markempa

MARCH 27, 2005

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! " Here is his original concept.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 20, 2014

Today we launched our latest eBook, Change Management – Staying Relevant, Predictive and Sane in the Changing Landscape of Demand Generation , a joint venture by Mathew Sweezey , author and Marketing Automation Evangelist for Salesforce.com and Carlos Hidalgo , CEO and Principal, ANNUITAS. What is your strategic focus?

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 24, 2011

—noted the Dreamforce announcement of Salesforce.com’s support for Kenandy , a cloud-based manufacturing solution that incorporates the social tool, Chatter. By the way, I learned that Kenandy is named after Sandy Kurtzig’s sons, Ken and Andy, and I really like this personal touch.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. Q: What's the biggest issue with Lead Generation ? This is one of the reasons we encourage focusing on Opportunity generation, not lead generation.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 22, 2024

For many content marketing teams, last year started with “What the heck is generative AI?” At Salesforce, 2023 was the year our content marketing team started playing around with generative artificial intelligence (AI). The same goes for generative AI. One of our favorite use cases for generative AI in content marketing?

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. So now the story can be told. ROI reporting.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JUNE 28, 2022

August Scott knew her life would change that day in February when she took a deep breath and published an especially personal post on LinkedIn. Gen Z — the most racially and ethnically diverse generation , and on track to become the most educated generation — values diversity and inclusion at a higher rate than its predecessors.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

Treehouse Interactive just introduced a “talk it up” feature that embeds “share this” buttons in Treehouse-generated Web pages and emails. InsideView is already integrated with major CRM vendors and with the Marketbright demand generation system. Ones I know about include Pardot , LoopFuse , TrueInfluence , Salesforce.com and ACT!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2015

This means that if you pay 50 cents for a Facebook ad that gets you a new Like (a reasonable cost range for most advertisers), and just one out of ten fans see any particular post, your actual costs to get on that person’s radar are far higher than 50 cents. It’s inexpensive to generate website clicks with Facebook ads.

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markempa

MAY 30, 2017

From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target which was then acquired by Salesforce.com. I write for lots of different publications, and now I head up the forward-looking marketing ideas and theories as Principal of Marketing Insight at Salesforce.com. I personally use one called Full Contact, and that is useful.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. This has more to do with the degree of personal selling (and after-sale service) than anything else.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

In particular, they want a highly-integrated combination of standard marketing automation (email, landing pages and individual-level Website behavior tracking) with customer relationship management (tracking personal and telephone contacts with individuals). See my List of Demand Generation Vendors for other options.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 8, 2010

This morning we saw a demo of Salesforce.com Chatter , a collaboration tools integrated with Salesforce.com. Think Facebook built into Salesforce.com: it looks just like the Facebook timeline, but it is built around your sales processes. Salesforce.com Chatter Screenshot. is all about. Chatter and Marketing Automation.

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markempa

APRIL 13, 2015

Tweet The management of sales leads is critical to generating marketing ROI. For more, read: “ Lead Qualification: Stop generating leads and start generating revenue ” Make the hand-off to Sales, but still help drive conversion. That’s a complex question when you think about it. on a real-time basis.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JULY 6, 2023

Don’t take anything personally. When I learned not to take anything personally, I suddenly felt like a switch flipped inside of me. Then he invites the prospect to share their story, too, creating a personal connection. Earich followed this advice by making a decision to always focus on helping the person in front of him.

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Brandpoint

MAY 18, 2020

The modern buyer is digitally driven, socially connected, mobile and empowered, with nearly unlimited access to information and people,” notes Jill Rowley on Salesforce.com. The quality of that content has become so important that 72% of the most successful organizations in the U.S. Read More: What Is Social Advocacy?]

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It's a beautiful story — Aaron Ross transformed the Salesforce.com sales team without any traditional cold calling and scaled the business into a $100 million sales machine. is a prospecting strategy where a rep gets in touch with the direct manager of a decision-maker they're targeting and asks them to refer them to the right person.

