Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Enterprise Management Hubspot Marketing Automation Services 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The company made the announcement at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Although the improved UI is the big change, the new version also adds integration with SalesForce.com for AdWords campaigns and improved lead generation capabilities. The early-adopting high tech segment is perhaps 25% penetrated.

Manticore 100

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. Of course, this competition was always implicit – few small businesses would have purchased HubSpot plus one of those products.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Marketo added features to capture Twitter posts and Helpstream customer support interactions within a lead’s activity history. Silverpop made it easier to add social media handles to lead records so these could be used to send messages. Could this lead vendors to compete on other grounds entirely? So much for 2009.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 120

Biznology

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

After a careful targeting and segmentation process, the next task is to find a list that aligns with those companies and individuals called out for the campaign’s execution, whether it is for lead generation or customer relationship building or retention. Internal lists are primarily customer or past lead lists.

List Brokers 80

List Brokers Ad brokers B2B Work Management 80

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.) Users can query this widget to find out more about these visitors and decide if they want to purchase full business contact information.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 24, 2009

At your own company there still may be plenty of interest for your products or services but companies may not have the budget to purchase from you which means longer sales cycles and missed forecasts. How are the best in class companies still reaching their 2009 targets? Come Together.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100