InsightSquared

DECEMBER 6, 2017

They tackle much of the heavy lifting in Salesforce.com (or other CRM systems) and continuously optimize processes to make lives easier for sales reps and managers, giving them more time to focus on what they do best – sell. On top of their CRM skills, sales ops managers are analytical.

Work Management 180

Work Management Marketing Management Top of Funnel Salesforce.com 180

Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. But I did notice about two years ago that pretty much everyone in the B2B marketing automation space was more or less assuming I’d attend. All of which brings us back to B2B marketing automation. Peer pressure worked, and there I was.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Work Management 120

LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In addition to Marketing Automation, there were two big topics: Social Media and CRM. I will write about Social Media some other time, and focus on CRM in this post. Many attendees were confused by CRM vendors claiming to offer full marketing functionality. Strong Features of CRM. Automated Campaigns Flows.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Salesforce.com 100

ANNUITAS

MARCH 1, 2016

One analytics vendor after another is selling you on their ability to analyze and make sense of “any” data. So what is the key to better demand generation analytics? We must take a different approach — a structured approach — to demand generation analytics. Successful demand generation analytics must bridge the two.

Demand Generation 100

Demand Generation Demand Elasticity Analytics 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. It’s selling to small and mid-size companies and business-to-business marketers, who are just dipping their toes into marketing automation.

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Salesforce.com Enterprise Management Hubspot Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. 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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Summary: Marketing automation and CRM systems may eventually converge, but for now marketers need help explaining why they need a system of their own. People still don’t understand the difference between marketing automation vs. CRM. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate? Vendors take note.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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markempa

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tweet Customer relationship management (CRM) is defined a number of different ways. At the same time, the real engine driving CRM and keeping prospects moving through the sales funnel is technology. The first technology that comes to mind is CRM software, such as Salesforce.com or Microsoft Dynamics.

Sales Management 120

Sales Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

” Convergence: Technology, CRM & Social Media. Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Christopher notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Resource Management BtoB 120

ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

” Convergence: Technology, CRM & Social Media. Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Chris notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Resource Management BtoB 120

InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As owners of the sales tech stack , sales operations directors are always evaluating new sales technology vendors and managing the CRM (typically Salesforce.com ) infrastructure. Deep expertise on sales automation and CRM systems is mandatory for sales ops directors.

Work Management 120

Work Management Salesforce.com Deliverability Forecasting 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Marketing automation, Web analytics, and Web content management systems can all access this data via API calls for analytics and as inputs to their own selection and treatment rules. This is a major extension beyond traditional marketing automation, which works mostly through email to known prospects.

DemandBase 120

DemandBase Advertising Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. The reason is selection bias: most surveys are answered by people who are actively engaged in marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. Salesforce.com easily dominates despite the presence of surprisingly capable free products like ZohoCRM and FreeCRM.

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Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services LEADSExplorer netFactor Leadlander 100

Vidyard

OCTOBER 14, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – October 14, 2014 – Vidyard, a global leader in video marketing and sales enablement solutions, is bringing video analytics and video ROI reporting to the new Salesforce Wave Analytics Cloud. “However, most lack the tools they need to understand the performance of videos beyond basic view counts.

Analytics 51

Analytics Video Marketing Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services 51

Vidyard

OCTOBER 14, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – October 14, 2014 – Vidyard, a global leader in video marketing and sales enablement solutions, is bringing video analytics and video ROI reporting to the new Salesforce Wave Analytics Cloud. However, most lack the tools they need to understand the performance of videos beyond basic view counts.

Analytics 50

Analytics Video Marketing Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services 50

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 18, 2011

As you might have guessed from my recent list of B2C marketing automation systems , I’ve recently been spending some time helping consumer marketers to select vendors. The CRM integration can be set up in days, if not minutes, and next to no time is spent worrying about the marketing database design or update processes.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Vidyard

OCTOBER 14, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – October 14, 2014 – Vidyard, a global leader in video marketing and sales enablement solutions, is bringing video analytics and video ROI reporting to the new Salesforce Wave Analytics Cloud. “However, most lack the tools they need to understand the performance of videos beyond basic view counts.

