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B2B Marketing Automation Growth Slowed In First Half of 2011

Customer Experience Matrix

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. You might think the slower rate is expected because each period starts from a larger base. Not necessarily.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. I profiled them in a February 2011 post.) B2B marketing automation vendors will need to rearchitect their systems on the more sophisticated platform. but they do have the resources.

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11 Indispensable B2B MarTech Solutions Cybersecurity Marketers Actually Use

KoMarketing Associates

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. Marketing Automation Platforms Like Marketo and Pardot. WordPress is my foundational platform for storytelling. Justina Logozzo, Senior Marketing Manager, Website at Alation.

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2018 Martech 5000 Supergraphic: 5 Tips on How to Choose a Lead Gen Vendor

NetLine

In some ways, it’s contracting – if you’ve been following the news, Marketo was recently purchased by Adobe in a massive deal that has the industry buzzing. Marketers are faced with so many nuances and variables when choosing vendors for their martech stack. Evaluate what you have already. Talk to sales.

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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Oracle followed suit this morning with an acquisition of social media monitoring and semantic analysis vendor Collective Intellect. In a word, no.

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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. Vendors in the VEST are asked for estimates of their client counts by company size.

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Lead Genius Adds a Dash of Artificial Intelligence to Account Based Marketing

Customer Experience Matrix

But Lead Genius was founded in 2011 to commercialize university research into combining AI with human inputs. Let’s look at those stages, using the four step structure of the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors. Nearly every vendor who does this applies some form of natural language processing to extract information from unstructured sources.