The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect , a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 100

The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. DT: Well, the biggest misconception about Salesforce is that it’s something Sales reps like and Marketing folks don’t.

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Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Work Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Neolane may be the most similar, since it also straddles the business and consumer marketing worlds. Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. But consumer marketers also need inputs from transaction systems.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Biznology

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Some of the more intriguing fields now available to marketers include: Spending levels on legal services, insurance, advertising, accounting services, utilities, and office equipment (Infogroup). Technology usage “intensity” score, by product (HG Data). Self-identifying keywords used on the company website (ALC).

Lead Ranking 80

Lead Ranking Marketing Management B to B Lead Scoring 80

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. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. 4) Lead scoring — in a prior post , I make the case for quantitative scoring.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

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. Salesforce.com is the big question and no one would be surprised to see them make an acquisition.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 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.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40