The Point

JULY 21, 2016

It’s well documented that, of the companies who invest in marketing automation, many fail to achieve maximum return from that investment, or even utilize marketing automation technology to its full capacity. In our agency’s work with marketing automation users , we’ve identified 10 of the most common mistakes to avoid: 1.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 26, 2018

The other day I was talking to yet another marketing operations manager who has “a duplicate problem*” and “just needs a one-time dedupe job.” (“*Duplicates”—multiple records for the same person and/or company in CRM/Marketing Automation platforms.) Now you have two Anns in your CRM!

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to the B2B Marketing Automation Solutions. Marketing automation solutions have become a must-have for modern B2B marketers particularly as the marketers are headed to explore new avenues alongside the dawn to the next normal. Learn More: Marketing Automation: A Good or A Bad Idea.

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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. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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Golden Spiral

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Marketing automation is a software and a process that enables companies to automate marketing tasks and messages to improve efficiencies and grow revenue more quickly. Nucleus Research reports marketing automation drives a 12.2% reduction in marketing overhead. Sounds great, right? More revenue.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

So.our friends at Marketo announced today that they've received another $25 million in venture funding. Marketo's strategy has been clear from the start: spend heavily to establish a strong position despite a relatively late start in the market. they needed a solid product and good marketing as well. I lost track."

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 18, 2012

With its usual fanfare, Marketo today announced the acquisition of social marketing campaign company Crowd Factory. Crowd Factory is a certified cool product, which is probably reason enough for Marketo to buy them. Marketo is primarily focused on business marketing, and in particular lead generation, nurturing and analytics.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

Summary: Marketo continues to follow its own path. I finally caught up with Marketo for a briefing on their Enterprise Edition (announced in March) and Revenue Cycle Analytics (announced in May). Since both are somewhat old news, and Marketo describes them in detail on its Web site, I’ll just make a few comments.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves.

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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.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 15, 2010

At this week’s Marketo Summit , I realized we’re right in the middle of B2B Marketing Event Season. MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit was last week, Pardot’s user conference was 2 weeks ago, and the Eloqua Experience is coming up next week. Marketo University. Global Marketo Roll-Out.

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Biznology

JANUARY 19, 2018

My list is about the most interesting people that I came across in B2B marketing during 2017. So meet this year’s fascinating B2B marketers, and let’s not forget the outstanding members of my lists in 2016 and 2015. . Katie Martell coined the term “on-demand marketer” to describe herself and her business.

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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). See you then!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Account-based marketing is the ultimate personalization tool. Instead of incurring the unnecessary expense of marketing to broad swaths of the population, an account-centric strategy isolates key business accounts and markets directly to these individual units. Tag and Segment Accounts.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 4, 2009

The folks at Marketo have always recognized that they can only succeed if more marketers learn the basics of demand generation. The workbook also includes a half dozen “How Marketo Does It” sidebars that reveal more than you might expect about Marketo’s own programs. That sounds like a reasonable approach.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

They’re clearly interested in your category and it’s very likely they are in the market for an offering like yours. But there are methods for converting business visitors to identifiable prospects, for ongoing marketing interaction and development. Use the LinkedIn Insights tag.

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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. Based on first-hand impressions, however, it’s not how the vast majority of clients are employing (or even thinking of) marketing automation. I’m just not sure the rest of us are quite there yet.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. This requires finding ways to attract masses of new customers as they enter the market.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Summary: Public data gives some insights into Marketo's financial history and prospects. Here’s a bit more on this week's $25 million investment in Marketo : a piece in VentureWire quotes revenue for Markteo as $4.5 But Marketo itself says the reported figures are indeed active clients and I've no basis to doubt them.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I’m going to diverge just slightly from my current obsession with usability to talk about a conversation I had today with Marketo President and CEO Phil Fernandez, who previewed the 3.0 Although I actually think that quite a few demand generation vendors share the Marketo philosophy, it’s still helpful to hear the distinction made clearly.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality. any significant price point, non-commodity products).

