The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. In the last decade, three of the top four B2B solutions: Eloqua, Marketo, and Pardot, have all been acquired by larger companies. Lead to sale conversion rates?

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ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

Perfect for: Driving lead management. Marketo is a multi-functional cloud-based marketing automation software that enables businesses to drive revenue with lead management and mobile marketing. Provides lead generation. Oracle Eloqua. Perfect for: a turbocharged lead capturing engine.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Yesterday's post described the background of this usability scoring project and gave scores for several items that apply to both simple and complex marketing programs. This post will continue with the scores for items that apply to usability for simple campaigns. Build a campaign as a list of stages.

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Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

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 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. The leaders among demand generation systems are still Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo. For example, Alexa says that 89.4% How about it guys?

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 15, 2010

At this week’s Marketo Summit , I realized we’re right in the middle of B2B Marketing Event Season. MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit was last week, Pardot’s user conference was 2 weeks ago, and the Eloqua Experience is coming up next week. Marketo University. Global Marketo Roll-Out.

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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

MARCH 5, 2009

I spent a good part of yesterday talking with demand generation vendors about the usability scores I've been publishing all week. The main result of the conversations so far has been to clarify the items related to lead routing. The relative ranking of the different vendors hasn't been significantly affected. 9 Now what?

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Lead scoring has become very important in today’s B2B marketing. Lead scoring, a key component of lead nurturing and management, is an effective tool for aligning sales and marketing. In developing a lead scoring system, marketing has to make certain assumptions to classify prospects as hot or not.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

So far the original list of Eloqua , Vtrenz , Marketo , Manticore Technology and Market2Lead has proven a good set of choices. The table below shows the Alexa rankings and share statistics for the current Guide entries, the four marketing automation vendors already mentioned, and a dozen or so contenders. How to choose?

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz Demand Generation Agencies 120

TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2020

Hubspot’s marketing automation software has received 1479 reviews and ratings on TrustRadius (overall score of 8.4), which gives us key insights on what users really think about the tool. Oracle Eloqua. Oracle Eloqua is a marketing automation platform designed for enterprise B2B companies.

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Enterprise Management Hubspot Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 52

SendinBlue

AUGUST 24, 2020

The intuitive suite of capabilities creates an enjoyable customer experience, from lead qualification to nurturing and post-sale support. HubSpot’s marketing automation platform is geared towards helping you generate leads and convert more customers. Unlimited Marketing Automation with the Premium plan starts at $65 per month.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 28, 2015

Sure, sending emails and creating landing pages are all functions of marketing, but managing inbound leads and sharing prospect data with the CRM, is something that when done correctly- supports the entire organization. At ANNUITAS we help marketing and sales align in what we call a Lead Management Framework℠ session.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Mintigo’s conclusion across 186,500 B2B companies was that just three percent were using the most common marketing automation systems: Oracle Eloqua , Marketo, HubSpot, and Salesforce.com Pardot. million for Marketo.) Penetration reached eight percent among larger firms and varied substantially by industry.

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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. 1) Marketo. Marketing automation tool combining email marketing, lead management, and reporting with sales alignment. 7) Oracle Eloqua. 6) InTouch.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Conversica

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Before you start sending messages at scale, segment the leads in your database to organize them by categories such as lead source, content downloaded, industry, or size of company. Your leads will tell you what they want from you if you give them the chance. Always be testing. Parting thoughts.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

They’ll make their money when users see the value they gain and pay for higher volumes and add-on features. Although their approach is based on superior technology, it's still a way to attract customers by offering radically greater value than competitors. LoopFuse’s price-driven approach is one such strategy.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Common automation themes include outbound and inbound lead generation, campaign management, workflows, email sequences, reporting, and analytics. Tools like landing pages and segmentation can help you to build leads and drive interest to new visitors. Forms: Survey forms, validation, and scoring are viable based on answers.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

If you suspected that my last two blog posts were a way to avoid writing a post that ranks vendors on usability, you’re probably right. offering a white paper or promoting a Webinar) and the larger process of managing the flow of treatments. You must also consider how a system moves leads from one campaign to another.

