Marketing Automation Services, Demand Generation, and Lead Management | Allinio
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Last week, Justin Gray (@myleadmd) posted a great commentary on the growing number of skills needed by Marketers moving forward. We have been blogging about this for as long as we’ve been blogging. Through the years, there has been almost Luddite-like pushback from a dwindling number of clueless Marketers, but as we like to say, the the arc of marketing and business is long, but it bends to efficiency and sensibility.
Allinio’s President, Joe Zuccaro (@joezuc), will be speaking at an SMEI event on April 10th.
SMEI asked him to help make a commercial to promote the event; the professional team of Coyle Studios in Baltimore helped alleviate Joe’s stage fright and did a great job directing him and editing out his bloopers (there were many). Here is what they produced. The real star of the show is not Joe but Zachary Arellano, a young gumbah of his who sweated in a blindfold trying to hit the piñata.
Over the weekend, there was an announcement regarding the acquisition of one Marketing Automation platform by another, and we were scratching our heads from the lack of Twitter buzz. [Read more...]
Marketo has come out with a great infographic depicting the characteristics of “Right Brain” and “Left Brain” Marketers. This insight is interesting. Traditional, pre-Internet marketers have generally been “left brain,” and even many contemporary Marketers, although they are utilizing tech tools that enhance creative productivity, still depend on a “Right Brain” approach. While this approach remains important to the firm, it is slowly and necessarily being eclipsed by Marketers who are more “Left Brain,” and as Scott Brinker (@chiefmartec) has coined, “Marketing Technologists.”
Know anyone else pulling their hair out over their Marketing Automation platform? Are your pupils dialating and your heart stopping over the thought of the mountain of content that you have to create? Well, here on the East Coast we’re trying to do something about it…
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This year there were many in the Marketing Automation sector; vendors have had more money and as a result really began flexing their marketing muscle. There has been adoption of Marketing Automation platforms by customers not only in the tech market segment, but in “old line” sectors such as financial services and manufacturing. Obviously, much has been happening in the past few years. IBM acquired Unica; Teradata bought Aprimo. Oracle obtained control of the IP of Market2Lead. Rumors have been flying about Salesforce.com and it’s acquisition of Radian6, surely a sign that it was moving towards Marketing Automation. But there is one proceeding of 2011 that is of utmost significance to Marketers…
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