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Measuring the True Impact of Marketing Campaigns: A Conversation with Bonnie Crater

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In 2011, she became President and CEO of Full Circle CRM , a company dedicated to helping VPs of Marketing use Salesforce.com to get accurate and useful performance data about marketing campaigns. HS: How are you different from marketing automation vendors like Eloqua or Marketo at addressing this issue?

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Why is Inside Sales So Scared of Lead Nurturing?

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Rather than reinvent the follow-up process, we sat down with the BDR, documented her standard follow-up procedure (a series of phone calls and emails that stretched over a number of weeks) and automated every step using Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform. Marketo sends first follow-up email. Wait 2 weeks. Wait 8 weeks.

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Segmentation, Social Media Drive Lead Nurturing Success for iDirect

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First, the company invested in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform that integrated well with the company’s CRM system, Salesforce.com. Working with the inside sales team, Spear used Marketo to build in a series of email alerts when leads reached a certain lead score threshold, for example, or filled out a high-value form.

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Top 10 Posts on B2B Lead Gen for 2010

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Salesforce.com Webinar Invitation Gets It Right. 21 Tips & Other Impressions from the Marketo User Summit. Getting the Most from Salesforce.com: A Conversation with David Taber. Comments after the fold. 26 Must-Have Negative Keywords for B2B PPC Campaigns. 7 Mistakes To Avoid In Your Next Webinar Invitation.

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Take a Sales Guy to Lunch: Bridging the Sales & Marketing Divide

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Companies like Eloqua and Marketo have 1-click integration into CRM systems that make it easy to synchronize marketing and sales processes and lead data. BAS) I think the marketing systems are maturing and becoming more easily integrated into leading CRM packages like Salesforce.com and Oracle CRM On Demand. Thanks Barbara!

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No Leads from Social Media? No Excuses.

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Navicure uses Marketo and Salesforce.com to track marketing ROI.). At last report, the program was generating a 400 percent ROI based on revenue generated that could be attributed directly to, or influenced by, leads that came directly from the blog. I, for one, don’t think the reasons are that complex.