Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 8, 2019

I have worked in B2B marketing, sales and alliance management for 25 years. My very first professional job was an inside sales rep for a PC-based software company that sold developer tools in the early 90’s. I clearly remember how as a sales rep, I controlled the information my prospects and customers received.

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Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. Please view this as a general list; some of these points will be more or less pronounced depending on the marketing automation platform you’re using (Marketo, Eloqua, HubSpot, Act-on, Autopilot, etc.)

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Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. Please view this as a general list; some of these points will be more or less pronounced depending on the marketing automation platform you’re using (Marketo, Eloqua, HubSpot, Act-on, Autopilot, etc.)

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

Who are the top B2B Marketing influencers on twitter? To answer this question, I looked at a variety of factors including twitter followers, profiles that included “B2B marketing,” the focus of their tweets including the hashtag # B2BMarketing , as well as a variety of social scoring tools using the keyword. ET Thursdays.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Well, welcome, everyone, to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Ledger Bennett

JUNE 25, 2018

So now you’re educated on the subject, let’s look at some B2B companies that are smashing the social selling process. Having an excellent understanding of their target audience (millennial decision makers who want to choose a supplier quickly and by doing minimal research), SAP acted quickly using LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 17, 2017

B2B Marketing and Sales leaders are constantly looking for the next innovative method to give them a competitive edge – particularly in driving revenue for their business. Having created numerous products that leverage massive volumes of data in the marketing and sales space, I continue to hear many questions on this subject.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

I say I’m a sales professional trapped in a marketer’s body. The reason is, of the 13 years that I was in software sales, I sold into marketing for 10 of those years. The mandate for most sales organizations is, make more calls, send more emails. These are tactics that are absurd. Jill: Sure, Brian.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We loving sharing Sales Pipeline Radio with you (live every Thursday at 11:30 pst). We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities heading into and throughout the year. Most recently she spent 9 years at Eloqua in customer success and global market readiness roles.

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Capstone Insights

JANUARY 17, 2018

Preference center: Ensure the company has an active preference management center. Baseline performance report: Before determining the marketing automation platform’s overall ROI and project impact, ensure a baseline of the “as is” state of marketing and sales is recorded. Finally, develop a scoring model. product pages).

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Engagio

JULY 31, 2017

At this point, many of us in B2B space have realized that focusing on leads as individuals and qualifying them one-by-one to hand off to the sales team no longer works. The B2B lead handoff process is broken. Research shows that upwards of 80 percent of leads generated by marketing are neglected or never acted upon by a sales rep.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 22, 2018

Social media management encompasses a host of tools, from Opal , an editorial planning tool, to Spredfast , a publishing tool to manage its social channels (primarily LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook). HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Bingeable Content: How to Move Buyers Through Your Sales Cycle Faster.

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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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SWZD

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

PTC (formerly known as Parametric Technology Corporation) was dominant in computer-aided design (CAD) modeling software in the late 1980s, 90s and 2000s, and product lifecycle management (PLM) software in the late 1990s and 2000s. Michelle mentioned that another area that PTC develops solutions for is Service Lifecycle Management (SLM).

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Vidyard

MAY 10, 2016

We recently caught up with someone who is no stranger to robust digital marketing technologies: Michael Ballard, the Senior Manager of Digital Marketing at Lenovo. Marketing’s role used to be about bringing in the most leads, dumping them over to sales, and repeating the process. An “All Day, Every Day” Battle.

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Hubspot

MARCH 6, 2014

Now, there’s no coincidence that much of this newly found enthusiasm for inbound-like thinking falls on the heels of Oracle’s acquisition of Eloqua. ” Earlier this month, however, Ad Age reported that Oracle was starting to adopt social selling by integrating social media into its sales process.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 10, 2011

He has served as chief marketing executive at TOA Technologies and Eloqua, as well as at Nuance Communications. You can read his blog at [link] or follow him on Twitter at @sgersh. Many of us in the demand generation business talk about the necessity to focus on people, process and technology.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 2, 2014

Before starting Influitive, a platform designed specifically to serve as a hub for companies to house their advocate marketing programs in, he started Eloqua, which was acquired by Oracle two years ago. Talk to your customer facing employees such as support and sales and ask them to recommend people who would be a good fit.

