Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. But I’m beginning to think those marketers were really saying something else.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

LeadSloth

MAY 16, 2009

This week I’m finishing up my day job as Sr Marketing Manager at Backbase, and will be available full-time for Marketing Automation Consulting. If you have Marketing Automation challenges, I’d love to hear from you ( or toll-free 1-888-4A-SLOTH). See you then!

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Consulting Market2Lead Marketing Automation 100

LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services LEADSExplorer netFactor Leadlander 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. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

The Mx Group

OCTOBER 18, 2017

I’m learning all about it as we deploy ABM efforts for our clients and ourselves as we market our agency. As an experienced marketing practitioner, I figured if I had questions about how to get started with account-based marketing, so might you! So what’s the deal — is account-based marketing totally new?

Account Based Marketing 72

Account Based Marketing Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com 72

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

It's a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to more powerful marketing automation systems for companies who don't need other marketing automation features. 5Buckets isn’t actually a demand generation system, at least according to my usual definition. Now is a good time to remedy that.

Multi-Channel 120

Multi-Channel Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Channels 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. This broader scope should become standard as marketers try to truly integrate their programs. The demand generation vendors have been much more dynamic.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Digital Asset Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

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.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Vidyard

JULY 17, 2015

Kitchener, Ontario – July 15, 2015 – Demand Spring and Vidyard today announced a partnership to offer the industry’s first video marketing consulting service for B2B marketing and demand generation teams. Our extensive client-side experience with organizations like IBM, Yahoo!,

Marketing Automation Services 50

Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Agencies Consulting 50

Vidyard

JULY 17, 2015

Kitchener, Ontario – July 15, 2015 – Demand Spring and Vidyard today announced a partnership to offer the industry’s first video marketing consulting service for B2B marketing and demand generation teams. Our extensive client-side experience with organizations like IBM, Yahoo!,

Marketing Automation Services 50

Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Agencies Consulting 50

The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Marketing Expertise. B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Demand Gen and Lead Management. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. How do you assign revenue opportunities that are unique to ABM-generated accounts?

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies 95

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Two common business terms combined describe the an increasingly popular outreach tool: marketing automation. According to marketing research firm Raab Associates , the marketing automation system industry will reach $750 million in 2013, growing 50 percent from 2012. What is Marketing Automation?

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Work Management Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

The latest stop on my little tour of not-really-demand-generation systems is Jesubi. The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting.

Efficiency 120

Efficiency Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

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. Top B2B Marketing Influencers – Companies. New York, NY.

Twitter 100

Twitter Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency B2B Marketing 100

Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

Content management systems are valuable tools for small businesses that 1) don’t want to make a big investment in IT infrastructure, 2) don’t have web development (HTML, CSS etc.) Low-cost, fee-based tools are generally more user-friendly, provide more features, and most importantly come bundled with support.

CMS Development 100

CMS Development Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation Services 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

The Point

JUNE 18, 2013

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Chalef, CEO of KnowledgeTree , developers of an intriguing new solution, built for both Salesforce.com and mobile (iOS), that enables sales teams to instantly find, surface, and present the ideal content in any selling situation. The same principles apply to Content Selling.

Salesforce.com 100

Salesforce.com Work Management Marketing Management Content 100

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yes, we have an Interactive Content Connector service that supports seamless integration with CRM and lead management / marketing automation solutions such as salesforce.com, Marketo, Eloqua, SilverPop and more. The integration can be used in multiple ways to help streamline user interaction, capture and enrich leads.

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation CRM 40

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. Look, I know online marketing is important. And, while we’re on the subject, they need REALLY TIGHT integration between marketing and sales automation, if not one shared system.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 1, 2009

It can also import a client’s list of target accounts from Salesforce.com and issuing alerts when those companies visit. According to the company, it typically finds that 50-60% of the Web site visitors come through a generic Internet Service Provider connection and thus can’t be traced to a particular company.

DemandBase 120

DemandBase Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Jigsaw 120

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders. To identify “How many of these leads have converted to MQLs”, MQL date stamps and flags are critical for this analysis so the CRM and Marketing Automation systems should have the workflows to stamp these fields.

