Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Last November, after much consideration of alternatives , I settled on Alexa three-month Web traffic rankings as a reasonable way to measure the relative market presence of demand generation vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I meant both that predictive models guide decisions at every stage in many marketing programs, and that models are used throughout the organization by marketing, sales, and service. SalesPredict is a perfect example: a small vendor with a powerful system that just launched earlier this year.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Automation Salesforce.com 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

Summary: Right On Interactive's 5Buckets connects lists from external customer management systems with many types of output vendors (email, print, fax, text message, automated voice). It's a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to more powerful marketing automation systems for companies who don't need other marketing automation features.

Multi-Channel 120

Multi-Channel Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Channels 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

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.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

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 ). But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets. Pardot : another pretty powerful product; see my blog review from December 2008.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

This leads to more variety as vendors experiment with different approaches to a now-defined problem. This means new products reflect the lessons each vendor has drawn from the industry’s history to date. The base price includes a separate IP address. True Influence has existing integrations with Salesforce.com and SugarCRM.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Digital Asset Management Demand Marketing Management 120