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Cintell

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

In fact, the #1 priority of B2B marketers in 2016 will be “understanding buyers,” according to a recent survey from the IT Sales and Marketing Association. Prior to ANNUITAS Erika was the strategic and partner accounts and event manager at Eloqua. Customer-centricity is a competitive advantage! They’re also personal.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Writing that “The most productive PR path…is a blended approach to social and traditional media,&# Len Stein offers a quick but valuable process for obtaining and promoting old and new media coverage using multiple tools like social bookmarking sites, internal company distribution, your own website, marketing emails and more.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JUNE 14, 2012

Your content supports the sales process and effectively communicates the value of your solutions to prospects. Identifying where to focus your Stage Zero content efforts can be an unnatural process for marketers accustomed to focusing on the buying process. Share your thoughts below or with me on Twitter ( @wittlake ).

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Albacross

JANUARY 17, 2020

When it comes to sales, using the right tool can have a huge impact on your bottom line. There’s an extensive range of sales software out there and figuring out which one you should invest in can be a challenging task. Albacross asked experts to share their Top 3 Sales Tools for the coming year. No need to worry, though.

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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The number one marketing trend for 2011, according to the 17,000 member B2B technology marketing group on LinkedIn, is the increasing integration of social media with traditional marketing tactics to drive qualified leads. Until the marketing automation system indicates that your lead is qualified and ready for direct sales engagement.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 24, 2010

I have been evolving the buyer persona development process as well as have been writing about buyer personas for the last eight years now.     Most notably, the B2B buying process has undergone a significant transformation within the past three years.  Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr.

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Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

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. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. Marketing and Sales Alignment – Marketo eBook (New!). Ardath Albee's blog Marketing Interactions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. More important to people who need it, the company offers partner management and channel sales management products that integrate with its demand generation offering.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. Project management is especially powerful. Good stuff.

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markempa

AUGUST 4, 2014

In a recent interview, Brian sat down with Steve Girshik of LeadSpace.com to talk a little shop about the fundamentals of lead generation, what’s new (and unchanged) in the world of the complex sale, and how empathy marketing is the way forward. Steve: So 10 years ago, you published Lead Generation for the Complex Sale.

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Database marketing is a methodical approach to the gathering and processing of consumer data that is stored and maintained in a company’s database. In many B2B companies, this information can be pulled from marketing automation platforms and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms. What is Database Marketing? Then you’re done!

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DealSignal

APRIL 5, 2018

It can corrupt your process, and it can corrupt your trust between sales marketing. And so if you look at Yelp reviews or you look at just Twitter storms. Bad data can upset salespeople and if they get a ream of bad data they could lose trust in the marketing organization. So, bad data can corrupt your systems.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time. I worry that this tool only ends up helping sales pick out cold calls to make, and is not used by marketers enough to segment, collect, and improve their prospecting databases. I’m sure I forgot a few.

Enterprise Management 40

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The common thread amongst these complaints is lack of 1) sales satisfaction and 2) lead quality. So what is it about some content syndication programs that create leads that sales reps don’t want? To the first issue: expectations, it’s important to recognize that content syndication leads are not like most sales leads.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 10, 2020

Account-based marketing ( ABM ) requires you to use a multi-channel approach and a wide array of marketing tactics, which means you'll also need multiple technologies to make it a success. Flip the Funnel. Generally, the stages of the funnel look like this: Identify target accounts. Sales Enablement. 61 ABM Technologies.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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. Our goal was to have a one-stop shop for someone looking to get started with social sales -- whether as an initiative for your sales team or for yourself. What Is Social Selling?

Ideal Customer Profiles 89

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Webbiquity

JUNE 14, 2011

Steve Woods , Eloqua. Among Steve’s observations and insights from the summit: • The buying process is now 1) online, 2) all about the buyer, and 3) complex (multiple stakeholders). • The sales “discovery&# call, where a sales rep spent an hour learning about a prospect’s issues and pains, is extinct.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 25, 2019

It’s another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio , ( live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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