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

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

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? For example, take Active Conversion. Registration is no longer required.)

Active Conversion 120

Active Conversion Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. For example, it could use different rules for leads from different geographic regions.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

The current version also hosts landing pages and Web sites, manages a lead database with profiles and Web activity history, generates lead scores, sends alerts to sales people, and synchronizes data with Salesforce.com. Leads can be captured on landing pages, imported from lists or added through Salesforce.com synchronization.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

The Mx Group

OCTOBER 18, 2017

So what’s the deal — is account-based marketing totally new? Marketers have been using elements of account-based marketing, also known as key account marketing or target account marketing, for decades. That makes me wonder: Are CRM platforms, like the Salesforce.com, set up to handle ABM? It really isn’t.

Account Based Marketing 72

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

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. Other vendors have similar price points for the small business market (see my list of demand generation vendors ) although I suspect their internal costs are higher. But LoopFuse may have been more focused than anyone else.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

ANNUITAS

MARCH 18, 2014

I was sitting in some client meetings recently going over their Demand Generation Strategy, and something struck me as out of the ordinary…but in a good way. Moving from tactics-based marketing to strategic Demand Generation will most likely require the development of a new skill set within your team. Step One: People.

Process 100

Process Planning Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation 100

The Point

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In 2011, she became President and CEO of Full Circle CRM , a company dedicated to helping VPs of Marketing use Salesforce.com to get accurate and useful performance data about marketing campaigns. However, our approach is very different from the marketing automation vendors and here are three examples.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Campaigns Budget Programs 100

The Point

OCTOBER 20, 2011

There’s a lot to like about the email below received last week from Radian6 , makers of social media monitoring tools (and recently acquired by Salesforce.com.) On the one hand, I appreciate the list of bulleted topics in that it gives substance and detail to the offer and what the reader will learn if he/she responds. What I like: 1.

Email Campaigns 100

Email Campaigns Salesforce.com Campaigns Demand Generation 100

Engagio

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We’ve all heard the analogy that in Account-Based Marketing we are fishing with a spear rather than a net. Our goal is to target the right buyers rather than scooping up distractions and expenses along the way. This means strategic alignment around objectives, target account criteria, etc. Megan Heuer.

Account Based Marketing 139

Account Based Marketing ABM Sales Management Enterprise Management 139

The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management. First, the company invested in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform that integrated well with the company’s CRM system, Salesforce.com. Next, iDirect sought out a partner to provide strategic counsel and advice on best practices.

Lead Nurturing 100

Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 100

Jackie Walts

MARCH 6, 2019

Recent advances in give demand generation marketers tricks to reduce waste and gain better results. Ditto for diving into platforms like WordPress, ABM technology and some more advanced functions of Salesforce.com. But, the sheer volume of options can be overwhelming. It seems like something new is coming up all the time.

Demand 54

Demand Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Salesforce.com 54

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2009

Note that none of listed categories included behavioral information such as email clickthroughs or Web page visits, which demand generation vendors make so much of. The categories don’t make much sense to me because they overlap: products like Salesforce.com are both CRM systems and SaaS.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Lead Scoring 120

LeanData

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Most likely, the reps never saw the leads because: They weren’t notified about a new lead in an account they’re responsible for. Sales reps rarely use the assigned leads view in Salesforce.com. Ironically, everyone wants to know there’s activity in their accounts, but why is it so hard for sales reps to see new leads in their accounts?

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Salesforce.com 40

LeanData

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Most likely, the reps never saw the leads because: They weren’t notified about a new lead in an account they’re responsible for. Sales reps rarely use the assigned leads view in Salesforce.com. Ironically, everyone wants to know there’s activity in their accounts, but why is it so hard for sales reps to see new leads in their accounts?

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Salesforce.com 40

LeanData

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Most likely, the reps never saw the leads because: They weren’t notified about a new lead in an account they’re responsible for. Sales reps rarely use the assigned leads view in Salesforce.com. Ironically, everyone wants to know there’s activity in their accounts, but why is it so hard for sales reps to see new leads in their accounts?

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Salesforce.com 40

LeanData

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Most likely, the reps never saw the leads because: They weren’t notified about a new lead in an account they’re responsible for. Sales reps rarely use the assigned leads view in Salesforce.com. Ironically, everyone wants to know there’s activity in their accounts, but why is it so hard for sales reps to see new leads in their accounts?

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Salesforce.com 40

markempa

DECEMBER 12, 2016

To keep valuable field salespeople productive, many of the more innovative sales and marketing departments build “sales development” teams including Oracle, Marketo, HubSpot, HP, and Salesforce.com. What readers showed is that demand generation, B2B marketing, and sales comes down to connecting with people. Just to name a few.

