PathFactory

MAY 3, 2022

by Dave Kellogg, advisor, director, consultant, angel investor, and blogger focused on Enterprise software startups. In the past few years, three big trends have shaped B2B companies: Revenue as a job title. The trending move to incorporate a revenue-focused position into companies has helped further align sales and marketing.

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Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing 59

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 1, 2012

I’ve gotten used to thinking of the B2B marketing automation industry as entering a consolidation phase, during which a handful of dominant vendors emerge and small vendors drop away. In fact, this trend extends back for the past two years, which is as far as my VEST data goes. For B2B marketing automation, we’re not there yet.

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TrustRadius Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Yet marketers often have a love-hate relationship with their marketing automation software. Knowing this, we took detailed information from over 6,000 reviews and 200 survey responses from marketing automation software users and put it all together in the 2019 Buyers Guide to Marketing Automation. .

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Other than Raab Associates’ own VEST report , we’ve seen surveys of active buyers from Software Advice , usage figures based on direct observation from Mintigo and Venture Beat (using Datanyze) , and another broad-based survey from Pepper Global and Holger Shulze. This is a pretty common question so the answers were not very surprising.

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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. We use two methods: Vendor revenues. Anyway, back to the estimates.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. The most notable is Eloqua, which as a public company has to report its results. Figures for other vendors are not publicly available but I've seen hints that several have slowed as well.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. Teradata announced today that is acquiring marketing automation vendor Aprimo for a very hefty $525 million – even more than the $480 million that IBM paid for somewhat larger Unica in August.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 5, 2020

According to Scott Brinker, the average marketer uses 100 different pieces of software in a given month — and they don’t even think about 90 of them. For example, prioritize someone who is a Marketo Certified Expert, Eloqua Master, or SFDC Certified Administrator. They just use them!

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

Integrating the B2B marketing automation solutions with all the technology vendors. Whether they are new at their automation game or have already some experience, they must select a vendor that connects them with a variety of resources. Eloqua helps customers get the most out of its products by teaching and instructing them constantly.

Enterprise Management 52

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 23, 2014

Earlier this week a colleague forwarded along Bizo’s latest infographic in partnership with Eloqua , highlighting the B2B buyer’s journey from discovery through sales completion. In 2012, Forrester indicated that buyers could be up to 90 percent through their buyer’s journey before even reaching out to a vendor.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

This has included a lot of forward-looking trends and thought leadership specific to Earned Media and Communications going through this data, technology, and measurement transformation specifically. So, happy new year, and here are some of my thoughts on what we’ll see as priorities for adoption and investment in 2017.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 10, 2011

This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. For Eloqua, at least, they say there’s no need to worry since HubSpot is serving a very different market.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

70% of marketers say marketing automation software is critical to their success. Marketing automation occurs when marketers pass the burden of monotonous tasks to software logic to complete. Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning: Likely the most forward and innovative trend in data if making the most of feedback and form fill outs.

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chiefmartech

APRIL 4, 2017

Many martec vendors promote that they have built-in integrations to one or more systems. via Marketo sync filter or Eloqua program) to meet their requirements. However, customers are limited to the capabilities offered by each vendor. Out-of-the-box integration: caveat emptor. REST versus SOAP API.

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chiefmartech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

As fate would have it, it was just a few hours before I was speaking at a MOCCA marketing operations event in New York on the topic of martech industry trends — to be followed by a Q&A with Sarah Kennedy Ellis , Marketo’s CMO, and Jill Rowley , Marketo’s growth maestro and legendary martech industry force of nature.

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Engagio

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Review the data provided by third party data vendors. Look out for applicable trends, such as “we see accounts in industry X churn at a much higher rate than other industries,” or “if a customer has under X number of employees, we really see them struggle with stickiness/adoption.”. Review the data provided by third party data vendors.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 22, 2018

They analyze what has worked, as well as content trending online, and suggest topics, key phrases, headlines, and formats to ensure that iQ maximizes its reach. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 10 Questions You Should Answer Before Evaluating Marketing Automation Vendors. @LukeKintigh Click To Tweet.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2012

It’s no wonder that B2B marketing automation vendors avoided the issue by piggybacking on the Salesforce.com structure: otherwise, the cost and complexity of building a separate database would have severely limited their growth. The system’s database stores snapshots of old data values so it can track changes and trends.

