The Point

OCTOBER 20, 2011

There’s a lot to like about the email below received last week from Radian6 , makers of social media monitoring tools (and recently acquired by Salesforce.com.) Most notable: not once in the entire copy is the company or product mentioned. This is content marketing, pure and simple. What I like: 1. What I’d change: 1.

Email Campaigns 100

Email Campaigns Salesforce.com Campaigns Demand Generation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

To help the system run smoothly, Lenovo has both dedicated internal Adobe teams, as well as full-time support people on Adobe''s payroll, which means the company spends equal amounts on both products and support services. ” email-based targeting. The company says this is more accurate than targeting based on IP address.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Display Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 120

markempa

MAY 30, 2017

From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target which was then acquired by Salesforce.com. I write for lots of different publications, and now I head up the forward-looking marketing ideas and theories as Principal of Marketing Insight at Salesforce.com. We’re like all right, so we got 10,000 email addresses this year.

Linkedin 297

Linkedin Research Studies B2B 297

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 9, 2014

x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. At that time, the marketing product was missing key marketing automation features including lead scoring, multi-step workflows, and integration with Salesforce.com.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Purchase Paid Search Agency 120

Brandpoint

MAY 18, 2020

And that explains why so many companies now focus on the digital content that works strategically to move customers through the sales funnel as they become increasingly interested in what’s being offered. The quality of that content has become so important that 72% of the most successful organizations in the U.S.

Top of Funnel 149

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Planning Work Management 149

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2014

Like all the others except ReachForce, the company builds a master database of information about businesses and individuals by scanning the social networks, company Web pages, job sites, paid search spend, search engine page rank, and other sources. So what makes Fliptop different from its competitors? Infer takes a similar approach.)

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services Reachforce 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. In SFDC terms, this means the sales reps should be seeing only opportunities and contacts instead of leads or campaigns. a yahoo email address).

Salesforce.com 48

Salesforce.com Lead Ranking Thought Leadership Lead Scoring 48

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

The company made a few announcements, most notably a vastly improved email builder and tighter integration with online accounting software from Quickbooks Online and Xero. Infusionsoft’s goal is to bake as much as possible of the methodology into the software, its partner ecosystem, and prebuilt assets such as campaign plans.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Planning 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company is in the business of assembling B2B marketing lists – an industry dating back centuries to city directories and beyond. Like many data gatherers, Lead Genius uses a combination of Web and other sources to build company and contact lists. Lead Genius sends emails through corporate or individual salespeople’s email accounts.

Marketing AI 120

Marketing AI Account Based Marketing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

Biznology

JUNE 6, 2018

If you’re a small or medium size business selling to consumers, you probably want to both automate and personalize your marketing campaigns. Your emails are more relevant. Just not for companies with a closed, proprietary CRM. But they’re years behind in terms of pre-customer, top-of-the-funnel campaigning.

Marketing Automation Services 167

Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Work Management 167

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

When confronted with the details – database management, customer account segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. This is a great place to tailor your marketing materials and campaigns toward specific business goals. How big are these companies?

Account Based Marketing 218

Account Based Marketing Segmentation Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management 218

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. This has been sadly lacking in most B2B marketing automation systems, which supplement the Salesforce.com database with barely-extensible lead profiles and contact histories.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Lead Ranking Marketing Management 120

Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

But “segmented prospect email followup sequence design and automation,” while a more accurate label for the category, certainly isn’t as catchy. Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation. Marketing can’t be automated.) 1) Marketo.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. It only recently added standard B2B marketing automation features including a customer-level marketing database, outbound email, landing pages, lead scoring, Web behavior tracking, reporting, and Salesforce.com integration.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2016

Even setting aside issues of accuracy and coverage , there are problems with both advertising and email, the two primary applications for intent data. Intent-based email lists are obviously contactable but volumes are often quite low. Clients also receive contact names, email addresses, and phone numbers at those companies.

Intent Data 120

Intent Data Intent Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Sales intelligence software/platforms help companies use data to increase sales and improve sales processes. Features/functionality: ZoomInfo has a portfolio of solutions that combine B2B intelligence and company contact data with engagement software, and dynamic workflows. Today’s post is about Sales Intelligence platforms/tools.

B2B Sales 70

B2B Sales Enterprise Management Zoominfo Work Management 70

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2016

And, yes, Crystal advises you how to interact with others based on those insights, going so far as to suggest changes to your emails to better fit the style of the recipient. Mariana told me that while other vendors might find social profiles on less than 30% of the records on a B2B email list, it regularly finds data on 50% to 80%.

