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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. Eloqua “ The Business Case for Integrated Demand Generation ” offers data from Forrester, CSO Insights and several Eloqua clients.

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Five Keys to Integrating Your Interactive Value Marketing Tools with Your Marketing Automation Platform

The ROI Guy

But how will you easily integrate these tools with your Marketing Automation Platform (MAP) so you can effectively capture leads, and nurture these opportunities properly the buyers journey? We recommend assuring these top five “connection features” to assure MAP integration success for your interactive Marketing Tools: 1.

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More Than Just Email Marketing: What Is Marketing Automation?

TrustRadius Marketing

70% of marketers say marketing automation software is critical to their success. Marketing automation occurs when marketers pass the burden of monotonous tasks to software logic to complete. What is marketing automation and why is it used? For example, email automation covers several useful KPIs. So what is it, anyway?

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5 Marketing Automation Email Tips

Anything Goes Marketing

I have the pleasure of welcoming a new bunch of Eloqua team members who we start off with a boot camp here in Toronto so they get to know each other and the rest of the company. Not a marketing sherpa (that name is already taken) but a marketing automation sherpa as my job is to guide marketers on a journey to help them reach their goals.

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How to Measure Email Success in 2015: A Call to ROI

The Point

That likely means one of two options: • a marketing automation system like Eloqua , Marketo or Pardot that in turn integrates with a CRM database like Salesforce. Opens/Open Rate. Clicks/Click Rate (CTR). Click to Open (CTO) Rate. Leads/Response Rate. MQLs/Cost Per MQL. SQLs/Cost Per SQL.

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B2B Email Benchmarks: Answers Vary Widely

Customer Experience Matrix

This leads to different questions than I used to get, including the ever-popular “what’s a reasonable response rate for our emails?” Here’s some detail from the study itself (you'll have to click on this to make it legible): Eloqua Marketing Metrics Outlook 2011 You’d expect Eloqua to put out a good study on this topic, and they do.

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Masters of our own destruction: Are you a hustler or a builder?

Heinz Marketing

In parallel, the addition of automation meant that more and more inexperienced sales reps could be added to a team. Sequences were prescribed, and sales was mainly an act of pushing the buttons to begin automation of sequences. Automation does not cause this to happen – only thoughtful outreach does. Seeds Of Failure.