LeadSloth

AUGUST 24, 2009

Needless to say, Marketing Automation software is very popular today. It can be used for email campaigns, drip marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, landing page management and for brewing coffee. It is often positioned as something that will solve all your marketing problems for a couple of thousand dollars per month.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There are certainly a lot of capabilities within marketing automation. Below are some of the best practices we have found within our customer base that helped drive success with marketing automation. Use Drip Marketing Based on Triggers. Tags: marketing automation. Cramer, President & Co-Founder, LeadLife Solutions.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Marketing Automation is on its way to the peak of the hype cycle. People start adopting software because it’s cool, not because they know what to do with it. However, there are a couple of B2B Marketing experts who understand how to avoid inflated expectations. marketing influenced pipeline. investment-to-pipeline.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. Should you look at Marketing Automation options first? Should you look at Marketing Automation options first? What if you prefer Microsoft CRM, but you also want to have a choice of Marketing Automation systems?

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years. In addition to cost savings, the thinking is that a full-blown marketing automation system just makes less sense with the new strategy.

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LeadSloth

MAY 25, 2010

Oracle has just acquired Market2Lead , one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. This is the first transaction involving a major software vendor, so it deserves some notice. Market2Lead was one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. Marketing & Sales Belong Together. The Market Needs Consolidation.

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LeadSloth

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

This week someone asked me about lead nurturing for people who signed up for a 30-day product trial (for a SaaS/Cloud software product). In the past year I’ve been heads-down on many Marketing Automation projects, and this email inspired me write a follow-up: I’ve included 7 practical tips to get started and a brief case study.

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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. HubSpot provides an attractive package that includes all of this: not just software, but also advice.

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LeadSloth

JULY 14, 2009

Side note: I mainly write about Marketing Automation, but I’ve come to believe that Inbound Marketing (which includes SEO) should go hand-in-hand with Marketing Automation. Inbound Marketing adds more leads to your database, and Marketing Automation manages those leads. How Search Engines Work. 3) Get links.

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LeadSloth

JUNE 7, 2010

Hubspot is best known for their Inbound Marketing evangelism and a software product that helps small to medium-size companies generate leads through search engine optimization and social media. They are taking some steps towards lead management, and will be showing their email marketing and lead nurturing capabilities in this webinar.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 5, 2010

DemandBase has just announced a webinar series called B2B Marketing Best Practices that Need to Die (I will present one of the sessions). Today, I’m working on my presentation for Monday’s lead nurturing webinar 7 steps to finding untapped revenue in your marketing database , where I’m presenting real best practices.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 11, 2009

There are many ways to find these new leads: inbound marketing, search advertising, tradeshows, lead programs, etc. I have written a lot about Inbound Marketing ( social media and search engine optimization ): it’s free, but takes a fair amount of time to set up. You also need a steady stream of fresh leads coming in.

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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. Tags: lead management marketing automation. Summarizing.

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LeadSloth

JULY 29, 2009

A popular offer for software vendors is the free trial. And as a marketing manager I did not have control over the product experience. Especially software-as-a-service (SaaS) products seem so simple ! An important aspect of Demand Generation are the offers: what will your prospects register for? Very frustrating.

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