LeadSloth

OCTOBER 20, 2010

In short, it is about understanding how marketing and sales drive revenue. It highlights the transition to a more metrics-driven way to optimize sales & marketing for revenue growth. Jeremy Victor has a nice write-up of the 16 sales and marketing reports that measure revenue performance. Eloqua University.

Eloqua 100

Eloqua Jigsaw Salesforce.com Work Management 100

LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Almost 30 people showed up for the first two Marketing Automation Monday meetups in San Francisco and Palo Alto. An email marketing vendor found out that people searching for "newsletters" are less sophisticated than those who search for "email software" That's useful info to fine-tune your nurturing programs.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

LeadSloth

AUGUST 27, 2009

There has been quite a bit of change in B2B marketing over the past couple of years. Prospects now have instant access to much more information, so marketing’s involvement reaches much further down the sales cycle: they need to nurture prospects with relevant content until they are sales-ready. Enter Silverpop.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services B2B Marketing B2B Salesforce.com 100

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.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Social Media Marketing Automation Social Marketing 100

LeadSloth

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Even though some vendors have been around for almost 10 years, Marketing Automation is still relatively new. According to Forrester, only 2-5% of B2B firms have invested in full-featured Marketing Automation. Increasingly, B2B companies realize that Marketing Automation software requires skilled operators. Email Marketing.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 100

LeadSloth

AUGUST 4, 2009

There are two big limitations for using this in B2B marketing: You can only see conversions, not opportunities or revenue (because that information is in the CRM system). Marketing Automation to Measure End-to-End ROI. It provides end-to-end tracking to see associated opportunities and revenue (pulled from Salesforce.com).

Social Media 100

Social Media ROI Media Leads 100

LeadSloth

MAY 25, 2010

Oracle has just acquired Market2Lead , one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. Everybody expected Salesforce.com to make a first move, but Oracle surprised us here :- ). Market2Lead was one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. Marketing & Sales Belong Together. The Market Needs Consolidation.

Market2Lead 100

Market2Lead Enterprise Management Acquisitions Work Management 100

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. Small businesses usually have no dedicated marketing resources, are less tech-savvy, and often don’t have a CRM system.

Hubspot 100

Hubspot Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 100