The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. Actually, it’s much easier for Marketing and lead cultivation people to get instant value out of Salesforce.com (SFDC) than it is for reps.

Salesforce.com 100

Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Work Management 100

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.) Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 15, 2013

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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation BtoB 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 The deal makes obvious sense, in that it gives Oracle a much stronger position in the fast-growing B2B marketing automation industry*. per share, which comes to $871 million. The stock had been hovering around $17.50

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation 120

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 27, 2023

According to their site, Marketing Over Coffee is “audio on demand” that covers both classic and new marketing. Steve Woods As a founder at Eloqua, Steve is one of the pioneers of the first great wave of Marketing Automation. What is Marketing Over Coffee?

Lead Ranking 186

Lead Ranking Planning Paid Search Agency B2B Thought Leadership 186

LeadSloth

MARCH 8, 2010

I write about Marketing Automation, so why am I at a sales conference? Marketing Automation can help both Marketing and Sales, but it requires intense collaboration: that’s what Sales 2.0 Chatter and Marketing Automation. Salesforce.com Chatter Screenshot. Today I’m at the Sales 2.0 is all about.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Salesforce.com Automation 100

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Whether it is the hyper-personalized contextual engagement approach, increasingly higher marketing ROI/ROMI, higher influence on pipeline generation/acceleration, or the increasingly better demand waterfall efficiencies, marketing analytics capabilities span across the areas of marketing execution and the key strategies.

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Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads Demand 59

Jackie Walts

MARCH 6, 2019

Recent advances in give demand generation marketers tricks to reduce waste and gain better results. So, I thought I’d share what I’m finding most useful right now: First – if you have marketing automation or CRM, there are probably new tools just waiting in the platforms you already own. Data modeling has gotten easier too.

Demand 54

Demand Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Salesforce.com 54

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

Finally, Optify has expanded into conventional marketing automation over the past 18 months and most recently added basic contact management and distribution of lead information, scores, and alerts to sales people. This will remind marketing automation aficionados of HubSpot, which has made a similar journey.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. Salesforce.com easily dominates despite the presence of surprisingly capable free products like ZohoCRM and FreeCRM.

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Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Markempa

MAY 30, 2017

Learn how to improve the quality and accuracy of your B2B persona and contact data in to get better lead generation results and drive demand When was the last time you looked at the quality and accuracy of your B2B persona and contact data? From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target, which Salesforce.com then acquired.

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Salesforce.com Linkedin Research Studies 40

LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services LEADSExplorer netFactor Leadlander 100

LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In addition to Marketing Automation, there were two big topics: Social Media and CRM. If that’s true, why would you still need Marketing Automation? So let’s dig in and find how Marketing Automation and CRM are different. So let’s dig in and find how Marketing Automation and CRM are different.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Salesforce.com 100

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

The data-driven marketing approach with the ability to track demand waterfall conversion rates is a game-changer across the board and no doubt marketing analytics continues to be a top priority for the CMOs and marketing leaders across all the organizations. MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads).

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality. any significant price point, non-commodity products).

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Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 8, 2009

I had an interesting email conversation last month with a Raab Guide buyer about the nuances of company-level data management in demand generation systems. He started from the perfectly reasonable premise that the demand generation system should give an overview of activity for all leads associated with a given company.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Work Management 120

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Whether it is the hyper-personalized contextual engagement approach, increasingly higher marketing ROI/ROMI, higher influence on pipeline generation/acceleration, or the increasingly better demand waterfall efficiencies, marketing analytics capabilities span across the areas of marketing execution and the key strategies.

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 4, 2012

The list of independent marketing automation systems shrank by one yesterday when Leadformix was purchased by sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud for $9 million. The price is surprisingly low for an established marketing automation vendor. But even if they back away completely from “marketing automation”, the deal makes sense.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

LeadSloth

MAY 16, 2009

This week I’m finishing up my day job as Sr Marketing Manager at Backbase, and will be available full-time for Marketing Automation Consulting. If you have Marketing Automation challenges, I’d love to hear from you ( or toll-free 1-888-4A-SLOTH). June 8th I will officially start as a full-time consultant. See you then!

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Consulting Market2Lead Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Summary: Marketing automation and CRM systems may eventually converge, but for now marketers need help explaining why they need a system of their own. People still don’t understand the difference between marketing automation vs. CRM. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate? Vendors take note.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

Our scoring reflects their need for special features for automated content selection, project management, complex lead scores, and tight control over the rights granted to individual users. Marketo and Oracle (specifically, Oracle CRM On Demand Marketing ) are considerably further back in the leader quadrant.

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Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 120

ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. So now the story can be told. ROI reporting.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Enterprise Management 120

Launch Marketing

JANUARY 11, 2019

As the company continued to grow rapidly, they needed help understanding, building out and implementing their marketing automation solution to support demand gen needs and ensure sales and marketing alignment. The Details. Mike Westgate, VP of Marketing. Mike Westgate, VP of Marketing.

Ideal Customer Profiles 48

Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation 48

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. When Net-Results ’ showed me their marketing automation system, the demonstration ended so quickly that I wondered what was missing. I guess that’s true, but doubt it’s important to most marketers.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services 120

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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. InsideView is already integrated with major CRM vendors and with the Marketbright demand generation system. Results can be imported to sales automation and CRM files to update and enhance their profiles. But it does save a few keystrokes.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. The company takes a conservative approach to marketing automation, stressing the importance of process over flashy software. Manticore Technology today released the latest version of its marketing automation system.

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Manticore Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management 120

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. The reason is selection bias: most surveys are answered by people who are actively engaged in marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

DemandBase had to build its own engines for real time bidding (RTB) and ad serving (Demand Side Platform or DSP) to support its approach. Marketing automation, Web analytics, and Web content management systems can all access this data via API calls for analytics and as inputs to their own selection and treatment rules.

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DemandBase Advertising Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency 120

Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Why Does Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Marketing Automation Integration Matter? In this article we’ll discuss why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and marketing automation integration matter to businesses with a sales and marketing team. As a user myself, I first started using Salesforce.com. Nurture prior to sales interaction.

Marketing Automation Services 48

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Lead Liaison CRM 48

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. me-too products.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Summary: Alsa Marketing is a late entry to small business marketing automation. It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Tags: marketing automation multi-language marketing lead management demand generation. Alsa has some other unusual features.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

For many smaller companies, a suite like Adobe, Oracle , IBM , Salesforce.com , SAS , or Teradata isn’t an option and would be overkill if it were. The system imports lists of target accounts from a company’s CRM or marketing automation system, or lets clients build their own lists from Terminus’ own B2B company database. ad inventory.

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Paid Search Agency Display Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 120

The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams. Getting Started with Marketing Automation.

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Work Management 100

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. Maybe next week. [I

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