Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 8, 2009

I had an interesting email conversation last month with a Raab Guide buyer about the nuances of company-level data management in demand generation systems. He started from the perfectly reasonable premise that the demand generation system should give an overview of activity for all leads associated with a given company.

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Biznology

AUGUST 8, 2019

Thanks to an introduction from the longtime agency pro and university instructor Freddy Rosales , I had the chance to meet Martin J. Sellers—even smaller brands—are using marketing automation like InfusionSoft, Marketo and a local provider called Doppler emBlue to conduct event-triggered campaigns. Frias , who filled me in.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. It’s actually quite a long story, dating back to the company’s initial sales automation system in 1997, followed by its MarketingView demand generation product in 1999. So now the story can be told.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A prospective client asks: “We’re just getting our demand generation programs ramped up, and I’m not sure I’m ready for marketing automation. Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. Marketing automation simply takes nurturing to a whole new level. And therein lies the difference. Comments welcome.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. agency systems are big. Two of the four new vendors are agency system specialists, and several other vendors have also launched special agency editions.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard® Availability Services™ ( Sungard AS ) in Wayne, Pennsylvania is a global leader in disaster recovery, business continuity, and managed IT services. Design, build and launch a nurture campaign targeted to “Mid Stage” leads. Spear is a Marketo agency partner.) “A Re-posted with permission.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. The tentative list is Unica , Aprimo , Alterian , and Neolane.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 13, 2013

As I noted in a post last year , there is a universe of specialized marketing automation systems for companies that sell through channel partners. NitroMojo says about 60% of leads reply to the surveys, giving enough information for meaningful analysis of program, partner, and salesperson performance.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

According to the SiriusDecisions B-to-B Marketing Automation Study from 2014, there are nearly 11 times more B2B organizations using marketing automation now than in 2011. It takes a lot more work and dedication to make your marketing automation flourish than it does to destroy it.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. Standardized, automated workflow management.

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The Point

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In fact, ABM works best in combination with more traditional, funnel-based demand generation, and integrating ABM into the overall demand generation mix (focused on high-value, high-propensity accounts, say) can pay real dividends for most companies. Good content is at the center of any effective demand generation.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 23, 2014

I have personally run pay-per-click (PPC) programs for the companies I have worked for, and I have worked with agencies that specialize in PPC claiming to have proven track records in B2B. It’s OK if your PPC agency is freaking out because they are not able to show you high click-through and a low volume of impressions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This is an enticingly huge market for marketing automation vendors, and one that seems largely untapped. The largest marketing automation vendor in the segment, Infusionsoft , has under 20,000 clients. ReachLocal’s service includes one hour of customization per month and a completely new Web site every two years.

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The Point

AUGUST 25, 2020

Not every Account-Based Marketing (ABM) strategy starts from the same place. For others, it’s identifying a target account list. Just us every journey starts with the first step, however, it’s generally a good idea in ABM planning to first conduct an honest assessment of where you are, what you need, and who does what.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Today’s post is about Marketing Automation. Marketing automation platforms are a foundational element of the martech stack. Marketing automation is all about using software to automate activities which allows your teams more time to focus on strategy and the leads showing real promise. Marketo Engage.

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markempa

APRIL 18, 2007

FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! This is a common theme in sales and marketing automation, CRM implementation being another good example.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 26, 2011

Lead management continues to be a hot topic in the world of B2B marketing as we turn the corner and head into the second half of 2010. As a leader in lead management process development, our firm has seen a lot of confusion in the market about what constitutes lead management. So what are these myths?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. That's fewer functions than traditional demand generation, but if those are the functions you need, who cares? Registration is no longer required.)

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 12, 2011

by Phil Fernandez Today, the role of demand generation as a discrete and increasingly vital part of the marketing function is well accepted amongst corporations (especially B2B companies). The demand side of the business value equation has lagged in the reinvention department, but that is now starting to change, and rapidly so.

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The Point

JUNE 5, 2018

Earlier this year, Forrester Research conducted a detailed survey of more than 150 B2B marketing decision-makers with the intent of benchmarking the maturity of B2B marketing best practices, focused on revenue marketing and marketing automation. for lead management to 3.35 LDW: Overall, the scores were quite low.

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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. The reason is selection bias: most surveys are answered by people who are actively engaged in marketing automation.

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LeadSloth

JUNE 23, 2009

The Marketing Automation industry is evolving continuously. Many digital marketers are using marketing automation tools to automate lead nurturing. But if you want to expand your business, you also need to continuously add new leads to your database. Inbound Marketing Automation. What Does it Do for You?

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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The company’s cloud software, professional services and education programs provide marketers with the technology and expertise needed to help marketing drive revenue. Optify | [link] Optify is a simple digital marketing software suite and the industry standard for agency marketers.

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The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

How can ABM best coexist with a more traditional funnel-based demand generation model? There was a time, not so long ago, when Marketing Automation went through a similar transition. Like Marketing Automation before it, ABM is no exception. ABM technologies lend efficiency, accountability, and scalability to the process.

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Account-Based Marketing. Demand Gen and Lead Management. Marketing Automation Optimization. Can you provide an example of an “account engagement score”? An account engagement score is a number on a relative scale that represents the collective engagement of contacts within an account.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

Summary: Right On Interactive's 5Buckets connects lists from external customer management systems with many types of output vendors (email, print, fax, text message, automated voice). 5Buckets isn’t actually a demand generation system, at least according to my usual definition. Now is a good time to remedy that.

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NetLine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Cutting through the fluff to get to the core of content marketing and its tie to demand generation, let’s dig in and meet Nathan! First, it has become more closely related to demand generation. In addition to using NetLine, what are your other strategies for lead generation?

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Capstone Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Marketing automation is a straightforward way to increase a company’s efficiency and effectiveness in demand generation. It helps increase lead conversion rates while decreasing the overall cost per lead. When using marketing automation at scale, several platform attributes become critical.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2009

Yesterday’s BtoB Leading Edge, Demand Generation in the Digital Age was a great way to make sure your organization’s demand generation programs are best-in-class. LinkedIn gave an impressive demonstration on how they handled demand generation without a robust marketing budget or unlimited marketing staff members.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. There will always be prospects who need B2B products or services. As such, it’s important to stay up-to-date on the latest lead generation trends, technological advances, and- as always- your customer base.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Summary: Alsa Marketing is a late entry to small business marketing automation. It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Tags: marketing automation multi-language marketing lead management demand generation.

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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. It’s all heady stuff. I’m just not sure the rest of us are quite there yet.

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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.

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The Point

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Here are my other key takeaways from the report, a recommended read for any demand generation marketer: More than two-thirds (67%) of survey respondents said that they’re measuring the success of their nurture programs based on email click-through rates. News flash: email clicks are not a valid success metric.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As I discussed earlier this year in my BLOG “ Executive Insights: World-Class Demand Generation and Corporate Social Responsibility Converge at Televerde ”, I was very fortunate to work with some tremendous partners during my nearly 19 year tenure with SAP Global Marketing.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

In one of my meetings these past few weeks I was thinking of an analogy where I could break down the lead management process into much simpler terms so everyone could understand their roles - this is where football comes in. Think of the defense as anyone or anything that is hampering the lead management process.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 4, 2014

It reminds me of a post I wrote while at Demandbase called Marketing is a Mix Tape which still stands up and speaks to the problem of the perceived “ease” of marketing automation and other marketing technologies. Author: Jason Stewart @jstewart_1 Vice President, Demand Generation, ANNUITAS.

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