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Email Critique: Oracle/Eloqua Webcast Invite Needs Help

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The impact that Oracle’s acquisition of Eloqua will have on that company’s ability to compete effectively in the marketing automation space is fodder for debate. What is more clear, based on the Webcast invitation I received this week (below), is that it hasn’t done much for Eloqua’s own email marketing. Let me count the ways: 1.

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Measuring the True Impact of Marketing Campaigns: A Conversation with Bonnie Crater

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In 2011, she became President and CEO of Full Circle CRM , a company dedicated to helping VPs of Marketing use Salesforce.com to get accurate and useful performance data about marketing campaigns. HS: How are you different from marketing automation vendors like Eloqua or Marketo at addressing this issue?

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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

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In the last decade, three of the top four B2B solutions: Eloqua, Marketo, and Pardot, have all been acquired by larger companies. The software freed up a backlog of campaigns waiting to be executed. Vendors focused on new licenses vs. customer retention. What are the metrics by which we will define success? Pipeline acceleration?

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Survey: Marketing Automation Users Score a “C” in Maturity

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Some of the key findings in the report include: • 77% of respondents indicate they measure pipeline contribution from specific campaigns ( tweet this ). 85% of those surveyed said they currently segment email campaigns based on persona ( tweet this ). • The report is available as a free download from the Spear Website.

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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

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In addition, the platform integrates with leading marketing automation platforms, such as Eloqua, HubSpot, Marketo, and Pardot. Beyond the ability to optimize social media strategy, this allows marketers to confidently demonstrate the value of any given social activity on the company’s bottom line.

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How to Measure Email Success in 2015: A Call to ROI

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Since email continues to be a dominant channel for most B2B marketers, let me suggest that a good candidate for #1 on your “to do” list for 2015 is to improve the way you measure email campaigns. News Flash: opens and clicks do not measure the success of an email campaign. Nothing else really matters.

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Take a Sales Guy to Lunch: Bridging the Sales & Marketing Divide

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Companies like Eloqua and Marketo have 1-click integration into CRM systems that make it easy to synchronize marketing and sales processes and lead data. Now that process can be tracked from the beginning including the campaign strategy and prospect profile. Today, lead management in the CRM system starts when sales get the lead.