The Point

APRIL 8, 2015

Spear Marketing Group has published an informative report detailing results of a survey designed to gauge the maturity of marketing automation deployments within the B2B community. In some notable areas, the average marketing automation user appears to be achieving real business value.

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Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. In this post, we focus on why Marketing Converts recommends the “unique” model to the vast majority of clients. Also, the majority of marketing automation platforms take the approach that a person only exists once in the platform.

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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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 12, 2009

On Monday, Eloqua announced a new free deployment service for its clients. It follows last month’s free deployment offer from Eloqua reseller Pedowitz Group , which generated quite a bit of comment on this blog. Eloqua also has its professional services group and consulting partners to provide more hands-on assistance.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 27, 2009

Eloqua yesterday announced Eloqua Prospect Profiler , which makes it easier for salespeople to review prospect behaviors that are captured by the demand generation system. The behavior data captured by marketing automation systems restores the balance by providing an alternate source of insights into prospect interests and intentions.

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Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. Please view this as a general list; some of these points will be more or less pronounced depending on the marketing automation platform you’re using ( Marketo , Eloqua , HubSpot , Act-on , Autopilot , etc.) Data management.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 8, 2009

The Pedowitz Group announced this morning that it was offering $15,000 in free consulting services and guaranteeing a five-day implementation to new clients who purchase Eloqua demand generation software. And yes, some marketers will get their system running with no more than telephone support. Click here for the announcement.) (If

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Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 18, 2018

Moni Oloyede – Marketing Technology & Marketing Operations Specialist. Key Topics: Martech, Marketing Operations. Bio: Moni is a Marketing Operations specialist with 10 years of Marketing Technology experience. I’m very passionate about marketing operations. No, leads are pushed down the funnel.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

So don’t cancel your tickets for the next Marketo Marketing Nation Summit … that event likely has at least one more go-round.). – Adobe is a strong ally of marketing innovation. Marketo COULD HAVE been acquired by one of several enterprise application vendors that simply don’t get marketing.

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Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. In this post, we focus on why Marketing Converts recommends the “unique” model to the vast majority of clients. Also, the majority of marketing automation platforms take the approach that a person only exists once in the platform.

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Lead Management De-duplication Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 40

Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Finally, the new 2013 B2B Lead Generation Report is available! Download it here: [link] ) The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted the 2013 lead generation survey to better understand how B2B marketers are adjusting to new challenges, and to identify new trends and best practices. The results are in.

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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

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. This requires finding ways to attract masses of new customers as they enter the market.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. Neolane “ Making the Business Case for Enterprise Marketing Software ”. Here's a bunch. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

70% of marketers say marketing automation software is critical to their success. Marketing automation occurs when marketers pass the burden of monotonous tasks to software logic to complete. What is marketing automation and why is it used? Automated marketing began with the “email”.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 4, 2011

If you’re a B2B marketer and you’re not hibernating, you obviously know the concept of marketing automation. Marketo, Aprimo, Eloqua, Silverpop and all the rest are there to push this technology towards you. Marketing Automation doesn’t work unless there’s a realistic scoring model in place.

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LeadSloth

JUNE 23, 2009

The Marketing Automation industry is evolving continuously. Many digital marketers are using marketing automation tools to automate lead nurturing. But if you want to expand your business, you also need to continuously add new leads to your database. “Isn’t that Search Marketing?&#.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The past two days I attended the Pardot User Conference , and also presented a session on Lead Nurturing. The sessions were about lead management, lead nurturing, content marketing, social media and Pardot product sessions. Marketing Automation User Conferences. And that’s impressive.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 4, 2011

If you’re a B2B marketer and you’re not hibernating, you obviously know the concept of marketing automation. Marketo, Aprimo, Eloqua, Silverpop and all the rest are there to push this technology towards you. Marketing Automation doesn’t work unless there’s a realistic scoring model in place.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2020

Hubspot’s ‘human’ voice, vast collection of educational materials and networking events have solidified its place as the authority on inbound marketing — and also as one of the most popular marketing automation platforms in the field. . Hubspot: Getting to Know a Marketing Automation Favorite. Let’s jump in.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 28, 2015

There is still a great divide between sales and marketing. Despite the silos, some organizations are able to meet their sales and marketing goals. Misconceptions about tools like marketing automation (that is a marketing tool) just add fuel to the fire. Technology is a factor in the great divide. Will it be easy?

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The Point

AUGUST 23, 2011

Do you feign understanding when your CEO talks about “sales and marketing alignment”? Unclear on the difference between lead management and revenue cycle management? Horrified at the responsibility of investigating marketing automation solutions for your company? You can access the Webinar here.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. It does depend on marketing setting up the definitions, rather than letting sales people create their own. a “lead feed” feature that can send “interesting moment” alerts via RSS, SMS, email, iPhone and other mobile devices.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 28, 2012

In our last post , we introduced a list of 9 things marketers need from marketing automation vendors and consultants. Even though the information for the buyer is plentiful, we at The Annuitas Group are still constantly being asked to provide insight on what’s actually going on in the market. Hence, the list.

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ViewPoint

MAY 5, 2011

In a recent article on Revenue Performance Management in Marketing Automation Software Guide, Lauren Carlson does a nice job of providing a context for the RPM discussion by differentiating it from marketing automation, reviewing the factors motivating its advancement, and raising good questions.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 28, 2012

In our last post , we introduced a list of 9 things marketers need from marketing automation vendors and consultants. Even though the information for the buyer is plentiful, we at The Annuitas Group are still constantly being asked to provide insight on what’s actually going on in the market. Hence, the list.

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Conversica

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Email marketing is a proven method to increase conversion rate, but it needs to be done deliberately to optimize its impact and cut through the noise that your audiences encounter as they seek solutions to address their business problems. Use the double opt-in feature on your email marketing software to avoid landing in spam folders.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Usability Items for Simple Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) Yesterday's post described the background of this usability scoring project and gave scores for several items that apply to both simple and complex marketing programs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. So far the original list of Eloqua , Vtrenz , Marketo , Manticore Technology and Market2Lead has proven a good set of choices. What’s more interesting is the figures for the Marketing Automation group.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 10, 2011

Steve has nearly 20 years of experience in brand building, demand generation and corporate marketing. Steve has a proven track record in marketing communications development and execution. He has served as chief marketing executive at TOA Technologies and Eloqua, as well as at Nuance Communications.

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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. But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. Note: after I posted this, it was pointed out to me that the bulk of traffic on several sites relates to customer log-ins rather than marketing prospects.

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LeadSloth

APRIL 29, 2009

In my previous post I listed the Top-10 Demand Generation blog by marketers and consultants. Most of these vendors blogs really get ‘online marketing’, so they talk about best practices rather then just touting their products, and they post regularly. In alphabetical order: ActiveConversion B2B Marketing Blog.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 5, 2020

For those of us in the event marketing space, virtual trade shows rank fairly high on that list of challenging experiences. Even though it is hosted virtually, you still have the valuable opportunity to gather qualified leads from around the world & create meaningful connections. Most of us are figuring it out as we go.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This was my fourth Dreamforce, and I’d like to offer some observations from the perspective of someone who lives in the B2B marketing & sales space. Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. Observation 2: Marketing Automation is Alive & Well.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

We are glad to have Steve Woods, CTO of Eloqua as a guest contributor to The Annuitas Group blog. Steve is a thought leader in the world of marketing automation and lead management and is also a prolific writer on topics related to demand generation and the current transitions within the marketing profession.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. When I wrote about Aprimo Marketing Studio in a post last August , I was impressed by the scope of the product but reserved judgment because it hadn’t yet been launched. You know who you are.

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