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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. Pricing is also intended to make things simple.

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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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Alterian Pushes Into Social Media Management with Techrigy Acquisition

Customer Experience Matrix

Although other marketing automation vendors like Unica and SAS are generally more expansive, Alterian has been particularly aggressive about integrated customer management. Previous acquisitions include Web content management (MediaSurface, 2008), contact optimisation (Campaign Calculus 2.0,

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More on Marketo Financials: Despite Past Losses, Prospects Are Bright

Customer Experience Matrix

The table below throws in a reasonable guess for 2008 as well. My records suggest the company had about 25 average employees in 2008, for $5 million in expenses. The company started selling in late February 2008 and my records show it ended that year with 120 clients. at the end of 2008 and dropped to 5.7 million total.

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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. Still, to the extent that CRM systems can offer demand generation functions, there may be a more limited market for demand generation than the vendors expect.

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Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

It is by IAS – a B2B marketing agency from England. Gobbledygook - click for larger view If you haven’t read the original report, download the revised version from ChangeThis The Gobbledygook Manifesto by David Meerman Scott. Let me end this post with a humorous video that I found on YouTube. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. of Tiecas, Inc.