The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In order to convert leads into paying customers, you must have a comprehensive lead management process in place. But, the process of lead management is every bit as multilayered and complex as the modern buyer’s journey. What is lead management? Think of lead management like a house of cards.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Technological upgrades, such as marketing automation, have improved campaign efficiency and effectiveness. ” Marketing automation remains an important piece of ops teams, but the changing digital landscape necessitates complementary solutions. Growth through marketing automation and integration.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work? The ultimate goal? Closing more sales.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering many benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. What marketing automation capabilities are most critical to our business?

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Chris Koch

OCTOBER 22, 2010

We should care more about lead management automation in B2B marketing. It isn’t because the software for automating this stuff has improved, or because it’s available through the cloud so you don’t have to deal with those people over in IT. That’s why lead management automation is important.

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TrustRadius Marketing

APRIL 17, 2022

Marketing automation allows for a marketing team or individual to amplify their work to thousands of people. First, we cover the hottest marketing statistics in the following categories: Market Scope Marketing Automation Success Why Use Marketing Automation? How is Marketing Automation being used? Market Scope.

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chiefmartech

APRIL 25, 2017

tl;dr — From 2016 to 2017, the marketing automation category of the marketing technology landscape grew yet again, by 36% , from 156 vendors to 212. Marketing automation remains a bellwether of martech. Why marketing automation, which I crudely lump together with campaign management and lead management products?

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 22, 2020

30-second summary: We provide five examples of enterprise-level providers of marketing automation solutions including industry case studies. Each of these companies are leaders in marketing automation, with enterprise businesses (and, in some cases, SMBs) benefiting from their platforms, solutions, and technology. billion by 2026.

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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.

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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.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. Standardized, automated workflow management.

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The Effective Marketer

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Last week Carlos Hidalgo , CEO of the Annuitas Group , shared on the Software Advice blog a nice video explaining two basic concepts that are often used interchangeably by vendors and even analysts in the Marketing Automation space but should in fact be treated as separate concepts: Demand Generation and Lead Management.

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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. 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.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The sessions were about lead management, lead nurturing, content marketing, social media and Pardot product sessions. One of the most interesting things Pardot does for their own lead management is to give a 60 second look to each and every lead that is sent to sales. Marketing Automation User Conferences.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 1, 2012

Lack of clarity and erroneous assumptions about demand generation, lead management and marketing automation are effectively addressed in two recent Software Advice whiteboard videos by Carlos Hidalgo, CEO, Annuitas Group , and Executive Director, Marketing Automation Institute. Nonexistent lead management processes.

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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. 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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This is an enticingly huge market for marketing automation vendors, and one that seems largely untapped. The largest marketing automation vendor in the segment, Infusionsoft , has under 20,000 clients. When a vendor does this much of the work, the key questions are less about the system than quality of the marketing.

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

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 20, 2018

Marketing automation has become an increasingly effective tool in today’s technology-driven business landscape. In fact, studies show that the use of a marketing automation platform produces, on average, 60% revenue growth for B2B businesses ( source ). Marketing automation improves sales and marketing alignment.

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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. This is always a fun project because it gives me an overview of what all the vendors have been up to for the past six months. lots of new vendors.

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Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2022

When done correctly, leads are organized, assigned, and delivered to the sales rep who is best suited to manage them. For go-to-market (GTM) teams, the importance of a highly automated and integrated routing system can’t be overstated. Yet too many companies aren’t set up to be the first to contact leads.

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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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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.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 15, 2012

Jim is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. SLMA is the sponsor of the yearly Sales Lead Management week and initiatives to identify both the Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 13, 2013

As I noted in a post last year , there is a universe of specialized marketing automation systems for companies that sell through channel partners. Here are two more vendors with related offerings: NitroMojo focuses primarily on lead distribution and tracking. Marketers pay $1 per name for prospects.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today we made the announcement that we have shifted our strategy when it comes to marketing automation vendor partnerships. For the last 5 years we have worked with our customers to deliver a full-cycle Lead Management Framework TM that greatly improves the return on their marketing and sales investments.

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BOP Design

DECEMBER 2, 2020

To use personalization or automation in B2B sales, that is the quandary, or discussion, or battle depending on the parties involved. Benefits of Automation in the Sales Process. Benefits of Automation in the Sales Process. You can keep a lead engaged with your brand with a timely, automated response via social media.

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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 The Power User.

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

It’s well documented that, of the companies who invest in marketing automation, many fail to achieve maximum return from that investment, or even utilize marketing automation technology to its full capacity. In our agency’s work with marketing automation users , we’ve identified 10 of the most common mistakes to avoid: 1.

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The Point

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A primary driver for this trend is the recognition that the buying process is evolving, and that buyers download more content, and are further along in the sales process, before they’re willing to engage with a vendor. solely for the purpose of diverting marketing emails.

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Capstone Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Marketing automation is a straightforward way to increase a company’s efficiency and effectiveness in demand generation. It helps increase lead conversion rates while decreasing the overall cost per lead. When using marketing automation at scale, several platform attributes become critical. Integrations.

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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. I say this with the fervor of a reformed sinner, since for many years I looked at flow charts as the mark of an advanced marketing automation system.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Marketo COULD HAVE been acquired by one of several enterprise application vendors that simply don’t get marketing. Moreover, Adobe’s product quality is world class — something that cannot be said for every software vendor that has acquired marketing automation. Adobe GETS marketing. Start to finish.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 29, 2019

A lot of business activity is repetitive, and can be accomplished by the right business automation software. But there are a lot of options, so workflow automation platform Workato announced this week a new Automation Marketplace of workflow automation solutions for its platform. 57 percent piloting or using automation.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 29, 2019

A lot of business activity is repetitive, and can be accomplished by the right business automation software. But there are a lot of options, so workflow automation platform Workato announced this week a new Automation Marketplace of workflow automation solutions for its platform. 57 percent piloting or using automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

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. Manticore launched its B2B marketing automation system in 2003, making it one of the older vendors in the industry.

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