Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Next-generation CRM vendors that provide purpose-fit solutions with rich data relevant to banks, insurers, and investment and wealth management firms can support these priorities from the ground up and accelerate business process transformation. Look for a vendor that has out-of-the-box capabilities, providing a robust roadmap to innovate.

Work Management 102

Work Management Marketing Management CRM Service 102

Martech

APRIL 9, 2024

Other tactics will be needed to support acquisition. Another agnostic player is Optable, the data collaboration and clean room vendor that was created in conscious anticipation of the deprecation of third-party cookies on Chrome. “We Consider technologies that are interoperable with each other.”

Privacy 112

Privacy Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Marketing Proposals 112

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In fact, only 30% of B2B buyers prefer in-person interactions when evaluating new vendors (that number drops to 16% for renewals). With proof of concepts, you can build trust to speed up customer acquisition. Buyer behaviors are changing the way sales connects and builds trust with potential customers.

Work Management 246

Work Management Marketing Management Ad Building Sales Qualified Leads 246

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 24, 2014

On May 6, AOL and Google announced their respective acquisitions of attribution vendors Convertro and Adometry. After years of big marketing automation acquisitions, these transactions show industry giants investing in a different type of marketing technology. See my 2013 post on Adometry for details.)

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vendors Acquisitions 120

Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

Without getting too much into the nitty-gritty complexities of it, marketing automation campaigns send specific content (that you’ve programmed) to leads based on certain behaviors and data. Poor customer acquisition: Marketers can find themselves sending email after email, with very few responses in return. The ultimate goal?

Marketing Automation Services 246

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Work Management 246

Martech

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Keyword research, page-level analysis, backlink tracking and acquisition, and rank tracking are still of critical importance, even as the environment continues to change. Vendors differentiate by offering more frequent or detailed data updates or content marketing features that sometimes require additional investment.

Enterprise Management 139

Enterprise Management Marketing Management Search Marketing Lead Ranking 139

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Many vendors claim to provide their intent data in “real time,” but let me let you in on a dirty little secret. With the acquisition of Clickagy, our differentiation here is real-time, on time. You may be asking yourself: Wait, ZoomInfo launched a new product then acquired a company with a similar use case?

Intent Data 208

Intent Data Zoominfo Buyer Intent Intent 208

SalesIntel

APRIL 25, 2024

An actionable ICP requires a robust database of the specific people who influence and make purchasing decisions within your target companies. “If you don’t own the email addresses and contact records, you can’t effectively monitor buying intent and behaviors. This is where intent data comes into play.

Ideal Customer Profiles 52

Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management Marketing Management Tactics 52

Seismic

JANUARY 24, 2023

In the report, Aragon evaluated 15 vendors across a variety of criteria, including strategy, performance, and reach. Aragon goes on to stress the importance of conversation intelligence in understanding how reps and buyers communicate in context leading to deeper data on what works in the real world for content, messaging, and behavior.

Enterprise Management 94

Enterprise Management Work Management Research Marketing Management 94

xiQ

JANUARY 30, 2023

This means B2B buyers expect sellers to not only know their products but also to convince them how their products are unique from their vendors. This means B2B buyers expect sellers to not only know their products but also to convince them how their products are unique from their vendors.

B2B Sales 126

B2B Sales Work Management B2B Marketing Management 126

Martech

JULY 29, 2022

Once you’ve gone through the checklist to determine if you need — and are ready for — an ABM solution, the next step is to identify and contact vendors. Your vendor shortlist. For example, if enriching your ICPs with deeper technographic data is important, be sure to ask about it during vendor interviews and demos.

Enterprise Management 106

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Account Based Marketing 106

Webbiquity

JUNE 20, 2017

Intent data : Data that reveals the buying behaviors of your best customers. Engagement data : The common behaviors and engagements your best buyers have with your company, including historical deals, connections, web analytics, and lead scores. Data acquisition and analysis will look different at every company. Get Started.

