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The 22 Best Virtual Event Platforms

Webbiquity

Functionality includes attendee registration pages and management, email reminders and follow up, sponsor spaces, trivia and puzzle games, social media integration, presentation tracks, surveys, branding, real-time analytics, and integration with Eloqua, Marketo, Salesforce, Pardot, and HubSpot. Pricing: starts at $25,000. vConferenceOnline.

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

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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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

Webbiquity

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. But they’re just that: tools. and intent (do readers perceive that you are sincerely trying to help them, or merely doing a “hard sell&# ?).

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

Customer Experience Matrix

. - Facebook forms: use forms within Facebook pages and apps to gather customer permissions - social sign-in: use social media sign-in services to replace marketing automation forms - personalized Facebook ads : display different ad versions on a Facebook page based on the user’s profile, including both Facebook and non-Facebook data Marketo - sharing: (..)

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables. Users can build HTML emails, Web pages and multi-page microsites. Good stuff.

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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

Customer Experience Matrix

These vendors have geared their sales process to selling to large firms, with the in-person demonstrations, technical reviews, formal proposals and contract negotiations that implies. They also tend to have a broader range of supplemental capabilities, such as support for telephone call centers.

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Eloqua’s “Juan Eloqua” Campaign: Email Creative at Its Best

The Point

The email below from marketing automation vendor Eloqua is part of one of those rare B2B campaigns that combines email marketing best practices with an impeccably executed creative concept. The response microsite continues the theme seamlessly, adding a textured background (one that would be awkward in the email) and a video of Juan himself.

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