Marketing Insider Group

MAY 27, 2023

In this episode, Debbie Millman, a renowned name in branding, discusses her book, “Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People.” ” She talks about the process of trimming content for her book, insights on empathy in interviews and marketing, and even her conversation with David Lee Roth.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. This is a great example for the marketing automation market.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. This is a great example for the marketing automation market.

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Launch Marketing

JANUARY 11, 2019

RealMassive is an Austin-based tech startup that connects tenants, investors, owners, properties and brokers in a modern, global commercial real estate (CRE) marketplace that is fueled by big data to provide an intuitive property list and search tools, digital marketing capabilities and real-time performance analytics. The Details.

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Markempa

MAY 30, 2017

I think what’s relevant to this conversation is that I was one of the really early employees at a small startup back in the day called Pardot, a marketing automation platform. From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target, which Salesforce.com then acquired.

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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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Lead Liaison

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The next step is to consider using your marketing automation software to help you with the entire process. A marketing automation system can help you automate your webinar and create a repeatable model to use for future webinars. Automatically sync leads into your CRM system , such as Salesforce.com.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

While the B2B marketing analytics and the associated KPIs span across the funnel from awareness to demand generation to pipeline acceleration, Marketing ROI , there is one set of metrics that is top of the mind across marketing teams especially the ones with more matured analytics competencies.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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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. From your perspective as a marketer, having more combinations available makes it more that someone will field a configuration closely tailored to your needs. For example, take Active Conversion.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Been part of numerous B2B marketing analytics journeys across various organizations, I have been witnessing how data and analytics have become the core of modern B2B marketing execution. Every company is unique in terms of what it offers, how it operates, how the go-to-market strategy is.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

While the B2B marketing analytics and the associated KPIs span across the funnel from awareness to demand generation to pipeline acceleration, Marketing ROI , there is one set of metrics that is top of the mind across marketing teams especially the ones with more matured analytics competencies.

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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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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. Profitability of new customers due to marketing efforts.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This was my fourth Dreamforce, and I’d like to offer some observations from the perspective of someone who lives in the B2B marketing & sales space. Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. Observation 2: Marketing Automation is Alive & Well.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 2, 2012

As I mentioned in my Marketing Automation Beer Goggles post, KXEN introduced a free lead scoring app for Salesforce.com users at Dreamforce. At best, marketers could summarize such data and add the summary to the lead object, but that requires human intervention. First for details on Predictive Lead Scoring itself.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

The SetLogik acquisition takes this a step further by letting them build databases to hold their data, thereby expanding the market beyond people with a database already in place. Conversely, having a readily-available data source encourages marketers to build their own database.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It could supplement a traditional marketing automation system or perhaps replace one. 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.

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markempa

DECEMBER 19, 2016

“With the rise of content marketing, a lot of businesses get stuck in the eBook rut,” saysLinda West ( @ misslindawest ), Director of Digital Marketing at Act-On Software , a rapidly growing company that makes a marketing automation Software as a Service (SaaS). A Shift in Customer Behavior in Content Marketing.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 2, 2013

LinkedIn's network of groups is one of the best tools for business-to-business marketers looking to contribute to conversations related to their industry and establish themselves as thought leaders, according to WSJ’s Kate Mitchell. For B2B Marketing, Email Should be Personalized and Targeted.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The system has prebuilt connectors to import data from popular vendors including Salesforce.com , Marketo , Hubspot , SAP , SugarCRM , and Facebook. It also uses matches created elsewhere such as lead IDs used to synchronize CRM and marketing automation data or cookie IDs imported from Google Analytics.

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The Mx Group

OCTOBER 18, 2017

But, our industry has changed and evolved so much, that there are myriad ways to tackle marketing on a more personalized account basis rather than a demand-gen volume basis. That makes me wonder: Are CRM platforms, like the Salesforce.com, set up to handle ABM? They can be, but not “out of the box.” A webinar on Halloween?

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markempa

MAY 30, 2017

I think what’s relevant to this conversation is I was one of the really early employees at a small startup back in the day called Pardot, which is a marketing automation platform. From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target which was then acquired by Salesforce.com.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

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. By my definitions (see Demand Generation vs Marketing Automation on the Raab Guide Web site), this makes 5Buckets a type of marketing automation system.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2014

Starting at the beginning, the system imports a list of each client’s customers and sales opportunities from CRM and marketing automation systems. Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com , Oracle Eloqua and Marketo.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

However, the most expansive definition takes a total end-to-end look at every interaction a person has with a company from simply becoming aware of the company at the very top of the sales funnel, all the way through customer service contact after the final conversion to a closed deal. The role of marketing automation.

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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. If the vendors fail, the business will go to consultants, ad agencies, and other service firms that do the clients’ marketing for them.

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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., across this wide array of applications is massive. Real-time data enrichment. Data is the fuel that makes everything else run.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Marketers recognize the potential reach of social media, but are rightly frightened that they can’t control the message. Most social marketing applications sidestep the issue by focusing on creating communities ( Jive , Lithium ), monitoring conversations (Radian6 , Trackur ) and running promotions ( CrowdFactory , Nextbee ).

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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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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. B2B Marketing Sales 2.0 Secondly: measurement.

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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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The Point

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It’s no secret that I am a fervent evangelist for marketing automation, and at our agency we see the real-life benefits every day in the form of clients generating higher conversion rates, more qualified leads, and shorter sales cycles. HS) Where do you see as the greatest opportunity to improve marketing and sales processes?

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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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