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Email Critique: Oracle/Eloqua Webcast Invite Needs Help

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The impact that Oracle’s acquisition of Eloqua will have on that company’s ability to compete effectively in the marketing automation space is fodder for debate. What is more clear, based on the Webcast invitation I received this week (below), is that it hasn’t done much for Eloqua’s own email marketing. Let me count the ways: 1.

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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

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Precious few B2B marketers can show true ROI from organic social activity, and even less are using organic social media in a systematic way to either generate social leads or drive those leads through the demand generation funnel. Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel via @spearmktg. Click To Tweet. (HS)

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Why Marketing Automation Customers are Migrating Downstream

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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. He says (in summary): “It’s because their needs outgrow system capabilities.”.

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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

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The conclusion: most B2B companies were failing to follow even the most basic lead management best practices, even in areas that one would assume were a primary business case for purchasing marketing automation in the first place. They deployed the software very rapidly using only out-of-the-box templates, lead scoring, and overall structure.

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

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More than two-thirds (68%) employ both behavioral and demographic lead scoring ( tweet this ). • 40% employ no type of immediate autoresponder (follow-up email) to new leads ( tweet this ). 85% of those surveyed said they currently segment email campaigns based on persona ( tweet this ). •

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Top 10 Posts on B2B Lead Gen for 2010

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Eloqua’s “Juan Eloqua” Campaign: Email Creative at Its Best. Blog Makeover Nets Sales Leads for Software Company. In fact, I’ve written much more in the last 12 months about social media and lead nurturing, yet many of those posts didn’t make the cut. The First (Almost) Clickable Direct Mail.

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What’s the Big Deal About Predictive Analytics? A Conversation with Brian Kardon

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He previously held top marketing roles at Eloqua, Forrester Research, and Reed Business Information before taking the reins as CMO at Lattice Engines , a pioneer in predictive applications for marketing and sales. For the most part, companies rely on instinct and, perhaps, lead scoring via marketing automation.