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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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 30, 2015

A recent piece in TechCrunch quoted me as saying that “almost 70 percent of marketers are either unhappy or only marginally happy with their marketing automation software.” This lead to enough questions about the data that it now seems worth a blog post on the topic. Answers came from 159 marketing automation users.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Once again Salesforce.com has delivered a great set of new features for Marketers in the Winter 10 release. To use this, create different campaign record types for each of your different types of marketing programs, like email, webinars, direct mail, tradeshows, and website/landing pages.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Let’s talk about CRM objects for a minute. If you look at most major CRMs like Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce.com , you’ll notice a few different objects: Leads, Contacts, and Accounts. But then look at marketing automation like Lead Liaison and you’ll see one object: Prospects. Not at all. It’s time to get personal.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing Thought Leader interview series is with David Taber. David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. Q: David, why did you write this book?

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Lead Liaison

JULY 9, 2021

Check out the powerful new enhancements on Lead Liaison’s Sales & Marketing Lead Management platform. MARKETING ACTIVATIONS: Games, Improvements & Updates. . MARKETING/EVENTS: GAMIFICATION IMPROVEMENTS & UPDATES. ™ from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. 1: Activation Builder Redesign.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point — Christopher notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point —Chris notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2016

Can computers understand an individual human’s personality (and then, presumably, use that understanding to better target marketing messages)? And, yes, Crystal advises you how to interact with others based on those insights, going so far as to suggest changes to your emails to better fit the style of the recipient. How many more?

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 17, 2010

We attempt to set the record straight as we simply look at Marketing Automation systems as compared to Email Programs. We’ve been testing a variety of Marketing Automation programs; the ones we like we have agreed to offer as potential solutions to our clients. Marketing Automation gives you that intelligence.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Vidyard

MARCH 3, 2014

Editor’s note: This blog post originally appeared as contributed content on the Salesforce.com blog. Here at Vidyard we use video for nurturing campaigns all the time and I’ve got a terrific example to share with you about how just one event-marketing video made a huge impact for us just before Dreamforce.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

When this blog last left Geoff Rego in 2010 , he had just sold the assets of pioneering B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead to Oracle. The new product is Hushly , which addresses the reluctance of prospects to provide their email address even in return for valuable content.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2015

Back then, they positioned themselves as a “marketing operating system” that provided core functions but would ultimately let users connect with third party apps. The latest incarnation describes itself as “software for multi-channel marketing” but still provides core functions and connects with third party apps. So what has changed?

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

After creating, building, and leading the Oracle Marketing Cloud from obscurity to industry leadership for the last 3 years, which was a beyond-amazing career experience (thank you Oracle!), Only 10% of the marketers out there are even doing this as common practice right now, and we should see a lot more adoption this year.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 4, 2013

Michael Loop is the co-founder of Datarati , Asia Pacific’s Fastest Growing Data Driven Marketing Automation Agency. Michael has successfully delivered over 200 marketing automation and CRM implementations across the globe. How much do we need to know about our CRM system to be good at this marketing automation stuff?”

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LeadSloth

MARCH 8, 2010

I write about Marketing Automation, so why am I at a sales conference? I’m here because I believe Sales & Marketing should be on the same team. Marketing Automation can help both Marketing and Sales, but it requires intense collaboration: that’s what Sales 2.0 Chatter and Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2013

But since late 2011 the company has also offered a suite aimed at marketers, which now has more than 4,000 paid clients. Even in the small business sector, that count would make Vocus one of the largest marketing automation systems. But Vocus doesn’t quite match the profile of standard marketing automation products.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Business Goal.

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Marketing Expertise. B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. Sales and Marketing Alignment. Content Marketing. How can Sales identify and tag appropriately in a CRM? Contact Us.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. If the vendors fail, the business will go to consultants, ad agencies, and other service firms that do the clients’ marketing for them.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It starts with defining product-market fit. Then we have to hire and scale sales and marketing pipeline to acquire new customers. For more nearly 40 years, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has beeb software-based and data-driven. We started this series of content marketing analyses with Master Data Management.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It's looking more like a conventional small-business marketing automation system every day. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs. As both sets of systems expand their scope, their features will overlap more and marketers will compare them directly.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 10, 2014

Marketo wrapped up its three day Marketing Nation conference yesterday, having once more displayed its own marketing prowess by attracting national media attention (see here and here ) with an appearance by Hillary Clinton. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend.

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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. But the wrinkle here is that most CRM systems in general, and Salesforce.com in particular, also have separate company and individual levels. So far so good.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

Should you look at something beyond a CMS—a web marketing system (WMS), that provides additional functions like customer relationship management (CRM) and email? If you are just looking to get a site up on the web and already have systems in place for CRM and marketing automation, these tools are worthy of consideration.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. NurtureHQ hopes to differentiate itself as “dead easy marketing automation”, which it arguably is.

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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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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. First, the company invested in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform that integrated well with the company’s CRM system, Salesforce.com.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. Where marketing is going. Where marketing is going. We believe that marketing is undergoing a deep transformation driven by large-scale trends such as the rise of self-directed consumers and broad and instant availability of information online.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Continued engagement in the form of account-focused outreach (also referred to as Account Based Marketing) makes sure your company is on their radar when the right disruption happens to necessitate a decision, when their current solution’s weaknesses reach the boiling point, or when competition encroaches and fear sets in.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances. I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 20, 2013

We talk a lot about using your blog to answer questions your customers have. And in that spirit, we’ve been using our blog to answer some of the questions that people ask most frequently when they call in to our sales and customer service representatives. Today’s question of the day: What is CRM? Corn Row Marketing?

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Vidyard

JANUARY 17, 2017

Here are 11 of the best free sales tools we’ve discovered to help you find more leads, collaborate with your team, and spend less time prospecting so you can spend more time selling: Rapportive Used for: Gathering data on prospects right inside your email. Easy, instant data where it’s most relevant.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 18, 2014

71% of marketers are increasing investment in content marketing, however 85% of B2B marketers are failing to attribute their content marketing to business results. And soon enough, there will be no excuse for content marketers not to tie their efforts to the pipeline. Time is running out. The good news?

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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. Here it is.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. Treehouse Interactive just introduced a “talk it up” feature that embeds “share this” buttons in Treehouse-generated Web pages and emails. CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. -

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