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Why Marketing Automation Customers are Migrating Downstream

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Now, Steve happens to work in product marketing for Oracle Marketing Cloud , home of Eloqua, typically regarded as the most feature-rich (some would say: complex) marketing automation solution on the market. So, it may just be that Steve’s data is biased in favor of those companies who need a more full-featured solution.

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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

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Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

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Just listen to marketing guru Gary Vaynerchuk, perhaps the biggest champion for advertising on Facebook and other channels, who says that social media advertising is “grossly underpriced” and that companies have a window of opportunity to take advantage before big brands drive up the cost. All of which begs the question: what about organic?

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

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It serves as a handy benchmark for companies that might be looking to gauge how their use of marketing automation measures up against their peers. Spear’s report includes detailed survey results, a list of key findings, along with commentary and analysis. The report is available as a free download from the Spear Website.

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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. I sat down with her recently to find out more about her company and what makes their solution different. HS: Thanks Bonnie!

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

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Recently I sat down with Barbara Angius Saxby, founder of Accelent Consulting , to discuss the role of new technologies in helping companies achieve what Barbara calls “process excellence.” 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.

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What’s the Big Deal About Predictive Analytics? A Conversation with Brian Kardon

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He previously held top marketing roles at Eloqua, Forrester Research, and Reed Business Information before taking the reins as CMO at Lattice Engines , a pioneer in predictive applications for marketing and sales. For the most part, companies rely on instinct and, perhaps, lead scoring via marketing automation.