Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2009

You may ask, why should anyone care what I have to say about demand generation? Well, at Marketo , we’ve built a world-class demand generation machine that has helped us in just 10 months to sign up over 130 customers in more than eight countries, including companies such as Thomson Reuters, Reed Business, and CollabNet.

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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. From Marketo’s perspective, I understand the need to frame marketing automation in ever more mission-critical terms. Systems like Marketo can be used to remind sales reps (via sales alerts) of untouched or stale leads.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. The moments are set up as real time triggers within Marketo.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

Summary: Marketo continues to follow its own path. Revenue Cycle Management blazes an important new trail for others to follow. I finally caught up with Marketo for a briefing on their Enterprise Edition (announced in March) and Revenue Cycle Analytics (announced in May). It seems that Marketo disagrees.

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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 12 11 simple 8 10 10 10 12 8.5 9 Now what? 0 0 0 0 0.5

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. The tentative list is Unica , Aprimo , Alterian , and Neolane. But I’ve also been approached by some of the other demand generation specialists. How to choose?

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. This pricing is low even among SMB demand generation systems.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Back in January 2009, Marketo came out with a webinar entitled, The Secret Sauce to Demand Generation: How Marketo Nurtures, Scores and Accelerates Leads through the Revenue Cycle. It discusses how Marketo leverages its own Sales 2.0 tools and techniques to achieve success.

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Account-Based Marketing. Demand Gen and Lead Management. How can Sales identify and tag appropriately in a CRM? If you want the account engagement score to be part of your metrics mix, it is important to understand how the different tools calculate it and pick the tool that is the most meaningful to your business.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 8, 2009

The Pedowitz Group announced this morning that it was offering $15,000 in free consulting services and guaranteeing a five-day implementation to new clients who purchase Eloqua demand generation software. The firm also works with Marketo , Silverpop Engage B2B and MarketingGenius depending on client needs. )

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 1, 2009

A few days ago I posted a link to the new IDC Workbook: Optimizing Marketing and Sales Lead Management with Marketing Automation. This is a great tool, but there are quite a few other resources out there to help you define what you are looking for in a demand generation system. Here’s a link to Part 1 and Part 2.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Marketo Engage. Features/functionality: Lead Nurturing & Management: Nurture potential customers from inquiry to close by managing leads and strategic accounts with automated journey flows and CRM integrations. Our sales team can interact effectively with lead management which I think is very important.

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The Point

JUNE 26, 2009

Tags: B2B Marketing Demand Generation Landing Pages Lead Management Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation direct marketing lead generation b2b demand generation demandbase marketo. But even at those lofty standards, fully 90 percent of Web [.].

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 29, 2009

I have two Webinars and a newly published white paper you might find interesting: Webinar Making the Right Start with Demand Generation , Thursday, April 30, 2:00 p.m. This will discuss preparing for your new demand generation system, including requirements definition, vendor selection, and the initial deployment.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2009

Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 additional profile is requested as a prospect moves through an interactive process); Native integration with Salesforce.com ; Web visitor profiling; and Automated duplicate lead removal. software suite.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Mintigo’s technology scans the Internet for things like job listings and Javascript tags and infers from those which products are used at every company it finds. One extremely important caveat is that these figures are counting clients, not revenue: HubSpot has three times as many clients than Marketo but 10% less 2013 revenue.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

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. They believe this makes it easier for their target customers (under 25 employees) to see them as the next logical step beyond standard email.

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The Point

APRIL 8, 2010

Because we host our page on Marketo , the old information is pre-populated automatically for anyone who has previously opened one of our emails. When a subscriber clicks on our “update profile&# link , he/she gets taken to a simple landing page (at right) where it’s a quick and easy task to update the relevant data.

