What is Driving B2B Marketers to Adopt Marketing Automation Technology?

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This week we’re finalizing the schedule and agendas for our Spring 2010 B2B Marketing University series (Twitter:  #B2BUniversity) — a program Silverpop launched this past September to deliver top-quality, in-depth education to B2B marketers to help them tackle the ‘brave new world’ of B2B marketing.  (BTW — We will be posting updates on this 2010 [...]

Key Issues to Consider When Deploying B2B Marketing Automation Globally

Adam Needles discusses factors that B2B marketers should consider when deploying marketing automation on a global [...]

Four Keys for Success Using Buyer Personas to Focus B2B Marketing Automation Campaigns

I posted a new piece on my Propelling Brands blog this past week that examines the application of buyer personas in the B2B marketing arena — which I wanted to follow up on.

B2B marketers find a growing challenge when it comes to actually implementing their marketing automation campaigns. First, complex, multi-step logic can be [...]

Judging Marketing Automation Vendors Based on Their Approach to Helping Marketers Address the ‘Brave New World’ of B2B Marketing

Adam Needles shares an excerpt from a guest blog piece for the ReachForce blog on the Engage B2B marketing automation platform and how it is different from other leading [...]

Silverpop Takes Usability to the Next Level

B2B marketers face numerous challenges, not the least of which is in the building and maintaining of the automated campaigns required by today’s lead management processes. Consequently, there has been a heavy focus around the usability of marketing automation tools, and I’ll have to agree that it is a very important part of [...]

5 Tips to Improve Efficiencies Using Lead Management Solutions

As the economy takes its toll on marketing resources, it is well worth taking a look at how marketing organizations can further leverage their technology investments to improve day-to-day efficiencies. There is always great discussion and analysis around the ROI of lead management from a revenue enhancement and sales team productivity standpoint. But this overshadows [...]

WSAPIs — The Marketer’s Invisible Workhorse

We read, with great interest, fellow lead/marketing automation vendor Eloqua’s announcement that it just introduced its first Web Services Application Programming Interface (WSAPI).

Their claim to be the first in the industry is a big surprise to us, though, because Silverpop’s Vtrenz solution launched its WSAPI in 2006. In fact, our software follows the simple object [...]