Longtime observers of the marketing and sales technology space suggested acquisitions such as Salesforce’s $15.3 billion purchase of Tableau marks an increased emphasis on literally illustrating the actions brands need to take if they want to accomplish their objectives. San Francisco-based Salesforce announced on Monday it would acquire Tableau, best known as a provider of […]
Mikkel Svane has reached the kind of success that means he had no issues sharing the stage at Collision 2019 in Toronto on Thursday with another CEO — especially since it was a CEO who would now be reporting into him. A session that was originally designed to be a fireside chat with the CEO […]
E-mail delivery and analytics service SparkPost on Tuesday launched SparkPost Signals, a predictive intelligence tool designed to help marketers better understand how their campaigns will perform. The San Francisco-based firm, whose B2B clients include Adobe, SAS and SiteCore, said SparkPost Signals will offer a “Health Score” their use of e-mail that scales from zero to 100 […]
SAP is planning a deeper integration with LinkedIn along with the ability to use clickstream data to identify engaged contacts as part of an update to its Marketing Cloud later this year. Speaking at a user group session within its SapphireNOW customer event this week, SAP Customer Experience global VP Jackie Palmer said the integration […]
PathFactory is trying to bridge the gap between consumer experiences like Netflix and Amazon by offering tools that let B2B marketers recommend web site content based on visitors’ behaviour, what’s popular and what will help them take the next step in a buying journey. The Toronto-based firm is using this week’s Sirius Decisions Summit in […]
Demandbase on Monday announced what it is calling an ABM Ecosystem, a collection of both existing partners and new partners designed to faciliate common data, shared audiences and integrated workflows across account-based marketing software. Lauching as part of the SiriusDecisions Summit taking place in Austin this week, San Francisco-based Demandbase said its ABM Ecosystem arose […]
Terminus is promising B2B marketers a way to measure both traditional and ABM programs in a single Account-Based Scorecard and a way to manage account-level targeting of digital ads. The Atlanta-based firm said its Account-Based Scorecard will help marketers avoid creating attribution reports manually or after-the-fact for their campaigns. The expanded capabilities in the platform […]
Toan Dinh knows better than to use his own phone to make the calls. That would be too obvious, and risky. Instead, the CMO for Demand Generation at point-of-sale software maker TouchBistro uses someone else’s device to cold call his competitors — calls in which he walks through a specific list of questions based on […]
Banner ads might be annoying or too easy to ignore on web sites, but Sigstr believes putting them within e-mail messages may hold the key to helping CMOs gain visibility in the marketing funnel, help sales teams hit revenue targets and stand out amid the noise in other channels. Based in Indianapolis., Ind., Sigstr this […]
As more organizations pursuing digital transformation find themselves creating new software, mobile apps and other tools to satisfy their customers, a company called Productboard has a simple but important mission: helping companies figure out what to build, and to figure it out more quickly. Based in San Francisco, Productboard released an updated version of its […]
True Influence on Thursday will launch an upgraded version of its InsightBase tool that will compete with the likes of Bombora in offering intent data to connect B2B marketers with the exact prospects who are actively in-market for products or services. Based in Princeton, N.J., True Influence will officially announce InsightBase 3.0 at the Martech […]
Marketo’s Marketing Nation became an event-within-an-event at Adobe Summit on Thursday, where senior vice-president Steve Lucas referenced everything from The Matix to Coachcella and Fyre Festival to explain how B2B marketers can focus on creating stronger experiences for their customers. Following its acquisition by Adobe last year, Marketo’s key product, engage, was enhanced with several […]
Adobe is trying to demonstrate progress in bringing technologies from Marketo and Magento into its Adobe Experience Platform this week, but possibly the best insight at Adobe Summit so far was a glimpse at a more custom product: a dashboard the company uses to track its own marketing and sales performance. Speaking to approximately 17,000 […]
Aprimo on Wednesday will announce a partnership with a software provider called Episerver that is promising B2B firms a single, cloud-based dashboard to avoid project delays or “rogue campaigns” due to lack of standards or inconsistencies across marketing. The joint offering, which is coming out of Episerver’s customer event in Stockholm, Sweden, means Aprimo’s marketing […]
The best thing for SurveyMonkey CMO Leela Srinivasan to focus on is: Strengthening awareness and perception of the firm’s brand Educating the market about its enterprise capabilities Demonstrating traction with key customers As you might have guessed, the correct answer to that question would be “all of the above,” according to Srinivasan, who joined the […]
Most martech CMOs would be satisfied if their company’s products and services were seen as innovative, easy to use or at least useful. Grad Conn’s mission? To make Sprinklr “the most beloved enterprise software company, ever.” The former CMO of Microsoft, Conn took on the role of chief marketing and experience officer at Sprinklr, a […]
While less than half of those surveyed by IT marketplace Spiceworks say they will have more money to work within in 2019, those who do predict they’ll see a B2B marketing budget increase of 24 per cent. Austin, Tex.-based Spiceworks released the results of its 2019 State Of IT Marketing Report on Wednesday, which was […]
To succeed and stay ahead of the curve in today’s business environment, organizations need seamless ways of compiling, organizing and operationalizing data across multiple systems. The past decade has witnessed sales and marketing technology proliferate throughout organizations. Each piece of sales and marketing technology houses critical signals about target accounts and their buyer journey, but […]
A friend of Sam Hirbod, the principal inbound agency strategist at HubSpot, was waiting on hold with his online bank — for 20 minutes. This is a long time to leave anyone in limbo, especially in 2018, and in the course of that time, Hirbod friend’s started conducting searches on Google for a banks with […]
With more than three quarters of B2B marketers citing success with account based marketing in an ABM benchmark study from ITSMA and DemandBase, the focus now is on blending strategies with different approaches and overcoming data and reporting challenges. ABM programs now account for 28 per cent of overall marketing budgets, according to the 2018 […]
