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A Content Marketer’s Guide to Marketing Resource Management

DivvyHQ

For many large companies, the marketing department is almost a corporation in its own right. To manage the operation effectively, you need a combination of people, processes, and tech all working in concert. Here's more on this category and how it works alongside a content operation.

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A 2×2 view of systems of record in martech

chiefmartech

The phrase “system of record” has been bandied about in martech for years. But this assumption often belies that fact that there are many different kinds of data in the modern marketing organization — not to mention the broader domain of rev ops. Each may have its own system of record. CDP = customer data platform.

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Tips for agile marketing planning on a global scale

BrandMaker Blog

Since implementing a collaborative MRM platform, TMD Friction has achieved a more agile marketing planning process, increased transparency across departments, and improved collaboration across its global marketing teams.

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20 B2B Marketing Strategies That Will Deliver Success In 2021

Marketing Insider Group

Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. The Most Effective B2B Marketing Strategies. Have a Formal Marketing Plan. Partner with a Marketing Agency. Ride the Rise of Mobile.

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6 Reasons to Get Excited About MRM 2.0: Percolate & Allocadia

Allocadia

MPM + CMP = MRM 2.0. But, as both a marketing leader and former research nerd, I am quite excited about today’s news. We just announced a new partnership with Content Marketing Platform category leader, Percolate (see Gartner’s recent research naming Percolate a leader in the space). Aprimo, Orbis, and SAS.)

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6 Reasons to Get Excited About MRM 2.0: Percolate & Allocadia

Allocadia

MPM + CMP = MRM 2.0. But, as both a marketing leader and former research nerd, I am quite excited about today’s news. We just announced a new partnership with Content Marketing Platform category leader, Percolate (see Gartner’s recent research naming Percolate a leader in the space ). Aprimo, Orbis, and SAS.)

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The Marketing Ops Audit: Why It Matters and How to Do It Well

Vision Edge Marketing

Marketing Operations (Marketing Ops) is a well-established function. Whether performed by one person in a small company or a large team in a billion-dollar business, it is present in 70% of Marketing organizations overall and in 82% of Best-in-Class (BIC) Marketing organizations. These are the Value Creators.

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Aprimo Brand Re-emerges as Marketing Operations Specialist and Merges with Revenew Distributed Marketing System

Customer Experience Matrix

When we last left Teradata Marketing Applications , it had just been sold to Marlin Equity Partners , whose major previous investment in marketing technology was SaaS email provider BlueHornet. Revenew competes in the latter arena, so it’s a nice complement to Aprimo’s marketing operations features. with BlueHornet.

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Top 2 Marketing Analytics Priorities for B2B Marketing Teams

B2B Marketing Analytics

As though the ever-increasing expectations of the c-suite from marketing teams to demonstrate the quantifiable impact were not enough and now we are in these unprecedented times, which have further highlighted the need for marketing to be more data-driven and efficient with their investments. This is where.

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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Oracle followed suit this morning with an acquisition of social media monitoring and semantic analysis vendor Collective Intellect. In a word, no.

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3 Steps to Become a More Agile Marketer Today

Allocadia

Becoming agile is the topic de jour for marketers, with more teams adopting the practices of their development counterparts, especially in today’s uncertain economic climate. Today’s marketers need flexibility in order to pivot programs when faced with the cancelation of all in-person events. And that’s where agility comes in.

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How to Improve the Recruiting Process

Zoominfo

From building and maintaining a talent pipeline to targeting passive candidates, the hiring process can feel daunting. Research from the Society for Human Resource Management showed that recruiting and hiring were the top concerns for HR professionals going into 2021. How to Improve the Recruiting Process. The solution:

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Top 8 Insanely Useful Content Marketing Tools Brands Need

nDash

There’s no shortage of content marketing tools at our disposal and, because of that, the number of choices can get overwhelming. For example, in the content and experience category, you’ll find subcategories filled with various tools, including the following examples: Content Marketing: Buzzsumo, Oracle, and nDash.

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Content marketing for enterprises: Q&A with Percolate CEO Randy Wootton and VP of Marketing Greg Roth

ClickZ

Percolate’s content marketing platform is used by enterprise companies including Microsoft, Bosch, United Airlines, and BP. Percolate’s technology falls somewhere between a “content marketing platform” and a “marketing resource management tool.” Image source: Percolate.

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It's CDP Time for Marketing Cloud Vendors

Customer Experience Matrix

Adobe, Salesforce and Oracle all made announcements regarding Customer Data Platform products this week. None are world-changing: Salesforce described a planned extension of Customer 360 ; Abobe announced triggered journey campaigns that draw on its “real time CDP”, and Oracle described CDP services from systems integrators.

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How Can Software Make Business Processes Easy?

Valasys

Business processes are how companies and organizations work. Software is the backbone of modern business and makes the processes of a business easy and robust. The software will enable you to automate almost any type of business process. The software will enable you to automate almost any type of business process.

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4 Best Free Human Resource Management Tools

TrustRadius Marketing

Once the limitations are outlined, you can decide if the no-cost route is right for you in human resource management software. Vendor marketing can make it challenging to see and understand pricing on the front end. This software is free for up to 5 users, and so is best suited to a small business.

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Creating a vibrant performance process

Liveintent

According to a 2021 study from The Society for Human Resource Management, 62% of HR professionals say it’s been difficult to maintain workplace culture during the pandemic and 53% of U.S. workers who’ve left a job due to workplace culture did so because of their relationship with their manager.

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Listen Up Marketers: We Need Our Own Operating System

Kapost

Marketing is not the same function it was ten years ago—when B2B marketers were considered “sales support.” The digital revolution catalyzed the transformation of B2B marketing from cost-center to profit-center. Changes in the buyer’s journey have driven marketing teams to step up and take ownership of the entire funnel.

