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. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A few years later, a couple of ex-e.pihanites, our very own Jon Miller along with Phil Fernandez, started Marketo to focus solely on B2B marketing and created what has now become the Marketing Automation space. You know the story here, Marketo, Eloqua and a few others came to quickly dominate the B2B marketing world.

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Martech

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nearly every marketing organization uses marketing automation platforms these days. Justin Sharaf, vice president of marketing operations at data intelligence company Collibra, shares four easy ways to do that. “The Instead you get, “I am a director and my role is in marketing.”. Get MarTech! In your inbox.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

The chart shows Neolane and Aprimo (owned by Teradata) as the clear leaders, with Eloqua also very strong. Marketo and Oracle (specifically, Oracle CRM On Demand Marketing ) are considerably further back in the leader quadrant. It’s important to recognize that Neolane and Aprimo are fundamentally different from the others.

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SendinBlue

AUGUST 24, 2020

Marketing automation platforms offer tools that help grow your business and improve customer experience. This list details some of the best marketing automation software around to help you decide which one is right for you. Let’s talk about marketing for a minute. Sendinblue.

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ATAK Interactive

JULY 10, 2023

In today's digital age, businesses are constantly seeking ways to streamline their marketing and sales efforts. Marketing automation platforms have become invaluable tools for businesses, enabling them to automate processes, nurture leads, and improve customer engagement.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 12, 2018

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. However marketers are largely dissatisfied with the reporting their MAPs offer. To read the full report click here.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2015

Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. Even B2C marketing automation is showing some interesting new life.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“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. New sub-niches cropped up in the marketing discipline, around the ecosystems of marketing automation tools like Eloqua, Marketo and eventually HubSpot.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 29, 2011

You probably saw ExactTarget ’s June 13 announcement of its strategic partnership with Marketo and Eloqua ’s June 21 announcement of its new AppCloud marketplace for connectors with other systems. Both announcements shared a theme of integration between core marketing platforms and other marketing systems.

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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. Marketing can’t be automated.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers. 1) Marketo.

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Digital B2B Marketing

MAY 21, 2013

Marketing automation is quickly becoming like the self-driving car for B2B marketing. Led by Eloqua (now part of Oracle) and Marketo (with a very successful IPO last week), today marketing automation companies are collectively worth billions. When Marketing Automation Is Unnecessary.

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The Point

APRIL 8, 2015

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. In some notable areas, the average marketing automation user appears to be achieving real business value.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 2, 2013

Marketo made good today on its promise to file for an initial public offering (IPO). The S-1 registration statement gives considerable new information about Marketo’s business. Another way to look at it is this: Marketo would earn just 6% profit even if its sales and marketing costs were zero. It’s a major accomplishment.

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to the B2B Marketing Automation Solutions. Marketing automation solutions have become a must-have for modern B2B marketers particularly as the marketers are headed to explore new avenues alongside the dawn to the next normal. Learn More: Marketing Automation: A Good or A Bad Idea.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 13, 2020

You’re on the hunt for a marketing automation tool? Marketing automation tools, such as Marketo , Eloqua , HubSpot , Pardot , and Act-O n, are all powerful support systems, but ultimately, choosing an automation tool comes down to what are the must-have elements for your business goals?

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

I’ve been creeping in that direction with the previous two posts about revenues, growth rates, and market share. For companies like Eloqua and its competitors, there are really two big financial questions: how fast can they grow, and how can they become profitable? Now let’s plunge in with some more substantial analysis.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. Although the VEST is primarily intended to help people who are buying a marketing automation system, its database also provides a statistical portrait of the industry.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 30, 2015

When I think about starting my career in marketing automation, I think of the complete confusion of how everything should be setup. This wasn’t just for our marketing team — it included our CRM admins, the sales team, communications and so many other parties. Start simply with the basics. Resources Are Key-.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 8, 2009

The Pedowitz Group announced this morning that it was offering $15,000 in free consulting services and guaranteeing a five-day implementation to new clients who purchase Eloqua demand generation software. The firm also works with Marketo , Silverpop Engage B2B and MarketingGenius depending on client needs. )

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2013

Raab Associates officially released the new edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday. This is our flagship report on the industry, with nearly 200 data points on 23 vendors and separate ratings for micro-business, small to mid-size companies, and enterprise marketing departments.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. I estimate the non-B2B specialists and other marketing automation vendors (IBM, SAS, SAP, etc.)

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Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 18, 2018

Bio: Moni is a Marketing Operations specialist with 10 years of Marketing Technology experience. She has worked with all the major marketing automation companies – Marketo, Eloqua, HubSpot, and ExactTarget. I’m very passionate about marketing operations. Location: Bethesda, MD, USA.

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Martech

MARCH 3, 2022

It is the first email creation platform to integrate with Salesforce’s B2B marketing automation offering. Stensul already has integrations with Adobe Marketo, Oracle Eloqua and Responsys, Iterable, Braze, Movable Ink and others. Read next: What are marketing automation platforms and what do they do?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 11, 2011

You know that red-hot B2B marketing automation industry? Our just-released update to the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Toolkit (VEST) shows that client counts grew just over 50% over the year ending in June, compared with nearly 100% growth for the year ending last December. Not necessarily.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. All six of the vendors new to this report sell primarily to small businesses, and most are “all-in-one” systems that combine marketing automation with integrated CRM. VEST Report. Here’s what struck me. social data.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Marketo this morning announced a new $50 million funding round, almost exactly one year to the day after raising $25 million in November 2010. I won’t go into the same details, but the key figures for 2010 and 2011 are: This is good news, in that Marketo has managed to increase the all-important Revenue per Client figure.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 4, 2020

Produce webinars, webcasts, or virtual events for sales, marketing, training, or internal company meetings. Pricing: $145/$495 per month; enterprise pricing by quote. ClickMeeting.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. The most notable is Eloqua, which as a public company has to report its results. We’ve recently been seeing surveys that suggest something close to 50% adoption of marketing automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. This requires finding ways to attract masses of new customers as they enter the market.

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Martech

JUNE 28, 2022

The company attributed the increase to existing customers adding capabilities to their marketing automation instances and the growth of enterprise-level customers. . Our MarTech Replacement Survey found that marketing automation was one of the most frequently changed applications in the martech stack. Why we care.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I’ve just finished the latest update of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), available on the raabguide.com Web site. The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. Anyway, back to the estimates. How scientific can you get?

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chiefmartech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The deal was announced yesterday afternoon: Adobe is acquiring Marketo for $4.75 As TechCrunch noted in their coverage of the news, “[This acquisition] was a pretty nice return for Vista Equity partners, which purchased Marketo in May 2016 for $1.8 It’s just that your Marketo choice will now have an Adobe logo.

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