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

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Even though this is limited to the vendors in the Guide, it's a pretty representative sample of the industry as a whole. Eloqua focused on making it easier to embed sharable links within conventional marketing assets.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). Price was $600 million, which is roughly in line with the 8x revenue paid for ExactTarget and Eloqua recently.

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How Everybody Wins with HubSpot's Funding « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. For Eloqua, at least, they say there’s no need to worry since HubSpot is serving a very different market.

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Manticore VII Marketing Automation and Lead Generation Released

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It competes with vendors such as Marketo , Eloqua , Marketbright and Genoo. Jeff contends that marketing automation systems will become required tools for any b2b “considered purchase&# (i.e., Note: this post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in November 2009. Share this on del.icio.us.

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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 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 ).

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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Both Unica and Aprimo were long-established vendors with fundamentally stable products sold primarily to large enterprises: although their new owners may market them more broadly, they’ll be selling pretty much what IBM and Teradata always sold (big systems) to pretty much the same customers (big companies).

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The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

Analyze the results you get by segment (geography, products purchased, industry targeted, job titles, etc.) Analyze the results you get by segment (geography, products purchased, industry targeted, job titles, etc.) Focus on the 3 to 5 key metrics for your email marketing program and the rest will follow. United States License.