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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. That’s a technical step backwards but will actually make it easier for buyers to access the detailed vendor information, and in particular to screen for vendors with particular capabilities. more micro-business vendors.

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Key Findings from the 2021 ANNUITAS Enterprise Marketing Automation Platform Analysis

ANNUITAS

Given the critical importance of MAP within an enterprise environment – and looking through the lens of strategic deployment of MAP – ANNUITAS|research conducted an extensive analysis of four of the leading, Salesforce-integrated MAP software vendors in late 2020. Service, support, and training. Four problems emerge from this approach.

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

Webbiquity

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. However, the purchasing committee will generally include someone from IT, the CFO, and in smaller firms possibly even the CEO.

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Lead Generation: It’s all about building relationships

markempa

It was certainly a book that changed the way that I think about demand generation in so many ways and you were, really as I started a blog on demand generation, I look to your writing as an example for the right thing to do and you are still bogging and podcasting today a decade later. Steve: That’s crazy! Steve: Sure!

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The One-Person B2B Marketing Department Playbook – Chapter 2 – Filling the Gaps

thePoint

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. Pre-requisite Work. These firms are either.

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6 Marketing Automation Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

Hubspot

Recent acquisitions (Eloqua acquired by Oracle, Pardot by ExactTarget, and others) are also signs of a market headed in the right direction. Even for those of you that don''t have a lead problem (lucky you), marketing automation is not the end-all, be-all to demand generation. 3) People don''t exist in a vacuum.

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LucidEra Takes a Shot at On-Demand Analytics

Customer Experience Matrix

My basic objection was that the hardest part of building a business intelligence system is integrating the source data, and being on-demand doesn’t make that any easier. I still think that’s the case, but did revisit the topic recently in a conversation with Ken Rudin, CEO of on-demand business analytics vendor Lucid Era.