Martech

APRIL 21, 2023

Marketing automation is quite literally that — the automation of specific marketing tasks so that they are accomplished more speedily and efficiently, creating the opportunity to deliver personalized and relevant messages at scale. Table of contents What is marketing automation and why is it important?

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Martech

JULY 6, 2022

We also owe a debt of gratitude to many martech vendors, who not only build the platforms on which we work, but who also produce a plethora of marketing education including classes, workshops, and certifications. A lot of vendors excel at one thing, but are lacking elsewhere. Answer: Very unlikely. .

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B2BMarketing.net

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Making the right martech choice to enable account-based marketing just got an awful lot easier with the launch of B2B Marketing’s first Martech Vendor Spotlight Report , which focused on the ABM category. This report lists all those vendors who can help marketers to run an ABM strategy. The post New!

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Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2023

But too many marketing leaders still report that they haven’t built a complete ABM tech stack to deliver the automation they need. Everyone wants to be the first vendor in the door when accounts start showing interest in solving problems that you can help address. Wondering how to incorporate AI and automation into your ABM strategy?

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 24, 2014

On May 6, AOL and Google announced their respective acquisitions of attribution vendors Convertro and Adometry. The particular not-ness that I have in mind is not being a marketing automation system. I’m not ready to say that the great marketing automation boom is over or that marketing automation is approaching commodity status.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2021

What is Automated Lead Qualification? Sales teams qualify leads a little differently — they’re overseeing that lead’s interest in their product or service and tracking touchpoints with them. Some things need to be as automated as possible for sales teams to make the best decisions when acting on MQLs and leads. The result?

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Martech

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Leading customer relationship management (CRM) and other marketing platforms are integrating sophisticated AI capabilities that promise to assist with key functions like gauging customer sentiment, training employees, making product recommendations, enriching data and even auto-generating targeted campaigns.

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Martech

JANUARY 21, 2022

For starters, once you have determined that ABM software makes sense for your business, spend time researching individual vendors and their capabilities by doing the following: Make a list of all the ABM capabilities you currently have, those that you would like to have and those that you can’t live without.

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Martech

JULY 15, 2021

Big martech vendors — even successful ones — routinely jettison or replace longstanding tools. Early in my career as an industry analyst, I noticed that some of the best web content and experience management (WCM) solutions came from lesser-known vendors. The myth of large-vendor stability. Yet, IBM was not alone.

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Martech

JULY 29, 2022

Once you’ve gone through the checklist to determine if you need — and are ready for — an ABM solution, the next step is to identify and contact vendors. Your vendor shortlist. For example, if enriching your ICPs with deeper technographic data is important, be sure to ask about it during vendor interviews and demos.

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Content Standard

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Title Options A Quick Start to Research-Informed Content for Healthcare Vendors Healthcare Vendors and Research-Informed Content: 4 Tactics You Can Implement Today Healthcare Vendors and Research-Informed Content-Part 1: The Low-Hanging Fruit “Half of them are working off instinct and hunches.”

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Now, Steve happens to work in product marketing for Oracle Marketing Cloud , home of Eloqua, typically regarded as the most feature-rich (some would say: complex) marketing automation solution on the market. But even then, the trend speaks to a failure of the big marketing automation players to cement their place in the tech stack.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Business process automation (BPA) allows you to automate those manual responsibilities, so that you can focus on work that promotes innovation. The spotlight’s now on why it’s high time to embrace automation, and how you can wield its power with precision. The global BPA market is projected to reach $19.6

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Martech

MARCH 9, 2022

Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Marketing automation and agent training. Does the platform enable other marketing automation capabilities, such as automatically generating online display or email nurturing campaigns? Strategy and product roadmap. If so, which ones?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Does the vendor seem to understand our business and marketing needs? Explore platform capabilities from vendors like Sitecore, Optimizely, Pantheon, WordPressVIP and more in the full MarTech Intelligence Report on digital experience platforms. CDPs , marketing automation platforms , CRMs , DSPs, DAMs )? Click here to download!

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Marketers can do a better job of picking their marketing automation vendors if they roll up their sleeves and work at it. But you also need a vendor who will support your long-term success. Here are some ways to identify a “future-safe” vendor. These are still surprisingly rare in B2B marketing automation systems.

