Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I was a young, freshly minted MBA with a background in computer science, and a two-year stint doing software marketing at IBM. “We just signed up for this Eloqua thing. We were one of Eloqua’s first customers and that’s where my adventure with marketing automation began. Hey kid,” they said.

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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. For companies like Eloqua and its competitors, there are really two big financial questions: how fast can they grow, and how can they become profitable? Now let’s plunge in with some more substantial analysis.

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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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Valasys

MAY 1, 2024

This is where AI tool of Lead Nurturing plays the decisive role. In reality, it has become the most effective lead-nurturing workflows tool. What do AI lead nurturing tools refer to? undefined AI automates repetitive tasks like sending emails and scheduling social media posts. Gain valuable insights!

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to part II of How to do ABM Without an ABM Tool! 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. Need-to-Have Tools (and their Channels): CRM and Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. That’s a technical step backwards but will actually make it easier for buyers to access the detailed vendor information, and in particular to screen for vendors with particular capabilities. VEST Report.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2013

Raab Associates officially released the new edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday. This is our flagship report on the industry, with nearly 200 data points on 23 vendors and separate ratings for micro-business, small to mid-size companies, and enterprise marketing departments.

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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. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. So we’ll exclude them from further analysis. Myth busted.

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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.

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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. Many would no doubt be delighted to sell at such prices.

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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. Vendors in the VEST are asked for estimates of their client counts by company size. The table below shows the results.

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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. Then I saw ZenIQ. Now things start get interesting.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Traditionally, B2C marketers have relied on demographic data, and B2B marketers have bet the farm on firmographics. What hardware or software is a company using? Do they have tools in place for marketing automation? Thus, technographic targeting was born in the consumer marketing realm.

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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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration.

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

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ANNUITAS

MAY 5, 2020

What started with a need to reach buyers in an online world has ballooned into more than 7,000 marketing technology tools to choose from. According to Scott Brinker, the average marketer uses 100 different pieces of software in a given month — and they don’t even think about 90 of them. They just use them!

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Leadspace

MARCH 22, 2023

Doing this successfully means creating increasingly accurate, dynamic, and unified profiles of people, accounts and buying centers so we can properly prioritize and target opportunities with data-driven insurance that we’re delivering the right message to the right people at the right time. and the higher the score the more engaged the buyer.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

B2B marketing data vendor ReachForce today announced its purchase of SetLogik , which provides technology to build cloud-based marketing databases and do predictive modeling against them. Conversely, having a readily-available data source encourages marketers to build their own database.

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Leadspace

MAY 2, 2023

With this final piece of information, you can focus on the right people from the right companies who are ready, able, and eager to buy your type of product or service – ensuring you don’t waste time, money and effort chasing down leads that aren’t likely to close. This is where an engagement model comes into play.

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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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Oktopost

MARCH 11, 2020

Choosing the Right Platform. This seems like a no-brainer, but with so many platform providers out there, it can be challenging to find a strong fit. Your platform provider should be able to pump advocacy data across your martech stack giving you the opportunity to measure and optimize your entire advocacy program.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This seems like a no-brainer, but with so many platform providers out there, it can be challenging to find a strong fit. This will help make sure employee advocacy is part of the day-to-day social media management workflow without needing to use different platforms to create content or translate B2C metrics into B2B language.

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Digital B2B Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Marketers have invested in marketing automation, content and, in many cases, creating complex business rules to determine what content and message to deliver when. The next evolution in marketing automation will be extending the application of these rules across the full spectrum of digital and addressable marketing channels.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 14, 2023

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are the metrics that determine your content marketing success, but not all KPIs are equally important. In this article, we’ll explore the metrics that matter most for content marketing in 2023. What tools do you need to measure your KPIs? Social media analytics tools. What are KPIs?

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 4, 2011

If you’re a B2B marketer and you’re not hibernating, you obviously know the concept of marketing automation. Marketo, Aprimo, Eloqua, Silverpop and all the rest are there to push this technology towards you. Marketing Automation doesn’t work unless there’s a realistic scoring model in place.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 4, 2011

If you’re a B2B marketer and you’re not hibernating, you obviously know the concept of marketing automation. Marketo, Aprimo, Eloqua, Silverpop and all the rest are there to push this technology towards you. Marketing Automation doesn’t work unless there’s a realistic scoring model in place.

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Rev

MAY 21, 2018

If you have a marketing automation platform — like Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot, or Pardot — then you are probably using intent data. Third Party Intent Data You Can Buy. The Truth Intent Vendors Don’t Want to Talk About. Problem #3: The In-Market Fallacy. First, what is intent data?

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Conversica

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If your emails are sent to the right person at the wrong time, the chances of conversion are lower than if the same person receives a message at the right time in their buying process. Use the double opt-in feature on your email marketing software to avoid landing in spam folders. Expected and readable. Behavioral triggers.

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thePoint

MARCH 16, 2021

That may be an email service (e.g., MailChimp, iContact, Constant Contact), or marketing automation solution (e.g., Hubspot, Marketo, Eloqua), content development suite (e.g., Adobe Creative Cloud), or other tools your team may discover that appear to be helpful. Upgrade and/or maintenance fees over time.

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SalesIntel

MARCH 22, 2023

This can include information about their devices, the software and apps they use, their online behavior, and more. Technographic data can be used to segment your audience based on the technology, tools, and IT infrastructure they use. If you’re in the B2B market, learning how technology works with an enterprise is worth learning.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 14, 2023

While we’ve already discussed why LinkedIn is a marketer’s best friend, it’s just as important to show how quick and easy it is to integrate it with the ML Platform to run more successful multi-channel ABM campaigns. Why Integrate LinkedIn with the ML Platform?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. But they’re just that: tools.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

I mentioned 6Sense briefly in a recent post about vendors who help companies find prospects on the Web. The extraction features are important – at least to me – because they determine whether 6Sense qualifies as a “ customer data platform ” (CDP), a type of system I see as fundamental for future marketing.

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chiefmartech

JUNE 6, 2016

Last week was a big week for marketing technology M&A news. Two billion-dollar M&A deals: Marketo was acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners for $1.79 Marketo’s deal isn’t industry consolidation — at least not yet. Let’s start with Marketo.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 14, 2010

We asked Steve Woods "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Steve Woods is the CTO and cofounder of Eloqua , author of Digital Body Language and is recognized as one of the top influencers in CRM. Blog DigitalBodyLanguage Eloqua Twitter Stevewoods.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

The real-time CRM and Marketing Automation data vendors (including Leadspace) should have another big year based on the growing acknowledgement that this type of service dramatically enhances the performance of these massive CRM and MA investments companies have made. Real-time content/offer management.

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