Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

For many smaller companies, a suite like Adobe, Oracle , IBM , Salesforce.com , SAS , or Teradata isn’t an option and would be overkill if it were. For B2B marketers, this has happened mostly through Demandbase and what was formerly Bizo (now part of LinkedIn). b2b display advertising b2b marketing marketing automation terminus'

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Display Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 120

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Been part of numerous B2B marketing analytics journeys across various organizations, I have been witnessing how data and analytics have become the core of modern B2B marketing execution. CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders. MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads).

Lead Ranking 59

Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads Demand 59

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 27, 2023

According to their site, Marketing Over Coffee is “audio on demand” that covers both classic and new marketing. Traction by Gabriel Weinberg John says that this is the current “B2B Bible that you must own” and even admits that it’s more comprehensive (though perhaps not as much fun) as his book, B2B Marketing Confessions.

Lead Ranking 176

Lead Ranking Planning Paid Search Agency B2B Thought Leadership 176

The Point

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

For many B2B Marketers, advertising on LinkedIn is becoming a demand generation staple. The ad below from CRM giant Salesforce.com is an exception. I don’t know the results (if someone from Salesforce reads this, please comment) but my educated guess is that it performs well.

Paid Search Agency 187

Paid Search Agency Linkedin Demand Generation Agencies Ads 187

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Been part of numerous B2B marketing analytics journeys across various organizations, I have been witnessing how data and analytics have become the core of modern B2B marketing execution. CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders. MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads).

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Been part of numerous B2B marketing analytics journeys across various organizations, I have been witnessing how data and analytics have become the core of modern B2B marketing execution. CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders. MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads).

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Welcome to the eighth installment of The B2B Marketer’s Quick Start Guide. Features/functionality: ZoomInfo has a portfolio of solutions that combine B2B intelligence and company contact data with engagement software, and dynamic workflows. Deliver campaigns to tailor-made audiences through Demand-Side Platforms or ZoomInfo’s network.

B2B Sales 73

B2B Sales Enterprise Management Zoominfo Work Management 73

markempa

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We went from zero to 20% to 30% of our opportunities in Salesforce.com resulting from video in the first six months.”. Like a lot of B2B companies, the Act-On team was using eBooks and live-casting webinar videos to drive a high volume of the leads. However, there was a rise in the number of people watching the on-demand webinars.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services Video Marketing B2B Marketing 120

Vidyard

JULY 17, 2015

Kitchener, Ontario – July 15, 2015 – Demand Spring and Vidyard today announced a partnership to offer the industry’s first video marketing consulting service for B2B marketing and demand generation teams. Online video is one of the fastest growing and most effective areas of B2B marketing.

Marketing Automation Services 50

Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Agencies Consulting 50

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I just received the latest issue of ABM in Action (October 2016), a monthly eMagazine dedicated to Account-Based Marketing from the publishers of Demand Gen Report, and I had to comment on the lead article. Don’t short-circuit the fundamentals of demand generation strategy when you embrace ABM. The moral of the story?

Account Based Marketing 168

Account Based Marketing Marketing Management Planning ABM 168

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 25, 2010

As a Salesforce.com user group leader, I often talk to marketers who are looking to get more and/or better data out of their Salesforce.com system. Because of this, many marketers have picked up Salesforce.com admin skills that are highly valued at their companies. . Salesforce.com Certification: it’s for Marketers, too!

Salesforce.com 48

Salesforce.com Work Management Class Sales Qualified Leads 48

Vidyard

JULY 17, 2015

Kitchener, Ontario – July 15, 2015 – Demand Spring and Vidyard today announced a partnership to offer the industry’s first video marketing consulting service for B2B marketing and demand generation teams. Online video is one of the fastest growing and most effective areas of B2B marketing.

Marketing Automation Services 50

Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Agencies Consulting 50

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com , Oracle Eloqua and Marketo. The Web site network is unusual if not unique among B2B data providers; the most similar offerings I can think of are audience profiles from B2C site networks, from owners of large B2B sites, and based on other B2B activity such as email response.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Activities Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services 120

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*. Okay, now we can talk about Salesforce.com. per share, which comes to $871 million.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation 120

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This was my fourth Dreamforce, and I’d like to offer some observations from the perspective of someone who lives in the B2B marketing & sales space. Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. Observation 3: B2B Marketing Continues to Mature.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. Changes include a drag-and-drop design tool (similar to Microsoft Powerpoint); integration of opportunities and custom objects from Salesforce.com; better reporting on Web site visitors; and, real time sales alerts on Web activity.

Manticore 120

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

Marketo and Oracle (specifically, Oracle CRM On Demand Marketing ) are considerably further back in the leader quadrant. Both are general purpose marketing automation systems that serve large numbers of B2C as well as B2B clients. It’s important to recognize that Neolane and Aprimo are fundamentally different from the others.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. me-too products.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I hugely enjoyed yesterday’s Boston session of the Silverpop -sponsored B2B Marketing University. Joe Moloney gave a more detailed answer about limits in Salesforce.com in particular, including lack of CAN-SPAM compliance and limits on mass emails. Is Salesforce.com a threat to vendors of marketing automation solutions?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. The table below presents a reasonably comprehensive list of demand generation (a.k.a. I'll be flying cross country to attend, so you could too.)

