Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2021

All you see is an intriguing note about integration services from an unknown sender in your inbox. One early adopter of inside sales was Marc Benioff, CEO and founder at Salesforce.com. By Benioff ‘s own admission, Salesforce.com “grew their company for the first five or six years with a telesales [or inside sales] model.”

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Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles Salesforce.com Paid Search Agency 147

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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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. Actually, it’s much easier for Marketing and lead cultivation people to get instant value out of Salesforce.com (SFDC) than it is for reps.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 The deal makes obvious sense, in that it gives Oracle a much stronger position in the fast-growing B2B marketing automation industry*. The impact on customer service is likely to be even more negative. recently, so $23.50

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The offering seeks to automate the B2B lead generation and qualification process and push the outcomes directly into the systems used by sales representatives. ” Where’s the automation? “Salesforce as a category was intended to automate the work for sellers; it’s become administration.

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Work Management Marketing Management Salesforce.com Sales Qualified Leads 131

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 5, 2016

But Engagio's latest product, Engagio PlayMaker, actually does occupy a space in between marketing, sales development, field sales and customer success by connecting them without replacing existing marketing automation, CRM, or customer success systems. Some messages can be automated but most are assigned to human sales or service agents.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve been gearing up for the next edition of our VEST report on B2B marketing automation systems, which involves catching up with established vendors and chasing down some new ones. nurture campaigns), and share leads with a CRM system like Salesforce.com. There are additional fees for survey responses, list rental, and other services.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system. I still doubt Salesforce.com will get the message any time soon, but maybe they'll start to reconsider.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

One of the main reasons that marketing automation has not been adopted more quickly is that too few marketers know how to fully use it. Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

This makes it a system for both small business and service vendors: two of my four themes. Finally, Optify has expanded into conventional marketing automation over the past 18 months and most recently added basic contact management and distribution of lead information, scores, and alerts to sales people. That''s theme number three.

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

Martech

APRIL 23, 2024

Now, their teams can target specific audiences with custom product or service messages. Take the next step Use automation to free up time for smarter insights Having a clear vision for your marketing data analytics is critical for a successful marketing strategy.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 13, 2014

Last year’s biggest marketing automation acquisitions were products for consumer marketing: ExactTarget by Salesforce.com , Neolane by Adobe , and Responsys by Oracle. Consumer marketers have had their own, highly sophisticated marketing automation systems for years. responsive design").

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Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Resource Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It's looking more like a conventional small-business marketing automation system every day. The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. Choices will be based on individual features and supporting services.

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Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 27, 2023

Steve Woods As a founder at Eloqua, Steve is one of the pioneers of the first great wave of Marketing Automation. He led social at Salesforce.com, co-founded Advocate and according to John is now doing something stealth at the time of this writing around an electric car. Looking for more fresh marketing insights?

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Lead Ranking Planning Paid Search Agency B2B Thought Leadership 185

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 25, 2009

Rather, salespeople must focus on what only they can do – provide nuanced, personal service – and delegate other tasks to resources that can handle them more cheaply and often more quickly. In many cases, those resources will be automated systems that are run by marketing. Yes, sales could duplicate those systems for itself.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Salesforce.com 120

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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 4, 2012

One easily predictable trend in B2B marketing automation is that vendors will tailor their systems to specific industries. The reason may be that B2B marketing automation products have a narrower scope than B2C systems, meaning there’s less advantage in creating vertical editions. I'm sure plenty of other specialists exist as well.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. 2. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. 2. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

LeadSloth

MAY 16, 2009

This week I’m finishing up my day job as Sr Marketing Manager at Backbase, and will be available full-time for Marketing Automation Consulting. If you have Marketing Automation challenges, I’d love to hear from you ( or toll-free 1-888-4A-SLOTH). June 8th I will officially start as a full-time consultant. See you then!

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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

AUGUST 16, 2011

I’ve long believed that B2B marketing automation is just a passing phase: that, ultimately, B2B marketing automation systems will be absorbed into CRM systems instead of operating independently. Of course, the jackpot here is Salesforce.com. That question has no simple answer. I actually accept those arguments.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. NurtureHQ hopes to differentiate itself as “dead easy marketing automation”, which it arguably is. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It’s really nice. I think not.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 9, 2014

x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. But the main reason is probably that just 15% of Vocus'' 2013 revenue came from its marketing automation products. It’s still a modest multiple of 2.4

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Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Purchase Paid Search Agency 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.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 18, 2011

As you might have guessed from my recent list of B2C marketing automation systems , I’ve recently been spending some time helping consumer marketers to select vendors. Some B2C systems offer similar features and pricing with the same Software-as-a-Service business model. Like any traveler, I’ve returned home with some new perspectives.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

To help the system run smoothly, Lenovo has both dedicated internal Adobe teams, as well as full-time support people on Adobe''s payroll, which means the company spends equal amounts on both products and support services. ” Here are a few features to consider when comparing Terminus with other B2B advertising solutions: - self-service.

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Paid Search Agency Display Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. This has been sadly lacking in most B2B marketing automation systems, which supplement the Salesforce.com database with barely-extensible lead profiles and contact histories.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Lead Ranking Marketing Management 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Once again Salesforce.com has delivered a great set of new features for Marketers in the Winter 10 release. This is more relevant than ever since marketers may wish to use Salesforce.com to track events like seminars that may have a registration fee. Want to know more about this release and everything else Salesforce.com ?

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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. Alsa has some other unusual features.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Switching between systems is a productivity killer, not to mention that your reps’ sales pipelines become inaccurate because they don’t always know which of their leads have signed up for free trials, used various parts of your product, or if you have a self-service option, transacted. Say hello to a clean pipeline free of human error!

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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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.

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Marketing Automation Services Social Media Marketing Automation Social Marketing 100

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Marketo is stressing that Spark includes services to help clients take advantage of their systems. With its $750 price, no shopping cart, and a reliance Salesforce.com for CRM, Spark appeals to a different market of slightly larger companies. If Marketo simply wanted to lower its entry price, why bother to create a new brand?

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketo Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

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.

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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.

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