B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Been part of numerous B2B marketing analytics journeys across various organizations, I have been witnessing how data and analytics have become the core of modern B2B marketing execution. CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders.

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Last week I presented a session at Silverpop’s B2B Marketing University in Atlanta. In addition to Marketing Automation, there were two big topics: Social Media and CRM. Many attendees were confused by CRM vendors claiming to offer full marketing functionality. For CRM, I focused on Salesforce.com.

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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. This requires finding ways to attract masses of new customers as they enter the market.

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Launch Marketing

JANUARY 11, 2019

RealMassive is an Austin-based tech startup that connects tenants, investors, owners, properties and brokers in a modern, global commercial real estate (CRE) marketplace that is fueled by big data to provide an intuitive property list and search tools, digital marketing capabilities and real-time performance analytics. The Details.

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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. I hugely enjoyed yesterday’s Boston session of the Silverpop -sponsored B2B Marketing University. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate?

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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. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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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.

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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. Just when did demand generation get this complicated?

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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.

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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. Video has quickly emerged as a critical content medium for engaging, educating and converting online audiences.

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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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. This broader scope should become standard as marketers try to truly integrate their programs. The demand generation vendors have been much more dynamic.

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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?

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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. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. But I’m beginning to think those marketers were really saying something else.

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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.

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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.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

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. And you can show demos.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

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. And you can show demos.

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Vidyard

JULY 17, 2015

Kitchener, Ontario – July 15, 2015 – Demand Spring and Vidyard today announced a partnership to offer the industry’s first video marketing consulting service for B2B marketing and demand generation teams.

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Vidyard

JULY 17, 2015

Kitchener, Ontario – July 15, 2015 – Demand Spring and Vidyard today announced a partnership to offer the industry’s first video marketing consulting service for B2B marketing and demand generation teams.

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markempa

DECEMBER 19, 2016

“With the rise of content marketing, a lot of businesses get stuck in the eBook rut,” saysLinda West ( @ misslindawest ), Director of Digital Marketing at Act-On Software , a rapidly growing company that makes a marketing automation Software as a Service (SaaS). A Shift in Customer Behavior in Content Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. But I can share some examples and insights that should help any new team.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. But I can share some examples and insights that should help any new team.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. If the vendors fail, the business will go to consultants, ad agencies, and other service firms that do the clients’ marketing for them.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

Demand generation systems are in that second stage. CEO and co-founder Brian Giese had extensive experience in business sales and marketing and with existing demand generation systems when he began developing True Influence two years ago. Giese’s conclusion was that marketers’ overwhelming need is simplicity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing Thought Leader interview series is with David Taber. 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. Q: What do marketers need to look out for in CRM analytics?

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LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

From Web Analytics to Demand Generation. ActiveConversion first became known for its sales-focused Web Analytics, such as identifying companies that visit your website (similar to Leadlander ). Salesforce.com integration. Website sessions are added to the salesforce.com Lead record. Marketing & Web Analytics.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 18, 2014

I was sitting in some client meetings recently going over their Demand Generation Strategy, and something struck me as out of the ordinary…but in a good way. In most B2B marketing planning sessions, the technical team is not involved in any of the strategy discussion. Guess what, marketers? Step One: People.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. When I wrote about Aprimo Marketing Studio in a post last August , I was impressed by the scope of the product but reserved judgment because it hadn’t yet been launched. You know who you are.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

When I first described Customer Data Platforms two and half years ago, all the vendors offered an application such as predictive analytics or campaign management in addition to the "pure" CDP function of building the customer database. Most pipelines execute as batch processes, either on demand or on a user-specified schedule.

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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. A few weeks back, I wrote about social marketing features from consumer marketing automation vendors. I got details from two of them last week.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2012

More specifically, the decision managers assemble a consolidated customer profile by pulling data on demand from external systems rather than storing it internally. Although I just compared SiteCore with decision management systems, its more immediate competitors are marketing automation vendors.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It's looking more like a conventional small-business marketing automation system every day. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs.

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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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The Point

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It’s no secret that I am a fervent evangelist for marketing automation, and at our agency we see the real-life benefits every day in the form of clients generating higher conversion rates, more qualified leads, and shorter sales cycles. HS) Where do you see as the greatest opportunity to improve marketing and sales processes?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. Where marketing is going. Our comprehensive solution includes great email capabilities, but goes much deeper to include enterprise-class marketing automation, social marketing, marketing financial management, and revenue cycle analytics.

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Vidyard

JULY 21, 2014

Vidyard leads the video marketing platform category with proven technology, advanced features, and integrations with leading CRM and marketing automation systems, including Salesforce.com, Marketo, Eloqua, Pardot, HubSpot, ExactTarget and HootSuite. Since the company’s founding in 2010, it has raised more than $8.5

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