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Allocadia Named Strong Performer in Forrester Wave

Allocadia

“Allocadia provides best-in-class money management capabilities… Allocadia was founded specifically to help marketers run marketing like a business — from budget planning to ROI and spend optimization.” ” Forrester Wave. Download Now.

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Allocadia Named Strong Performer in Forrester Wave

Allocadia

“Allocadia provides best-in-class money management capabilities… Allocadia was founded specifically to help marketers run marketing like a business — from budget planning to ROI and spend optimization.” ” Forrester Wave. Download Now.

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Teradata Buys Aprimo for $525 Million: More Marketing Automation Consolidation To Come

Customer Experience Matrix

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. Given the previous Unica deal.

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RedPoint Offers Broad, Deep B2C Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

On days when I have nothing else to be cranky about, I sometimes fuss at how business-to-business software vendors hijacked the term “marketing automation” despite its long and relatively honorable history describing systems for consumer marketing.

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How to Decide When Your Company Requires B2B Marketing Agency

Valasys

Nowadays, the definition of marketing has been changing consistently with growing company density in the market. The idea of marketing is not limited to boost brand awareness. A B2B marketing agency could only benefit the company if it is hired at the intersection of the right time and interest intensity.

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Teradata Integrates Its Marketing Automation Acquisitions for Enterprise Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

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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How to Plan Your Marketing Budget for 2021

Rock Content

Is your marketing department ready for 2021? The development and execution of successful campaigns depend, among other things, on the planning of a solid marketing budget. A marketing budget outlines all the financial resources that the department plans to spend in a given period — usually quarterly or annually.

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How to Have a Successful Marketing Automation Implementation

ANNUITAS

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. Will other systems be integrated into your MAP?

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Best-in-Class Financial Management for Crisis Mode and Beyond

Allocadia

In these chaotic times marketers should control what they can control , so your first act should be getting your finances and plans in order. Now more than ever, marketers need to hone in on issues that were dragging their organization down before, because you can bet they aren’t about to solve themselves. .

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Tales from the Toolbox

Vision Edge Marketing

Are you feeling a bit like a kid in a candy store when you consider all of the available marketing technologies? Marketing technology has been evolving at a rapid pace, and with so many choices, it’s easy to be overwhelmed. It seems like my dad’s advice serves marketers too as we choose our marketing tools.

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5 Leading Ecommerce Trends for 2021 You Should Use to Your Advantage

Biznology

As if the e-commerce market wasn’t growing fast enough in recent years, during the pandemic it has reached unprecedented heights. The current momentum will see e-commerce continue to grow and build market value rapidly in 2021 and the years to come. Without a doubt, the pandemic is reshaping the business sector in a very big way. .

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How to Find and Hire a Director of Marketing for Your Business

Single Grain

This is a complete guide to finding and hiring a Director of Marketing for your business. In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to know about: The role of Director of Marketing. Typical duties of a Marketing Director. The interview process, including example interview questions. What Is a Marketing Director?

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MarketingPilot Offers Integrated Marketing Management for Mid-Size Companies

Customer Experience Matrix

MarketingPilot started as an operations management tool for mid-size direct marketers, with features for project management, list and media buying, source code tracking, expense capture, and vendor management. The company also created special editions for ad agencies, which now provide about 40% of its business.

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Financial benchmarks for B2B marketing agencies

Savanta

If you’re running a B2B marketing agency do you really know how your firm performs relative to competitors? The 2011 B2B Marketing Agency League Table , compiled by B2B Marketing Magazine and Circle Research , fills in the gaps. . The UK’s top ten B2B marketing agencies by turnover in 2011: IAS B2B (£12.6m).

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Teradata Sells Its Marketing Applications Business for $90 Million

Customer Experience Matrix

Teradata announced on Friday that it had signed a deal to sell its marketing applications business for $90 million to private investment firm Marlin Equity Partners. The sale involves the former Aprimo, eCircle, FLXone data management platform, and other cloud-based marketing products. That was what had been rumored.

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An epic landscape of 2,427 European martech solutions

chiefmartech

For some of us, it’s collecting logos of martech companies and carefully categorizing them into little boxes on slides , to the delight or dismay of marketers at conferences worldwide. Market structure? The post An epic landscape of 2,427 European martech solutions appeared first on Chief Marketing Technologist.

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List of Mid-Tier Business-to-Consumer Marketing Automation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

The world clearly has more B2B marketing automation vendors than it needs – my master list of demand generation products includes two dozen. By contrast, mid-tier consumer marketers often have a hard time finding good options. Many marketing service providers manage Alterian systems for their clients.

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SAS Acquires AssetLink: Great for Enterprises, But What About the Rest of Us?

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: SAS's purchase of AssetLink ensures it's a viable alternative to IBM/Unica and Teradata/Aprimo for integrated marketing management. The real question is whether mid-size firms will be able to afford those systems. SAS today announced its acquisition of marketing resource management vendor AssetLink.

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19 B2B Marketing Strategies That Are Still Important for 2019

Marketing Insider Group

Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. The Most Effective B2B Marketing Strategies. Have a Formal Marketing Plan. Partner with a Marketing Agency.

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Marketing Automation 101

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

But in order to achieve these goals along the way, you need to align your people, process, and technology. Marketing automation technology can help. If you’re new to our blog, read on; if you’ve been around a while, consider checking out one of our more advanced posts such as The ROI of Marketing Automation.

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The Problems With Using Spreadsheets to Manage Your Marketing Budget

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Gary Damiano For as long as I have been involved in marketing, the marketing budget process has revolved primarily around the use of a spreadsheet to allocate, track, consolidate and report budgets. The impact ripples throughout your spreadsheet based marketing budget. 3) Spreadsheets are not scalable.

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