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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 This was a bit of a surprise, given that Eloqua just went public in August. It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. per share, which comes to $871 million.

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B2B Marketing Trends From Eloqua Experience 09 Via Twitter

Anything Goes Marketing

Earlier this month I left my newborn and poor wife at home for an unforgettable week at Eloqua Experience in San Francisco. While there were a few keynote speakers, the conference focused on having the Eloqua community share their experiences so we could all learn from each other. They are some of the best and brightest out there.

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Sales Enablement Danger

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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. Is the target now a naïve Sales Enablement buyer? Complexity is the culprit of missed opportunities.

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Best Social PR Guides and Tips of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity

Read on to learn how social media is changing PR, how pitching bloggers is different from traditional media outreach, how to optimize press releases for search and online distribution, which tools should be in your social PR toolbox and more here in some of the best articles and blog posts on social PR of 2010 so far. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Interview with Brian Hansford

Onalytica B2B

Key Topics: B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, and Marketing Technology. In 2009 I dove headlong into working with Eloqua and Salesforce and at that point I was hooked on designing demand generation workflow and measuring results. Brian Hansford – VP of Marketing Performance at Heinz Marketing.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: On B2B Demand Generation tools and Lead Generation Dashboards

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Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. What do you think?

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

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. But enhanced reporting was the most common improvement of all.