Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. All six of the vendors new to this report sell primarily to small businesses, and most are “all-in-one” systems that combine marketing automation with integrated CRM. VEST Report. social data.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Report Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

When I first starting thinking about Account Based Marketing, I assumed that an ABM system would let marketers replicate at scale how sales teams manage key accounts: that is, to analyze each account in depth, set goals specific to that account, and then execute against those goals.

Account Based Marketing 120

Account Based Marketing Marketing Automation Services Work Management Buy 120

Biznology

AUGUST 8, 2019

I was teaching B2B digital marketing to master’s degree students at San Andres University in Buenos Aires again this summer. So, I decided to look into what’s going on in B2B marketing in Argentina. Ruth: How do B2B marketers in Argentina approach new customer prospecting these days? Frias , who filled me in. Please explain.

Demand Generation Agencies 106

Demand Generation Agencies Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services B2B Marketing 106

ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2020

Both ask the same, fundamental question when analyzing demand marketing budgets: What real sales ‘lift’ am I getting from this spend? A Nielsen blog post notes : Marketers in every industry have one common goal: Prove that marketing efforts help drive more revenue… . Assessing the Impact of Demand Marketing.

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Demand CMS Development Marketing Attribution Budget Programs 147

The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. Based on first-hand impressions, however, it’s not how the vast majority of clients are employing (or even thinking of) marketing automation. I’m just not sure the rest of us are quite there yet.

Marketo 100

Marketo Impressions Demand Generation Agencies Lead Nurturing 100

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. Just kidding.or Pricing starts at $599 per month.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

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. It has grown in popularity, and according to SiriusDecisions , 40% of organizations will own automation by next year. So without further ado: Eloqua.

Marketing Automation Services 101

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 101

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

Direct mail and other offline channels are not new, but the old barriers to entry with these strategies have been overcome: Sending Platforms enable companies to automate personalized offline campaigns like direct mail and measure ROI. When it comes to go-market-strategy, utilizing offline channels has become table stakes. .

Sales Management 164

Sales Management Campaigns Demonstrating Intent Marketo 164

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

Top of Funnel 160

Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Qualified Leads 160

The ABM Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

Reading Time: 13 minutes Winning strategies for account-based marketing (ABM) are essential for any director of marketing or CMO at a large B2B SaaS organization. Next, you’ll learn how to develop a target account list that aligns with your objectives. Segment Your Target Account List D.

Account Based Marketing 52

Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy 52

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

Summary: Marketo continues to follow its own path. I finally caught up with Marketo for a briefing on their Enterprise Edition (announced in March) and Revenue Cycle Analytics (announced in May). Since both are somewhat old news, and Marketo describes them in detail on its Web site, I’ll just make a few comments.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketo Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. The market will probably split between enterprise-wide suites and more limited marketing automation systems. Given the previous Unica deal.

Resource Management 120

Resource Management Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 5, 2012

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. What are marketers to make of all this activity, not to mention Marketo ’s acquisition in April of social marketing vendor Cloud Factory ?

Resource Management 120

Resource Management Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

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.

Manticore 100

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. Although the VEST is primarily intended to help people who are buying a marketing automation system, its database also provides a statistical portrait of the industry.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Report Marketing Automation Automation 120

Martech

JULY 14, 2022

B2B marketers have employed account-based marketing (ABM) for well over a decade, of course, but the space has evolved rapidly over the past two to three years. Additionally, the COVID pandemic accelerated fundamental shifts in the B2B buying cycle by forcing events and in-person meetings to go virtual.

Account Based Marketing 114

Account Based Marketing Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 114

NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2012

B2B lead generation and lead management is a complicated process that can’t be detailed all in one book. Below are a variety of books that I consider the cream of the crop in b2b marketing and lead management. I’ve built my practice utilizing key points made in each book in addition to my own lead generation experiences.

Demand Generation 100

Demand Generation Lead Generation Demand Generation 100

The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I may not be a market analyst, but from what I see working with our agency’s B2B clients , it seems to me that, in the language of technology adoption lifecycles, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) stands at that pivotal junction – what Geoffrey Moore calls the “chasm” – between early adopters and early majority.

Account Based Marketing 157

Account Based Marketing ABM Ideal Customer Profiles Enterprise Management 157

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. It has grown in popularity, and according to SiriusDecisions , 40% of organizations will own automation by next year. Read the post.) Read the post.)

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 65

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

I’ve been creeping in that direction with the previous two posts about revenues, growth rates, and market share. In a young industry like B2B marketing automation, the primary focus is growth, and I published some figures on that yesterday (repeated below). Now let’s plunge in with some more substantial analysis.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Vendors Comparison Marketing Automation 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Author: Mary Kate Francis If you’re a B2B marketer, you’re probably familiar with demand generation in one way or another. Maybe you’ve been working in demand generation for several years or you collaborate with the team on cross-channels campaigns. Is that what’s for lunch?)

