Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. Please view this as a general list; some of these points will be more or less pronounced depending on the marketing automation platform you’re using (Marketo, Eloqua, HubSpot, Act-on, Autopilot, etc.)

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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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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

Ledger Bennett

MARCH 19, 2021

Any would-be revenue leader who isn’t tearing down demand era Sales and Marketing silos and building a unified Digital Revenue Team are fated to go the way of the dinosaur. This type of revenue attribution is critical for sales and marketing teams, especially for B2B businesses. Cortex is a revenue intelligence platform.

Marketing Automation Services 59

Marketing Automation Services Aggregators Forecasting Paid Search Agency 59

Metadata

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Industry’s First Autonomous Demand Generation Platform Disrupts Traditional ABM Space. 9, 2020 — Metadata.io, the autonomous demand generation platform, today announced it raised $6.5m It’s still hard to generate a predictable pipeline for sales and show ROI for marketing investments. San Francisco, CA, Sept.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Well, welcome, everyone, to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking 117

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

This started by providing visitor lists and real-time alerts to sales people who were interested in specific accounts. DemandBase had to build its own engines for real time bidding (RTB) and ad serving (Demand Side Platform or DSP) to support its approach. The system doesn’t store any information about individuals.

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DemandBase Advertising Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency 120

Rev

MAY 21, 2018

What Google, Facebook, and B2B Media Companies Don’t Want You to Know. If you have a marketing automation platform — like Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot, or Pardot — then you are probably using intent data. SiriusDecisions even validated the importance of this idea by creating a new funnel stage in the latest Demand Waterfall.

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SWZD

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This week, we spoke to Michell Liro , Vice President of Demand Generation at PTC. PTC (formerly known as Parametric Technology Corporation) was dominant in computer-aided design (CAD) modeling software in the late 1980s, 90s and 2000s, and product lifecycle management (PLM) software in the late 1990s and 2000s.

Work Management 48

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies 48

SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. . This is evident by the number of B2B companies who are still unable to answer the most critical sales and marketing performance questions. . .

Lead Ranking 107

Lead Ranking Paid Content Cost per Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 107

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

Marketing automation, social campaigns, inbound marketing, sales apps, ROI reporting – all in one place. BtoBsocialmedia – BtoBSocialMedia (b2b) offers daily tips on using Twitter, Facebook and other social media to increase brand awareness and social influence. Cambridge, MA – [link]. San Mateo, CA – [link].

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Twitter Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency B2B Marketing 100

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. Email and e-newsletters use now equals tradeshows in popular use.

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Marketing Mix Tactics Work Management Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

One area where partners are especially common is ad management. This means that integration has largely meant sharing audiences defined in a marketing automation system with demand side platforms (DSPs), so the DSPs can bid on audience members when they appear on ad networks. sales stages. ad inventory.

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Paid Search Agency Display Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables.

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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. These firms are also much more likely to be “best in class,” and most see sales pipeline opportunities increase by 10-15%. Pricing: contact vendor.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Webbiquity

JANUARY 27, 2011

Salesforce.com is the cloud computing darling of customer relationship management (CRM) software. They have significant control of mind share in that space, and their legacy in customer service and sales force automation software is strong. It is made up of sales, service and—wait for it—marketing! Share this on Facebook.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com Marketing Automation 100

Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The number one marketing trend for 2011, according to the 17,000 member B2B technology marketing group on LinkedIn, is the increasing integration of social media with traditional marketing tactics to drive qualified leads. And as social media matures, demands for proving social media ROI will inevitably increase.

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Social Media Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Last week, hundreds of marketers, sales leaders, and video producers came together in San Francisco to challenge the status quo of video for business. Long regarded as simply a top-of-funnel asset, Viewtopia presented the evolution of video within an organization. Let that soak in. viewtopia16 pic.twitter.com/SOM3LD2MNW.

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Video Marketing Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services Storytelling 50

markempa

AUGUST 4, 2014

In a recent interview, Brian sat down with Steve Girshik of LeadSpace.com to talk a little shop about the fundamentals of lead generation, what’s new (and unchanged) in the world of the complex sale, and how empathy marketing is the way forward. Steve: So 10 years ago, you published Lead Generation for the Complex Sale.

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Albacross

JANUARY 17, 2020

When it comes to sales, using the right tool can have a huge impact on your bottom line. There’s an extensive range of sales software out there and figuring out which one you should invest in can be a challenging task. Albacross asked experts to share their Top 3 Sales Tools for the coming year. No need to worry, though.

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Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel Budget Programs Work Management 122

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Writing that “The most productive PR path…is a blended approach to social and traditional media,&# Len Stein offers a quick but valuable process for obtaining and promoting old and new media coverage using multiple tools like social bookmarking sites, internal company distribution, your own website, marketing emails and more. .&#

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 29, 2018

Nurturing known contacts via marketing automation email nurtures, generating MQLs and pushing prospects through the sales pipeline. If you want to learn more about building audiences for each stage of the funnel check out our Cross Channel B2B Audience Strategy blog ). What this looks like today. Likely to also sound familiar.

