LeadSloth

JUNE 23, 2009

The Marketing Automation industry is evolving continuously. Many digital marketers are using marketing automation tools to automate lead nurturing. But if you want to expand your business, you also need to continuously add new leads to your database. Inbound Marketing is more than just SEO.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. When Net-Results ’ showed me their marketing automation system, the demonstration ended so quickly that I wondered what was missing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. That's fewer functions than traditional demand generation, but if those are the functions you need, who cares? Registration is no longer required.)

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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. He started from the perfectly reasonable premise that the demand generation system should give an overview of activity for all leads associated with a given company.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Summary: Alsa Marketing is a late entry to small business marketing automation. It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Multi-language might open a larger market, at least until competitors match it.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. It’s actually quite a long story, dating back to the company’s initial sales automation system in 1997, followed by its MarketingView demand generation product in 1999. So now the story can be told.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. But my real concern was the Other Demand Generation group.

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The Point

MAY 6, 2010

A couple of weeks ago our firm prepared a detailed ROI analysis for a client helping them substantiate to their management the investment in a marketing automation platform. For other companies, the decision of whether or not to take the plunge into marketing automation is less of a slam-dunk.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

In one of my meetings these past few weeks I was thinking of an analogy where I could break down the lead management process into much simpler terms so everyone could understand their roles - this is where football comes in. The Players and Coaches Take the Field Quarterback : The marketing team is the QB. Why football?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

It's a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to more powerful marketing automation systems for companies who don't need other marketing automation features. 5Buckets isn’t actually a demand generation system, at least according to my usual definition. Now is a good time to remedy that.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 4, 2012

The list of independent marketing automation systems shrank by one yesterday when Leadformix was purchased by sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud for $9 million. The price is surprisingly low for an established marketing automation vendor. In particular, LeadFormix infers visitors' “intent” (i.e.,

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 24, 2009

Needless to say, Marketing Automation software is very popular today. It can be used for email campaigns, drip marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, landing page management and for brewing coffee. And please share your Marketing Automation “horror&# scenarios in the comments below!

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years. How to Replace a Marketing Automation System? But how much more time will it cost to manage the new situation?

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Marketing Expertise. B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Demand Gen and Lead Management. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. How can Sales identify and tag appropriately in a CRM? Brand Strategy.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. 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.

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LeadSloth

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

This is the first of three posts for the Silverpop B2B Marketing University , March 3rd in Washington DC. I will be speaking about Marketing Automation features, the marketing technology ecosystem, and the impact of Social Media. Lead Generation. Lead Nurturing. Conclusion.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. add a tracking tag) to the Web site itself. A marketing automation system is a highly considered purchase.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Day 30: Prospect calls up sales (qualified lead!). Spacing and number of communications should be based on the length of your average sales cycle and complexity of product/services being sold. With this plan and information in place, you should be ready to start your nurturing your leads. Share this on Bebo. Tweet This!

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The Point

APRIL 8, 2010

At our agency , when we send emails – for example, to blog subscribers – we include this “update profile&# option in two locations – one immediately under the body of the email (image at right), and another in the footer immediately under the unsubscribe link. Has anyone seen more recent statistics?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 3, 2009

Second of three posts on demand generation interfaces.) I spoke last week with Marketbright client Michaline Todd, director of corporate marketing at Serena Software , to see how Serena likes Marketbright’s campaign interface. The work was done by an outside agency, Maratona Marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 8, 2009

The Pedowitz Group announced this morning that it was offering $15,000 in free consulting services and guaranteeing a five-day implementation to new clients who purchase Eloqua demand generation software. Click here for the announcement.) (If

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 3, 2009

I think one mistake many marketers make is to think of their lead management requirements too narrowly — and to be honest, quite a few demand generation vendors make this mistake as well. Lead scoring to know when to pass leads to the sales team – and when to keep them in marketing for further nurturing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Last week Focus.com’s Mastering Lead Management Virtual Event brought some of the leaders of B2B Demand Generation and Sales 2.0 Mac McIntosh, Business-to-Business Sales Lead Expert, presented 10 Best Practices for Lead Generation and Pipeline Acceleration during this lead management event.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 12, 2009

On Monday, Eloqua announced a new free deployment service for its clients. It follows last month’s free deployment offer from Eloqua reseller Pedowitz Group , which generated quite a bit of comment on this blog. The reality is that a complete demand generation program is something you develop and expand over time.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

The latest stop on my little tour of not-really-demand-generation systems is Jesubi. The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2009

Yesterday’s BtoB Leading Edge, Demand Generation in the Digital Age was a great way to make sure your organization’s demand generation programs are best-in-class.   But with so much on a marketer’s plate these days, not all 4300 could attend this half day event.     2.     2.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

Executive Edition shows what Marketo believes is needed to service large marketing organizations. This is critical in large organizations, where regional and product groups may be responsible for different market segments and where users will have different functional specialties and approval authorities.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 19, 2010

This will also change, first with a self-service file upload and eventually with a direct API connection. The company started by giving away its basic service, identification of company visitors to Web sites, to quickly build a large base of clients and partners. The first connectors are due shortly. Clever folks.

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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! DT: Let me give two answers here. HS: Thanks David!

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

In Fernandez’ view, this reflects a fundamental philosophical difference from his competitors: Marketo sees marketing as reacting to prospect-initiated behaviors, not executing company-driven interaction paths. That last point morphed into a discussion of the increased integration between marketing and sales.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 1, 2009

But the technology is nothing special: a page tag sends the visitor’s IP address to DemandBase, which looks up its owner in standard Internet registries. I was impressed by the sheer cleverness of all this, precisely because the underlying technology (page tags, IP owner lookup, name matching, simple filtering) is so straightforward.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. Automating the “garbage in, garbage out” marketing approach benefits no one.”

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Note: in addition to the original proxy server technology, Genius also now offers a tracking solution based on inserting conventional tags into Web pages. This allows it to track all site visits, not only those routed to the proxy server by a Genius-generated link.) The two products are now offered in combination as Genius Pro.

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The Point

MARCH 3, 2010

But prospects in a nurturing program are different, clearly, because they’ve already engaged with your company and expressed some level of interest, if not in your product specifically, then at minimum in solving the issue or problem that your product or service addresses.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

2009 Big List of B2B Marketing and Sales Blogs , August 27, 2009. B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up , July 31, 2009. 10 Tips for Using Twitter And Email Marketing for B2B , December 21, 2008. 42+ Social Media Marketing Tools , June 2, 2009. Marketing Automation. Demand Generation.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2009

Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 additional profile is requested as a prospect moves through an interactive process); Native integration with Salesforce.com ; Web visitor profiling; and Automated duplicate lead removal. software suite.

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