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ELOQUA $100M IPO Filing: What It Says to the Market, Investors and the Company as a Whole


ELOQUA $100M IPO Filing: What It Says to the Market, Investors and the Company as a Whole

Eloqua (NASDAQ: ELOQ) recently filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of its common stock. Eyebrows were definitely raised in a look of shock and awe, no doubt inspiring many emotions—jealousy? Fear? Disbelief?…

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Automation Does Not Equal Autopilot


Automation Does Not Equal Autopilot

Many marketing departments, especially those with a panorama of product offerings and services, and thus a high volume of tactics to deploy, are sometimes stretched to the limits in terms of weighing the outcomes of the tactics they deploy. The following takeaway from a recent…

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Marketo Next: Implications for Act-On


Marketo Next: Implications for Act-On

Marketo is coming up with a new release labeled ‘Marketo Next’ on Saturday. They will launch their “event center” which will be a significant upgrade to the product. With this release, Marketo will make itself more appealing to an enterprise audience, offering Webex integration out…

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Salesforce Acquires Radian6


Salesforce Acquires Radian6

Salesforce has finally made that critical social media acquisition. Salesforce paid $276 in cash plus stock for the acquisition of Radian6, which has some big brands as customers including Dell, GE, Kodak, Pepsico, and UPS. Salesforce definitely needed something more robust than just chatter in its social…

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New Marketo Features


New Marketo Features

Marketo has released three new features. One of them is the changes around their unsubscribe functionality which (See related post: Marketo and email deliverability).  The other two features are: Custom List Logic This has been an ask from the Marketo community for a while now….

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Marketing Automation – A Double Edged Sword


Marketing Automation – A Double Edged Sword

This one is hilarious and sad at the same time. Sad because someone at On24 is going to get severely reprimanded, if not lose their job. He/she sent a personal email intended for a couple of friends to an email list. It’s not apparent how…

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Marketo and Email Deliverability


Marketo and Email Deliverability

Marketo has designed new rules that should improve email deliverability and is going live March 5th. With these changes, once a lead gets unsubscribed in the system, it will be harder (or not possible) to get it back into a “subscribe” status. This should help…

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Eloqua and Marketo Holiday Campaigns


Eloqua and Marketo Holiday Campaigns

Its been interesting watching the holiday campaigns of Marketo and Eloqua. Marketo has definitely beaten Eloqua, in terms of generating buzz. Marketo was super creative with its campaign, playing on the color purple, getting people to tweet with a #PurpleHoliday hashtag and streaming that to a…

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Twitter Hashtag Search on Google


Twitter Hashtag Search on Google

Despite the real-time search that Google does by pulling data from Twitter, it is doing a very poor job of showing search results for Twitter hashtags. It is completely off track for the example below. #networkconf refers to a conference and Google thinks I am…

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B2Bs Still Struggle to Tie Leads to Marketing Touchpoints


B2Bs Still Struggle to Tie Leads to Marketing Touchpoints

A new study by the Lenskold group has some very interesting findings: Over 40% of B2B marketers surveyed still use the last marketing touchpoint as the lead source. 20% of B2B marketers do not track leads to specific marketing touchpoints. A staggering 30% do not…

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