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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. First of all, it’s hard to buy –-marketers are for the first time having to buy enterprise-strength software with no guidance or historical training as marketing professionals. What can marketers do to change these trends?

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Engagio

JULY 31, 2017

Act quickly on news and trends that affect the opportunity. BrightTalk.com), reading software reviews on a site like G2Crowd and discussing key topics with peers on social media or following influencers in your space on social media. Expand and refine opportunities. Relate to individual buyers.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

I work for a B2B software company and we do regular email blasts. If I were to look at benchmark data from MailChimp we are doing way better than their published rate of 18% for companies in the software industry. Our open rates average 30%. Is this good? OK, if you insist, here are some links to benchmarks I found online.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

Sure, our email marketing software has some canned templates but they are very bland. Design #9 Email Sender: Eloqua Email Title: Using Social Channels What I Like: This is a really nicely designed email. Is always good to see what’s out there to give you some ideas. So I decided to create one and share with you. United States License.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The first major shift is the move from on-premise to cloud-based software and hardware, typically delivered in a Software-as-a-Service format (SaaS). In a world where most software and hardware is in the cloud, how will resellers earn money? Oracle buying Vitrue and Eloqua for $1.2B.

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DivvyHQ

AUGUST 7, 2018

– Example: I oversee the DivvyHQ website and blog, and with this digital property we are marketing our content marketing software platform. Bottom line here…Do some research and engage with platform vendors that look like an initial fit. Example optin form via Optinmonster. Step 3: Implement Your New Setup.

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Hubspot

MAY 13, 2013

Not too long ago, my colleague Katie Burke wrote a great article, " The Right Way to Think About Your Marketing Software RFP ," and it got me thinking about my own experiences as a buyer of marketing technology. But when evaluating marketing software, features are the last thing you want to be drooling over.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Business-to-business marketers are underutilizing social media and its potential, according to new data from Eloqua , a marketing automation company. Of 548 b-to-b marketers surveyed by Eloqua, about 40 percent say they are not yet using social media marketing. Software and Hardware. By TJ Raphael. 11/27/2012 -15:36 PM.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Oracle announced this morning that it is buying BlueKai , a leading Data Management Platform (DMP) technology vendor and operator of one of the largest data marketplaces. I’m also tempted to remind you that I predicted this convergence as an industry trend back in December. It will be interesting to see how they fill it.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This is something I’ve already thought and written about quite a bit, but the discussion did advance my understanding of whether any marketing automation vendor gains a business advantage if third party applications can connect to all of them. At a minimum, the vendors will connect with the most popular systems first.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2012

Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. Eric: The guys as Eloqua , I’ve read some of their content and they do a really good job about that. From Content to Customer by Eloqua & JESS3.

Sales Management 114

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2012

Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. Eric: The guys as Eloqua , I’ve read some of their content and they do a really good job about that. From Content to Customer by Eloqua & JESS3.

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chiefmartech

JUNE 10, 2016

From there I moved into enterprise software, working for Computer Associates and SmartTime, holding roles in professional services and marketing. There, I was introduced to Eloqua in 2003 as a means to generate leads for our resellers. I loved it so much that I went to work at Eloqua as their first VP of Professional Services.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Some have even suggested that marketing automation market is floundering , but it is such a new market and offering that is innevitable to have doubts, especially with these many vendors in the space. I agree, more companies are adding marketing automation and marketing software in general to their budgets. Greg, thanks!

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SnapApp

DECEMBER 14, 2016

As 2016 draws to a close, it's time to look forward and see what B2B marketing trends will shape the road into 2017. While account based marketing, interactive content , personalization, native advertising, and automation are just some of the hot trends that look set to continue into the new year, there are some new kids on the block.

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