Martech

JULY 22, 2021

When talking about martech, we most often think about tools that allow us to perform a specific task related to marketing — analyze traffic on our websites, aggregate and understand customer data, deliver personalized messaging, etc. But most marketing initiatives require we employ multiple tools to achieve our objectives.

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Martech

MARCH 9, 2022

The global pandemic has confirmed what many marketers already knew: the telephone is an integral part of the consumer purchase journey. Given all of that promise, marketers are certainly evaluating these technologies and one crucial part of that process is the demo. What is your service reliability guarantee? Phone numbers.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Over at the Modern Marketing Blog , Steve Earl offers his theory as to why enterprise marketers choose to switch to a different marketing platform. So, it may just be that Steve’s data is biased in favor of those companies who need a more full-featured solution. Click To Tweet.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2022

It’s surprisingly easy to go through the whole selection process and buy the wrong software (many reviewers have said as much). Companies often forget about team input, review sentiment, and research the vendor’s reputation. One of the most common errors buyers make is not reading the terms of service (TOS) before buying.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Consider the following critical capabilities for MAP in an enterprise environment: Can it manage non-linear customer journey and multi-faceted contact-level and account-based lead qualification?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

You’ve probably heard by now how intelligent lead routing — an automated system of processing leads — can help sales teams improve their speed to lead and ensure nothing falls through the cracks. As you evaluate solutions, ask yourself these framing questions: What Results are You Expecting? Take Spectrum as an example.

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Biznology

JUNE 6, 2018

If you’re a small or medium size business selling to consumers, you probably want to both automate and personalize your marketing campaigns. The solution, of course, is marketing automation linked to your customer relationship management (CRM) software. These are compelling, important benefits.

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Oktopost

APRIL 22, 2019

It’s hard to deny that it is the biggest marketing concern in 2019. Especially, for B2B and Considered Purchase marketing. digital companies now have a veritable plethora of viable and effective marketing channels available for lead generation. So, what’s a marketer to do?! Especially, for lead generation.

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TrustRadius Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Having a website today means managing programs, data, and databases: you can’t even think of them all at once. You need to manage the site itself to ensure customers make it to the checkout screen, but you also need to drive traffic with marketing and then follow up to keep customers coming back.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 27, 2021

It’s easy (and correct) to see these deals as efforts to assemble comprehensive marketing suites. These deals all involve CDPs with marketing automation functions (that is, segmentation, message selection, campaigns, personalization, and cross-channel orchestration). Still a suite, but a different kind.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Valasys

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Engagio has grabbed the number one position among the top 20 Account-Based Marketing vendors deduced from 1,500 manager surveys, analyst opinions & vendor evaluations. In a press release by Research In Action GmbH, Engagio ranked first on the matrix & outlasted the other Top 19 global vendors.

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Martech

JULY 19, 2022

Digital experience platform Sitecore has announced the availability of Experience Management Cloud (XM Cloud) representing the transition of its core CMS solution, as well as associated capabilities like personalization, to a modern cloud architecture. XP is typically purchased by customers as a managed cloud solution.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2022

B2B marketers are expected to wear many hats. They must manage multiple campaigns simultaneously, while working effectively with partners across the globe. They need to manage their marketing budgets prudently and make sure every dollar is spent wisely. With B2B marketing, it’s all about value.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 22, 2016

Last week’s posts introduced our new Raab Guide to ABM Vendors ( buy it here ) and introduced a framework four process ABM steps, six system functions, and six key sub-functions. But the sub-functions are still important for stack design and vendor selection. Let’s start with the first sub-function, External Data.

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to the B2B Marketing Automation Solutions. Marketing automation solutions have become a must-have for modern B2B marketers particularly as the marketers are headed to explore new avenues alongside the dawn to the next normal. Getting Started With Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 16, 2018

When the CDP concept was first defined, it referred to systems that built a customer database to support a specific marketing application such as predictive modeling or campaign management. But the nature of software products is to expand their functions. In itself, this progression isn’t news.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 4, 2020

But social media, paid advertising, and influencer marketing can also play important roles. A quick note on the ranking methodology: These 10 tools were searched across five popular software comparison sites: Capterra, G2Crowd, TrustRadius, SoftwareAdvice, and GetApp. Pricing: $79/$159/$299 per month; enterprise pricing by quote.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 13, 2014

Last year’s biggest marketing automation acquisitions were products for consumer marketing: ExactTarget by Salesforce.com , Neolane by Adobe , and Responsys by Oracle. Consumer marketers have had their own, highly sophisticated marketing automation systems for years.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Last week's post took a horse race approach to data from our newly available B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST): who’s ahead, who’s behind, and who is coming on strong. But that’s more important to industry insiders than the marketers who actually use these systems. Let’s start with the basics.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This is Part 3 of a four-part series on how AI will be infused into marketing automation platforms. CRM and marketing automation platform (MAP) vendors are embedding genAI capabilities into their existing applications, and so are Microsoft and Google in their general-purpose productivity suites, Office and Workspace.

