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Forrester: B2B Companies Score Low in Marketing Best Practices

The Point

Earlier this year, Forrester Research conducted a detailed survey of more than 150 B2B marketing decision-makers with the intent of benchmarking the maturity of B2B marketing best practices, focused on revenue marketing and marketing automation. Account-Based Marketing (ABM) has also accelerated the trend.

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Why Marketing Automation Customers are Migrating Downstream

The Point

Now, Steve happens to work in product marketing for Oracle Marketing Cloud , home of Eloqua, typically regarded as the most feature-rich (some would say: complex) marketing automation solution on the market. Most marketing automation failures come about from a lack of strategy. What can be improved?

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Farewell Forrester Research; Hello B2B Content Intelligence

PathFactory

After 7+ years as a SiriusDecisions then Forrester analyst leading B2B content research, I joined PathFactory as SVP of Product Marketing and Research. In its 2021 B2B Buying Study study, Forrester benchmarked that over 80% of B2B purchases involve three or more people in a typical buying group. A Humble Call-to-Action.

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Report: 19 Experts on the State of Marketing Automation

The Point

Demand Generation Report just published their 2018 Outlook Guide: The State of Marketing Automation. Unfortunately, the trend for many firms when it comes to marketing technology seems to be: “buy now, and figure it out later.” DGR) What do you see as the biggest trends in marketing automation in 2018? (HS)

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How to Create the Best Content For Your Marketing Automation System

KoMarketing Associates

How content strategy fits into marketing automation (and content marketing in general). It refers to what happens when content marketers get focused on just pumping out more content without any thought to strategy. In this report, we learn that only 33 percent of marketers have customer journey maps.

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Top 10 marketing automation tools every marketer must have

ClickZ

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.

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4 qualities of an intent-driven marketing automation email program

Martech

The perspective has been this: “We have this marketing automation platform. We’re going to build a few automations and then go on to something really challenging.” A Forrester WAVE matrix of leading vendors is one. Complex automations. That’s where intent comes in. Precise metrics.