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. Data grooming is something that needs to be in every marketing VP’s budget! HS: How do marketing automation systems make Salesforce more useful?

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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. Based on first-hand impressions, however, it’s not how the vast majority of clients are employing (or even thinking of) marketing automation. It’s all heady stuff.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

A client asks: “Now that we have our marketing automation system in place, is it really necessary to use registration forms in our lead nurturing (follow-up) campaigns? After all, we already know who these people are, correct?

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The Point

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Sometimes all it takes is a few words in an opening paragraph to tailor an email to a different industry, or job title, or lead source. Most marketing automation platforms make it a simple task to “clone” emails and landing pages, and create variations on the fly. Take advantage of it. To download your free copy, click here.

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The Point

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Over time, an accumulation of stale, non-responsive leads can bump you to a higher pricing tier for your CRM or marketing automation license. . * High bounce rates and low open rates can damage your email reputation, which in turn may impact overall deliverability.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

I worry that this tool only ends up helping sales pick out cold calls to make, and is not used by marketers enough to segment, collect, and improve their prospecting databases. The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Aprimo was founded in 1998 and has more than 200 clients on its original marketing system, which offers modules for marketing automation and marketing resource management. Marketing Studio was launched in September 2009 and at this writing has 22 clients, including a mix of business and consumer marketers.

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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.

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The Point

APRIL 30, 2012

Because the page is hosted in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform, the person’s email address, first name, last name, title, and country are all pre-populated, making it easy for the individual to update or correct outdated profile information.

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The Point

MARCH 27, 2013

My response: There are merits to this approach, though it’s far from the only way to implement “traffic control” within your overall lead nurturing program. Most marketing automation systems make it relatively easy to control email frequency and to establish priorities when multiple campaigns get scheduled in too small a window.

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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.

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Lead Liaison

APRIL 15, 2016

Integration Creates Opportunities for Mid-Sized Companies to Leverage Video Marketing with Visitor Tracking and Marketing Automation Software for More Sales Intelligence and Higher Website Conversion Rates. Wistia-hosted videos embedded into a company’s website get additional perks with Lead Liaison’s marketing automation.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « We’re renaming the blog | Main | New networks in the news » April 16, 2008 Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Recently I saw a preview of Eloqua’s spring release and it got me thinking about the role lead scoring plays in determining campaign effectiveness.

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Smarte

MAY 24, 2023

The provider should also offer easy integration with existing CRM systems and marketing automation tools. Now the question is, in this horde of B2B database markets, which is the most accurate one? Enhance lead conversions with its comprehensive segmentation and lead management tools.

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The Point

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Even while fewer than 30 percent of contacts on average actually change companies (your numbers may be higher depending on the industries you serve, or even target geographies), one thing is certain: the data you have in your CRM database on an individual customer or prospect is likely to be outdated after a mere 12 months.

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The Point

JULY 13, 2012

Which leads to another question: do certain types of campaigns even need an offer in the first place? Take lead nurturing : is it strictly essential that every lead nurturing touch include a specific, gated, call to action? In my last post , I talked about creative campaign ideas for when you have no content to offer.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

I say “roughly” because Neolane and Alterian are rooted in the campaign management side of marketing automation, while MarketingPilot is based on marketing resource management. That puts it into roughly the same class as much larger firms including Neolane (200 employees) and Alterian (370 employees).

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Without a consistent stream of compelling, original, relevant information to offer, landing pages fail to convert visitors to leads, blogs wither, and lead nurturing [.].

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ViewPoint

JUNE 15, 2018

For companies to transition from where they’ve been to where they need to be, they must understand three truths: Sales lead management (SLM) is a fundamental business process. It’s not a sales-only process, and it’s not a marketing-only process. Marketing Measurement. It’s not a campaign. Messages and offers are testable.

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The Point

JANUARY 6, 2014

If you don’t have that capability in place, look at marketing automation platforms like Marketo or reporting solutions like Full Circle CRM that can give you the data you’re looking for. The only way to improve the effectiveness of your marketing strategies long-term is to test, and test consistently.

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