markempa

APRIL 13, 2015

Tweet The management of sales leads is critical to generating marketing ROI. Sadly, sales leads often land on the scrap heap because marketers throw leads over the wall and then expect salespeople to catch them. I was recently asked by someone how to utilize lead distribution to gain the best results.

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Distribution Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 120

Martech

APRIL 23, 2024

Cox Automotive has spent the past two years building a more complete picture of prospects and clients, including combining role, engagement and product purchase data from across its brands into a centralized location. Watch the free demo Originally published on Salesforce.com on September 27, 2023.

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Top of Funnel Analytics De-duplication Work Management 67

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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Marketing Automation Work Management Salesforce.com Automation 100

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The company made the announcement at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Although the improved UI is the big change, the new version also adds integration with SalesForce.com for AdWords campaigns and improved lead generation capabilities. The early-adopting high tech segment is perhaps 25% penetrated.

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Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

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. An interesting post by SoftwareAdvice.com’s Derek Singleton— What Does Social Manufacturing Look Like?

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Lead Generation PointClear Sales Qualified Leads Generation 120

InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Unbeknownst to you though, halfway through your kickass demo, the prospect you are speaking with blurts out that they signed up for a free trial two days ago and instead had specific questions they wanted answered before making a purchase decision. Salesforce.com and other CRMs have similar APIs around both contacts and leads.

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CRM Marketing Analytics Tools API Lead Ranking 153

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. This has been sadly lacking in most B2B marketing automation systems, which supplement the Salesforce.com database with barely-extensible lead profiles and contact histories.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Lead Ranking Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

This made it easy for marketers to purchase systems without involving the corporate IT department, allowing users to buy tools that solved specific problems whether or not the tools fit into the corporate grand scheme of things. This leads to integrated suites – marketing clouds, anyone? In short, martech today is at a crossroads.

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Work Management Marketing Management Salesforce.com Vendors 120

Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2010

As many of you would expect, Green Leads consumes prospect lists at a rate that far exceeds most outbound marketing efforts. Users can search on meta-data of specific attributes at companies such as what software system their organization is using, for instance Salesforce.com, NetSuite or Oracle. Smashmouth Rating: Thumbs Up!

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Jigsaw Product Marketing Management Salesforce.com 100

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Qualify and route more leads to sales with a solution that brings intelligence to chat conversations. Lead form enrichment. I didn’t realize, when I was purchasing, that the level I was buying would only work with the extension. What I like best about the product is how it is integrated into Salesforce.com.

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B2B Sales Enterprise Management Zoominfo Work Management 70

ViewPoint

AUGUST 28, 2013

Companies must take the lead and make sure their sales people are familiar with the new paradigm, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Nick Stein, senior director of marketing and communications at Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud software heavyweight. Buyers are more sophisticated, but they still prefer a human touch. Stay Tuned.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Salesforce.com Marketing Management 120

ViewPoint

MAY 13, 2016

How to define a lead and gain agreement is the first of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. All because the CEO did not insist on a common definition of a lead. Define what a lead is. A couple of years ago I wrote a blog for Salesforce.com about lead definition. Who are we selling it to?

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Allocation PointClear SIC Ideal Customer Profiles 174

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 25, 2009

recently on the idea that the boundaries between marketing and sales are breaking down because leads now interact with both departments throughout the purchase cycle. This is clearly inevitable: if nothing else, leads still visit your Web site (controlled by marketing) even after they are “turned over” to sales.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Salesforce.com 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

Since then, I’ve had a more detailed briefing, which clarified that their scope extends well beyond prospect lists to predictive models applied across all stages of the purchase cycle. Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com , Oracle Eloqua and Marketo. Stages are defined in consultation with the client.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Activities Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Some of this, such as DUNS Number, is purchased from external sources and requires extra payment. The DemandBase data are the company-level attributes that DemandBase has long assembled: company name, industry, revenue, employees, technologies used, etc. Other partners will be added over time.

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DemandBase Advertising Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

B2B marketing data vendor ReachForce today announced its purchase of SetLogik , which provides technology to build cloud-based marketing databases and do predictive modeling against them. See my post from last October for more on SetLogik.) There’s an obvious peanut butter-meets-jelly type of logic to this match.

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Reachforce Buy Marketing Management B2B Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2016

Intent data is one of hottest topics in marketing today – see, for example, Oracle’s recent purchase of AddThis. B22B lead generation vendor True Influence today announced a new product to help fill these gaps. InsightBASE has standard integrations with Marketo , Oracle Eloqua , and Salesforce.com.

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Intent Data Intent Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120

Vidyard

JUNE 17, 2015

According to Google, 70% of B2B buyers now view video throughout their path to purchase, and nearly half of these prospects will consume over 30 minutes of video when evaluating solutions and it’s Sales’ job to guide them the rest of the way through the buying journey as a trusted advisor. Get this guide!

