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B2B Marketing Automation Growth Slowed In First Half of 2011

Customer Experience Matrix

You know that red-hot B2B marketing automation industry? Our just-released update to the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Toolkit (VEST) shows that client counts grew just over 50% over the year ending in June, compared with nearly 100% growth for the year ending last December. Not necessarily.

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11 Indispensable B2B MarTech Solutions Cybersecurity Marketers Actually Use

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From communicating your brands’ identity through pillar page customization to building out blogs, WordPress is a great tool for B2B marketers to tell their story. Since I published my first WordPress post in 2011, I can’t tell you how many blogs I’ve written or websites my various teams have designed.

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Marketo Raises Another $50 Million: Where Does the Money Go?

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketo this morning announced a new $50 million funding round, almost exactly one year to the day after raising $25 million in November 2010. All this new information begs for an update of the analysis of Marketo’s finances that I prepared last year. Remember that Marketo said it has $70 million cash on hand?

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Marketo Files for IPO: Will High Growth Outweigh High Losses?

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketo made good today on its promise to file for an initial public offering (IPO). The S-1 registration statement gives considerable new information about Marketo’s business. million, an impressive 80% growth rate vs. 2011 although not quite the doubling that the company had forecast earlier. It’s a major accomplishment.

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Raab Report: B2B Marketing Automation Revenues to Hit $525 Million in 2012

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. I put this at $325 million for 2011, a 50% increase from 2010. The new report contains a rich trove of industry information.

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And Our Forecast of B2B Marketing Automation Revenue for 2013 is.

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve just finished the latest update of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), available on the raabguide.com Web site. The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. Only Infusionsoft kept up its 50% rate in both years.

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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

Customer Experience Matrix

MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system.