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The Point

AUGUST 4, 2009

Do a quick Web search on “lead nurturing” these days, and you’ll find plenty of high-level, strategic content on the “whys” – how nurturing can improve demand generation ROI, increase conversion rates, accelerate sales cycles, recycle long-discarded prospects, etc.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 9, 2009

LeadSloth on Demand Generation: Smart Tools for Lazy Marketers. Tell us a little bit about how you got into demand generation , and what you like most about it. What I like most about Demand Generation is that it makes the customer's buying process so much more efficient.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 3, 2009

I think one mistake many marketers make is to think of their lead management requirements too narrowly — and to be honest, quite a few demand generation vendors make this mistake as well. However, achieving the full benefit of lead management requires much more than just nurturing and scoring.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Last week Focus.com’s Mastering Lead Management Virtual Event brought some of the leaders of B2B Demand Generation and Sales 2.0 shannan0 : segment your data (leads) for optimal success based on ideal targets and existing customer profiles. Who does it target, problem it solves, how do you distribute?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 19, 2009

Sean is exposed on a daily basis to the latest best practices in B2B marketing and is chock full of practical demand generation advice. What are your top 3 tips to help B2B companies improve their demand generation ? Lead nurturing and lead scoring seem to be coming into the mainstream.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

you know that I see a lot of demand generation systems. Unica, Teradata Relationship Manager, SAS Marketing Automation, Siebel Marketing, Alterian, Aprimo, SmartFocus). So I thought I'd take a little scan of the demand generation systems I've looked at to see how the vendors themselves had voted.

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Engagio

JANUARY 4, 2017

Jon Miller, the co-founder of Marketo, grew the Marketing Automation community from glorified email marketing to professional Marketers who deserved a spot at the Revenue table. Now, he’s setting his sights at Account Based Marketing and maybe it’s just me, but Engagio seems to have a lot of the same ingredients as Marketo.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Having seen many of the presentations in San Francisco, I found it useful to classify them in three main categories: Lead Generation. Lead Management. The first is obviously focused on getting more leads into your database, while the second topic focuses on nurturing those leads. Marketo (booth 6).

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% 16% % firms w/lead to first call conversion > 50% 48.7%

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

offering a white paper or promoting a Webinar) and the larger process of managing the flow of treatments. I’d already noticed that the simplicity-focused vendors ( Marketo , Infusionsoft , OfficeAutoPilot and, as of yesterday, Genius.com ) build their campaigns as a list of steps with no branching flows. (To

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LeadSloth

JUNE 23, 2009

I’ve personally often used Google AdWords to drive traffic to websites: it’s instantanious and you can fine-tune campaigns to target a specific audience. Their main focus has been on nurturing and scoring your existing leads. But Inbound Marketing focuses primarily on organic search, not pay-per-click (like AdWords).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 29, 2009

I first met Maria when her company selected Marketo Lead Management for their marketing automation system, and was immediately impressed with her demand generation expertise. Maria also writes about B2B marketing, CRM, and demand generation on her own blog InboundMarketer and on Twitter @InboundMarketer.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The live session was hosted and moderated by Gerhard Gschwandter, Founder and CEO of SellingPower, and featured Bill Binch, VP of Sales and Customer Success at Marketo, and Barry Trailer, Co-Founder of CSO Insights. The answer to the first question is: it depends. One of the deciding factors is technology.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 15, 2009

Barry is also a member of the Marketo Board of Advisors. Will sales, freed of the lead generation effort, do more cultivating of higher level relationships and penetrating accounts more broadly? Beyond demand generation , how can marketing best help sales close more business? What we've labeled CRM 2.0

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 25, 2010

This isn’t a surprise since Salesforce.com has over 55K customers – and campaign and lead management are key features of the system. was posted at Modern B2B Marketing - Marketo Best Practices Blog. | [link]. But with over one million Salesforce.com users, you need a way to stand out. .

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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. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Sewell is president of Spear Marketing Group , a full-service agency with offices in Silicon Valley and Seattle that specializes in demand generation, lead management, and ROI-based marketing. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

This practical and actionable guide gives a clear framework, worksheets and ideas to help you actually start lead nurturing not just read about it.". CEO of InTouch and author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sales. Brian Carroll. Hunter Boyle. Content Marketing Director, MarketingExperiments.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In a special event, as part of our Revenue Masters series , we brought together some of the top minds in B2B demand generation to answer this critical question. In the session, the expert panel addressed other questions at the core of sales and marketing alignment including: What is the value of a lead? How do you define a lead?

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