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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Optimizing Event Planning: 7 Ways Event Technology Eases The Process

Marketing Insider Group

To take care of this, consider simple productivity tools like: Evernote – For notes and tasks. For complex requirements involving multiple teams, consider full-scale project management tools such as: Basecamp. You may also consider using event-specific planning software like the ones offered by Aventri and Bizzabo.

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LeadSpace Offers A No-Memory Approach to B2B Lead Scoring

Customer Experience Matrix

My discussion last week of Infer , Mintigo , and Lattice Engines raised the question of what other B2B data vendors might be considered Customer Data Platforms. So far as I know, none of them maintains a permanent copy of a client’s own customer file, which is the essence of being a Customer Data Platform. Here’s what I found.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

The company made a few announcements, most notably a vastly improved email builder and tighter integration with online accounting software from Quickbooks Online and Xero. Infusionsoft’s goal is to bake as much as possible of the methodology into the software, its partner ecosystem, and prebuilt assets such as campaign plans.

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The Dawn of Marketing Automation [Video]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman Marketing automation is not a new concept, according to the Google Ngram Viewer, the term was first used in 1980, and then started to gain traction in the late 1990s, peaking around 2004. The term then started to decline in usage, reaching a low point in 2007 before slowly rising again. What is the history?

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public?

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. Look, I know online marketing is important. And, while we’re on the subject, they need REALLY TIGHT integration between marketing and sales automation, if not one shared system.