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Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

Customer Experience Matrix

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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B2B Lead Generation: The Ultimate Guide

Zoominfo

B2B lead generation, often shortened to lead gen, is the lifeblood of a healthy business. A typical definition of a lead is any potential customer who has expressed interest in a company’s goods or services. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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B2B Content Marketing: Will Video Kill eBooks?

markempa

“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). And no wonder. “We

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The B2B Marketer’s Handbook of Marketing Automation

Marketing Insider Group

The truth here is that automation can be an incredibly powerful and effective marketing tool – if it is used correctly. According to one survey , nearly 69% of marketers agreed that automation could improve their targeting strategies and 46% believed it could improve the customer experience. Predictive analytics.

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The One-Person B2B Marketing Department Playbook – Chapter 2 – Filling the Gaps

thePoint

a customer service rep, salesperson, or a savvy engineer that goes to a lot of conferences), so cast a wide net. that provide more in-depth information about your products/services. Customer-facing marketing content – brochures, white papers, position papers, presentations, etc. Programmatic Marketing expertise and execution.

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10 Reasons You're Not Hitting Your Leads Goal This Month

Hubspot

As a marketer, you're all too familiar with the infamous lead gen goal. It haunts your day-to-day work, and it keeps you up at night as visions of lead-capture forms dance in your head (it's still the holidays, right?). Speaking of form length, there is quite a correlation between form length and lead quantity/quality.

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Optimize your Revenue Funnel by Focusing on the Offers

FunnelEnvy

In it, they correlated successful business outcomes to a culture of experimentation. . It’s increasingly common to see conversational marketing tools (chatbots) that accomplish the same thing by providing that medium of exchange for the offer. Online Experimentation.