Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. Please view this as a general list; some of these points will be more or less pronounced depending on the marketing automation platform you’re using (Marketo, Eloqua, HubSpot, Act-on, Autopilot, etc.) This impacts productivity.

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De-duplication Lead Ranking Lead Management Work Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. But even including that, the first year cost for most of these will be less.) : Manticore Technology : a full-featured demand generation product. Just kidding.or Maybe next week. [I

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Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Other vendors have similar price points for the small business market (see my list of demand generation vendors ) although I suspect their internal costs are higher. For evidence that a free entry-level product does not automatically drive out higher priced systems, consider the hosted CRM market. rather than marketing automation.

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Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. It’s irresistible to compare Sales Insight with Eloqua Prospect Profiler, launched two weeks ago (see my review ), which also gives sales people access to prospect activities gathered by the marketing system.

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Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

ANNUITAS

MAY 28, 2015

Sure, sending emails and creating landing pages are all functions of marketing, but managing inbound leads and sharing prospect data with the CRM, is something that when done correctly- supports the entire organization. At ANNUITAS we help marketing and sales align in what we call a Lead Management Framework℠ session.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Eloqua 100

ViewPoint

MAY 5, 2011

In a recent article on Revenue Performance Management in Marketing Automation Software Guide, Lauren Carlson does a nice job of providing a context for the RPM discussion by differentiating it from marketing automation, reviewing the factors motivating its advancement, and raising good questions.

Marketing Management 120

Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua Demand Generation Agencies 120

markempa

APRIL 18, 2007

FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! This is a common theme in sales and marketing automation, CRM implementation being another good example.

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Demand Generation Agencies Lead Generation Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation 120

Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

An enterprise-grade marketing automation and analytics platform with solutions for lead management, email marketing, consumer marketing, customer base marketing, and mobile marketing. Marketing automation tool combining email marketing, lead management, and reporting with sales alignment. 7) Oracle Eloqua.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% 16% % firms w/lead to first call conversion > 50% 48.7%

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Marketing Qualified Leads 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Mintigo’s conclusion across 186,500 B2B companies was that just three percent were using the most common marketing automation systems: Oracle Eloqua , Marketo, HubSpot, and Salesforce.com Pardot. Those top three are the key improvements that marketing automation provides over simple email or CRM systems, so this prioritization makes sense.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

The Point

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

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. Marketing teams gather, pre-qualify and nurture leads and provide sales with vital updates on the behavior, interests, and intent of prospects, in real-time. (BAS)

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Salesforce.com Eloqua Work Management Marketing Management 100

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

@ MarketingSherpa – MarketingSherpa – MarketingSherpa provides B2B and consumer marketing professionals practical case studies, research, and training on email, demand gen, search, social, and more. NoyesJesse – Jesse Noyes – Managing Editor @ Eloqua. Jacksonville Beach, FL – [link].

Twitter 100

Twitter Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency B2B Marketing 100

Cintell

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Erika has over 15 years of B2B marketing, public relations and demand generation expertise. At ANNUITAS Erika manages all aspects of marketing including demand generation, content marketing, social media and public relations helping to build pipeline and drive results for the ANNUITAS team.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Buyer Personas Peer-to-peer Public Relations 100

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The fact that they chose to outsource marketing automation seems to indicate that Salesforce.com recognizes that they are not an automation player after all, further giving credence to the idea that CRM cannot provide marketing automation. Observation 2: Marketing Automation is Alive & Well. Instead of asking “What do we need to do?”,

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 100

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yes, we have an Interactive Content Connector service that supports seamless integration with CRM and lead management / marketing automation solutions such as salesforce.com, Marketo, Eloqua, SilverPop and more. The integration can be used in multiple ways to help streamline user interaction, capture and enrich leads.

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation CRM 40

markempa

MARCH 8, 2006

FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! FREE lead generation consultation from InTouch Just Tell Us How To Contact You First and Last Name Company Email Telephone Ext.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

One of my favorite questions when I speak to marketers about social media, content marketing , demand generation or sales alignment is also one of the most frequently asked: I am a small business and cannot afford to pay tons of money to create content. Any advice for small business marketers? We had a great product and amazing customers.

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

This past year has been especially illuminating thanks to the brilliance of smart marketers who are expanding and perfecting the lead-generation concepts I wrote about years ago. This year’s B2B Lead Roundtable webinars are testament to that. He defined the tenets of the new world of marketing in Revenue Performance Management.

