The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

The sophistication level is still barely past nascent, while the business impact of harnessing data and using it in real-time to fuel customer experience, conversion, purchase, etc., nor with re-tooled data-marts, nor with Master Data Management (MDM). Real-time content/offer management. Real-time data enrichment.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

Below, you can read highlights from our discussion or use the links to start the video from different parts of the conversation. Click to start video at this point — Christopher notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby. And you can show demos.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

Below, you can read highlights from our discussion or use the links to start the video from different parts of the conversation. Click to start video at this point —Chris notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby. And you can show demos.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 13, 2016

As I wrote a couple of posts back , I’ve recently noticed a new set of vendors offering “journey optimization engines”*. The treatments are usually executed through external systems such as email service providers, CRM, or Web content management. This, of course, is a function they share with Customer Data Platforms.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. These functions, plus supporting features for database management, content management, sales system synchronization, and reporting, form a basic template for measuring demand generation software.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

I mentioned 6Sense briefly in a recent post about vendors who help companies find prospects on the Web. The extraction features are important – at least to me – because they determine whether 6Sense qualifies as a “ customer data platform ” (CDP), a type of system I see as fundamental for future marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

B2B marketing data vendor ReachForce today announced its purchase of SetLogik , which provides technology to build cloud-based marketing databases and do predictive modeling against them. Conversely, having a readily-available data source encourages marketers to build their own database. Everybody wins!

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. business-to-business marketing automation. I do expect vendors to converge on more standard social media features. me-too products.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 8, 2009

I had an interesting email conversation last month with a Raab Guide buyer about the nuances of company-level data management in demand generation systems. The conversation has sharpened my own thinking on the subject and prompted a couple of conversations with vendors. I think it’s worth discussing here in some detail.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 17, 2017

But when your job depends on finding new leads, collecting data on leads, having meaningful conversations, managing opportunities, and helping close revenue, any time you can save on these tasks is worth its weight in gold. And even if you’re part of a larger sales organization, you may not always be able to get budget to try new tools.

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. Content Marketing. Video Production. Which team is typically responsible for prioritizing accounts: Sales or Marketing? Brand Strategy.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Summary: Right On Interactive has added great life stage reporting to the data integration and output generation features of its earlier 5Buckets product. It could supplement a traditional marketing automation system or perhaps replace one. We'll start with the standard marketing automation functions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2016

Mariana finds other people who match the personas, using its deep understanding of social data to accurately identify and find contact information on larger numbers of relevant people than other vendors. It currently offers two products: Prospect IQ to find new prospects and Conversion IQ to market to names already in the client's database.

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Engagio

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Folks are going to focus on optimizing existing tools and platforms. There will be more of an interest in platforms versus one-off tools. Personalized and contextual customer experiences will fuel Account-Based Marketing success. Marketers need to be nimble and adapt. My predictions for ABM in 2021 ….

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I’m going to diverge just slightly from my current obsession with usability to talk about a conversation I had today with Marketo President and CEO Phil Fernandez, who previewed the 3.0 release of his flagship product, scheduled for March 3. Here is where it’s worth considering the approaches of other vendors.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 30, 2012

Craig specializes in lead generation, lead qualification, and B2B marketing and sales. Below, you can read highlights from our discussion or use the links to start the video from different parts of the conversation. 2012 Trends: Social Marketing Gaining Real Traction & Growth Hacks. He wrote this manifesto a while back.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 24, 2009

As with other product reviews on Smashmouth, this will be an ongoing experiment. There are two levels of product, Genius Pro and Genius Enterprise. Both have the ability to do email marketing, website tracking, instant web visitor notification, visitor session replay, and have salesforce.com integration.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

This is a bit perplexing, since those products are at the opposite ends of the spectrum: Marketo being relatively low cost / limited functionality / easier to learn, and Eloqua being higher cost / richer functionality / takes more training. But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 27, 2017

The emergence and spread of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has dramatically changed the game for both B2B vendors and customers. For suppliers, that means a vast new stream of data that can be used for marketing, warranty, maintenance, and other purposes. Customer Service Management Tools. 1) HelpScout.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing Thought Leader interview series is with David Taber. 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. Q: What's the biggest issue with Lead Generation ?

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Vidyard

JANUARY 17, 2017

But when your job depends on finding new leads, collecting data on leads, having meaningful conversations, managing opportunities, and helping close revenue, any time you can save on these tasks is worth its weight in gold. Some sales tools can cost up to $30k per year, and even more if you’re looking to use it with everyone on your team.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This is why it’s hard to imagine that low-priced software can deliver similar performance to mainstream products. Now we come to Infusionsoft , which offers marketing automation, CRM and ecommerce for as little as $199 per month. If not, the marketing automation functions in Infusionsoft are worth considering.

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The Point

JUNE 18, 2013

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Chalef, CEO of KnowledgeTree , developers of an intriguing new solution, built for both Salesforce.com and mobile (iOS), that enables sales teams to instantly find, surface, and present the ideal content in any selling situation. HS) What problem does KnowledgeTree solve? (DC)

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Using satellite technology for internet connectivity has particular appeal for companies with operations in remote, hard-to-reach locations, so it’s no surprise that iDirect’s market is heavily segmented, focused on key sectors such as oil & gas, maritime, and federal/military.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. So I was quite curious to see what they had to offer. What I found was intriguing.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 2, 2022

Tune in to hear more about how to create stickiness and effectiveness on a sales enablement platform while learning: how sales enablement requirements have evolved with the acceleration of digital. How do you create stickiness and effectiveness of a sales enablement platform? Elay: Yeah. I love your question.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Salesforce.com integration. ActiveConversion also integrates with Salesforce.com , although using Salesforce is not a requirement. Conclusion.

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The Point

APRIL 1, 2014

Recent studies tell us while the adoption of marketing automation technology continues to gain momentum, fewer than 20 percent of marketing executives say that they are fully integrating the technology into their current sales and marketing initiatives. There were other, more intangible benefits. •

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DealSignal

AUGUST 27, 2020

“Bad CRM data is a pervasive issue that has a negative ripple effect on B2B marketing and sales performance: from inaccurate ABM targeting, to bounced emails that can damage sender reputation, to outdated or irrelevant contacts that clog marketing automation systems at a great cost,” said DealSignal founder & CEO, Rob Weedn.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

We are excited to have Jep Castelein of popular lead management and marketing automation blog, Lead Sloth , contribute a guest blog post. Read below to find out the best ways to optimize your conversion rates using lead nurturing: A lot of early adopters of Marketing Automation systems are in the technology industry.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Dreamforce 2013, the largest vendor-led technology conference in history, is in full swing: 120,000 registrants+, 350 exhibitors, A-list celebrities around every corner, and so much swag they had to provide conference goers with extra backpacks. Here were some themes I extracted from his talk: 1/1/1 Philanthropy.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

People develop new products because they feel they can offer something existing products do not. In the early stages of an industry, the new products are often similar because several people have independently spotted the same opportunity and built something to tap it. Demand generation systems are in that second stage.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Last week, his company released a tool, called Demandbase Stream, that aims to answer this question. Applications such as Salesforce.com already let sales staff keep track of existing customers or potential customers, but Demandbase Stream falls into a newer category of tools designed to help them find new customers in the first place.

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