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. Neolane “ Making the Business Case for Enterprise Marketing Software ”. Here's a bunch. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 2, 2018

In learning new skills, members of the KoMarketing team ultimately become better digital marketers, better support client programs, and the organization. Cross training provides value for broader B2B marketing professionals as well. A while back I wrote a post on how to integrate social media into everyday B2B marketing strategy.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Could marketers finally be ready to spend on measurement? I’m pleased to report that the 2010 edition of the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems is officially available today, with updated entries on all vendors (alphabetically: Eloqua , Manticore Technology , Market2Lead , Marketbright , Marketo , Neolane and Silverpop Engage B2B ). .

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Martech

MARCH 16, 2022

As chat software users ourselves, we’re advocates of using conversational marketing to engage with website visitors and are looking forward to this feature. It’s not often companies provide added value like this Marketo chat functionality without charging for the feature as an add-on or upsell. Source: 2022 Marketo User Study.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

Direct mail and other offline channels are not new, but the old barriers to entry with these strategies have been overcome: Sending Platforms enable companies to automate personalized offline campaigns like direct mail and measure ROI. When it comes to go-market-strategy, utilizing offline channels has become table stakes. .

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LeadSloth

JUNE 23, 2009

The Marketing Automation industry is evolving continuously. Many digital marketers are using marketing automation tools to automate lead nurturing. And that’s where Inbound Marketing comes in. “Isn’t that Search Marketing?&#. Inbound Marketing is more than just SEO.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The sessions were about lead management, lead nurturing, content marketing, social media and Pardot product sessions. They realize the marketing automation can only go so far, and that a human interpretation of the lead’s profile and email & web activity will uncover additional insights. Pardot’s Secret.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 30, 2009

As a response to my posts 7 Reasons Why Marketing Automation Projects Fail and Marketing Automation ROI , several people mentioned that the benefits of Marketing Automation are not just increased sales. Marketing Automation Increases Revenue. Marketing influenced pipeline.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Summary: Marketing automation and CRM systems may eventually converge, but for now marketers need help explaining why they need a system of their own. I hugely enjoyed yesterday’s Boston session of the Silverpop -sponsored B2B Marketing University. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate?

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Those of you familiar with the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems know it already contains very detailed information on major vendors ( Aprimo , Eloqua , Genius.com , Manticore Technology , Marketbright , Marketo , Neolane and Silverpop ). The best I could do was to make the questions as specific as possible.

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ClickZ

JUNE 15, 2020

30-second summary: The global AI software market is expected to reach nearly $23 billion by 2025, according to data from Statista. The global AI software market is expected to reach nearly $23 billion by 2025, according to data from Statista. Chiefmartec’s Marketing Technology Landscape — April 2020.

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Martech

MAY 11, 2022

Google rocked the boat for marketers last month with its latest announcement. The biggest takeaway for marketers is that Universal Analytics (UA) is not compatible with GA4. Get the daily newsletter digital marketers rely on. Implications for marketing operations professionals. What we know. Processing.Please wait.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Since then, some "pure" CDPs have emerged, notably among vendors with roots in Web page tag management – Tealium , Signal , and Ensighten (which just raised $53 million ). But it can also apply segment tags and send out alerts when specified conditions are met. Openprise falls roughly into this second category. There also a free trial.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

When I first starting thinking about Account Based Marketing, I assumed that an ABM system would let marketers replicate at scale how sales teams manage key accounts: that is, to analyze each account in depth, set goals specific to that account, and then execute against those goals. Marketers will also design the actions themselves.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Marketo yesterday released Winning the Marketing Measurement Marathon , a white paper that I wrote for them. I'll also be speaking with Marketo in an October 7 Webinar hosted by American Marketing Association. I'll also be speaking with Marketo in an October 7 Webinar hosted by American Marketing Association.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

Author: Jon Miller Too often, I see first-time marketing automation buyers focus too much of their attention on relatively small differences in cost, rather than growing the top-line opportunities that the right automated marketing solution can provide. Marketing Automation'

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