Martech

APRIL 23, 2024

Cox Automotive has spent the past two years building a more complete picture of prospects and clients, including combining role, engagement and product purchase data from across its brands into a centralized location. Learn why Gartner named Salesforce a Leader, placing highest in ability to execute and furthest in completeness in vision.

Top of Funnel 67

Top of Funnel Analytics De-duplication Work Management 67

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

Summary: Jesubi is designed to make sales prospecting as efficient as possible. You may not want to replace your CRM system with Jesubi, but dedicated prospecting teams should take a close look. Indeed, what impressed me about Jesubi was its very tight focus on prospecting productivity.

Efficiency 120

Efficiency Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

InsightSquared

DECEMBER 6, 2017

They tackle much of the heavy lifting in Salesforce.com (or other CRM systems) and continuously optimize processes to make lives easier for sales reps and managers, giving them more time to focus on what they do best – sell. Experience managing sales automation and CRM systems is usually mandatory. Get it here.

Work Management 180

Work Management Marketing Management Top of Funnel Salesforce.com 180

Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If you look at most major CRMs like Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce.com , you’ll notice a few different objects: Leads, Contacts, and Accounts. But then look at marketing automation like Lead Liaison and you’ll see one object: Prospects. Through Lifecycle Stages, we keep track of the prospect’s journey. Not at all.

Contact Marketing 50

Contact Marketing Marketing Prospects Lead Liaison Marketing Automation Services 50

LeadSloth

MARCH 8, 2010

I write about Marketing Automation, so why am I at a sales conference? Marketing Automation can help both Marketing and Sales, but it requires intense collaboration: that’s what Sales 2.0 Chatter and Marketing Automation. You can follow coworkers, prospects, deals, documents but also 3rd party applications.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Salesforce.com Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Marketing automation, Web analytics, and Web content management systems can all access this data via API calls for analytics and as inputs to their own selection and treatment rules. This is a major extension beyond traditional marketing automation, which works mostly through email to known prospects.

DemandBase 120

DemandBase Advertising Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency 120

LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In addition to Marketing Automation, there were two big topics: Social Media and CRM. If that’s true, why would you still need Marketing Automation? So let’s dig in and find how Marketing Automation and CRM are different. So let’s dig in and find how Marketing Automation and CRM are different.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Salesforce.com 100

InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Imagine how excited you are to call this hot prospect who booked time on your calendar to demo your product. One of your goals for the call is to get this prospect to sign up for a free trial. If only you had known that your prospect had already signed up for a free trial and was farther along the buying journey.

CRM 153

CRM Marketing Analytics Tools API Lead Scoring 153

Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Why Does Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Marketing Automation Integration Matter? In this article we’ll discuss why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and marketing automation integration matter to businesses with a sales and marketing team. As a user myself, I first started using Salesforce.com. Nurture prior to sales interaction.

Marketing Automation Services 48

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Lead Liaison CRM 48

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Summary: Marketing automation and CRM systems may eventually converge, but for now marketers need help explaining why they need a system of their own. People still don’t understand the difference between marketing automation vs. CRM. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate? Vendors take note.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality. The company’s original focus was on web analytics.

Manticore 100

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. The critical constraint is that volume is limited to 2,500 prospect names, 5,000 emails and 100,000 page views per month.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 4, 2012

The list of independent marketing automation systems shrank by one yesterday when Leadformix was purchased by sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud for $9 million. The price is surprisingly low for an established marketing automation vendor. But even if they back away completely from “marketing automation”, the deal makes sense.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Lead Liaison

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The next step is to consider using your marketing automation software to help you with the entire process. A marketing automation system can help you automate your webinar and create a repeatable model to use for future webinars. Marketing automation is used to manage the Invite, Registration, and Follow Up Processes.

Marketing Automation Services 48

Marketing Automation Services Webinar Metrics Marketing Automation Lead Liaison 48

LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Almost 30 people showed up for the first two Marketing Automation Monday meetups in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Some companies were actively capturing more information on prospects (e.g. A recurring theme is that you need to really understand the prospect. Another company was saving those replies straight into Salesforce.com.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2014

The one objective distinction is that FlipTop is publicly listed on the Salesforce.com App Exchange, meaning it has passed the Salesforce.com security reviews. Fliptop scores are loaded into a CRM or marketing automation system where they can be used to prioritize sales efforts and guide campaign segmentation.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services Reachforce 120

The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams. Getting Started with Marketing Automation.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Work Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

Although such work is in early stages at Infusionsoft, the product is being engineered to allow insertion of automated marketing features as these become available. I think interactive content is an extremely important tool for engaging prospects, but have been frustrated at the time and cost it has taken my own clients to deploy it.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Planning 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

When this blog last left Geoff Rego in 2010 , he had just sold the assets of pioneering B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead to Oracle. The new product is Hushly , which addresses the reluctance of prospects to provide their email address even in return for valuable content. All told, I think Hushly is a pretty clever idea.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Market2Lead Salesforce.com Privacy 120

LeadSloth

AUGUST 26, 2010

This week there was a discussion about Social Media and Marketing Automation in the LinkedIn Group of the Marketing Automation Association. Around the same time I got an email announcing Marketo’s Chatter for Sales Insight , integrating sales notifications in the Facebook-like interface of Salesforce.com Chatter.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Social Media Marketing Automation Social Marketing 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

At this Dreamforce 2009 session led by Fernando Obregon Almazan, salesforce.com; Lorena Vales, salesforce.com; and Jonathan Hersh, salesforce.com, marketers learned about how and why companies should participate in social networking to generate brand awareness and create a viral effect when clients or prospects recommend their products.

