ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 4, 2016

B2B marketers are always pressed for time. Marketers build strategies, run programs, manage technologies and teams, so how do we make the most of our time? Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are often referred to as the “Swiss Army Knife” of technology. The post Marketing Automation Hacks appeared first on Annuitas.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

By Brenna Lofquist , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. In today’s digital technology landscape there are numerous platforms, tools and technologies at the disposal of every marketer—almost too many. Welcome to the seventh installment of The B2B Marketer’s Quick Start Guide. Marketing Automation Platforms.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

According to Adobe Experience League , “Predictive Audiences (PA) utilizes AI and machine learning to enable you to target audiences more effectively and take proactive steps to reach your marketing goals.” Navigate to the Predictive Audiences page in the Admin area of Marketo Classic. Why does it matter? Sales Insight.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 12, 2018

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. However marketers are largely dissatisfied with the reporting their MAPs offer. Shiny features sell.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Author: Anastasia Pavlova Whether you’re a small to medium-sized business or a larger enterprise organization, marketing automation is your company’s best bet for staying competitive in this digital age. 53% of the B2B organizations and 43% of B2C and combination B2B/B2C organizations have adopted marketing automation systems.–

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Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Part one: The promise The birth of marketing technology brought so much potential to the marketing department. I was a young, freshly minted MBA with a background in computer science, and a two-year stint doing software marketing at IBM. Plus, marketing was getting some extra respect in board meetings.

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 12, 2023

Marketing tasks are increasingly complex, and the need for B2B marketing automation is more critical than ever. Let’s break down what B2B marketing automation is, why it’s crucial, and how it can transform your business operations. What is B2B Marketing Automation?

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A prospective client asks: “We’re just getting our demand generation programs ramped up, and I’m not sure I’m ready for marketing automation. My answer: “It depends how you define “ lead nurturing ,” but technically: no, you don’t need marketing automation in order to nurture leads.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers. 1) Marketo.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. But those that did provide information showed great growth in 2013, in most cases over the 50% I had predicted. But that’s old news.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. That’s a technical step backwards but will actually make it easier for buyers to access the detailed vendor information, and in particular to screen for vendors with particular capabilities. VEST Report. Less is more, I suppose.

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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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets. Just kidding.or Pricing starts at $599 per month.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

About 15 years ago, marketing automation technology came on the scene, designed to help marketers more effectively and efficiently market across channels. It has grown in popularity, and according to SiriusDecisions , 40% of organizations will own automation by next year. So without further ado: Eloqua.

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Biznology

AUGUST 8, 2019

I was teaching B2B digital marketing to master’s degree students at San Andres University in Buenos Aires again this summer. So, I decided to look into what’s going on in B2B marketing in Argentina. Ruth: How do B2B marketers in Argentina approach new customer prospecting these days? Frias , who filled me in. Please explain.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Usability Items for Simple Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) Yesterday's post described the background of this usability scoring project and gave scores for several items that apply to both simple and complex marketing programs.

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

During these uncertain times, putting your limited marketing budget to the best use to stimulate revenue growth and form better relationships with your best customers becomes even more important. Now more than ever, getting hyper-targeted using ABM / ABX as your go-to-market (GTM) approach is critical.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

Reading Time: 13 minutes Winning strategies for account-based marketing (ABM) are essential for any director of marketing or CMO at a large B2B SaaS organization. Next, you’ll learn how to develop a target account list that aligns with your objectives. Segment Your Target Account List D.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

Direct mail and other offline channels are not new, but the old barriers to entry with these strategies have been overcome: Sending Platforms enable companies to automate personalized offline campaigns like direct mail and measure ROI. When it comes to go-market-strategy, utilizing offline channels has become table stakes. .

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Leadspace

MAY 9, 2016

Accurate data is the key to successful B2B marketing and lead generation. When I looked at the agenda for the 2016 Marketo Marketing Nation Summit, it got me thinking about the future of data, lead generation and the evolution of B2B marketing. Which accounts should I target?

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 4, 2009

The folks at Marketo have always recognized that they can only succeed if more marketers learn the basics of demand generation. The workbook also includes a half dozen “How Marketo Does It” sidebars that reveal more than you might expect about Marketo’s own programs. That sounds like a reasonable approach.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

I've been having a dandy time analyzing the results of my Demand Generation Implementation Survey. In any case, the ten deployments in the first four months of 2009 (or 12 if you count the two future dates) and 12 in 2008 highlights the newness and fast growth of the demand generation industry. the system itself 0.67

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

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Jackie Walts

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Implementing marketing automation is a bit complicated, but hopefully these tips will make it go more smoothly: Know that automation on its own won’t bring success. I’ve seen a lot marketing automation fail because someone inexperienced made mistakes or did sloppy work. Marketing automation can be fun!

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Launch Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Alert Logic was in fast growth mode and wanted to implement marketing automation to support the scaling of their business. They wanted a partner to lead the strategy and implementation of an Enterprise-class marketing automation solution, and with that in mind engaged Launch Marketing to lead the effort.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I’m going to diverge just slightly from my current obsession with usability to talk about a conversation I had today with Marketo President and CEO Phil Fernandez, who previewed the 3.0 Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Could marketers finally be ready to spend on measurement? At least three vendors (Eloqua, Marketo and Silverpop) introduced new features aimed at improving marketers’ ability to use social media.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 The deal makes obvious sense, in that it gives Oracle a much stronger position in the fast-growing B2B marketing automation industry*. Oracle is less customer-focused and generally less nimble (I'm being polite here).

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 11, 2011

You know that red-hot B2B marketing automation industry? Our just-released update to the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Toolkit (VEST) shows that client counts grew just over 50% over the year ending in June, compared with nearly 100% growth for the year ending last December. Not necessarily.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. If anyone else cares to expand on this list, even better. Here's a bunch. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. For those of us who don’t get out much, that’s downright exciting.

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PathFactory

JULY 8, 2021

PathFactory helps marketers deliver relevant content experiences at scale, while tapping into a wealth of engagement data through AI-powered content intelligence. Because PathFactory plays nicely with tools like Oracle Eloqua, Marketo, HubSpot, Drift and Salesforce, it’s easy to integrate into your existing martech stack.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

I spent a good part of yesterday talking with demand generation vendors about the usability scores I've been publishing all week. Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 Usability requirements are roughly similar for all marketers. 9 Now what?

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Jackie Walts

JANUARY 8, 2020

Demand generation is more effective if your company uses a marketing automation platform. Marketing automation helps get communication out, enables you to segment your audience, helps you get leads to sales and most importantly – lets you track efforts to get the highest possible return. Inside sales?

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