Account Based Marketing 84

Account Based Marketing Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 84

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

Digital B2B Marketing

APRIL 2, 2013

In most B2B organizations, Salesforce.com or a similar solution is the system of record. Tactics like buying branded search terms or running retargeting campaigns are particularly cost-effective on paper because only target people who have already shown a level of interest or familiarity with your solution.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer B2B Work Management 100

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

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.

Lead Ranking 59

Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads Demand 59

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

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.

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

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.

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

Orb Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Marketing software is becoming increasingly intelligent, with vendors building predictive algorithms to improve every aspect of demand generation and sales. Some of the players, for example, SalesPredict and 6Sense , provide intelligent support for the full customer lifecycle, from scoring inbound leads to predicting customer churn.

Marketing Management 40

Marketing Management Lead Ranking Paid Search Agency Salesforce.com 40

The Point

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Regardless of who’s in the driver’s seat, however, there’s absolutely no reason, no excuse, for a company’s social media efforts not to be generating leads, and lots of them. For example, take this blog our agency designed more than a year ago for Navicure , a leading online medical claims clearinghouse.

Social Media 100

Social Media Demand Generation Agencies Media Leads 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2011

by Jen Howard Events are a vital component of demand generation and brand reinforcement platforms and represent a huge slice of total B2B marketing spend. In order to correctly target our database, we leverage our events functionality to segment based on various demographic and behavioral information.

Marketo 48

Marketo Marketing Management Event Marketing Software 48

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

But I can share some examples and insights that should help any new team. Spear Marketing is a full-service, B2B agency specializing in creative, strategic demand generation and lead nurturing. One demand generation manager (lifecycle strategy/content/campaigns). The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team.

Marketing Automation Services 48

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Demand Generation Agencies 48

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

But I can share some examples and insights that should help any new team. Spear Marketing is a full-service, B2B agency specializing in creative, strategic demand generation and lead nurturing. One Demand Generation Manager (Lifecycle Strategy/Content/Campaigns). The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team.

Marketing Automation Services 48

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Demand Generation Agencies 48

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Summary: LoopFuse offers attractive but limited demand generation functions at an easy-to-swallow price. It’s been nearly a year since I took my first close look at the LoopFuse OneView demand generation system. For example, the retrial node might check every hour to see whether someone has responded to a previous email.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 30, 2009

My personal definition of demand generations systems (see Introduction to Demand Generation Systems from the Raab Guide site) explicitly states that they do not incorporate sales automation. See Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems? for whether this will change.)

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Cost Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Back in early January I posted a discussion on treatment of Company-Level Data in Demand Generation Systems. At that time, I posed a set of specific questions to the demand generation vendors in the Raab Guide. SFDC" stands for Salesforce.com.) Yesterday the final answer trickled in.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Work Management Market2Lead Marketing Automation Services 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 26, 2010

Always ask for specific examples of creatives to see how the offer is positioned and the types of channels used. Transparency is key in the lead generation industry – so make sure the company you choose to work with shows you exactly how they drive leads. Tags: Demand Generation lead generation.

Sales Qualified Leads 48

Sales Qualified Leads Leads Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 48

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Take YouTube, for example. For example, I’m a huge fan of the Flipboard app on the iPad, which converts RSS feeds and Twitter lists into a highly customized and personalized online magazine. Interested in demand generation best practices and Napa Valley wineries? by Jon Miller Online video is exploding.

Top of Funnel 48

Top of Funnel B2B Sales Video Marketing B2B Marketing 48

Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

Solution Toolbox provides their own comparison of their system to Squarespace and LightCMS , but take it with a grain of salt; it’s biased in their favor of course and some of the specifics are out of date (for example, Squarespace now includes a forms-builder). Web Marketing Platforms.

CMS Development 100

CMS Development Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation Services 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 25, 2009

If you look at the Web site of Act-On Software , you’ll see a typical set of demand generation features: email marketing, demand generation (equated with landing pages and forms), lead nurturing, Website visitor tracking, channel (partner) marketing, and lead scoring. I’ll come back to the database later.

Act-On 120

Act-On Demand Generation Work Management Marketing Management 120

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Overcomes Marketing Information Overload, Transforming Traditional White Papers into Dynamic, Personalized Engagement Tools Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today launched a new demand generation tool for B2B marketers – Alinean Interactive White Papers.

Paper 40

Paper Enterprise Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 24, 2011

When you first implement Salesforce.com, your default lead sources are Web, Phone Inquiry, Partner Referral, Purchased List and Other. For example, a lead from your website may be more likely to turn into a sale then one from a list purchase. Avoid lead source clutter. Know the value of a lead source.

Lead Scoring 48

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Practices Leads 48