chiefmartech

JUNE 20, 2016

Last week, Microsoft announced that it was acquiring LinkedIn for a whopping $26.2 This is the largest acqusition in Microsoft’s history — over three times the size of its acqusition of Skype for $8.5 But it’s not entirely dissimilar either, in spirit or tactic. It represents 19.4% of LinkedIn’s total revenue. Actually, yes.

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QuanticMind

JULY 7, 2023

Those conversions will also cost more this time of year—the CPA for a sale or acquisition on December 22 will likely cost more than it did on June 8. The element of supply-and-demand is as real as Santa is to your 3-year-old, so buy earlier to lock in space. What does that planning entail?

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Trends Campaigns Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 52

Leadspace

JANUARY 22, 2018

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Platforms. Using a CRM platform or various marketing technologies to leverage your knowledge of your customer base and revenue potentials helps you to really personalize experiences. Additionally, a CRM can be a hub for a more complete picture of prospects, leads and customers. organic).

Lead Ranking 126

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 126

Engagio

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Lead-to-account matching will map your leads and contacts to their respective accounts in your CRM. What if I told you that you should not trust 60% of the doctors practicing medicine? What if 60% of the curriculum you learned in school was wrong? What if 60% of the money you put into your bank was at risk for getting stolen?

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Account Based Marketing ABM Data Hygiene Lead Scoring 85

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 4, 2012

One easily predictable trend in B2B marketing automation is that vendors will tailor their systems to specific industries. This is happening to some extent, but not as quickly as I had expected. But while I see just a few general systems trying to become vertical specialists, I do keep finding specialist products trying to serve additional markets.

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Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Marketing Automation Advertising Agencies 120

Hubspot

AUGUST 2, 2022

The fundamental feature of SaaS, however, is its flexibility — companies don’t want to be locked in for years of service. The fundamental feature of SaaS, however, is its flexibility — companies don’t want to be locked in for years of service. Here’s what that looks like in practice. Unpacking the SaaS Revenue Model. Ongoing Retention.

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LeanData

JULY 13, 2020

Having a RevOps structure in place ensures that sales and marketing are in lock step on go-to-market strategy, planning and measurement, supported by insightful reporting and effective operating practices. LeanData Customer VMware Carbon Black Wins Prestigious Forrester SiriusDecisions 2020 ROI Honor for Revenue Operations Transformation .

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Marketing Analytics Tools Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Work Management 52

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Over the past three years, HubSpot has spent millions of dollars and ran over 1,200 controlled experiments on acquiring free CRM users through Google advertisements. For example, if you’re advertising a free CRM, you might want your ad to show up on Google when users type “free crm” into the search engine. Google Adwords 101.

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Hubspot Cost Google Process 74

SalesIntel

JULY 12, 2022

While a number of providers offer a data enrichment feature, at SalesIntel, we differentiate ourselves by enriching our customers’ CRM with human-verified data. In fact, according to a LeadJen study , approximately 27% of a sales rep’s time is wasted on chasing bad data. That can amount to a waste of 546 hours a year per full-time rep! .

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Zoominfo Best Practices B2B Sales Business 52

Engagio

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Lead-to-account matching will map your leads and contacts to their respective accounts in your CRM. You know which accounts to go after in the first place. The impact of bad data on your business is profound. 14.2M – Estimated amount poor data quality is costing organizations per year. So, what can you do about it? Your Ongoing Data Strategy.

Account Based Marketing 48

Account Based Marketing ABM Data Hygiene Lead Scoring 48

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This starts with acquisition—the kind of outreach that you and a majority of marketers are probably already comfortable with—but from there encompasses adoption, cross-sell, and advocacy. It is an integral part of the customer journey and like acquisition, it requires dedicated resources—people and budget. It’s a complete misnomer.

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Cross-Selling Budget Programs Allocation B2B Thought Leadership 48

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 17, 2014

Step One: Lock in Top-down Organizational Alignment. That leader should be a smart, progressive technologist who also understands your CRM system. Author: Shyna Zhang As an enterprise product marketer at Marketo, I spend a lot of time talking to enterprise executives about marketing automation. Step Two: Shuffle Your Marketing Team.

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Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 48

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As you may have heard, Pay-Per-Click (PPC) is a competitive game. PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. billion in revenue from Google Ads alone the year before. Hop straight to it here :).

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Landing Pages PPC Paid Content Optimization 145

Martech

JULY 25, 2022

CRM has been the default system to manage customers and customer data, primarily with the lens of an internal sales process and management. MAPs and CRMs, while workhorses, haven’t been entirely effective in enabling marketing and sales teams to execute the transition. Grab your popcorn and beverage of choice.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 107

Martech

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

” No doubt they were extrapolating from their experience with other industries — notably ERP, but maybe CRM too — where vendor oligopolies did emerge. But mergers and acquisitions almost never lead to products going away — they just change owners. Microsoft perceives marketing as an add-on to its core stake in Dynamics CRM.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 108

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This often makes sense for large companies that have a mix of legacy products and new, smaller ones (often from acquisitions). Below we share why a sales strategy matters and how to build one, step by step. Table of Contents What is a sales strategy? Why do you need a sales strategy? Are sellers performing as expected? Segment by product.

