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Key Findings from the 2021 ANNUITAS Enterprise Marketing Automation Platform Analysis

ANNUITAS

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. billion in 2019.

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

The Point

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. Spear reported that on average, respondents answered only 56% of the questions “correctly” and thus scored a “C” grade.

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Predictive Marketing Vendors Look Beyond Lead Scores

Customer Experience Matrix

The past week brought three more announcements about predictive vendors expanding beyond lead scoring. In particular, its finding new market segments that clients might enter – something different from simply scoring leads that clients present to it or even from finding individual prospects that look like current customers.

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The 10 Best Webinar and Webcasting Tools

Webbiquity

A quick note on the ranking methodology: These 10 tools were searched across five popular software comparison sites: Capterra, G2Crowd, TrustRadius, SoftwareAdvice, and GetApp. They were then ranked on both the number of total reviews (popularity) and average user ratings (quality). Average user rating: 9.54 (out of 10). GoToWebinar.

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Leveraging Social Data for Better Engagement

Oktopost

It has been famously said that no lead should ever be left behind. With less than 25% of leads being sales-ready when they first come in, the question remains: how can we, as marketers, actually know when it’s time for a sales executive to contact them? The Definitive Guide to Social Engagement Data Inside of Eloqua.

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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. Click To Tweet.

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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.