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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

Customer Experience Matrix

Price was $600 million, which is roughly in line with the 8x revenue paid for ExactTarget and Eloqua recently. That frankly didn’t take much insight, but I’ll brag a bit more about having pegged Adobe as needing to add marketing automation as far back as this post in 2009 and again in 2010. The deal is not particularly surprising.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

I’m pleased to report that the 2010 edition of the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems is officially available today, with updated entries on all vendors (alphabetically: Eloqua , Manticore Technology , Market2Lead , Marketbright , Marketo , Neolane and Silverpop Engage B2B ). So much for 2009. Here’s a quick look at what I found.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

Eloqua “ The Business Case for Integrated Demand Generation ” offers data from Forrester, CSO Insights and several Eloqua clients. Second, they also report improvements that respondents specifically said were “a result of integration between marketing technologies and CRM”.) The data is a couple of years old but still valid.

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Marketing In Real-Time – The New Trading Room Floor

Marketing Insider Group

At the time, David was working out some ideas for his soon-to-be best-seller Real-Time Marketing & PR and I was chief marketing officer at Eloqua. My own real-time vision had been shaped by my years as CMO at Eloqua, helping to build marketing dashboards for CMOs just like me. Real-time marketing was just getting started in 2009.

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Interview with Brian Hansford

Onalytica B2B

I also began working with CRM systems to enable database marketing efforts and lead results analytics. In 2009 I dove headlong into working with Eloqua and Salesforce and at that point I was hooked on designing demand generation workflow and measuring results.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Webcast: 8 Critical Success Factors for B2B Lead Generation

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Watch the recorded webcast now Sponsored by Eloqua , provider of the leading integrated demand generation platform for executing, automating and measuring highly effective B2B marketing programs. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Register for this webcast registration is closed.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. I did publish a real review in July 2009.] Tags: demand generation software marketing automation lead management software selection vendor evaluation crm software.