Unica Helps Marketers Reach Out to iPad Users

This month Unica subsidy Pivotal Veracity announced that its award-winning MailboxIQ product email rendering imaging for the Apple iPad.  This capability allows Marketers to target and track email communications to iPad users. [Read more...]

Jigsaw, NetProspex Take the Lead with Leads

video montage of Glengarry Glen Ross courtesy of walkingf00l

The recent acquisition of Jigsaw by Salesforce is a good sign of the times for Net-Centric Marketing.  By including Jigsaw’s 21 million B2B contacts as part of its AppExchange service offering, Saleforce makes a more seamless process out of your email marketing efforts.  By having the data needed to drive your revenue available in a convenient way, you no longer need to hunt down your own lists and prepare them for importing into your Salesforce account
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Attensity Gets Even More Intense with Biz360

Attensity acquires Biz360

Attensity has announced its acquisition of Biz360 this week and this is an exciting development in the Net-Centric Marketing world.  The Marketing Consigliere recently interviewed Attensity’s CMO, Michelle de Haaff, and he loves to read about a good flex of muscle out there in the marketplace.  Biz360′s platform has been a prominent social media monitoring and market intelligence solution, so he believes that this is a good sign in the industry – [Read more...]

The Challenges of Marketing Automation

Challenges of Marketing Automation

Don't worry, it won't get this complicated.
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This is the last in a series of excerpts from Allinio’s white paper Net-Centric Marketing & Information Superiority.


The Challenge for Today’s Marketer

The speed to react to an ever changing and volatile global business environment requires technology to aid the Marketer in sorting through terabytes of constantly flowing and archived data, prioritizing that data, and distilling the actionable intelligence that needs to be shared with the proper enterprise stakeholders such as sales and product development. [Read more...]

IT’s Role in Marketing Automation

IT's Role in Marketing Automation

Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936).

This is the ninth in a series of excerpts from Allinio’s white paper Net-Centric Marketing & Information Superiority.

The IT Department Role & Business Transformation of the Organization

Obviously, in the years to come, the IT Department will be a critical partner in  effort to transform into a Net-Centric Marketing organization.  Requirements for new communications technologies and hardware will need to be specified; additionally, these tools will need to be evaluated, prioritized, and acquired for deployment, upgrading, or replacement. [Read more...]

Marketing Automation Comms & Computing

Marketing Automation Communications & Computing

Your Marketing and Sales teams should communicate like a platoon.

This is the eighth in a series of excerpts from Allinio’s white paper Net-Centric Marketing & Information Superiority.

Communications

Obviously the telephone will continue to be a major tool to the Net-Centric Marketer for communications.  For outbound and inbound data gathering and selling, the telephone has proven its versatility and from an interactive perspective, remains widely accepted by customers.  Enhancing the capabilities of voice-based platforms are Internet based Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems, which are a significant advancement over legacy IVR platforms. [Read more...]