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Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

Customer Experience Matrix

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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New Raab VEST Report: B2B Marketing Automation Will Reach $1.2 Billion in 2014

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. Based on this data, I’m projecting a 60% increase in industry revenue for 2014, to $1.2 mid-market leadership may be up for grabs.

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Demand Generation – It’s Not That Easy

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*This post first ran in the ANNUITAS blog on March 27, 2014. As we go into event season-it’s good to remember that building a Demand Generation Strategy isn’t easy. I once heard at a conference one of the speakers tell a room full of marketers “all you need is the desire to want to make it better, and you will.”

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Demand Generation Strategy Rules NOT to be Broken

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*This post first ran September 11, 2014 in the ANNUITAS blog. However, when it comes to Demand Generation Strategy there are a few rules that if not followed, will lead to poor results, wasted money and effort, and a frustrated marketer. Learn your market, your customers and your competition. Do Your Homework.

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Your Best Demand Generation Practices for 2018

Navigate the Channel

The new buzzword for improving interest in your products and services is demand generation , which is fast becoming a vital metric for many companies. Not only does good demand generation help the supply chain, it also leads to happier customers and more alignment between sales and marketing. Big data is so 2014.

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5 Simple Steps to Ruin Marketing Automation

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According to the SiriusDecisions B-to-B Marketing Automation Study from 2014, there are nearly 11 times more B2B organizations using marketing automation now than in 2011. It takes a lot more work and dedication to make your marketing automation flourish than it does to destroy it.

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Marketing Automation's Unhappy Users: Trouble in Paradise?

Customer Experience Matrix

As I mentioned in last week''s post , I’m writing a paper on stages of marketing automation deployment. The premise of the paper and Webinar is marketing automation has a problem: clients who don’t move beyond basic email functions are unhappy. The paper itself will be available to Webinar attendees.