LinkedIn as a company is an innovator jumping into a new marketing automation market, leveraging their recent Bizo acquisition.  This is worthy of study. Here are strengths of the LinkedIn offer relative to that of marketing automation: Their ability to target...
Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, recently said, ‘Data is the key competitive differentiator in today’s business environment.’ I believe he is right. Data is the star of the 2015 sales and marketing show; enterprises will generate new business, optimize...
Here is a valuable blog today from what appears to be a US head of sales in how he views marketing in his business in a tech company contrasting to a non-tech company – it can be inferred from the post that marketing’s compensation is getting tied to revenue...
(Reposted from DemandGenReports Blog) When I recently attended Oracle’s Marketing Cloud kickoff event, where Oracle COO Mark Hurd gave his presentation to 100 of us, we had a chance to ask him questions at the conclusion. My question for him was, “how are you...
There is a need for B2B Marketing ROI yet we’re still not there. According to Adobe’s 2012 CMO report, fewer than 20% of executive B2B marketers have the ability to measure ROI. SiriusDecisions reported in  their 2012 CMO survey that CMOs number one concern was...
