Allinio’s Marketing Automation Commericial: A Star is Born (Or Boring?)

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.

Marketing Automation Professionals of the World, Unite!

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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5 Signs Zombies Are In Your Marketing Department

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With Halloween right around corner and before the zombies break down our doors, we wanted to get this urgent message out to all our Marketing comrades. There are already zombies among us and there’s not much time left before the full-blown zombie apocalypse.  Here’s how to tell if they’ve already infiltrated your Marketing and Sales organization…

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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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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...]