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Enterprise Management Efficiency Work Management Marketing Management 102

SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Acquisition Program. Acquisition Date. Score, Acquisition Program, and Acquisition Date are the basic fields that Salesforce recommends starting with, but you can always add extra fields if you want. But what if you want to access the best features from both programs in a single system?

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

You don’t need to lock down the specific tactics you want to use in your sales enablement strategy just yet, but these foundational ideas will help you ask the right people the right questions to make sure you are moving in the right direction: Improving communication between your sales and marketing departments. Reduce client churn.

Sales Management 77

Sales Management Top of Funnel Ad Building Marketing & Strategy 77

Martech

MARCH 15, 2022

For example, when my agency helped the Shark Tank company, Plated, scale to $100M in revenue in just 18 months, and then exit, you have to understand they had a team of 15 marketers who were struggling with customer acquisition(!), Why is branding important? Companies with poor branding end up having to pay 10% higher salaries.

Ad Building 140

Ad Building Brand Identity Branding Marketing & Strategy 140

Martech Advisor

OCTOBER 24, 2019

With customer acquisition costs increasing, businesses can’t rely on annual subscriptions to lock customers in anymore. Integrate Everything With Your CRM. A sales enablement system can run with little infrastructure, but CSMs do most of their work from a CRM or a customer-success-focused app like Custify.

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Rules Lock-In Buyer Personas CRM 44

Single Grain

JULY 14, 2020

Provides seamless integration with your existing CRM and systems. There are over 15,000 SaaS companies in the market, which is projected to reach $157 billion by the end of 2020. With the ever-increasing number of SaaS companies, it is crucial for you to follow certain growth strategies to outdo your competitors. What Is SaaS?

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Marketing Budget Paid Search Agency Paid Content Work Management 145

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

So, you keep your biggest wins, worst failures, and deepest insights under lock and key, safe from the prying eyes of your competitors. But in doing so, you also keep them hidden from your customers and the wider community. Start-ups tend to lead the way when it comes to sharing. In the early years of HubSpot, we were an open book.

Enterprise Management 95

Enterprise Management Hubspot Lead Ranking Sales Management 95

Directive Agency

JULY 26, 2017

So you’re devoting 23 hours a day to customer acquisition… with little to no deal flow to show for it. Digital marketing has been run in silos since the beginning of time. The SEO people “do SEO.” The PPC people “do PPC.”. That approach is continuing to fail today, however. How Do Your Customers Shop Today? Take organic search, for example.

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Planning Top of Funnel Marketing Plans Paid Search Agency 40

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. Coincidental timing too, as Yahoo ! gave up their search engine duties in U.S. and Canada to Microsoft’s Bing last week.

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Paid Content Facebook Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies 136

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Mergers & Acquisitions. Sign In. | | Free Newsletters. Business Advice |. Professional Journals |. Business Bloggers |. Forms & Agreements |. Industry Centers |. Business Directory |. Tools & Services. by Industry. by Geography. Business Credit. Business Travel. Franchising. Personal Finance. Sales & Selling. Technology.

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Aberdeen

JUNE 11, 2019

This is not only the largest deal for Salesforce but also one of the highest-valued software acquisitions to date. Meanwhile Minkara highlights that Salesforce users can now reap the benefits of Tableau within their CRM system. The post Salesforce to Acquire Tableau in Highest Valued Software Acquisition appeared first on Aberdeen.

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Cintell

DECEMBER 19, 2018

While we can consistently impact acquisition with best tactics and best practices, a knowledge gap in buyer insights will always rear its ugly head at the bottom of the funnel where it truly matters – impact to revenue. B2B Marketing Leaders, Can You Brief Your Consultants on Your Buyers? You hire specialists.

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Consulting Demand Generation Agencies Top of Funnel Buyer Personas 120

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife. Do You “Like&# Me in Attack Mode? Facebook is waging a three-pronged war on websites.

Social Media 167

Social Media Facebook Paid Content Marketing Websites 167

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife. Do You “Like&# Me in Attack Mode? Facebook is waging a three-pronged war on websites.

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Facebook Marketing Websites Paid Content Social Media 167

Single Grain

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Imagine if every new visitor to your website bought a product. Not some day in the future after navigating your complex purchase funnel, but right then on their first visit. How much easier (and more profitable) would your life as a marketer be? The thing is, selling isn’t that easy. How often should I be tweeting every day? Click To Tweet.

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Top of Funnel Sales Management Marketing Funnels Paid Content 112

chiefmartech

JANUARY 21, 2019

Yes, there’s been a large number of martech acquisitions this past year, and I expect that trend will accelerate. Experts — the lines between software vendors and professional services firms will blur: software companies will offer more expert services; services firms will automate and bottle their expertise in code.

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Work Management Marketing Management CMS Development Trends 94

Metadata

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I left right before the salesforce.com acquisition, which I’m really happy about, didn’t get trapped in that. Elissa Fink: Yeah, I’m really excited. I mean, as you said, I was at Tableau from about 5 million in revenue to over a billion in rev. Not that that … But it would have delayed my retirement.

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