Account Based Marketing 229

Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles ABM Zoominfo 229

Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Up to 90% of buyers have a set of vendors in mind before doing any research, and 90% of them will choose a vendor from the day one list, according to a survey by Bain and Google. Use heat mapping and behavior analytics tools like Microsoft Clarity to help identify any opportunities for improvement.

B2B Marketing 107

B2B Marketing Trends B2B Planning 107

Porch Group Media

MAY 4, 2021

Customer Acquisition. The top ranked marketing objective according to Nielsen’s research is customer acquisition. This doesn’t mean brands should stop focusing on acquisition, rather they need to work smarter, not harder. The post Customer Acquisition, Omnichannel Marketing and Data Quality first appeared on V12.

Acquisitions 84

Acquisitions Planning First-Mover Advantage Marketing & Strategy 84

Martech

JULY 18, 2022

Once you have satisfactory answers to the above questions, you can start drawing up a list of vendors to contact with RFPs. For a deeper dive into what those questions mean, and profiles of leading ABM vendors, download our new ABM marketing intelligence report here. Account-based marketing addresses changes in B2B buyer behavior.

Enterprise Management 96

Enterprise Management Account Based Marketing Work Management Marketing Management 96

Martech

APRIL 19, 2024

An engaged audience interested in products and services According to a study by TINT , more than three-quarters of consumers said they use social media to search or discover new products and vendors. Naturally, marketing leaders are taking note of the connection between social media and buying behavior.

Lead Gen 116

Lead Gen Paid Content Social Media Sales Qualified Leads 116

Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A trigger event is an occurrence that promotes buyer awareness of the possibility for change or the need for what a vendor provides. When a firm undergoes major changes such as mergers and acquisitions, it’s more likely to embrace new technologies or collaborate with different companies. What is a Trigger Event?

Ideal Customer Profiles 253

Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Marketing Automation Services Work Management 253

Martech

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Since CDPs emerged as a category (around 2016, according to the CDP Institute) we became accustomed to looking across a landscape of independent vendors, most with slightly different offerings under the CDP umbrella. Salesforce’s acquisition of Datorama happened way back in 2018. Read more here. Perkuto acquired by MERGE .

Acquisitions 100

Acquisitions Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Digital Experience Platform 100

Engagio

MAY 31, 2021

The future deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome will impact many B2B advertising vendors — especially those who primarily use third-party white-labeled DSPs, where they aren’t in complete control of the technology. Demandbase understands this well, evidenced by our recent acquisitions of two leading data companies.

DemandBase 77

DemandBase Spyware Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking 77

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 27, 2015

Predictive analytics vendor Fliptop today announced its acquisition by B2B social network LinkedIn. I would have looked so much more prescient had they announced the acquisition after I had published this post! I would have looked so much more prescient had they announced the acquisition after I had published this post!

Account Based Marketing 120

Account Based Marketing Work Management Analytics Linkedin 120

ClickZ

JUNE 1, 2020

The Lean AI Autonomy Scale serves as a framework for assessing how the different capabilities of martech vendors stack up with AI in the industry. A range of emerging vendors are out there today using Artificial intelligence to automatically optimize advertising spend and targeting. The evolved AI of today.

Marketing AI 138

Marketing AI Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 138

Martech

MAY 5, 2022

But the online vendor must know what measures are most relevant to their business to make the most of cohort analysis. “For example, all users with the same Acquisition Date belong to the same cohort. The Cohort Analysis report lets you isolate and analyze cohort behavior.” Segment [cohort]): Get it? Sloan said.

Analysis 90

Analysis Paid Search Agency Marketing Agencies 1 Segmentation 90

DiscoverOrg

APRIL 20, 2017

Sales intelligence provides marketers with company insights (revenue growth, spending budgets, technographics); contact data (verified emails, direct dials, purchase responsibilities, org structure), and buying triggers (planned investments, online research behavior, leadership moves). Improve sales productivity.

ROI 269

ROI Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Management 269

Engagio

APRIL 12, 2024

This, in turn, leads to steady (and predictable) revenue and lower acquisition costs over time. Companies can allocate their resources towards improving products or services and enhancing customer experiences rather than constantly investing in acquisition strategies. Your team becomes an integral part of their success.

