Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

When I first got started in software, it was at a company called e.piphany which specialized in what was then called Campaign Management. Campaign Management software automated the process of sending out campaigns — primarily direct mail at that time and then email. But, we’ve started to notice some changes in the market.

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Litmus

APRIL 13, 2021

While there are clear market share leaders in the email service provider (ESP) and marketing automation platform (MAP) industry, brands still have a long list to choose from. Respondents to Litmus’ 2020 State of Email survey mentioned more than 230 ESPs when asked which platforms they use to send marketing emails.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to part II of How to do ABM Without an ABM Tool! In this installment, I’ll dive into each of the Need-to-Have Tools/Channels I listed in part I. Need-to-Have Tools (and their Channels): CRM and Marketing Automation. Need-to-Have Tools (and their Channels): CRM and Marketing Automation.

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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. Adobe GETS marketing. Good morning. And that’s a good thing.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 27, 2011

Salesforce.com is the cloud computing darling of customer relationship management (CRM) software. They have significant control of mind share in that space, and their legacy in customer service and sales force automation software is strong. However, CRM is a trifecta. When should you look elsewhere?

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that predictive marketing vendors seem to have anticipated this. I wrote last month about Everstring ’s expansion to the world of intent data and account based marketing. The past week brought three more announcements about predictive vendors expanding beyond lead scoring.

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TrustRadius Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Marketing automation platforms—the swiss army knives of marketing—supposedly let you do it all. . They allow you to send out beautiful emails, coordinate social media campaigns, track customer behavior across all marketing channels, play nice with your CRM and give you all the reporting you need. .

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ATAK Interactive

JULY 10, 2023

In today's digital age, businesses are constantly seeking ways to streamline their marketing and sales efforts. Marketing automation platforms have become invaluable tools for businesses, enabling them to automate processes, nurture leads, and improve customer engagement.

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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

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.

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Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2022

This process was inefficient, time-intensive, and unpredictable. In an increasingly competitive business environment, organizations of all sizes are turning to sales engagement platforms to manage this workload. But how should you go about evaluating these tools and what factors should you consider before you commit?

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PureB2B

JUNE 13, 2017

The traditional channels of television, radio, and print media have seen a decline in usage as more users start looking at online platforms as their primary sources of media. This is great for marketers because online channels allow for better targeting, tracking, and analytics. Email Marketing Software.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tweet Customer relationship management (CRM) is defined a number of different ways. At the same time, the real engine driving CRM and keeping prospects moving through the sales funnel is technology. The first technology that comes to mind is CRM software, such as Salesforce.com or Microsoft Dynamics.

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Outbrain

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

From the dishwasher in your kitchen, to automatic monthly payment of your electricity bill, the majority of repetitive tasks are now done with some sort of automation. Why should marketing be any different? What are marketing automation platforms? What is marketing automation primarily used for?

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The digital market is one of the leading reasons for this revolution. Today’s digital world demands you to leverage the power of technology to stay ahead of the marketing curve. Automation Platforms Marketing automation platforms and softwares are widely used and trusted in the business industry.

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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. I hugely enjoyed yesterday’s Boston session of the Silverpop -sponsored B2B Marketing University. Vendors take note. See Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?

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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.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 5, 2020

Demand marketing technology isn’t new, nor is its impact on how companies can achieve growth. What started with a need to reach buyers in an online world has ballooned into more than 7,000 marketing technology tools to choose from. What marketing automation platform is currently in place, and how well is it working?

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PureB2B

JUNE 13, 2017

The traditional channels of television, radio, and print media have seen a decline in usage as more users start looking at online platforms as their primary sources of media. This is great for marketers because online channels allow for better targeting, tracking, and analytics. Customer Relationship Management Software.

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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? Email Marketing & Online Marketing.

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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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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.

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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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

When I first described Customer Data Platforms two and half years ago, all the vendors offered an application such as predictive analytics or campaign management in addition to the "pure" CDP function of building the customer database. It’s primarily used to set up data processing flows for data cleaning, matching, and lead routing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2014

It’s been a while since I wrote about Customer Data Platforms , but only because I’ve been distracted by other topics. The CDP industry has been moving along nicely without my attention: new CDPs keep emerging and the existing vendors are growing. But data from other sources must still be added through batch files, slowing the process.

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Televerde

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s hard to believe that marketing automation has been around for 15 years. What started as a way to automate simple email deployment at scale has evolved into modern-day marketing automation; incorporating email, website browsing information, lead scoring, and analytics to link marketing efforts to revenue.

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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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Capstone Insights

JANUARY 17, 2018

Marketing automation is just a glorified (and really expensive) email delivery tool without a power user. In trying to find a solid power user to join your marketing team, it can be hard to tell the difference and often the interviewer doesn’t know what to look for. For fields containing data that is structured (e.g.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

When I first starting thinking about Account Based Marketing, I assumed that an ABM system would let marketers replicate at scale how sales teams manage key accounts: that is, to analyze each account in depth, set goals specific to that account, and then execute against those goals. Then I saw ZenIQ. Now things start get interesting.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 14, 2023

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are the metrics that determine your content marketing success, but not all KPIs are equally important. In this article, we’ll explore the metrics that matter most for content marketing in 2023. What tools do you need to measure your KPIs? Social media analytics tools. What are KPIs?

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 13, 2018

We don’t want to go on about delivering a “service”. We'll change the way your entire organisation approaches marketing. So what you get from your digital marketing manager at Tomorrow People? Marketing automation. Account-based marketing. Customer relationship management (CRM). Ongoing training.

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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.

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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. They plan to do this by becoming the platform for the “social enterprise”, which they see as the next major generation of computing. Peer pressure worked, and there I was.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

To help the system run smoothly, Lenovo has both dedicated internal Adobe teams, as well as full-time support people on Adobe''s payroll, which means the company spends equal amounts on both products and support services. ” Some vendors do this better than others. And Lenovo uses just only two of Adobe’s eight solutions.

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Because mostly what happens, many B2B marketers end up gathering leads which are just for the number’s sake and out of them very few moves down the sales funnel and have an intent to buy your product or services. Many super smart B2B marketers know the ground zero of market. Marketing Sales Feedback.

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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.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 20, 2019

Meeting automation platform SummitSync has announced a partnership with Conversica, a leading developer of conversational AI assistants for businesses. We asked the question, how can you use software to drive more of offline relationships?” We found that there was often a disconnect between sales and marketing teams.

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