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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

Customer Experience Matrix

Optify was founded in 2008 and launched its original product, a search engine optimization (SEO) tool, about a year later. Its primary clients were then, and still remain, digital marketing agencies. This makes it a system for both small business and service vendors: two of my four themes. Reporting is a particular strength.

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ClickSquared System Combines Marketing Database, Campaign Management and Multi-Channel Message Delivery

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: ClickSquared is marketing services agency that, unlike most of its peers, has built its own marketing automation system. In fact, Click 3G was officially launched last week, although the company has been migrating clients to the platform since Fall 2008. That said, the system offers a respectable set of capabilities.

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Right On Interactive's 5Buckets Simplifies Multi-Channel Messaging

Customer Experience Matrix

Last Wednesday’s revised ranking of demand generation vendors by Web traffic reminded me that I never published notes from a conversation I had several months ago with Right On Interactive , developer of the 5Buckets marketing automation software. Now is a good time to remedy that. Now is a good time to remedy that.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

Customer Experience Matrix

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately.

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Six Ways to Connect with Hard-to-Reach Business Buyers

Webbiquity

And your product or service may be exactly what they need to solve it. You can go high ($50 to $100 per package) with a service like Video Plus Print , or keep it simpler with something closer to trade show swag. The financial market meltdown in 2008 seemed like the final straw. The key is to make it creative.

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Salespeople: One Question Matters Most

Customer Experience Matrix

Note that none of listed categories included behavioral information such as email clickthroughs or Web page visits, which demand generation vendors make so much of. The categories don’t make much sense to me because they overlap: products like Salesforce.com are both CRM systems and SaaS.

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2 Mistakes that Cause Content Syndication to Fail

Online Marketing Institute

In today’s economic climate, content syndication is one of the lowest risk lead generation vehicles there is. At our agency, the programs we negotiate for our clients are almost all performance-based, that is: they guarantee a minimum number of leads at a fixed cost. This is key for a number of reasons: 1.