Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. This is always a fun project because it gives me an overview of what all the vendors have been up to for the past six months.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2015

I wrote about Bislr in November 2013. Back then, they positioned themselves as a “marketing operating system” that provided core functions but would ultimately let users connect with third party apps. This allows marketers to adopt Autopilot without discarding their current tools, easing the transition.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 15, 2013

As I mentioned in last week''s post , I’m writing a paper on stages of marketing automation deployment. The premise of the paper and Webinar is marketing automation has a problem: clients who don’t move beyond basic email functions are unhappy. The paper itself will be available to Webinar attendees.

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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Finally, the new 2013 B2B Lead Generation Report is available! Download it here: [link] ) The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted the 2013 lead generation survey to better understand how B2B marketers are adjusting to new challenges, and to identify new trends and best practices. The results are in.

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Outbrain

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

From the dishwasher in your kitchen, to automatic monthly payment of your electricity bill, the majority of repetitive tasks are now done with some sort of automation. Why should marketing be any different? What are marketing automation platforms? What is marketing automation primarily used for?

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The need for a Customer Data Platform – a marketer-controlled, unified, persistent, accessible customer database – applies equally to business and consumer marketing. Indeed, many of the firms I originally identified as CDPs were lead scoring and customer success management vendors who serve primarily B2B clients.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 30, 2015

A recent piece in TechCrunch quoted me as saying that “almost 70 percent of marketers are either unhappy or only marginally happy with their marketing automation software.” Answers came from 159 marketing automation users. See my posts for October 13, 2013 and October 22, 2013 for a several other surveys.

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Sharpspring

JUNE 10, 2021

New marketing agencies are popping up every day and in the ever-evolving marketing landscape, how do you make sure yours stands out? Keep reading to learn how one agency is using marketing automation to offer up results that are growing not only their clients’ businesses, but also their own. Quick Overview.

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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. But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. million vs. $13.3

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Two common business terms combined describe the an increasingly popular outreach tool: marketing automation. According to marketing research firm Raab Associates , the marketing automation system industry will reach $750 million in 2013, growing 50 percent from 2012. What is Marketing Automation?

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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. Modus Sales Hub is sales enablement software that helps salespeople have better conversations with their prospects and customers, resulting in increased sales and customer engagement. The Product.

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Lead Liaison

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Lead Liaison, LLC Celebrates a Decade of Innovation in Sales and Marketing Lead Liaison, LLC proudly commemorates its 10-year anniversary, reflecting on a remarkable journey that has established the company as a global leader in sales enablement, marketing automation, and event management solutions.

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ClickZ

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

30-second summary: Following a survey and some editorial research, we have highlighted 10 people we think are either respected industry guardians, or are making some noteworthy contributions to the marketing technology space. Nearly every person in our survey had him as one of their top five leaders in marketing technology sector.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 4, 2012

One easily predictable trend in B2B marketing automation is that vendors will tailor their systems to specific industries. The reason may be that B2B marketing automation products have a narrower scope than B2C systems, meaning there’s less advantage in creating vertical editions.

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Everything Technology Marketing

JUNE 27, 2013

Content marketing is going mainstream in 2013. B2B marketers are increasingly using content marketing tactics to engage B2B buyers with compelling content to educate, inform, entertain and guide them along their buying journey. But what’s behind the buzz and growing popularity of content marketing?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2013

Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). Neolane announced $58 million revenue in 2012 and has been growing around 40% per year, which would yield about $80 million 2013 revenue.)

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 6, 2014

Author: David Cheng As part of our open beta launch this December, ShareBloc ran a contest to find the Top Content Marketing Posts of 2013. More than 640 voters selected their favorite posts from eight key areas in sales and marketing,and four posts about marketing automation made it into the top 50.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 6, 2014

Author: David Cheng As part of our open beta launch this December, ShareBloc ran a contest to find the Top Content Marketing Posts of 2013. More than 640 voters selected their favorite posts from eight key areas in sales and marketing,and four posts about marketing automation made it into the top 50.

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Porch Group Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Watch this discussion on the Customer Data Platform market, from the V12 Next Best Action thought leadership forum. We’re going to get a broad variety of intel and insight on the Customer Data Platform market with the inventor of the CDP market, David Raab, who’s head of the CDP Institute.

