Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 25, 2010

As a Salesforce.com user group leader, I often talk to marketers who are looking to get more and/or better data out of their Salesforce.com system. Because of this, many marketers have picked up Salesforce.com admin skills that are highly valued at their companies. . Salesforce.com Certification: it’s for Marketers, too!

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Lead Liaison

JULY 9, 2021

Check out the powerful new enhancements on Lead Liaison’s Sales & Marketing Lead Management platform. As always, please feel free to contact your Lead Liaison Representative with any questions about the enhancements below. SALES: NEW FEATURES & IMPROVEMENTS. Not yet a client? BUTLRR [details].

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LeanData

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It’s frustrating to put so much time, budget, and effort into providing sales with the best leads only to see them go to waste. Is the sales team really letting the leads go stale to spite you? Most likely, the reps never saw the leads because: They weren’t notified about a new lead in an account they’re responsible for.

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LeanData

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It’s frustrating to put so much time, budget, and effort into providing sales with the best leads only to see them go to waste. Is the sales team really letting the leads go stale to spite you? Most likely, the reps never saw the leads because: They weren’t notified about a new lead in an account they’re responsible for.

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LeanData

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It’s frustrating to put so much time, budget, and effort into providing sales with the best leads only to see them go to waste. Is the sales team really letting the leads go stale to spite you? Most likely, the reps never saw the leads because: They weren’t notified about a new lead in an account they’re responsible for.

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LeanData

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It’s frustrating to put so much time, budget, and effort into providing sales with the best leads only to see them go to waste. Is the sales team really letting the leads go stale to spite you? Most likely, the reps never saw the leads because: They weren’t notified about a new lead in an account they’re responsible for.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Full Circle Insights’ customers can now benefit from new capabilities in Lead and Contact reporting. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Full Circle Insights today announced the Report Extender for its Response Management application on Salesforce AppExchange. That leads to more efficient and accurate data processing.

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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. We'd discovered over years of consulting to Sales and Marketing VPs that most firm's CRM systems were not really functional. Most leads are ignored anyway.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 25, 2009

recently on the idea that the boundaries between marketing and sales are breaking down because leads now interact with both departments throughout the purchase cycle. This is clearly inevitable: if nothing else, leads still visit your Web site (controlled by marketing) even after they are “turned over” to sales.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. These firms are also much more likely to be “best in class,” and most see sales pipeline opportunities increase by 10-15%. 1) Marketo. 2) HubSpot.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

Few people would suggest you learn salesmanship from the play Glengarry Glen Ross ,* but its central message rings true: good leads are the lifeblood of a sales organization.** Some vendors only rank leads while others build multiple models for different purposes. • At least a dozen firms are now following that path.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

What is a lead? While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Just try to pass them on to your field sales team and you’ll see. Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 2, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. The B2B Marketing Advantage of LinkedIn. Marketing Automation Software That Delivers the Most Data Wins.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This was my fourth Dreamforce, and I’d like to offer some observations from the perspective of someone who lives in the B2B marketing & sales space. Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. Observation 4: Salesforce.com Needs Better Content .

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

Summary: Jesubi is designed to make sales prospecting as efficient as possible. The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Selling subscriptions via a direct sales force.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. The current version also hosts landing pages and Web sites, manages a lead database with profiles and Web activity history, generates lead scores, sends alerts to sales people, and synchronizes data with Salesforce.com.

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The Mx Group

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Disconnected systems and processes — and the limitations of most CRM and MA platforms, which were designed with leads and not accounts in mind — are the biggest obstacles we’re seeing with our clients. That makes me wonder: Are CRM platforms, like the Salesforce.com, set up to handle ABM? They can be, but not “out of the box.”

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markempa

APRIL 13, 2015

Tweet The management of sales leads is critical to generating marketing ROI. Sadly, sales leads often land on the scrap heap because marketers throw leads over the wall and then expect salespeople to catch them. I was recently asked by someone how to utilize lead distribution to gain the best results.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. In the early days it was used to sift through hundreds of new B2B leads per day to identify the valuable leads. The Salesforce.com database has some big issues (e.g. Smart or foolish? Background.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect , a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Salesforce.com easily dominates despite the presence of surprisingly capable free products like ZohoCRM and FreeCRM. Marketo now calls itself a “the revenue cycle management company”, giving equal public weight to lead management, sales insight and analytics.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 1, 2016

And most marketing and sales data is just that — garbage. Really we want to know the critical path of content offer and engagement channel dialogue that led to someone becoming a qualified lead, opportunity and/or closed revenue? One analytics vendor after another is selling you on their ability to analyze and make sense of “any” data.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

(Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables. In addition, they support wait periods and can send leads and alerts to the sales system.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

This is a much narrower scope than conventional demand generation systems: no email blasts, no landing pages (although the system does generate online forms), no content management, no lead scoring, and limited CRM integration. Tags: demand generation marketing automation lead management cross-channel marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 27, 2013

Lead Generation. . Keyword target examples: manage contacts, new CRM, Salesforce.com, lead management, sales tools, sales management. Generate leads from your unique landing page. . . Business: CRM.

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Biznology

JANUARY 23, 2013

To reach cold prospects among business audiences, sales and marketing teams often begin by developing a list of prospective targets. Response files created as a by-product of other businesses, like catalog/e-commerce sales, seminars, trade organization memberships, or magazine and newsletter subscriptions. Photo credit: Wikipedia.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2009

Back in December, the Sales Lead Management Association and LEADTRACK published a survey on lead management practices that I haven’t previously had time to write about. The other clear message from the survey was that the main reason leads are not followed up is “not enough info”.

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markempa

DECEMBER 12, 2016

I’ve compiled a list of the 10 most popular and shared posts on the B2B Lead Blog, chosen by marketers, just like you, to help you get ready to have a great 2017. Dave Green interviewed Trish Bertuzzi ( @bridgegroupinc ), author of the popular book, The Sales Development Playbook. Now it’s time for sales to step up. Here’s why.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 12, 2017

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. Nurture prior to sales interaction. For example, Lead Liaison’s LMA has a concept of Lifecycle Stages.

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Capstone Insights

MARCH 13, 2018

And before you read this post, if you haven’t read “ Don’t Use Leads (Only Use Contacts) in Your CRM ” and “ Challenges in Not Using Leads in Your CRM: Data and Process ,” read them first. This post makes the assumption that the lead management construct at your company is leads reliant. Editor’s note.

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Sales Empowerment. Demand Gen and Lead Management. Sales and Marketing Alignment. If you’d benefit from aligning your sales and marketing against a list of specific companies rather than a profile of companies, then it could be an effective tactic for you. However, Sales must be aligned on the methodology.

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markempa

MAY 22, 2017

Have you recently looked at your lead routing and assignment process? LeadData’s new report, The State of Lead Management , based on a survey of 527 B2B sellers and marketers found an average 25.5 % of marketing-generated leads get assigned to the wrong account owner. Case in point. Did you catch that?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 4, 2012

The list of independent marketing automation systems shrank by one yesterday when Leadformix was purchased by sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud for $9 million. While its feature list covers all the usual marketing automation categories, the company's real focus was always on providing the most useful information to sales people.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. It’s actually quite a long story, dating back to the company’s initial sales automation system in 1997, followed by its MarketingView demand generation product in 1999.

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