Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Summary: HubSpot has continued to grow its customer base and expand its product. It's looking more like a conventional small-business marketing automation system every day. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

LeadSloth

JULY 12, 2010

UPDATED REVIEW: My earlier review of HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing software was more than 1 year old and the software has evolved a lot: time for an update! I see two clearly distinct target groups for HubSpot: Small business owners. Marketing departments at mid-size companies. Small Businesses.

Hubspot 100

Hubspot Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 100

KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 29, 2016

It is no secret that LinkedIn is a valuable social media platform for B2B marketers. And according to the “LinkedIn Ads Benchmark Report Q3 2015” published by Marketing Mojo, 79 percent of B2B marketers said that LinkedIn was “effective” at generating leads. Inbound Marketers – For Marketing Professionals.

Linkedin 141

Linkedin B2B Marketing Marketing Analytics Tools Work Management 141

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

The real focus of the conference was introducing the latest version of Infusionsoft’s Small Business Success Method, an approach to helping small businesses plan their marketing programs. It is already behind small business oriented competitors that permit custom data tables, including HubSpot and Ontraport. million $1.6

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Planning 120

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.) Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Most of the work in any marketing analytics project is integrating data from multiple systems. The system has prebuilt connectors to import data from popular vendors including Salesforce.com , Marketo , Hubspot , SAP , SugarCRM , and Facebook. It can connect with others through standard APIs.

Analysis 120

Analysis Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com 120

Biznology

JUNE 6, 2018

If you’re a small or medium size business selling to consumers, you probably want to both automate and personalize your marketing campaigns. The solution, of course, is marketing automation linked to your customer relationship management (CRM) software. Fortunately for SMB marketers, CRM is becoming main stream. The Disconnect.

Marketing Automation Services 167

Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Work Management 167

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

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. I profiled them in a February 2011 post.)

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 120

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

By Brenna Lofquist , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. In today’s digital technology landscape there are numerous platforms, tools and technologies at the disposal of every marketer—almost too many. Intelligence: Uncover opportunities within your market by understanding how to engage active buyers.

B2B Sales 70

B2B Sales Enterprise Management Zoominfo Work Management 70

LeadSloth

MAY 16, 2009

This week I’m finishing up my day job as Sr Marketing Manager at Backbase, and will be available full-time for Marketing Automation Consulting. If you have Marketing Automation challenges, I’d love to hear from you ( or toll-free 1-888-4A-SLOTH). June 8th I will officially start as a full-time consultant.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Consulting Market2Lead Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 11, 2011

To me, it looks like a reaction to the success of other low cost small business systems, including HubSpot , Act-On Software , and Pardot. HubSpot and Act-On have similar pricing to Spark, while Pardot runs a bit higher. In other words, this is a price cut. Whether Marketo actually makes any money at this price is questionable.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketo Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 24, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that “predictive everywhere” is one of major trends in data-driven marketing. I meant both that predictive models guide decisions at every stage in many marketing programs, and that models are used throughout the organization by marketing, sales, and service. Is SalesPredict right for you?

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Automation Salesforce.com 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

Tuesday’s post on the Adobe Marketing Cloud illustrated the complexity of solutions that combine many marketing and advertising components. For many smaller companies, a suite like Adobe, Oracle , IBM , Salesforce.com , SAS , or Teradata isn’t an option and would be overkill if it were. email-based targeting. ad inventory.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Display Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. Other vendors like Nimble and HubSpot have done a better job of simplifying access to third party data about an individual or company.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vendors Linkedin 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

Summary: MakesBridge offers a full set of marketing automation features with some special strengths that will appeal especially to small companies. I’ve written quite a bit recently about marketing systems for very small businesses – a category I’ve tentatively labeled “micro-business” and pegged at under $5 million revenue.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Features Marketing Management 120

xiQ

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

xiQ Wins Prestigious 2016 Content Marketing Award. a leader in real-time personalized market intelligence, is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of the 2016 Content Marketing Award for Best Integration of Mobile Devices in a Content Marketing Program. Sept 19, 2016 — xiQ, Inc.,

Enterprise Management 62

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Content Marketing Salesforce.com 62

InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Here at ezCater , we integrated our product with Hubspot using Hubspot’s suite of APIs, the key one being the contacts API. Salesforce.com and other CRMs have similar APIs around both contacts and leads. Thankfully, most CRMs have extensive API documentation that can walk a developer through integrating your product.

CRM 153

CRM Marketing Analytics Tools API Lead Scoring 153

Hubspot

MAY 28, 2015

I’m thrilled to announce that HubSpot has renewed our ISVForce relationship with Salesforce.com through 2020. This is great news for HubSpot, HubSpot’s customers, Salesforce, and Salesforce’s customers. Nearly 20% of HubSpot marketing software customers use Salesforce.com’s CRM product. Ditto there.

Hubspot 28

Hubspot Salesforce.com Opt-in CRM 28

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

And since the essence of the CDP concept is letting marketers build the customer database for themselves, Openprise arguably provides the most important part of a CDP solution. Integrations with Oracle Eloqua , HubSpot and Salesforce Pardot are planned by end of this year. Current clients use Openprise in more modest ways, however.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking 120

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 28, 2015

Recently I was interviewed by Marketing Over Coffee podcast host John J. What is Marketing Over Coffee ? According to their site, Marketing Over Coffee is “audio on demand” that covers both classic and new marketing. He’s written over a dozen best selling books and was a decade ahead of Inbound Marketing.

