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.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 8, 2010

I write about Marketing Automation, so why am I at a sales conference? I’m here because I believe Sales & Marketing should be on the same team. Marketing Automation can help both Marketing and Sales, but it requires intense collaboration: that’s what Sales 2.0 Today I’m at the Sales 2.0

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Almost 30 people showed up for the first two Marketing Automation Monday meetups in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Lots of good ideas and best practices were exchanged, and I wanted to give you a quick summary in this blog post. Also, lead source can give valuable clues to the desired length of the nurturing process.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

Coincidentally, yesterday''s FierceCMO blog indirectly quotes Lenovo’s Michael Ballard on this very point: “ Adobe is not a solution for everyone because it requires a lot of expertise and attention. Some vendors do this better than others. Nor does it address the challenges that users face in making sense of it all.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 27, 2023

” She talks about the process of trimming content for her book, insights on empathy in interviews and marketing, and even her conversation with David Lee Roth. Seth Godin Image Source: PCMA He’s written over a dozen best selling books and was a decade ahead of Inbound Marketing. Looking for more fresh marketing insights?

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 18, 2014

All of the usual suspects were in the room – head of marketing, head of sales, marketing automation power users, demand generation leads, content marketer … but also present were the head of their CRM install and the lead project manager of their website and web analytics team — both IT roles in this particular company.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Even though some vendors have been around for almost 10 years, Marketing Automation is still relatively new. According to Forrester, only 2-5% of B2B firms have invested in full-featured Marketing Automation. Increasingly, B2B companies realize that Marketing Automation software requires skilled operators.

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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. Sales Insight.

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Lead Liaison

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

You’ve defined your invitation and registration process. 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.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Marketers frequently need to review and choose new tools to help improve or streamline their marketing programs. Because of this, some marketers make the wrong choice because they just pick software based on a salesperson’s promise or friend’s suggestion. This can be time consuming and may lead to many dead ends.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 1, 2016

One analytics vendor after another is selling you on their ability to analyze and make sense of “any” data. And most marketing and sales data is just that — garbage. How can we better tie buying and content/channel interactions to opportunities and closed revenue in a closed-loop fashion — to fuel our demand process optimization ?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

Should you look at something beyond a CMS—a web marketing system (WMS), that provides additional functions like customer relationship management (CRM) and email? There’s no shortage of options, and the decision is an important one: you’ll be “married&# to the platform you choose for as long as your current site is up.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Marketing Expertise. B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. Which team is typically responsible for prioritizing accounts: Sales or Marketing? News & Events. Sales Empowerment.

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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. Marketing Automation gives you that intelligence.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. But I can share some examples and insights that should help any new team.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. But I can share some examples and insights that should help any new team.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 8, 2009

The conversation has sharpened my own thinking on the subject and prompted a couple of conversations with vendors. Typically this is the company they work for, although there might be another relationship such as consultant or services vendor. This is a topic we do cover in the Guide, but not in the detail he needed.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Contrary to public belief, he did not invent the light bulb—instead he discovered the carbonized filament that made the process of electric lighting more efficient, long-lasting, and available. That is what we as marketers try to do with marketing automation—make the process of marketing more efficient, long-lasting, and available.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 17, 2017

That’s why the world of online sales tools has exploded in the past few years – industrious entrepreneurs are finally realizing the inherent struggles of being a salesperson, and responding with a plethora of tools designed to make your job easier. But what happens when you don’t have a big budget?

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. To reach end users, the company relies primarily on a network of channel partners, including satellite operators, telecom companies, and internet service providers.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Placing them all in the same product adds cost and complexity, which are not a software developer’s friends. Rather, it has conceded the lower tiers of business marketing to simpler systems and aimed Marketing Studio at marketers who need greater sophistication and will accept higher cost and complexity to get it.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2016

People like me, who blog and Tweet incessantly, are easy enough to understand (or, at least, it’s easy to describe our carefully curated public personas). But many of your marketing targets are less visible. Conversion IQ follows a similar process except that Mariana works from a set of known contacts uploaded by the client.

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Allocadia

JUNE 17, 2019

This shows how Marketing Performance Management software is part of their core technology stack, along with CRM, Marketing Automation, and other “must have” systems. The best marketers in the world know that without clear plans and the ability to assess results, execution will falter.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 12, 2019

If you want to buy a simple product—a book, a video game, some ink for your printer—there’s a good chance you’ll visit an ecommerce site like Amazon, Target.com, or BestBuy.com, Those sites provide all the essential product information, helpful reviews and ratings from other buyers, and an easy process for ordering. The Product.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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 ). But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets. Pardot : another pretty powerful product; see my blog review from December 2008.

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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: David, why did you write this book?

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 2, 2022

Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Elay: Yeah. When I think about how do organizations really get value?

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markempa

MAY 30, 2017

I think what’s relevant to this conversation is I was one of the really early employees at a small startup back in the day called Pardot, which is a marketing automation platform. From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target which was then acquired by Salesforce.com. Horrible metric.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 17, 2017

That’s why the world of online sales tools has exploded in the past few years – industrious entrepreneurs are finally realizing the inherent struggles of being a salesperson, and responding with a plethora of tools designed to make your job easier. But what happens when you don’t have a big budget? Not a Salesforce user?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 4, 2013

Michael Loop is the co-founder of Datarati , Asia Pacific’s Fastest Growing Data Driven Marketing Automation Agency. Michael has successfully delivered over 200 marketing automation and CRM implementations across the globe. How much do we need to know about our CRM system to be good at this marketing automation stuff?”

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Eloqua has more information about this in a blog post. Jeremy Victor has a nice write-up of the 16 sales and marketing reports that measure revenue performance. In Monday’s blog post I emphasized that process and best practices are they key to unlocking the full potential of Marketing Automation.

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Allocadia

APRIL 15, 2019

This shows how Marketing Performance Management software is part of their core technology stack, along with CRM, Marketing Automation, and other “must have” systems. The best marketers in the world know that without clear plans and the ability assess results, execution will falter.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Last week, his company released a tool, called Demandbase Stream, that aims to answer this question. Applications such as Salesforce.com already let sales staff keep track of existing customers or potential customers, but Demandbase Stream falls into a newer category of tools designed to help them find new customers in the first place.

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LeadSloth

JULY 12, 2010

UPDATED REVIEW: My earlier review of HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing software was more than 1 year old and the software has evolved a lot: time for an update! Marketing departments at mid-size companies. HubSpot provides an attractive package that includes all of this: not just software, but also advice.

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Hubspot

APRIL 21, 2014

Michael Freeman wasn’t psyched about having to migrate from one marketing automation system to another. ” Migrations are becoming more common in the marketing automation space. The field was so new that when most companies installed marketing automation programs they were starting with a clean slate.

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