Valasys

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

From email marketing campaigns and lead nurturing to analytics and social media management, automation platforms offer excellent features – enabling marketers to streamline workflow, segment the audience, and drive engagement across multiple channels.

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

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2020

Hubspot has many draws: its forever free CRM, its integrated sales, marketing and service hubs, and its wide network of support. Hubspot offers software solutions for sales teams, marketers and service reps. While Hubspot offers sales and service software, it is most widely reviewed for its marketing automation solution.

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LeadSloth

JUNE 7, 2010

This week there are a couple of interesting Lead Management events, so I thought I’d share them with you in a short blog post: Hubspot Show & Tell , new features including lead management, June 8th (tomorrow). MarketingSherpa Lead Management webinar , June 10th (sponsored by Eloqua).

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2012

B2B lead generation and lead management is a complicated process that can’t be detailed all in one book. It’s easier said than done which is why firms like mine exist, to implement proper lead generation tactics that build revenue. Books are listed by funnel category. Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Three days at Eloqua Experience 2013 demonstrated the importance of asking questions, the need for content marketing, and Eloqua’s expanding app cloud. Eloqua Experience 2013 in San Fran was a blast! Eloqua’s ownership may have changed with its acquisition by Oracle , but this much is clear: their culture of passion remains.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

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. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Ideally, your team would define this process once, perform maintenance checkups, track the provided analytics, and take action on those insights. Common automation themes include outbound and inbound lead generation, campaign management, workflows, email sequences, reporting, and analytics. Lead Management Features.

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

This year’s B2B Lead Roundtable webinars are testament to that. In February , Paul Teshima, SVP of Product Management at Eloqua, set the tone for the webinar year. He defined the tenets of the new world of marketing in Revenue Performance Management.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

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.

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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. These firms are also much more likely to be “best in class,” and most see sales pipeline opportunities increase by 10-15%. 2) HubSpot.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 30, 2012

Not of basic marketing concepts like the 4 P’s , advertising , or branding but their utmost ignorance of modern marketing tactics and tools like webinars, marketing automation, and even CRM software. Social Media : just because you use Twitter and Facebook in school, it doesn’t mean you really know how to use it for marketing.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

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. Most sales people still don’t.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The past two days I attended the Pardot User Conference , and also presented a session on Lead Nurturing. The sessions were about lead management, lead nurturing, content marketing, social media and Pardot product sessions. And that’s impressive. Learnings From The Conference.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 30, 2012

My guest today is Craig Rosenberg, Vice President, Sales and Marketing and Co-Founder at Focus. He is also author of a popular sales and marketing blog, Funnelholic , where he shares B2B content with an edge. Craig specializes in lead generation, lead qualification, and B2B marketing and sales.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 8, 2013

So I reached out to my connections across the social landscape and asked who they thought published the best B2B Marketing blogs around. I am certain that I missed some great B2B Marketing blogs below, but these are the ones who were recommended by a majority of my readers and social media followers and those that have influenced me as well.

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Bluetext

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We’ve already talked about why a Go-to-Market Strategy is necessary after a rebrand, but what are some channel tactics that help make a GTM campaign successful? List buying typically leads to unqualified leads which can end up hurting domain reputation which ultimately hurts your deliverability score. Lead Gen Tactics.

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markempa

MARCH 8, 2006

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Register for this webcast registration is closed.

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markempa

APRIL 18, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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thePoint

MAY 25, 2018

Note: management might push you towards certain people – however, my experience is that you find those with the best insight in unusual places (e.g., a customer service rep, salesperson, or a savvy engineer that goes to a lot of conferences), so cast a wide net. You must have a least one strong advocate in sales leadership.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals. This one caught me by surprise.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 10, 2011

  Most of what we’ve witnessed in the past few years has been related to the impact of social media and networking technologies.    Here is a key issue facing organizations today: each time a new social technology is introduced, it ultimately alters the buying behaviors of the new social buyer persona. 

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

These emails should be sent using a marketing automation system like Eloqua. The goal is to demonstrate that key email metrics such as opens, click-throughs and conversions are much higher while unsubscribes are much lower using an automated program such as lead nurturing when compared to manual email sends (“one offs”).

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Email Marketing Advertising Benchmark SMS Autoresponders 100

Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. Mapping Content to the Buying Process - Slidecast. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center.

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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.) Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 11, 2017

The challenge is magnified in the social media realm. While your average tweeters usually take inventory of the basics, such as share counts and likes, very few are equipped to unravel deeper and more meaningful data that can be attributed to leads and sales. This tactic is called social media attribution.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

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.

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Hinge Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2014

First, design a variety of calls-to-action targeting leads at different stages of the sales cycle. Early-stage leads, for example, may be interested in an offer for your new pieces of premium content. Marketing automation is software that simplifies many marketing and sales efforts by automating repetitive tasks.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

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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The Point

AUGUST 23, 2011

Do you feign understanding when your CEO talks about “sales and marketing alignment”? Unclear on the difference between lead management and revenue cycle management? and more, including the role marketing automation can play in lead management, customer marketing, channel marketing, social media, and more.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 12, 2022

With social engagement data at the core of the episode, Jen reveals why incorporating engagement data from social media into your marketing automation is the most unspoken (and effective) approach to segmenting your lead database and using these segments to create dynamic content. Additional Resources. Meet Jennifer.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With nearly half the world’s population now active on social media, social selling is more relevant than ever. Sales leaders who'd rather be ahead of the curve than chasing it would be smart to start systematizing the practice in their sales forces. What Is Social Selling? The Power of Social Selling.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Peer-to-peer Linkedin Profiling 89

Televerde

AUGUST 1, 2019

Is it sales or marketing? The best explanation that I’ve heard likens demand generation to a marketing umbrella , where tactics converge to reach the right people, at the right time, with the right message. . If lead generation is the Walmart of marketing, demand generation is Whole Foods. Branding or direct response?

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

Integration of Social Media, Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation. Sales & marketing alignment. Manager, Inbound Marketing, Marketo. Steve Woods , CTO, Eloqua. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep. The Contributors.

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TrustRadius Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As your social media, SMS messages, and chat boxes become more prominent in your marketing strategy, you need the right tools to handle all the available communication channels. . Marketing automation software offers automated marketing capabilities across all your marketing channels — social media, SMS, websites, AND email.

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Inbox Insight

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What do you want content to do, in the context of wider marketing and sales efforts? For example, this could be to: Drive more sales. For example: Educate the audience in order to reduce the cost of sales. B2B sales processes tend to be long and nonlinear with multiple touch points. Reduce the cost of acquisition.

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LeanData

DECEMBER 28, 2015

That steady progression is why you likely know that ABM brings together sales and marketing efforts to focus on high-value target accounts with the greatest chance of becoming closed deals. Account-Based Selling: The strategy of taking an account-centric approach to closing deals rather than focusing on just individual leads.

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