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Segmentation, Social Media Drive Lead Nurturing Success for iDirect

The Point

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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Manticore Technology Sees Expertise as Key to Success as a Demand Generation Vendor

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. Changes include a drag-and-drop design tool (similar to Microsoft Powerpoint); integration of opportunities and custom objects from Salesforce.com; better reporting on Web site visitors; and, real time sales alerts on Web activity.

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Getting the Most from Salesforce.com: A Conversation with David Taber

The Point

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. Actually, it’s much easier for Marketing and lead cultivation people to get instant value out of Salesforce.com (SFDC) than it is for reps.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

Customer Experience Matrix

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately.

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Genius.com Offers Free Edition: How Much Does It Lower True Cost of Entry?

Customer Experience Matrix

On Monday, Genius.com announced “the first free, instant-on demand generation solution”, a description carefully crafted to distinguish their offering from the free version announced by LoopFuse in June. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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Optimizing Trial Conversion Rates With Lead Nurturing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

We are excited to have Jep Castelein of popular lead management and marketing automation blog, Lead Sloth , contribute a guest blog post. Read below to find out the best ways to optimize your conversion rates using lead nurturing: A lot of early adopters of Marketing Automation systems are in the technology industry.

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. That's fewer functions than traditional demand generation, but if those are the functions you need, who cares? The nurturing campaigns themselves are also quite simple.