marketing automation

Optimizing the marketing and sales funnel can have a measureable impact on top-line revenue. Use this calculator, based on SiriusDecisions standards, to calculate and optimize your Revenue Cycle.

Marketing Automation is technology that allows you to nurture leads through automated campaigns. Because marketing automation uses email as one of its methods for engaging customers, we are often asked, “What is the difference between Marketing Automation and Email Marketing?” For small businesses, marketing automation is a tool to take your marketing to the next level while saving your organization’s resources in the long run. Marketing automation builds upon your email marketing strategies to produce superior results. In this paper, we’d like to show you what marketing automation can do for you and help you decide if your organization is ready to graduate to a marketing automation solution.

Marketing automation is the technology that allows companies to streamline, automate, and measure marketing tasks and workflows so they can increase operational efficiency and grow revenue faster.

Download this worksheet to determine if your company is ready to use marketing automation. Regardless of your score, there's good news: where you are now is exactly where you need to be in order to get more leads, get better leads, and know how to tell the good from the bad.

Marketing automation is the technology that allows companies to streamline, automate, and measure marketing tasks and workflows so they can increase operational efficiency and grow revenue faster.

Lead Generation is the top priority for marketing directors in 2009. More importantly, marketers are being charged with defending their budgets and demonstrating real ROI for their marketing programs. Use this How-To Guide to learn how other world-class companies are developing lead generation infrastructures that automate key processes, measure results, and provide a steady flow of qualified leads their sales organizations.

In these trying times, no greater low-hanging-fruit opportunity exists than implementing a successful lead-nurturing program. But, creating one requires careful thought and planning – which this paper outlines. What are some key steps your organization should take to building a successful program? What marketing-platform capabilities should you consider to help you get the results you want? Get the answers today!

This whitepaper demonstrates how the fastest-growing companies are using Revenue Performance Management, or RPM, to break down silos between sales and marketing and drive explosive revenue growth.

Marketing has long worked to support their sales teams by providing them with a steady flow of qualified leads. The use of agreed upon criteria for defining a qualified lead has resulted in a reduction of historical challenges in lead follow-up, but has yielded high volumes of unqualified leads.

A must read if you are considering a marketing automation solution. Gleanster Research surveyed 219 organizations to isolate practices from "Top Performers". The report explores the use of Marketing Automation, solutions to common challenges, metrics for measuring the success of the investment, and best practices for maximizing the return on investment.

This 30pg report from Gleanster research aggregates findings from a January 2013 survey of 219 organizations. The results explore the evolving demand for tangible justification of marketing spend.

Download this white paper to learn how to track inbound phone leads back to specific ads, web pages, and SEO and PPC terms. See exactly which ads are working and which should be stopped. Get credit for every lead and dollar your campaigns generate.

For many B2B marketers, IVR (interactive voice response) is now an integral piece of their campaigns. How are they using inbound and outbound IVR to generate and qualify phone leads? Would IVR help your lead gen efforts? Find out in this white paper.

It's easy to assume that automated emails don't require a lot of work on your part because, well, they're automated. In reality, automated emails require some careful thought and planning to successfully trigger messages that best connect with your recipients...and don't end up in their spam folder.

Silverpop asked some of its partners for their expert ideas on ways to solve four of the most common dilemmas in the digital marketing marketplace.

Discover how you can start with a few key features and gradually increase sophistication with this guide to foundational, recommended and better practices for marketing automation.

Strategies, tactics, videos and worksheets aimed at educating and empowering you to tackle the six biggest digital marketing trends in 2013 and giving you a leg up on the competition.

Faced with an uncertain economy the manufacturing sector needs to gain newfound momentum. That’s why smart companies are automating lead management in the channel to widen their sales network.

It’s the small guide to big ideas to improve your marketing automation expertise.

Savvy B2B marketing leaders are going beyond revenue performance management to transform marketing into the architect of engagement across the customer life cycle. Lead-to-Revenue Management (L2RM) platform vendors are stepping up with tooling that enables customer-centric, multichannel, personalized marketing — at scale. Companies that have implemented an L2RM automation platform have seen results in both organizational maturity and business impact. According to a Forrester survey, L2RM platform users contribute more to the sales pipeline, have higher levels of process maturity, measure results more holistically and collaborate better with their sales colleagues.

Are you running into limitations with your current marketing automation solution? Perhaps your solution is missing core functionality for cross-channel marketing or reporting. Maybe you’ve found that even basic workflows are inflexible and cumbersome for your team to create or replicate. It’s also possible that you’re facing reliability or support issues that hinder your success. The fact is, if you don’t have key functionality, system reliability, or support resources, you simply won’t achieve the best results. Worse, you may be slowing down your entire business. If you don’t make the move to a robust, scalable platform, you’re in real danger of falling behind your industry peers and top competitors.

Read this complimentary copy of the SiriusView: Marketing Automation Platforms 2017 and learn more about Marketo’s key differentiators including its native multi-channel experience, live event management, and content recommendation functionalities. Marketo's powerful marketing automation capabilities and seamless CRM integrations are complemented by our LaunchPoint ecosystem featuring over 500 technology and service providers that offer best-of-breed solutions for today’s marketers.

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Enable valuable digital dialogues through a combination of marketing automation, interactive video, and personalized content. Intelligently crafting these elements of your campaign, while effectively integrating the tech stack tools that empower 1:1 conversations (OVP, MAP, and CRM), can create a remarkable video marketing strategy.

Successful email marketing, demand generation, and lead management processes hinge on a modern strategy aligned to buyer needs across all phases of the buying process — marketing automation. Using a wide spectrum of digital channels, today’s buyers employ an extensive network of tools and resources to make the most informed purchase decisions. The Modern Marketing era is driven by the self-educated buyer who marketers must engage to achieve a relevant, targeted, and value-based customer experience. Find marketing automation fundamentals here.