Marketing Automation & Dreamforce 2011 – Day 1

Joe Zuccaro (@joezuc), Allinio’s President & CEO, blogs from the trenches in San Francisco:

I arrived at Salesforce.com‘s popular user conference, Dreamforce, on an early flight, but it seems that most people arrived well before me.  Most if not all the Marketing Automation sessions were full, but I got into most of the ones I wanted. This is the biggest Dreamforce to date, with 45,000 attendees. and the venue is not only the entire Moscone Center, but because of the growth and over 400 sessions, Salesforce has secured conference facilities in neighboring hotels. It all adds up to one of the largest firehoses a marketer has ever had to endure. [Read more...]

The Marketing Automation Universe’s Center – Part IV

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This is a the last installment of the activity at DemandCon in San Francisco this week.

Ardath Albee (@ardath421) kept the post-lunch crowd awake with a lively talk about storytelling.  The conversations that you have with customers should involve storytelling.  A customer has questions at each stage of the buying process, and in each of your answers you should include a portion of the story you are trying to tell. [Read more...]

The Marketing Automation Universe’s Center – Part III

This is a continuation of the activity at DemandCon in San Francisco this week.

Doug Sechrist of Eloqua

Doug Sechrist (@dougsechrist) of Eloqua started the second day with a keynote – “Pulling the Right Levers to Drive Revenue.”  Growth is hard.  The S&P’s growth over the last few years has been choppy.  A lot of this can be alleviated by adopting the principles of “Revenue Performance Management.

Eloqua defines Revenue Performance Management as a systematic approach to identifying the drivers and impediments to a firm’s revenue, persistently measuring them, and then pulling the economic levers that will optimize top line growth.  Using real examples of customers like Polycom, Doug was able to narrated how lead flow rose 82%, resulting in increased revenues of 34%. [Read more...]

The Marketing Automation Universe’s Center – Part II

This is a continuation of the activity at DemandCon in San Francisco this week.  So much is happening we thought it would be better to break it up in AM/PM, easily digestible blogs.

Click picture above to see the full Photosynth panorama of the main DemandCon conference room.


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The Marketing Automation Universe’s Center – Part I

 

This week heralds the very first DemandCon, the brainchild of Shawn Elledge (@IMSummit) and Steve Gershik (@SGersh).  Launching in San Francisco, the event is, in our opinion, the center of the Marketing Automation Universe.  Here are some highlights of the great keynotes and panels that we got to hear.

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Marketo’s “Rock Your Revenue” in DC: Part II

As we said in our previous blog, Allinio had the privilege to be the Regional Sponsor for Marketo‘s “Rock Your Revenue” tour when it stopped in the Washington, DC area.  The speakers included JimLenskold (@jimlenskold), Managing Director of Lenskold Group, who spoke about the need for imperative for Marketing to be better at showing ROI; Kelly Waffle of Sourcefire, a Marketo customer, spoke of the the issues he faced implementing the platform and how he has further configured it for even better results and Paul Albright,  Chief Revenue Officer of Marketo, who delivered a terrific, compelling story on how Marketers have to be part of the revenue equation for an organization.

Afterwards, Allinio had a video camera ready to ask Marketers some questions about issues facing them and what they thought of the Rock Your Revenue Tour.  This is continuation of  some of the best answers we got when we asked them about “Truths and Revelation of Marketing.”   You can also check out the first segment, “Challenges and Myths of Marketing.