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Marketing Automation Vendors Added Webinars, Social Media, and Dynamic Content in 2011

Customer Experience Matrix

Last week's post took a horse race approach to data from our newly available B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST): who’s ahead, who’s behind, and who is coming on strong. The VEST survey, covering nearly 200 items per vendor, answers that question in glorious detail. Real marketers care about what the systems can do.

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The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011

Everything Technology Marketing

It is January and time again for the obligatory 2011 predictions. Many marketing experts have strong opinions on what they think will happen in 2011. I asked you to rank the marketing areas you think will become more important in 2011. Happy New Year!

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10 Inside Sales Predictions for 2011

ViewPoint

Comment on The Bridge Group's ten predictions for inside sales in 2011. No longer will companies buy data from one vendor but rather they will create a network of data providers to deliver to them the specific information in their target markets. Lead scoring and lead nurturing will move from art to science.

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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

Customer Experience Matrix

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. I profiled them in a February 2011 post.) There’s less value to sharing B2B strengths in execution, since each group builds and deploys programs independently. (In

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Simplifying your martech stack: From pipeline efficiency to brand affinity

Martech

However, much of this martech stack is designed to convert prospects into leads and track them through the marketing funnel. But instead of exclusively running ads to drive lead conversions, we need a crop of ads focused on building: Brand awareness. Lead forms Lead forms are still crucial. Brand association.

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Lead Genius Adds a Dash of Artificial Intelligence to Account Based Marketing

Customer Experience Matrix

Lead Genius is a good example. But Lead Genius was founded in 2011 to commercialize university research into combining AI with human inputs. Let’s look at those stages, using the four step structure of the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors. Lead Genius does this too. Identify target accounts. Plan interactions.

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2011 B2B Marketing Trends

Webbiquity

MarketingSherpa recently released its 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. As MarketingSherpa notes, “Year after year, the greatest challenge that B2B organizations face is generating high-quality leads.&#. You can download the executive summary for free (or pay $400 for the full report ). Want to know more?