The Point

JUNE 18, 2013

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Chalef, CEO of KnowledgeTree , developers of an intriguing new solution, built for both Salesforce.com and mobile (iOS), that enables sales teams to instantly find, surface, and present the ideal content in any selling situation. Or, they’ll waste time looking for content.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

I mentioned 6Sense briefly in a recent post about vendors who help companies find prospects on the Web. Since then, I’ve had a more detailed briefing, which clarified that their scope extends well beyond prospect lists to predictive models applied across all stages of the purchase cycle. Formal release was in May 2014.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

But “segmented prospect email followup sequence design and automation,” while a more accurate label for the category, certainly isn’t as catchy. Now owned by and tightly integrated with Salesforce.com, Pardot should at least be on the consideration list of marketing automation tools for any SMB already using Salesforce.

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Biznology

JANUARY 23, 2013

To reach cold prospects among business audiences, sales and marketing teams often begin by developing a list of prospective targets. Plus, the Internet has made possible the introduction of some excellent new opportunities for identifying prospects at various stages of the buying cycle. Photo credit: Wikipedia.

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Jackie Walts

MARCH 6, 2019

I’ve recently found the ability to see better engagement metrics, especially specifics on who opened an email but didn’t click and how prospects interacted with each part of an email. Ditto for diving into platforms like WordPress, ABM technology and some more advanced functions of Salesforce.com. Data modeling has gotten easier too.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 14, 2013

Every marketer recognizes that the Web and social media could be rich sources of information about customers and prospects. Most tools do little more than keyword searches, which only capture a fraction of the potential information and only cover keywords that marketers know in advance are important.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 8, 2019

From there, I was able to hit more prospects, make headway into accounts I’d been having trouble with, and book more meetings–big wins. For example, have I absolutely butchered a pitch reaching out to one of the hottest prospects in my territory? Without ZoomInfo , I’m not sure where I would get my prospects’ contact info.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 20, 2010

One of the time-saving features that is the type-ahead search: see the video tour of Eloqua 10 for details. Eloqua is also taking a lesson from Salesforce.com’s playbook by making it easier to extend Eloqua with 3rd party applications. Another new product is Eloqua Discover for Salesforce.com. That was very intuitive.

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Some companies were actively capturing more information on prospects (e.g. A recurring theme is that you need to really understand the prospect. Segmentation on Lead Source and Search Keywords. One company measured how long it took from initial lead creation until an opportunity was created: Organic search: 30 days.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

DMP becomes mainstream, and not just for ad buying. Why did Oracle, Adobe, Salesforce.com, Neustar, Neilsen all pay top dollar the last few years to acquire leading DMP technology companies? Prior to Oracle, he held senior leadership positions at several companies, including Data.com, Salesforce.com, RR Donnelley, and Jigsaw. .

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

As an outgrowth of search engine marketing specialist FoundPages , the system naturally incorporates strong features for tracking Google AdWords campaigns, calculating return on investment, and measuring visitors’ Web activities. So, on balance, more options is good news. For example, take Active Conversion.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2010

As many of you would expect, Green Leads consumes prospect lists at a rate that far exceeds most outbound marketing efforts. Users can search on meta-data of specific attributes at companies such as what software system their organization is using, for instance Salesforce.com, NetSuite or Oracle.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The company must direct end user inquiries promptly and efficiently to the sales channel, while responding to prospective partners and end users with a message tailored to iDirect’s specific experience in that company’s market. Leveraging social media to help maintain mindshare, keep prospects informed.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

We recommend checking it out during your search for the best CRM. Use the search bar to find discussions about your CRM tool contenders and you’ll likely find super relevant information to help you out. members) – Everything you need to know about sales, business development, lead generation, prospecting and closing. Social CRM.

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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 28, 2011

You guys only knew the basics of Salesforce.com. Because of all those white papers, podcasts, and webinars that we’ve been promoting over the last few months, we’re been training those “tire-kickers” and I know that some of those early prospects are now engaging with you guys; some have purchased! Here’s to continued growth!

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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 28, 2011

You guys only knew the basics of Salesforce.com. Because of all those white papers, podcasts, and webinars that we’ve been promoting over the last few months, we’re been training those “tire-kickers” and I know that some of those early prospects are now engaging with you guys; some have purchased! Here’s to continued growth!

