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Key Findings from the 2021 ANNUITAS Enterprise Marketing Automation Platform Analysis

ANNUITAS

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. Complex, customizable scoring capabilities.

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

The Point

Spear Marketing Group has published an informative report detailing results of a survey designed to gauge the maturity of marketing automation deployments within the B2B community. Spear reported that on average, respondents answered only 56% of the questions “correctly” and thus scored a “C” grade.

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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

The Point

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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Why Marketing Automation Customers are Migrating Downstream

The Point

Now, Steve happens to work in product marketing for Oracle Marketing Cloud , home of Eloqua, typically regarded as the most feature-rich (some would say: complex) marketing automation solution on the market. Most marketing automation failures come about from a lack of strategy. Plenty. .

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Predictive Marketing Vendors Look Beyond Lead Scores

Customer Experience Matrix

I wrote last month about Everstring ’s expansion to the world of intent data and account based marketing. The past week brought three more announcements about predictive vendors expanding beyond lead scoring. It takes zero effort on the marketer’s part and the answer comes back in 24 hours.

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Did martech break B2B marketing?

Martech

. “We just signed up for this Eloqua thing. We were one of Eloqua’s first customers and that’s where my adventure with marketing automation began. We were doing it all back then, with very little playbook guidance: Lead magnets. Lead capture forms. Lead scoring. Lead ranking.

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Leveraging Social Data for Better Engagement

Oktopost

Want to hear more from renowned B2B marketing leaders? It has been famously said that no lead should ever be left behind. With less than 25% of leads being sales-ready when they first come in, the question remains: how can we, as marketers, actually know when it’s time for a sales executive to contact them? Meet Jennifer.

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