Marketbright Kicks-Off Summer Webinar Series

Marketbright is kicking-off our Summer Webinar series on July 8th with our Nurture Marketing 101 webinar. The series will be focused on B2B marketing best practices. Marketbright will be bringing in industry experts and sharing the experiences of some of the top global B2B organizations. The lineup for the Summer Webinar includes:

Nurture Marketing 101 - July 8 at 11am PT
The Score on Lead Scoring - July 22 at 11am PT
Email Deliverability 101 - August 5 at 11am PT
Marketing Analytics 101 - August 16 at 11am PT

Check out the events and sign up at http://www.marketbright.com/events/

Lead Nurture Webinar this Thursday, Marketbright closes round of funding

Marketbright is hosting a webinar on May 27th at 11am (PT) covering the best practices of B2B lead nurturing. This webinar will help marketers begin to build a baseline lead nurture program that fits their business.

You will learn:
- Key tips to creating multi-touch campaign
- How to educate a prospect by incorporating every interaction
- How to automate best sales practices with nurturing
- Tips to effectively utilize segmentation

Join us on May 27th for this complimentary webinar:
http://www.marketbright.com/go/leadnurture101webinar

Marketbright also anounced today completion of another round of funding with public software company CDC Software. WooHoo!!! Reach about it here.

CDC Software Agrees to Invest and Form Strategic Relationship in Marketbright

"We are excited to partner with CDC Software since we believe that our products not only offer great synergies, but we can also leverage CDC Software's extensive global technology and support infrastructure, especially their high performance offshore operations, that offer compelling economies of scale," said Dom Lindars, CEO of Marketbright. "We expect that CDC Software's investment in us will provide us with the opportunity to strengthen our growth, while this partnership can offer our customers complementary solutions to further add value to their businesses."

Check out the press releases:

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RTT News: Click Here
IT Times (German): Click Here

Marketbright: Enterprise Marketing Built from the Ground Up

Marketbright has hit a major milestone this month, as we have been in business for five thriving years. Marketbright’s foundation as an enterprise level Marketing Automation platform was laid by Co-Founders Dom Lindars and Erik Bower, both of whom brought their vast experience in designing and executing enterprise marketing campaigns and generating millions of leads through thousands of marketing campaigns for some of today’s largest technology companies. This expertise led to the creation of Marketbright in March of 2005, when Erik and Dom built an enterprise marketing automation platform from the ground up.

Read the rest of the blog entry at Marketbright: http://blog.marketbright.com/2010/03/29/enterprise-marketing-built-from-the-ground-up/

Marketbright Launches Google AdWords Jump Start Program

Google now enjoys a 70% share of the online search marketplace. PPC campaigns also enjoy the highest ROI of any campaign channel according to a new study by IntelliSurvey, Inc. and Radar Research. If you are not running a Google PPC campaign, you could be at a serious disadvantage to your competitors. If PPC campaigns are done right, the leads that come across can be extremely targeted and of very high quality

Marketbright can help you get your campaign up and running in less than 30 days from scratch. We design your campaigns and landing pages in a way that maximizes conversion rates and targets highly qualified prospects.

The process is fast and painless for you and gets a steady flow of highly targeted leads flowing to your sales team. You also enjoy the advantage of the Marketbright platform, which enables automated lead scoring, lead nurturing and allows you to run and track other demand generation programs such as email marketing.

Find out more about Marketbright's Googe PPC Services

A VentanaProfile in Success: Taking the Lead

Download the full report now

Project:
TELUS Business Solutions’ marketing team had difficulty
determining the quality of business-to-business leads it
provided to the sales force. To improve demand
management, Marketing set out to establish a closed-loop
system to track leads from their sources to results. Using
marketing automation software from Marketbright, the
team now is able to identify the strongest immediate
prospects and develop other potential buyers over the
longer term, giving the sales force more and better
opportunities to close business.

Outcomes:
People: Marketing now ranks leads automatically and
nurtures prospects through more targeted Web-oriented
campaigns that it can create faster than before. Sales gets
a stream of highly qualified leads and is able to act on
many more leads than previously.
Process: Qualified leads are routed automatically to the
most appropriate sales rep. Marketing tracks the complete
sales pipeline to determine the efficacy of its marketing
spend and uses conversion rates to develop forecasts and
targets.
Information: Marketing applies lead scoring, lead
nurturing and lead routing to produce high-quality leads
from information it receives from other systems.
Technology: Marketers build their own Web pages using
templates, freeing more technical team members for other
tasks. Marketbright’s delivery of software as a service
(SaaS) facilitated rapid deployment and makes Marketing
independent of IT.

Business Benefits:
Marketing for TELUS Business Solutions turns its data into
a business asset that it uses to develop more effective,
ongoing marketing campaigns. Sales receives leads that
are much more likely to produce success. Relations
between the marketing and sales functions are more
collaborative and productive than ever before.

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Marketbright Now Available on Google Apps Marketplace

Marketbright today announced it has added its leading on-demand marketing automation and email marketing platform to the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. Marketbright is an on-demand marketing automation solution which enables self-service campaign execution, automated lead nurturing and scoring, and closed loop marketing analytics. Marketbright provides a cost-effective alternative for mid-market to enterprise companies that want an easy-to-use on-demand marketing solution while still supporting complex business functionality.

"Offering the Marketbright agile marketing automation solution on the Google Apps Marketplace was a logical step, since Marketbright was conceived and created as an on-demand application meant to work with a company's collaboration and communication tools," said Dom Lindars, CEO of Marketbright. "Now Google apps users can easily integrate a solution that delivers rapid growth in sales and marketing leads and significantly increases lead-to-opportunity rates."

"We are pleased Google Apps customers can now easily access Marketbright to increase their marketing process efficiency and enhance their internal, customer and prospect communications for business growth," said Chris Kelly, Google Apps ISV Marketing Manager. "Requiring no technical resources to implement, set up and execute email campaigns, Marketbright exemplifies the type of simpler user experience provided by cloud applications."

Marketbright's solutions help marketers stay connected to valued customers and prospects, collaborate with sales teams, and track leads all the way through to closed business. Delivering this ability as an on-demand application in the cloud helps companies dramatically improve their marketing programs and strategies with very limited up-front risk and investment.

The Google Apps Marketplace makes it easy for more than 2 million Google Apps customers to discover, purchase and deploy integrated business applications and related professional services. By integrating with user account and application data stored in Google Apps, these cloud applications provide a simpler user experience, increase business efficiency, and reduce administrative overhead. To learn more, visit google.com/a/marketplace.

Marketbright delivers the leading software-as-a-service, marketing automation solution, enabling more than 20,000 users at companies such as Serena Software, Genesys, Telus, and Varonis to generate leads, nurture leads and convert prospects to customers. Marketbright goes beyond the traditional marketing tools with a full suite of integrated applications including campaign management, email marketing, event registration management, landing page creation, lead scoring, and lead nurturing. The company is privately held and headquartered in San Bruno, Calif., and can be reached at http://www.marketbright.com/

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