Demand Generation Agencies 48

Demand Generation Agencies Top of Funnel Demand Generation Lead Ranking 48

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. The tentative list is Unica , Aprimo , Alterian , and Neolane.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz Demand Generation Agencies 120

The Point

MARCH 18, 2014

Over at marketing automation firm Marketo , CEO Phil Fernandez just wrote a full-throated rant against the evils of unsolicited email and purchased email lists used indiscriminately: “How does anyone think that these are sensible emails to send to the CEO of a fast-growing public company? Stop buying lists.

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Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Agencies Marketo Demand Generation 100

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Account-based marketing is used by most B2B companies, and it’s easy to see why: it promises to bring marketing and sales closer together, target accounts as one revenue team, and drive bottom-line results. Poor data quality leads to targeting the wrong accounts at the wrong times and in the wrong way.

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Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Leads Zoominfo Marketing Management 100

The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard AS runs a highly successful demand generation program, an integrated mix of both online and offline campaigns, to generate a consistent flow of leads to the company’s sales force. Design, build and launch a nurture campaign targeted to “Mid Stage” leads. Spear is a Marketo agency partner.) “A

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Conversion Rate Marketing Qualified Leads Demand Generation Agencies Lead Ranking 100

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. Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 Those are easy to create because the Raab Guide (buy now! 9 Now what? 0 0 0 0 0.5

Lead Scoring 120

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Demand Generation Work Management 120

Martech

MARCH 16, 2022

As chat software users ourselves, we’re advocates of using conversational marketing to engage with website visitors and are looking forward to this feature. For example, you might upload your target account list and create a unique conversation with them versus all other visitors. Source: 2022 Marketo User Study.

Lead Scoring 106

Lead Scoring Enterprise Management Work Management Peer-to-peer 106

Madison Logic

MARCH 14, 2023

With 810 million global professional members, the B2B networking powerhouse is a core pillar in an effective account-based marketing (ABM) strategy, enabling marketers to drive higher conversions from their campaigns and gain the clarity to understand what impacts pipeline and ROI.

Multi-Channel 52

Multi-Channel Linkedin Advertising Channels Account Based Marketing 52

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 17, 2019

Today’s marketers have a very specific goal: maximize revenue by delivering rich, meaningful experiences that turn prospects into customers and customers into lifelong advocates. Shifting from lead-based marketing – only strategies to combined lead and account-based marketing (ABM) strategies has helped many marketers achieve this.

Account Based Marketing 132

Account Based Marketing Advertising Channels Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy 132

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. I estimate the non-B2B specialists and other marketing automation vendors (IBM, SAS, SAP, etc.)

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Report Marketing Management 120

Leadspace

MARCH 22, 2023

As marketers, we aim to confidently and repeatedly deliver effective campaigns to the best opportunities within our target market – at the lowest possible cost. Leadspace’s Revenue Radar TM : The 4 Buying Signals that matter. Applies scoring that indicates a company and/or person’s likelihood to be a good target buyer.

Ideal Customer Profiles 62

Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Eloqua 62

LeadSloth

AUGUST 30, 2009

As a response to my posts 7 Reasons Why Marketing Automation Projects Fail and Marketing Automation ROI , several people mentioned that the benefits of Marketing Automation are not just increased sales. Marketing Automation Increases Revenue. Marketing influenced pipeline.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Efficiency Marketing Automation Marketing Qualified Leads 100

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales? What should I know about Account-Based Marketing?

Lead Ranking 149

Lead Ranking Demand Generation Agencies Account Based Marketing Paid Search Agency 149

Markempa

JANUARY 9, 2019

B2B lead generation has had to reinvent itself over the last decade. Sales have always used an account-based approach. Now marketing is getting on board by with account-based marketing. He or she is almost always part of a buying team. ABM isn’t just about marketing. Jon: Great.

Account Based Marketing 90

Account Based Marketing ABM Paid Search Agency Demand Generation 90

Biznology

JULY 26, 2017

Account-based marketing is a hot concept in B2B these days, but how does it really work on the ground? Enli is the market leader and always looking for ways to maintain their lead. It’s changed entirely the way we work in marketing. In ABM, the lines between sales and marketing blur. We run campaigns.”

Top of Funnel 164

Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing ABM Lead Ranking 164

Vidyard

JULY 2, 2015

Marketers, take note. If video is not already a part of your digital marketing strategy, now’s the time to jump on board and grab ahold of some of that 2%. it’s a no-brainer that your marketing strategy should—no, no…MUST—include video content. This is my M.O. Enter, video. Bottom line: Do it.)

Marketing Automation Services 51

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Video Marketing 51

Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. In this installment, I’ll dive into each of the Need-to-Have Tools/Channels I listed in part I. Need-to-Have Tools (and their Channels): CRM and Marketing Automation. The CRM is the hub of all lead, contact, account, and opportunity records.

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Account Based Marketing ABM Sales Management Budget Programs 102