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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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chiefmartech

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Participants in the study reported which capabilities they would like martech vendors to improve in order to better optimize marketing. Are you listening, my fellow martech vendor friends? Degree of integration matters, and marketers are now evaluating products on that dimension. Okay, martech vendors: the market has spoken.

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Martech

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Automating it will doubtless increase efficiency and accuracy. Further, when vendors add AI features to their products, they need to detail the underlying tasks each AI feature handles. Further, when we automate learning experiences, new challenges will also present themselves. We ignore that fact to our own peril.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 20, 2012

Indeed, with 208 data points on 22 vendors, there’s so much data that it’s a challenge to make sense of it. Since we only added one new vendor for this edition and kept all the old ones, the vendor base itself is largely stable. Items with the greatest change in average score are the ones that vendors are adapting most rapidly.

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Martech

JUNE 22, 2023

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a four-part series on how AI will be infused into marketing automation platforms. Part 1, AI marketing automation: How it works and why marketers should care, is here. Even with automation, we rely heavily on human interaction and system interfaces to drive much of the input. Get MarTech!

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system.

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ClickDimensions

MARCH 14, 2023

One of these technologies is Marketing Automation. Page Contents What is Marketing Automation? How can manufacturers use Marketing Automation? Marketing Automation is a technology which businesses can use to help find, nurture, and convert prospects by guiding them through the buyer journey across multiple different platforms.

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Martech

JANUARY 11, 2023

Does every B2B marketing organization need a marketing automation platform? There are many use cases for the solution; so many that it’s hard to imagine that most B2B marketing teams won’t find compelling reasons to automate at least some of their processes. It’s hard to do that at any scale without using automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Summary: Yesterday's post described the objectives of my product fit scores for B2B marketing automation vendors and how I set up the original weighting for individual elements. But the original set of scores seemed to favor more complex products, even for small business marketers. Here's how I addressed the problem.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JULY 24, 2023

In fact, 77% of desk workers say that automating routine tasks would improve their productivity. Enterprise automation may be the key to bridging this gap. Enterprise automation leads to loyal customers , happier employees, better efficiency, and cost savings. Not sure where to start with automation?

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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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Martech

MARCH 7, 2022

Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Explore DAM solutions from vendors like Acquia, Widen, Cloudinary, MediaValet and more in the full MarTech Intelligence Report on digital asset management platforms. Strategy and product roadmap. Are they showing us our “must-have” features? Integrations.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. The pattern is quite clear.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Summary: The first two posts in this series described my scoring for product fit. The third and final post describes scoring for vendor strength. And I'll give a little preview of the charts these scores produce.without product names attached. As with product fit, I used different weights for different types of buyers.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

In a young industry like B2B marketing automation, the primary focus is growth, and I published some figures on that yesterday (repeated below). Since we do have revenue figures for the top four vendors, we can also look at their revenue per employee. This is a standard efficiency metric and more directly comparable across companies.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2015

I'm making a presentation on marketing technology selection at B2BLeadsCon in New York next week, and had thought to start with the usual Oh-My-God-There-Are-So-Many-Vendors slide to get everybody's attention. I did look at every vendor shown in the graphic and each includes at least some marketing systems.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Last week's post took a horse race approach to data from our newly available B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST): who’s ahead, who’s behind, and who is coming on strong. The VEST survey, covering nearly 200 items per vendor, answers that question in glorious detail. Let’s start with the basics.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Summary: Our new B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) has been carefully crafted to help marketers at every step of the selection process. Explanations What It Is: This is basic information for people who are just starting to explore marketing automation. For more information or to order, please click here.

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Martech

MARCH 7, 2023

Hopefully, I’m not the only martech or marketing operations (MOps) practitioner who sometimes feels disconnected from our companies’ products. We’re not product marketers; when we’re involved in campaign planning and execution, we’re focused on technical configurations and performance.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 17, 2011

set their own weights for the different scoring categories and do detailed, side-by-side comparisons of vendors they select. Vendor names have been replaced with football teams and the specific details are excluded. The final report will show directly how much each category contributes to each vendor’s score. The Chosen?)

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