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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Everything Technology Marketing

JANUARY 1, 2011

It is January and time again for the obligatory 2011 predictions. Many marketing experts have strong opinions on what they think will happen in 2011. I asked you to rank the marketing areas you think will become more important in 2011. Marketing will be expected to show how it impacts new revenue generation.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 11, 2011

2PM EST, Thursday, August 11, 2011. More and more marketing organizations are looking to derive more value from their technology investments. While marketing automation continues to grow, companies are still looking to get the value from their investments and show their impact on revenue.

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The Effective Marketer

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Automation Monday is Here! It was really fun and if you are interested in learning how other marketers are tackling their marketing, CRM, and even sales challenges this is the place to go.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 26, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. What this means is, those companies with the most marketing toys really do win! Have I given away the secrets to successful marketing? i Spitzer, Robert J.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system. I profiled them in a February 2011 post.) The acquisition is significant on several levels.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2013

But since late 2011 the company has also offered a suite aimed at marketers, which now has more than 4,000 paid clients. Even in the small business sector, that count would make Vocus one of the largest marketing automation systems. But Vocus doesn’t quite match the profile of standard marketing automation products.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 19, 2022

From communicating your brands’ identity through pillar page customization to building out blogs, WordPress is a great tool for B2B marketers to tell their story. Since I published my first WordPress post in 2011, I can’t tell you how many blogs I’ve written or websites my various teams have designed. Intent data.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. What really got me thinking about this was prepping for a Webinar I’ll be giving next Wednesday on the future of marketing automation ( register here ). Why is this worrisome?

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Lead Genius is a good example. The company is in the business of assembling B2B marketing lists – an industry dating back centuries to city directories and beyond. But Lead Genius was founded in 2011 to commercialize university research into combining AI with human inputs. Lead Genius does this too.

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The Point

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Recently, Lauren Carlson of research site Software Advice wrote a very perceptive and timely piece entitled “ Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software ” about the broader market trends that, in her view, are driving the increased adoption of marketing automation technology. The reason?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2013

Infusionsoft today announced it has acquired social lead generation vendor GroSocial. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

This Friday I'll be presenting a 45 minute free Webinar, sponsored by Focus.com and hosted by the ever-popular Adam Needles, on preparing for a successful marketing automation deployment. But this webinar isn’t about why you should buy marketing automation – that’s been discussed at length by everyone in the business.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

When I first wrote about ClickDimensions in a February, 2011 post , the concept was intriguing – a marketing automation add-on to Microsoft Dynamics CRM – but the product itself had been available for less than six months and claimed barely 50 clients. This is comparable to standard marketing automation products.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

These companies have large marketing departments that may manage hundreds of campaigns for different products in different locations. Our scoring reflects their need for special features for automated content selection, project management, complex lead scores, and tight control over the rights granted to individual users.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration.

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chiefmartech

APRIL 25, 2017

tl;dr — From 2016 to 2017, the marketing automation category of the marketing technology landscape grew yet again, by 36% , from 156 vendors to 212. Marketing automation remains a bellwether of martech. Why marketing automation, which I crudely lump together with campaign management and lead management products?

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Webbiquity

MARCH 21, 2019

Marketing technology has progressed exponentially over the past 10 years, and it’s only going to continue. Scott Brinker’s marketing technology supergrapic has grown from just 150 tools in 2011 to almost 7,000 today. Image credit: Scott Brinker, Chief Marketing Techologist.

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Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

Martech has exploded in recent years, with over 11,000 solutions available to help marketers automate and optimize operations. However, much of this martech stack is designed to convert prospects into leads and track them through the marketing funnel. Lead forms Lead forms are still crucial. Brand affinity.

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 5, 2010

  The year 2011 will shape up to be a transformative one for sales and there will be significant rethinking on how sales functions are integrated into B2B organizations.  While most predictions rarely pan out in exactness, one thing we can say for certain - 2011 will be a very interesting year indeed. 