Analytics 50

Analytics Video Marketing Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services 50

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. NurtureHQ hopes to differentiate itself as “dead easy marketing automation”, which it arguably is. It’s really nice. I think not. Naturally, NurtureHQ disagrees.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 5, 2016

But Engagio's latest product, Engagio PlayMaker, actually does occupy a space in between marketing, sales development, field sales and customer success by connecting them without replacing existing marketing automation, CRM, or customer success systems. Let’s look a little closer. PlayMaker is due for release at the end of this month.

Account Based Marketing 120

Account Based Marketing Marketing Automation Services Service Paid Search Agency 120

Valasys

MAY 22, 2019

CRM stands for “Customer Relationship management” & came into origin in the 1970s when marketers first realized that they need to be ‘customer empathic’ rather than ‘product empathic’ The sales funnel has been a mystical analogy since its inception in the late 1800s when E. This is where CRM takes over.

B2B Sales 53

B2B Sales Top of Funnel CRM Work Management 53

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Most of the work in any marketing analytics project is integrating data from multiple systems. The system has prebuilt connectors to import data from popular vendors including Salesforce.com , Marketo , Hubspot , SAP , SugarCRM , and Facebook. No fancy attribution methodologies or custom journey maps here (although they’re on the way).

Analysis 120

Analysis Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. And, while we’re on the subject, they need REALLY TIGHT integration between marketing and sales automation, if not one shared system. online chat and - telemarketing support through the CRM component.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 48

Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

The real-time CRM and Marketing Automation data vendors (including Leadspace) should have another big year based on the growing acknowledgement that this type of service dramatically enhances the performance of these massive CRM and MA investments companies have made. It’s beautiful when it’s that simple, and this one is.

Enterprise Management 116

Enterprise Management Paid Content Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 116

The Point

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I just returned from a few days at Dreamforce in San Francisco, the annual circus-slash-conference hosted by CRM leader Salesforce.com, and was struck by the wave of technologies on display that centered on analytics. Predictive analytics and similar advancements will help close the gap.

Demand Generation Agencies 100

Demand Generation Agencies Lead Gen Marketing Report Research 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing 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. We'd discovered over years of consulting to Sales and Marketing VPs that most firm's CRM systems were not really functional.

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Salesforce.com Lead Ranking Thought Leadership Lead Scoring 48

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Once again Salesforce.com has delivered a great set of new features for Marketers in the Winter 10 release. This is more relevant than ever since marketers may wish to use Salesforce.com to track events like seminars that may have a registration fee. Want to know more about this release and everything else Salesforce.com ?

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Salesforce.com Features Marketing Management Marketing Analytics Tools 48

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Some of these features might include CRM overlap and integration where the capabilities span across multiple platforms, data cleaning/cleansing, social media integrations, and technology prospecting. Eliminate productivity bottlenecks and create more sales conversations with email and phone automation. Let’s get into it!

B2B Sales 70

B2B Sales Enterprise Management Zoominfo Work Management 70

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 14, 2013

This week it announced a new platform , InterestBase, that gives clients an interface to define target groups, analyze group members’ interests, push prospect lists to marketing automation and CRM systems, and enhance individual lead records. A campaign list can include the entire persona universe or a quantity specified by the user.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Social Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles 120

LeadSloth

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Even though some vendors have been around for almost 10 years, Marketing Automation is still relatively new. According to Forrester, only 2-5% of B2B firms have invested in full-featured Marketing Automation. Increasingly, B2B companies realize that Marketing Automation software requires skilled operators.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. Aprimo is in the early stages of launching Aprimo Marketing Studio , a new Software-as-a-Service marketing automation suite that is separate from the existing Aprimo product.*

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Digital Asset Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 10, 2014

Real Time Personalization already exists, obviously, and will remain a separate product that can work with any marketing automation system. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend. Every major marketing automation vendor has tried to do the same. Let me be clear.

Marketo 120

Marketo Marketing Automation Services Conference Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 15, 2007

Our friends at Accenture have once again illustrated the point with a paper “ Surveying and Building Your CRM Future ,” whose subtitle promises “a New CRM Software Decision-Making Model”. Each combination neatly maps to a different class of CRM software. Large firms have multiple CRM implementations.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Paper 120