B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

The data-driven marketing approach with the ability to track demand waterfall conversion rates is a game-changer across the board and no doubt marketing analytics continues to be a top priority for the CMOs and marketing leaders across all the organizations. MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads).

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 27, 2023

According to their site, Marketing Over Coffee is “audio on demand” that covers both classic and new marketing. Simon was working at the most famous ad agency when he realized that one account would do a fantastic job while another couldn’t tell the story right – even when the same people were on both accounts.

Lead Ranking 178

Lead Ranking Planning Paid Search Agency B2B Thought Leadership 178

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Whether it is the hyper-personalized contextual engagement approach, increasingly higher marketing ROI/ROMI, higher influence on pipeline generation/acceleration, or the increasingly better demand waterfall efficiencies, marketing analytics capabilities span across the areas of marketing execution and the key strategies.

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

Jackie Walts

MARCH 6, 2019

Recent advances in give demand generation marketers tricks to reduce waste and gain better results. Ditto for diving into platforms like WordPress, ABM technology and some more advanced functions of Salesforce.com. But, the sheer volume of options can be overwhelming. It seems like something new is coming up all the time.

Demand 54

Demand Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Salesforce.com 54

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Last November, after much consideration of alternatives , I settled on Alexa three-month Web traffic rankings as a reasonable way to measure the relative market presence of demand generation vendors. How about it guys?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I just received the latest issue of ABM in Action (October 2016), a monthly eMagazine dedicated to Account-Based Marketing from the publishers of Demand Gen Report, and I had to comment on the lead article. Don’t short-circuit the fundamentals of demand generation strategy when you embrace ABM. The moral of the story?

Account Based Marketing 168

Account Based Marketing Marketing Management Planning ABM 168

Engagio

APRIL 12, 2024

So are predictable business operations … for strategic planning (forecast demand) and resource allocation (both human capital and technology investments). According to Salesforce.com’s State of the Connected Customer (6th edition, 2024) , 68% of customers say advances in AI make it more important for companies to be trustworthy.

Marketing Management 62

Marketing Management Allocation Lead Ranking DemandBase 62

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. So now the story can be told.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. me-too products.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. It does take some process changes to focus on the level of interest, the depth of demand in a Contact, rather than just lead flow. Average time to convert.

Salesforce.com 48

Salesforce.com Lead Ranking Thought Leadership Lead Scoring 48

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

As the industry matures, second-generation products are designed to improve on the original products, either by adding new capabilities or by delivering the same capabilities faster, easier or cheaper. Demand generation systems are in that second stage. These are not yet standard features on most demand generation products.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Digital Asset Management Demand Marketing Management 120

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I just received the latest issue of ABM in Action (October 2016), a monthly eMagazine dedicated to Account-Based Marketing from the publishers of Demand Gen Report, and I had to comment on the lead article. Don’t short-circuit the fundamentals of demand generation strategy when you embrace ABM. The moral of the story?

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Marketing Management Planning ABM 100

markempa

MAY 30, 2017

From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target which was then acquired by Salesforce.com. I write for lots of different publications, and now I head up the forward-looking marketing ideas and theories as Principal of Marketing Insight at Salesforce.com. Mathew: In that book, Doc says that there is no demand for messages.

Linkedin 297

Linkedin Research Studies B2B 297

Brandpoint

MAY 18, 2020

The modern buyer is digitally driven, socially connected, mobile and empowered, with nearly unlimited access to information and people,” notes Jill Rowley on Salesforce.com. Ad copy should align with the process, techniques and verbiage used to sell the products in real-life scenarios.

Top of Funnel 149

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Planning Work Management 149

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. This pricing is low even among SMB demand generation systems.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Enterprise Management Small Business Marketing Pricing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

If the vendors fail, the business will go to consultants, ad agencies, and other service firms that do the clients’ marketing for them. All that’s missing to be full-blown demand generation system is outbound email and lead nurturing campaigns—which the company has announced it will add. Hubspot has accepted this challenge.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) People enter a campaign by being added to a group. You know who you are.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Other vendors have similar price points for the small business market (see my list of demand generation vendors ) although I suspect their internal costs are higher. Salesforce.com easily dominates despite the presence of surprisingly capable free products like ZohoCRM and FreeCRM. Infusionsoft has repositioned itself as “email 2.0”

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

That's fewer functions than traditional demand generation, but if those are the functions you need, who cares? These functions, plus supporting features for database management, content management, sales system synchronization, and reporting, form a basic template for measuring demand generation software.

