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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. Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel via @spearmktg.

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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. per share, which comes to $871 million.

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Interview with Brian Hansford

Onalytica B2B

Key Topics: B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, and Marketing Technology. This is a complete contrast to today where companies must make as much relevant information as possible broadly available to prospects and customers through a vast array of offline and digital channels. Location: Redmond, WA USA.

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. “Demand generation&# is a better term, though still not precise. Customers are those who’ve advanced from email service providers (ESPs).

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Winning with Audiences – Connecting Email Nurtures and Media Campaigns

Ledger Bennett

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. Missed opportunity, reduced relevance and lower ROI. Sounds familiar, right? Likely to also sound familiar. Right now you either….

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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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Alex Lin of Cipher Cloud: Past, Present and Future of Marketing

SWZD

Our guest this week was Alex Lin , Director of Marketing Automation and Demand Generation at CipherCloud. Its customers are in over 25 countries and include large financial services, insurance, healthcare, and telecommunication companies as well as government clients. About CipherCloud. Background and Career.