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Key Findings from the 2021 ANNUITAS Enterprise Marketing Automation Platform Analysis

ANNUITAS

Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. These 112 requirements were grouped around five categories: Lead Management. Does it have a capable, accessible, powerful – and two-way – API?

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Ending the Great Divide

ANNUITAS

At ANNUITAS we help marketing and sales align in what we call a Lead Management Framework℠ session. Over two days we work with our clients to define lead qualification stages, set scoring thresholds and define the age old question,“What is a lead?”. Technology is part of that. It’s time to end the great divide.

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11 of the Best Marketing Automation Platforms

SendinBlue

The intuitive suite of capabilities creates an enjoyable customer experience, from lead qualification to nurturing and post-sale support. Marketo is known as a lead management tool, but it covers pretty much every part of marketing. Price: Eloqua is geared towards enterprise-level companies and the prices reflect that.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

There is something of an irony at work here in that the MA offerings focus on generating inbound leads, and it’s a requirement that MA vendors need to supplant their own functionality with huge investments in outbound lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing if they want to achieve enterprise-level, complex sale success.

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We need an app for that

Chris Koch

And as I discussed in this post, the qualification process needs to be gradual and non-invasive, what Brian has since christened “micro-conversion.” Steve Woods of marketing automation vendor Eloqua has an excellent list of questions to ask about lead scoring here, but I wonder if they rely too much on making people fill out forms.

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Quality Matters – Analyzing the Effect of Quality on the Lead Handoff Process

ANNUITAS

We are glad to have Steve Woods, CTO of Eloqua as a guest contributor to The Annuitas Group blog. Steve is a thought leader in the world of marketing automation and lead management and is also a prolific writer on topics related to demand generation and the current transitions within the marketing profession.

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3 Tips for Success at the Virtual Trade Show You’re Attending

Lead Liaison

You also want to make sure that your Marketing Team is receiving leads in real-time so that follow-up can be done immediately while your brand is still top-of-mind for your potential client. . 3: Invest in your virtual booth. Many virtual trade shows that we have attended recently feel slightly…boring… at times.