Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Craig is the author of the blog The Funnelholic and is an expert on b2b lead generation so I decided it would be great to do an impromptu rapid-fire interview with him on his thoughts regarding b2b lead gen and publish it here: Mike: How should marketers adjust to the downturn? Then you need to go out, generate leads, and SELL.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

When I reviewed Right On Interactive in a July 2009 post , the company was selling its 5Buckets marketing software as a multi-channel output generation tool that complemented conventional marketing automation systems. CRM integration: Right On can synchronize data with Salesforce.com and Microsoft CRM on a regular basis.

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Salesforce.com Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. On the other hand, HubSpot’s lead scoring, email and nurture campaigns are quite limited compared with its competitors.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Marketo added features to capture Twitter posts and Helpstream customer support interactions within a lead’s activity history. Silverpop made it easier to add social media handles to lead records so these could be used to send messages. Could this lead vendors to compete on other grounds entirely? So much for 2009.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 4, 2010

People who comment on a Genoo-hosted Web page or subscribe to a Genoo-originated RSS feed can be loaded into the system as contacts and these activities can factor into their lead score. Genoo can also assign lead score points for social media sharing. It does add the Twitter ID of known visitors to their lead profile when possible.

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Act-On Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Features 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. Batch flows can also update data attributes, calculate lead scores, create personalized URLs, add and remove names from groups, send email and generate output lists for other media.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. The current version also hosts landing pages and Web sites, manages a lead database with profiles and Web activity history, generates lead scores, sends alerts to sales people, and synchronizes data with Salesforce.com.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

The panel of experts included: Brian Vass, Sant Corporation; Robin Daniels, salesforce.com; Rasmus Mencke, salesforce.com; Wouter Hoeberechts, WorldMedAssist LLC; Paul Uppal, ActiveConversion. In addition to these accomplishments, he was able to: Increase conversion lead to customer. Reduce time spent on unqualified leads.

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Email Marketing ActiveConversion Salesforce.com Work Management 48

markempa

JULY 7, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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markempa

MARCH 18, 2005

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Email campaigns are targeted at segments; Web visitors are classified into segments; behavior alerts are triggered by segments; lead scores are assigned to segments; leads are sent to the sales system based on segments; reports are run against segments. Each lead is assigned to the first "child" action whose entry conditions it meets.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Judging from the press releases on their Web site, this may be due to a new release last October that added Salesforce.com integration. The only vendor with a really major drop in ranking was Lead Genesys , another long-time industry participant. Tags: vendor rankings demand generation marketing automation lead management.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

markempa

MARCH 27, 2005

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! Well call her Kristin.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a. We can also be confident that the feature trends I described in my review of 2009 will continue: better support for social media, greater access for sales departments, and more flexible reporting. business-to-business marketing automation. What will 2010 bring?

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2010

"For every success story, there are other stories, of men and women who wake up with the anguish of not knowing where their next paycheck will come from" Have your lead gen teams wake up and understand that pay-for-performance is what their jobs are about. Today, in demand gen, we need to get paid on the leads generated and appointments set.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 6, 2009

damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20. damphoux : Brett Queener, salesforce.com - Sales 2.0 damphoux : Tom Barrieau, IDC demand generation / lead qualification largest segment of budgets right now #sales20. greenleads : "Sales 2.0 Analyze That."

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

After a careful targeting and segmentation process, the next task is to find a list that aligns with those companies and individuals called out for the campaign’s execution, whether it is for lead generation or customer relationship building or retention. Internal lists are primarily customer or past lead lists.

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List Brokers Ad brokers B2B Work Management 80

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2009

Clarity - B2B Marketing Savvy , July 28, 2009. Lessons on Using LinkedIn for Lead Generation - B2B Lead Generation Blog , July 29, 2009. Buzz Marketing for Technology , July 23, 2009. Genius is Bringing GURLs to the Social Party - Marketing Interactions , July 28, 2009. Best of B2B Marketing.

Social Media 40

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

Though the product had issues in its original incarnation, Adobe has fixed many of these issues since acquiring it in late 2009 and continues to invest in product development. Genoo doesn’t provide native CRM functionality, but does have a pre-built integration to Salesforce.com. 1,800/year ($150 per month).

