Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The world clearly has more B2B marketing automation vendors than it needs – my master list of demand generation products includes two dozen. By contrast, mid-tier consumer marketers often have a hard time finding good options. Just launching a new version of its system, snappily named “Cross-Channel Marketing Hub”.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Resource Management Marketing Management 120

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

During my presentation titled Lead Generation Programs That Work I walked through the 5 Steps to Achieve Lead Generation ROI. I concluded with a discussion of the tactics to consider in future demand generation efforts. I concluded with a discussion of the tactics to consider in future demand generation efforts.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 12, 2011

As I mentioned yesterday, our new B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) asks vendors to estimate the number of clients in each of four size categories. This represents a 50% growth over my estimate for 2010. Either the surveys behind those estimates are incorrect or my market definition is too broad.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Segmentation Marketing Automation Automation 120

Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 21, 2009

2009 has been a long year but as I reflect back on my many conversations, I've created a top 5 list of items to avoid in 2010: 1. In 2010 you will not have a choice but to make social media part of your overall marketing strategy. This concept needs to be at the forefront of your planning in 2010.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Planning 100

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 The deal makes obvious sense, in that it gives Oracle a much stronger position in the fast-growing B2B marketing automation industry*. What if you're an enterprise marketer? recently, so $23.50

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 1, 2012

I’ve gotten used to thinking of the B2B marketing automation industry as entering a consolidation phase, during which a handful of dominant vendors emerge and small vendors drop away. For B2B marketing automation, we’re not there yet. This share can only drop over time as new entrants emerge.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation B2B Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 11, 2011

Summary: Here's a closer look at revenue per employee and marketing automation revenue in general. Some of the comments on last week’s post on the size of the B2B marketing automation industry led me to dig a bit more deeply into the question of revenue per employee. So maybe let’s credit them with $10 million.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Could marketers finally be ready to spend on measurement? The same three vendors also added new tools to give salespeople better access to information the marketing automation system has captured about their leads.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 120

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 27, 2023

John said that once they started Marketing Over Coffee, “I will consider this a success if I get to interview Seth Godin.” So John pulled a stunt that caught his attention and set up an interview with him in 2010 and has been able to talk with him about each of his books since then.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This is the question I posed: According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months. Less than 50 beds. 50-250 beds. 250-500 beds. More than 500 beds.

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Account Based Marketing Lead Generation Marketing Management ABM 120

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. The new report contains a rich trove of industry information.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Report Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Now that I’m more or less finished launching the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) , I can start catching up on the other topics. ClickDimensions does pretty much the standard marketing automation activities: email, landing pages, Web visitor tracking, drip marketing campaigns, and lead scoring.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Work Management 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

The CSO Insights 2010 Lead Generation Optimization Study identifies some of the best practices that companies are focusing on to optimize their lead generation performance. Mine the Gold in Marketing Automation and CRM Systems. Implement Technology for Marketing and Sales. 2010 Lead Generation Optimization.

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Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Studies 48

Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2010

2010 has been another tough year for the industrial sector but I’m encouraged by all the good news that I’ve heard throughout the year about a modest rebound in U.S. In keeping with that spirit, here are my five most popular industrial marketing blog posts from 2010. Marketing Automation vs. Inbound Marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. The market will probably split between enterprise-wide suites and more limited marketing automation systems. Many would no doubt be delighted to sell at such prices.

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Resource Management Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management 120

ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Leads and expected metrics are defined in carefully created client program plans and lead rates are impacted (particularly in 2010) by the mix and quality of inbound dispositions.

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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. Social media is hot mainly because it is new news to lots of folks in marketing and across our organizations that “the customer is indeed in charge”. And one day soon, you will be asked to justify your budget.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Over a thousand B2B marketers registered to attend an October 13th webinar created to help marketers plan for 2010. Specifically, the spoke about: Five key planning assumptions across two macro functions – reputation and demand creation – that should drive b-to-b marketing planning for 2010.

