Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

At this Dreamforce 2009 session led by Fernando Obregon Almazan, salesforce.com; Lorena Vales, salesforce.com; and Jonathan Hersh, salesforce.com, marketers learned about how and why companies should participate in social networking to generate brand awareness and create a viral effect when clients or prospects recommend their products.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a. business-to-business marketing automation. me-too products.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

Should you look at something beyond a CMS—a web marketing system (WMS), that provides additional functions like customer relationship management (CRM) and email? There’s no shortage of options, and the decision is an important one: you’ll be “married&# to the platform you choose for as long as your current site is up.

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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. But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Summary: Right On Interactive has added great life stage reporting to the data integration and output generation features of its earlier 5Buckets product. It could supplement a traditional marketing automation system or perhaps replace one. We'll start with the standard marketing automation functions.

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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. Look, I know online marketing is important. And, while we’re on the subject, they need REALLY TIGHT integration between marketing and sales automation, if not one shared system.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Here is our 2009 year in review. Take a moment to reflect on the year’s most interesting, exciting and sometimes surprising online marketing news. December 2009 Online Marketing News. Top word of 2009: Twitter. November 2009 Online Marketing News. IT marketers meeting buyers' online content needs.

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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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

When I wrote about Aprimo Marketing Studio in a post last August , I was impressed by the scope of the product but reserved judgment because it hadn’t yet been launched. I took a look at the actual product last week. Placing them all in the same product adds cost and complexity, which are not a software developer’s friends.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

This is a bit perplexing, since those products are at the opposite ends of the spectrum: Marketo being relatively low cost / limited functionality / easier to learn, and Eloqua being higher cost / richer functionality / takes more training. But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This is why it’s hard to imagine that low-priced software can deliver similar performance to mainstream products. Now we come to Infusionsoft , which offers marketing automation, CRM and ecommerce for as little as $199 per month. If not, the marketing automation functions in Infusionsoft are worth considering.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

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

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Among other stuff. Ok, that’s enough for now.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2009

Best of B2B Marketing. Digital De-Tox: Some Lesser Known Tools for 2.0 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. Buzz Marketing for Technology , July 27, 2009.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

When someone registers to download a white paper or podcast or case study about the business challenge that your product solves, he or she is expressing an interest in that topic, not necessarily in your product. That individual may well be a great candidate for your product, it’s just that he/she doesn’t know it yet.)

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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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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. Not yet, and maybe not ever for certain portions of the most innovative applications and services.

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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. Note: this post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in September 2009. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

I had a conversation last week with a vendor whose pitch was all about providing execution systems with a shared database that contains a unified view of customer information from all sources. The company is Gainsight (formerly JBara), whose Web site positions it as ”a complete customer success platform”.

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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. See my original post for more details.

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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. Interesting to note that the majority of the players only came to existence not even 5 years ago.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 29, 2009

I didn't write about them because the vendor was planning some major improvements and it made more sense to publish a review after these in place. We reconnected in December and the product is now ready for its close up. The process to set up multi-step campaigns (which the vendor calls “lead flows”) is now quite straightforward.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

While honored, I also find reviewing these solutions confusing because there is a lot of variation in the product presentations and overlap between categories. 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

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

When too much marketing fluff or too many industry words are used, it is hard for others to get the gist of the product or service. In the B2B industry, buyers will check out multiple options, so make sure to inform your audience why your product is the best. Keep the wording short and to the point. Organization is key.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Increasing Pressure on Marketing But how do you ensure that all this happens at peak efficiency, you are meeting your goals, and providing solid quantifiable return on your marketing investment? Is there a place for yet ANOTHER social web monitoring tool in a crowded market? announced yesterday. But Facebook?

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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. Tell us a little bit about how you got into marketing, and what you like most about it. Where better to learn that than doing sales at salesforce.com?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Twitter for B2B Marketing - MI6 Marketing Agency , November 18, 2010 Author: Chris Herbert. Audience: Business Development Professionals, Marketing Managers, Channel Managers, Customer Service Professionals, Product Managers. The six choices included: product line. Published by Hubspot, May 2010.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Although it may not always yield completed data such as the actual visitors name and title if coupled with a data append and lead qualification service, these can be great ways for sourcing more leads which can be nurtured and then developed into actionable business leads. VisitorTrack is one of our products, as you've referenced above.

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