ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

I’ve been creeping in that direction with the previous two posts about revenues, growth rates, and market share. For companies like Eloqua and its competitors, there are really two big financial questions: how fast can they grow, and how can they become profitable? The second thing you’ll notice is the year-on-year trend.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

This week I attended the Atlanta Eloqua User Group at Oracle’s Atlanta offices. It was a great meetup, as we had Thamina Christenson with the Eloqua Product Marketing team presenting Eloqua’s latest features and future roadmap. Author: Leah Brenner @LeahRBrenner is Lead Eloqua Architect, Technology at ANNUITIES.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. All six of the vendors new to this report sell primarily to small businesses, and most are “all-in-one” systems that combine marketing automation with integrated CRM. VEST Report. Here’s what struck me. social data.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. The market will probably split between enterprise-wide suites and more limited marketing automation systems. Many would no doubt be delighted to sell at such prices.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2015

Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. Even B2C marketing automation is showing some interesting new life.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I’ve just finished the latest update of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), available on the raabguide.com Web site. The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. Anyway, back to the estimates. How scientific can you get?

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 1, 2012

I’ve gotten used to thinking of the B2B marketing automation industry as entering a consolidation phase, during which a handful of dominant vendors emerge and small vendors drop away. In fact, this trend extends back for the past two years, which is as far as my VEST data goes. For B2B marketing automation, we’re not there yet.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. The most notable is Eloqua, which as a public company has to report its results. We’ve recently been seeing surveys that suggest something close to 50% adoption of marketing automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. Distributed marketing also has its own pricing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2013

Raab Associates officially released the new edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday. This is our flagship report on the industry, with nearly 200 data points on 23 vendors and separate ratings for micro-business, small to mid-size companies, and enterprise marketing departments.

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Biznology

JANUARY 19, 2018

Amy Guarino and I first met in 2014, when she was heading Marketo ’s effort to foment the marketing automation revolution in Japan. Last year, Amy moved to her next hot trend: artificial intelligence. Earlier in his career, Alex was a beta user for Marketo and Eloqua , and fell in love with marketing automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ).

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

There was a really interesting discussion this week over on Scott Brinker’s ChiefMartec blog about the evolution of marketing automation systems into “platforms” that each support a swarm of satellite applications connected through open APIs. Another aspect was whether it matters how hard it is to create the integrated applications.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Some have even suggested that marketing automation market is floundering , but it is such a new market and offering that is innevitable to have doubts, especially with these many vendors in the space. You may spot some companies that were not considered to be “marketing automation&# players just a year or so ago.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

(Download it here: [link] ) The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted the 2013 lead generation survey to better understand how B2B marketers are adjusting to new challenges, and to identify new trends and best practices. The results are in.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

It’s irresistible to compare Sales Insight with Eloqua Prospect Profiler, launched two weeks ago (see my review ), which also gives sales people access to prospect activities gathered by the marketing system. Marketo is a Force.com application that works only with Salesforce.com, while Eloqua works with several CRM products.

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Valasys

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In a statement given to Demand Gen Report , Pierre Custeau, VP, product management, Oracle Eloqua had this to say about marketer problems, “As customer expectations continue to evolve, marketers are facing more pressure than ever to deliver the consistent and connected experiences needed to drive sales and strengthen brand and customer loyalty.”.

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 13, 2018

Marketing automation. Account-based marketing. Hubspot, Eloqua, Marketo, and Pardot consultancy, setup and configuration. The digital marketing dos and dont’s. DO: Expect to invest in marketing automation tools if you haven't already. Integrated campaigns. Thought leadership management.

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Litmus

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

2020 has been the catalyst for massive changes in the email marketing world. But what do the trends of 2020 mean for marketers moving forward? And how have those trends changed in response to a global pandemic, social and economic upheaval, and email’s changing role in people’s lives?

