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.

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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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 4, 2010

A few weeks back, I wrote about social marketing features from consumer marketing automation vendors. It has made several important enhancements since my review in March 2009 , notably multi-step campaign sequences and bi-directional integration with Salesforce.com. I got details from two of them last week.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2012

In other words, SiteCore has been steadily executing on the strategy they described in 2009. Although I just compared SiteCore with decision management systems, its more immediate competitors are marketing automation vendors. Like SiteCore, they aim to be a company’s core marketing platform.

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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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

(Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables. Salespeole working with Salesforce.com can see a list of their leads with priority ratings.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a. business-to-business marketing automation. We can also be confident that the feature trends I described in my review of 2009 will continue: better support for social media, greater access for sales departments, and more flexible reporting.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

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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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

When Net-Results ’ showed me their marketing automation system, the demonstration ended so quickly that I wondered what was missing. Prospects enter Net-Results from external Web forms (more about that later), file imports, manual data entry, or Salesforce.com synchronization. An incremental user costs just $25 per month.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. And, while we’re on the subject, they need REALLY TIGHT integration between marketing and sales automation, if not one shared system. Tags: multi-channel marketing demand generation marketing automation crm software.

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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 fifith core function, integration with Salesforce.com , is not provided because Infusionsoft has its own sales automation capabilities. Note: in July 2009, Infusionsoft dropped its implementation fees.

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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. Though the product had issues in its original incarnation, Adobe has fixed many of these issues since acquiring it in late 2009 and continues to invest in product development.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate. The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy. I believe this is a key capability.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

On the other hand, pricing starts at $199 per month for a 2 user system with pretty much all of their marketing features, and you’d be hard-pressed to spend more than $500 per month unless you want lots of users for non-marketing functions such as sales automation or order entry. I did publish a real review in July 2009.]

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 12, 2009

There are many new features for marketer to check out in the Summer 09 release of Salesforce.com. After July 2009, you can create Custom Fields on Campaign Member Records.   Once you are ready to create these rules, go to Setup | Create | Workflow & Approvals | Workflow Rules in Salesforce.com to get started.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2009

Clarity - B2B Marketing Savvy , July 28, 2009. Lessons on Using LinkedIn for Lead Generation - B2B Lead Generation Blog , July 29, 2009. Buzz Marketing for Technology , July 23, 2009. Genius is Bringing GURLs to the Social Party - Marketing Interactions , July 28, 2009. Buzz Marketing for Technology , July 27, 2009.

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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. Unfortunately, this means that some leads could be as much as a week old by the time your sales reps even see them. This is key for a number of reasons: 1. Bookmark the permalink.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

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. Last week, his company released a tool, called Demandbase Stream, that aims to answer this question.

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markempa

JULY 7, 2006

Neither Salesforce.com nor Sugar CRM are. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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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. With a boatload of advanced features and an affordable price point, Genoo hopes to earn a spot on the shortlist for any marketing automation / lead gen purchase.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Exploring a new marketing automation system is like biting into a bonbon: part of the fun is you never know what you’ll find inside. It provides all the basic B2B marketing automation functions: mass email, landing pages and surveys, behavior tracking, lead scoring, nurture campaigns, and CRM integration.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

As Gainsight sees it, this makes them the post-sales analogue to marketing automation systems (which manage acquisition) and CRM systems (which manage sales)*. The information is presented through Gainsight’s own interface, which runs on Salesforce.com ’s Force.com platform, making it easy to integrate with Salesforce itself.

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Enterprise Management Marketing Management Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Automation Services 120

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 7, 2010

To no surprise, a substantial decline occurred following the bursting of the technology bubble and recession in 2001, with a second more severe decline into the Great Recession in 2009. Competitive advantage can still be gained by these applications via superior adoption, automation and intelligence, however, commoditization is occurring.

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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. This might foreshadow attrition problems at other vendors.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Some have even suggested that marketing automation market is floundering , but it is such a new market and offering that is innevitable to have doubts, especially with these many vendors in the space. You may spot some companies that were not considered to be “marketing automation&# players just a year or so ago.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Because its sales process depends heavily on free trials, the company has developed a self-service wizard that guides users through the process of connecting to Salesforce.com , including an automated check for whether LoopFuse has been granted access permissions in the client’s Salesforce.com installation.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Written by Adam Blitzer June 16, 2009 at 5:38 pm Posted in Design , Marketing Strategy SpamAssassin Rules and what they Mean for your Emails leave a comment » For the past several years I have been following SpamAssassin’s rule set and I am always amazed by how many seemingly innocuous things (e.g. Clarity gets the point across.

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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 3) Marketing automation – lead by firms like Aprimo, Unica, Oracle/Siebel and SAS, this category is at the core of what Forrester calls the Marketing Technology Backbone.

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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. Where better to learn that than doing sales at salesforce.com? I've long been a fan of his blog Build a Sales Machine and I learn something new every time we interact.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

To look the problem, let’s examine just one industry, E-Commerce, and see the results of their email campaigns: less than 1 in 5 emails is opened (19.8%)… Best Web and Landing Page Design Tips of 2009 - Webbiquity , April 14, 2010 Discover beautiful site designs inspired by nature, mind-blowing microsites, and beautiful icon sets.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Segmenting IT buyers in Your Marketing Automation Campaigns - Lead Views , November 22, 2010 Today’s post is by Ben Bradley, Managing Director at Macon Raine, Inc. For many new users of marketing automation tools, one of the biggest challenges is segmenting the CRM database in a way that drives results. Salesforce.com (26).

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Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Work Management Marketing Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

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. This is certainly a step in the right direction for marketing automation and online lead generation in making the process more intelligent.

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