Marketing Automation Services, Demand Generation, and Lead Management | Allinio
From time to time, Allinio has blogged about startup companies in the Marketing technology space, asking the same five basic questions for a founder or other executive to answer. This time is a little different. We’re talking to another interesting company, SocialToaster, and its Founder and CEO, Brian Razzaque (@razzaque). But not only as an interviewer…
Yesterday Marketo announced a new service offering for the SMB market called Spark. Spark will allow SMB users to create and launch email campaigns, hold webinars, and even monitor and participate in social media conversations. Additionally, it gives a real time window into campaigns and allows measurement of each segment of an SMB’s marketing mix efforts within each campaign.
Marketo’s announcement of a SMB app is a positive one and will help accelerate the adoption of Marketing Automation for all the vendors in the sector catering to the SMB community. Here’s why: [Read more...]
There was a big announcement at the end of last week that seemed to be missed by a lot of people in the marketing technology space, perhaps due to the upcoming summer weekend or one of the many political scandals and debates going on in this country. But first, a prologue- let’s wind the clock back a little. Recently, Focus asked, “Backed by Google and Salesforce, is HubSpot poised to be a marketing automation game changer for SMBs?” Allinio’s Founder and CEO, Joe Zuccaro had this top voted answer:
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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.
We were privileged to be a guest of Joe Manna (@JoeManna), Nicole Shoots (@NShoots) and crew of Infusionsoft‘s national tour of eight cities. It didn’t take long after arriving there to realize that this was going to be a good “hands-on” day for the attendees; with 6,500 SMB customers worldwide and 43 million emails sent out through their system per week, Infusionsoft attracted around 100 Marketers to its Washington DC stop.
Many Marketers have expressed gratitude to the Marketing Consigliere for recently putting together a short but sweet list of serious B2B Marketing Automation iphone apps in Snap! B2B iPhone Apps! Part I and Part II. Part of the reason he did this was because he could not find a decent list and was dissatisfied with how the AppStore was organized.
And when he was running the B2B Twitterer of the Year Awards this year, he wanted to be able to see what applications might be out there to help analyze the nominees. Fortunately someone has done a great job organizing the various apps for Twitter. [Read more...]
