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 […]
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Showpad CPO promises to bring better coaching and a unified experience to sales managers
Showpad CPO Louis Jonckheere says the launch of the firm’s unified Sales Enablement Platform will help one of the least-supported in the enterprise to offer “coaching at scale” with training tools, easier administration and more. The Chicago-based firm’s release comes only nine months after it spent $50 million to acquire LearnCore, a provider of coaching […]
Aprimo and Episerver develop joint offering to help marketers create a stronger link between content and commerce
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 […]
Editor’s Note: The rise of the Chief Revenue Officer, explained
I’ve rarely been a B2B buyer, and I’ve never been a B2B salesperson, but I have spent most of my life being witness to those trying — and usually failing — to make a B2B sale. As an editor, it has often been part of my role to tag along with salespeople at the various […]
Sprinklr marketing leader Grad Conn is looking for (enterprise) love
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 […]
Spiceworks data shows B2B marketing budget increases of 24% for firms expecting a bump
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 […]
How to bring a predictive element into a data-first B2B sales and marketing strategy
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 […]
PathFactory CEO Mark Opauszky predicts two big trends influencing customer adoption as a growth metric
PathFactory’s CEO is betting the future of growth in B2B will come from adding more value through post-sale data and taking a more granular approach to customer advocacy programs. The Toronto-based company, which rebranded from its original LookBookHQ moniker earlier this year, recently landed on the Deloitte Canada Fast 50, a list of companies the […]
Forrester’s 2019 predictions for B2B marketers suggest a major build-or-buy decision has been resolved
B2B marketers are going to spend 2019 buying customer data platforms, fine-tuning the tools they use to handle account-based marketing and begin applying artificial intelligence for ‘midcycle engagement,” according to a series of predictions from Forrester. The Cambridge, Mass.-based market research firm published a report on the likely trends for both marketing and sales teams […]
Adobe emphasizes B2B opportunities in $4.75 billion acquisition of Marketo
Adobe on Thursday confirmed it would fold the planning, engagement and measurement capabilities of Marketo into its Experience Cloud following a $4.75 billion acquisition it said will offer the integrated toolset B2B marketers want. The company said Marketo CEO Steve Lucas will join Adobe’s Digital Experience business, which will become the home to Marketo’s technology […]
Intelligent Demand partners with Uberflip to drive client revenue through ABM
Intelligent Demand on Thursday announced a joint go-to-market partnership with Uberflip that will see the agency bring the latter’s content experience software to clients focused on improving their results with account-based marketing. Based in Denver, Intelligent Demand (ID) describes itself as an agency focused on helping companies grow revenue by helping build relationships with their […]
Clutch quantifies the importance of SEO vs. social in driving B2B audience engagement
While difficulties brought on by changes in Google’s algorithms may have led more marketers to focus on social media to connect with customers, research from Clutch shows 87 per cent of B2B audiences cite search engines as their No. 1 way of discovering business content. Washington-based Clutch, which offers reviews and ratings as well as […]
Survey: 80% of B2B marketers stick with manual approaches to personalization
A large majority of B2B marketers are relying on manually personalizing calls and e-mail messages and other content to nurture leads, according to a survey conducted by Bop Design. Bop Design, which is based in San Diego, did not reveal the sample size of its study, The State of B2B Lead Generation In 2018, but […]
Ambition Data puts Customer Centricity Conference attendees into simulation that tests what they learn about CLV
Ambition Data is raising the stakes for CMOs and other senior marketers attending its Customer Centricity Conference late next month by putting them into groups to compete in an online simulation to test what they will have learned about customer lifetime value. Running May 17-18 in San Francisco, Ambition Data recently announced a speaker lineup […]
FCB expands capabilities in areas like marketing automation, CRM with FCB/SIX Consulting
Jacob Ciesielski, SVP Data and Technology and FCB/SIX president Andrea Cook. FCB, one of the world’s largest global ad agency networks, says it will respond to the demand from its clients for more assistance with CRM, marketing automation and cloud-based service tools by launching a consulting arm that will run alongside itself digital specialist division. […]
SiriusDecisions: Only 9% of sales and marketing execs say the way they work is aligned with buyer needs
Less than 10 per cent of Canadian sales and marketing organizations say their functions are completely aligned to buyer needs, according to research released by SiriusDecisions as part of its first-ever Canadian Summit on Thursday. While 69 per cent of organizations said their functions are at least partially aligned to buyer needs, 22 per cent […]
The ABCs of data normalization for B2B marketers
Data normalization. It’s not a far stretch to suggest that the topic isn’t exactly what gets marketers excited to get out of bed in the morning. But if lead generation, reporting, and measuring ROI is important to your marketing team, then data normalization matters. A lot. Back up, just what is data normalization? At a […]
Skuid CMO makes the case for personalizing SaaS tools to maximize investment value
A company called Skuid has brought on a new CMO with deep Silicon Valley experience to help market the notion of personalizing line of business applications across disparate enterprise professionals. Skuid, which is based in Chattanooga, Tenn., announced the hiring of Tara Ryan, formerly the CMO of spend management software firm Coupa, earlier this week. […]
Evolving Customer Behaviour and What It Means for B2B Online Marketing
The internet is ever-changing. Functions that were easily identifiable a decade ago have evolved and, aided by technological innovation, today’s internet allows for greater interactions and user participation. Needless to say, this has implications for clients’ behaviour. As far as internet marketing is concerned, clients have now become more involved, and their increased participation has […]
Attack of the Toddlers: How Marketing Automation is Giving Three-Year-Olds a Bad Name
There are few things more exquisitely strange than a three-year-old with an idea. Any idea at all will do. What happens is the enormity of the idea quickly spills out of their tiny heads and into their mouths and thence into the world. They will not be ignored. Ignoring a toddler with an idea is […]