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Ruth Stevens: Spotlight on the expert

Martech

Her route took her through the publishing industry, then grad school, before diving into the intersection of marketing and technology by learning database marketing. Thus began a career combining marketing and technology for B2B businesses like Ziff Davis and IBM. One constant in Ruth’s career: teaching.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

To do so efficiently requires a good database solution and marketing automation and filtration tools that incorporate social media intrinsically. Our job is to educate a marketplace to be objective driven.’What iLinc is a vendor and partner of my company’s. At the end of the day however, does it matter?

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How the Answer to One Question Can Tell You How to Market Your Technology

The Point

I’ll explain: For a company selling a commodity-type product, or close to it, there’s little need to educate the market on why a particular company needs that product. People know when they need it; they just need to decide which vendor to do business with. Where does your product fit on the spectrum?

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. You don’t dig through your junk email folder to find that email some vendor sent you weeks ago. In fact, 88% said Web sites were important in helping them decide what to buy.

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Mid-Market Marketing Automation Software Leader Announces Integration with Wistia for Video Marketing

Lead Liaison

Companies that are not large enterprises have been underserved in recent years and large enterprises have been forced to work with marketing automation providers that don’t offer smaller, more palatable offerings to whet their appetite. About Lead Liaison.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

There are at least 4 amorphous groups of solution providers also setting their sights on this space: 1) Lead generation services or tools – Because this category contains both service providers (that look more like agencies or telesales outsourcers) and software as a service vendors, there are probably more than I could possibly name.

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Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success

Online Marketing Institute

4) Rescore contacts place in nurturing, education, or development campaigns. I am still advising a numeric scheme, not because it indicates which leads are ready for sales but which would benefit from additional nurturing/education and which may simply be worth filing away.