Lead Ranking 49

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Demand Generation Agencies Campaigns 49

LEADership

DECEMBER 20, 2013

This infographic was released by Eloqua , which highlights survey results among 548 B2B marketers on their social media usage for branding, customer engagement and heightening sales. I actually would have thought that by now, the percentage of B2B demand generation experts using social media would be much higher.

Social Media 40

Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing Eloqua 40

Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Database marketing is a methodical approach to the gathering and processing of consumer data that is stored and maintained in a company’s database. In many B2B companies, this information can be pulled from marketing automation platforms and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms. What is Database Marketing? Then you’re done!

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Database Marketing PPC Work Management Marketing Management 45

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals. This one caught me by surprise.

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Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B Sales 60

ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. He also notes Facebook has just revamped totally its advertising line up with their new Reach Generator. Christopher is an award-winning business writer and editor based in New York City. What can I do?

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Resource Management BtoB 120

ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. He also notes Facebook has just revamped totally its advertising line up with their new Reach Generator. Today's PowerViews guest is Christopher Hosford. He is East Coast Bureau Chief for BtoB Magazine.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Resource Management BtoB 120

SmartBug Media

MARCH 10, 2020

Account-based marketing ( ABM ) requires you to use a multi-channel approach and a wide array of marketing tactics, which means you'll also need multiple technologies to make it a success. Flip the Funnel. Generally, the stages of the funnel look like this: Identify target accounts. Sales Enablement. 61 ABM Technologies.

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Account Based Marketing ABM Sales Management CMS Development 97

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Before engaging marketing creative agency, Traction, to create compelling content for their business customers, Lenovo’s marketing efforts had primarily consisted of bottom-of-funnel tactics. Lenovo also needed to ensure the results of this campaign made it into Eloqua, their Marketing Automation Platform.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Video Marketing Marketing Automation Services 111

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 25, 2019

It’s another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio , ( live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services Digital Marketing Funnels Eloqua 82

Metadata

DECEMBER 15, 2020

We see a lower conversion rate to opportunity with this type of campaign, but we’re able to make that work with our unit economics – and it works better than other tactics we’ve tried. Then see how this compares to the cost-per-lead in your demand model and whether you can stomach this. Any thoughts? Over what time frame?

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Webinar Metrics Cost per Lead Trends Lead Gen 59

LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

Sales & marketing alignment. 1) We’re at a point where we have lot of data about marketing performance, but it’s a big challenge to turn it into actionable information (2) we’re actively tweeting, blogging and using LinkedIn, but how can that be effectively managed, and how can it be measured? (4)

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2016

Every 3 weeks or so I have a new show (live on Google Hangouts On-Air and streamed to my Facebook page) where I interview the founder or proprietor of marketing technology that I personally vouch for and support. It’s a platform for B2B marketers, primarily B2B marketers, to create, manage, optimize, and merchandize their content.

Top of Funnel 91

Top of Funnel Content Marketing CMS Development Ad Building 91

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 3, 2013

Oracle ’s recent agreement to purchase Eloqua reinflamed that wound, since much of the commentary ignored Oracle’s extensive existing suite of consumer marketing systems. This perspective has always been part of consumer marketing, where the classic description of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) was “marketing, sales and service”.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Resource Management Work Management 120

LeanData

DECEMBER 28, 2015

That steady progression is why you likely know that ABM brings together sales and marketing efforts to focus on high-value target accounts with the greatest chance of becoming closed deals. Alignment: Refers to the need for sales and marketing teams to work in close coordination throughout the entire buyer’s journey. Red-hot trend.

Account Based Marketing 71

Account Based Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads 71

LeanData

DECEMBER 28, 2015

That steady progression is why you likely know that ABM brings together sales and marketing efforts to focus on high-value target accounts with the greatest chance of becoming closed deals. Alignment: Refers to the need for sales and marketing teams to work in close coordination throughout the entire buyer’s journey. Red-hot trend.

Account Based Marketing 53

Account Based Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads 53

Inbox Insight

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

As a result, audiences are getting more demanding. Getting your content in front of the right people, at critical touch points, is an art form in its own right, demanding its own set of skills and marketing know-how. What do you want content to do, in the context of wider marketing and sales efforts?

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Content Marketing 52

LeanData

DECEMBER 28, 2015

That steady progression is why you likely know that ABM brings together sales and marketing efforts to focus on high-value target accounts with the greatest chance of becoming closed deals. Alignment: Refers to the need for sales and marketing teams to work in close coordination throughout the entire buyer’s journey. Red-hot trend.

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads 40