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Eloqua
Expands Global Reach of Automated Demand Generation
Solutions through
Eloqua Agency Success Program
New Partner Program Enables Marketing
Agencies Worldwide to Deliver Value-Added Services
Proven to Increase Revenue and Lower Lead Acquisition
Costs by Automating Demand Generation Best Practices
TORONTO – June 12, 2007
– Eloqua Corporation, the leading supplier of automated
demand generation applications and expertise for business-to-business
(B2B) marketers, today announced the Eloqua Agency
Success Program, an innovative partner strategy aimed
at delivering the company’s demand generation applications
through the value-added services of marketing agency
partners worldwide.
With the Eloqua Agency Success Program, Eloqua, together
with its agency partners, will be able to provide
businesses with a wide variety of automated marketing
services and best practices, including lead generation,
lead scoring and lead nurturing, as well as marketing
campaign design, management and measurement.Eloqua’s
Conversion Suite is a family of demand generation
applications that automate and integrate the key marketing
and sales functions of email, direct mail, prospect
profiling, website analytics, campaign analytics,
and sales force automation (SFA) to improve the quality
and quantity of sales leads, eliminate waste and accelerate
the entire selling process. Through this new program,
agencies can provide valued-added services directly
to their clients, who will realize the benefits of
marketing automation without investing upfront capital
and in-house resources.
Eloqua and its partners developed the program in response
to increasing interest in its products by direct and
interactive marketing agencies. The new offering is
the latest addition to Eloqua’s successful On-Demand
Alliance Program announced in 2006 that supports integrations
with leading customer relationship management (CRM)
and SFA applications, including salesforce.com, Microsoft,
NetSuite, Oracle and Sage, as well as partnerships
with consulting and training partners for these applications.
Eloqua has partnered with several marketing agencies
across the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific,
including Ascentium (US), Aservo (Germany), Astadia
(US), Bulldog Solutions (US), DemandGen (US), Jade
Apple Marketing (Singapore), Meteorite (UK), Rubicon
Marketing Group (US), Satama (Finland) and agency
On-Demand®, the marketing services division of Sqware
Peg (Australia). Eloqua expects to grow its worldwide
partner base to more than 30 agencies by the end of
2007. A full list of current partners can be found
at http://www.eloqua.com/partners/partners_marketing.asp.
“Our partner ecosystem has been carefully designed
to benefit both Eloqua and the leading interactive
marketing agencies focused on strategic and tactical
demand generation activities,” Joe Payne, CEO of Eloqua.
“These partners can now utilize the leading on-demand
marketing applications to build closed-loop demand
generation processes for their customers. Eloqua gains
by working with sophisticated marketers that have
proven expertise in executing marketing strategies
through best practices.”
“DemandGen is a team of best practice experts that really
understand how to generate sales ready leads and to
build a closed loop process between sales and marketing.
David Lewis is renown for being one of Eloqua’s marketing
heroes. Any company that is looking to improve lead
quantity and quality need look no further.” Jim Willis,
SVP Business Development, Eloqua Corporation.
About DemandGen
DemandGen is a marketing systems integrator
that enables marketing and sales teams to achieve their
goals through the use of Eloqua and sales force automation
systems. Founded by 20-year sales and marketing veteran
David Lewis, DemandGen provides marketing consulting
services, Eloqua training, and even full Eloqua systems
management for companies who lack the time or resources
to operate this award-winning demand generation platform.
Prior to founding DemandGen, Lewis was Sr. Vice President
of Marketing at Ellie Mae where he brought in Eloqua
in 2004 and used the platform to grow Ellie Mae’s market
share from 0% to over 50% in 3 years. www.demandgen.com
About Eloqua Corporation
Eloqua provides the leading integrated
demand generation applications and expertise for executing,
automating and measuring highly effective B2B marketing
programs. Eloqua drives the entire marketing process
from contact to close, while making prospect interest
and intent visible at every step. With leading technology
backed by expert professional services, Eloqua automates
best practices in demand generation for marketers who
need to produce a continuous flow of qualified leads
for a professional sales force. Eloqua’s customers include
Sybase, Seagate, Nokia, MySQL, Administaff, Nuance and
many other leading B2B marketers. Eloqua Corporation
is headquartered in Toronto with offices throughout
North America, and London. For more information, please
visit www.eloqua.com or call 866-327-8764.
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MEDIA CONTACTS:
Jim Williams
Eloqua Corporation
781-718-1435
jim.williams@eloqua.com
www.eloqua.com
Mandy Keith
Davies Murphy Group, Inc.
781.418.2421
eloqua@daviesmurphy.com
www.daviesmurphy.com
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