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ICON16: How Infusionsoft Plans To Dominate Small Business Marketing (and Make Life Better For Small Businesses Everywhere)

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These changes were evolutionary at best, but company leaders made clear this was on purpose: their current strategy is to make small improvements to ease of use, not add major new or deeper features. Infusionsoft’s challenge is to convince a large fraction* small business owners that their product is also essential. million $1.6

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Trust Me: Buyers Worry Too Much About Software Costs

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I ranted a bit the other week about buyers who focus too much on software license fees and not enough on differences in productivity. In search of that, I poked around a bit and found several references to a 2007 study from AMR Research. Looking just at what Aberdeen calls “best-in-class” companies, the figures were: 42%.software

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Unica Strategy Stays the Course

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On the product front, they continue their long-time strategy of offering all the software a marketing department would need. The one major acquisition in 2007 was Marketing Central, which provides hosted marketing resource management. Hally said Detect is now Unica’s third-best-selling product, with one to two dozen installations.

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Apple Chose Customer Experience Over Verizon for iPhone

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This morning’s USA Today reports that Apple—one of the most brand-savvy companies around—rejected an iPhone alliance with Verizon Wireless over this very issue. ( “Verizon rejected Apple iPhone deal”, USA Today , January 28, 2007, available here.) If I can’t make it to an Apple Store, I can still buy the product on line.)

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

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This is a bit perplexing, since those products are at the opposite ends of the spectrum: Marketo being relatively low cost / limited functionality / easier to learn, and Eloqua being higher cost / richer functionality / takes more training. Pardot : another pretty powerful product; see my blog review from December 2008.

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

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Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. This is considerably lower than most demand generation products, although it doesn’t include email transmission.

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JetBlue's Problems from a Customer Experience Management Perspective

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But my broader question is whether credits against future purchases are really the best response when a customer has been treated poorly. The underlying logic is it gives the customer a reason to come back for another sample of the product. I survived nine hours on the tarmac on JetBlue flight 1099, February 14, 2007.”