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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

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Precious few B2B marketers can show true ROI from organic social activity, and even less are using organic social media in a systematic way to either generate social leads or drive those leads through the demand generation funnel. So yes, paid social media can be an effective demand gen channel. times higher. Click To Tweet. (HS)

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Email Critique: Oracle/Eloqua Webcast Invite Needs Help

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The impact that Oracle’s acquisition of Eloqua will have on that company’s ability to compete effectively in the marketing automation space is fodder for debate. What is more clear, based on the Webcast invitation I received this week (below), is that it hasn’t done much for Eloqua’s own email marketing. Let me count the ways: 1.

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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

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In the succeeding five years, the marketing technology landscape has exploded, marketing automation has become a cornerstone of the martech stack, and demand for marketing operations professionals has never been higher. Why Is #MarketingAutomation Maturity Still Woeful? Click To Tweet. Vendors focused on new licenses vs. customer retention.

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Take a Sales Guy to Lunch: Bridging the Sales & Marketing Divide

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Companies like Eloqua and Marketo have 1-click integration into CRM systems that make it easy to synchronize marketing and sales processes and lead data. BAS) I think the marketing systems are maturing and becoming more easily integrated into leading CRM packages like Salesforce.com and Oracle CRM On Demand. Thanks Barbara!

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How to Measure Email Success in 2015: A Call to ROI

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As a B2B agency , our firm creates and executes dozens of email campaigns every month, and that experience tells me that a large percentage of B2B marketers, even at companies that otherwise do a very sophisticated job at demand generation , fail to measure or compare email campaign performance using any metrics other than opens and clicks.

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Measuring the True Impact of Marketing Campaigns: A Conversation with Bonnie Crater

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HS: How are you different from marketing automation vendors like Eloqua or Marketo at addressing this issue? For Sales Operations, we deliver a comprehensive lead lifecycle system facilitating sales follow-up on responses across both the Lead and Contact Database.