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And Our Forecast of B2B Marketing Automation Revenue for 2013 is.

Customer Experience Matrix

The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. But by far the most quoted piece of content is our estimate of industry size, which we put at $525 million for 2012. I’ll get to the 2013 estimate in a bit. Both methods give similar results.

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How to identify your ideal customer profile (ICP)

Lenny's Newsletter

of the B2B companies I researched spent just as much time on picking the problem as they did on figuring out who to solve the problem for. In the chart, and in the stories below, notice how most companies landed on exactly three attributes. compliance, internal transparency) Company’s unique way of working (e.g.

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How to Fix Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Convince & Convert

Here’s one iteration, presented as a keynote speech to ESTO (Educational Seminar for Travel Organizations) in the fall of 2012. One of the major theses we employ in our social media strategy process is this: Companies should focus more on how to BE social, and less on how to DO social media. Step 2: Listen and Compare.

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Shadow Traffic: Why Your Traffic Numbers Are Off By 20%

Parse.ly

Dark traffic first popped up in 2012, when it became clear that traffic stripped of its referrer information was categorized as “direct.” Blocked technology includes social media trackers, cross-site tracking cookies, fingerprinters, and cryptominers. We never sell, share, or correlate personal data among our measured sites.

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Everything You Need to Know About Ripple

Hubspot

Bitcoin might command most of the public’s mindshare on cryptocurrency, but Ripple is a company you definitely don’t want to overlook. Founded in 2012, Ripple sells a currency settlement and exchange platform and issues the third largest cryptocurrency (based on market capitalization) in the world.

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Acquisitions Reshape the Marketing Automation Industry: Growth at the Bottom, Room in the Middle, Fog at the Top

Customer Experience Matrix

This is our flagship report on the industry, with nearly 200 data points on 23 vendors and separate ratings for micro-business, small to mid-size companies, and enterprise marketing departments. Growth at the Bottom: the green shading in the client growth column highlights companies reporting a year-on-year increase of 60% or more.

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Email Marketing: Where’s the Innovation?

markempa

But honestly, I think B2B marketers might be more disillusioned with the power of email, if the feedback from 1,745 marketing organizations in the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report is any indication. We don’t give out an award unless a company deserves it and an entry really ‘wows’ us,” he confesses.