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Video Marketing Conversion Sales Qualified Leads Salesforce.com 51

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. However, there was quite a buzz as many tried to discover which marketing automation platform Salesforce.com decided to purchase for their own use. Observation 4: Salesforce.com Needs Better Content .

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

ViewPoint

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The most reliable and scalable approach to finding new B2B customers is outbound communications, whether by mail, phone or email, to potential prospects, using rented or purchased lists. Out-of-business indicator, plus credit rating and parent/subsidiary linkages (Salesforce.com). Company SWOT analysis (OneSource).

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Marketing Management Lead Scoring Salesforce.com 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 18, 2007

The paper, from Manticore Technology , recommends five best practices for business marketing: (1) define a unified marketing and sales pipeline; (2) deploy an integrated marketing and sales platform; (3) measure pipeline activity; (4) automate lead nurturing; and (5) focus on the top of the funnel.

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Manticore Online Lead Generation Lead Generation Vtrenz 120

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

It’s also useful to look through and learn the first product or service that they purchased – their point of entry. The key to any account-based approach is building a solid sales lead pipeline. These relationships can yield network effects and upsell opportunities that lead to greater revenue down the road.

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Account Based Marketing Segmentation Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management 218

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JULY 6, 2023

To answer this, we approached six leading Salesblazers — CEOs, chief revenue officers (CROs), sellers, and coaches. Thiele said he recently won a large deal because he worked with a champion, even though that contact didn’t have direct responsibility or sign-off for the purchase. This book changed how I speak to prospects,” he said.

Enterprise Management 86

Enterprise Management Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Salesforce.com 86

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

This means it had to be possible for clients to purchase and configure the system, learn how to use it and resolve support issues with next to no involvement by LoopFuse staff. Salesforce.com easily dominates despite the presence of surprisingly capable free products like ZohoCRM and FreeCRM.

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Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

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. A marketing automation system is a highly considered purchase.

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Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Loopfuse 120

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. That was the biggest lesson of Content Marketing.

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Salesforce.com Work Management Marketing Management Content 100

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 1, 2014

In its current incarnation, Radius also imports a list of won and lost deals from each client’s CRM system (direct connection to Salesforce.com , batch imports from others) and shows how well each attribute correlates with success. It supplements these with conventional data sources to capture businesses with a limited digital profile.

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High Quality Lead Small Business Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking 120

Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

After creating, building, and leading the Oracle Marketing Cloud from obscurity to industry leadership for the last 3 years, which was a beyond-amazing career experience (thank you Oracle!), — See how real time data enrichment makes lead generation easier and more effective. Hello, all, and here’s to a promising 2017!

Enterprise Management 116

Enterprise Management Paid Content Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 116

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. Of course, this competition was always implicit – few small businesses would have purchased HubSpot plus one of those products.

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Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

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. Avoid lead source clutter. If you want more descriptive lead sources add a second field that gives more specific information.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Practices Leads 48

Biznology

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The most reliable and scalable approach to finding new B2B customers is outbound communications–whether one is using mail, phone, or email, or using rented or purchased lists. Out-of-business indicator, plus credit rating and parent/subsidiary linkages (Salesforce.com). (Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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Lead Ranking Marketing Management B to B Lead Scoring 80

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Web behavior tracking, lead scoring, and social discovery (searching for and importing public data on LinkedIn ) are also available. This could well change: as marketing automation becomes more widely understood, it will be purchased by less sophisticated companies. ClickDimensions isn’t the only vendor to take this approach.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 14, 2013

Predictive models can show how different attributes correlate with targeted behaviors such as purchasing a product. Connectors are currently available for Marketo and Salesforce.com , with an Eloqua connector due soon. This enhanced data can be used in lead scoring or to help guide salespeople.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Social Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles 120

NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 27, 2013

Message: promote a special offer; click the tweet to a landing page with the offer; print a coupon or use a promotional code for online purchase. . Lead Generation. . Keyword target examples: manage contacts, new CRM, Salesforce.com, lead management, sales tools, sales management. e-Commerce. . Business: Ski Gear.

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Keywords Promotion Campaigns Adwords 100

Digital B2B Marketing

APRIL 2, 2013

It is called a complex sale for a reason, but B2B marketers keep trying to fit it into a simplistic measurement framework: where did we get that lead? In most B2B organizations, Salesforce.com or a similar solution is the system of record. Beyond cold, these leads may frozen solid. Sweeping up late stage contacts.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer B2B Work Management 100

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?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation BtoB 120

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. The system is a little above-average in that emails can contain if/then rules to display different images based on differences in lead data.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Enterprise Management 120