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 28, 2024

By Lisa Heay , Director of Business Operations at Heinz Marketing What platforms come to mind when you think of marketing automation? In the past, I’d assume the answer to that would always be limited to Marketo, Pardot, Hubspot or Eloqua. Maybe not so much anymore.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

However, Forrester points out that from a marketing perspective it’s insufficient to only use these non-commercial platforms that offer limited visibility into the performance of your content and no integration with your other marketing and sales tools, such as marketing automation and CRM.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 11, 2013

Optify’s annual B2B Marketing Benchmark Report details the performance of the primary sources of traffic to B2B websites, extracted by analyzing over 62 million visits, 215 million pageviews and 350,000 leads from more than 600 small and medium-sized B2B websites. MarketingProfs 2013 B2B Content Marketing Report. View the full report.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 15, 2012

Here’s some detail from the study itself (you'll have to click on this to make it legible): Eloqua Marketing Metrics Outlook 2011 You’d expect Eloqua to put out a good study on this topic, and they do. Epsilon Email Trends and Benchmarks Q42011 Epsilon is another industry stalwart, publishing regular quarterly reports.

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Contently

JANUARY 31, 2023

Example marketing technologies include: B2B “account-based marketing” platforms like 6sense and Demandbase include predictive intelligence that allows sales and marketing to deliver a focused and personalized sales experience for a selected set of targeted enterprise accounts. Stay informed!

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The global leader in intelligent customer engagement, Swrve, announced on February 7 th 2019 that they will be integrating with Oracle Eloqua – a part of the Oracle Marketing Cloud – so as to even out the playing field for mobile marketers and to provide best-in-class mobile marketing communications which will expand Eloqua’s core functionality.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It’s no secret that I am a fervent evangelist for marketing automation, and at our agency we see the real-life benefits every day in the form of clients generating higher conversion rates, more qualified leads, and shorter sales cycles. HS) Where do you see as the greatest opportunity to improve marketing and sales processes?

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Atomic Reach

MARCH 7, 2019

As content marketing continues to be the core of many of the world's most successful companies, we wanted to dig into what is driving the (sometimes, but not always) behind the scenes digital agencies fuelling that growth. But, of all the tools in their tech stack, which are the most important?

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 14, 2010

We asked Steve Woods "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Steve Woods is the CTO and cofounder of Eloqua , author of Digital Body Language and is recognized as one of the top influencers in CRM. 2010 Content Marketing Trends and Predictions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Since I just wrote last Friday about how DMPs integrate with marketing automation to unify customer treatments in Web advertising and direct channels, I’m tempted to just point you to that post for an explanation of how this works and why it matters.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 29, 2016

. - By “journey as the framework for message selection” I mean that marketing messages or campaigns are triggered when customers reach a particular journey step. Again, this is different from defining selection rules separately for each campaign, which is how conventional marketing automation and real-time interaction systems work.

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B2B Memes

DECEMBER 15, 2011

These questions came to mind yesterday when I read about the one-year anniversary of the hiring of journalist Jesse Noyes by Eloqua, a marketing automation company. Eloqua is clearly not a traditional outlet for journalism. Marketers are trying to learn how to speak to people in a human way. Say “I”

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ExactTarget announced its acquisition today of mid-tier marketing automation vendor Pardot , for just under $100 million ($95.5 But Pardot was also the only major marketing automation competitor without serious outside funding. Not a good trend. million, to be exact).

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TrustRadius Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Marketing automation platforms—the swiss army knives of marketing—supposedly let you do it all. . They allow you to send out beautiful emails, coordinate social media campaigns, track customer behavior across all marketing channels, play nice with your CRM and give you all the reporting you need. .

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 10, 2011

Steve has a proven track record in marketing communications development and execution. He has served as chief marketing executive at TOA Technologies and Eloqua, as well as at Nuance Communications. As we exited 2010, there were a lot of predictions for what’s in store for B2B Marketing in 2011.

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