PureB2B

JUNE 13, 2017

Since people first started engaging in commercial trade, they’ve learned how to develop unique selling propositions and sales strategies to maximize the perceived value of their offerings. Since the early 90’s the internet has evolved into the most flexible marketing channel we’ve ever seen. Think about it. In 1986, ACT!,

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 20, 2021

The scalability and simple, yet powerful, automation functions are a few of the (many) reasons companies choose HubSpot. HubSpot has five core products you could migrate your existing system into: CRM: The database of contacts you have, contact activity, and so forth. CRM: Ensure Clean Imports. High-value prospects.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

On Focus.com , Craig Rosenberg asks: “What are the top benefits of adopting marketing automation?” My response: Based on our firm’s experience , the most common benefits of marketing automation are these: 1. Improved consistency of follow-up to all new leads independent of sales bandwidth.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 20, 2021

The scalability and simple, yet powerful, automation functions are a few of the (many) reasons companies choose HubSpot. HubSpot has five core products you could migrate your existing system into: CRM: The database of contacts you have, contact activity, and so forth. CRM: Ensure Clean Imports. High-value prospects.

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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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SalesIntel

APRIL 21, 2021

To ensure that marketers and sales professionals can identify and reach the right leads at the right time, data cleansing and data enrichment are the two most commonly used methods to have accurate contacts for outreach. A recent study shows that 91% of companies with more than 11 employees use CRM software for sales and marketing.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

CRM platform implementations and migrations are not as hard as you may think. My fellow SmartBug® Jessica Vionas-Singer wrote an article on why CRM implementations fail , to provide you with a broader picture. For those creating a new CRM: Beyond standard fields (e.g., How are salespeople determining the priority of leads?

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The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. DT: Well, the biggest misconception about Salesforce is that it’s something Sales reps like and Marketing folks don’t.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

A client asks: “Now that we have our marketing automation system in place, is it really necessary to use registration forms in our lead nurturing (follow-up) campaigns? After all, we already know who these people are, correct? In addition: 1.

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The Point

MARCH 18, 2014

Over at marketing automation firm Marketo , CEO Phil Fernandez just wrote a full-throated rant against the evils of unsolicited email and purchased email lists used indiscriminately: “How does anyone think that these are sensible emails to send to the CEO of a fast-growing public company? And that’s all how it should be.

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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. Based on first-hand impressions, however, it’s not how the vast majority of clients are employing (or even thinking of) marketing automation. I’m just not sure the rest of us are quite there yet.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. 4) Lead scoring — in a prior post , I make the case for quantitative scoring.

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Oktopost

JULY 20, 2023

The introduction of CRM happened way back in the 1980s, when databases were just starting to make the rounds in the corporate world. In some ways, it was clear where it was all headed; in others, the marketing and sales execs of the 80s couldn’t have dreamed of the level of insight and details we could extract from a CRM in 2023.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. To do so efficiently requires a good database solution and marketing automation and filtration tools that incorporate social media intrinsically.

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The Point

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Even while fewer than 30 percent of contacts on average actually change companies (your numbers may be higher depending on the industries you serve, or even target geographies), one thing is certain: the data you have in your CRM database on an individual customer or prospect is likely to be outdated after a mere 12 months.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Which B2B lead generation strategies really work ? Without leads, B2B marketers don’t have prospects. However, with the right leads, everything else falls into place. Below, we’ve compiled a near-comprehensive guide to all things B2B lead generation. The Challenges of Generating B2B Leads. Where do we start?”

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

5 LinkedIn Sales Navigator enables sales teams to manage and integrate their LI target account lists into their CRM, as well as get notifications of new, relevant matches and activities done by those accounts. Lead routing and scoring have been improved. LinkedIn Sales Navigator SalesIntel Clearbit UpLead Seamless.ai

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

5 LinkedIn Sales Navigator enables sales teams to manage and integrate their LI target account lists into their CRM, as well as get notifications of new, relevant matches and activities done by those accounts. Lead routing and scoring have been improved. LinkedIn Sales Navigator SalesIntel Clearbit UpLead Seamless.ai

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2009

Summary: Entiera is a sophisticated consumer marketing automation system, offered as a service and at a lower price than conventional competitors. Entiera Insight is a marketing automation system primarily for companies that sell to consumers. This is unusual among consumer marketing automation vendors.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « We’re renaming the blog | Main | New networks in the news » April 16, 2008 Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Recently I saw a preview of Eloqua’s spring release and it got me thinking about the role lead scoring plays in determining campaign effectiveness.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This week’s show is called “ He Predicted Marketing Automation and ABM. If this is a marketing exercise, you’re neutering its impact from the beginning. So from Epiphany, to Marketo, to being the first person I heard anywhere utter, “This is no longer going to be a lead based effort. What’s Next?!

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DiscoverOrg

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

As a result, I’ve spent most of the last year thinking about how to accomplish that (and do it well), how to keep those reps fed with leads, how to keep them motivated, and how to optimize their process and results. Safety with Tools: Phone, Email, CRM, Data. In the last year, DiscoverOrg scaled our SDR team from 5 reps to over 20.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

I say “roughly” because Neolane and Alterian are rooted in the campaign management side of marketing automation, while MarketingPilot is based on marketing resource management. Once they’re delivered, MarketingPilot will be a viable mid-market option for integrated marketing management.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 12, 2021

Year after year, marketing professionals are asked to do more with less. Generate more leads (or sales) and increase brand awareness, without spending more (or at best, not much more) money. We basically pull all of those together, on the technical side, into a graph database which allows us to see end-to-end.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 15, 2018

For companies to transition from where they’ve been to where they need to be, they must understand three truths: Sales lead management (SLM) is a fundamental business process. It’s not a sales-only process, and it’s not a marketing-only process. Millions are squandered on marketing automation with no real way to engage prospects.

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