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8 Questions to Ask Before Investing in Marketing Attribution

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Fortunately, there are now some excellent third-party reporting, analytics and attribution tools that can help marketers get closer to attribution nirvana. These may simply be your MAP or CRM. Before you invest in a third-party reporting solution, however, we recommend first asking some tough questions: Phase 1 – Data.

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This Year, Tackle These 3 Demand Generation Priorities First

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Or Social Media Analytics. And yet most companies, even those with sophisticated marketing automation and CRM technologies at their disposal, do a poor job of genuinely measuring campaign success beyond basic metrics like clicks and leads. If we only had ABM, you hear. Or Predictive. Know What’s Working.

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Research Report: Lead Gen Not as Easy as Marketers Think

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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.

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Take a Sales Guy to Lunch: Bridging the Sales & Marketing Divide

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BAS) I am pretty excited about the advances in marketing automation systems with built in analytics. Companies like Eloqua and Marketo have 1-click integration into CRM systems that make it easy to synchronize marketing and sales processes and lead data. Today, lead management in the CRM system starts when sales get the lead.

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What Response Rate Should I Expect From My Campaign?

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And that’s where technologies like CRM, marketing automation, and Web analytics can make all the difference. Ultimately, it’s about the quality of that response, the rate at which those leads turn into opportunities and then sales, and the ROI from the mailing (or email broadcast) that matters.

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Programmatic Ad Buying: What Does It Mean for B2B Marketers?

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You could make the case, as I will, that of all the new technologies to enter the marketing technology landscape of late, the two with the potential to have the biggest short-term impact for B2B marketers are Predictive Analytics and Programmatic Ad Buying. Web-based “nurturing” via uploaded CRM records. • contextual targeting.