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I just received the latest issue of ABM in Action (October 2016), a monthly eMagazine dedicated to Account-Based Marketing from the publishers of Demand Gen Report, and I had to comment on the lead article. Don’t short-circuit the fundamentals of demand generation strategy when you embrace ABM. The moral of the story?

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Marketing Management Planning ABM 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing Thought Leader interview series is with David Taber. 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. Q: What's the biggest issue with Lead Generation ?

Salesforce.com 48

Salesforce.com Lead Ranking Thought Leadership Lead Scoring 48

The Mx Group

OCTOBER 18, 2017

But, our industry has changed and evolved so much, that there are myriad ways to tackle marketing on a more personalized account basis rather than a demand-gen volume basis. That makes me wonder: Are CRM platforms, like the Salesforce.com, set up to handle ABM? They can be, but not “out of the box.” A webinar on Halloween?

Account Based Marketing 72

Account Based Marketing Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com 72

Digital B2B Marketing

APRIL 2, 2013

It is called a complex sale for a reason, but B2B marketers keep trying to fit it into a simplistic measurement framework: where did we get that lead? In most B2B organizations, Salesforce.com or a similar solution is the system of record. Peers, consultants and analysts will provide their input. The solution isn’t simple.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer B2B Work Management 100

Brandpoint

MAY 18, 2020

Most customers prefer to check out your company’s digital content before taking steps to contact your sales department; Forrester points out that’s now common practice for 68% of B2B buyers. closely measure the ROI of their content marketing, according to the 2019 Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs B2B report.

Top of Funnel 149

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Planning Work Management 149

markempa

DECEMBER 12, 2016

I’ve compiled a list of the 10 most popular and shared posts on the B2B Lead Blog, chosen by marketers, just like you, to help you get ready to have a great 2017. The Biggest Contributor to B2B Revenue. Read The Biggest Contributor to B2B Revenue. Do you know what CEOs want most from B2B marketers? Just to name a few.

Account Based Marketing 84

Account Based Marketing Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 84

The Point

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I just returned from a few days at Dreamforce in San Francisco, the annual circus-slash-conference hosted by CRM leader Salesforce.com, and was struck by the wave of technologies on display that centered on analytics. Just when did demand generation get this complicated? In reality, however, things aren’t quite so convoluted.

Demand Generation Agencies 100

Demand Generation Agencies Lead Gen Marketing Report Research 100

DealSignal

AUGUST 27, 2020

28, 2019) – DealSignal, the leading on-demand B2B marketing data provider, today announced a new CRM Data Health module designed to help marketing and sales teams continuously refresh, enrich and reverify the leads, contacts and accounts in their Salesforce CRM with complete, accurate and GDPR-compliant data. SAN FRANCISCO (Aug.

CRM 52

CRM Ideal Customer Profiles Account Based Marketing Salesforce.com 52

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

That could serve as a pretty complete summary of the state of the art for B2B marketing today, especially if you consider “content marketing” as implicitly included. DemandBase had to build its own engines for real time bidding (RTB) and ad serving (Demand Side Platform or DSP) to support its approach.

DemandBase 120

DemandBase Advertising Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency 120

Digital B2B Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2012

In their report, DemandGen also includes a number of recommendations to improve B2B email list purchases: Work with multiple data or list sources. However, list purchases are a reality in B2B sales and marketing and an area marketers need to understand before wading in. Clearly define the data required for each marketing record.

Buy 100

Buy Email Marketing B2B Marketing Jigsaw 100

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

Who are the top B2B Marketing influencers on twitter? To answer this question, I looked at a variety of factors including twitter followers, profiles that included “B2B marketing,” the focus of their tweets including the hashtag # B2BMarketing , as well as a variety of social scoring tools using the keyword. New York, NY.

Twitter 100

Twitter Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency B2B Marketing 100

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

LeadSloth

AUGUST 27, 2009

There has been quite a bit of change in B2B marketing over the past couple of years. 5 years ago Salesforce.com was tiny compared to Siebel. Continuing Education for B2B Marketers. Doctors do it, so why not B2B marketers? They are organizing a B2B Marketing University this fall, with lots of interesting topics.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services B2B Marketing Salesforce.com B2B 100

The Point

JUNE 18, 2013

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Chalef, CEO of KnowledgeTree , developers of an intriguing new solution, built for both Salesforce.com and mobile (iOS), that enables sales teams to instantly find, surface, and present the ideal content in any selling situation. B2B Marketing Sales 2.0 HS) Thanks Daniel!

Salesforce.com 100

Salesforce.com Work Management Marketing Management Content 100

LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Last week I presented a session at Silverpop’s B2B Marketing University in Atlanta. For CRM, I focused on Salesforce.com. Luckily, all Marketing Automation systems can be connected to Salesforce.com and often also to other CRM systems. In addition to Marketing Automation, there were two big topics: Social Media and CRM.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Salesforce.com 100

LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

From Web Analytics to Demand Generation. Salesforce.com integration. ActiveConversion also integrates with Salesforce.com , although using Salesforce is not a requirement. Typically, new leads are assigned to sales person before they are copied to Salesforce.com: the assignment rules are flexible.

ActiveConversion 100

ActiveConversion SMB Work Management Lead Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Other vendors have similar price points for the small business market (see my list of demand generation vendors ) although I suspect their internal costs are higher. Salesforce.com easily dominates despite the presence of surprisingly capable free products like ZohoCRM and FreeCRM. Infusionsoft has repositioned itself as “email 2.0”

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120