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Everything Technology Marketing

JULY 6, 2013

Check out our latest B2B Content Marketing Report 2013 and find out what is going on in the world of content marketing. The popularity of white papers as a content marketing format is declining relative to interactive, easily digestible formats such as video. Marketing automation is on the rise.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 30, 2013

2013 was a successful year for KoMarketing. The beginning of 2013 saw us performing significant program work for clients in Europe. The beginning of 2013 saw us performing significant program work for clients in Europe. All of our clients and prospects know the importance content plays in our B2B online marketing initiatives.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Marketers are all about efficiency, whether it's setting up a repeatable blogging strategy, automating social promotions, or letting websites do a lot of the legwork. Email marketing is no different — and the ability to automate follow-up and nurturing is a crucial part of that success and taking stress off day-to-day.

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Kabbage

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In 2013, I wrote an article about the “CRM of the Future” which included three key components: (1) Out-of-the-box Lead Recommendations, (2) True Canonical Leads and (3) Pipeline Transparency. The expectation of future executives will be that CRM, ERP, and Marketing Automation (MAT), will be linked and a true representation of their business.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 2, 2013

by Jon Miller (@jonmiller) You are ready for marketing automation and are excited to get started. When building a business case for marketing automation , in addition to estimating the revenue growth and cost saving benefits, you’ll also need to understand the investment required to develop the other side of the business case.

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Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

B2B industrial marketing presents unique challenges compared to other forms of B2B marketing. If you’re a marketer at a manufacturer, distributor, or engineering company, you know this firsthand. My personal thoughts and experiences as an industrial marketer and consultant. But I’m not just another marketing consultant.

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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Email Marketing. Drip Marketing. Nurture Marketing. Social Marketing. Marketing Heroes. You are here: Home Marketing Blog. Marketing Blog. Email Marketing. Learn Marketing Automation. Marketing Blog. Nurture Marketing. December 12, 2013 by Samantha Stallard.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 30, 2014

and then yesterday omnichannel personalization vendor Sailthru announced their own predictive solution. Now, Sailthru is interesting in its own right – it’s a Customer Data Platform with strong decisioning capabilities – but they’ll have to wait their turn. self-service. I had already planned this week to write about Wise.io

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 9, 2014

million in cash, a premium of 48% over their stock market price. x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. Vocus announced on Monday that they were being acquired by private equity firm GTCR for $446.5

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

In fact, 43 percent more videos were watched online from 2013 to 2014. Those are some staggering numbers, and most marketers are starting to appreciate that numbers like these translate to huge opportunity when shifted into a business context. Video Marketing Maturity Means Getting More Strategic. billion videos in 365 days.

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BenchmarkONE

OCTOBER 22, 2018

You know that marketing automation works. Marketing automation is one of those categories. It’s a major shift that requires commitment and investment from various teams, including customer service, marketing, sales and whichever managers run those departments. But does your boss? Credit: Marketo.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Everyone in marketing knows there’s a lot of new marketing technology, but how quickly is martech really growing? Many people cite changes in Scott Brinker ’s iconic marketing technology landscape, which has roughly doubled in size every year since Brinker first published it in 2011. Fortunately, other data is available.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 14, 2016

market only since March 2016, although many U.S. marketers will recall its previous incarnation as SmartFocus.* The company offers what it calls an omnichannel marketing platform that builds a unified customer database, manages marketing campaigns, and generates personalized Web and email messages.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Author: DJ Waldow I love email marketing. I’ve been living, breathing, eating, sleeping, and sometimes dreaming email marketing for nearly a decade. While I’d never go as far as to say that email marketing is for everyone, it certainly is effective for most businesses – small, large, B2B, and B2C. I know email marketing.

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LEADership

MAY 26, 2015

Still others have invested top dollars in automation software and are sitting with their shiny new cannons, waiting to kill a mosquito! The diversity of scenarios across the full B2B marketing spectrum is clearly evident. So what are the most common reasons your marketing automation may be failing to deliver?

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Only B2B

AUGUST 13, 2020

Account based marketing, traces its roots in 1990’s, when B2B and B2C companies startednoticing the need for personalized marketing. The evergreen mantra for personalized marketing is ‘advertising’. But today, with the help of technology and tools the marketing is way more channelized and shows some sophistication.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Teradata today announced it plans to sell its Marketing Applications business. It’s only three weeks since Teradata expanded its marketing suite by buying a new Data Management Platform – a move I felt made great sense. One bit of evidence: the Aprimo brand was dropped in 2013. So what happens now?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Marketers: it’s time to stop thinking about data. In short, companies who aren’t effectively leveraging their sales and marketing data face a very real, relatively imminent risk of getting left far behind their competitors. So why am I urging marketers to stop focusing on their marketing data? Hear me out.

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