Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

by Maria Pergolino As you may have noticed, some new faces have joined the marketing team here at Marketo to help improve our online engagement and grow demand from inbound marketing sources. But what qualities are key in an inbound or social media expert? Program Manager, Social Media & Content Marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It only recently added standard B2B marketing automation features including a customer-level marketing database, outbound email, landing pages, lead scoring, Web behavior tracking, reporting, and Salesforce.com integration. I still doubt Salesforce.com will get the message any time soon, but maybe they'll start to reconsider.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs. The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they changed their minds.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

This is the standard approach among marketing automation products – as Optify says on its Web site, “We know you already have a website and a favorite marketing CMS.” What Optify does offer inbound marketers is extensive support for search engine optimization. Emails are delivered through ExactTarget.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

If the vendors fail, the business will go to consultants, ad agencies, and other service firms that do the clients’ marketing for them. That would greatly limit the marketing automation vendors' business. The one major missing inbound marketing feature is paid search management, such as Google AdWords integration.

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markempa

DECEMBER 19, 2016

“With the rise of content marketing, a lot of businesses get stuck in the eBook rut,” saysLinda West ( @ misslindawest ), Director of Digital Marketing at Act-On Software , a rapidly growing company that makes a marketing automation Software as a Service (SaaS). A Shift in Customer Behavior in Content Marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Yet some other features are fairly advanced: Active Conversion can identify anonymous Web site visitors through reverse IP lookup, find contact names for those companies in JigSaw , and either send the data to Salesforce.com or let sales people access it withing Active Conversion itself.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 28, 2015

He’s written over a dozen best selling books and was a decade ahead of Inbound Marketing. John said that once they started Marketing Over Coffee, “I will consider this a success if I get to interview Seth Godin.”. His quest to understand why this happens created a framework that will change the way you communicate. Seth Godin.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2012

However, list purchases are a reality in B2B sales and marketing and an area marketers need to understand before wading in. Share your views in the comments below or with me on Twitter ( @wittlake ).

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Neolane may be the most similar, since it also straddles the business and consumer marketing worlds. Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. But consumer marketers also need inputs from transaction systems. Good stuff.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If you look at most major CRMs like Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce.com , you’ll notice a few different objects: Leads, Contacts, and Accounts. But then look at marketing automation like Lead Liaison and you’ll see one object: Prospects. This is where Account Based Marketing (ABM) meets Inbound Marketing.

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MLT Creative

AUGUST 1, 2011

But I read a book first: Inbound Marketing , by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah. It opened my eyes to how social media fits into the marketing mix. Social media for the purpose of marketing your business isn’t about frivolous chit-chat. Dive in and learn by doing, making mistakes and quickly learning from them.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 27, 2009

In addition to this general trend, a whole array of software tools is now available to help the savvy marketer. 10 years ago, email marketing was in its infancy. 5 years ago Salesforce.com was tiny compared to Siebel. And now we have sophisticated marketing automation software that changes how you do marketing.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 31, 2011

He is an in-demand marketing speaker who is currently writing a book entitled “Go Mobile” with Jeanne Hopkins, director of marketing for HubSpot. Dreamforce is hosted by Salesforce.com, which is an unusually forward-thinking organization that was recently ranked by Forbes as the most innovative company on the planet.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2012

I’ve (almost) recovered after a massive Marketo presence at Dreamforce with our friends at salesforce.com. One of the headlines from Dreamforce was obviously salesforce.com’s launch of their Marketing Cloud. There is a clearly a broad market realization afoot that the CMO and the marketing organization need their own platform.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

Business-oriented (demand generation) vendors add some Web support through visitor tracking, landing pages and forms, but even they rarely do much with other “inbound marketing” channels including paid search, banner ads, search engine optimization and blogging. But what matters for now is the vision.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 30, 2012

Click to start video at this point — Craig talks about how the outbound marketing vs. inbound marketing debate can be confusing and says the best companies have a mixture of both. Commenting on strengths and limitations of inbound, he says, “ HubSpot and a lot the inbound marketing—we can’t keep up with them.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

Manticore Technology today released the latest version of its marketing automation system. Changes include a drag-and-drop design tool (similar to Microsoft Powerpoint); integration of opportunities and custom objects from Salesforce.com; better reporting on Web site visitors; and, real time sales alerts on Web activity.