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

MLT Creative

MAY 19, 2010

Eloqua Eloqua provides you with contact management, campaign management, lead management and marketing measurement, all in one platform. Eloqua can work with a company that's just getting started, or improve the sophistication of existing marketing efforts.

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2010

Summary: Eloqua's SmartStart gets marketers rolling in less than one week. It does require extensive preparation, but Eloqua leads you through that too. Let's face it, folks: putting a good demand generation program in place is real work. Skeptical creature that I am, I wanted to hear the details before writing about it.

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Eloqua Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation 120

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Prompt, efficient, and effective follow-up to these leads is therefore paramount. As a very basic guideline, every content syndication lead should receive immediate, automated e-mail follow-up upon being imported into your CRM system. As already stated, the lead may already be as much as a week old.

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Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency RSS Paper 40

thePoint

MAY 25, 2018

Make sure you are hiring a company that can provide leadership in this area (bring value to you) vs. a company waiting for you to lead (hired work you tell them to do). Lead Generation, Lead Management & Lead Nurturing. This is frequently called “demand generation.” Were you just waiting for this part?

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Paid Search Agency Work Management Sales Management Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Back in early January I posted a discussion on treatment of Company-Level Data in Demand Generation Systems. At that time, I posed a set of specific questions to the demand generation vendors in the Raab Guide. Yesterday the final answer trickled in. Results are summarized in the table at the end of this post.

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Demand Generation Work Management Market2Lead Marketing Automation Services 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2009

To start back at the beginning, the objective has been to find a practical, objective way to evaluate the usability of different demand generation systems. In both cases, I see the basic flow as an outbound email, landing page, multi-step nurturing campaign, lead scoring, and transfer to a CRM system for sales followup.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Televerde

MARCH 3, 2020

Not long after integrating Eloqua with their Salesforce CRM, they recouped their investment and created a $36 million opportunity pipeline. Part of our engagement involved helping this client understand different buyer personas and mapping out the decision points leading to a purchase. Track the ROI of your marketing efforts.

Marketing Automation Services 52

Marketing Automation Services Eloqua Buyer Personas Digital Marketing Funnels 52

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « We’re renaming the blog | Main | New networks in the news » April 16, 2008 Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Recently I saw a preview of Eloqua’s spring release and it got me thinking about the role lead scoring plays in determining campaign effectiveness.

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Enterprise Management Work Management 40

Televerde

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Not long after integrating Eloqua with Salesforce CRM, this client recouped its investment and created a $36 million opportunity pipeline. Part of our engagement involved helping this client understand different buyer personas and mapping out the decision points leading to a purchase. Read the manufacturing case study now.

Marketing Automation Services 74

Marketing Automation Services Eloqua Forrester Buyer Personas 74

LeanData

MARCH 30, 2022

Leading this charge is the revenue tech stack that empowers revenue teams to deliver results by eliminating the manual, time-consuming and error-prone processes from their go-to-market (GTM) motions. Both sales and marketing operations, who are the orchestrators for the broader revenue team, often have very time-sensitive demands.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Automation Services Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 98

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 20, 2009

Summary: basic demand generation features are close to a commodity. One of the most popular posts ever on this blog is Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation , which listed several options that started at under $500 per month. Basic demand generation is on the verge of becoming a commodity if it isn’t one already.

Digital Asset Management 120

Digital Asset Management Work Management Marketing Management Rules 120

LeanData

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Customer Relationship Management (CRM): A database that businesses use to maintain relationships with customers and prospects. CRM Integration: When external systems work together with Salesforce or other CRMs to help businesses interact with customers and prospects.

Account Based Marketing 71

Account Based Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads 71

LeanData

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Customer Relationship Management (CRM): A database that businesses use to maintain relationships with customers and prospects. CRM Integration: When external systems work together with Salesforce or other CRMs to help businesses interact with customers and prospects.

Account Based Marketing 53

Account Based Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads 53

LeanData

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Customer Relationship Management (CRM): A database that businesses use to maintain relationships with customers and prospects. CRM Integration: When external systems work together with Salesforce or other CRMs to help businesses interact with customers and prospects.

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads 40

LeanData

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Customer Relationship Management (CRM): A database that businesses use to maintain relationships with customers and prospects. CRM Integration: When external systems work together with Salesforce or other CRMs to help businesses interact with customers and prospects.

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads 40

LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

Manager, Inbound Marketing, Marketo. David Raab , Raab Associates & author, Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. Steve Woods , CTO, Eloqua. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep. Demand Generation? Thought leadership?

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Sales Management Automation 100

Martech

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering numerous benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. Artificial intelligence is used throughout the Acoustic Marketing Cloud.

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