Marketing Management 62

Marketing Management Allocation Lead Ranking DemandBase 62

Martech

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Vendor roadmaps help marketers too and those who cover the space to see what innovations are on the horizon. As our editorial director Kim Davis observes, a little further down, Twilio’s acquisition of customer data infrastructure solution Segment last year, got the ball rolling for its customer engagement platform Twilio Engage.

Marketing Automation Services 98

Marketing Automation Services API Digital Transformation Acquisitions 98

Martech

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A viewpoint that starts with acquisition but spans the ownership and advocacy aspects of the customer journey. The majority of vendors offer one or more of the following capabilities to give marketers an understanding of the customer journey: Data gathering from a wide variety of channels and touchpoints.

Marketing Automation Services 113

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 113

Rev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Has a company ever selected your business as their preferred vendor simply because they are a software development company with over 5,000 employees, headquartered in the Northeast region and heavily invested in cloud-based ERP systems? Companies within the same industry or similar size may have vastly different preferences and behaviors.

Ideal Customer Profiles 78

Ideal Customer Profiles Account Based Marketing Thought Leadership Demand Generation Agencies 78

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In no particular order, things I didn’t quite expect this year include: - pushback against the walled garden vendors (Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.) Speaking of shopping: retailers with physical stores continue to panic about the growth of Amazon and other ecommerce vendors. no Customer Data Platform acquisitions.

Marketing AI 149

Marketing AI Cable Paid Search Agency Amazon 149

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The big changes started in the 1990’s when email and Web marketing provided a flood of data about customer behaviors and vendors responded with a flood of new systems to work with it. But it wasn't until the late 2000’s that the number of vendors truly exploded. And it only gets worse (from the martech vendor point of view).

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Salesforce.com Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The question answered by the paper is “What will marketing automation vendors do next?” The task is really the same as a sophisticated lead nurturing campaign: to monitor customer behavior and respond appropriately. To summarize the argument: marketing automation vendors must grow or die.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Management Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The new funding is certainly impressive, although the record for a B2B predictive marketing vendor is apparently InsideSales’ $100 million Series C in April 2014. Everstring doesn’t identify these people by name, but it does figure out their employer and track behaviors over time. But the new product is what’s really intriguing.

Marketing Management 120

Marketing Management Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Ad Exchange 120

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Many vendors claim to provide their intent data in “real-time,” but let me let you in on a dirty little secret. With the acquisition of Clickagy, our differentiation here is real-time, on time. You may be asking yourself: Wait, ZoomInfo launched a new product then acquired a company with a similar use case?

Zoominfo 100

Zoominfo Intent Data Buyer Intent Intent 100

Martech

MARCH 10, 2022

It’s about uncovering prospect behavior and weighting sales intent/intel and brand engagement rather than “funnel lead scoring” (engagement is a better metric to forecast revenue). 62% say they can now develop selection criteria or finalize a vendor list — based solely on digital content.

Account Based Marketing 107

Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles Enterprise Management Work Management 107

Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

Without getting too much into the nitty-gritty complexities of it, marketing automation campaigns send specific content (that you’ve programmed) to leads based on certain behaviors and data. Poor customer acquisition: Marketers can find themselves sending email after email, with very few responses in return. The ultimate goal?

Marketing Automation Services 113

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Work Management 113

Valasys

MARCH 28, 2023

AI in lead generation takes the drudgery out of the time-consuming tasks of customer acquisition and management. Lead Scoring: AI can analyze and score leads based on their behavior, demographics, and interactions with the brand. It includes assigning a value or score to the leads based on their characteristics and behavior.

Marketing AI 52

Marketing AI Lead Ranking Lead Generation Lead Scoring 52

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

At this stage, your company can use this behavior to educate and provide resources that will lead the prospect further down the tunnel. At this stage, the prospect may spend a lot of time researching, depending on their buying behavior and whether or not they consider this product/service to be necessary or a luxury good.

Purchase Intent 59

Purchase Intent Top of Funnel Purchase Intent 59

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. The acquisition is significant on several levels. Financial terms were not disclosed. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 120