Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2014

The other enterprise-level B2C email vendors ( ExactTarget , Responsys ) have already been bought at wondrously high prices, and every B2B marketing automation vendor I talk to tells me that potential investors are approaching them constantly. My only reaction was, What the heck took so long? This makes Silverpop a perfect fit.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 4, 2012

The list of independent marketing automation systems shrank by one yesterday when Leadformix was purchased by sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud for $9 million. The price is surprisingly low for an established marketing automation vendor. In particular, LeadFormix infers visitors' “intent” (i.e.,

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 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 ). Adobe was on everyone’s list of potential buyers, and Neolane was ripe for acquisition or an initial public offering.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 4, 2012

One easily predictable trend in B2B marketing automation is that vendors will tailor their systems to specific industries. The reason may be that B2B marketing automation products have a narrower scope than B2C systems, meaning there’s less advantage in creating vertical editions. Integrations with ACT!

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Marketing Automation Advertising Agencies 120

LeadSloth

MAY 25, 2010

Oracle has just acquired Market2Lead , one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. Everybody expected Salesforce.com to make a first move, but Oracle surprised us here :- ). People asked my opinion on this acquisition. Market2Lead was one of the early Marketing Automation vendors.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 5, 2013

Fresh on the heels of yesterday''s blockbuster ExactTarget / Salesforce.com deal , SAP today announced acquisition of e-commerce vendor hybris software. During their call, the SAP and hybris managers unfairly implied that ExactTarget does nothing but email (without mentioning Salesforce.com or ExactTarget by name).

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. Where marketing is going. Our comprehensive solution includes great email capabilities, but goes much deeper to include enterprise-class marketing automation, social marketing, marketing financial management, and revenue cycle analytics.

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Biznology

JANUARY 23, 2013

Many companies today use their marketing automation or CRM systems as their marketing databases, and populate them from a variety of internal and external sources. LevelEleven provides a cloud-based platform where sales managers can create fresh and compelling sales contests within Salesforce.com.

Acquisitions 80

Acquisitions B2B Marketing Salesforce.com Work Management 80

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

Reachforce’s core business is assembling data on marketing prospects, which it then sells for as many uses as possible: appending to Web leads, enhancing existing databases, and buying as lists. Conversely, having a readily-available data source encourages marketers to build their own database.

Reachforce 120

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Even though some vendors have been around for almost 10 years, Marketing Automation is still relatively new. According to Forrester, only 2-5% of B2B firms have invested in full-featured Marketing Automation. Increasingly, B2B companies realize that Marketing Automation software requires skilled operators.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Christopher notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass. And you can show demos.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Resource Management BtoB 120

ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Chris notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass. And you can show demos.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Resource Management BtoB 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The Aprimo group was dominant in the years immediately following the acquisition but control shifted back to the older Teradata team more recently. Well, Marketing Applications is still a $200 million business, which makes it a major player in B2C marketing automation. So what happens now?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

billion acquisition of LinkedIn. It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. Microsoft surprised pretty much everyone today by announcing a $26.2

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. This broader scope should become standard as marketers try to truly integrate their programs. The official launch will be in November at the Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference.)

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This was my fourth Dreamforce, and I’d like to offer some observations from the perspective of someone who lives in the B2B marketing & sales space. Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. Observation 2: Marketing Automation is Alive & Well.

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Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing Thought Leader interview series is with David Taber. David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. Profitability of new customers due to marketing efforts.

Salesforce.com 48

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

The real-time CRM and Marketing Automation data vendors (including Leadspace) should have another big year based on the growing acknowledgement that this type of service dramatically enhances the performance of these massive CRM and MA investments companies have made. It’s beautiful when it’s that simple, and this one is.

Enterprise Management 116

Enterprise Management Paid Content Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 116

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2011

The folks at HubSpot have been busy this summer, announcing their acquisition of Performable in June and their HubSpot App Marketplace last week. App markets are quite the fashion right now, and HubSpot’s joins the Eloqua AppCloud announced in June. In other words, the app markets are useful but not huge strategic differentiators.

Hubspot 120

Hubspot Marketing Automation Services API Salesforce.com 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2008

This was because it takes time for the recurring revenues to build up enough to cover the fixed and semi-fixed costs of development, marketing and sales. For example, Ken points out that both salesforce.com and Netsuite took over $100M in venture capital before going public.

