Directive Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

In fact, 86% of software buyers use peer review sites when buying software. Bottom-of-funnel advertising should focus on gaining a share of the search engine results pages (SERPs) for high-intent keywords. Ensure the directory ranks high on a search for “best (your primary software category).”

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Earlier this month I left my newborn and poor wife at home for an unforgettable week at Eloqua Experience in San Francisco. While there were a few keynote speakers, the conference focused on having the Eloqua community share their experiences so we could all learn from each other. They are some of the best and brightest out there.

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SnapApp

MAY 28, 2019

Both our sales and marketing teams live and breathe this ideology. Why Generating Sales-Ready Leads Is a Challenge. You want to assume that those 60 people have raised their hand, and therefore, are ready to speak to sales and explore a purchase. Or, maybe a sales rep who wants to sell your company on their product.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 14, 2023

Additionally, we’ll explore the tools you need to measure them and how to define the KPIs that are important for your content strategy. For example, you wouldn’t want to lump revenue generated by sales staff with money you get from an e-commerce portal. What tools do you need to measure your KPIs? What are KPIs?

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 13, 2018

A generation ago, digital was a rounding error in marketing budgets, with success measured in hundreds of pageviews rather than millions of customers. If an offline campaign (say, a broadcast execution with a huge budget) goes seriously wrong, it’s still been seen by millions of people. Channel management; paid, earned and owned media.

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

According to research by Spotler, 64% of B2B e-commerce marketers accede that B2B marketing automation solutions contribute to more sales. Once the marketers figure out what they want to accomplish, they need to identify the specific features that can help them make the most of their current and future marketing programs.

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Litmus

APRIL 13, 2021

Oracle (includes Oracle Responsys , Oracle Eloqua , Bronto , NetSuite , Siebel , and Dyn ): 6.2%. Maximize your marketing technology investment, increase efficiencies through simplifying processes, and reduce errors with ESP Syncing and the Litmus Extension. Aurea (formerly Lyris, includes List Manager ). MMS Software.

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Envy

JANUARY 28, 2018

Needless to say, the GDPR is also poised to make a big impact on B2B marketing and the way we manage customer data. For B2B marketers this meant utilizing a host of affordable and easy-to-use advanced data analytics tools. This is not surprising, as marketing automation is now understood as a must-have tool in a B2B marketer’s toolbox.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It’s no secret that I am a fervent evangelist for marketing automation, and at our agency we see the real-life benefits every day in the form of clients generating higher conversion rates, more qualified leads, and shorter sales cycles. Sales management and executives, however, are focused on hitting monthly and quarterly targets.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In the meantime, our CTO, Dan Appleman, had moved from the Microsoft platform to Force.com and had developed many software projects in APEX, the programming language for the Salesforce platform. HS: How are you different from marketing automation vendors like Eloqua or Marketo at addressing this issue?

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SalesIntel

MARCH 22, 2023

Every marketer and sales manager wants to use market segmentation to paint a more realistic image of their customer base. However, one of the top concerns of B2B companies is identifying and profiling the characteristics and behaviors of consumers through the process of data segmentation. The answer: Data.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We loving sharing Sales Pipeline Radio with you (live every Thursday at 11:30 pst). We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities heading into and throughout the year. Most recently she spent 9 years at Eloqua in customer success and global market readiness roles.

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Leadspace

MAY 2, 2023

An engagement scoring model is a tool that monitors and scores engagement (account buying teams, contacts, leads and prospects), and applies scoring based on the specific user actions and digital activity specific to customers’ products/category. Use this to optimize meetings for sales calling campaigns.

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

In February , Paul Teshima, SVP of Product Management at Eloqua, set the tone for the webinar year. He defined the tenets of the new world of marketing in Revenue Performance Management. Paul explains how here: The Future of Marketing: The Evolution from Demand Generation to Revenue Performance Management.

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. . With so many tools out there, marketers are now able to measure anything. . . As the old saying goes, “if you measure it, you can manage it”.

Lead Ranking 107

Lead Ranking Paid Content Cost per Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 107

ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Selling subscriptions via a direct sales force.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 14, 2023

By using all the powerful targeting abilities of ML Insights and LinkedIn together, you can ensure that you’re maximizing your budget by targeting the accounts with the highest propensity to purchase. This ensures that your LinkedIn Ads budget is maximized on the accounts most likely to convert.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 5, 2011

We released two more vendor selection workbooks last week, both sponsored by Eloqua and available for free on the RaabGuide Web site. After much thought, I came up with four cost categories: direct system costs : the actual price paid for the marketing automation software itself. These are the other 75% of the typical marketing budget.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 20, 2019

