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Vendor Selection: Writing a Good Requirements Document

Customer Experience Matrix

My last two posts (not counting this morning’s detour into Marketo-land) described common errors marketers make when selecting marketing automation systems. I see two reasons: Marketers are like everybody else. Today’s marketers buy that way too. Marketers are marketers. How did we come to this?

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The Real Story on MarTech: 10 steps to making better vendor selection choices

Martech

Choosing the right vendor and technology for your marketing initiatives is one of the most critical decisions you can make in those early stages. An interdisciplinary team of marketing and technical stakeholders is the best way to go. You’re going somewhere with this new marketing technology. Just do it.

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Predictive Marketing Vendors Look Beyond Lead Scores

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s clear that 2015 has been the breakout year for predictive analytics in marketing, with at least $242 million in new funding, compared with $366 million in all prior years combined. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that predictive marketing vendors seem to have anticipated this.

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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

Customer Experience Matrix

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

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Using Agile to Manage Your Enterprise Agile Transformation

Marketing Insider Group

Facing increased competition in their sector, senior executives at an alcoholic beverage company were considering taking their marketing department Agile. Part of what they were considering was using marketing as the leading edge of a larger Agile transformation throughout the organization. The Agile Transformation that Wasn’t.

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How to Capture Buyer Intent in B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

The digital era has led to changes in the way brands market their products and services. With a holistic perception of buyer intent in your business, your marketing and sales teams can improve the lead-qualification process and enhance sales conversions. The Shift to Customer-Centric Marketing. In 2019, 90% of all U.S.

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Real Story on MarTech: Avoid these five vendor selection pitfalls

Martech

Buying marketing technology can be stressful. The traditional divide between IT and marketing silos — or IT and business teams more generally — is frequently lampooned by cartoonists and otherwise much joked about. Sometimes the marketing-IT divide gets overplayed. This typically happens in two places: RFPs and vendor scoring.