The Point

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Social media may be a hot topic in B2B marketing circles, but most of that buzz focuses on the role of social media advertising. Are B2B marketers ignoring a huge opportunity? In addition, the platform integrates with leading marketing automation platforms, such as Eloqua, HubSpot, Marketo, and Pardot.

Top of Funnel 203

Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Lead Scoring 203

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

That could serve as a pretty complete summary of the state of the art for B2B marketing today, especially if you consider “content marketing” as implicitly included. This is a major extension beyond traditional marketing automation, which works mostly through email to known prospects. Other partners will be added over time.

DemandBase 120

DemandBase Advertising Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency 120

Metadata

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The momentum and uptick in company growth can be attributed to sophisticated B2B marketers embracing growth-focused demand generation technologies, and autonomous marketing operations as a vehicle for scale. Demand marketers from companies like Zoom, Pendo, Thoughtspot, Okta, Workato, and Vonage have experienced as much as a 4.5X

Demand Generation 102

Demand Generation Marketing Analytics Tools Demand Paid Search Agency 102

Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2020

Leading Edge Virtual Event Platforms. Leading edges platforms generally have significant installed customer bases and market presence as indicated by at least 25 user reviews across one or more software rating sites. A video streaming platform for marketing webcasts, internal communications, training, and other virtual events.

Enterprise Management 363

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Webinar Metrics 363

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

One of the newest and most interesting entrants in the virtual event software market is VII Events , founded in January 2020. 2) Business and lead generation. It was than I recognized the potential of the market, foreseeing that the entire industry would be forced to move toward virtualization. The Company. The Lessons.

Marketing Automation Services 135

Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Eloqua Sales Qualified Leads 135

ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.

Marketing Automation Services 143

Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Marketing AI Enterprise Management 143

Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2010

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? Element #2 – Email – the most critical element of a lead nurturing platform is email.

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Lead Nurturing Facebook Market2Lead Leads 100

Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. In this post, we focus on why Marketing Converts recommends the “unique” model to the vast majority of clients. Also, the majority of marketing automation platforms take the approach that a person only exists once in the platform.

De-duplication 40

De-duplication Lead Ranking Lead Management Work Management 40

SendinBlue

AUGUST 24, 2020

Marketing automation platforms offer tools that help grow your business and improve customer experience. This list details some of the best marketing automation software around to help you decide which one is right for you. Let’s talk about marketing for a minute. This is where a marketing automation platform can help.

Marketing Automation Services 86

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Automation 86

Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

One of my recent posts (“ The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011 ”) received a lot of great comments. 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.

Social Media 100

Social Media Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Rev

MAY 21, 2018

What Google, Facebook, and B2B Media Companies Don’t Want You to Know. To be sure, intent data should be one of many signals marketers use to identify when companies are in market. To be sure, intent data should be one of many signals marketers use to identify when companies are in market. Just Ask Google.

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Intent Data Intent Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 122

Metadata

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Broomfield, CO – MARCH 1, 2022 –- Metadata.io, the operating system for B2B marketers, announced a $40 million Series B funding round, led by Next47 and Resolute Ventures , with participation from a number of other SaaS founders and CEOs. No other technology was able to provide this amount of efficiency for B2B marketers.

B2B Marketing 59

B2B Marketing Co-Registration Automation Bombora 59

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Those are some staggering numbers, and most marketers are starting to appreciate that numbers like these translate to huge opportunity when shifted into a business context. But those catching on are seeing a real, and measurable, impact on their marketing and sales goals, not just higher view counts. billion videos in 365 days.

Video Marketing 167

Video Marketing Rules Marketing Automation Services Planning 167

Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to the B2B Marketing Automation Solutions. Marketing automation solutions have become a must-have for modern B2B marketers particularly as the marketers are headed to explore new avenues alongside the dawn to the next normal. Learn More: Marketing Automation: A Good or A Bad Idea.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation 52

Ledger Bennett

MARCH 19, 2021

In a recent blog post titled The Marketing Revenue Accountability Roadmap we cited that rapid digital transformation, along with other factors, has led the marketing function to its Moneyball moment. This type of revenue attribution is critical for sales and marketing teams, especially for B2B businesses. Google and Bing Ads.

Marketing Automation Services 59

Marketing Automation Services Aggregators Forecasting Paid Search Agency 59

Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 22, 2018

Creating content is not the difficult part of content marketing. Rather than chasing volume in the short term by whatever means available, the team committed to earning readership in a long-term relationship – a simple enough maxim but one that eludes many content marketers. “We Masterful marketers exploit tech to maximize investment.

Marketing Automation Services 107

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 107

Chris Koch

DECEMBER 2, 2011

If you had asked me a few years ago whether the traditional marketing campaign had any place in social media I would have scoffed. Just more evidence of marketing’s old-fashioned, ADHD-driven, love-’em-and-leave-’em approach. Fly-by-night opportunists hoping to win your Facebook sweepstakes. Facebook is the fun social network.

Social Media 100

Social Media Campaigns B2B Thought Leadership Media 100

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. Marketing can’t be automated.) Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Chris Koch

DECEMBER 2, 2011

If you had asked me a few years ago whether the traditional marketing campaign had any place in social media I would have scoffed. Just more evidence of marketing’s old-fashioned, ADHD-driven, love-’em-and-leave-’em approach. Fly-by-night opportunists hoping to win your Facebook sweepstakes. Facebook is the fun social network.

