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Oracle Buys ATG: Bad News for Marketing Automation?

Customer Experience Matrix

I’d say the ATG purchase lessens the odds of Oracle buying a marketing automation vendor. The logic is this: buying ATG suggests that Oracle, like IBM (which put Unica in its WebSphere organization), is focusing on online marketing rather than marketing automation in general. So much for the obvious.

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Why You Need a Lead Nurturing Strategy

LeadSquared

Your sales process doesn’t just stop with getting leads from various sources and calling them once. That’s why having a lead nurturing strategy is something you should start incorporating right away. A sizeable amount of organizations have now found the secret ingredients to generate more leads. But, is that all?

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Never Waste an Opportunity: The Value of Lead Nurturing

Tomorrow People

Lead Nurturing 101. Lead nurturing starts by collecting contact information in exchange for something the visitor deems of value, but with little risk. If a lead should mention a competitor in a tweet on Twitter, for example, or use specific keywords, you can automatically send that lead a Direct Tweet.

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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

Customer Experience Matrix

So far the original list of Eloqua , Vtrenz , Marketo , Manticore Technology and Market2Lead has proven a good set of choices. We do, after all, want people to buy this thing. This doesn’t particularly surprise me, although seeing Alterian, Aprimo and Neolane rank well below Manticore Technology and Market2Lead is odd.

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BANT - It's Not Always The Lead Score

Smashmouth Marketing

I woke up this morning to these three tweets relating to @nivenor1 's recent market2lead blog post titled: The SCOTSMAN vs. BANT for Effective Lead Management nivenor1 : New post about BANT vs. The SCOTSMAN on our blog [link] , now its off to Guatemala for 10 days! BANT for Effective Lead Management asserts "BANT" isn't enough.

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BANT - It's Not Always The Lead Score

Smashmouth Marketing

I woke up this morning to these three tweets relating to @nivenor1 's recent market2lead blog post titled: The SCOTSMAN vs. BANT for Effective Lead Management. brianjcarroll : Read post by @nivenor1 : SCOTSMAN vs. BANT for Effective Lead Management asserts "BANT" isn't enough. is all about the Buy Cycle not the Sales Cycle. (I

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Marketo's Enterprise Edition and Revenue Cycle Management: Looking Under the Hood

Customer Experience Matrix

Enterprise Edition supports these by adding user roles, “lead partitions” to control access to database segments and “workspaces” to make Marketo objects (contents, campaigns, lists, etc.) User roles (but not lead partitions or workspaces) are now available in Marketo’s Professional Edition as well. available to different user groups.