Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 4, 2010

Summary: Two low-cost demand generation systems, Genoo and Act-On Software, have added unusually advanced social marketing features. A few weeks back, I wrote about social marketing features from consumer marketing automation vendors. Naturally our friends in the business marketing space have been adding such features as well.

Act-On 120

Act-On Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Features 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It could supplement a traditional marketing automation system or perhaps replace one. When I reviewed Right On Interactive in a July 2009 post , the company was selling its 5Buckets marketing software as a multi-channel output generation tool that complemented conventional marketing automation systems.

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 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. That would greatly limit the marketing automation vendors' business. Hubspot has accepted this challenge.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It's looking more like a conventional small-business marketing automation system every day. The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. Summary: HubSpot has continued to grow its customer base and expand its product.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Now we come to Infusionsoft , which offers marketing automation, CRM and ecommerce for as little as $199 per month. The company’s marketing is tightly targeted at very small businesses (under 25 employees) but its marketing features are competitive with demand generation products aimed at much larger firms.

Pricing 120

Pricing Price Impressions Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. But let’s not forget that offline channels still account for nearly 90% of total advertising expenditures. The CRM and marketing automation components of the system already work on a shared data structure.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

If you are just looking to get a site up on the web and already have systems in place for CRM and marketing automation, these tools are worthy of consideration. Squarespace is a generally well-regarded tool with reasonable design functionality for building natively search-optimized websites and blogs. Squarespace.

CMS Development 100

CMS Development Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation Services 100

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As a very basic guideline, every content syndication lead should receive immediate, automated e-mail follow-up upon being imported into your CRM system. Put the right lead follow-up processes in place, and only then will content syndication be a successful part of your demand generation mix. Bookmark the permalink.

Demand Generation Agencies 40

Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency RSS Paper 40

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Summary: LoopFuse offers attractive but limited demand generation functions at an easy-to-swallow price. It’s been nearly a year since I took my first close look at the LoopFuse OneView demand generation system. Unlike most demand generation vendors, LoopFuse does not host landing pages or Web forms for its clients.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software enables marketers to build microsites and use content marketing to capture leads and nurture them through the buying process. Note: this post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in September 2009. Share this on del.icio.us. Post this on Diigo.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Microsite Salesforce.com 100

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Summary: Treehouse Interactive has been slowly enhancing its marketing automation system with features that appeal to experienced users. Its new clients are larger firms and half are switching from another marketing automation product that they found inadequate. It has since added a connector for Oracle CRM On Demand.

Features 120

Features Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

And it’s not clear to me if lead management automation deserves to be a separate category or to be subsumed as part of the broader marketing platform. (I My point: B2B marketers are looking elsewhere for help generating demand. I know Suresh Vittal includes lead management as a component of his enterprise marketing platform.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 9, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Aaron Ross, formerly with salesforce.com and founder of PebbleStorm:CEOFlow. I had more ego than understanding about lead generation and professional selling. Where better to learn that than doing sales at salesforce.com?

Thought Leadership 48

Thought Leadership Lead Management Sales Leads Work Management 48

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

ReadyContacts is a provider of role-based contact lists for targeted demand generation campaigns. Right from lead data capturing, lead nurturing to lead qualification , technology has been evolving to help automate the demand generation process and help marketing and inside sales work smarter.

Sales Qualified Leads 40

Sales Qualified Leads ReadyContacts High Quality Lead netFactor 40