Lead Ranking 59

Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads Demand 59

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders. To identify “How many of these leads have converted to MQLs”, MQL date stamps and flags are critical for this analysis so the CRM and Marketing Automation systems should have the workflows to stamp these fields.

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders. To identify “How many of these leads have converted to MQLs”, MQL date stamps and flags are critical for this analysis so the CRM and Marketing Automation systems should have the workflows to stamp these fields.

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 8, 2010

Are you using targeted social media for lead generation? Demand results of Sales 2.0 Deliver results (Vendors and service providers.). Corporate collaboration with Salesforce.com Chatter. InboundMarketer : Brett Queener, SVP Products at Salesforce.com giving a demo on chatter (See it here: [link] pic: [link].

Salesforce.com 48

Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services InsideView Demand Generation Agencies 48

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2014

Last week’s post looked at newer marketing automation systems that focused on small businesses. The general notion is that small businesses are finding existing marketing automation products too hard to use and would be happy with something simpler, especially if it costs less.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Digital Asset Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

For B2B marketers, you can expect the following tools will be useful on an iPad (and Smartphone): Social Media tools: Twitter apps, Facebook’s app, Google Buzz’s app, LinkedIn’s app are all useful to B2B marketers. CRM tools: An example of these are Oracle ‘ s and Salesforce.com’s mobile apps.

B2B Marketing 48

B2B Marketing Marketing Automation Services B2B CPL 48

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 10, 2008

As I wrote last week , demand generation vendors have a hard time differentiating their systems from each other. Functionally, it covers all the demand generation bases: outbound email, landing pages, Web site monitoring, lead scoring, multi-step nurturing programs, prospect database, analytics, Salesforce.com integration.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketo Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 18, 2008

Market2Lead offers the usual list of demand generation functions: outbound email, Web forms and landing pages, automated lead nurturing, integration with sales, and campaign return on investment analysis. Nearly all demand management systems have built-in email engines and Web servers for forms and microsites.

Market2Lead 120

Market2Lead Enterprise Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Directive Agency

MARCH 7, 2019

Michelle Killebrew is the vice president and head of marketing at PwC New Ventures, an internal software service incubator. She specializes in go-to-market strategy, campaign optimization, and demand generation and has gained significant recognition for her innovative campaigns and effective processes in her strategic roles with IBM.

Demand Generation Agencies 111

Demand Generation Agencies Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 111

The Mx Group

AUGUST 1, 2018

You need to be knowledgeable about a broad array of concepts and strategies, so it’s important to have a go-to library of resources and tools to help you stay on top of your game. Marketo is a SaaS platform designed to help B2B organizations automate and measure marketing engagement, tasks and workflows. Demand Gen Report.

Resources 79

Resources B2B Marketing Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com 79

Kapost

OCTOBER 21, 2016

In the course of adjusting to the digital age, we’ve changed three key dimensions: Teams : Marketing used to operate with a few teams, say corporate communications and product marketing, along with external agency support. Tools : 10 years ago, we were just beginning to experiment with email marketing tools.

Resource Management 48

Resource Management Work Management Paid Search Agency Marketing Management 48

Rev

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

No to mention consultants, agencies, and other suppliers. In that time, marketing teams have embraced social media, content marketing, account-based marketing, marketing automation, retargeting, sales and marketing alignment, programmatic advertising, attribution models, and funnel metrics.

Marketing AI 119

Marketing AI Paid Content Paid Search Agency Allocation 119

Rev

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

No to mention consultants, agencies, and other suppliers. In that time, marketing teams have embraced social media, content marketing, account-based marketing, marketing automation, retargeting, sales and marketing alignment, programmatic advertising, attribution models, and funnel metrics.

Marketing AI 68

Marketing AI Paid Content Paid Search Agency Allocation 68

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

problem: 1) Web analytics – typically the stronghold of companies like Coremetrics, Omniture, and WebTrends, the analytics area bleeds over into lead management as companies go online to generate demand. My point: B2B marketers are looking elsewhere for help generating demand.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 9, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Aaron Ross, formerly with salesforce.com and founder of PebbleStorm:CEOFlow. Tell us a little bit about how you got into marketing, and what you like most about it. I had more ego than understanding about lead generation and professional selling.

Thought Leadership 48

Thought Leadership Lead Management Sales Leads Work Management 48