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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. This contrasts with traditional demand generation pricing on database size and/or activity volume, but is the way sales automation systems like Salesforce.com are usually sold. Upgraded reporting. New user interfaces.

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Oracle does have an existing B2B marketing automation product, based on the technology it acquired from Market2Lead in 2010. Market2Lead was very good system, but it lacked the huge market presence that Oracle gains from Eloqua. So that’s all fine, but what industry observers really want to know is how Salesforce.com will react.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

Eloqua “ The Business Case for Integrated Demand Generation ” offers data from Forrester, CSO Insights and several Eloqua clients. CSO Insights, “Optimizing Lead Generation: What’s the Payback,” 2006 Best in Class Average % higher % reps making quota 66.1% The data is a couple of years old but still valid. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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B2B Social Media Strategy - Best of B2B Marketing Zone

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Lead generation metrics should emphasize opportunities not just leads - B2B Lead Generation Blog , October 27, 2009. Podcast: Why sellers don’t have the right tools to help buyers buy - B2B Lead Generation Blog , October 15, 2009. Who cares what you’re selling, what are customers buying - Market2Lead , October 21, 2009.

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The 2010 marketing technology proto-landscape did consolidate by 61%

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But a year before that, back in April 2010, I assembled a slide of 142 martech companies for a presentation on the Rise of the Marketing Technologist that I gave at a small search marketing conference: The point I was making was: look how dependent marketing has become on technology. of the 2010 martech landscape has been consolidated.

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Marketing Automation Trends for 2010

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In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010. Kevin Joyce , CMO, Market2Lead. David Raab , Raab Associates & author, Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep. Demand Generation?

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Top 32 B2B Marketing Posts and Hot Topics of Social Media Forecast

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

April 2010. Five Big Shifts in Social Media Marketing - Webbiquity , April 19, 2010 Social media reflects a larger trend toward buyer empowerment that has changed not only the practice but the underlying philosophies of marketing over the past several years. Best of B2B Marketing. Great stuff this month in the world of B2B Marketing.