The courses will focus both on functional topics such as multi-channel campaigns or lead scoring, as well as more strategic Revenue Lifecycle courses. This week I attended the Eloqua Experience, Eloqua’s user conference in San Francisco. The big news of this event is the launch of Eloqua 10. It’s the result of 2 years of hard work, and it looks very good. The revamped user interface makes working with Eloqua a lot of fun. Here is a preview: Eloqua 10 Campaign Builder (click to enlarge). attended the session with Siteworx, an early adopter of Eloqua 10. Eloqua University. MORE >>

In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep. If there is no mechanism to pass the lead back to the marketing team (in an automated or semi-automated fashion), the lead is gone forever. Marketing automation solutions can facilitate remarketing to inactive leads, or so-called lead recycling, which helps drive value from a marketer’s most valuable asset, his or her lead database. predictions. and Web 3.0 MORE >>

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty? The State of the Blogosphere 2010 Since 2004, Technorati has published its annual State of the Blogosphere report. In 2009 and 2010, we saw microblogs and tumblelogs such as Posterous and Tumblr gain in prominence and universality. startups. MORE >>

I … Continue reading → lead generation sales leadership Sales knowledge marketing funnel Management best practices Marketing Demand Generation Sales 2.0 Click to download How to Find New Customers, our remarkably popular white paper. It’s the first year of Fearless Competitor Favs – my favorite B2B marketing ideas from this past year. We’ll do this each December from now on. Remarkable content Leadership MORE >>

Marketing education likely won’t change in this regard during 2010, but the initial discussions will start. 5) Brand Promise/Reality Gap Reduction: The trend that social media kicked into high gear in 2009 will continue into 2010; any organization that has a significant gap between their brand promise, and their brand reality will have that gap mercilessly exposed through social media and community-created content. 2010 will see aggressive adoption of basic listening techniques by marketers in order to understand where they are falling short. Sort of. What do you think? MORE >>