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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. Aberdeen Group has published many studies related to marketing automation. Here's a bunch.

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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

The Effective Marketer

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.

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

The Point

As a B2B agency , our firm creates and executes dozens of email campaigns every month, and that experience tells me that a large percentage of B2B marketers, even at companies that otherwise do a very sophisticated job at demand generation , fail to measure or compare email campaign performance using any metrics other than opens and clicks.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

In a sense, three cloud application companies at a combined average of five years after going public are all spending nearly half of their revenue on sales and marketing. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public? Target market challenges.

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

So the waterfall concept is Inquiry > MQL > SAL > SQO > Close. .&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? IMO, content is still the king in B2B lead generation, sales and marketing need to agree on a unified lead definition and figure out how best to use relevant content in driving sales.

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Confused by the SiriusDecisions Demand Unit Waterfall®? Here’s what you need to know!

Ledger Bennett

We’ve spoken about the Demand Unit Waterfall® quite a few times. But if you haven’t had the chance to read those or attend the summit or you’re not familiar with the SiriusDecisions Demand Unit Waterfall®, don’t worry, here’s our quick recap of what you need to know. 1 The Original Demand Waterfall®. In principle, the V.1

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Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success

Online Marketing Institute

I hadn’t seen the product in a while and was impressed with the UI improvements the Eloqua team has produced. With these changes, I see Eloqua – like many of the other firms I mentioned in my prior post – moving the B2B marketing conversation ahead in an important direction.