Martech

JANUARY 21, 2022

Decide whether or not you need to engage in a formal RFI/RFP process. Explore ABM capabilities from account-based marketing vendors like 6sense, Demandbase, Salesforce, Integrate and more in the full MarTech Intelligence Report on account-based marketing platforms. Narrow your list down to those vendors that meet your criteria.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Finally, decide whether or not you need to engage in a formal RFI/RFP process. CDPs, marketing automation platforms, CRMs, DSPs, DAMs)? Submit a list of the requirements you’ve identified to each potential partner and set a timeframe for them to reply. This is an individual preference. What is involved in the set-up?

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. The result will be one of those industry landscape charts that analysts seem pretty much obliged to produce.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In some cases, a posting for a marketing operations position had the typical marketing automation callouts but also covered a whole host of other disciplines ranging from analytics to UI/UX design to technical strategy. The field needs clearer distinctions.

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Martech

JULY 29, 2022

Decide whether or not you need to engage in a formal RFI/RFP process. The most effective RFPs only request relevant information and provide ample information about your brand and its ABM needs. Are native integrations with our CRM and/or marketing automation platform available, so we can utilize historical data?

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Rev

MAY 21, 2018

If you have a marketing automation platform — like Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot, or Pardot — then you are probably using intent data. If you read an article on how to write better email subject lines, does that mean you are looking for a new marketing automation platform? First, what is intent data? Probably not.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The best place to start is with a Request for Proposal (RFP). View the ABM RFP template. Now, let’s dive into the components of an RFP. In fact, you should use your readiness assessment results to help you determine what is important for your organization in each section of the RFP.

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Jackie Walts

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The right vendors act as valued strategic partners and maximize the time of your marketing team. But if your call center, agency or marketing automation platform aren’t doing the job, is it time to make a switch? For something like marketing automation, you’ll need two platforms for a while as you ramp one down and ramp one up.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 18, 2014

"Marketing automation" can mean a lot of different things, so first, let''s all get on the same page. If you''re considering automation, consider whether you''re really ready for it. This post will help you decide , and this RFP will help you with the purchasing process. marketing automation'

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 18, 2012

Make sure that you are using a marketing automation platform with advanced analytics capabilities. Let your marketing automation platform do the heavy lifting for you as you push out your content. These capabilities will help you analyze flow, conversion, and velocity metrics from stage to stage.

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Hubspot

MAY 13, 2013

Not too long ago, my colleague Katie Burke wrote a great article, " The Right Way to Think About Your Marketing Software RFP ," and it got me thinking about my own experiences as a buyer of marketing technology. Particularly I realized, more often than not, I was thinking about automation the wrong way.

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SpotMe Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We published a free RFP template for you. Integration exist for CRM, marketing automation systems, and other event registration systems. ON24 offers integration to CRM and marketing automation solutions, and an API. They offer a range of integration with CRM and marketing automation solutions.

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Litmus

OCTOBER 1, 2018

If they talk about “marketing automation,” “sales,” and “customers,” then they lean toward serving B2B companies. What ESPs advertise and what they deliver (pun intended) can sometimes be very different, so talking to people that use, or have used, a particular ESP is a great way to learn more before starting the RFP process.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 15, 2020

Whether you want an email marketing tool, or a fully-fledged marketing automation system, the TrustRadius community’s insights will help you find the right email service provider (ESP) for you. Their marketing department was evaluating ESPs for their own use, as well as for use by other divisions of the parent company.

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BOP Design

MAY 13, 2019

Most leads from a website are not sales-ready, and they require lead nurturing with regular communication and content marketing. Make sure your company has a marketing automation process in place or at the very least, a regular email newsletter and ad retargeting. Lastly, Be Optimistic.

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Hubspot

APRIL 21, 2014

Michael Freeman wasn’t psyched about having to migrate from one marketing automation system to another. ” Migrations are becoming more common in the marketing automation space. The field was so new that when most companies installed marketing automation programs they were starting with a clean slate.

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Terminus

APRIL 12, 2021

The top 5 in-demand skills freelance marketers need. Susan : Marketing automation : In the Salesforce world, they call it journey building. Or they go through this whole RFP process, they buy their tools, and then the person who was supposed to operate it leaves, so they’re stuck. Your data is all over the place.

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B2B Marketing Directions

JULY 9, 2022

Part IV (Chapters 10-12) - Chapters 10 and 11 discuss how selection teams can interact effectively with prospective vendors, including how to create RFI's/RFP's/RFQ's that actually work and how to respond to vendor questions.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Account-based marketing tools. RFP response management. Direct mail automation. Zapier -- integrations automation. Mailchimp -- email and marketing automation. Autopilot -- marketing automation. Call system integrations. Webinar production. SMS messaging. Accounting integrations.

