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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. Aberdeen Group has published many studies related to marketing automation. Here's a bunch.

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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

The Effective Marketer

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams.

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How to Measure Email Success in 2015: A Call to ROI

The Point

That likely means one of two options: • a marketing automation system like Eloqua , Marketo or Pardot that in turn integrates with a CRM database like Salesforce. MQLs/Cost Per MQL. Most would argue 100 Webinar leads are worth more than 100 White Paper leads. SQLs/Cost Per SQL.

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Quality Matters – Analyzing the Effect of Quality on the Lead Handoff Process

ANNUITAS

We are glad to have Steve Woods, CTO of Eloqua as a guest contributor to The Annuitas Group blog. Steve is a thought leader in the world of marketing automation and lead management and is also a prolific writer on topics related to demand generation and the current transitions within the marketing profession.

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Lead generation and marketing automation: How they work together

Martech

But as marketers focus on intent data and lead scoring to better understand which leads are most likely to convert, old lead generation plays — such as calling everyone who downloads a content asset — are increasingly seen as relics from another era. That gap was filled by marketing automation technology.

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Winning with Audiences – Connecting Email Nurtures and Media Campaigns

Ledger Bennett

Nurturing known contacts via marketing automation email nurtures, generating MQLs and pushing prospects through the sales pipeline. Many clients then implement remarketing strategies within media campaigns, taking what we know from our initial engagement and building audiences that refine their targeting.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

In a sense, three cloud application companies at a combined average of five years after going public are all spending nearly half of their revenue on sales and marketing. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public?