Remove category sales-strategy
article thumbnail

Segmentation, Social Media Drive Lead Nurturing Success for iDirect

The Point

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. First, the company invested in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform that integrated well with the company’s CRM system, Salesforce.com.

article thumbnail

Turning Web Site Visitors into Paying Customers

Online Marketing Institute

Applications such as Salesforce.com already let sales staff keep track of existing customers or potential customers, but Demandbase Stream falls into a newer category of tools designed to help them find new customers in the first place. “How do you leverage otherwise anonymous traffic?&# 6) ERP (17) Internet Cust.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Social media is only one part of your B2B inbound marketing engine. Is it time for a tune-up?

MLT Creative

Although social media marketing continues to be a hot topic among B2B marketing professionals, a surprising number of B2B companies are in one of these categories: Not planning to start. Start with a strategy, followed by a plan for generating content. I sure do, and I learn something new from them almost every day.

article thumbnail

Mega-List of Features in Marketing Automation (That You Won’t Find in CRM)

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? If you dig into the design and capabilities, you’ll find that while CRM systems provide indispensable value to any kind of sales organization, the reality is that they fall short for most marketing departments. Sales Forecasting. Architecture.

article thumbnail

Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time. I worry that this tool only ends up helping sales pick out cold calls to make, and is not used by marketers enough to segment, collect, and improve their prospecting databases. I’m sure I forgot a few.

article thumbnail

30+ Women in Marketing Who You Needed to Follow Yesterday

Directive Agency

Don’t worry about trying to individually follow each woman on Twitter; we created a Twitter List to makes things easier for you! Creative strategist and international keynote speaker, Melanie Deziel, has excelled as one of the world’s leading experts in native advertising and strategy. Ann Handley. . Michelle Killebrew.

article thumbnail

Nine Winning Digital Marketing Strategies From The B2B World

Webbiquity

Here are nine distinct digital marketing strategies by brands in the B2B space, and how they’re redefining the state of the art in B2B marketing. Cisco’s marketing strategy, both online and offline focuses on imagining and defining the future of the internet. Did anybody say B2B is boring? Not if you look to these guys for inspiration.