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

I first met Fowler when he was co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). That means, their competitors, their customers, their prospects, their partners, etc. And they’re on pace to exceed a million users by the end this year. Transcript.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Summary: LeadPAC lets marketers pay for email responses as easily as they pay for search responses. LeadPAC lets marketers order prospect lists based on segmentation criteria such as title, industry and company size. Of course, the classic pay-per-click medium is paid search, and above all Google AdWords. Nothing new there.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 17, 2017

Here are 11 of the best free sales tools we’ve discovered to help you find more leads, collaborate with your team, and spend less time prospecting so you can spend more time selling: Rapportive Used for: Gathering data on prospects right inside your email. When it comes to social tools, it’s hard to beat Hootsuite.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

add social media data to prospect profiles. Broadlook offers somewhat similar functions, although it is largely limited to Internet searches to gather the data it examines. It can also search other Web sites for email addresses containing the targeted domain. InsideView is gaining the most attention for this at the moment.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

Changes include a drag-and-drop design tool (similar to Microsoft Powerpoint); integration of opportunities and custom objects from Salesforce.com; better reporting on Web site visitors; and, real time sales alerts on Web activity. Manticore Technology today released the latest version of its marketing automation system.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

This process has five functions: send emails to prospects; capture responses on landing pages; score leads; send qualified leads to sales; and nurture non-qualified leads with multi-step campaigns. Prospects enter Net-Results from external Web forms (more about that later), file imports, manual data entry, or Salesforce.com synchronization.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

This panel of B2B search engine marketers at Dreamforce 2009 talked about how to take your search marketing to the next level, including SEM tips and tricks, landing page strategies, Web site analytics, and more. It included Sean Whiteley, salesforce.com; Howard Brown, Demand Results, LLC; Jason Stewart, Demandbase Inc.;

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LeanData

AUGUST 18, 2014

In Salesforce.com, leads come in as individuals, not accounts. How come no one told me that my prospect showed up at our trade show booth 3 months ago? There’s a fundamental challenge within Salesforce.com whereby the inbound leads are not associated to accounts until a sales rep manually attaches the lead to the account.

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LeanData

AUGUST 18, 2014

In Salesforce.com, leads come in as individuals, not accounts. How come no one told me that my prospect showed up at our trade show booth 3 months ago? There’s a fundamental challenge within Salesforce.com whereby the inbound leads are not associated to accounts until a sales rep manually attaches the lead to the account.

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Salesforce.com Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Top of Funnel 40

Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

.” Vidyard Studio makes it easy for sales teams to create custom videos from existing presentations, share them securely with prospects and customers, and track how much of the videos they actually engage with.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Vidyard Studio makes it easy for sales teams to create custom videos from existing presentations, share them securely with prospects and customers, and track how much of the videos they actually engage with. Vidyard integrates with key marketing automation and CRM tools to deliver user-level video engagement data, turning views into sales.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

.” Vidyard Studio makes it easy for sales teams to create custom videos from existing presentations, share them securely with prospects and customers, and track how much of the videos they actually engage with.

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LeadSloth

JULY 12, 2010

Until recently, it was hard for small businesses to be effective with online marketing because the tools were fragmented: you had to hire someone to do your website, get email marketing somewhere else, hire a search engine optimization (SEO) consultant, and figure out this social media thing.

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Vidyard

JULY 17, 2015

While 95% of marketers report that video is becoming more important to their demand programs, less than 10% are using video strategically to generate new leads, qualify more prospects or close more deals. Vidyard integrates with key marketing automation and CRM tools to deliver user-level video engagement data, turning views into sales.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 1, 2009

That’s somewhat entertaining and can be useful to salespeople who might notice and reach out to current clients or prospects. It can also import a client’s list of target accounts from Salesforce.com and issuing alerts when those companies visit. In any case, being free, it's really just a promotion for DemandBase.

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Vidyard

JULY 17, 2015

While 95% of marketers report that video is becoming more important to their demand programs, less than 10% are using video strategically to generate new leads, qualify more prospects or close more deals. Vidyard integrates with key marketing automation and CRM tools to deliver user-level video engagement data, turning views into sales.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 17, 2017

Here are 11 of the best free sales tools we’ve discovered to help you find more leads, collaborate with your team, and spend less time prospecting so you can spend more time selling: Rapportive. Used for: Gathering data on prospects right inside your email. When it comes to social tools, it’s hard to beat Hootsuite.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

There’s also a reasonable chance – although this prediction is less certain – that sales access features will blossom into deeper cooperation between marketing and sales in managing prospect relationships. This is expensive and it's exactly what prospects don't want. But I wouldn't want anyone to say I failed to see it coming.

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Smashmouth Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

You could just search on the words Sales 2.0 This allows twitter search , RSS feeds , twitter clients such as tweetdeck , etc, to follow the discussion. Have a backup - We'll have 3 Green Leads folks at the event, so if I need a bio-break or to go talk with a prospect about our new meetings 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

You could just search on the words Sales 2.0 This allows twitter search , RSS feeds , twitter clients such as tweetdeck , etc, to follow the discussion. Have a backup - We'll have 3 Green Leads folks at the event, so if I need a bio-break or to go talk with a prospect about our new meetings 2.0

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

But the system does offer a comprehensive solution for smaller firms and, at least on the CRM side, can integrate with more powerful solutions including Salesforce.com , Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Siebel CRM On Demand. no branching based on prospect behavior) at fixed intervals.

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