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FAST FACTS
MARKETING AUTOMATION
Businesses that use marketing automation to nurture prospects experience a

451% increase in qualified leads. In turn, nurtured leads make 47% larger
purchases than non-nurtured leads. (The Annuitas Group, Nov 2012)

Companies that adopt marketing automation see 53% higher conversion rates
(from initial touch to MQL) and 3.1% higher annual revenue rates than do
non-adopters. (Aberdeen Group, Jul 2012)

Businesses that have implemented marketing automation reduce customer

churn by 43% over businesses that do not automate. (MathMarketing, Nov 2013)

78%
of successful marketers

cite marketing automation

as being most responsible
for improving revenue
contribution.
(The Lenskold and Pedowitz Groups, Nov 2013)

According to Bain & Company, a 5% increase in customer retention can

generate a 75% increase in profitability. Additionally, it costs 6 times more to

get a new customer than to keep an existing one. (Forrester Research, Oct 2013)

Among B2B marketers, the #1 benefit of marketing automation is generating

more and better leads. Additionally, 75% of companies using marketing
automation successfully implement their platform in less than 6 months.
(Pepper Global, Sep 2013 & Jan 2014)

79% of top-performing companies have been using marketing automation for

more than two years, with 79% of CMOs indicating increasing revenue as the
most compelling reason for adoption, followed by higher quality leads at 76%.
(Gleanster, Aug 2013)

63% of companies that are surpassing their competitors use integrated

marketing automation. (The Lenskold and Pedowitz Groups, Nov 2013)

Marketing automation drives a 14.5% increase in sales productivity and a

12.2% decrease in marketing overhead. (Nucleus Research, Apr 2012)

Companies that invest in marketing automation solutions see 70% faster sales
cycle times and 54% improvement in quota achievement. (Bulldog Solutions, Mar 2012)

Marketers who implement marketing automation see a 10% increase their

contribution to the sales pipeline over marketers who dont use automation.
(Forrester Research, Jan 2014)

Companies that deploy marketing automation see:

107% better lead conversion rates
40% greater average deal sizes
20% higher team attainment of quota
17% better forecast accuracy (Aberdeen Group, Jun 2012)

AFTER IMPLEMENTING
ACT-ON, OUR
CUSTOMERS HAVE
Increased revenue by 300%.
To the Point Marketing

Increased qualified leads

by 192%. NuGrowth Solutions

Decreased cost-per-lead
by 68%. RME360

Increased lead-to-opportunity
conversion by 29%.
LEGO Education

Achieved 20% lift in email

deliverability. High-Impact-Prospecting

Increased web traffic by

400%. circle S Studio

Seen 50% growth within

one year. Terry Forsey Consulting

Achieved a 500% ROI.

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LEAD MANAGEMENT
58% of top-performing companies use lead management automation,
compared to 41% of average and low-performing companies.
(Forrester Research, Dec 2013)

74% of top-performing companies use automated lead nurturing, which is

cited by marketers as the #1 most important feature of a marketing
automation solution. (Gleanster, Mar 2013 | Pepper Global, Jan 2014)

80%

of B2B buyers
conduct their
own research
online before ever
engaging with a seller.
(SiriusDecisions, Jun 2012)

On average, prospects receive 10 marketing touches from the time they enter
the top of the funnel until theyre a closed/won customer. (Aberdeen Group, Jul 2012)

An IDC study found that over 50% of leads in the average B2B contact database

are obsolete, underscoring a MarketingSherpa report that lead data goes bad
at a rate of 2.1% per month, and a DemandGen report that lead data decays at a
rate of 25%30% per year. (IDC, Aug 2012 | MarketingSherpa, Sep 2012 | DemandGen, May 2013)

MarketingSherpa found that 79% of B2B marketers have not established lead

scoring and 65% have not established lead nurturing, an unfortunate scenario
in light of a Forrester study that found companies actively using lead nurturing
and lead scoring generate 50% more sales-ready leads at 33% lower cost
per lead. (MarketingSherpa, Sep 2012 | Forrester Research, Aug 2012)

Over 2/3 of successful marketers say lead scoring based on content and

engagement significantly improves revenue contribution. (The Lenskold and Pedowitz

Groups, Nov 2013)

67% of B2B marketers using lead nurturing see at least a 10% increase in

sales opportunities throughout the funnel; 15% see opportunities increase

by 30% or more. (DemandGen, Oct 2014)

ACT-ON HELPS
CUSTOMERS
NURTURE LEADS AND
GET THEM SALESREADY, INCLUDING
Seeing a 49% increase in
monthly lead flow and a 68%
decrease in cost-per-lead, all
without having to add staff.
RME360

Delivering an average of 25%

more sales-ready leads.
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EXISTING CUSTOMERS
YIELD BIG DIVIDENDS.

AT ANY GIVEN TIME ...

