Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 24, 2011

by Maria Pergolino Lead source is a critical piece of data you need in order to assess the value of your marketing campaigns and part of proper lead management. Avoid lead source clutter. When you first implement Salesforce.com, your default lead sources are Web, Phone Inquiry, Partner Referral, Purchased List and Other.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. One answer includes applying, tracking and measuring best-practice sales lead management processes.

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The Point

APRIL 1, 2014

Rather than reinvent the follow-up process, we sat down with the BDR, documented her standard follow-up procedure (a series of phone calls and emails that stretched over a number of weeks) and automated every step using Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform. Once initiated, the steps are as follows: 1.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

The key term here is “instant-on”, which Genius defines to mean “instantly integrated website tracking, email marketing and social media campaign tracking” along with fully automated integration with Salesforce.com, including custom objects. This is not quite as powerful (or cool) as the Genius approach, but does reduce practical difference.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management. First, the company invested in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform that integrated well with the company’s CRM system, Salesforce.com. All-hands discovery session yields important insights, priorities.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

More and more marketers understand that agile, which started in the IT development realm, has good application in marketing in general, and in lead management specifically. Scott Brinker , author of Hacking Marketing, a great book about agile practices in marketing, sheds more light. It was designed for lead management.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2009

Back in December, the Sales Lead Management Association and LEADTRACK published a survey on lead management practices that I haven’t previously had time to write about. The categories don’t make much sense to me because they overlap: products like Salesforce.com are both CRM systems and SaaS.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Let’s run through the standard demand generation process to see how this works in practice. This process has five functions: send emails to prospects; capture responses on landing pages; score leads; send qualified leads to sales; and nurture non-qualified leads with multi-step campaigns. This is one type of simplicity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. This is the future, and it’s why we are proud to be the leading independent marketing software company today working with ALL leading CRM solutions, including salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, Netsuite, and SugarCRM.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate. The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

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. Manticore Technology today released the latest version of its marketing automation system.

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Capstone Insights

MARCH 13, 2018

This post makes the assumption that the lead management construct at your company is leads reliant. By that, I mean that the “leads” object in your CRM is by definition the only way in which new individuals can be passed into your CRM by way of integration. Is this post everything you should be thinking about?

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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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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Demand Gen and Lead Management. We are using salesforce.com as our CRM — how well will it work to support our efforts? Enter your email, and we’ll send cutting-edge B2B marketing insights and best practices right to your inbox. Topics Demand Gen & Lead Management. Sales Empowerment. Bottom-line Results.

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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 28, 2011

In fact, I was shocked that you guys had poor follow-up practices with the leads we were sending you. You guys only knew the basics of Salesforce.com. You didn’t know at the time that those doing initial research could be customers down the road if nurtured properly. Here’s to continued growth! Regards, Paul.

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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 28, 2011

In fact, I was shocked that you guys had poor follow-up practices with the leads we were sending you. You guys only knew the basics of Salesforce.com. You didn’t know at the time that those doing initial research could be customers down the road if nurtured properly. Here’s to continued growth! Regards, Paul.

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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. Just to name a few. Read The Biggest Contributor to B2B Revenue. How Empathy Will Grow Your Sales and Marketing Pipeline.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 24, 2009

Over Me SiriusDecisions , a leading source for business-to-business sales and marketing best-practice research and data, recently indicated that while the sales team may be suffering, best in class companies are repositioning their marketing strategies and tactics to help them out. Come Together.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2011

He went on to describe how their lead scoring and lead management processes have evolved since that initial campaign. Disclosure: Marketo is a Salesforce.com Partner and sponsor of Cloudforce London 2011. Disclosure: Marketo is a Salesforce.com Partner and sponsor of Cloudforce London 2011.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

But its $750 per month offering should be practical for many SMBs and a $1,250 per month option allows still higher volumes. Tags: marketing software marketing automation lead management software selection pardot crm software small business software demand generation. This pricing is low even among SMB demand generation systems.

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LeadSloth

JULY 12, 2010

With the improved Lead Manager, you could even use HubSpot as your CRM system. These editions also make it possible to integrate with Salesforce.com and – through partners – with other CRM systems. You can use basic email marketing to stay in touch with your prospects or create some drip campaigns.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2011

One of Marketo’s most significant events to attend and sponsor is Dreamforce ; every year we make an effort to get the most from this critical industry-leading conference. Drinking Our Own Champagne: How Marketo Uses its Event Marketing Software at Dreamforce was posted at Modern B2B Marketing - Marketo Best Practices Blog. | [link].

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 1, 2011

Marketo’s own lead management process – and sales and marketing philosophy – is driven by the same technology that we sell, a lead management , sales insight and revenue analytics platform. These, coupled with Salesforce.com, build the core toolset we use to generate new business at our company.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

Marketingcloud – Marketing Cloud – An extension of SalesForce.com, an integrated way of utilizing SalesForce in the Cloud. MarketingSherpa – MarketingSherpa – MarketingSherpa provides B2B and consumer marketing professionals practical case studies, research, and training on email, demand gen, search, social, and more.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 23, 2012

So what does that have to do with Lead to Revenue Management (L2RM) and what is it anyways? Lori defines L2RM as a set of integrated processes, goals, and metrics that frame marketing practices from lead generation to sales close. These metrics calibrate marketing results with sales results.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

A services consultant can look at your lead generation, lead management, lead scoring, and lead nurturing processes and show you where you can fine-tune your systems based on best practices. How do we integrate revenue performance management and marketing metrics into our processes?” “Why

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

We are excited to have Jep Castelein of popular lead management and marketing automation blog, Lead Sloth , contribute a guest blog post. Read below to find out the best ways to optimize your conversion rates using lead nurturing: A lot of early adopters of Marketing Automation systems are in the technology industry.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Salesforce recently rebranded their social marketing application as the Marketing Cloud, and their website says you can use their solutions to “optimize campaigns from lead to close, on every channel”. Lead Management. Marketing Automation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

The CSO Insights 2010 Lead Generation Optimization Study identifies some of the best practices that companies are focusing on to optimize their lead generation performance. It directly impacts the level of effort sales reps dedicate to lead follow-up and helps keep companies top-of-mind. 2010 Lead Generation Optimization.

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markempa

MARCH 18, 2005

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! Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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markempa

JULY 7, 2006

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! Neither Salesforce.com nor Sugar CRM are.

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markempa

MARCH 27, 2005

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! Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

An immediate, relevant, courteous, personalized e-mail from the rep assigned to that lead will help ensure that no real and immediate opportunities are falling through the cracks. Advocate Sales Lead Management Association Sirius Decisions Smashmouth Marketing The B2B Lead Blog Writing White Papers WordPress | Sandbox.

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markempa

MAY 22, 2017

Have you recently looked at your lead routing and assignment process? LeadData’s new report, The State of Lead Management , based on a survey of 527 B2B sellers and marketers found an average 25.5 % of marketing-generated leads get assigned to the wrong account owner. Case in point. Did you catch that? Conclusion.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Markempa

MAY 13, 2019

Have you intentionally managed and optimized your marketing qualified lead routing and assignment process? LeadData’s new report, The State of Lead Management , based on a survey of 527 B2B sellers and marketers found an average 25.5 % of marketing-generated leads get assigned to the wrong account owner.

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