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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

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150% MQLs to Sales Accepted Leads (SALs) nearly 75% 58% 29% SALs to Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs) nearly 61% 49% 24% SQLs to Closed Business 31% 23% 35% Incidentally, SiriusDecisions reported newer but very similar figures in the recent Neolane-sponsored Webinar 'Making the Business Case for Marketing Automation'. But lots of people do anyway.

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

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Probably the most comprehensive study along these lines was Global Faces and Networked Places , released by Neilsen in March 2009. Forrester and Marketing Profs report B-to-B Marketing in 2009 shows that business marketers most commonly use their company Web site, email, public relations and trade shows. in 2009 to 8% in 2014.

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PivotLink: Flexible On-Demand Business Intelligence

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I did a Webinar recently ( click here for slides ) about on-demand business intelligence systems, sponsored by Birst. Naturally, the full Webinar was jammed with much other wisdom (you missed Time-Traveling Elvis and the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Fallacy). This feature is also on the agenda for 2009. the “presentation layer”).

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

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2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a. We can also be confident that the feature trends I described in my review of 2009 will continue: better support for social media, greater access for sales departments, and more flexible reporting. business-to-business marketing automation. What will 2010 bring?

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OneSource Survey: Salespeople Accept Value of Leads from Marketing

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Bringing up the rear are social networking and direct mail, which are rated equal – a pretty impressive showing for social media if you think about it – and Webinars. Events and trade shows actually rank below all of these. Other survey answers were largely consistent with the theme of salesperson self-reliance.

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Right On Interactive Offers Lifecycle Reporting

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When I reviewed Right On Interactive in a July 2009 post , the company was selling its 5Buckets marketing software as a multi-channel output generation tool that complemented conventional marketing automation systems. You can also view my Marketo-sponsored Webinar on the topic.) Either way, it’s worth a look to see what you’re missing.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

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[I did publish a real review in July 2009.] Act-On Software : a slightly different take, with strong Webinar support and an option to use its own low-cost sales automation system as an alternative to Salesforce.com Price starts at $499 per month. They focus on email nurturing campaigns and marketing measurement.