Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Have we outgrown our current marketing system? What kind of marketing automation platform do we need?

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Martech

JANUARY 9, 2023

What factors are driving marketing automation platform use, and what capabilities do MAPs provide for B2B marketers? Our new report, “ B2B Marketing Automation Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide ” is now available for free download. How vendors differentiate on capabilities.

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Martech

JANUARY 26, 2023

It’s easy to see why call analytics platforms have become an essential martech tool. They let marketers collect, analyze and act upon the growing volume of data being captured from inbound calls to businesses. After you’ve determined if your company needs one , it’s time to select a vendor and schedule demos.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Marketing automation programs (MAPs) help marketers speed up processes and increase efficiency. Here are some tips for how to do this even as your marketing automation program continues to grow. Map out the marketing automation program First, map out all the parts of the MAP visually.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved. Click To Tweet.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Over at the Modern Marketing Blog , Steve Earl offers his theory as to why enterprise marketers choose to switch to a different marketing platform. So, it may just be that Steve’s data is biased in favor of those companies who need a more full-featured solution. Click To Tweet.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Digital experience platforms are hot right now. That’s because DXPs, and the headless and hybrid CMS that are central to them, are revolutionizing the way content is created, managed and delivered to devices and platforms across the globe. Does the vendor seem to understand our business and marketing needs?

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Martech

JANUARY 21, 2022

ABM enables marketers to focus their efforts on accounts with the greatest ROI potential through insightful and personalized marketing programs. But how do you make sure you are choosing the right platform for your organization? If you find that one vendor doesn’t offer this “must-have” capability, it’s obviously not a fit.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 17, 2024

In the B2B industry, email automation has become a transformative tool enabling you to streamline communication, offer personalized content, and cultivate leads efficiently. To enhance your email campaigns, it’s crucial to understand and implement effective strategies for B2B email marketing automation.

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Martech

JULY 6, 2022

To be honest, many of us owe our careers and jobs to marketing technology and the results it drives for marketers. . We also owe a debt of gratitude to many martech vendors, who not only build the platforms on which we work, but who also produce a plethora of marketing education including classes, workshops, and certifications.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work?

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 4, 2020

A final, sometimes overlooked element, is your webinar technology platform. GoToWebinar and WebEx (which is more of an online meeting tool) are no longer your only options. Actually, there are a growing number of compelling alternatives that offer unique features and potentially a differentiating experience for your attendees.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 13, 2020

You’re on the hunt for a marketing automation tool? Marketing automation tools, such as Marketo , Eloqua , HubSpot , Pardot , and Act-O n, are all powerful support systems, but ultimately, choosing an automation tool comes down to what are the must-have elements for your business goals?

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Martech

JULY 29, 2022

Once you’ve gone through the checklist to determine if you need — and are ready for — an ABM solution, the next step is to identify and contact vendors. Your vendor shortlist. For example, if enriching your ICPs with deeper technographic data is important, be sure to ask about it during vendor interviews and demos.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 25, 2016

Our tour of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors has now reached Execution. That definition could apply to almost any system that delivers marketing messages, but the ABM Guide includes only ABM specialists. Many can also push messages to other channels via marketing automation or CRM integration.

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 22, 2020

30-second summary: We provide five examples of enterprise-level providers of marketing automation solutions including industry case studies. Each of these companies are leaders in marketing automation, with enterprise businesses (and, in some cases, SMBs) benefiting from their platforms, solutions, and technology.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 12, 2014

I recently did a study of the strategies of B2B marketing automation vendors. Some approaches definitely had better track records than others, but it’s important to recognize that the market has changed over time, so past performance doesn’t necessarily indicate future success. Most vendors used more than one strategy.

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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. That’s why many are leveraging call analytics platforms that collect, analyze and act upon the growing volume of caller data now being captured from the billions of inbound calls to businesses.

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Martech

JULY 15, 2021

Big martech vendors — even successful ones — routinely jettison or replace longstanding tools. Early in my career as an industry analyst, I noticed that some of the best web content and experience management (WCM) solutions came from lesser-known vendors. The myth of large-vendor stability. Yet, IBM was not alone.

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B2BMarketing.net

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Making the right martech choice to enable account-based marketing just got an awful lot easier with the launch of B2B Marketing’s first Martech Vendor Spotlight Report , which focused on the ABM category. This report lists all those vendors who can help marketers to run an ABM strategy. The post New!

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Martech

MARCH 7, 2022

Also, make sure that all potential internal users are on the demo call, and pay attention to the following: How easy is the platform to use? Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Are they showing us our “must-have” features? How difficult is the platform set up and implementation?

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ClickDimensions

MARCH 14, 2023

One of these technologies is Marketing Automation. Page Contents What is Marketing Automation? How can manufacturers use Marketing Automation? Here are 5 tools that you can use from your Marketing Automation solution that will help improve your customer journeys and marketing strategy.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 17, 2024

In the B2B industry, email automation has become a transformative tool enabling you to streamline communication, offer personalized content, and cultivate leads efficiently. To enhance your email campaigns, it’s crucial to understand and implement effective strategies for B2B email marketing automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is significant on several levels.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Marketers can do a better job of picking their marketing automation vendors if they roll up their sleeves and work at it. I wrote yesterday about building a requirements document to define the features you'll look for. But you also need a vendor who will support your long-term success.

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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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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. Dig deeper: What is a conversion optimization platform? Once you’ve determined a COP makes sense for your business , spend time researching vendors and their capabilities by doing the following.

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Martech

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Campaign management software helps marketers automate the manual tasks of planning, launching and measuring the impact of their campaigns. That’s important because there are a number of moving pieces to many modern marketing campaigns. creative, media, brand, legal, etc.)

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Webbiquity

MAY 4, 2020

Easy to use, affordable online tools make it easy for marketers to segment their lists, test different messages, automate processes, and track results. But with so many different email marketing tools available, how do you pick the right one for your business? Mailchimp is targeted primarily at small businesses.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 25, 2016

and we wrap up our review of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors with a look at Result Analysis. Not surprisingly, most of vendors who do ABM Result Analysis also do some sort of Execution (12 out of 16, to be exact). Another two (Everstring and ZenIQ) didn't fall into the Execution group but came close.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 5, 2014

I finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday, which is always a great relief. What I did for my analysis was look at changes in vendor scores for the 200 items that go into the VEST data. I had no particular expectation of what I’d find.

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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. But, we’ve started to notice some changes in the market.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Summary: Yesterday's post described the objectives of my product fit scores for B2B marketing automation vendors and how I set up the original weighting for individual elements. But the original set of scores seemed to favor more complex products, even for small business marketers. Here's how I addressed the problem.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2015

Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. Open source vendor Mautic has some interesting potential but it’s too soon to see any actual impact.

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