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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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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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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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. Based on first-hand impressions, however, it’s not how the vast majority of clients are employing (or even thinking of) marketing automation. I’m just not sure the rest of us are quite there yet.

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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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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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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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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Author: Mary Kate Francis If you’re a B2B marketer, you’re probably familiar with demand generation in one way or another. Maybe you’ve been working in demand generation for several years or you collaborate with the team on cross-channels campaigns. Is that what’s for lunch?)

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Martech

MARCH 16, 2022

As chat software users ourselves, we’re advocates of using conversational marketing to engage with website visitors and are looking forward to this feature. For example, you might upload your target account list and create a unique conversation with them versus all other visitors. Source: 2022 Marketo User Study.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. What really got me thinking about this was prepping for a Webinar I’ll be giving next Wednesday on the future of marketing automation ( register here ).

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard AS runs a highly successful demand generation program, an integrated mix of both online and offline campaigns, to generate a consistent flow of leads to the company’s sales force. Design, build and launch a nurture campaign targeted to “Mid Stage” leads. Spear is a Marketo agency partner.) “A

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2012

B2B lead generation and lead management is a complicated process that can’t be detailed all in one book. Below are a variety of books that I consider the cream of the crop in b2b marketing and lead management. I’ve built my practice utilizing key points made in each book in addition to my own lead generation experiences.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 30, 2009

As a response to my posts 7 Reasons Why Marketing Automation Projects Fail and Marketing Automation ROI , several people mentioned that the benefits of Marketing Automation are not just increased sales. Marketing Automation Increases Revenue. Marketing influenced pipeline.

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The Point

AUGUST 1, 2013

Lead scoring has quickly become an integral part of a demand generation marketer’s arsenal. In our firm’s work with marketing automation clients , lead scoring optimization is a critical part of ensuring that companies reap the greatest benefit from the investment in marketing technology. Score inflation.

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DealSignal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Did you know that, according to a study by HubSpot , 61% of B2B marketers rank lead generation as their number one challenge? With businesses constantly searching for new customers, it’s no wonder that B2B lead generation has become a top priority for marketers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Over a thousand B2B marketers registered to attend an October 13th webinar created to help marketers plan for 2010. Specifically, the spoke about: Five key planning assumptions across two macro functions – reputation and demand creation – that should drive b-to-b marketing planning for 2010.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. At Marketo, we have a much larger team.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. At Marketo, we have a much larger team. 1 full-time employee).

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 18, 2019

Battling Random Acts of Demand Marketing. A recording is now available for the March 2019 Demand Marketing webinar featuring speakers Mika Yamamoto (VP/GM of Marketo, an Adobe Company) and Adam Needles (CEO, ANNUITAS) titled Digital Demand Transformation – Demand Marketing’s Next Step.

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Markempa

JANUARY 9, 2019

B2B lead generation has had to reinvent itself over the last decade. Sales have always used an account-based approach. Now marketing is getting on board by with account-based marketing. For this reason, many B2B marketers using a leads-based approach hit a wall with their account based marketing efforts.

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The Point

OCTOBER 30, 2013

If you utilize a marketing automation platform, the registration form on your landing page will be pre-populated with the prospect’s contact information, so conceivably all he/she has to do is click on the “submit” button. You’re not really asking for much. You’ll lose the opportunity to learn more about the prospect.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2012

by Jon Miller Marketing automation is a technology that streamlines and automates marketing tasks so companies can increase operational efficiency and grow revenue faster. In other words, companies don’t buy marketing automation to automate their marketing. Measure and prove marketing ROI.

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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. Content Marketing. Can you provide an example of an “account engagement score”?

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

And based on what I see today, most companies are not building a true Demand Strategy. Instead, they purchase some type of marketing technology, load up a list, blast a few emails and call it a strategy. So let’s be clear on what a Demand Strategy is not…. A Demand Strategy is not a list of tactics or a “drip campaign”.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

By Lisa Heay, Marketing Planning Manager at Heinz Marketing. Lead scoring is defined as a shared sales and marketing methodology for ranking leads in order to determine their sales-readiness. Organizations who implement lead scoring often experience lower marketing costs and higher conversion rates. Win-win for all.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2017

At Marketo, we get the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in our industry—both within and outside of our company—and our content team works hard to bring you their insights. Even if you’re a consumer marketer, people do research on your company and products long before they decide to make a purchase.

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Vidyard

MARCH 12, 2014

Because SiriusDecisions predicts that marketing automation adoption will rise by 50% before 2015, it’s really important for early adopters to start mastering their MAP to gain a competitive edge. Best in class marketers know this and are starting to combine their MAPs with video engagement data to reap the benefits.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 11, 2010

When it comes to maximizing the ROI of B2B marketing efforts, knowledge is power. Learn to improve demand generation , amplify lead nurturing and more with help from these 7 can’t miss B2B marketing webinars. Measure Big This B2B marketing webinar, presented by Bill Barnes of Enquiro and Erica St.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 19, 2017

My recent switch from the enterprise consulting team to the education team at Marketo has given me greater exposure to customers who are either brand new to marketing automation or switching from another platform. Marketo suggests a “Crawl, Walk, Run” phased approach.

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Circle Studio

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Over the last decade, marketing has become increasingly dependent on technology—requiring new skills and processes and creating new challenges. As A/E/C marketers look to empower their efforts with technology solutions, the challenge of keeping up with all the available tools—and deciding which ones to use—can be overwhelming.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

by Seth Resler Did you miss our webinar on inbound marketing? Inbound marketing can be a very effective marketing strategy, but when used in isolation it tends to produce limited results. The key is to combine it with other marketing techniques. An outbound marketing strategy. Want to know more?

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ANNUITAS

JULY 24, 2014

Back in January, I participated as a panelist in a webinar from the Content Marketing Institute, 2014 Content Marketing Trends (access their archive to find and download a transcript here ) also featuring Robert Rose, Chief Strategist for the Content Marketing Institute and Mark Bornstein, Sr. One more quick thing.

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Markempa

JANUARY 9, 2019

B2B lead generation has had to reinvent itself over the last decade. Sales have always used an account-based approach. Now marketing is getting on board by with account-based marketing. For this reason, many B2B marketers using a leads-based approach hit a wall with their account-based marketing efforts.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 27, 2016

With the fascination surrounding these mysterious creatures of the sea, I’d like to draw some parallels from the underwater ecosystem to our very own marketing ecosystem. After all, as marketers, it’s in our genes to keep abreast of and ride the wave of (pun intended) trending topics. Inbound vs. Outbound.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 17, 2009

Unfortunately, not enough time… Last week I received a copy of Marketo’s Lead Nurturing workbook. that is one of the great suggestions in Marketo’s book). They explain that sales & marketing need to jointly create a definition of a qualified lead. Heck, why not nurture customers too? Read them both!

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LeanData

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

It also doesn’t involve having to buy the hottest, newest toy on the market. My example of an ABM campaign will be based out of Marketo. But the same setups/flows/logic should be broadly applicable to most marketing automation platforms, or even your favorite sales acceleration/cadence tools. Interactive content.

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