Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Have we outgrown our current marketing system? What kind of marketing automation platform do we need?

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 4, 2020

A quick note on the ranking methodology: These 10 tools were searched across five popular software comparison sites: Capterra, G2Crowd, TrustRadius, SoftwareAdvice, and GetApp. They were then ranked on both the number of total reviews (popularity) and average user ratings (quality). Average user rating: 9.54 (out of 10). EasyWebinar.

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Martech

JANUARY 21, 2022

Account-based marketing is having its moment as B2B marketers are jumping on the idea of orchestrating outreach to their most valued accounts. ABM enables marketers to focus their efforts on accounts with the greatest ROI potential through insightful and personalized marketing programs.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. Complex, customizable scoring capabilities.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 2, 2018

This year one of KoMarketing’s priorities is the creation of more cross-training opportunities for team members. In learning new skills, members of the KoMarketing team ultimately become better digital marketers, better support client programs, and the organization. The same can be said for cross-training and learning new skills.

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Martech

JULY 29, 2022

Most B2B marketing organizations today practice some kind of account-based marketing (ABM) strategy. At its most basic, that means investing marketing and sales resources in guiding high value accounts through the journey to conversion. Your vendor shortlist. These are our suggestions: How easy is the tool to use?

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Valasys

MARCH 28, 2023

AI in lead generation takes the drudgery out of the time-consuming tasks of customer acquisition and management. Another essential aspect is sales automation , which includes call scheduling, workflow automation, and automatic assignment of qualified leads to the sales team.

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Martech

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Channel partner marketing means efforts to recruit and support third-party partners to expand a vendor’s market access. Traditional support methods include training, data-sharing, co-marketing campaigns, rebates, MDF (market development funds), and sales enablement, like content, events and sales playbooks.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2012

Research firm Gleanster released its free “Gleansight” report on marketing automation late last month. I was principal author for much of the document and drafted the survey questions, although I didn’t write the individual vendor profiles or administer the survey. This is a really interesting divergence.

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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

MARCH 17, 2015

You’ve vetted the vendors, selected your features, sized your database and scheduled your implementation; you are now ready to deploy your marketing automation platform, right? Without the correct staffing your marketing automation investment might as well be a car that sits in the garage, collecting dust.In

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

One of the main reasons that marketing automation has not been adopted more quickly is that too few marketers know how to fully use it. Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them.

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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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GreenRope

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Why Companies Don't Adopt Marketing Automation and How GreenRope Can Help. Many companies need a marketing automation tool, but oftentimes they feel like a CRM/ automation software will be too difficult to adopt. There are many barriers stopping companies from adopting automation platforms.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

As I wrote yesterday, no one knows exactly what we’ll want from our marketing automation systems in the future. The first wave of marketing automation features for social media is now several years old. Many marketing automation vendors have added mobile interfaces for the marketers and salespeople who work with them.

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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. The usage of marketing automation software has exploded over the last decade, with no sign of slowing down. billion in 2017.

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LeadSquared

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In this article, we will discuss the features and benefits of marketing automation. Marketing has been integral to businesses for a long time. To stay ahead of the competition, companies invest a lot in marketing. Marketing is not only a part of the buying journey but also a complete process in itself.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

APRIL 23, 2024

Successful B2B software companies build martech skills in-house Software companies that outperform peers tend to invest more in marketing technology (martech) and have developed that expertise in-house: “Revenue-leading organizations have more in-house skills and more marketing technology than their low-growth counterparts (see Figures 2 and 3).

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Only B2B

JUNE 19, 2023

In the current highly competitive business environment, generating high-quality leads and expediting the sales journey is of utmost importance. BANT qualification, a well-established approach in lead assessment, has revolutionized the game by offering a framework to evaluate prospects and identify sales-ready leads.

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Rev

MAY 21, 2018

While I still encourage the use of this data source, I have a feeling the hype train might be steaming you off the edge of a steep cliff. To be sure, intent data should be one of many signals marketers use to identify when companies are in market. The Truth Intent Vendors Don’t Want to Talk About. But interests change.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 8, 2015

Now that you’ve selected your marketing automation platform (MAP), it is time to implement. Marketing automation is not a one size fits all approach and each implementation must be done to align with the current business systems and processes currently in place. Perhaps a webinar or data enrichment vendor?

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. Other vendors have asked the same questions and reached the same conclusions.

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The Effective Marketer

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Automation Monday is Here! It was really fun and if you are interested in learning how other marketers are tackling their marketing, CRM, and even sales challenges this is the place to go.

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Martech

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Marketers that are able to mine phone conversations for keywords spoken, caller intent and conversions can make important connections between phone calls and the digital campaigns that drive them. Most platforms offer a core set of capabilities focused on call tracking, recording, scoring, routing and fraud prevention.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 13, 2011

Yesterday' post described the first three steps in Raab Associates' vendor selection process: defining requirements, researching options, and testing vendors against scenarios. And remember, the complete set is available for free in our Vendor Selection Workbook in the Resource Library at the Raab Guide Web site.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2013

Infusionsoft today announced it has acquired social lead generation vendor GroSocial. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This is an enticingly huge market for marketing automation vendors, and one that seems largely untapped. The largest marketing automation vendor in the segment, Infusionsoft , has under 20,000 clients. There are about 3 million companies with revenue between $1 million and $5 million in the U.S.,

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Usability Items for Simple Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) Yesterday's post described the background of this usability scoring project and gave scores for several items that apply to both simple and complex marketing programs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I’ll be giving a Webinar this Thursday on evaluating marketing automation software, sponsored by Neolane. Part of the content will be a list of Seven Deadly Sins of Marketing System Selection. This means you don’t identify what processes need to be changed and what training your users will need. Let the Vendor Drive.

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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. The price is surprisingly low for an established marketing automation vendor. In particular, LeadFormix infers visitors' “intent” (i.e.,

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TrustRadius Marketing

JUNE 19, 2019

Of all the love-hate relationships out there, the one between marketers and their marketing automation platform is a classic—at least in the world of software. In a recent TrustRadius survey, 70% of marketers said that Marketing Automation software was very essential to achieving their marketing goals.

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SalesIntel

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To skyrocket the numbers, sales reps make use of various sales tools available in the market. Some of them are free while others are paid – but all bring in enormous value to the sales process. Examples of popular sales tools include CRM software, marketing automation software, and sales forecasting tools.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

When I first described Customer Data Platforms two and half years ago, all the vendors offered an application such as predictive analytics or campaign management in addition to the "pure" CDP function of building the customer database. It’s primarily used to set up data processing flows for data cleaning, matching, and lead routing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

I mentioned 6Sense briefly in a recent post about vendors who help companies find prospects on the Web. and key activities (Web site visits, topics researched) and scores at both company and individual levels. and key activities (Web site visits, topics researched) and scores at both company and individual levels.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

One of first marketing automation systems I ever saw – this would be during the Reagan Presidency – was a custom-built dial-up network to distribute collateral to farm equipment dealers. Some of these channel marketing systems focus on lead distribution, some on locally-customizable promotion materials, and some on campaign management.

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking More Free Marketing Training Who doesn’t like free stuff? I sure do, especially when it comes to marketing. The event was on September 16 but I was travelling and missed it.

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