Paid Search Agency 100

Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Salesforce.com Eloqua 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 14, 2014

Last month he goaded me into coming up with a framework for relating marketing technology to business strategy , which I''ll present at the MarTech conference in August. Lots of vendors have now taken to describing their systems as platforms – Oracle , Salesforce , IBM , Adobe , Marketo , HubSpot , InfusionSoft and even CallidusCloud.

Rules 120

Rules Work Management Marketing Management API 120

xiQ

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

xiQ Wins Prestigious 2016 Content Marketing Award. a leader in real-time personalized market intelligence, is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of the 2016 Content Marketing Award for Best Integration of Mobile Devices in a Content Marketing Program. Sept 19, 2016 — xiQ, Inc.,

Enterprise Management 54

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Content Marketing Salesforce.com 54

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. The reason is selection bias: most surveys are answered by people who are actively engaged in marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This was my fourth Dreamforce, and I’d like to offer some observations from the perspective of someone who lives in the B2B marketing & sales space. Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. Observation 2: Marketing Automation is Alive & Well.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 100

Vidyard

JULY 21, 2014

Vidyard, the world’s leading video marketing platform, today announced the hire of Tyler Lessard as their new Chief Marketing Officer to help the company extend its market leadership and sales momentum. The Vidyard platform addresses this challenge head-on and we continue to see an exponential increase in market demand.”

Video Marketing 51

Video Marketing Salesforce.com Marketing Management Eloqua 51

Hubspot

JULY 20, 2011

Most companies spend way too much time trying to tell people what their product or service does and way too little time trying to attract more people using inbound marketing by creating content that their prospective customers care about. What is HubSpot? Before this video, did you know what HubSpot does? How did we do?

Hubspot 28

Hubspot Salesforce.com Cold Calling Inbound Marketing 28

Vidyard

JULY 21, 2014

Vidyard, the world’s leading video marketing platform, today announced the hire of Tyler Lessard as their new Chief Marketing Officer to help the company extend its market leadership and sales momentum. The Vidyard platform addresses this challenge head-on and we continue to see an exponential increase in market demand.”

Video Marketing 50

Video Marketing Salesforce.com Marketing Management Eloqua 50

Hubspot

AUGUST 18, 2011

Today @HubSpot acquired @oneforty, a social media marketing company based in Cambridge, MA. Like @HubSpot, @oneforty recognizes the importance of social media in the transformation of marketing. oneforty created a directory of social media applications and the social media marketing tool SocialBase. ABOUT HUBSPOT.@HubSpot

Social Media 28

Social Media Hubspot Paid Search Agency Social Marketing 28

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

Who are the top B2B Marketing influencers on twitter? To answer this question, I looked at a variety of factors including twitter followers, profiles that included “B2B marketing,” the focus of their tweets including the hashtag # B2BMarketing , as well as a variety of social scoring tools using the keyword.

Twitter 100

Twitter Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency B2B Marketing 100

Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. We regularly feature a new B2B sales, marketing or business leader on Thursdays. Hubspot, Salesforce.com , Salesloft, LinkedIn Navigator, Conga and Quip for collaboration. If you missed some, catch up on everyone we’ve featured thus far in the “How I Work” series here.

CMO 69

CMO Work Management Salesforce.com Marketing Management 69

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. NurtureHQ hopes to differentiate itself as “dead easy marketing automation”, which it arguably is.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Hubspot

MARCH 20, 2012

We recently released HubSpot's 2011 Year in Review slide deck , filled with interesting insights into HubSpot's growth and milestones as a business over the past year. HubSpot Customer Achievements in 2011. HubSpot customers generated an average of 34,000 new leads per day in 2011. HubSpot in 2011: A Timeline.

Hubspot 28

Hubspot Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 28

LeadSloth

AUGUST 26, 2010

This week there was a discussion about Social Media and Marketing Automation in the LinkedIn Group of the Marketing Automation Association. Around the same time I got an email announcing Marketo’s Chatter for Sales Insight , integrating sales notifications in the Facebook-like interface of Salesforce.com Chatter.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Social Media Marketing Automation Social Marketing 100

Hubspot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A whopping 92% of buyers are more likely to purchase B2B business tools after reading a trusted review, say G2 Crowd and Heinz Marketing. Looking at the numbers, here’s what jumps out at us: HubSpot is a top choice and is close to Pipedrive in terms of its number of reviews and user popularity. Salesforce.com (product).

Communities 53

Communities CRM Lead Ranking Marketing Management 53

Jackie Walts

MARCH 6, 2019

Recent advances in give demand generation marketers tricks to reduce waste and gain better results. So, I thought I’d share what I’m finding most useful right now: First – if you have marketing automation or CRM, there are probably new tools just waiting in the platforms you already own. Data modeling has gotten easier too.

Demand 54

Demand Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Salesforce.com 54

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It starts with defining product-market fit. Then we have to hire and scale sales and marketing pipeline to acquire new customers. Companies have embarked on a content-based B2B digital marketing strategy in order to find, win, and retain new clients. Simply put, the market potential is huge. We provide the roadmaps.

Top of Funnel 279

Top of Funnel Work Management Analysis Marketing Management 279