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Optimizing Event Planning: 7 Ways Event Technology Eases The Process

Marketing Insider Group

Event Budget Management. To take care of this, consider simple productivity tools like: Evernote – For notes and tasks. For complex requirements involving multiple teams, consider full-scale project management tools such as: Basecamp. Event Budget Management. Examples of suitable tools include: Planning Pod.

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BEYOND IT: The Breadth of DiscoverOrg’s Sales & Marketing Intelligence

DiscoverOrg

Back when DiscoverOrg was founded in 2007, our goal was to provide sales and marketing professionals with accurate intelligence on IT decision-makers. Well, IT budgets were still pretty big back then, so that’s one simple reason. However, another one is that in 2007 IT spending was hotter than it’s ever been. Why so high?

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What marketers need to know to prepare for 2023

Martech

Because email proved its value in the pandemic , I don’t expect email budgets will get eviscerated to fund other channels. Segmentation comes into play with the customer data platforms (CDPs) and advanced analytical tools. Vendors have sold CDPs as the gateway to customer intent, purchase propensity and data orchestration.

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Hosted Software Enters the Down Side of the Hype Cycle

Customer Experience Matrix

(For the acronym impaired, SMB is “small and medium sized business” and SaaS is “software as a service”, a.k.a. One point the article doesn’t mention is that SaaS prices have gone up considerably, at least among the major vendors. hosted systems.)

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public?

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

Customer Experience Matrix

This breadth isn’t accompanied by tremendous depth: SalesFusion’s campaign management and built-in CRM tools are a bit limited. Campaign data includes budgets, actual costs, and revenues imported from sales opportunities. It merged in 2007 with online forms vendor AxiomFire and assumed its current name in January 2009.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets. Pricing starts at $250 per month and averages around $500.