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Net-Results Simplifies Demand Generation for Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. But on reflection I realized that Net-Results offers a full set of demand generation functions. Let’s run through the standard demand generation process to see how this works in practice.

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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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No Leads from Social Media? No Excuses.

The Point

I’ve written previously in this space about how corporate social media initiatives are so often in the hands of people, notably PR agencies, for whom lead generation is neither a priority nor a core competency. Put a PR agency in charge of social media, and I can pretty much guarantee you’ll generate PR, not leads.)

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

So that’s all fine, but what industry observers really want to know is how Salesforce.com will react. Working marketers care more about how this affects the products and services they’ll get as current or potential Eloqua customers. The impact on customer service is likely to be even more negative. Wouldn’t that be nice?

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Content Selling: How Sales Can Better Leverage Marketing Content

The Point

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.

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Cohort Demand Waterfall Conversions – The Framework

B2B Marketing Analytics

While the B2B marketing analytics and the associated KPIs span across the funnel from awareness to demand generation to pipeline acceleration, Marketing ROI , there is one set of metrics that is top of the mind across marketing teams especially the ones with more matured analytics competencies.

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Demand Waterfall Conversion Rates – The Framework

B2B Marketing Analytics

While the B2B marketing analytics and the associated KPIs span across the funnel from awareness to demand generation to pipeline acceleration, Marketing ROI , there is one set of metrics that is top of the mind across marketing teams especially the ones with more matured analytics competencies.