Martech

APRIL 17, 2024

Call on vendor and tech partners to help us succeed. The rise of data proximity Marketers like to debate whether we’re served better by the wheel-and-spoke model of technology or the unified platform model. But in speaking with customers and vendors in recent years, I’ve learned this big negative has faded away.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I wrote last August that it’s still possible for new B2B marketing automation vendors to challenge the industry leaders. This was based on the observation that several of the smaller vendors have quickly reached the 1,000 client benchmark. make it radically easier for marketers to use existing functions.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Marketo COULD HAVE been acquired by one of several enterprise application vendors that simply don’t get marketing. Adobe GETS marketing. Moreover, Adobe’s product quality is world class — something that cannot be said for every software vendor that has acquired marketing automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 13, 2012

Three weeks ago, Intuit shook up the low end of the marketing automation universe by purchasing small business marketing shooting star Demandforce. Last week the action shifted to the high end, where FICO announced its purchase of Entiera , one of the few remaining enterprise class products.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 25, 2013

It has taken me a while to connect the dots, but I’m now pretty sure I see a new type of software emerging. This differs quite radically from standard marketing automation systems, which use databases built elsewhere, rarely include integrated predictive modeling, and are focused primarily on moving customers through multi-step campaigns.

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

It’s well documented that, of the companies who invest in marketing automation, many fail to achieve maximum return from that investment, or even utilize marketing automation technology to its full capacity. In our agency’s work with marketing automation users , we’ve identified 10 of the most common mistakes to avoid: 1.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A trigger event is an occurrence that promotes buyer awareness of the possibility for change or the need for what a vendor provides. Market volatility, environmental or economic adversity, and reputation concerns are all possible trigger events. What is a Trigger Event? Image credit: Diego PH on Unsplash.

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SpotMe Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Selecting the right in-person event platform to manage your onsite events is critical to their success. Especially because 95% of marketers believe that in-person events help achieve business goals (American-based event technology company). What Is An In-Person Event Platform? American event technology company).

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2013

If you’ve heard of Vocus at all, it’s probably as vendor serving public relations professionals. But since late 2011 the company has also offered a suite aimed at marketers, which now has more than 4,000 paid clients. Even in the small business sector, that count would make Vocus one of the largest marketing automation systems.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2012

Salesforce.com yesterday announced the launch of Site.com , an enterprise-class Web site management system. And, as the two giants converge, the marketing automation industry stands between them like a mushroom, waiting to be crushed or gobbled up (if giants eat mushrooms). Some of that gobbling has already begun.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 13, 2010

IBM announced this morning that it was purchasing enterprise marketing automation leader Unica for $480 million, more than double the company’s current stock market valuation. As I discussed in my own post on industry consolidation , Unica belongs to the class of marketing systems that serve consumer marketers.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 13, 2011

Yesterday' post described the first three steps in Raab Associates' vendor selection process: defining requirements, researching options, and testing vendors against scenarios. And remember, the complete set is available for free in our Vendor Selection Workbook in the Resource Library at the Raab Guide Web site.

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Launch Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Alert Logic was in fast growth mode and wanted to implement marketing automation to support the scaling of their business. They wanted a partner to lead the strategy and implementation of an Enterprise-class marketing automation solution, and with that in mind engaged Launch Marketing to lead the effort.

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Martech

MARCH 7, 2023

While there’s little difference in managing an email nurture campaign, for example, to sell blenders or airplanes, that doesn’t mean understanding the specific product is not essential for the folks administering the marketing automation platform. That makes things easier for everyone.

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ClickZ

JUNE 1, 2020

30-second summary: Today, artificial intelligence, sensors, and digital platforms—and an explosion of data—have already increased the opportunity for learning more effectively; but competing on the rate of learning will become a necessity in the 2020s.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2020

Q: Scott Brinker revealed the “MarTech 8,000” this past spring and despite some “churn” YoY the number of MarTech solutions and vendors was up again this year. How does MarTech support ABM, and are there classes of innovative solutions in the marketplace that people looking to leverage ABM should consider?

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

LeadSloth Marketing Automation Blog – Survey Results. Marketing Automation Best Practices. And the last topic “Social Media” confirmed my gut feeling that Social Media is hotter than Inbound Marketing and Search Marketing (which were hardly mentioned by the respondents). Avoid vendor bias. Conclusion.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 9, 2017

As these companies proved, new and disruptive technology platforms can capture huge revenues in the ad industry. Advertisers and vendors will access consumers on each user’s terms, giving people new power to guide a people-first economy. As “ software eats the world ,” VCs invest in more and faster changes. Where have you been?