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chiefmartech

JANUARY 25, 2023

But my real faith in martech’s growth ahead is the profession that is growing up around marketing technology management. 15 years ago, when I started this blog, most marketing roles and most technology roles — IT, software engineering — were on opposite ends of the career spectrum. I’ve called them marketing technologists.

Marketing Management 116

Marketing Management Activities Paid Search Agency Marketing Automation Services 116

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. You need to rethink your business model first and fast.

Marketing Automation Services 60

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation 60

markempa

APRIL 18, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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Demand Generation Agencies Lead Generation Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation 120

Webbiquity

DECEMBER 16, 2010

In Maverick Marketing: Trailride into the Wild West of New Marketing , Tom Hayes invites readers on a gallop through the new west of innovative marketing campaigns, to help generate new ideas to stand out from the herd… The Truth About Search Engine Optimization by Rebecca Lieb.

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Social Media Social Marketing Emarketing Media 100

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. It scored 8.6

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Marketing Automation Services Inbound Marketing Marketing Automation Top of Funnel 60

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. It’s been nearly two decades since marketing automation pushed into the B2B scene with the introduction of Eloqua in 1999.

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Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Eloqua Paid Search Agency 100

Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2010

MarketingProfs Member Login | About Us | Members Benefits | PRO Members MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog Home Marketing Resources Online Seminars Conferences Videos Research Store PRO Members Forum Blog Jobs Blog Home Archives RSS/XML Veronica Maria Jarski BIO 12.20.10 19 , 2010, the marketing take-away I shared was “Think Different.&#

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B2B Marketing Marketing Management Eloqua RSS 40

markempa

AUGUST 25, 2014

Tweet Our sister publication, MarketingSherpa, publishes three weekly newsletter case studies, and in the B2B beat in particular, those weekly articles routinely feature a story covering marketers tackling lead generation for the complex sale. Case Study #1 – Local B2B Marketing: 150% boost in lead generation.

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Case Study Case Studies Lead Gen Studies 120

Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 19, 2011

Much has been discussed about the importance of aligning sales and marketing with regard to marketing automation and lead management processes. Social media marketing is also a channel where marketing and sales departments need to be closely aligned, but the assignment of roles and tasks can be unclear to many firms.

Social Media 100

Social Media Lead Generation Top of Funnel Social Marketing 100

markempa

AUGUST 24, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation 120

Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

With new changes in AI, you can improve lead generation, establish a marketing database, track behaviors and more. Now’s the time to be asking questions about the possibilities of AI, which has enormous potential for B2B marketing, facilitating data driven matching of businesses and sales prospects. High-volume lead generation.

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Marketing AI B2B Marketing Work Management Marketing Management 114

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The focus of the 2010 User Summit was the transformation of how marketing and sales organizations work – and work together – to generate revenue. In today’s “buyer’s in control” market, traditional marketing and sales approaches have become grossly inefficient and outdated.

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Marketo Work Management B2B Thought Leadership Salesforce.com 48

Alaniz

JANUARY 9, 2020

Similar to investing, marketers can generate tremendous returns from accurately predicting future trends. In the 2010’s, we witnessed the rise of influencer marketing, social media marketing, and brand messaging focused on mission and emotion.

Trust Marketing 52

Trust Marketing Trends Advertisements Advertising 52

The Effective Marketer

MARCH 10, 2011

This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. For Eloqua, at least, they say there’s no need to worry since HubSpot is serving a very different market.

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Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Hubspot 100

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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Lead Generation Business Blogging Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 60

The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 14, 2010

According to their post: “Last week in San Francisco, 211 business-to-business marketers spent two days sharing insights, case studies and advice on social media marketing, lead generation, Sales and Marketing alignment, and other hot-button issues on the West Coast swing of MarketingSherpa’s seventh annual B2B Marketing Summit.&#

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 24, 2011

It is interesting that back in 2009, MarketingSherpa had published a chart showing the key challenges marketers faced and “generating high quality leads&# was the top one. Sales keeps insisting on receiving better leads, marketing knows that is an issue, but still they are not delivering. United States License.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? All I can say is WOW!

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