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Vtrenz Market2Lead Work Management Marketing Automation Services 120

The Point

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It’s no secret that I am a fervent evangelist for marketing automation, and at our agency we see the real-life benefits every day in the form of clients generating higher conversion rates, more qualified leads, and shorter sales cycles. Sales management and executives, however, are focused on hitting monthly and quarterly targets. (BAS)

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 4, 2011

Marketo, Aprimo, Eloqua, Silverpop and all the rest are there to push this technology towards you. As they should… because without a sound lead nurturing process your firm suffers and those leads you worked so hard to generate will likely do business with competitors. Remember, not all leads are created equal.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 4, 2011

Marketo, Aprimo, Eloqua, Silverpop and all the rest are there to push this technology towards you. As they should… because without a sound lead nurturing process your firm suffers and those leads you worked so hard to generate will likely do business with competitors. Remember, not all leads are created equal.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Work Management Automation 100

LeadSloth

JUNE 23, 2009

Many digital marketers are using marketing automation tools to automate lead nurturing. But if you want to expand your business, you also need to continuously add new leads to your database. Traditional lead sources are tradeshows or lead programs with magazines. Project management : work together with a team of people.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

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. Marketo – Marketo.com – Marketing software.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.) The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% Here's a bunch. The data is a couple of years old but still valid. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Marketing Automation row, as it seemed to be named, was anchored by Eloqua & Marketo directly across from each other. In the time we spent with each vendor, we saw and heard firsthand how attendees are catching on and understanding the value that marketing automation solutions bring to the table.

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Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

Obviously any survey based on 36 net responses (and self-selected at that) has little statistical value, but I still think the broad results are extremely interesting. Tags: marketing automation software deployment low cost marketing software lead management demand generation implementation demand generation.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Telesales lead generation supports both field and inside sales. It’s likely that many—if not most—of these same expense activities and market challenges will apply to the SaaS marketing automation companies leading up to and after going public. Sales and marketing activity.

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MLT Creative

MAY 19, 2010

Eloqua Eloqua provides you with contact management, campaign management, lead management and marketing measurement, all in one platform. Eloqua can work with a company that's just getting started, or improve the sophistication of existing marketing efforts.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The sister report , also published April 24, looks at which tactics B2B marketers use and how well it all works for building brand and generating leads. 4 Comments » 4 Responses to “B2B Marketing Mix: Will Online, Social Tactics Lead?&# This is our second joint endeavor on this topic. What’s making a comeback?

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thePoint

MAY 25, 2018

With your inventory scores in hand (see Pre-requisite Work), we are ready to locate those gaps in knowledge, skills, or time and start considering what will be a priority in either hiring (as budget allows) or outsourcing in order to accomplish your now-progressing marketing mission. Where did you score the highest? Pre-requisite Work.

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SendinBlue

JUNE 29, 2022

How much time and money do you waste while managing critical marketing processes manually? More conversions, increased productivity, and more sales leads are among the key benefits of marketing automation. Sendinblue Marketo Eloqua ActiveCampaign HubSpot Pardot Keap. Effortless lead capture. More than you think.

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Lead Liaison

APRIL 8, 2019

In our six years in business, we’ve seen it happen over and over again, Oracle acquiring Eloqua , Upland Software acquiring LeadLander , Adobe acquires Marketo …the number of acquisitions goes on and on. We unveiled Lead Liaison’s ABM solution in late 2017 with resounding cheers from our client base.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2009

For better or worse, I've taken my usability scoring project as far as I can. Because usability includes both ease-of-use and the suitability for a given task, a single usability score would be misleading because it must either favor construction of simple campaigns or of complex campaigns. So it seemed best not to bother.

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Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 4, 2009

This post will complete the demand generation vendor usability scores by looking at items that contribute to usability for complex marketing programs. Explicitly direct leads from one campaign to another. Users can directly send leads from one stage in a campaign to a different campaign. Multiple scores per lead.

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