Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. recently, so $23.50

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markempa

APRIL 5, 2006

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Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 8, 2019

Key Topics: B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, and Marketing Technology. I’m focused on helping B2B marketers improve revenue performance, communicate results with executive stakeholders throughout the organization, and use the data to help make strategic decisions. HOW DID YOU GET TO BECOME AN EXPERT IN B2B MARKETING.

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AUGUST 15, 2006

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Rev

APRIL 17, 2019

Math is not my jam – but luckily, it is the jam of our Chief Data Scientist, Steve Biafore, so if you’re looking for that, here’s a video series on B2B targeting vectors that he put together for you to enjoy. I mean the coin toss stuff is true, but the rest of it was made up for Disney’s 2010 Secretariat movie.

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B2B Marketing Directions

JANUARY 14, 2023

In their 1994 best-seller, Built to Last , Jim Collins and Jerry Porras argued that the most successful companies refuse to be constrained by the "Tyranny of the OR" and instead embrace the "Genius of the AND." Instead of choosing between A or B , these companies find a way to have both A and B.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve already published my B2B Marketing predictions for 2011 and while I think I captured a good mix of new and traditional issues, I realized that one thing was missing: a common theme. And so this led me to the conclusion that the broader future of B2B Marketing is Social! This got me to thinking.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

by Maria Pergolino So you bought into social media as a B2B demand generation channel. You built your company Facebook page, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts and you sat back and waited for the prospects to bang down your door. What went wrong? Am I Utilizing My Keywords? Give us too little and we may lose interest.

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Demand Generation Social Media Demand Generation 48

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy May 4, 2010 7 Subscribe Why am I in Marketing? So here I will describe why I am in Marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The curious and cautious B2B buyers B2B buyers are curious about how a product can make life easier and business better; however, they are also more cautious when making purchases because a mistake can be costly both for the company and their career. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The curious and cautious B2B buyers B2B buyers are curious about how a product can make life easier and business better; however, they are also more cautious when making purchases because a mistake can be costly both for the company and their career. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I wish I knew all the secrets so I could transform the world of B2B Marketing forever with a tell-all book. What I do know is that B2B Marketers have a ton of options today. In this post, I will offer a preview of the thoughts I will deliver during the Focus Interactive Summit on Progressive B2B Marketing. It used to be so easy.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2010

The session will be moderated by David Rosen, Chief of B2B Social Media at Makovsky + Company. We will be discussing what the PRSA is calling “ The Forbidden Dance: B2B and Social Media ”. Quite simply: Executive buy-in. This is an area of opportunity for B2B companies and needs to be managed very carefully.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2010

The days of sending a list of contacts to sales is over. Some creative marketers call these lists suspects. In the next post , I will list the actions you can take today to deliver targeted leads to sales. And this is where many B2B marketers stumble. To sales, they are a waste of time. Sounds easy right?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? Radio was not replaced by the television.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

In “ Revising Our Demand Generation Definition as B2B Marketers &# Adam does an excellent job of thoroughly putting a call to action out to all marketers that demand generation needs to be end-to-end. He also asks us to be accountable to results. So…Demand Generation cannot stop at the sale.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. What is the key to shortening the buy cycle?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

The study shows that there are specific keyword combinations used dependent upon the buying stage of the person searching on Google. While this study was focused on IT Buyers, the implications for the B2B Marketer should be relevant across the prospect universe no matter which industries you serve.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

At the time, I was leading a large online demand generation program and had some thoughts about the state of the marketing and sales funnel. This way we are engaging prospects earlier in the buying process and never stop engaging them even (or especially) after they purchase from us. Conversions increase. This is great stuff.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy May 4, 2010 7 Subscribe Why am I in Marketing? So here I will describe why I am in Marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

My advice is to B2B Marketers is to follow this natural ebb and flow. However, you must continue to nurture those leads that are not yet ready to buy. In some companies “nurture happens&# almost by accident. In other companies lead nurture is a very formal and well-defined process.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

They reported in a separate study by Technorati that blogs are right up there with many traditional media in terms of importance and influence on their buying behavior. Demographically bloggers also have higher incomes and education levels than the general population. Blogs help deliver information from the company to the consumer.

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Marketing Mix Marketing Report Blogspot Blogger 100

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Customers decide when and how to engage with us in the buying journey. Customers decide when and how to engage with us in the buying journey. Why is this important? This is a foundational activity.

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MAY 13, 2007

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Peer-to-peer Demand 40

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Teradata is a logical buyer, having a complementary campaign management system but lacking Aprimo’s marketing resource management, cloud-based technology and strong B2B client base (although Aprimo has stressed to me more than once that 60% of their revenue is from B2C clients). billion company compared with IBM’s $100 billion in revenue.

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Resource Management Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management 120

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Personas do matter in B2B content marketing You would be wasting your scarce resources if you pumped out marketing content without first having a clear and complete understanding of the personas of your B2B buyers. In other words, it is time to walk the talk!

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 10, 2011

Steve has nearly 20 years of experience in brand building, demand generation and corporate marketing. As the founder of 28Marketing, he’s worked with a number of B2B technology and cloud computing companies. As we exited 2010, there were a lot of predictions for what’s in store for B2B Marketing in 2011.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 100

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APRIL 19, 2007

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. I put this at $325 million for 2011, a 50% increase from 2010. Vendors in the VEST are asked for estimates of their client counts by company size.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Report Marketing Management 120

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). That’s a shame and here’s why — among the top ten in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2009 , IBM was listed at #2, Microsoft, GE and Intel at number 3, 4 and 9 respectively.

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Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Brand Identity 60

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

The companies that are able to create a sustainable responder generation program will see higher conversions and sales. There are 3rd party companies that boast the “Immediate warm transfer” of a prospect searching your web site, but this is not always the case, and can be costly.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

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APRIL 5, 2007

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Instead of buying print ads in trade journals, they create their own blog and build an active community around it. Don’t sell.

Marketing Budget Creation 60

Marketing Budget Creation B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Marketing Budget 60

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You may have heard that social media can improve not only your more traditional tactics but also allows you to engage with your prospects sooner in the buying cycle. How can social media extend our brand relationship with our target market? So how do you incorporate social media into the marketing mix?

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