Pardot Packs It In At Their User Conference

For the second year in a row, Pardot has held its Elevate User Conference, a great opportunity for its customers to mingle, share best practices and learn about their vendor’s product road map, much like what happens at similar, established user events hosted by Marketing Automation industry leaders like Marketo and Eloqua.  This year’s event in Atlanta underscored how far Pardot and its customers have come in their sophistication regarding the use of web-based Marketing technologies (Disclosure: Allinio was given a complimentary pass by Pardot to the entire event).

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Il Sottovoce – The Whisper – XXXI

The Marketing Consigliere

L’occhio del padrone ingrassa il cavallo.

A business thrives when the owner keeps his eye on it.

When Automation Goes Too Far

A typical hotel room snack display with automatic billing. Ours was bigger and had even more junk food on it.

 

As an advocate of Marketing and Sales Automation, Allinio is usually very positive about advances made in this space.  However, a recent stay in the Marriott Marquis San Francisco during Dreamforce proved that automation can go too far.  We don’t think we’ve been under a rock when it comes to blogging about automated ways to market and sell, but this was the first time we ran into something like this.

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Marketing Automation & Dreamforce 2011 – Day 3

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

OK, only some of this was blogged in the trenches.  By Day 3 of Dreamforce, I was starting to experience “information overload,” so I had to come back East, get over the jet lag, do my laundry, and finally collect my thoughts about the last day of this terrific event.  But at least I still followed the brief format from the last two postings.

 

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9 Truths About B2B Publisher/Agency Turf Conflict

“Ball Fight” Creative Commons by CarbonNYC

 

Last week’s blogpost was about some data related sessions at the BMAs 2011 International Conference.  With an extra week of digestion, we want to focus a little more on one of the sessions.  Specifically the “Unleash Your B-to-B Media Partners” session with Dean Horowitz (@deanhorowitz), Vice President of eMedia and Market Intelligence at Vance Publishing Corporation, Kim Paulsen, Senior Vice President, Penton Marketing Services, and Mitch Rouda, President of eMedia at Farm Journal Media.  During the Q&A portion of the session, there was an interesting question posed by someone representing a traditional agency.

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Rock Your Revenue with Marketo & Allinio

 

Marketo, a leadMarketing Automation platform developer, has been going around the United States for the past few weeks with its ‘Rock Your Revenue’ Tour.  The 14-city rock-and-roll themed tour kicked off in March and features several Marketing and Sales experts and thought leaders, who are providing valuable perspective regarding what sales and marketing leaders must do to demonstrate measurable ROI and increase revenue for their organizations: [Read more...]