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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

Customer Experience Matrix

For example, LoopFuse found that nearly twice as many used email and web landing pages as lead scoring. But a mixed approach probably makes sense for marketing automation, where a tactical choice like making your system easier can support several strategies and where different buyers may need different treatments.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

Customer Experience Matrix

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

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Why Is B2B Marketing Automation Growing So Slowly?

Customer Experience Matrix

For example, LoopFuse reported 42% of respondents had marketing automation in place, a Forrester study reported 45% use among B2B enterprise marketers, and the Lenskold Group found 70% marketing automation usage.* We’ve recently been seeing surveys that suggest something close to 50% adoption of marketing automation.

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How to Excel With the Most Underused Marketing Automation Features

Hubspot

From the results of its Marketing Automation Survey last year, Loopfuse released some interesting data about the adoption of advanced marketing automation features. Measuring the return-on-investment of marketing is key to determining which tactics to invest your marketing dollars in, yet only 39.1% of marketers are using it.

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Act-On Buys Marketbright Assets

Customer Experience Matrix

In other words, the Marketbright acquisition was a tactical measure to pick up some modest assets at a modest price. In fact, the risk is so low that Act-On has actually reduced its free trial period from 30 days to 14 days and eschewed the freemium offers used by competitors Genius and LoopFuse.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz. "Outbound" Marketing is the set of traditional direct marketing tactics including using targeted lists for telemarketing, direct mail and email marketing.

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Marketing Automation Trends for 2010

LeadSloth

Matthew Quinlan , VP Field Operations, Loopfuse. Beyond the basic tactics for using each tool, there are going to be innovations in marketing automation that will help marketers better manage their efforts, measure results and target prospects. Jeff Ogden , Director of Marketing, Aplicor & President, Find New Customers.