Martech

JULY 15, 2021

Big martech vendors — even successful ones — routinely jettison or replace longstanding tools. Yet, when it comes to perceived viability and stability, enterprise customers often fear smaller martech players. Software vendors are no different, and who wants to get stuck with an unsupported product? Yet, IBM was not alone.

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Martech

MARCH 9, 2022

The global pandemic has confirmed what many marketers already knew: the telephone is an integral part of the consumer purchase journey. Given all of that promise, marketers are certainly evaluating these technologies and one crucial part of that process is the demo. Are they showing us our “must-have” features? Phone numbers.

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Martech

JULY 22, 2021

When talking about martech, we most often think about tools that allow us to perform a specific task related to marketing — analyze traffic on our websites, aggregate and understand customer data, deliver personalized messaging, etc. But most marketing initiatives require we employ multiple tools to achieve our objectives.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 27, 2021

It’s easy (and correct) to see these deals as efforts to assemble comprehensive marketing suites. These deals all involve CDPs with marketing automation functions (that is, segmentation, message selection, campaigns, personalization, and cross-channel orchestration). Still a suite, but a different kind.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

You’ve probably heard by now how intelligent lead routing — an automated system of processing leads — can help sales teams improve their speed to lead and ensure nothing falls through the cracks. As you evaluate solutions, ask yourself these framing questions: What Results are You Expecting? Take Spectrum as an example.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2022

It’s surprisingly easy to go through the whole selection process and buy the wrong software (many reviewers have said as much). Companies often forget about team input, review sentiment, and research the vendor’s reputation. One of the most common errors buyers make is not reading the terms of service (TOS) before buying.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 13, 2014

Last year’s biggest marketing automation acquisitions were products for consumer marketing: ExactTarget by Salesforce.com , Neolane by Adobe , and Responsys by Oracle. Consumer marketers have had their own, highly sophisticated marketing automation systems for years.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 4, 2020

But social media, paid advertising, and influencer marketing can also play important roles. Actually, there are a growing number of compelling alternatives that offer unique features and potentially a differentiating experience for your attendees. Pricing: $79/$159/$299 per month; enterprise pricing by quote. Total reviews: 679.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Last week's post took a horse race approach to data from our newly available B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST): who’s ahead, who’s behind, and who is coming on strong. But that’s more important to industry insiders than the marketers who actually use these systems. Let’s start with the basics.

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TrustRadius Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Having a website today means managing programs, data, and databases: you can’t even think of them all at once. You need to manage the site itself to ensure customers make it to the checkout screen, but you also need to drive traffic with marketing and then follow up to keep customers coming back.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 22, 2016

Last week’s posts introduced our new Raab Guide to ABM Vendors ( buy it here ) and introduced a framework four process ABM steps, six system functions, and six key sub-functions. But the sub-functions are still important for stack design and vendor selection. Let’s start with the first sub-function, External Data.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

When I first got started in software, it was at a company called e.piphany which specialized in what was then called Campaign Management. Campaign Management software automated the process of sending out campaigns — primarily direct mail at that time and then email.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 16, 2018

When the CDP concept was first defined, it referred to systems that built a customer database to support a specific marketing application such as predictive modeling or campaign management. But the nature of software products is to expand their functions. In itself, this progression isn’t news.

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to the B2B Marketing Automation Solutions. Marketing automation solutions have become a must-have for modern B2B marketers particularly as the marketers are headed to explore new avenues alongside the dawn to the next normal. Getting Started With Marketing Automation.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This is Part 3 of a four-part series on how AI will be infused into marketing automation platforms. CRM and marketing automation platform (MAP) vendors are embedding genAI capabilities into their existing applications, and so are Microsoft and Google in their general-purpose productivity suites, Office and Workspace.

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Martech

JULY 19, 2022

Digital experience platform Sitecore has announced the availability of Experience Management Cloud (XM Cloud) representing the transition of its core CMS solution, as well as associated capabilities like personalization, to a modern cloud architecture. XP is typically purchased by customers as a managed cloud solution.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2022

B2B marketers are expected to wear many hats. They must manage multiple campaigns simultaneously, while working effectively with partners across the globe. They need to manage their marketing budgets prudently and make sure every dollar is spent wisely. With B2B marketing, it’s all about value.

