Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. For those of us who don’t get out much, that’s downright exciting.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Report Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

In actual dollars, the $250 million gain is much larger than the $175 million growth in 2012. But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. The most notable is Eloqua, which as a public company has to report its results.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 1, 2012

I’ve gotten used to thinking of the B2B marketing automation industry as entering a consolidation phase, during which a handful of dominant vendors emerge and small vendors drop away. It's only in the later stages of consolidation – after crossing Geoffrey Moore’s chasm – that the dominant vendors really take control.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation B2B Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2013

Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). Price was $600 million, which is roughly in line with the 8x revenue paid for ExactTarget and Eloqua recently.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 23, 2014

Earlier this week a colleague forwarded along Bizo’s latest infographic in partnership with Eloqua , highlighting the B2B buyer’s journey from discovery through sales completion. In 2012, Forrester indicated that buyers could be up to 90 percent through their buyer’s journey before even reaching out to a vendor.

Tactics 120

Tactics B2B Marketing Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Strong Growth Continues As I reported last week , I expect industry revenue to grow 60% in 2014, accelerating from the already-impressive 50% per year we saw in 2012 and 2013. Again, there were no particular surprises in the answers – marketers care more about cost, integration, and ease of use than vendor or technical details. (I

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

ViewPoint

MARCH 6, 2012

According to a recent CSOinsights 2012 Sales Performance Optimization survey, a mere 11% of sales people have a strong understanding of their customers’ buying process. And for the specifics on how to go about it all, walk through this presentation by Eloqua on how to map content to the buyer’s journey.

Buyer Personas 120

Buyer Personas Forrester Lead Ranking Peer-to-peer 120

Biznology

JUNE 17, 2013

About 65% of those who view a video click through to visit the vendor website, 50% look for more information and 45% report that they contacted a vendor after seeing an online video ad. (comScore and Nielsen ). 85% of people more likely to purchase a product after watching a product video. Internet Retailer ). comScore).

Video Marketing 80

Video Marketing Youtube Content Forrester 80

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

MediaNext 2012. 11/27/2012 -15:36 PM. Business-to-business marketers are underutilizing social media and its potential, according to new data from Eloqua , a marketing automation company. Of 548 b-to-b marketers surveyed by Eloqua, about 40 percent say they are not yet using social media marketing. Video Center.

B to B 40

B to B Paid Content Social Media CMS Development 40

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ExactTarget announced its acquisition today of mid-tier marketing automation vendor Pardot , for just under $100 million ($95.5 All told, I see this as a great deal for Pardot’s founders and employees, who get a very nice exit at about 9x 2012 revenue (although COO Adam Blitzer will stay on for now). million, to be exact).

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Marketo 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 19, 2015

Today, at least a dozen vendors are offering predictive models for B2B lead scoring, sales intelligence, and customer success management. Many of the original scoring vendors specialized in a single application. This lets the vendor charge more to each client and blocks out potential competitors. So, how do you deploy all this?

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking B2B Sales Work Management Marketing Management 120

ClickZ

MARCH 13, 2020

During his tenure there, Pardot was acquired by ExactTarget in 2012 and, subsequently, ExactTarget was acquired by Salesforce in 2013. Account-based marketing evolved from earlier technologies including email marketing, and automation tools such as Pardot, Eloqua and Marketo. Vajre wrote the book on ABM.

Account Based Marketing 96

Account Based Marketing ABM Top of Funnel Enterprise Management 96

Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2012

I have my weekly rant on social media, my thought of the week, Eric, and it is all about this Kony 2012 video. The video part of Kony 2012 is the least important part of its success. Eric: The guys as Eloqua , I’ve read some of their content and they do a really good job about that. View more presentations from Eloqua.

Sales Management 114

Sales Management Top of Funnel Eloqua Viral Marketing 114

Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2012

I have my weekly rant on social media, my thought of the week, Eric, and it is all about this Kony 2012 video. The video part of Kony 2012 is the least important part of its success. Eric: The guys as Eloqua , I’ve read some of their content and they do a really good job about that. View more presentations from Eloqua.

Sales Management 114

Sales Management Top of Funnel Eloqua Viral Marketing 114

Martech

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Below you will find a list of 16 notable marketing automation vendors that we profiled in recent MarTech Intelligence Reports on B2B marketing automation platforms. Explore marketing automation solutions from vendors like Marketo, HubSpot, Salesforce and more in the full MarTech Intelligence Report on marketing automation platforms.

Marketing Automation Services 121

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 121