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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

Customer Experience Matrix

As an outgrowth of search engine marketing specialist FoundPages , the system naturally incorporates strong features for tracking Google AdWords campaigns, calculating return on investment, and measuring visitors’ Web activities. So, on balance, more options is good news. For example, take Active Conversion.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Exchange Applications went to Amdocs , Prime Response went to Chordiant (itself recently purchased by Pegasystems ), Protagona was purchased by DoubleClick (now part of Google ), Ceres ended up with Teradata , Intrinsic was bought by SAS , Epiphany became part of Infor , Paragren was bought by Siebe l (now Oracle ).

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

Customer Experience Matrix

But the system does offer a comprehensive solution for smaller firms and, at least on the CRM side, can integrate with more powerful solutions including Salesforce.com , Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Siebel CRM On Demand. It merged in 2007 with online forms vendor AxiomFire and assumed its current name in January 2009.

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

Customer Experience Matrix

Pardot was spun off about two years ago and launched its product at the end of 2007. The Pardot product began as an internal project for the marketing group at Hannon Hill , a content management system developer. It recently signed its 100th client.

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LoopFuse Offers No-Frills Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

It lets it generate some page-oriented Web analytics reports similar to Google Analytics. In addition to Salesforce.com, the vendor has a standard integration for SugarCRM. (See LoopFuse was founded in 2007 although it was largely in stealth mode through early 2009. Apparently this is a very common omission.)

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B2B Marketplaces: A New Breed Takes On an Old Problem

Webbiquity

The company was acquired by an Italian cement maker in 2007 for $15 million. GetApp.com is more like (though more broadly based than) SaleForce.com’s AppXchange or the recently launched Google App Marketplace than a general b2b marketplace. Post on Google Buzz. Share this on Bebo. Subscribe to the comments for this post?

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

That’s what Pitney Bowes did when a 2007 Postal Service rate increase prompted 430,000 calls from customers. Many excellent solutions are now available on a software-as-a-service basis today, including Salesforce.com , RightNow Technologies and NetSuite. Profit margin. Net profit. ROI ((net profit – cost )/ cost ).

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