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From a Challenging Marketing Past to the Most Promising Marketing Future: Top Takeaways from the 2011 B2B Roundtable Webinars

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In February , Paul Teshima, SVP of Product Management at Eloqua, set the tone for the webinar year. We took online marketing activities, leveraged their analytics and optimized – measure, take action and repeat. This year’s B2B Lead Roundtable webinars are testament to that.

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B2B Email Benchmarks: Answers Vary Widely

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One of the things I’m enjoying about my new role as head of analytics at Left Brain DGA is being closer to hands-on marketing than I was as a consultant. This leads to different questions than I used to get, including the ever-popular “what’s a reasonable response rate for our emails?” Here is the U.S. data from the Silverpop report.

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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

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Price was $600 million, which is roughly in line with the 8x revenue paid for ExactTarget and Eloqua recently. More important, Adobe also has an unmatched position in Web analytics, Web advertising, and Web content management. The deal is not particularly surprising. (To

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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

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I profiled them in a February 2011 post.) The B2C products are generally built on a more powerful foundation than B2B systems, in terms of having a more flexible database structure, deeper marketing operations support, and more powerful analytics. The acquisition is significant on several levels.

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Mintigo InterestBase Harvests Web and Social Data for Marketing and Sales

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Mintigo has also been mining Web and social data to build prospect lists, starting in 2011. Connectors are currently available for Marketo and Salesforce.com , with an Eloqua connector due soon. Infer starts with your own customer data, enhances it with information mined from the Web, and generates predictive scores.

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Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce.com Will Leave Marketing Automation Alone. But Revenue Performance Management Might Be Another Story.

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I discussed RPM with both Eloqua and Marketo during Dreamforce. At the moment, it’s a bit of a blind spot because analytics and business intelligence have not been Salesforce strengths. There’s an element of that in Revenue Performance Management, which stakes a claim to a much larger territory than marketing automation by itself.

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Convertr look to provide integration in an increasingly crowded martech ecosystem

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30-second summary: Convertr is an API-first data routing and optimization platform, which was launched in 2011 by entrepreneur Emma Bowkett. Convertr is looking to advance its integration and workflow capabilities. This will allow their customers to better connect and manage data points across their tech stack. .

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