Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 2, 2024

With AI infiltrating nearly every aspect of our lives in 2023, sales leaders saw huge industry transformations — automation, data analysis, and enhanced productivity for starters. Many AI adopters saw conversion rates and sales productivity improve by 10-30%. Here’s what sales leaders should keep an eye on. Watch the demo

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Aberdeen

DECEMBER 7, 2020

First in this week’s M&A activity list is the cloud CRM provider Salesforce buying business communications software provider Slack. Salesforce launched its own social collaboration tool — Chatter — a decade ago in 2010. Salesforce Acquires Slack. What’s Next?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 2, 2024

With AI infiltrating nearly every aspect of our lives in 2023, sales leaders saw huge industry transformations — automation, data analysis, and enhanced productivity for starters. Many AI adopters saw conversion rates and sales productivity improve by 10-30%. Here’s what sales leaders should keep an eye on. Watch the demo

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

They also briefed me at that time on a slew of updates to their other marketing products, demonstrating continued forward movement. Teradata told me separately that their marketing cloud business grew 22% year-on-year this quarter, suggesting that the decline came in the older, on-premise products and/or related services.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. Tagging contacts in your CRM system requires nothing more sophisticated than one or two multi-select lists on your contact record. Is it good enough to just say “here is our product, go buy it?&# To paraphrase Tina Turner , we don’t need another acronym.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

SiriusDecisions released a marketing automation for B2B study predicting a rise from 8-12 percent in 2010 to a majority in the very near future. They cite the fact that B2B automation is already growing exponentially, with 11 times more marketing automation being used by B2B marketing teams today than there was in 2010.

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The Effective Marketer

DECEMBER 8, 2010

It was really fun and if you are interested in learning how other marketers are tackling their marketing, CRM, and even sales challenges this is the place to go. Some of the issues discussed were: Who manages and who owns the CRM system in your organization? How do you setup your scoring system for inbound leads? United States License.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2011

These methods all yield similar figures -- around a $200 million in revenue for 2010. That said, here's an excerpt from the report: Revenues for B2B marketing automation systems (excluding related services) were $200 million in 2010, according to Raab Associates estimates. Including those vendors would at least double the total figure.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 27, 2010

The need to better understand online behaviors to convert leads jump-started the evolution of customer relationship management (CRM). With CRM, organizations benefit from increased operational effectiveness, easier access to data and improved collaboration. One very vital element of social CRM is social selling, which leverages Web 2.0

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chiefmartech

JANUARY 5, 2020

At the beginning of the 2010’s, I wrote a post about the rise of the marketing technologist. The chart above is the product of that brainstorm with him. Typical titles: Marketing Operations , CRM/MAP Admin. Fast-forward to the start of 2020’s. It also benefited from terrific input by the martech community.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

When this blog last left Geoff Rego in 2010 , he had just sold the assets of pioneering B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead to Oracle. The new product is Hushly , which addresses the reluctance of prospects to provide their email address even in return for valuable content. All told, I think Hushly is a pretty clever idea.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 10, 2016

However, even as amazing as email is for demand generation, used outside the context of a solid demand generation strategy, it can have a negative effect on productivity, communications, brand, revenue and growth. Eleven years later, in 2010, marketing automation became its own category with over 110 known vendors in the space.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Use of leading life science event technology – The best MedComms agencies use fully compliant event technology that integrates with pharma CRM events management software like Veeva so that you can enrich CRM records with deep event engagement data to drive your next best action.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

link] mattsurfs "Twitter can suck you in to a vortex of counter-productivity like one bite of that KFC Double Down sandwich." " [link] [link] mattsurfs "Twitter can suck you in to a vortex of counter-productivity like one bite of that KFC Double Down sandwich." Whatchya think?

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2008 recession accelerated their inability to adapt to changing consumer demand -- and by 2010, they filed for bankruptcy. Adapting to Customer Needs With the Right Products. Figuring that out starts with thinking about how your products and services impact your customers. I know that shift can feel daunting.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

I’ve previously reviewed Genoo , which supplements the standard marketing automation features with Web hosting and built-in CRM but no shopping cart. per month email product. It greatly expanded its features in 2010 and now offers a marketing automation system starting at $500 per month. MakesBridge is another contender.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Oracle does have an existing B2B marketing automation product, based on the technology it acquired from Market2Lead in 2010. Oracle may also be gaining a more sophisticated “cloud native” platform, since other Oracle products grew largely from on-premise roots.** The jury on that is very much still out.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

This next B2B Marketing Thought Leader Interview is with Bill Odell, vice president of marketing at Helpstream , a Social CRM solutions company. Bill is responsible for the company’s overall marketing and go-to-market strategies and oversees all product marketing, partner marketing and corporate marketing activities.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Based on consistency of product, suitability of packaging, and convenience of location, Stratten shifted his daily coffee habit – to the tune of perhaps $30,000 in lifetime value, underscoring the ultimate importance of every customer acquisition or defection. link] links for 2010-09-07 | Glenn Friesen [.]

