Marketo’s Spark Should Light a Fire for SMBs

Marketo’s Spark Should Light a Fire for SMBs

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 […]

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Marketing Automation & Dreamforce 2011 – Day 3

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 […]

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Marketing Automation & Dreamforce 2011 – Day 2

Marketing Automation & Dreamforce 2011 – Day 2

Joe Zuccaro (@joezuc), Allinio’s President & CEO, continues to blog from the Dreamforce trenches in San Francisco: Day two of Dreamforce started off with a bang; mainly in terms of product announcements by Salesforce.  There was a mind-boggling number of new products that Salesforce is launching, and their vision is quite ambitious (as if they have never been ambitious before!), with a lot focusing on the “social enterprise.”  They […]

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Marketing Automation & Dreamforce 2011 – Day 1

Marketing Automation & Dreamforce 2011 – Day 1

Joe Zuccaro (@joezuc), Allinio’s President & CEO, blogs from the trenches in San Francisco: I arrived at Salesforce.com‘s popular user conference, Dreamforce, on an early flight, but it seems that most people arrived well before me.  Most if not all the Marketing Automation sessions were full, but I got into most of the ones I wanted. This is the biggest Dreamforce to date, with 45,000 attendees. and the […]

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Marketo’s “Rock Your Revenue” in DC: Part II

Marketo’s “Rock Your Revenue” in DC: Part II

As we said in our previous blog, Allinio had the privilege to be the Regional Sponsor for Marketo‘s “Rock Your Revenue” tour when it stopped in the Washington, DC area.  The speakers included: Jim Lenskold (@jimlenskold), Managing Director of Lenskold Group, who spoke about the imperative for Marketing to be better at showing ROI; Kelly Waffle of Sourcefire, a Marketo customer, spoke of the the issues he faced implementing the platform and how he […]

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The Marketing Automation Universe’s Center – Part II

The Marketing Automation Universe’s Center – Part II

This is a continuation of the activity at DemandCon in San Francisco this week.  So much is happening we thought it would be better to break it up in AM/PM, easily digestible blogs. After lunch, Jon Miller (@jonmiller2), VP of Marketing for Marketo reiterated his previous talk about Marketers tracking engagement, not buying intent.  He included more information about the journey of a lead in the Marketo Marketing and Sales organization.  With approximately 80% […]

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The Marketing Automation Universe’s Center – Part I

The Marketing Automation Universe’s Center – Part I

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. The crowd was comprised of 300 leading edge marketers from companies like Intel, Samsung, and Office Depot.  Steve reviewed the flow of the day and […]

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Marketo’s “Rock Your Revenue” in DC: Part I

Marketo’s “Rock Your Revenue” in DC: Part I

Allinio had the privilege to be the Regional Sponsor for Marketo‘s “Rock Your Revenue” tour when it stopped in the Washington, DC area.  The speakers included: JimLenskold (@jimlenskold), Managing Director of Lenskold Group, who spoke about the imperative for Marketing to be better at showing ROI; Kelly Waffle of Sourcefire, a Marketo customer, spoke of the the issues he faced implementing the platform and how he has further configured it for even […]

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Rock Your Revenue with Marketo & Allinio

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: […]

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Holiday Carol: Eloqua Fideles

Holiday Carol: Eloqua Fideles

Sung to the tune of the carol “Adeste Fideles” (O Come, All Ye Faithful).  Eloqua Fideles potens efficax, Ventum, ventum ut vestrum website. Factus vidéte, Regem Venalicium! Veníte nurtureus, Veníte nurtureus Veníte nurtureus Prospicio! Cantet nunc io chorus vendelorum cantet nunc aula gubernatorium: Gloria in excelsis venditio! Veníte nurtureus, Veníte nurtureus Veníte nurtureus Prospicio! The Marketing Consigliere requests that Latin teachers refrain from putting a […]

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