Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

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. Perhaps having agencies run them is the real solution instead.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Report Marketing Automation 120

Vidyard

AUGUST 2, 2016

For a growing number of modern marketers, the road to revenue is paved with video marketing. In fact, more than 100 brands are now using Vidyard’s integration with Oracle Eloqua to connect with more buyers and turn viewers into customers. Learn more about their video marketing journey in their recent post on the OMC blog.

Eloqua 50

Eloqua Bulldog Solutions Demand Generation Agencies Video Marketing 50

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. The tentative list is Unica , Aprimo , Alterian , and Neolane.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz Demand Generation Agencies 120

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

Who are the top B2B Marketing influencers on twitter? To answer this question, I looked at a variety of factors including twitter followers, profiles that included “B2B marketing,” the focus of their tweets including the hashtag # B2BMarketing , as well as a variety of social scoring tools using the keyword.

Twitter 100

Twitter Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency B2B Marketing 100

Digital B2B Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Marketers have invested in marketing automation, content and, in many cases, creating complex business rules to determine what content and message to deliver when. The next evolution in marketing automation will be extending the application of these rules across the full spectrum of digital and addressable marketing channels.

Advertising Agencies 100

Advertising Agencies Marketing Automation Services DemandBase Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. 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. The pattern will likely repeat itself.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

Leadspace

MARCH 22, 2023

As marketers, we aim to confidently and repeatedly deliver effective campaigns to the best opportunities within our target market – at the lowest possible cost. It is typically implemented within the Marketing Automation Platform (Marketo, Eloqua, Pardot, Hubspot, etc.) and the higher the score the more engaged the buyer.

Ideal Customer Profiles 62

Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Eloqua 62

Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 8, 2019

Brian Hansford – VP of Marketing Performance at Heinz Marketing. Key Topics: B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, and Marketing Technology. Bio: I’m VP of Marketing Performance at Heinz Marketing, where I’ve worked the last 6 ½ years. HOW DID YOU GET TO BECOME AN EXPERT IN B2B MARKETING.

Marketing Budget 108

Marketing Budget Budget Programs Demand Generation Agencies Work Management 108

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of the biggest challenges b2b marketers face is what to do with all of those “names&# that come into your system that aren’t really “leads&# yet; contacts collected from white paper downloads, webinar registrations, trade shows and other activities. “Marketing automation&# is a misleading term.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 100

markempa

APRIL 18, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Lead Generation Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation 120

Ledger Bennett

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

But what does this mean for the departments who have been working tirelessly in pursuit of revenue generation? Is the CRO friend or foe to marketing and sales? One of the biggest blockers of all being the well documented challenge of sales and marketing alignment. But there’s a conflict. CRO is engineered for success.

CMO 40

CMO Demand Generation Agencies Eloqua Paid Search Agency 40

Ledger Bennett

MAY 24, 2018

If you haven’t implemented LinkedIn’s Lead Generation Forms into your demand generation strategy, then it’s safe to say you’re missing out! The benefit to the marketer? The opportunity to generate high quality leads at a higher conversion rate than sending users to a gated landing page. The benefit to the member?

Lead Generation 53

Lead Generation Linkedin Demand Generation Agencies Generation 53

thePoint

MARCH 16, 2021

It is time to wrap up the “7 things every CEO should know about marketing” series with our final topic, #7 – the hidden pothole that I believe you as a CEO should avoid. It is the martech pothole (“martech” being the common term used in the industry for marketing & sales enablement technology solutions).

Marketing Budget 52

Marketing Budget Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency 52

LeadSloth

JUNE 23, 2009

The Marketing Automation industry is evolving continuously. Many digital marketers are using marketing automation tools to automate lead nurturing. It may be attractive to shift more budget to generating leads via your company’s website. And that’s where Inbound Marketing comes in.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Inbound Marketing Marketing Automation Work Management 100

The Point

JANUARY 13, 2015

No matter what your marketing resolutions this year – more content, better creative, etc. – Since email continues to be a dominant channel for most B2B marketers, let me suggest that a good candidate for #1 on your “to do” list for 2015 is to improve the way you measure email campaigns. no improvement matters if you can’t measure it.

Lead Ranking 100

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads ROI Sales Qualified Leads 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 23, 2011

Summary : Infusionsoft is making it easier to build campaigns and taken a new approach to helping clients plan their marketing programs. Both are needed for marketing automation to reach to a wider audience. Infusionsoft this week staged the official coming out party for its latest release at its annual Infusioncon users conference.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing & Strategy 120

Sales Engine

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Most B2B companies are realizing that, to hit their growth goals, they need to shift the focus of their marketing from branding and awareness to lead generation. So they task marketing leadership with building a demand generation engine and run into myriad problems.

