Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

About 15 years ago, marketing automation technology came on the scene, designed to help marketers more effectively and efficiently market across channels. That’s probably why more than 100 vendors have swelled the ranks of those offering automation tools. So without further ado: Eloqua. Read the post.).

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LeadSloth

APRIL 29, 2009

In my previous post I listed the Top-10 Demand Generation blog by marketers and consultants. Today I’ve put together a list of vendor blogs. Most of these vendors blogs really get ‘online marketing’, so they talk about best practices rather then just touting their products, and they post regularly.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

About 15 years ago, marketing automation technology came on the scene, designed to help marketers more effectively and efficiently market across channels. That’s probably why more than 100 vendors have swelled the ranks of those offering automation tools. Read the post.) Read the post.)

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 65

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Not to be obsessive or anything, but I do want to respond a bit more to the anonymous comment on last Thursday’s post, which said (the comment, that is) “Eloqua is definitely a marketing automation and campaign management tool. MRM is not something Eloqua does now, but I would expect them to in the future.”

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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.

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Rev

MAY 21, 2018

To be sure, intent data should be one of many signals marketers use to identify when companies are in market. If you have a marketing automation platform — like Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot, or Pardot — then you are probably using intent data. The Truth Intent Vendors Don’t Want to Talk About. Just Ask Google.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. I revisited that data today, adding a few new vendors and dropping some of the very minor ones. The links all point to blog entries.)

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2020

Hubspot’s ‘human’ voice, vast collection of educational materials and networking events have solidified its place as the authority on inbound marketing — and also as one of the most popular marketing automation platforms in the field. . Hubspot: Getting to Know a Marketing Automation Favorite. Let’s jump in.

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PathFactory

MAY 3, 2022

You may have seen the recent articles and blog posts. The first is “ Traditional B2B Sales and Marketing Are Becoming Obsolete ” posted on The Harvard Business Review by Brent Adamson, Vice President at Gartner. The second is a direct response blog post, “ Traditional B2B Sales is Dead, Long Live the UCE? ”

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markempa

AUGUST 4, 2014

Tweet “I think at its core, lead generation is really about relationships,” said Brain Carroll, Executive Director of Revenue Optimization, MECLABS. Steve: So 10 years ago, you published Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. Here’s a transcript of that discussion: Steve Girshik : My guest today is Brian Carroll.

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to the B2B Marketing Automation Solutions. Marketing automation solutions have become a must-have for modern B2B marketers particularly as the marketers are headed to explore new avenues alongside the dawn to the next normal. Learn More: Marketing Automation: A Good or A Bad Idea.

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TrustRadius Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Marketing automation platforms—the swiss army knives of marketing—supposedly let you do it all. . They allow you to send out beautiful emails, coordinate social media campaigns, track customer behavior across all marketing channels, play nice with your CRM and give you all the reporting you need. .

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TrustRadius Marketing

JUNE 19, 2019

Of all the love-hate relationships out there, the one between marketers and their marketing automation platform is a classic—at least in the world of software. In a recent TrustRadius survey, 70% of marketers said that Marketing Automation software was very essential to achieving their marketing goals.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). Results are summarized in the table below.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Lead scoring has become very important in today’s B2B marketing. Marketing’s role in interacting with prospects has expanded and goes further into the buy cycle than before. This has resulted in fewer direct interactions with sales reps from vendors. Lead scoring increases sales productivity and drives revenues.

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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

ANNUITAS

MARCH 10, 2016

The changes his invention brought to our world and especially as they relate to marketing, are nothing short of mind blowing. It’s been nearly two decades since marketing automation pushed into the B2B scene with the introduction of Eloqua in 1999. Since then, every marketer is now a potential buyer of this technology.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Eloqua Paid Search Agency 100

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. My original set of products was based on a general knowledge of which companies are most established, plus some consultation with vendors to learn who they felt were their main competitors. How to choose?

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Vtrenz 120

Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

One of my recent posts (“ The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011 ”) received a lot of great comments. The number one marketing trend for 2011, according to the 17,000 member B2B technology marketing group on LinkedIn, is the increasing integration of social media with traditional marketing tactics to drive qualified leads.

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Social Media Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. million) but just 28% in the second half ($50.7 million vs. 39.6

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

If you suspected that my last two blog posts were a way to avoid writing a post that ranks vendors on usability, you’re probably right. You’re also spending way too much time worrying about my blog, although I appreciate the attention. You must also consider how a system moves leads from one campaign to another.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of the biggest challenges b2b marketers face is what to do with all of those “names&# that come into your system that aren’t really “leads&# yet; contacts collected from white paper downloads, webinar registrations, trade shows and other activities. “Marketing automation&# is a misleading term.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 25, 2013

In a poll of 155 primarily C-level marketing experts, social media received the largest percentage of votes for demand generation channels that marketers will spend more on in 2013. Lowest Cost Per Lead Channels. Highest Quantity and Quality of Leads Channels. Spending Changes by Channel in 2013.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ).

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

After creating, building, and leading the Oracle Marketing Cloud from obscurity to industry leadership for the last 3 years, which was a beyond-amazing career experience (thank you Oracle!), Hello, all, and here’s to a promising 2017! As most of you know, I had a big change in 2016. across this wide array of applications is massive.

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Enterprise Management Paid Content Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 116

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. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue. Here it is.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Vendors 120

The Effective Marketer

MARCH 10, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How Everybody Wins with HubSpot’s Funding As everyone in the marketing industry surely knows by now, HubSpot raised $32 million in additional funding. Everyone Wins But it also means something else.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

I spent a good part of yesterday talking with demand generation vendors about the usability scores I've been publishing all week. There might still be some others: two of the vendors haven't spoken with me, which could mean they agree with my ratings but, more likely, means they just haven't been paying attention. 9 Now what?

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Demand Generation Work Management 120

TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

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? What are the most important marketing automation features?

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. When I wrote about Aprimo Marketing Studio in a post last August , I was impressed by the scope of the product but reserved judgment because it hadn’t yet been launched. You know who you are.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

If you read this blog regularly (and who doesn't?), Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. Such specialists are fairly common at big consumer marketers such as banks and retailers.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 28, 2012

In our last post , we introduced a list of 9 things marketers need from marketing automation vendors and consultants. We came up with this list to help make sense of “the noise” being generated by software vendors and service providers in the space (yes, we are one of those providers). Hence, the list.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

ANNUITAS

JUNE 28, 2012

In our last post , we introduced a list of 9 things marketers need from marketing automation vendors and consultants. We came up with this list to help make sense of “the noise” being generated by software vendors and service providers in the space (yes, we are one of those providers). Hence, the list.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100