Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. The current version also hosts landing pages and Web sites, manages a lead database with profiles and Web activity history, generates lead scores, sends alerts to sales people, and synchronizes data with Salesforce.com.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Email campaigns are targeted at segments; Web visitors are classified into segments; behavior alerts are triggered by segments; lead scores are assigned to segments; leads are sent to the sales system based on segments; reports are run against segments. Each lead is assigned to the first "child" action whose entry conditions it meets.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services 120

Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

“Free&# CMS options such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal have an obvious appeal (price) to small businesses, but none are cost-free. Pricing: $150-$600 per year ($12-$50 per month). Genoo doesn’t provide native CRM functionality, but does have a pre-built integration to Salesforce.com. Squarespace.

CMS Development 100

CMS Development Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation Services 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here are some alternatives that will come in at or below Marketo’s published starting price of $2,400 per month (or $1,500 for their “Lite” version). (To Pricing on their Web site is quite close to Marketo’s: $1,000 a month for a limited edition and $2,400 per month for all the bells and whistles, and no extra charge for installation.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a. 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. business-to-business marketing automation. What will 2010 bring?

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

But the system does offer a comprehensive solution for smaller firms and, at least on the CRM side, can integrate with more powerful solutions including Salesforce.com , Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Siebel CRM On Demand. The system’s features for lead scoring and routing are more impressive. But these are awkward solutions.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

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.) I think the idea of an iTunes™ -like interface — and pay-as-you-go pricing structure — for viewing, sorting, and selecting B2B contacts is intriguing.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

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. Pricing starts at $199 per month for a single user and microsite, with no limit on the number of leads in the account, plus $8.50 per 1,000 emails sent.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Microsite Salesforce.com 100

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Summary: LoopFuse offers attractive but limited demand generation functions at an easy-to-swallow price. The process to set up multi-step campaigns (which the vendor calls “lead flows”) is now quite straightforward. Users first create the lead flow and link it to recipient and suppression lists that will determine who enters the flow.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Its marketing automation system offers the usual range of functions: email, Web analytics, landing pages, multi-step campaigns, lead scoring, CRM integration, ROI reporting. GoToWebinar When I last wrote about Treehouse, it had just added Salesforce.com integration. It has since added a connector for Oracle CRM On Demand.

Features 120

Features Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2011

It provides all the basic B2B marketing automation functions: mass email, landing pages and surveys, behavior tracking, lead scoring, nurture campaigns, and CRM integration. Lead scoring is also done the usual way: by assigning points to lead attributes and behaviors. Thinking in those terms, Beanstalk Data is a tasty morsel.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

That points to the evolving nature of the market, and the key functions of lead nurturing, scoring, and automated triggers becoming part of email marketing and other marketing solutions. You may spot some companies that were not considered to be “marketing automation&# players just a year or so ago. One data point concerns me.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 100