on this topic. What’s making a comeback?

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Back in January 2009, Marketo came out with a webinar entitled, The Secret Sauce to Demand Generation: How Marketo Nurtures, Scores and Accelerates Leads through the Revenue Cycle. Originally created to illustrate how Marketo achieved booming marketing results, this webinar soon became Marketo’s most popular resource.

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Conversica

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

2019 Product of the Year Award for Sales and Marketing Technology from the Business Intelligence Group. Conversica was named Marketo Technology Partner of the Year 2019. When an augmented workforce is adopted in customer-facing teams like sales, marketing and customer success, organizations can have a direct impact on top-line growth.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Are you ready to improve sales, maximize marketing efforts and collaborate with 12,000 customers, partners and employees? Attend Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009, one of the year’s premier sales and marketing events, to gain proven best practices, how-tos and practical training on the latest Cloud Computing solutions.

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B2B Sales Peer-to-peer B2B Marketing Marketing Management 48

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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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. Marketo is certainly a fine product, but marketers should still look around before picking it by default. I did publish a real review in July 2009.]

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 10, 2015

But is this really the only thing sales teams should be focused on? 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. Fast forward a few years and these gray hairs from Marketo’s IPO run have made me just a little wiser.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 8, 2022

She also served leadership stints at Engagia and Marketo where she handled product marketing, internal sales and account-based marketing strategies. In her downtime, she leads the battle against Asian bias, and more recently, has gone public about her experience with Stage 4 breast cancer. Mari Smith , entrepreneur.

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Work Management Paid Search Agency Content Marketing Planning 52

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 4, 2011

over 90 trillion emails were sent in 2009. B2B marketing efforts everywhere have joined the email surge making it the number 2 marketing tool (just a tick behind SEO – according to The Ad effectiveness Survey by Forbes Media in February/March 2009). Jumping faster on qualified leads equals higher conversion rates.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency Emarketing Inbound Marketing 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

. @ jonmiller From a metrics perspective, TL measured by recognition metrics & CM by harder numbers typified by the steps in the lead funnel. Thought leadership consists of ideas that require attention, that offer guidance or clarity and that can lead people in unexpected, sometimes contrarian directions (think of Seth Godin).

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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Work Management Marketing Management B2B Business 100

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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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

As a follow-up to their 2009 survey, they found the following results with regard to using social networking sites at work: 31% of companies prohibit all access (down from 54% in 2009). 51% of companies permit access for business purposes only (up from 19% in 2009). Boost Sales Team Productivity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 11, 2012

by Jason Miller Here at Marketo we are very excited about our upcoming 2012 Global User Summit. Gray: I founded LeadMD in 2009 to help businesses generate and manage leads better through marketing automation processes and technology. Gray: First, define success. Million in net new monthly revenue.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 48

Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

Which content should be gated to genereate leads? We asked B2B Marketing experts: " How should B2B marketers balance the need for free content (helpful for prospects decision making) Vs. the need to have content that produces a steady flow of good leads (that can directed to sales team)? Which content should be free?

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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.) Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 14, 2015

The company will use the funds to fuel the growing global demand for Video Marketing Platform technology and to expand its product offerings for marketing and sales. “Video is becoming a game-changer for marketing and sales, and we will bet big on video enablement in the years ahead,” said Deeter.

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Advertising Agencies Enterprise Management Video Marketing Eloqua 50

Vidyard

JANUARY 14, 2015

The company will use the funds to fuel the growing global demand for Video Marketing Platform technology and to expand its product offerings for marketing and sales. Video is becoming a game-changer for marketing and sales, and we will bet big on video enablement in the years ahead,” said Deeter.

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