Salesforce.com 48

Salesforce.com Social Networks Peer-to-peer Effectiveness 48

Lead Liaison

JULY 9, 2021

Updates include new Guidelines for Games, Global Leaderboards with Automated Leaderboard Data Export, Easy On-Off Activation Toggles, 5 Amazing New Activations, Filter Criteria for Pick-a-Winner, Event in a Box for Event Organizers, and Deal Filtering by Product or Service. Our Support Staff is available 24/7.

Lead Liaison 62

Lead Liaison Marketing Management Ideal Customer Profiles Salesforce.com 62

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. Here are examples of meaningful measures that you should bake into your salesforce.com data collection and analytics: Time to "first touch" of a lead.

Salesforce.com 48

Salesforce.com Lead Ranking Thought Leadership Lead Scoring 48

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. That would force other CRM and marketing automation vendors to follow suit, although it's hard to imagine them matching the depth of LinkedIn's data.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vendors Linkedin 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

The same three vendors also added new tools to give salespeople better access to information the marketing automation system has captured about their leads. This contrasts with traditional demand generation pricing on database size and/or activity volume, but is the way sales automation systems like Salesforce.com are usually sold.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 14, 2013

Every marketer recognizes that the Web and social media could be rich sources of information about customers and prospects. I recently wrote about Lattice Engines , which has assembled these pieces to create prospect lists. Mintigo has also been mining Web and social data to build prospect lists, starting in 2011.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Social Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles 120

NuSpark Consulting

JULY 17, 2010

We attempt to set the record straight as we simply look at Marketing Automation systems as compared to Email Programs. We’ve been testing a variety of Marketing Automation programs; the ones we like we have agreed to offer as potential solutions to our clients. Standard email programs are limited in identifying hot prospects.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Email Marketing 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Somewhat surprisingly , Lead Genius doesn’t create predictive lead scores, having found its more useful to prioritize prospects based on company attributes like size and industry. Response data can also be posted to Salesforce.com or Marketos, with additional integrations planned for the near future. Analyze results.

Marketing AI 120

Marketing AI Account Based Marketing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Two common business terms combined describe the an increasingly popular outreach tool: marketing automation. According to marketing research firm Raab Associates , the marketing automation system industry will reach $750 million in 2013, growing 50 percent from 2012. What is Marketing Automation? How Does it Work?

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Work Management Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 17, 2015

Specifically, it hasn’t let users set up custom objects (although they’ve been able to import custom objects from Salesforce.com or Microsoft Dynamics CRM ). This was a common limitation among early B2B marketing automation products but many have removed it over the years.

Marketo 120

Marketo Enterprise Management Mobile Advertising Salesforce.com 120

Webbiquity

MARCH 12, 2019

Only 19% of prospects want to connect with a sales person during the awareness stage, when they are first learning about a product; 60% don’t want to talk until they are in the consideration stage, after they’ve done their online research and created a short list. Those things are not a “one-click” purchase.

Burn Rate 198

Burn Rate eCommerce Salesforce.com Click Rate 198

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

Reachforce’s core business is assembling data on marketing prospects, which it then sells for as many uses as possible: appending to Web leads, enhancing existing databases, and buying as lists. (See my post from last October for more on SetLogik.) There’s an obvious peanut butter-meets-jelly type of logic to this match.

Reachforce 120

Reachforce Buy Marketing Management B2B Marketing 120

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Sales intelligence tools over a diverse set of insights for sales teams that eliminate the manual labor involved with creating and tailoring prospect lists for targeting. Eliminate productivity bottlenecks and create more sales conversations with email and phone automation. Features/functionality: Unearth ideal prospects.

B2B Sales 70

B2B Sales Enterprise Management Zoominfo Work Management 70

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2016

It currently offers two products: Prospect IQ to find new prospects and Conversion IQ to market to names already in the client's database. For Prospect IQ campaigns, users can define a target audience based industry, company size, location, and persona. What does Mariana do with this information?

Ad Building 120

Ad Building Work Management Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. an option to send emails and add prospects to Marketo campaigns. I had a personal demonstration last week (are you impressed?),

Marketo 120

Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2016

But while the promise of intent data is irresistible – “reach prospects with demonstrated interest in your product!” – the reality is less appealing. The notifications can be loaded as lists into a marketing automation or CRM system, where they can trigger advertising, sales calls, or other actions.

Intent Data 120

Intent Data Intent Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120