We asked the question, how can you use software to drive more of offline relationships?” Meetings aren’t necessarily held in person anymore, so how do you use software to drive in-person meetings? We found that there was often a disconnect between sales and marketing teams. Sales teams are focused on closing the deal.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

This started by providing visitor lists and real-time alerts to sales people who were interested in specific accounts. The client data, which of course is available only to the client who provided it, could be anything but is usually attributes such as account type, buying stage, and sales territory.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 29, 2012

Even adorned with the latest and greatest social media management software and automation and workflow and APIs and the entire chorus line of digital marketing shiny objects, actual human beings in your company need to be at those controls. Social media management software companies, et al. Flickr Photo by Doc_Brown.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 24, 2012

Because as consumers are tuning out marketing messages at all stages of the buying process, conversion rates are starting to plummet. And the cost per lead of many marketing programs is starting to soar. And the answer was that marketers were realizing they needed to move from primarily push to primarily pull-marketing tactics.

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Vidyard

MAY 10, 2018

The sales tech landscape is overwhelming. With more than 700 sales tech vendors and countless tools, it’s enough to make any sales leader’s head spin. Jill Rowley, CMO at Marketo, has the inside scoop on how to get the best value out of your sales technology. Save your budget for something else.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Other than Raab Associates’ own VEST report , we’ve seen surveys of active buyers from Software Advice , usage figures based on direct observation from Mintigo and Venture Beat (using Datanyze) , and another broad-based survey from Pepper Global and Holger Shulze. This is a pretty common question so the answers were not very surprising.

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Albacross

JANUARY 17, 2020

When it comes to sales, using the right tool can have a huge impact on your bottom line. There’s an extensive range of sales software out there and figuring out which one you should invest in can be a challenging task. Albacross asked experts to share their Top 3 Sales Tools for the coming year.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 17, 2016

Last week at the Atlanta Eloqua User Group Meeting, email deliverablity and privacy expert, Chris Arrendale of InboxPros , shared his knowledge on deliverability and privacy essentials. The majority of the questions post-presentation were about list management and the best free tools to manage your deliverability.

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Chris Koch

JULY 24, 2009

Only 50% of marketers in our survey said they had analytics programs, and of these, few were focused on predicting behavior; most were simply reporting past behavior. Even rarer is the ability to carry those analytics all the way through to a sale. So you have to start with the bigger process picture. Universal lead definition.

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Lead Qualification Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Chris Koch

JULY 24, 2009

Only 50% of marketers in our survey said they had analytics programs, and of these, few were focused on predicting behavior; most were simply reporting past behavior. Even rarer is the ability to carry those analytics all the way through to a sale. So you have to start with the bigger process picture. Universal lead definition.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 100

Vidyard

JUNE 4, 2013

This comes in at a whopping 50% premium above the previous day’s close and comes on the heels of Marketo’s IPO as well as the surprising acquisition of Eloqua by Oracle announced earlier this year. have become a key part of this process for innovative organizations. What can we ascertain from this news? Keep Smarketing!

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Atomic Reach

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In 2014, Top Rank Blog reported that 64% of B2B marketers outsource their writing, a time consuming portion of the content creation process. In 2016, Content Marketing Institute published their Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Report stating, 85% of B2B marketers say lead generation is their most important content marketing goal.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 Yes, some features apply more to simple marketing programs and others to complex programs. For example, let's say that events like breakfast seminars are critical to your marketing program. 9 Now what? 0 0 0 0 0.5

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. Email and e-newsletters use now equals tradeshows in popular use.

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Vidyard

JULY 7, 2016

So I actually started my career as an inside sales rep at a startup in the early 90s when Windows 3.1 After working his way up to running global programs for huge companies like Citrix and OpenText, Hansford decided to give consulting a shot. Then it’s about building that into the funnel and eventually measure the results.

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Smarte

JUNE 25, 2018

With accurate and continuously refreshed timely data at your fingertips, you can save time, effort and money to execute sales and marketing campaigns with an optimum ROI. When you have good data provider, they can fuel your company’s successes and minimize sales and marketing efforts. Real-Time Industry Alerts. Predictive Analytics.

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Database marketing is a methodical approach to the gathering and processing of consumer data that is stored and maintained in a company’s database. In many B2B companies, this information can be pulled from marketing automation platforms and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms. What is Database Marketing? Then you’re done!

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Database Marketing PPC Work Management Marketing Management 45

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The Role of Video is Expanding from Marketing to Sales : 37 percent of sales teams are now using video throughout the sales cycle and 23 percent are now creating their own video content, both measures are up more than 50% from the previous year. As businesses continue to create videos, budgets are following.

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Video Marketing Marketing Automation Services Research Account Based Marketing 75

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. But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets. It shouldn't be hard to figure out which one suits you better. Read it here.]

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