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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. Click here for part 1 & part 2.). Less than 50 beds. 50-250 beds. 250-500 beds.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 8, 2011

Jim has published articles and presented internationally on the topics of marketing ROI, marketing strategies and business growth strategies. These marketing organizations must rely on performance metrics such as Number of Marketing Qualified Leads, Percent of Leads Converting to Opportunities, and Number of Opportunities.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

If your 2011 marketing budget is tighter than you want it to be, trying giving sales less leads. According to Marketing Sherpa’s just-released 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , a whopping 80 percent of the 935 respondents said they pass unqualified leads along to sales. That’s a costly mistake.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

If your 2011 marketing budget is tighter than you want it to be, trying giving sales less leads. According to Marketing Sherpa’s just-released 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , a whopping 80 percent of the 935 respondents said they pass unqualified leads along to sales. That’s a costly mistake.

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 19, 2010

  My recent post entitled Seven Buyer and Sales Trends to Watch in 2011 is one of those instances for me personally.    Thanks to Lou Dubois from the Customer Collective for his editorial and moderation guidance and for the gracious subtle hints by Stephanie Tilton of Tenton Marketing.  Image via Wikipedia.

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NetLine

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In this post, we are going to take a look at how B2B marketers can effectively integrate intent data into their martech stack to unlock its full potential. Key components of a martech stack that can effectively leverage intent data Let’s face it, when it comes to marketing technology, there’s an awful lot out there to choose from.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2010

With the cloud of economic uncertainty still hanging over many industries, it is not surprising that B2B marketers are shifting their 2011 budgets more towards lower-cost inbound eMarketing tactics. MarketingSherpa asked more than 900 B2B marketers how they expected their marketing budgets to change for 2011.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2012

by Jon Miller Marketing automation is a technology that streamlines and automates marketing tasks so companies can increase operational efficiency and grow revenue faster. In other words, companies don’t buy marketing automation to automate their marketing. Measure and prove marketing ROI.

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Webbiquity

MAY 5, 2020

B2B marketing teams have become highly proficient at producing content, whether for lead generation, brand awareness, or sales acceleration. The company offers a superior solution to its competitors through white-labeling the solution, plus ready integrations with CMS, CRM, and marketing automation systems. The Takeaways.

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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

One of my recent posts (“ The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011 ”) received a lot of great comments. The number one marketing trend for 2011, according to the 17,000 member B2B technology marketing group on LinkedIn, is the increasing integration of social media with traditional marketing tactics to drive qualified leads.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 18, 2015

Author: Sesame Mish Companies are increasingly realizing the benefits of marketing automation tools. According to The SiriusDecisions B2B Marketing Automation Study, there are a whopping 11 times more B2B organizations using marketing automation than there were in 2011. (So, Enhance Lead Nurturing.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As I discussed earlier this year in my BLOG “ Executive Insights: World-Class Demand Generation and Corporate Social Responsibility Converge at Televerde ”, I was very fortunate to work with some tremendous partners during my nearly 19 year tenure with SAP Global Marketing.

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Martech

JANUARY 3, 2022

The rapid proliferation of marketing software applications and the need for professionals to select, deploy and operate them, accelerated the prominence of the field and its practitioners. Martech teams devote most of their time to automation, campaign management tools. Model 3: Marketing Ops as the CMOs best friend.

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markempa

AUGUST 19, 2012

But don’t expect them to convert as fast as other leads, because you’re catching them much earlier in the buying process,” warns Kelly. Kelly combines this service with marketing automation software that allows her to record the path customers took to conversion. MarketingSherpa 2011 Social Marketing Benchmark Report.

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BenchmarkONE

AUGUST 26, 2020

Since 2011, they’ve grown by more than 100 percent , with pretty consistent growth year after year. If your emails aren’t optimized for mobile, you’re definitely not reaching your full potential in terms of conversion rates and ROI, and you’re probably losing a fair share of leads as well. Use Marketing Automation Software.

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markempa

DECEMBER 19, 2016

“With the rise of content marketing, a lot of businesses get stuck in the eBook rut,” saysLinda West ( @ misslindawest ), Director of Digital Marketing at Act-On Software , a rapidly growing company that makes a marketing automation Software as a Service (SaaS). A Shift in Customer Behavior in Content Marketing.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

In an exclusive online event, discover how to get the most from your lead nurturing program, and how to plan for success if you’re just getting started. Join me on Wednesday, December 7 as I present a Webinar on “ Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success ,” hosted by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA). 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET.

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