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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

The Point

Vendors focused on new licenses vs. customer retention. In the last decade, three of the top four B2B solutions: Eloqua, Marketo, and Pardot, have all been acquired by larger companies. In that sense, vendors are paying a real price for their customers’ lack of maturity. Reduced sales cycle? Pipeline acceleration?

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The Buyer is Always the Main Character in the B2B Sales Story

PathFactory

Companies can shorten sales cycles by having prospects onboard and educate themselves. This method can work extremely well when sales and marketing are aligned on the targeted accounts. A key outcome of these trends is that sales and marketing have become much more aligned and in sync. Our reason?

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PathFactory’s Content Intelligence Connects Marketing Generated Buying Signals to Sales to Accelerate Deal Cycles

PathFactory

These customized experiences can be shared directly from Salesforce, Eloqua and Marketo as well as through sales engagement platforms such as Outreach or Salesloft, cementing PathFactory as a key middleware solution in the revenue technology stack. “Our Visit PathFactory.com to learn more.

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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? Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. They apply technology to a difficult process.

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Sales and Marketing: The technology behind CRM

markempa

Paul Greenberg, Managing Principle, The 56 Group, LLC, and author of CRM at the Speed of Light , said although there are some technology suites that attempt to provide these solutions through the entire sales cycle, it is much more common for companies to integrate CRM technology from more than one vendor.

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The B2B Sales Role in the New Buying Process

ANNUITAS

The phrase “buyers are turning to sales much later in the buying process” was repeated continually as a way to describe this shift of power. However this does not mean that sales is rendered ineffective in the early stages of the sales cycle as some would have you believe. So what does this do to sales?

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5 leading providers of enterprise marketing automation solutions

ClickZ

Other important features include (but aren’t limited to) ease of use/usability, security including role-based access to the platform, and vendor support. Robust analytics and reporting features that collect, analyze, and monitor campaign data and make it accessible (and actionable) to multiple teams. Industry case study. 4 Salesforce Pardot.