Who are the World's Best Marketers?

Tuesday night was one of the highlights of my career.  Not only did I get to hang out with 175 amazing marketers, but also attend one of the best parties I've been to at a trade show.  The show was Dreamforce (Salesforce.com) and the party -- well, the party was Eloqua's.

  The occasion was the First Annual Eloqua Marketing Awards.   Seven beautiful trophies were given out for achievement in demand generation -- the first time such awards have been given to marketers for their work in demand generation.

Here are the honorees:

The Eloqua Marketing Innovation Award – Postini

The Best Lead Management Award – Cognos

The Best Lead Scoring Award – InQuira

The Global Marketing Effectiveness Award – Sybase

The Interactive Marketing Award – Kofax

The Eloqua Marketing Visionary Award – Angela Kauffman, Aon

And the Marketer’s Choice Award – NetQos

I'll be talking about some of the innovations the winners and nominees have made in future postings here.