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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! Marketing departments at mid-size companies. Both groups will use HubSpot to generate more inbound leads, but they have vastly different requirements.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2010

When you think of lead nurturing platforms you typically think of firms like Eloqua, Marketo, Aprimo, LeadLife, Market2Lead, Silverpop, even Salesforce.com is getting into the lead nurturing space. But Facebook? I want to roll the clock back a few weeks. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

I first met Fowler when he was co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). After you sold Jigsaw to Salesforce.com why didn’t you decide to ride off into the sunset? . And they’re on pace to exceed a million users by the end this year.

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markempa

DECEMBER 12, 2016

To keep valuable field salespeople productive, many of the more innovative sales and marketing departments build “sales development” teams including Oracle, Marketo, HubSpot, HP, and Salesforce.com. How Empathy Will Grow Your Sales and Marketing Pipeline. Read about Rapid Growth Marketing: From 0 to 500,000 Users.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

10 Ways Marketing Automation and Inbound Marketing Work Together. Rounding out the Marketo sessions were Jon Miller, VP of Marketing and Co-Founder at Marketo and Rand Fishkin, CEO and Co-Founder of Moz. Rock (and Love) Your Inbound Marketing. People are clicking on earned — inbound — search results.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Sometimes our outreach supports inbound marketing (because inbound doesn’t work alone in a complex B2B environment), sometimes we’re qualifying and nurturing leads generated at shows, online presentations or other events, and sometimes we managing response. It’s a specialized tool that syncs with Salesforce.com and other CRMs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Salesforce.com is the big question and no one would be surprised to see them make an acquisition. Microsoft is another possibility, although its Dynamics CRM is sold mostly to smaller businesses than the typical marketing automation system. The more interesting question is who will be the buyers. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

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ViewPoint

MAY 30, 2012

Click to start video at this point —Andrew expressed some surprise that last year there weren’t more mergers and acquisitions in the marketing and sales spaces. While some of these spaces are still being defined where marketing automation plays with CRM, he believes we’ll see M&A activity in 2012.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Christopher notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass. He comments, “Salesforce.com is a good example.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Chris notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass. He comments, “Salesforce.com is a good example.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Mintigo’s conclusion across 186,500 B2B companies was that just three percent were using the most common marketing automation systems: Oracle Eloqua , Marketo, HubSpot, and Salesforce.com Pardot. Penetration reached eight percent among larger firms and varied substantially by industry.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Here''s a question: How do you become a better inbound marketer? But for those marketers who have a healthy obsession with self-improvement and want to become inbound marketing experts, there''s a lot you can do to fast-track your progress. What was the most interesting thing you learned this week on Inbound Hub ?

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Hubspot

AUGUST 24, 2011

Earlier this year Salesforce.com invested in HubSpot. Five months later at Dreamforce , the biggest cloud computing event in the world, HubSpot will demonstrate why Salesforce.com made that investment. HubSpot CTO, Dharmesh Shah will speak on Thursday, September 1 from 1:15 - 2:15 PM on " The Science of Inbound Marketing."

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MLT Creative

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Holding on to dirty data can clog up your marketing efforts and your opportunities. Marketers’ dependence on CRM systems like Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics has highlighted the need for data scrubs and input standards even further. It takes an ongoing commitment of time and resources.

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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. Give us some feedback from your marketing experience! Sign Up for a Free 30-Day Trial.

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Engagio

DECEMBER 28, 2020

My predictions for ABM in 2021 … We will see a new form of marketing emerge, one that combines the engageability of inbound marketing with the precision and targeting of ABM and the scale of marketing automation. And this form of ABM also requires a lot of work, making it hard to scale.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 18, 2011

In March, @HubSpot received $32 million in Series D funding from Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, and Salesforce.com. After Series D funding, CEO Brian Halligan (@bhalligan) said @HubSpot would acquire other inbound marketing companies. #Hub140 Tweet This. Hub140 Tweet This. Hub140 Tweet This. Hub140 Tweet This. ABOUT HUBSPOT.@HubSpot

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Hubspot

MARCH 8, 2011

Here is an insider’s take on the round of financing we just closed with Salesforce.com, Google, and Sequoia. In industries that have formed in the last 10 or so years, the opposite seems to be happening where the winner takes all (or at least 80% of the market cap in that given industry). Why Raise More Money?

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