Inside the Mind of Marketing Automation [Infographic]
This Revenue Engineer article features guest writer Richard Hill, a Practice Leader at Quarry Integrated Communications. As resident marketing automation advocate, Richard is responsible for helping Quarry’s clients succeed in adopting and mastering this new breed of game changing technology. Quarry is a Certified Agency Partner with Eloqua. You’re a marketing automation advocate. You’re passionate…
Marketing Automation: Privilege and Process
This post highlights my experience with the start of the marketing automation market, my view on one cause of marketing automation failure, and my advice on how to avoid this pitfall. tippmix radar apk  Specifically, I’ve witnessed a lot of organizations build a marketing automation system before they have a business process to automate. …
Toronto Eloqua Success Tour Wrap-up
[image_video type=”image” title=”Communitech P2P 1″ style=”curved_shadow” image_url=”http://www.revenue-engineer.com/images/blog/Eloqua_Success_Tour_1.JPG”] All About Revenue Success Tour Thursday was a great day. In addition to perfect weather, Eloqua was hosting their 4th Toronto All About Revenue Success Tour. Located on the 18th floor rooftop of the Park Hyatt in downtown, thirty marketers from south-western Ontario gathered to compare notes on…
Communitech Strategic Marketing P2P
Building a Revenue Engine – Revenue Engineer [image_video type=”image” title=”Communitech P2P 1″ style=”curved_shadow” image_url=”http://www.revenue-engineer.com/images/blog/CommunitechP2P1.JPG”] [image_video type=”image” title=”Communitech P2P 1″ style=”curved_shadow” image_url=”http://www.revenue-engineer.com/images/blog/CommunitechP2P2.JPG”] [image_video type=”image” title=”Communitech P2P 1″ style=”curved_shadow” image_url=”http://www.revenue-engineer.com/images/blog/CommunitechP2P3.JPG”] This morning I had the pleasure of speaking to a group of technology marketers in Kitchener/Waterloo. Â This Strategic Marketing Peer2Peer session was put on by Communitech…
Three Stages of the New Revenue Funnel
History The traditional revenue engine is growing. It started with a sales stage. Then a demand generation stage was stacked on top. Now another stage is appearing: social. With the advent of new technology these 3 stages are being integrated into a single, predictable process. Starting from the bottom up… Stage 3: Sales This stage…
Salesforce.com to become an SCRM and Marketing Automation vendor?
The News By now you’ve heard the news: Salesforce.com has acquired Radian6. According to the press release the plan is to “enhance all Salesforce products – extending the value of the Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Chatter and Force.com with social intelligenceâ€. This means your contact database can now include data and updates from contacts social…
The Secret to a Successful Marketing Automation Implementation: Focus
I recently read a great planning document that clearly outlined 32 steps to successfully rolling out a marketing automation system. It spread tasks such as ‘document customer profiles’, ‘integrate with CRM’, and ‘build lead scoring’ over a one year period which creates a great road-map to a complete marketing platform. It seemed pretty simple. This…