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Acquisitions Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Salesforce.com 48

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2011

Whatsnexx offers itself as a radically easier way to manage customer and prospect interactions than conventional marketing automation. I agree that it's radically different: it works without a central marketing database and tracks customer states rather than assigning them to campaigns. Some perspective is in order. (You

Work Management 120

Work Management Campaigns Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services 120

ViewPoint

MAY 30, 2012

Merger & Acquisition Activity in CRM & Marketing Automation Expected to Increase. Click to start video at this point —Andrew expressed some surprise that last year there weren’t more mergers and acquisitions in the marketing and sales spaces.

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Differentiation Tips Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 29, 2011

Both announcements shared a theme of integration between core marketing platforms and other marketing systems. They've been pulling these together with an “Interactive Marketing Hub” in beta since last September, which is now used by 500 of their 4,000 clients. Marketo’s motivation is obvious: to gain broader distribution.)

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

I first met Fowler when he was co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). After you sold Jigsaw to Salesforce.com why didn’t you decide to ride off into the sunset? . Jigsaw was a great acquisition. Transcript.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In a recent post , the folks over at Silicon Angle applied their usual insightful analysis to the results of an industry survey by marketing automation company Pardot , a survey that reports fully 42 percent of respondents (all B2B Marketers) have failed to generate any leads from their social media campaigns.

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Social Media Demand Generation Agencies Media Leads 100

Allocadia

JUNE 7, 2019

For example: Early stage / awareness: Marketing Automation systems such as IBM Marketing Cloud, Oracle Eloqua, Marketo, or Salesforce.com, and Social and Digital tools. Mid stage / try: Google Analytics, ABM tools, Marketing Automation, Uberflip stats. Advocacy: Influitive (our tool of choice).

Marketing Budget Creation 40

Marketing Budget Creation Planning Top of Funnel Budget Programs 40

Allocadia

APRIL 16, 2019

For example: Early stage / awareness: Marketing Automation systems such as IBM Marketing Cloud, Oracle Eloqua, Marketo, or Salesforce.com, and Social and Digital tools. Mid stage / try: Google Analytics, ABM tools, Marketing Automation, Uberflip stats. Advocacy: Influitive (our tool of choice).

Marketing Budget Creation 40

Marketing Budget Creation Planning Top of Funnel Budget Programs 40

Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The total number of views will now be displayed on videos posted from both people and Pages, and marketers will have access to some analytics to help determine how well their video content is performing. While this is exciting news for marketers, it should be taken with a hint of caution.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 8, 2010

Corporate collaboration with Salesforce.com Chatter. Tweets to note from his session of note: milesaustin : Brett Queener-Salesforce.com "Cloud computing ver 2 is all about about collaboration". InboundMarketer : Brett Queener, SVP Products at Salesforce.com giving a demo on chatter (See it here: [link] pic: [link].

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Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services InsideView Demand Generation Agencies 48

Vidyard

JANUARY 17, 2017

If Salesforce.com is a bit out of your price range, or you’re looking for a CRM tool that you can start using right away, Streak is handy, easy to set up, and free for up to 200 tracked emails per month. HubSpot has long been known as a leader in marketing automation, and their new HubSpot CRM tool is top-notch.

Marketing Automation Services 71

Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Tools Ideal Customer Profiles 71

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

This is tough because relevancy is often in the eye of the beholder, but behavioral tracking in marketing automation tools can help. 10 Ways Marketing Automation and Inbound Marketing Work Together. Cost of Acquisition: Simply put, inbound marketing acquires customers at less cost! Salesforce.com'

Work Management 48

Work Management Multi-Touch Attribution Marketing Management Email Marketing 48

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

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

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

I spent the early part of this week at Salesforce.com ’s annual Dreamforce conference. The bad news was for B2B marketing automation. There, Pardot is described only as providing lead scoring and nurture programs, which is a subset of what B2B marketing automation usually offers. Here are my observations.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

Vidyard

JANUARY 17, 2017

If Salesforce.com is a bit out of your price range, or you’re looking for a CRM tool that you can start using right away, Streak is handy, easy to set up, and free for up to 200 tracked emails per month. HubSpot has long been known as a leader in marketing automation, and their new HubSpot CRM tool is top-notch. HubSpot CRM.

Marketing Automation Services 50

Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Tools Ideal Customer Profiles 50

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2020

All you have to do is look at Salesforce.com, arguably the first successful SaaS tool. Despite being a market leader, Salesforce has been one of my favorite examples ofd effective content marketing for years because they answer basic buyer questions with consistent and helpful content. salesforce.com. Salesforce.com.

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