CMS Development 100

CMS Development Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation Services 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

#sales20 jepc : Gerhard Geschwandtner: " Trend 6: customers create companies instead of companies creating customers " #sales20 damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20 greenleads : "Sales 2.0 sales20 damphoux : Brett Queener, salesforce.com - Sales 2.0 Analyze That."

Conference 100

Conference Top of Funnel InsideView Web 2.0 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Three of the five core demand generation functions are clearly there: outbound email, Web forms, and lead nurturing campaigns. The fifith core function, integration with Salesforce.com , is not provided because Infusionsoft has its own sales automation capabilities. This is where the real power of Infusionsoft shines through.

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Pricing Price Impressions Marketing Management 120

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. The system’s features for lead scoring and routing are more impressive. But these are awkward solutions.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 12, 2009

There are many new features for marketer to check out in the Summer 09 release of Salesforce.com. After July 2009, you can create Custom Fields on Campaign Member Records.   Once you are ready to create these rules, go to Setup | Create | Workflow & Approvals | Workflow Rules in Salesforce.com to get started.

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Features Salesforce.com Top of Funnel Landing Pages 48

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.) The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 24, 2009

How are the best in class companies still reaching their 2009 targets? These marketers are not focusing on programs that are strictly lead generation campaigns but rather geared to existing clients and deals in the pipeline. Tags: lead nurturing B2B Sales process lead management. Come Together.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I did publish a real review in July 2009.] Act-On Software : a slightly different take, with strong Webinar support and an option to use its own low-cost sales automation system as an alternative to Salesforce.com Price starts at $499 per month. They focus on email nurturing campaigns and marketing measurement.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Around this time last year I wrote about some Predictions for 2009 and while I would say 8 out of 10 have already materialized and the other 2 are on their way, it has become clear that this year was the year we past the point of no return on Social Media.

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BtoB Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Mobile Advertising 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Around this time last year I wrote about some Predictions for 2009 and while I would say 8 out of 10 have already materialized and the other 2 are on their way, it has become clear that this year was the year we past the point of no return on Social Media.

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BtoB Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Mobile Advertising 100

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

We had real problems with lead quality.” “We The common thread amongst these complaints is lack of 1) sales satisfaction and 2) lead quality. So what is it about some content syndication programs that create leads that sales reps don’t want? We couldn’t reach half the contacts.”

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Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency RSS Paper 40

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Applications such as Salesforce.com already let sales staff keep track of existing customers or potential customers, but Demandbase Stream falls into a newer category of tools designed to help them find new customers in the first place. Last week, his company released a tool, called Demandbase Stream, that aims to answer this question.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 40

Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

For example, an organization that would have spent $5M over ten years on a traditional ERP or CRM application (bought from an on-premise vendor) may spend $1M on a SaaS alternative such as Workday or salesforce.com. Alternatively, an organization may use the open source LAMP stack and OpenOffice and save a great deal on software licenses.

Social Media 116

Social Media Enterprise Management Media Webinar Metrics 116

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software enables marketers to build microsites and use content marketing to capture leads and nurture them through the buying process. Pricing starts at $199 per month for a single user and microsite, with no limit on the number of leads in the account, plus $8.50 per 1,000 emails sent.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Microsite Salesforce.com 100

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Its marketing automation system offers the usual range of functions: email, Web analytics, landing pages, multi-step campaigns, lead scoring, CRM integration, ROI reporting. GoToWebinar When I last wrote about Treehouse, it had just added Salesforce.com integration. It has since added a connector for Oracle CRM On Demand.

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Features Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 29, 2009

The process to set up multi-step campaigns (which the vendor calls “lead flows”) is now quite straightforward. Users first create the lead flow and link it to recipient and suppression lists that will determine who enters the flow. Esthetics aside, however, the actual capabilities of the lead flows are still somewhat limited.

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Loopfuse Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2011

It provides all the basic B2B marketing automation functions: mass email, landing pages and surveys, behavior tracking, lead scoring, nurture campaigns, and CRM integration. Lead scoring is also done the usual way: by assigning points to lead attributes and behaviors. Thinking in those terms, Beanstalk Data is a tasty morsel.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

That points to the evolving nature of the market, and the key functions of lead nurturing, scoring, and automated triggers becoming part of email marketing and other marketing solutions. You may spot some companies that were not considered to be “marketing automation&# players just a year or so ago. One data point concerns me.

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