B2B marketers are targeting
4 different audiences
and juggling 13 separate
lead-generation initiatives.

Increasing revenue by 20%

using lead scoring through
the funnel.
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce

(CMI & MarketingProfs, Sep 2014)

More than half of marketers

say that mindful, continued
communication and nurturing
of their existing customers
contributes substantially to
revenue growth. (DemandGen, Oct 2014)

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EMAIL
Email is ranked the #1 preferred communication channel by consumers.
(The Economist Intelligence Unit, Mar 2013)

85% of marketers cite email as the most effective lead-generation tactic. In

fact, email has been found to be nearly 40 times more effective for customer
acquisition than Facebook and Twitter combined. (B2B Technology Marketing Community, Sept
2013 | McKinsey & Company, Jan 2014)

Among B2B marketers who reported exceeding their annual revenue goals, email
marketing was cited as the #1 most effective tactic for B2B lead nurturing.
(Forrester Research, Nov 2013)

EVERY DAY ...

22% of commercial emails

do not make it to the inbox.

97.4 billion spam emails

are sent.

973 million malware emails

are sent.
(ReturnPath, Jun 2013 | Commtouch, Apr 2013)

Personalized promotional emails have a 29% higher open rate, a 51% higher

click rate, and generate 6X more revenue per email than non-personalized emails.
(Experian, Dec 2013)

Triggered emails average 400% higher open rates and 150% higher

Act-On Delivery Insight

services can help get your
messages through.

clickthrough rates than business as usual email messages. (ExpertSender, Oct 2013)

Segmentation, personalization, and the inclusion of custom fields in email copy

drive 360% higher conversion than a generic email message with merely a
personalized salutation. (Gleanster, Nov 2012)

Email conversion rates to purchase are at least 3X as high as social media

conversion rates, and the average order value is 17% higher. (eMarketer, Feb 2013)

THE BENEFITS OF SEGMENTATION

96% of marketers rank segmentation as the most valuable method

for improving conversion rates, yet a whopping 85% of marketers
are not using automated segment discovery tools to identify their highvalue customers. (Econsultancy, Jun 2012)

Over half of marketers say continued communication and nurturing

of their existing customer segments results in moderate to significant
revenue impact. (DemandGen, Oct 2014)
Marketers who segment their lists and employ quality targeting can
improve conversion by 355% and increase revenues by 781%.
(Jupiter Research, Feb 2011)

78%
of top-performing
marketers cite
segmentation as the
#1 marketing automation
capability they cant
live without. (Gleanster, Nov 2012)

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BLOGS & SOCIAL MEDIA

Among B2B marketers, LinkedIn is the most popular social media platform: 94%

use it to distribute content and 63% say its the most effective social platform
for response and conversion. (CMI & MarketingProfs, Sep 2014)

B2B companies that maintain blogs generate, on average, 67% more leads per
month than non-blogging firms. (Top Rank Marketing, Jan 2013)

72.6% of sales people using social media outperformed sales people who do not
use social media. (A Sales Guy Consulting, Jan 2013)

Fully 100% of business decision-makers use social media for work purposes,
with 85% stating they visit social communities when researching new products
and technologies. (Forrester Research, Jul 2013)

Brands receive
39 messages for every
1000 Facebook fans,
and 60 messages for every
1000 Twitter followers.
(Sprout Social, Sep 2013)

70% of leading companies identify improving the brand image through social
media as their most important strategic initiative. (Aberdeen Group, Aug 2013)

74% of consumers rely on social networks to guide purchase decisions.

(Sprout Social, Sep 2013)

Companies that invest a weekly minimum of 6 hours on social media

marketing see:
Increased lead generation (64%)
Increased search rankings (60%)
Increased website traffic (78%) (Social Media Examiner, May 2013)

DATA & ANALYTICS

63% of survey respondents indicate that the ability to set measurable objectives
for each of their campaigns is the biggest value driver of marketing automation.
(Gleanster, Mar 2012)

Companies with the best quality data drive 70% more revenue through marketing
programs than those with simply average data quality. (SiriusDecisions, Aug 2012)

Only 38% of marketers have a single view of customer interactions across their
growing portfolio of digital channels, touchpoints, and interaction histories. Its
precisely what marketing automation can help them do. (Forrester Research, Dec 2013)

WHEN COMPARED TO
MARKETERS THAT DO
NOT USE AUTOMATION,
MARKETERS THAT USE
INTEGRATED MARKETING
AUTOMATION AND ROI
METRICS ARE:
23% more likely than other
marketers to measure
sales conversion.
63% more likely to measure
the ROI of content marketing.
65% more likely to measure
incremental revenue.
84% more likely to report
an increase in total revenue
marketing contribution.
(The Lenskold and Pedowitz Groups, Nov 2013)

Act-On is the leading provider of marketing automation for small and mid-size businesses.

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