Active Conversion 120

Active Conversion Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

Summary: Genius.com has added a free version of its system. On Monday, Genius.com announced “the first free, instant-on demand generation solution”, a description carefully crafted to distinguish their offering from the free version announced by LoopFuse in June. Since Genius has highlighted the issue, let's dive into its Web tracking.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Loopfuse 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Summary: Right On Interactive has added great life stage reporting to the data integration and output generation features of its earlier 5Buckets product. These include sending an email via Salesforce.com or ExactTarget, creating a Salesforce.com task, generating an output file, and sending emails to Foursquare friends.

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

From Web Analytics to Demand Generation. Salesforce.com integration. ActiveConversion also integrates with Salesforce.com , although using Salesforce is not a requirement. Typically, new leads are assigned to sales person before they are copied to Salesforce.com: the assignment rules are flexible.

ActiveConversion 100

ActiveConversion SMB Work Management Lead Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Joe Moloney gave a more detailed answer about limits in Salesforce.com in particular, including lack of CAN-SPAM compliance and limits on mass emails. Is Salesforce.com a threat to vendors of marketing automation solutions? Technology may impede Software-as-a-Service sales automation vendors from adding marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com.

Marketo 120

Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality. The company’s original focus was on web analytics.

Manticore 100

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

Finally, Optify has expanded into conventional marketing automation over the past 18 months and most recently added basic contact management and distribution of lead information, scores, and alerts to sales people. CRM integration is currently limited to sending data to Salesforce.com. That''s theme number three.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

It originally returned only lead scores, although they are now adding multiple applications that create different scores for different purposes. LeadSpace scans for data on demand, rather than maintaining its own master database. . I wrote about them in August 2013. It stresses quick model building. I reviewed them in June 2014.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

Marketo and Oracle (specifically, Oracle CRM On Demand Marketing ) are considerably further back in the leader quadrant. See my 2011 MarketingPilot review for more details, bearing in mind that they’ve added capabilities since then. It’s important to recognize that Neolane and Aprimo are fundamentally different from the others.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 4, 2010

Summary: Two low-cost demand generation systems, Genoo and Act-On Software, have added unusually advanced social marketing features. Naturally our friends in the business marketing space have been adding such features as well. A few weeks back, I wrote about social marketing features from consumer marketing automation vendors.

Act-On 120

Act-On Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Features 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Most are marketing and sales operations staff supporting Salesforce.com and Marketo who use Openprise to supplement the limited data management capabilities native to those systems. The Marketo integration reads only the lead object, although the activities object is being added. Some can run in real time through API calls.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com , Oracle Eloqua and Marketo. Users can define segments based on these or other attributes and export their related data to CRM, marketing automation, ad targeting, or Web personalization systems via file transfers or API calls. Formal release was in May 2014.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Activities Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

DemandBase had to build its own engines for real time bidding (RTB) and ad serving (Demand Side Platform or DSP) to support its approach. These can integrate with Demandbase’s own network of Web publishers that will accept its ads and with other ad exchanges that connect to their own, larger publisher networks).

DemandBase 120

DemandBase Advertising Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency 120

ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

This needs to be addressed if marketing is going to meet the demand of today’s business. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. The main attraction was five customers on stage who in their words were there to share “the good, the bad and the ugly of working with Salesforce.com”.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

This needs to be addressed if marketing is going to meet the demand of today’s business. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. The main attraction was five customers on stage who in their words were there to share “the good, the bad and the ugly of working with Salesforce.com”.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Marketo added features to capture Twitter posts and Helpstream customer support interactions within a lead’s activity history. But enhanced reporting was the most common improvement of all. Sales access.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 120

Vidyard

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Vidyard helps customer support teams resolve cases faster and improve customer experience with personalized and on-demand video for support. On-Demand Video Content: Create on-demand videos and publish to online knowledge articles with the ability to centrally manage, track and update content.

Paid Search Agency 77

Paid Search Agency Customer Satisfaction Marketing Management Salesforce.com 77