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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

The Point

Precious few B2B marketers can show true ROI from organic social activity, and even less are using organic social media in a systematic way to either generate social leads or drive those leads through the demand generation funnel. Are B2B marketers ignoring a huge opportunity? Click To Tweet. (HS)

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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

Customer Experience Matrix

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Key Findings from the 2021 ANNUITAS Enterprise Marketing Automation Platform Analysis

ANNUITAS

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Go-to-market falls apart at execution: Don’t get me wrong, many companies have a very clear view of their target customer. They have built personas and conducted market research. Ease of use.

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 This was a bit of a surprise, given that Eloqua just went public in August. It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. recently, so $23.50

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VEST Report: Latest Trends in Marketing Automation, and Where's My Hoverboard?

Customer Experience Matrix

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. All six of the vendors new to this report sell primarily to small businesses, and most are “all-in-one” systems that combine marketing automation with integrated CRM. VEST Report. Here’s what struck me. social data.

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Eloqua Adds Free Implementation Offering

Customer Experience Matrix

On Monday, Eloqua announced a new free deployment service for its clients. It follows last month’s free deployment offer from Eloqua reseller Pedowitz Group , which generated quite a bit of comment on this blog. The reality is that a complete demand generation program is something you develop and expand over time.

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Pedowitz Group Offers Free Support for New Eloqua Clients

Customer Experience Matrix

The Pedowitz Group announced this morning that it was offering $15,000 in free consulting services and guaranteeing a five-day implementation to new clients who purchase Eloqua demand generation software. Click here for the announcement.) (If Certainly that’s how I’d spin it if I were a competitor.

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