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Is Salesforce.com a Player in Marketing Automation Software?

Webbiquity

In this case, we suggest seeking out a best-of-breed vendor, such as Marketo , Eloqua , Genius , Manticore Technology , Genoo or the wide variety of other systems. These vendors have sophisticated features and processes that can meet the needs of marketing teams in any size organization. Share this on Bebo. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Manticore VII Marketing Automation and Lead Generation Released

Webbiquity

It competes with vendors such as Marketo , Eloqua , Marketbright and Genoo. As many others have noted, the rise of social media and the explosion of online content has fundamentally altered the b2b sales process. This has made the marketing funnel longer, and the actual sales process shorter. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

How can you efficiently nurture those long-term prospects, learning more about their interests in the process, until they are really ready to engage with sales? They apply technology to a difficult process. It’s with internal processes, office politics and other issues. The buying process has fundamentally changed.

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

Webbiquity

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. But they’re just that: tools. and intent (do readers perceive that you are sincerely trying to help them, or merely doing a “hard sell&# ?).

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Best Social PR Guides and Tips of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity

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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Could Facebook become a Lead Nurturing platform?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

When you think of lead nurturing platforms you typically think of firms like Eloqua, Marketo, Aprimo, LeadLife, Market2Lead, Silverpop, even Salesforce.com is getting into the lead nurturing space. But Facebook? A very powerful side benefit of being on the Facebook platform. (to Tweet This! Share this on Facebook. Share this on Linkedin.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy. I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz.