The Effective Marketer

article thumbnail

What’s Wrong with Marketing Education?

The Effective Marketer

Marketing Automation : the typical step-up from email marketing, marketing automation software (such as Marketo , Eloqua , Act-On , Pardot , and others ) allows you to automate the sending of your emails and, more importantly, of nurturing your leads. Content Marketing : content marketing is not new , but it is all the hype now.

Education 100
article thumbnail

How Everybody Wins with HubSpot's Funding « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

For Eloqua, at least, they say there’s no need to worry since HubSpot is serving a very different market. After all, now that they have the deep pockets to invest in improving their product , maybe their solution will start looking more like what marketing automation vendors have been selling for some time now. United States License.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

A good starting point is the major email service providers (ExactTarget, Silverpop, Lyris, Eloqua, ConstantContact, Emma, etc.). Analyze the results you get by segment (geography, products purchased, industry targeted, job titles, etc.) OK, if you insist, here are some links to benchmarks I found online. United States License.

article thumbnail

Email Design Review Gallery « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

Design #9 Email Sender: Eloqua Email Title: Using Social Channels What I Like: This is a really nicely designed email. The only “download&# link seems to be the red button to the right, I would have added a couple more ‘download’ options either within the text or right after it. United States License.

article thumbnail

A Brief History of Marketing

The Effective Marketer

Sure, I get it that they want to focus on the ‘old’ broadcast systems to contrast with the ‘new’ marketing tools (email, social media, marketing automation), but by leaving them out makes the “Evolution of Marketing Automation” topic a bit of a mismatch with the content.

article thumbnail

A Brief History of Marketing

The Effective Marketer

Sure, I get it that they want to focus on the ‘old’ broadcast systems to contrast with the ‘new’ marketing tools (email, social media, marketing automation), but by leaving them out makes the “Evolution of Marketing Automation” topic a bit of a mismatch with the content.

article thumbnail

Marketing Automation Catching On Fire

The Effective Marketer

Note: I used publicly available data and wasn’t able to find Eloqua’s Series A, so I deducted based on valuation of their second round. Also interesting to note that if you break down the fundraising of each of the above vendors into a timeline (like I did below), most of the investment has been made in the past couple years.