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Litmus

APRIL 13, 2021

While there are clear market share leaders in the email service provider (ESP) and marketing automation platform (MAP) industry, brands still have a long list to choose from. Respondents to Litmus’ 2020 State of Email survey mentioned more than 230 ESPs when asked which platforms they use to send marketing emails.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

B2B marketers have employed account-based marketing (ABM) for well over a decade, of course, but the space has evolved rapidly over the past two to three years. This shift from a reactive to proactive marketing approach is working well for many B2B companies. The vendors respond. Platforms, not point solutions.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

When I first got started in software, it was at a company called e.piphany which specialized in what was then called Campaign Management. Campaign Management software automated the process of sending out campaigns — primarily direct mail at that time and then email.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Account-based marketing or ABM is a B2B marketing strategy that aligns sales and marketing efforts to deliver targeted advertising, as well as personalized content and messaging, to high-value accounts. It has been used by B2B marketers for well over a decade. ABM isn’t new, though. Types of account targeting.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Of all of the different types of marketing software, conversion optimization platforms are perhaps the easiest to justify. Once you’ve determined a COP makes sense for your business , spend time researching vendors and their capabilities by doing the following. Does the vendor seem to understand our business and marketing needs?

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Vidyard

MAY 5, 2016

Aragon also recognized Vidyard for its complete platform offering video content management, online delivery, video analytics and live video capabilities. Vidyard is hot because of its ability to customize videos in a similar way to how emails are customized for mass marketing.

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Vidyard

MAY 5, 2016

Aragon also recognized Vidyard for its complete platform offering video content management, online delivery, video analytics and live video capabilities. “Vidyard is hot because of its ability to customize videos in a similar way to how emails are customized for mass marketing. .

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Vidyard

MAY 5, 2016

Aragon also recognized Vidyard for its complete platform offering video content management, online delivery, video analytics and live video capabilities. Vidyard is hot because of its ability to customize videos in a similar way to how emails are customized for mass marketing. About Vidyard.

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Martech

APRIL 17, 2024

Back in 2017, I wrote an article for MarTech, “ Message to email marketers: Show me something different in 2018.” Call on vendor and tech partners to help us succeed. In the opening years of this third decade of the 21st Century, email became the saving grace for many enterprise and mid-level companies.

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The Point

MARCH 3, 2015

It’s always been obvious that agencies were a sensible channel for marketing automation vendors to pursue, but I’m beginning to wonder whether agencies might turn out to be the primary channel for such systems, excepting only direct sales to large enterprises. But, actually: no.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 2, 2015

I spent last Tuesday and Wednesday at the MarTech Conference in San Francisco, where close to 1,000 marketing technologists heard sage advice, shared experiences, and otherwise frolicked with their peers. Several presenters diagrammed the actual marketing systems in place at their companies.

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Martech

JANUARY 3, 2022

This description is useful for understanding what some marketing operations teams do and what they aspire to do, but the responsibilities and tasks undertaken by marketing operations organizations vary widely. In this piece, we’ll dive deep into marketing operations and the profile of marketing ops professionals.

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2019

There’s a good amount of complexity to work through in understanding marketing automation (MA) for professional services firms— with countless products featuring a constantly-evolving array of capabilities and features. The Major Trends in Marketing Automation. Adoption of marketing automation is spreading.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Without it, software and platforms just aggregate information that might be correct and might help a rep find the next best buyer. Businesses need a clean, complete, and actionable data asset to inform engagement and drive intelligent automated workflows that increase sales efficiencies and close more deals.

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Circle Studio

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Marketing automation is a powerful technology platform that provides marketers with a rich set of tools to manage the components of their online marketing programs. But without a successful implementation, companies are less likely to realize the full potential of the software. billion in 2017.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. Like other things in marketing, the answer can be found by focusing on your customer. Are they a small to medium-sized business, or an enterprise? Do they experience the problems your solution solves?

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