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

Customer Experience Matrix

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.

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SalesPredict Offers Highly Automated, Highly Flexible Predictive Modeling

Customer Experience Matrix

Back in, say, 2008, a product like this would be big news. In this case, the main technical differentiator is extreme automation: SalesPredict imports customer data, builds models, scores current records, and deploys the results with virtually no human intervention.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

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. By my definitions (see Demand Generation vs Marketing Automation on the Raab Guide Web site), this makes 5Buckets a type of marketing automation system.

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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. If the vendors fail, the business will go to consultants, ad agencies, and other service firms that do the clients’ marketing for them.

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Demand Generation Vendor Traffic Rankings

Customer Experience Matrix

Judging from the press releases on their Web site, this may be due to a new release last October that added Salesforce.com integration. Tags: vendor rankings demand generation marketing automation lead management. Their ranking is still very low, but has increased substantially. I'll explore further when time permits.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

Pardot : another pretty powerful product; see my blog review from December 2008. Act-On Software : a slightly different take, with strong Webinar support and an option to use its own low-cost sales automation system as an alternative to Salesforce.com Price starts at $499 per month. I reviewed it here in March.

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Turning Web Site Visitors into Paying Customers

Online Marketing Institute

Applications such as Salesforce.com already let sales staff keep track of existing customers or potential customers, but Demandbase Stream falls into a newer category of tools designed to help them find new customers in the first place. “How do you leverage otherwise anonymous traffic? 6) ERP (17) Internet Cust.