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Hubspot

JUNE 28, 2016

The inbound strategy also consists of marketing automation software integration, website design, SEO, social media, email marketing, and lead nurturing, among others. 2) "Inbound Marketing is an Internet ‘fad’ that will pass.”. 9) “Marketing is not needed in an RFP-driven industry.”. But there’s the catch.

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Circle Studio

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In the A/E/C industry, that means that up until the time a client is ready to issue an RFP, ask for a bid, or discuss the scope of their project, they’re not all that interested in being sold. But without the right marketing tools and processes in place, BD reps are unable to leverage this kind of prospect intelligence. .

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Marketing automation tools. As a marketing leader, you’re faced with a crushing number of marketing technologies to consider: almost 5,000 of them, falling into some 75 categories. B2B Marketing Academy co-founder Peg Miller has some guidance. What clues can we get from the way reps behave during the RFP process?

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The Point

JUNE 18, 2013

But more than that, marketers need to make content discoverable in the tool that salespeople use every day – their CRM. As marketers, we aggressively test and measure the effectiveness of our various marketing channels using Marketing Automation tools. Secondly: measurement. Then, apply “Survivor” rules.

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BenchmarkONE

JULY 19, 2019

Before you even reach out to an agency for an RFP, you need to understand your needs so you can effectively communicate to your agency of choice. . Think about exactly what you’re hoping to get from your marketing agency. Marketing automation. Content marketing. What audience are you looking to target? .

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KEO Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

With the content marketing era in full swing, more B2B brands are investing in tactics and technologies that can help them reach audiences on the Web. And storytelling is rapidly joining marketing automation and business intelligence as a must-have skill for B2B marketing agencies in the months and years ahead.

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DealSignal

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The type of intent signals a user is leaving and the strength of those signals can indicate a user’s interest in your product, which is invaluable for creating targeted marketing campaigns or delivering strong sales cadences. Make your RFP process faster and easier with our comprehensive checklist on what to ask vendors.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2016

As much as two-thirds of B2B deals are lost before a formal request for proposal (RFP) process even begins. Marketing automation, paired with a customer relationship management (CRM) system, enables manufacturers to engage with customers and prospects throughout the entire sales cycle with relevant information at the right time.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2016

He then shares these options with a few internal stakeholders, and together they decide who to include in their RFP, or (depending on the price point of the product and/or internal structure of the company) which to buy.

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

. #2 Create a personalized journey with targeted marketing Another piece of advice on how to increase event attendance is to create a personalized journey for your audience by using targeted marketing. Using marketing automation tools to send the right content to the right people at the optimal time.

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Martech

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Decide whether or not you need to engage in a formal RFI/RFP process. The most effective RFPs only request relevant information and provide ample information about your brand and its DEP needs. From the RFP responses, you should be able to narrow your list down to three or four solutions that you’ll want to demo.

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Attendify

AUGUST 7, 2019

Anderson, Guru: HubSpot is our marketing automation tool. For Empower 2020], we actually did an RFP for an event management firm. TA: Okay, let’s talk tech. Specifically how you used technology during different phases of Empower 2019’s lifecycle. Start with pre-event.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Hand over sales-ready leads to sales – your sales team may provide them with additional content such as data and price sheets, set up an online or a face-to-face demo and ultimately move them to the RFP/RFQ stage. Your sales team must report to marketing and put these leads back into the hopper for nurturing.

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Martech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

You don’t have to be beholden to the platform — whether email, marketing automation, CRM or what have you — that you have been using. Is an RFP in your future? They don’t have time to cope with sluggish systems, downtimes, workarounds or extra processes. This is a challenge to the existing ESP industry to do better.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Summary: Vendors who target small businesses include provide functions beyond traditional marketing automation. But larger firms need to be efficient too: so expect all marketing automation systems to eventually expand in similar ways. Reminder: you can upload the 150+ questions for your own RFP from www.raabguide.com.)

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I mentioned this in a recent post, Marketing Automation Trends for 2010 - LeadSloth , January 12, 2010 2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010. Marketing Automation Trends for 2010 , January 12, 2010.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Recently, I came across a really depressing statistic about the marketing automation buying process: According to a study done by VentureBeat , 70% of marketers who purchase a system are either unhappy or only marginally happy with their software. billion industry by 2020. billion industry by 2020. The Worst Questions to Ask.

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Hubspot

MAY 7, 2014

A subscriber reads a few blog posts about, say, marketing automation, and on the third or fourth one, perhaps they''re ready to invest a little more time learning about it. So they download the offer they see in your blog post about marketing automation. Include CTAs in Blog Subscriber Emails.

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