SmartBug Media

JANUARY 13, 2020

You’re on the hunt for a marketing automation tool? Not only have you made a fantastic decision for your business, but you’ve come to the right place for guidance through the process. You’ll want to know how else these marketing automation platforms can integrate with other areas of your business.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Management Automation 93

Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2020

Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor. There’s a main stage for keynote-style presentations, expo booths where attendees can interact with vendors, breakout session areas, and one-to-one video networking. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor.

Enterprise Management 363

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Webinar Metrics 363

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

For those of you with Marketo in your Demand Process technology stacks, your next question is probably what does this mean for me ? Marketo COULD HAVE been acquired by one of several enterprise application vendors that simply don’t get marketing. – This could also take marketing automation more into e-commerce.

Marketo 193

Marketo Acquisitions Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management 193

ANNUITAS

JUNE 28, 2012

In our last post , we introduced a list of 9 things marketers need from marketing automation vendors and consultants. We came up with this list to help make sense of “the noise” being generated by software vendors and service providers in the space (yes, we are one of those providers). Then refer them to a company that does.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

ANNUITAS

JUNE 28, 2012

In our last post , we introduced a list of 9 things marketers need from marketing automation vendors and consultants. We came up with this list to help make sense of “the noise” being generated by software vendors and service providers in the space (yes, we are one of those providers). Then refer them to a company that does.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2013

Raab Associates officially released the new edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday. This is our flagship report on the industry, with nearly 200 data points on 23 vendors and separate ratings for micro-business, small to mid-size companies, and enterprise marketing departments.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management Acquisitions 120

Digital B2B Marketing

MAY 21, 2013

Marketing automation is quickly becoming like the self-driving car for B2B marketing. Led by Eloqua (now part of Oracle) and Marketo (with a very successful IPO last week), today marketing automation companies are collectively worth billions. When Marketing Automation Is Unnecessary. You Don’t Have Scale.

Marketing Management 100

Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 5, 2011

We released two more vendor selection workbooks last week, both sponsored by Eloqua and available for free on the RaabGuide Web site. One is about estimating the cost of a marketing automation system and the other is about evaluating vendor services. These are the other 75% of the typical marketing budget. of revenue.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Cost 120

TrustRadius Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Marketing automation platforms—the swiss army knives of marketing—supposedly let you do it all. . Yet marketers often have a love-hate relationship with their marketing automation software. Yet marketers often have a love-hate relationship with their marketing automation software. There are] no tutorials for new users.”.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing AI 59

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

Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

About 15 years ago, marketing automation technology came on the scene, designed to help marketers more effectively and efficiently market across channels. It has grown in popularity, and according to SiriusDecisions , 40% of organizations will own automation by next year. So without further ado: Eloqua. Read the post.).

Marketing Automation Services 101

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 101

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So marketing automation vendors are understandably eager to support it in their systems. I recently took a quick tour of vendor sites to see what social features they’re offering. I need to stress that I’ve only credited vendors for features they list on their site. Results are summarized in the table below.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Social Media 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. They look good in demonstrations and can lay out simple processes quite nicely. Here, then, is a list of vendors (alphabetically) and their interfaces.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration. ease of use.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

Webbiquity

JANUARY 27, 2011

They have significant control of mind share in that space, and their legacy in customer service and sales force automation software is strong. So, where does Salesforce.com stand as a marketing automation solution? Marketing Automation Software Guide decided to answer this question. However, CRM is a trifecta.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

I only mention this because I’ve recently been looking at a lot of new (to me) vendors and haven’t been able to write about many of them. This makes it a system for both small business and service vendors: two of my four themes. 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

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).

Manticore 100

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

ClickZ

AUGUST 20, 2019

Meeting automation platform SummitSync has announced a partnership with Conversica, a leading developer of conversational AI assistants for businesses. We wanted to use technology to streamline this process so that businesses could increase the number of meetings that are happening at a given event.”. Match for event marketing.

