When Companies Get Personal

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Here at Silverpop, we’re always looking for ways to make our customers’ work processes easier, their marketing campaigns stronger and their overall lives better—delivering happiness, as our 2010 customer conference keynote speaker and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh would say.

So when I came across a great customer story from one of our product analysts, Sunshine Levin, [...]

Marketing Automation and the Evolution of the Marketing Department

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Have you noticed how much the evolution of today’s buyer has changed the makeup of today’s marketing departments? Today’s buyer is more educated, more self-reliant and more active on social networks than ever. Correspondingly, today’s marketing content must be more helpful, more transparent and more human than ever.

With those higher demands have come role changes [...]

Solving Common B2B Problems, Part 2: Delivering More Leads to the Partner Community

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At the recent MarketingSherpa B2B Summit, I was honored to be named Lead Gen Apprentice for my innovative solutions to three common business problems. This is the second part of a three-part series in which I elaborate on each problem and my proposed solution. While the dollar amounts and company details may not exactly match [...]

Infographic: Silverpop by the Numbers—2011

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How do you reach customers and prospects with the right message, at the right time, and via the right channel? Silverpop spent 2011 helping marketers answer the question that’s on every savvy marketers’ mind, hosting super-cool events like our Agent R.O.I. digital marketing tour, providing industry-leading thought capital and offering up our unique mix of [...]

5 Questions: Dan Caro of Whereoware

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This month I’m excited to interview Dan Caro from Whereoware for our “5 Questions” blog. Dan recently presented at our Washington, D.C.-area user group on the topic of marketing automation and the powerful effect automated, targeted emails can have on your program if done correctly. Welcome Dan!

1) Can you tell a little about yourself [...]

Top 5 Most Popular Silverpop Slideshare Presentations of 2011

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From email marketing to marketing automation to social media, Silverpop posted more than 20 presentations on Slideshare in 2011, which in turn tallied more than 60,000 page views. Here’s a look at our top 5 most popular Slideshare presentations of 2011, ranked by total views:

5) “Engagement Marketing: Modern B2B Marketing Using B2B Marketing Automation”
Will [...]

Contact Scoring: Your 10-Step Quick-Start Process

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Have you considered incorporating contact or lead scoring into your marketing program, but been daunted by the effort required to get a fully functioning system in place? If so, you’re not alone. Many marketers tell me they’re interested in contact scoring but don’t know where to start planning a model, much less implementing one.

We’ve found [...]

5 Things Marketing Automation Can Help You Do—With or Without Sales

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If you’re a marketer well-versed in sales and marketing alignment, you know that communicating with sales and getting the team’s buy-in on marketing processes and initiatives is critical to moving prospects through the pipeline more efficiently, delivering more qualified leads and, ultimately, driving more revenue.

But what happens when you’re looking to invest in a marketing [...]