ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. This is staggering! 2. More transparency.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 30, 2015

A recent piece in TechCrunch quoted me as saying that “almost 70 percent of marketers are either unhappy or only marginally happy with their marketing automation software.” Answers came from 159 marketing automation users. You can buy it here if you’re interested. Hence the “almost 70 percent” quote.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 4, 2013

I''ve been in meetings all day and just emerged to hear that Salesforce.com purchased ExactTarget. They have been lacking large-scale email capability, which all types of sales and marketing departments require. They also get a toe-hold in B2C marketing and in marketing automation (via ExactTarget''s Pardot technology).

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 5, 2013

Fresh on the heels of yesterday''s blockbuster ExactTarget / Salesforce.com deal , SAP today announced acquisition of e-commerce vendor hybris software. During their call, the SAP and hybris managers unfairly implied that ExactTarget does nothing but email (without mentioning Salesforce.com or ExactTarget by name).

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 9, 2014

x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. But the main reason is probably that just 15% of Vocus'' 2013 revenue came from its marketing automation products. It’s still a modest multiple of 2.4

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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. DT: Well, the biggest misconception about Salesforce is that it’s something Sales reps like and Marketing folks don’t.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. This broader scope should become standard as marketers try to truly integrate their programs. Of course, I’m generalizing about sets of vendors so there will be individual exceptions.

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Almost 30 people showed up for the first two Marketing Automation Monday meetups in San Francisco and Palo Alto. An email marketing vendor found out that people searching for "newsletters" are less sophisticated than those who search for "email software" That's useful info to fine-tune your nurturing programs.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

The real-time CRM and Marketing Automation data vendors (including Leadspace) should have another big year based on the growing acknowledgement that this type of service dramatically enhances the performance of these massive CRM and MA investments companies have made. It’s beautiful when it’s that simple, and this one is.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 4, 2010

Summary: Two low-cost demand generation systems, Genoo and Act-On Software, have added unusually advanced social marketing features. A few weeks back, I wrote about social marketing features from consumer marketing automation vendors. Act-On Software is another low-cost system, starting at $500 per month.

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Full Circle Insights

APRIL 5, 2022

With Full Circle’s integration of Microsoft Advertising into DST, B2B digital marketers can now report on their digital ad costs for Microsoft Search Network, including Bing and partner sites. This offers a richer perspective and clearer view of digital ad spending across multiple ad platforms. About Full Circle Insights.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Why Does Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Marketing Automation Integration Matter? In this article we’ll discuss why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and marketing automation integration matter to businesses with a sales and marketing team. As a user myself, I first started using Salesforce.com. Sales Insight.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Could marketers finally be ready to spend on measurement? Even though this is limited to the vendors in the Guide, it's a pretty representative sample of the industry as a whole. Social media. Sales access.

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Markempa

MAY 30, 2017

I think what’s relevant to this conversation is that I was one of the really early employees at a small startup back in the day called Pardot, a marketing automation platform. From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target, which Salesforce.com then acquired. So these were effectiveness measures.

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Vidyard

JULY 17, 2015

Kitchener, Ontario – July 15, 2015 – Demand Spring and Vidyard today announced a partnership to offer the industry’s first video marketing consulting service for B2B marketing and demand generation teams. Online video is one of the fastest growing and most effective areas of B2B marketing.

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Vidyard

JULY 17, 2015

Kitchener, Ontario – July 15, 2015 – Demand Spring and Vidyard today announced a partnership to offer the industry’s first video marketing consulting service for B2B marketing and demand generation teams. Online video is one of the fastest growing and most effective areas of B2B marketing.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 14, 2013

Every marketer recognizes that the Web and social media could be rich sources of information about customers and prospects. Doing it yourself takes multiple tools to gather different kinds of information, and then patching the result together into personal profiles. But harvesting that data has been frustratingly difficult.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

At this Dreamforce 2009 session led by Fernando Obregon Almazan, salesforce.com; Lorena Vales, salesforce.com; and Jonathan Hersh, salesforce.com, marketers learned about how and why companies should participate in social networking to generate brand awareness and create a viral effect when clients or prospects recommend their products.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

Should you look at something beyond a CMS—a web marketing system (WMS), that provides additional functions like customer relationship management (CRM) and email? There’s no shortage of options, and the decision is an important one: you’ll be “married&# to the platform you choose for as long as your current site is up.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. business-to-business marketing automation. I do expect vendors to converge on more standard social media features. inbound marketing.

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The Point

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I just returned from a few days at Dreamforce in San Francisco, the annual circus-slash-conference hosted by CRM leader Salesforce.com, and was struck by the wave of technologies on display that centered on analytics. Just when did demand generation get this complicated? . •

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. But I can share some examples and insights that should help any new team.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. But I can share some examples and insights that should help any new team.

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Marketing Expertise. B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. Most CRMs and marketing automation tools are not created to present this view of activity across an account.

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Lead Liaison

JULY 9, 2021

Check out the powerful new enhancements on Lead Liaison’s Sales & Marketing Lead Management platform. Skips the Waypoint score screen or effect and redirects according to your settings. See the details on these important enhancements below. 3: Inconspicuous Redirect for Waypoints [details]. 4: Teams [details].

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. Q: What do marketers need to look out for in CRM analytics? Q: What should Marketing be measuring, then? Q: David, why did you write this book?

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com. 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.

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markempa

MAY 30, 2017

I think what’s relevant to this conversation is I was one of the really early employees at a small startup back in the day called Pardot, which is a marketing automation platform. From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target which was then acquired by Salesforce.com. Ten out of how many?

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Webbiquity

APRIL 27, 2017

The emergence and spread of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has dramatically changed the game for both B2B vendors and customers. For suppliers, that means a vast new stream of data that can be used for marketing, warranty, maintenance, and other purposes. Customer Service Management Tools. 1) HelpScout.

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Engagio

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Folks are going to focus on optimizing existing tools and platforms. There will be more of an interest in platforms versus one-off tools. Personalized and contextual customer experiences will fuel Account-Based Marketing success. Marketers need to be nimble and adapt. My predictions for ABM in 2021 ….

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chiefmartech

APRIL 4, 2017

Is your marketing team having challenges in seamlessly planning and executing campaigns with the tools they use? In supporting your company’s business objectives, you may realize that your existing martech stack doesn’t meet your current marketing needs due to one or more systems: Not having the required capabilities.

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Allocadia

JUNE 17, 2019

This shows how Marketing Performance Management software is part of their core technology stack, along with CRM, Marketing Automation, and other “must have” systems. The best marketers in the world know that without clear plans and the ability to assess results, execution will falter. Think beyond just marketing.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Owler – a free competitive intelligence platform – went from 0 to over 500,000 users. I first met Fowler when he was co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). Owler is a competitive intelligence platform. Jim: Sure, Brian.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This is why it’s hard to imagine that low-priced software can deliver similar performance to mainstream products. Now we come to Infusionsoft , which offers marketing automation, CRM and ecommerce for as little as $199 per month. If not, the marketing automation functions in Infusionsoft are worth considering.

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The Point

JUNE 18, 2013

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Chalef, CEO of KnowledgeTree , developers of an intriguing new solution, built for both Salesforce.com and mobile (iOS), that enables sales teams to instantly find, surface, and present the ideal content in any selling situation. B2B Marketing Sales 2.0 Secondly: measurement.

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