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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

Customer Experience Matrix

Its primary clients were then, and still remain, digital marketing agencies. Both the agencies and their clients have been mostly small businesses – in the survey for our soon-to-be-published VEST report , Optify reports that 60% of its clients have under $5 million revenue. That''s theme number three.

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Manticore Technology Sees Expertise as Key to Success as a Demand Generation Vendor

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. Changes include a drag-and-drop design tool (similar to Microsoft Powerpoint); integration of opportunities and custom objects from Salesforce.com; better reporting on Web site visitors; and, real time sales alerts on Web activity.

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Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems?

Customer Experience Matrix

Rather, salespeople must focus on what only they can do – provide nuanced, personal service – and delegate other tasks to resources that can handle them more cheaply and often more quickly. In many cases, those resources will be automated systems that are run by marketing. Yes, sales could duplicate those systems for itself.

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Net-Results Simplifies Demand Generation for Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. But on reflection I realized that Net-Results offers a full set of demand generation functions. Let’s run through the standard demand generation process to see how this works in practice.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Decision Software has remained a small company while Aprimo is most successful in B2B marketing resource management. Alterian and SmartFocus are also still independent, but are sold as services via marketing agencies (Alterian) or directly (SmartFocus). A few might survive as independents serving the most sophisticated clients.

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Top 50 B2B Marketing Influencers On Twitter

Marketing Insider Group

I hope you find this to be a valuable resource for your B2B Marketing efforts. BtoBmagazine – BtoB Online – The resource for # marketing strategists. Marketingcloud – Marketing Cloud – An extension of SalesForce.com, an integrated way of utilizing SalesForce in the Cloud. London, UK – [link].

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Your Questions About ABM — Answered!

The Mx Group

Demand Gen and Lead Management. We are using salesforce.com as our CRM — how well will it work to support our efforts? For a deeper dive, please check out our on-demand webinar or visit our Resources page which contains many additional insights and research on ABM! Topics Demand Gen & Lead Management.