Ad Building 120

Ad Building Work Management Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

Summary: MakesBridge offers a full set of marketing automation features with some special strengths that will appeal especially to small companies. This group of marketers has different needs from even slightly larger companies. The company started in 2001 as an email service provider and still offers a $29.95

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Features Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

When I reviewed Right On Interactive in a July 2009 post , the company was selling its 5Buckets marketing software as a multi-channel output generation tool that complemented conventional marketing automation systems. campaign design: users can define campaigns with multiple “tactics”.

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

This includes detailed research into keyword rankings for the client and competitors, analysis of Web pages for features that improve search ranks, an inbound link manager, and a Twitter client to publish posts and embed trackable URLs that measure campaign results. Emails are delivered through ExactTarget.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2015

These include Salesforce.com for CRM, InsideView and FullContact for data enhancement, Twilio for text messaging, Lob for postcards, Segment for event tracking, and GoodData for reporting. It sees itself as filling the gap between simple email systems and enterprise marketing automation products.

Multi-Channel 120

Multi-Channel Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 13, 2014

Last year’s biggest marketing automation acquisitions were products for consumer marketing: ExactTarget by Salesforce.com , Neolane by Adobe , and Responsys by Oracle. The three products overlapped significantly, especially in campaign management, and it took Teradata a while to sort things out.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Resource Management Marketing Management 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years. However, when I started looking into Salesforce.com and the wide variety of add-ons, I was less convinced.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services LEADSExplorer netFactor Leadlander 100

The Point

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I just returned from a few days at Dreamforce in San Francisco, the annual circus-slash-conference hosted by CRM leader Salesforce.com, and was struck by the wave of technologies on display that centered on analytics. Almost half of all respondents outsource some or all of their campaigns to an agency or outside consultant.

Demand Generation Agencies 100

Demand Generation Agencies Lead Gen Marketing Report Research 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

The classic demand generation cycle starts with an outbound email campaign, captures replies on a landing page, scores the responses, and then sends qualified leads to a sales automation system and keeps the others for more nurturing. Leads can enter from channels other than email. Registration is no longer required.)

Active Conversion 120

Active Conversion Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

Summary: Right On Interactive's 5Buckets connects lists from external customer management systems with many types of output vendors (email, print, fax, text message, automated voice). It's a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to more powerful marketing automation systems for companies who don't need other marketing automation features.

Multi-Channel 120

Multi-Channel Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Channels 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You have to admire a company that defines a clear strategy and methodically executes it. The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. Choices will be based on individual features and supporting services.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

This gave salespeople a desktop “Tracker” that instantly alerted them when prospects responded to their emails, and showed which pages the prospects visited on their company Web site. What made SalesGenius special was doing this without installing tracking scripts on the company Web pages.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

For CRM, I focused on Salesforce.com. Individual emails. Marketing Automation also has some features for sales people, but those tend to be focused on lead prioritization, email, and prospect activity notifications. Native Email Marketing. Drip Email Marketing. Automated Campaigns Flows. Forecasting.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Salesforce.com 100

Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

, I made the exciting move in August to assume the role of CEO for Cision, a global top-15 SaaS company that is about to do many of the same things for Earned media that OMC (and Adobe, Salesforce, IBM Marketing Clouds as well) are doing for Paid and Owned media. And that’s before you get to the Google, FB, Amazon, MSFT, Verizon, … IDs.

Enterprise Management 116

Enterprise Management Paid Content Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 116

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them. Because RightWave doesn''t charge more for bigger databases or higher message volume, it could actually be cheaper than a self-service system for big companies.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Management Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2013

But since late 2011 the company has also offered a suite aimed at marketers, which now has more than 4,000 paid clients. It lacks the Salesforce.com integration of B2B systems (due early next year), the lightweight CRM of micro-business systems, and the lead scoring and distribution of both.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Management Social Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. The system then draws on Aprimo’s heritage in marketing management to add detailed cost tracking, project management, asset workflow including annotation and commenting on PDFs, and a flexible campaign calendar.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology. add a tracking tag) to the Web site itself.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Loopfuse 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting. Automated synchronization is available for Salesforce.com using their standard APIs.

Efficiency 120

Efficiency Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

ActiveConversion first became known for its sales-focused Web Analytics, such as identifying companies that visit your website (similar to Leadlander ). Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Email marketing.

ActiveConversion 100

ActiveConversion SMB Work Management Lead Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2011

I agree that it's radically different: it works without a central marketing database and tracks customer states rather than assigning them to campaigns. The concept is intriguing: instead of creating campaigns that predefine paths a lead can follow, you define the actions to take when customers are in a particular situation.

Work Management 120

Work Management Campaigns Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services 120