Demand Generation Agencies 168

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Paid Search Agency Demand 168

Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Summary: Marketing automation and CRM systems may eventually converge, but for now marketers need help explaining why they need a system of their own. I hugely enjoyed yesterday’s Boston session of the Silverpop -sponsored B2B Marketing University. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate? Vendors take note.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

markempa

AUGUST 4, 2014

In a recent interview, Brian sat down with Steve Girshik of LeadSpace.com to talk a little shop about the fundamentals of lead generation, what’s new (and unchanged) in the world of the complex sale, and how empathy marketing is the way forward. How is B2B market doing in your assessment? Steve: That’s crazy!

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation Demand Generation Agencies 120

Ledger Bennett

MAY 29, 2018

Nurturing known contacts via marketing automation email nurtures, generating MQLs and pushing prospects through the sales pipeline. Then we have our media agency running campaigns for us, driving prospects to landing pages in the hope they convert to known contacts and enter our email nurtures at the Discover stage.

Lead Ranking 49

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Demand Generation Agencies Campaigns 49

SWZD

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This week, we spoke to Michell Liro , Vice President of Demand Generation at PTC. PTC saw the Internet of Things and Augmented Reality as future growth markets strategic to its business, and made acquisitions and developed solutions in these areas over the past few years.

Work Management 48

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies 48

ANNUITAS

MAY 17, 2016

Email deliverabilty and data quality are paramount for any successful Demand Generation Strategy. However, they are topics many marketers struggle with. Often times your sales or marketing team will pressure you to purchase a list. List management isn’t simple. When is it okay and when is it not to rent a list?

Deliverability 100

Deliverability CAN-SPAM Eloqua Privacy 100

SWZD

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Our guest this week was Alex Lin , Director of Marketing Automation and Demand Generation at CipherCloud. Alex had some very interesting insights on the evolution of marketing over the past two decades and some thought-provoking ideas of what may happen in the next decade. About CipherCloud. Background and Career.

Marketing AI 54

Marketing AI Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 54

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

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

Emarketing 100

Emarketing Marketing Automation Services Manticore Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

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. The reason is selection bias: most surveys are answered by people who are actively engaged in marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. The market will probably split between enterprise-wide suites and more limited marketing automation systems. Given the previous Unica deal.

Resource Management 120

Resource Management Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management 120

Webbiquity

JANUARY 27, 2011

They have significant control of mind share in that space, and their legacy in customer service and sales force automation software is strong. It is made up of sales, service and—wait for it—marketing! So, where does Salesforce.com stand as a marketing automation solution? However, CRM is a trifecta. Share this on Bebo.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com Marketing Automation 100

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Lead Generation. Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media. Data shows about 40 percent of b-to-b brands aren’t using social marketing. Of 548 b-to-b marketers surveyed by Eloqua, about 40 percent say they are not yet using social media marketing.

B to B 40

B to B Paid Content Social Media CMS Development 40

MLT Creative

MAY 19, 2010

Once you've grasped the whole marketing automation concept, you're going to need a vendor to help you follow through. Over my next two blogs, I'll highlight different marketing automation vendors, and what they do that sets them apart. This is your chance to set the record straight!

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

Vidyard

JULY 7, 2016

Marketing technology isn’t a new concept, but few would argue that the last few years have seen explosive growth in every category. ChiefMartech’s famous “Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic” featured a hefty 947 companies in 2014 , and now struggles to contain 3,500 companies in its 2016 iteration. Something different.

Sales Management 60

Sales Management Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Ad Building 60

thePoint

MAY 25, 2018

With your inventory scores in hand (see Pre-requisite Work), we are ready to locate those gaps in knowledge, skills, or time and start considering what will be a priority in either hiring (as budget allows) or outsourcing in order to accomplish your now-progressing marketing mission. High-Level Marketing Tasks. Pre-requisite Work.

Paid Search Agency 40

Paid Search Agency Work Management Sales Management Marketing Management 40

Directive Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

However, when it comes to growth marketing, directories can often be a marketer’s afterthought to Google ads and paid social. Join Society , our exclusive Slack community dedicated to marketers in the tech space. In that case, your conversion rates will be a lot lower than a market-leading vendor with a PLG motion (i.e.

Peer-to-peer 59

Peer-to-peer Work Management Marketing Management Cost Per Click 59

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

by MediaPost Marketing Daily Commentary. Pros & Cons of Applying Social Media to Traditional PR Campaigns by Howell Marketing Strategies. Specifically, 89% said they turn to blogs for story research, 65% to social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and 52% to microblogging services such as Twitter.”

PR 100

PR Marketing Automation Services Blogger Eloqua 100

DealSignal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In A Nutshell: DealSignal vs. LeadIQ DealSignal and LeadIQ are both popular Pipeline Generators. However, DealSignal stands out as the preferred choice for sales and marketing professionals seeking extensive data coverage, unmatched accuracy, precise targeting filters, and strong integration capabilities.

B2B Sales 52

B2B Sales Ideal Customer Profiles Generation B2B 52