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Even though some vendors have been around for almost 10 years, Marketing Automation is still relatively new. According to Forrester, only 2-5% of B2B firms have invested in full-featured Marketing Automation. Increasingly, B2B companies realize that Marketing Automation software requires skilled operators.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 11, 2010

Summary: Adobe added Web content management, digital asset management and social media features to its arsenal when it purchased Day Software last month. But it still lacks key pieces of a complete marketing solution. Last month, Adobe announced their $240 million acquisition of Web content management vendor Day Software.

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

B2B buyers are increasingly behaving like consumers, and vendors are struggling with delivering personalized experiences to those buyers. Add to this a global economic slowdown, which has prolonged buying cycles, and the COVID-19 pandemic, which has halted traditional marketing approaches.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2014

It’s been a while since I wrote about Customer Data Platforms , but only because I’ve been distracted by other topics. The CDP industry has been moving along nicely without my attention: new CDPs keep emerging and the existing vendors are growing. A typical scheme would create A, B, C, and D lead classes, where A leads are best.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 27, 2019

To white label marketing tools that make your agency look bigger and more professional than the competition, look for marketing solutions that allow you to fully brand the tool as your own, from visual appearance down to domain; to manage billing and support; and to send emails from your own domain.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 7, 2016

Approximately 47 percent of digital marketers say that they do not have the right tools for the job. WHY DO YOU THINK MARKETERS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO ADOPT MARTECH, DESPITE THEIR INVESTMENT IN IT? First, we are still in the early adoption stage for MarTech tools such as marketing automation.

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QuanticMind

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Most advertisers consider paid search management software the solution to all their problems. Invest in automation technology and eliminate the guesswork of optimization. With so many in the ecosystem, though, just how do you find the right tool with all the right features to help meet your business goals.

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Biznology

AUGUST 28, 2017

Imagine living in a world that delivers “greatness for everyone,” and your publishing platform is how everyone lives, works, learns, and is entertained. For example: Start by using the Internet’s communication, cloud, and edge services. Sell your people-first cloud services to other companies for them to use.

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Vision Edge Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

The 16 th annual 16th annual Marketing Performance Management (MPM) benchmark study found that the group known as the Value Creators (those that earn 90 or greater grade by the C-Suite) are far more likely to have a strategic Marketing Ops function. The Success Behind the MarTech of the Best in Class.

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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. But despite the rapid adoption of ABM tools, its promise remains largely untapped. The reason?

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Should you take an integrated suite approach or focus on best-in-class by category? It seems that as companies reach a certain level of maturity, their approach to marketing technology evolves. Scott’s framework for marketing technology adoption describes how companies get to this advanced state. . Like many things, it depends.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

However, B2B marketers expect that two years from now the top three will be understanding buyers, marketing technology tools, and market / competitor analysis (lead gen drops to #5 on the list). B2B product marketing budgets are expected to increase on average 3.1% 3 B2B Content Marketing Stats and Facts.

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6sense

MAY 6, 2020

In order to provide best-in-class buying experiences, B2B companies today must have a holistic understanding of their customers’ digital journeys. With AI and integrated data sets from each vendor, PTC can now: Identify unknown accounts that are in-market to buy. as the central components of their ROI Engine technology stack.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 25, 2008

When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. They even cited one demand generation vendor that had turned to them for help. (In

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DotDigital

APRIL 19, 2021

April 19th, 2021 – London, UK Today, dotdigital, the leading marketing automation and customer engagement platform, has announced the renewal of its status as a Premier Partner in the Adobe Exchange Partner Program, building on a long-standing relationship. . Nik Shroff, Sr. Director, Tech Partners, Adobe.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 3, 2017

SessionM launched in 2012 as a platform that increased user engagement by adding gamification and loyalty rewards to mobile apps. Compared with these vendors, SessionM’s loyalty features are probably its most unusual feature. It can also ingest data from other sources such as a Customer Data Platform or CRM system.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 1, 2016

One analytics vendor after another is selling you on their ability to analyze and make sense of “any” data. And most marketing and sales data is just that — garbage. Connect account-level outcomes to contact-level activity : CRM platforms such as Salesforce.com are largely organized around account and opportunity objects.

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SpotMe Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

SpotMe’s CEO, Pierre Metrailler, was invited to PM Forum, a UK network of marketing and BD decision-makers in professional services, to discuss how events technology has evolved over the last decade and share first-hand insights on how leading brands – SpotMe’s customers – harness event technology to engage audiences.

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