Marketing Automation Services 75

Marketing Automation Services Automation Trade Show Conversion 75

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.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Work Management 100

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

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

About 15 years ago, marketing automation technology came on the scene, designed to help marketers more effectively and efficiently market across channels. It has grown in popularity, and according to SiriusDecisions , 40% of organizations will own automation by next year. Read the post.)

Marketing Automation Services 65

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 65

ANNUITAS

APRIL 11, 2011

The B2B buyer is truly driving the buying process taking control out of the hands of sellers. The phrase “buyers are turning to sales much later in the buying process” was repeated continually as a way to describe this shift of power. Social media has played a pivotal role in the shift of the B2B buying process. Go for it.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel B2B Sales Buy Process 100

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

How can you efficiently nurture those long-term prospects, learning more about their interests in the process, until they are really ready to engage with sales? Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

But most vendors serving the ABM space have taken a much narrower approach, either in providing data about accounts, managing campaigns against externally-built account lists, or providing account-level metrics such as coverage, engagement, and funnel velocity. Then I saw ZenIQ. Now things start get interesting.

Account Based Marketing 120

Account Based Marketing Marketing Automation Services Work Management Buy 120

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. Ideally, your team would define this process once, perform maintenance checkups, track the provided analytics, and take action on those insights.

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

ANNUITAS

MARCH 10, 2016

I am a huge proponent of utilizing innovative technologies to streamline business processes and I am fascinated by the history of technology. It’s been nearly two decades since marketing automation pushed into the B2B scene with the introduction of Eloqua in 1999. Recognize the complexities of adding technology to your process.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Eloqua Paid Search Agency 100

Capstone Insights

JANUARY 17, 2018

Marketing automation is just a glorified (and really expensive) email delivery tool without a power user. Here are four marketing automation interview questions I’d ask any person that says they’re a marketing automation power user along with responses I’d be listening for. a new analyst report).

Marketing Automation Services 49

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Work Management 49

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

But I did notice about two years ago that pretty much everyone in the B2B marketing automation space was more or less assuming I’d attend. I do recall that some (traditional, structured) research has shown that human brains physically adjust when they must process unstructured inputs. Peer pressure worked, and there I was.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Work Management 120

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. The case for marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Work Management 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. Vendors take note. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

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. The case for marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Work Management Automation 100

TrustRadius Marketing

JUNE 19, 2019

Of all the love-hate relationships out there, the one between marketers and their marketing automation platform is a classic—at least in the world of software. In a recent TrustRadius survey, 70% of marketers said that Marketing Automation software was very essential to achieving their marketing goals. What’s in the Guide?

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 40

ANNUITAS

MAY 5, 2020

What marketing automation platform is currently in place, and how well is it working? Many people in the marketing technology field specialize in a particular marketing automation platform. For example, prioritize someone who is a Marketo Certified Expert, Eloqua Master, or SFDC Certified Administrator.

Marketing Automation Services 130

Marketing Automation Services Demand Work Management Marketing Management 130

LeadSloth

MAY 25, 2010

Oracle has just acquired Market2Lead , one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. There has been a lot of talk in the industry about possible consolidation, such as vendors going out of business, becoming irrelevant or being acquired. Market2Lead was one of the early Marketing Automation vendors.

Market2Lead 100

Market2Lead Enterprise Management Acquisitions Work Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2016

Mariana finds other people who match the personas, using its deep understanding of social data to accurately identify and find contact information on larger numbers of relevant people than other vendors. Conversion IQ follows a similar process except that Mariana works from a set of known contacts uploaded by the client. How many more?

Ad Building 120

Ad Building Work Management Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Management 120

Webbiquity

AUGUST 12, 2012

In the foreword to Revenue Engine: Why Revenue Performance Management is the Next Frontier of Competitive Advantage by Steve Woods and Alex Shootman, Eloqua CEO Joe Payne writes that “This is not a book about marketing. ” Understand your primary marketing challenge in order to fix “leaks” in the buying process.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 100