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Think about the entire lifecycle from new product ideas all the way to customer retention. If you use your CRM system to track marketing activities from inquiry to close, then you know how many opportunities you have created and how much sales pipeline that has generated. It starts with reaching across functional areas.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Whether it’s blog posts, video blogs, Powerpoint presentations, podcasts, haiku, or graffiti art, practice makes the production process easier. Powers RT @jaybaer: Are You Growing Enough Voices [link] That's a productive vacation. Certainly, there is a benefit to creating content on a daily basis.

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Martech Advisor

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

National Entrepreneurs Day was first celebrated in 2010, formalized by the former President Barack Obama. Implement a customer relationship management (CRM) system to enable your sales team to improve customer experience and unlock upselling and cross-selling opportunities. Happy National Entrepreneurs Day!

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

The Power of the Unexpected The genius of infomercials (and to a lesser degree, home shopping channels), is that they present to you products that you didn’t know you needed, because you didn’t know they existed. Consumers learn to trust a human, and then they trust the info the human delivers on a product or service.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

February 11th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Guest post by Bob Dennis , freelance Web designer with experience in everything from audio production to social networking. After two-and-a-half years, iPhone app developers are getting fed up with Apple’s lengthy and often inconsistent approval process.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

February 23rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is your social media program about asking, or answering? there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Like Sonny divorcing Cher (or was it the other way around?)

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Oktopost

MARCH 2, 2020

When you think of it the buying journey of 2020 is not the same as 2010, and definitely not the same as pre 2000. Digital marketing is the aspect of marketing that involves the use of various digital and internet-based technologies to promote products and/or services. The 2020 buyer journey is an online journey.

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Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 8, 2019

I also began working with CRM systems to enable database marketing efforts and lead results analytics. I started consulting in 2010 which really forced me to learn enough to provide the best advice and guidance for my clients. I also enjoy brainstorming product ideas to tackle anything from huge challenges to niche innovations.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

May 12th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Guest post by Jennifer Maggiore, CEO of Maggiore Consulting, a multi-media lead generation firm and co-host of Locals Only: a Phoenix-based live Internet show. link] marionguthrie I read a forecast about the huge growth in mobile advertising in just 5 years, by 2015.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

People use Twitter and FB and other social media sites to provide word of mouth advertising whether it be negative or positive, it is some time of feedback of a product. I would argue that “social media makes everything about product/service&#. Now that it is so easy for Joe Q.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Now more than ever, business leaders are turning to new ideas, products and markets to fuel growth, drive innovation, and remain competitive on the global stage.”. As Mr. Spector states, innovative ideas and products, and new markets , are all key ingredients that senior executives are baking into their strategic growth plans.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

We need to start talking about Social Media as product (for those brands with high social utility) and Social Media as a method to improve execution (think Six Sigma or Toyota Production System). Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. (For

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Let’s say you’re a small business owner who wants your brand to appear in Google when someone searches for your product or service in your area. He’s a former journalist turned PR guy and straight shooter at New Media Cowboy.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

Now I could argue that you need a great product to solve a real customer need: you need some awareness in the marketplace to prove you are “in the game”, you need a website that acts as a viable “store front” for your business, and of course you need great service and support after the sale to keep customers satisfied. Ask your partners.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Basically they can take that gorgeous photo that you paid a photographer to shoot for your product, hotel or client and use it however they want. FTC Disclosure Requirements – The recent changes from the FTC don't just apply to bloggers; rather, anyone who is compensated for promoting a product/service.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

This 40-something Florida Mom found herself undergoing several simultaneous life shifts, and realized that products and the communication about them didn’t resonate with her any longer. Companies didn’t seem to understand where she was, who she was, or what she wanted.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

markwilliamschaefer I would add that for commerce-oriented blogs, it would also be possible to track clicks back to a commerce-related part of a website for product information, registration, etc. In the well-documented Marriott case study, they tracked $500 mm in bookings from links on the corporate blog. Very helpful post, Jay.

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