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Martech

APRIL 17, 2024

Back in 2017, I wrote an article for MarTech, “ Message to email marketers: Show me something different in 2018.” Call on vendor and tech partners to help us succeed. In the opening years of this third decade of the 21st Century, email became the saving grace for many enterprise and mid-level companies.

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Oktopost

APRIL 22, 2019

It’s hard to deny that it is the biggest marketing concern in 2019. Especially, for B2B and Considered Purchase marketing. digital companies now have a veritable plethora of viable and effective marketing channels available for lead generation. So, what’s a marketer to do?! Especially, for lead generation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

My last post looked at data from our just-released B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) to understand general industry trends and identify the greatest areas of improvement. Given the lack of demand, it’s not too surprising that many vendors don’t offer strong testing features.

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LeadSquared

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In this article, we will discuss the features and benefits of marketing automation. Marketing has been integral to businesses for a long time. To stay ahead of the competition, companies invest a lot in marketing. Marketing is not only a part of the buying journey but also a complete process in itself.

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2019

There’s a good amount of complexity to work through in understanding marketing automation (MA) for professional services firms— with countless products featuring a constantly-evolving array of capabilities and features. The Major Trends in Marketing Automation.

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The Point

MARCH 3, 2015

It’s always been obvious that agencies were a sensible channel for marketing automation vendors to pursue, but I’m beginning to wonder whether agencies might turn out to be the primary channel for such systems, excepting only direct sales to large enterprises. But, actually: no.

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Circle Studio

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Marketing automation is a powerful technology platform that provides marketers with a rich set of tools to manage the components of their online marketing programs. But without a successful implementation, companies are less likely to realize the full potential of the software. billion in 2017.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Of all of the different types of marketing software, conversion optimization platforms are perhaps the easiest to justify. Once you’ve determined a COP makes sense for your business , spend time researching vendors and their capabilities by doing the following. Does the vendor seem to understand our business and marketing needs?

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2012

Salesforce.com yesterday announced the launch of Site.com , an enterprise-class Web site management system. But Salesforce.com VP of Product Management Anshu Sharma did post a detailed explanation of the rationale on a Salesforce.com blog. That’s the first Salesforce.com reference I can find to a “digital marketing platform”.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

B2B marketers have employed account-based marketing (ABM) for well over a decade, of course, but the space has evolved rapidly over the past two to three years. This shift from a reactive to proactive marketing approach is working well for many B2B companies. The vendors respond. Platforms, not point solutions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. This is always a fun project because it gives me an overview of what all the vendors have been up to for the past six months. But that’s old news.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 2, 2015

I spent last Tuesday and Wednesday at the MarTech Conference in San Francisco, where close to 1,000 marketing technologists heard sage advice, shared experiences, and otherwise frolicked with their peers. Several presenters diagrammed the actual marketing systems in place at their companies.

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Martech

JUNE 6, 2024

The way we are The martech stack has been failing marketers, whether it be (primarily) an integrated suite or a collection of point solutions circuiting a central hub. “So you buy some multichannel marketing solution,” Bloom explained. ” This model creates enormous risk, Bloom continued.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 11, 2010

Summary: Adobe added Web content management, digital asset management and social media features to its arsenal when it purchased Day Software last month. But it still lacks key pieces of a complete marketing solution. But the significance to marketers may be greater than they think. publishing.

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Martech

JANUARY 3, 2022

This description is useful for understanding what some marketing operations teams do and what they aspire to do, but the responsibilities and tasks undertaken by marketing operations organizations vary widely. In this piece, we’ll dive deep into marketing operations and the profile of marketing ops professionals.

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Martech

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Call analytics software manages the inbound phone channel (including both landlines and mobile phones), handling tasks from assigning call tracking numbers to measuring, monitoring, analyzing and reporting the resulting caller data and campaign results. businesses were forecast in 2020, according to BIA Advisory Services.

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Capstone Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Marketing automation is a straightforward way to increase a company’s efficiency and effectiveness in demand generation. It also helps marketing become a more predictable and measurable revenue producing function. When using marketing automation at scale, several platform attributes become critical.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Without it, software and platforms just aggregate information that might be correct and might help a rep find the next best buyer. Businesses need a clean, complete, and actionable data asset to inform engagement and drive intelligent automated workflows that increase sales efficiencies and close more deals.

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SpotMe Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Selecting the right in-person event platform to manage your onsite events is critical to their success. Especially because 95% of marketers believe that in-person events help achieve business goals (American-based event technology company). The needs of your organization and events will determine which platform is the best fit for you.

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