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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

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My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. One other factor clearly distinguishes SMB from Enterprise systems, and that’s pricing.

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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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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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Hosted Software Enters the Down Side of the Hype Cycle

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(For the acronym impaired, SMB is “small and medium sized business” and SaaS is “software as a service”, a.k.a. One point the article doesn’t mention is that SaaS prices have gone up considerably, at least among the major vendors. Small businesses may need to look beyond the market leaders to find pricing they can afford.

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

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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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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

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I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). Here are some alternatives that will come in at or below Marketo’s published starting price of $2,400 per month (or $1,500 for their “Lite” version). (To Just kidding.or

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Insights from Eloqua's IPO Registration Statement

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Eloqua doesn’t offer an explanation, but my guess is heavy competition forced them to reduce prices during this period. Software-as-a-service vendors in particular love to point out that they get a recurring revenue stream from each customer, so there are future profits that are masked by first-year sales expenses.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

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The system can cap the number of points earned by any one type of event, although this takes some configuration by the vendor. The latter is an unusual feature for Software-as-a-Service systems like SalesFusion, since most vendors are concerned that ad hoc queries could harm system performance.