Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

Infusionsoft argues that their partner network is a competitive barrier that would be hard for another software vendor to overcome. As usual at these conferences, I spent a good chunk of my time cruising the exhibition floor for interesting new vendors. Two other vendors also caught my eye. I’m pretty sure they’re right.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

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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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

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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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting. The system was originally developed for its own use by outsourced appointment generation vendor LeadJen.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

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. The lowest-priced full version costs $1,500 per month and includes up to 25,000 names, 75 users, and 125,000 monthly emails.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Summary: LoopFuse offers attractive but limited demand generation functions at an easy-to-swallow price. I didn't write about them because the vendor was planning some major improvements and it made more sense to publish a review after these in place. In addition to Salesforce.com, the vendor has a standard integration for SugarCRM.

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