Social Media 100

Social Media Campaigns B2B Thought Leadership Media 100

SnapApp

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Creating content that gets your audience excited, inspired, and delighted is a huge challenge for today’s marketers. Two of the four rounds were sponsored by clients, who received exposure, brand awareness, and all lead submissions. A button directed the contact to continue to finish the lead gen process in Eloqua.

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Eloqua Lead Ranking Generation Lead Gen 48

Ledger Bennett

MARCH 12, 2020

As we all know, events are a significant investment from both a financial and resource point of view, and they’re critical to generating new leads through face to face interaction. You still need to pay wages, increase brand visibility, generate new leads and ultimately continue to grow your revenue – with or without Coronavirus.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Eloqua Lead Ranking Digital Marketing Funnels 52

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ).

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Social Media 120

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

Who are the top B2B Marketing influencers on twitter? To answer this question, I looked at a variety of factors including twitter followers, profiles that included “B2B marketing,” the focus of their tweets including the hashtag # B2BMarketing , as well as a variety of social scoring tools using the keyword. New York, NY.

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Twitter Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency B2B Marketing 100

KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 25, 2013

In a poll of 155 primarily C-level marketing experts, social media received the largest percentage of votes for demand generation channels that marketers will spend more on in 2013. Lowest Cost Per Lead Channels. Highest Quantity and Quality of Leads Channels. Spending Changes by Channel in 2013.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Advertising Benchmark Customer Surveys Demand 120

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 8, 2013

When I created my own B2B Marketing Blog almost 3 years ago, I looked out across the blogosphere and asked “what do I have to say that is unique, valuable and helpful?” ” And so I created the B2B Marketing Insider to help provide an insider’s point of view. The Best B2B Marketing Blogs. Follow Eric.

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Eloqua B2B 100

Convince & Convert

APRIL 29, 2012

Paradox: in an age of technology advances being gobbled like Pez, marketing and customer service are somehow getting more labor-intensive, not less. Social media and content marketing are not inexpensive, they’re just different expensive. Social Media Manager, Content Manager, Community Manager, Marketing Director, or similar.

Social Media 167

Social Media Paid Search Agency Resources Budget Programs 167

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 28, 2015

Recently I was interviewed by Marketing Over Coffee podcast host John J. What is Marketing Over Coffee ? According to their site, Marketing Over Coffee is “audio on demand” that covers both classic and new marketing. He’s written over a dozen best selling books and was a decade ahead of Inbound Marketing.

Paid Search Agency 100

Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Salesforce.com Eloqua 100

Leadspace

OCTOBER 4, 2016

If you’re a B2B marketer at Dreamforce, you’ll soon find your head filled with talk of account-based marketing, artificial intelligence, Einstein and more. I crowdsourced the question on Facebook (I’m keeping it anonymous for the sake of the people who actually work for Salesforce) and came up with….

Eloqua 48

Eloqua Account Based Marketing Marketo B2B Marketing 48

Convince & Convert

JULY 2, 2014

Image via BigStockPhoto.com Yesterday I wrote a case study post on ReadyTalk and how they worked with Influitive to work with all of their happy customers to market their brand. A Bold Marketing Claim To get a more in depth look at advocate marketing, I talked to Mark Organ, Founder of Influitive. Who are the Right People?

Brand Identity 160

Brand Identity Branding WOMM WOM 160

Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. In this post, we focus on why Marketing Converts recommends the “unique” model to the vast majority of clients. Also, the majority of marketing automation platforms take the approach that a person only exists once in the platform.

Lead Management 40

Lead Management De-duplication Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 40

TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

70% of marketers say marketing automation software is critical to their success. Marketing automation occurs when marketers pass the burden of monotonous tasks to software logic to complete. What is marketing automation and why is it used? What are the most important marketing automation features?

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

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.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

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

Webbiquity

JANUARY 27, 2011

It is made up of sales, service and—wait for it—marketing! So, where does Salesforce.com stand as a marketing automation solution? Marketing Automation Software Guide decided to answer this question. Up front, Salesforce.com will garner appeal because the marketing app is bundled with the Sales Cloud 2 product.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com Marketing Automation 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. This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research.

Marketing Mix 40

Marketing Mix Tactics Work Management Marketing Management 40

SmartBug Media

MARCH 18, 2019

In fact, if you aren’t executing a video marketing strategy by now, you’ve fallen behind. The strategy isn’t necessarily new, and with the rise of more video hosting platforms, it’s now easier and more cost-effective for a business to professionally execute a video marketing strategy. This tool is anything but basic.

Paid Content 77

Paid Content Video Marketing Marketing Automation Services Bandwidth 77

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. When I wrote about Aprimo Marketing Studio in a post last August , I was impressed by the scope of the product but reserved judgment because it hadn’t yet been launched. You know who you are.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

SnapApp

MARCH 4, 2015

At the DemandGen Content2Conversion conference in February, we got to celebrate alongside four SnapApp customers as they received Killer Content Awards – recognition that they’re doing something great in content marketing. The assessment generated 300 leads and has contributed more than $300,000 in influenced sales pipeline.

Eloqua 48

Eloqua Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 48