ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. The goal was to evaluate the ‘enterprise suitability’ of these platforms – i.e., their ability to play the ‘keystone’ role we believe MAP should play in an enterprise Demand Process environment.

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DealSignal

DECEMBER 28, 2021

What Is Demand Generation Marketing? Demand generation marketing is a strategy that marketers use to generate brand awareness and interest in a product or solution at scale, leveraging several disciplines within marketing. Demand Generation Strategy and Tactics.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 9, 2011

Summary : Act-On Software’s revised system offers a reasonable mix of features in an easy-to-use interface. At $500 per month with no annual contract, it’s priced to make it easy to get started with marketing automation. While some other system provide this, many marketing automation vendors rely on third-party products instead.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 4, 2010

Summary: Two low-cost demand generation systems, Genoo and Act-On Software, have added unusually advanced social marketing features. A few weeks back, I wrote about social marketing features from consumer marketing automation vendors. I got details from two of them last week.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 12, 2018

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. However marketers are largely dissatisfied with the reporting their MAPs offer.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Today’s post is about Marketing Automation. Marketing automation platforms are a foundational element of the martech stack. Marketing automation is all about using software to automate activities which allows your teams more time to focus on strategy and the leads showing real promise. Marketo Engage.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 3, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – December 3, 2014 – Vidyard , a global leader in video marketing and sales enablement solutions, today launched its integration with the Act-On marketing automation platform. We’re excited to partner with Vidyard to bring these capabilities to the Act-On community.”

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 3, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – December 3, 2014 – Vidyard , a global leader in video marketing and sales enablement solutions, today launched its integration with the Act-On marketing automation platform. We’re excited to partner with Vidyard to bring these capabilities to the Act-On community.”

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 3, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – December 3, 2014 – Vidyard , a global leader in video marketing and sales enablement solutions, today launched its integration with the Act-On marketing automation platform. We’re excited to partner with Vidyard to bring these capabilities to the Act-On community.”

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Jackie Walts

JULY 6, 2016

Good demand generation requires strategy, planning and tools – and the right team. If you’re smart, you’ll assign one team to own demand generation. Since most companies share a database and marketing automation, demand generation is particularly ill suited to execution in silos.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 17, 2015

You’ve vetted the vendors, selected your features, sized your database and scheduled your implementation; you are now ready to deploy your marketing automation platform, right? Without the correct staffing your marketing automation investment might as well be a car that sits in the garage, collecting dust.In

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Last November, after much consideration of alternatives , I settled on Alexa three-month Web traffic rankings as a reasonable way to measure the relative market presence of demand generation vendors.

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 12, 2023

Marketing tasks are increasingly complex, and the need for B2B marketing automation is more critical than ever. Let’s break down what B2B marketing automation is, why it’s crucial, and how it can transform your business operations. What is B2B Marketing Automation?

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers. 1) Marketo.

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Act-On

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Like the unhappy families of Anna Karenina , no two B2B marketing teams are exactly alike. Every company has its own history, values, strategies, and quirks that impact how marketing happens on a day-to-day basis. And the hallmark of a good marketing department is simply that it works. This is just a big-picture overview.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

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. mid-market leadership may be up for grabs. A few interesting trends stood out: revenue growth is accelerating. You heard it here first. We''ll see.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

InsideView is already integrated with major CRM vendors and with the Marketbright demand generation system. It can also search other Web sites for email addresses containing the targeted domain. Ones I know about include Pardot , LoopFuse , TrueInfluence , Salesforce.com and ACT! But it does save a few keystrokes.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

But even including that, the first year cost for most of these will be less.) : Manticore Technology : a full-featured demand generation product. See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Just kidding.or Pricing starts at $599 per month.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

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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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. Although the VEST is primarily intended to help people who are buying a marketing automation system, its database also provides a statistical portrait of the industry.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. What really got me thinking about this was prepping for a Webinar I’ll be giving next Wednesday on the future of marketing automation ( register here ). million vs. 39.6 million vs. $13.3

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The Point

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

[HS] Why do you think that so much attention and technology and investment been focused on the mid-funnel vs. the challenge of generating more and better leads in the first place? [PA] PA] If you think about how marketing has evolved, you need to get your back-office systems sorted out before you attack the top of funnel opportunity.

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Paid Content Demand Generation Agencies Cost per Lead Lead Scoring 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 11, 2011

You know that red-hot B2B marketing automation industry? Our just-released update to the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Toolkit (VEST) shows that client counts grew just over 50% over the year ending in June, compared with nearly 100% growth for the year ending last December. Not necessarily.

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Launch Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Alert Logic was in fast growth mode and wanted to implement marketing automation to support the scaling of their business. They wanted a partner to lead the strategy and implementation of an Enterprise-class marketing automation solution, and with that in mind engaged Launch Marketing to lead the effort.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2020

ANNUITAS has found that more than three-quarters of B2B organizations have taken a tactical approach to demand generation – engaging in non-sustainable and non-outcome-oriented random acts of marketing – versus building a sustainable and optimizable strategic demand engine. But the reality is quite the opposite. .

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 1, 2012

I’ve gotten used to thinking of the B2B marketing automation industry as entering a consolidation phase, during which a handful of dominant vendors emerge and small vendors drop away. For B2B marketing automation, we’re not there yet. Both Pardot and Act-On are doing exactly that.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2012

The immediate subject of my attentions is next Tuesday’s Webinar “ Marketing Automation: One Step at a Time ”, sponsored by Act-On Software. Training: The wall is high but marketers can learn to jump higher. Ease of use: Let’s lower the wall so marketing automation is easier.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

I’ve been creeping in that direction with the previous two posts about revenues, growth rates, and market share. In a young industry like B2B marketing automation, the primary focus is growth, and I published some figures on that yesterday (repeated below). And the stock did rise 12% on the first day.

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The Point

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Highlighted by the launch of Salesforce’s own analytics cloud , the current trend in marketing technology is clearly focused on helping marketers make smart decisions and build smarter campaigns. Just when did demand generation get this complicated? In reality, however, things aren’t quite so convoluted.

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Inbox Insight

JANUARY 15, 2024

If B2B marketers focused in the technology industry are able to understand the key challenges businesses face when it comes to digital transformation, they can target them with the right marketing messages, across the right channels, and at exactly the right time to engage, intercept, and ultimately boost sales.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. But is it so much easier than the other products I just listed? I think not.

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Act-On

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“Sales only cares about hitting targets, by any means necessary.”). Sales and marketing alignment isn’t easy, but it’s one of the most efficient ways to improve your business. And the B2B buying journey is no longer a linear progression from marketing to sales, with one point of handoff along the way.

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Vidyard

JULY 27, 2015

With seemingly never-ending options of new technology to choose from, digital marketing is an ever-changing landscape of options. Used well, marketing automation (MA) can tell the story of how your customers interact with your brand, your content, and the people in your company, throughout the entire customer journey.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 11, 2011

Summary: Here's a closer look at revenue per employee and marketing automation revenue in general. Some of the comments on last week’s post on the size of the B2B marketing automation industry led me to dig a bit more deeply into the question of revenue per employee. So maybe let’s credit them with $10 million.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So marketing automation vendors are understandably eager to support it in their systems. I need to stress that I’ve only credited vendors for features they list on their site. Plenty of third party applications can do this, so providing it within the marketing automation system is mostly a matter of convenience.

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