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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

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Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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Why Marketing Automation Customers are Migrating Downstream

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Now, Steve happens to work in product marketing for Oracle Marketing Cloud , home of Eloqua, typically regarded as the most feature-rich (some would say: complex) marketing automation solution on the market. But even then, the trend speaks to a failure of the big marketing automation players to cement their place in the tech stack.

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Email Critique: Oracle/Eloqua Webcast Invite Needs Help

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The impact that Oracle’s acquisition of Eloqua will have on that company’s ability to compete effectively in the marketing automation space is fodder for debate. What is more clear, based on the Webcast invitation I received this week (below), is that it hasn’t done much for Eloqua’s own email marketing.

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Survey: Marketing Automation Users Score a “C” in Maturity

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Spear Marketing Group has published an informative report detailing results of a survey designed to gauge the maturity of marketing automation deployments within the B2B community. In some notable areas, the average marketing automation user appears to be achieving real business value.

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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

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In addition, the platform integrates with leading marketing automation platforms, such as Eloqua, HubSpot, Marketo, and Pardot. Beyond the ability to optimize social media strategy, this allows marketers to confidently demonstrate the value of any given social activity on the company’s bottom line.

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Measuring the True Impact of Marketing Campaigns: A Conversation with Bonnie Crater

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HS: How are you different from marketing automation vendors like Eloqua or Marketo at addressing this issue? BC: First, our software is complementary to marketing automation systems and Salesforce. In fact, all of our customers today (with one exception) use both Salesforce and a top marketing automation system.

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Marketing Automation: What Is It & Why Do I Care? (Webinar)

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Horrified at the responsibility of investigating marketing automation solutions for your company? In a little over 20 minutes, you’ll learn: • What makes marketing automation different from older email platforms. • Who the leading vendors are in the marketing automation category. • You can access the Webinar here.