The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. This integration needs to happen with the technology and with the expectations (business rules and semantics) of sales and marketing people.

Salesforce.com 100

Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Work Management 100

The Point

MAY 6, 2010

Or even if the processes with which those leads are shepherded along the sales cycle are woefully inadequate, a company may not generate the volume of inquiries necessary in order for marketing automation to make a difference. Inevitably, much of the business case for a marketing automation solution comes down to intangibles.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Management Automation 100

The Point

OCTOBER 26, 2010

It works in tandem with inside sales by eliminating the chance that new leads will go without follow-up due to issues of bandwidth or lack of profile data (i.e. which leads merit sales investment and which don’t.) The Changing Role of Email.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Budget 100

The Point

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

This eliminates wasted time – and the sales dissatisfaction that results – when reps follow up on junk leads and other inquiries that never convert to opportunities. Increased demand generation ROI due to improved conversion of leads to sales opportunities.

Marketing Automation 100

Marketing Automation Automation Bandwidth Cost per Lead 100

The Point

JUNE 27, 2012

For today’s B2B marketer, content is the fuel that feeds the demand generation engine. But when lead generation, lead nurturing , customer marketing and social media programs all require a constant feeding of new, compelling content, what do you do when the pace of new programs outstrips your ability to generate that content?

Campaigns 100

Campaigns Peer-to-peer Lead Nurturing Paper 100

The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management. The company must direct end user inquiries promptly and efficiently to the sales channel, while responding to prospective partners and end users with a message tailored to iDirect’s specific experience in that company’s market.

Lead Nurturing 100

Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 100

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

The Point

JANUARY 6, 2014

It’s a new year, so what better time to get your demand generation strategy “in shape” for improved performance? Measuring opens and clicks may tell you something about email performance, but it says nothing about the impact that email campaign had on qualified leads, or opportunities, or revenue. Improve campaign measurement.

Demand Generation Agencies 100

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Autoresponders 100

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

The Point

JULY 13, 2012

Is lead nurturing always about generating measurable response, increasing lead scores, progressive profiling, and moving leads to sales? Or can it also be about establishing trust, thought leadership, and affinity with the target prospect?

Lead Nurturing 100

Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Campaigns 100

The Point

APRIL 30, 2012

A further strategy for minimizing unsubscribes is to employ subscription management, a technique in which you, as the publisher, give the wannabe unsubscriber the option to choose which types of messages he/she wants to receive (or not receive, as the case may be.)

Marketing Management 100

Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Data Hygiene Ideal Customer Profiles 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

To give you an idea of the scope of MarketingPilot, here is a set of headings from its Web site: Alerts - Analytics/Performance Measurement - Approvals - Budgets - Calendars - Campaign Management - Collateral Management - Contract Management - CRM - Digital Asset/Document Management - Direct Marketing - Direct Response - Editions - Email Marketing (..)

Resource Management 120

Resource Management Digital Asset Management Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120