CUSTOMER DATA PLATFORMS FOR BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS) MARKETING

B2B MARKETERS JOIN THE CDP REVOLUTION Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) have been around for several years now, but business-to-business (B2B) marketers have been slower to adopt them than their business-to-consumer (B2C) cousins. There are several reasons: B2C marketers generally have more customers, more data sources, and more responsibility for existing-customer growth and retention. By contrast, B2B marketers have traditionally focused on finding new prospects, converting them into qualified leads, and then letting sales, customer success, and account management teams take over.

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Eloqua Corporation

Founded in 1999, Eloqua provides the leading integrated demand generation platform for executing, automating and measuring highly effective B2B marketing programs. Unlike stand-alone email products, Eloqua's Conversion Suite combines email, direct mail, chat, and website analytics to drive the entire marketing process from contact to close, while making prospect interest and intent visible at every step. With market-leading technology backed by expert professional services, Eloqua automates best practices in demand generation for B2B marketers who need to produce a continuous flow of qualified leads for their sales force. Eloqua's customers include Sybase, Seagate, Nokia, JBoss, Administaff, Nuance and many other leading BtoB marketers. Eloqua Corporation is headquartered in Toronto with offices in London and throughout the United States.

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Reclaiming Channel Partners’ Rightful Spot in ABM

whitePaper | November 30, 2019

Organizations that use a channel-based ABM strategy are advantaged as they tap into the broader reach already built into their channel partner network. This extended ABM strategy provides all parties with the visibility and the foundation for collaboration on the accounts, leads, and deals that help build pipeline, revenue, and partner traction. “Nearly half of its practitioners

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Marketing-Led COVID-19 Growth Strategies: 2022 and Beyond

whitePaper | December 19, 2022

At the peak of the pandemic, businesses struggled to navigate the disruptions and upheavals of COVID-19. Now they’re trying to figure out what to do next as they emerge from the chaos. Who better to lead the business recovery charge than marketing? According to Deloitte, “marketing budgets as a percentage of overall budgets have risen to 11.8%, resetting to pre-pandemic levels.” Additionally, yearly marketing spending is breaking records in areas including brand building, customer relationship management, and traditional advertising.

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2022 State Of ABM: Account-Based Strategies Continue Experiential Evolution

whitePaper | June 5, 2022

The continuous evolution of ABM best practices presents a unique challenge for B2B marketers. While ABM is beyond its infancy — according to ITSMA, almost 50% of all ABM programs are in the "expanding" or "embedded" stage — marketing teams are still learning how to ease growing pains.

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The Hidden Costs of Doing Nothing: Why B2B Enterprises Need an ABM Platform

whitePaper | February 1, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) is built upon the premise that not all accounts are created equal, meaning that some accounts should be prioritized and targeted based on their revenue-generating potential. In fact, a Forrester 2022 Total Economic Impact™ Study found that customers adopting ABM and using a platform purpose-built to provide an account-first context for all data and engagement efforts had a return-on-investment of 367 percent in three years and a payback period of less than six months.

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ABM 2.0: 3 Paths to More Productive Revenue Capture in a Changing Interaction Landscape

whitePaper | September 12, 2022

With face-to-face touchpoints being replaced by virtual interactions, learn how to succeed in this new landscape. B2B marketers need to scale up ABM 1.0 principles to generate more revenue from a larger number of target accounts. In this white paper, ABM 2.0: 3 Paths to More Productive Revenue Capture in a Changing Interaction Landscape, we discuss how changes in B2B interaction are impacting relationship-creation and how you can use intent data to connect buyers to the solutions they need.

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Account-Based Strategies In Europe

whitePaper | September 2, 2022

According to Christian Weiss, director ABM EMEA at Autodesk, Germany languishes behind English-speaking countries when it comes to account-based maturity, often due to their reluctance to be the first to try something new. “Germans aren’t always keen on trying and testing from scratch and have a tendency to overthink,” he says. “While other cultures might try new approaches and technologies and fail, at least they’ve tried it. And this is a huge aspect of making account-based principles work. It requires deep change across culture, people and technology – and this isn’t always a good fit for people who are hesitant to embrace change, which isn’t traditionally part of a German’s DNA.”

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Spotlight

Eloqua Corporation

Founded in 1999, Eloqua provides the leading integrated demand generation platform for executing, automating and measuring highly effective B2B marketing programs. Unlike stand-alone email products, Eloqua's Conversion Suite combines email, direct mail, chat, and website analytics to drive the entire marketing process from contact to close, while making prospect interest and intent visible at every step. With market-leading technology backed by expert professional services, Eloqua automates best practices in demand generation for B2B marketers who need to produce a continuous flow of qualified leads for their sales force. Eloqua's customers include Sybase, Seagate, Nokia, JBoss, Administaff, Nuance and many other leading BtoB marketers. Eloqua Corporation is headquartered in Toronto with offices in London and throughout the United States.

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