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

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Why Marketing Automation Customers are Migrating Downstream

The Point

Over at the Modern Marketing Blog , Steve Earl offers his theory as to why enterprise marketers choose to switch to a different marketing platform. Our agency conducted a survey back in 2015 that scored marketing automation users a “C” in overall maturity, and little has apparently changed since.).

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Survey: Marketing Automation Users Score a “C” in Maturity

The Point

It serves as a handy benchmark for companies that might be looking to gauge how their use of marketing automation measures up against their peers. The report is available as a free download from the Spear Website.

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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

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.) Marketing automation tool combining email marketing, lead management, and reporting with sales alignment.

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The Missing Link Between Media and Marketing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Once you decide to directly inject prospect data from your third party media sources, it becomes essential that the media-driven data you’ve paid for is validated, cleansed and formatted for your marketing systems (Eloqua, Marketo, Salesforce, Pardot, etc.).

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20 B2B Marketing Blogs You Need To Read

Marketing Insider Group

Marketo’s B2B Marketing and Sales Blog covers the latest trends and best practices in B2B marketing. Eloqua’s All About Revenue the @ Eloqua blog explores the role innovation plays in revenue generation. Content Marketing Institute (@ junta42 ) covers everything you need to know about content marketing.

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Rules of B2B Lead Scoring – Who’s Hot, Who’s Not

Industrial Marketing Today

Marketing’s role in interacting with prospects has expanded and goes further into the buy cycle than before. Lead scoring, a key component of lead nurturing and management, is an effective tool for aligning sales and marketing. Leads sent to sales 1,372 1,058. Opportunity win rate 31.3%