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

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve just finished the latest update of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), available on the raabguide.com Web site. The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. I’ll get to the 2013 estimate in a bit. Anyway, back to the estimates.

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2013 Year in Review: Top 6 focus areas for B2B marketers this year

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Tweet As the holiday season quickly approaches an end, and marketers prepare to make 2014 their best year yet, we pulled together the top blog posts on the B2B Lead Roundtable Blog to share the most popular topics, chosen by marketers just like you. In 2012, the top focus for B2B marketers was understanding and leveraging social media.

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The 25 Best Slideshare Presentations Of 2013

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You may have heard me talk about how Slideshare is one of the greatest opportunities in content marketing. With more than 50 Million visitors per month and more than 100 million pageviews, slideshare is one of the top websites in the world and should be a key focus of any B2B content marketing program. Congratulations Graduate!

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The 2013 Marketing Predictions Post: Content Marketing And Social Business

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In my Marketing Prediction post from last year, I did not break any new ground when I predicted that 2012 would be all about social, content and mobile. I predicted more CMOs would move to change the marketing mindset from one of promoting products to one of creating valuable customer-focused content.

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Best quotes from Hubspot Inbound 2013

Leading Results Rambings

The Leading Results team just invested 10 man-days at the Hubspot Inbound conference (3 of us for 3 days and 2 of us for a half day). If you are a marketer, you want to put this conference on your calendar for next year. And it wasn’t all (or even mostly) about Hubspot software. Here they are: Seth Godin (first day keynote). “

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HubSpot Files for IPO: Solid Financials for a Young Company

Customer Experience Matrix

HubSpot filed its much-anticipated S-1 for a public stock offering yesterday. In fact, Marketo today looks a lot like the HubSpot S-1.) - sales and marketing costs at 64% of revenue, well above Eloqua (which was growing much more slowly) and similar to Marketo (which was growing slightly faster).

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Traits of Startup Unicorns in 2024 [Data + Expert Insights]

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Since the term‘s inception in 2013, they’ve attracted immense attention and praise; there's even a reality television show called Unicorn Hunters that capitalizes on this public fascination. Privately owned companies are typically owned by a concentrated number of shareholders, unlike public companies traded on the stock market.