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The Mx Group

OCTOBER 18, 2017

But, our industry has changed and evolved so much, that there are myriad ways to tackle marketing on a more personalized account basis rather than a demand-gen volume basis. That makes me wonder: Are CRM platforms, like the Salesforce.com, set up to handle ABM? They can be, but not “out of the box.” Sounds like a wicked plan.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

From Web Analytics to Demand Generation. After that, the (previously anonymous) website sessions are linked to a specific person. ActiveConversion generates HTML code for you, so you can include it in a page on your own website. Salesforce.com integration. Website sessions are added to the salesforce.com Lead record.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

As the industry matures, second-generation products are designed to improve on the original products, either by adding new capabilities or by delivering the same capabilities faster, easier or cheaper. Demand generation systems are in that second stage. These are not yet standard features on most demand generation products.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Although Hubspot positions itself as an “inbound marketing system,” it actually does more than the search engine optimization, blogging, social media interactions and related analytics needed to generate Web traffic.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. This pricing is low even among SMB demand generation systems.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

The latest stop on my little tour of not-really-demand-generation systems is Jesubi. The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Lead scoring supports multiple scores per person, which is typical in high-end demand generation systems.

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The Point

JUNE 18, 2013

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Chalef, CEO of KnowledgeTree , developers of an intriguing new solution, built for both Salesforce.com and mobile (iOS), that enables sales teams to instantly find, surface, and present the ideal content in any selling situation. The same principles apply to Content Selling.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Personally, I’d argue that the really significant news out of LoopFuse is their newly tiered pricing structure. Other vendors have similar price points for the small business market (see my list of demand generation vendors ) although I suspect their internal costs are higher. But LoopFuse may have been more focused than anyone else.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com.

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markempa

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We went from zero to 20% to 30% of our opportunities in Salesforce.com resulting from video in the first six months.”. They have one person, a former writer, dedicated to video plus some people who contribute to script writing and ideation or who do quick edits on videos. Linda and her team are taking a different path. And it worked.”.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Instead, links embedded in a Genius-generated email point to a proxy server that relays the visitor to company Web pages but keeps a record of the interactions as they pass through. This allows it to track all site visits, not only those routed to the proxy server by a Genius-generated link.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

Landing pages can be attached to an auto-responder email, while standard fields on forms are automatically mapped to Salesforce.com. CRM integration is currently limited to sending data to Salesforce.com. Emails are delivered through ExactTarget. There are no real multi-step campaigns, however. Reporting is a particular strength.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 4, 2012

MindMatrix already has 30% of its business outside the real estate market and has recently begun to promote itself as a general purpose marketing automation system – or, more precisely, as the “next generation” of such systems. Content personalization is especially sophisticated, supporting dynamic content (i.e.,

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Tomorrow People

APRIL 12, 2013

It’s true; the right post on a LinkedIn group might generate more leads than hundreds of costly PPC ads. However, we found that their capabilities were either irrelevant or lacking when it came to B2B activities like lead generation, conversion tracking and publishing on LinkedIn groups. Lead Capture. CRM Integration.

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Tomorrow People

APRIL 12, 2013

It’s true; the right post on a LinkedIn group might generate more leads than hundreds of costly PPC ads. However, we found that their capabilities were either irrelevant or lacking when it came to B2B activities like lead generation, conversion tracking and publishing on LinkedIn groups. Lead Capture. CRM Integration.

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DealSignal

AUGUST 27, 2020

DealSignal helps B2B demand generation and sales teams increase conversions from account-based marketing (ABM) and sales outreach by providing 100 percent guaranteed fresh and accurate contact and account data, on demand. Salesforce is a registered trademark of Salesforce.com, inc. About DealSignal.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com , Oracle Eloqua and Marketo. Users can define segments based on these or other attributes and export their related data to CRM, marketing automation, ad targeting, or Web personalization systems via file transfers or API calls. Formal release was in May 2014.

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The Point

OCTOBER 20, 2011

There’s a lot to like about the email below received last week from Radian6 , makers of social media monitoring tools (and recently acquired by Salesforce.com.) In the second paragraph, the use of first person (“We dive into five high level areas …”) is jarring and unnecessary. This is content marketing, pure and simple.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 15, 2013

The great hope is that acquisitions by Oracle , Salesforce.com , Adobe , and other big software vendors finally push the industry across this classic Geoffrey Moore chasm from the beachhead niche to mainstream users, but that’s by no means certain to happen. But will those users really do any better with a different product?

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