Litmus

APRIL 13, 2021

While there are clear market share leaders in the email service provider (ESP) and marketing automation platform (MAP) industry, brands still have a long list to choose from. Respondents to Litmus’ 2020 State of Email survey mentioned more than 230 ESPs when asked which platforms they use to send marketing emails.

Marketing Automation Services 102

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 102

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

I’ve been creeping in that direction with the previous two posts about revenues, growth rates, and market share. For companies like Eloqua and its competitors, there are really two big financial questions: how fast can they grow, and how can they become profitable? And the stock did rise 12% on the first day. What about profitability?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Vendors Comparison Marketing Automation 120

TrustRadius Marketing

JUNE 19, 2019

Of all the love-hate relationships out there, the one between marketers and their marketing automation platform is a classic—at least in the world of software. In a recent TrustRadius survey, 70% of marketers said that Marketing Automation software was very essential to achieving their marketing goals.

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 40

Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to part II of How to do ABM Without an ABM Tool! In this installment, I’ll dive into each of the Need-to-Have Tools/Channels I listed in part I. Need-to-Have Tools (and their Channels): CRM and Marketing Automation. Need-to-Have Tools (and their Channels): CRM and Marketing Automation.

Account Based Marketing 114

Account Based Marketing ABM Sales Management Budget Programs 114

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2013

Raab Associates officially released the new edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday. This is our flagship report on the industry, with nearly 200 data points on 23 vendors and separate ratings for micro-business, small to mid-size companies, and enterprise marketing departments.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management Acquisitions 120

Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to the B2B Marketing Automation Solutions. Marketing automation solutions have become a must-have for modern B2B marketers particularly as the marketers are headed to explore new avenues alongside the dawn to the next normal. Learn More: Marketing Automation: A Good or A Bad Idea.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation 52

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2015

Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. Open source vendor Mautic has some interesting potential but it’s too soon to see any actual impact.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Report Marketing Automation Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 29, 2011

You probably saw ExactTarget ’s June 13 announcement of its strategic partnership with Marketo and Eloqua ’s June 21 announcement of its new AppCloud marketplace for connectors with other systems. But it took a little while to connect with the vendors to get the details, so I’m only now ready to write about them.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking 120

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. So we’ll exclude them from further analysis. Myth busted.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Report Marketing Automation Automation 120

PureB2B

JUNE 13, 2017

The traditional channels of television, radio, and print media have seen a decline in usage as more users start looking at online platforms as their primary sources of media. This is great for marketers because online channels allow for better targeting, tracking, and analytics. In 1986, ACT!, Email Marketing Software.

Marketing Automation Services 87

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Work Management Marketing Management 87

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So marketing automation vendors are understandably eager to support it in their systems. I recently took a quick tour of vendor sites to see what social features they’re offering. I need to stress that I’ve only credited vendors for features they list on their site. Results are summarized in the table below.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Social Media 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

It’s just over one year since I first spoke with Lytics *, which at that time was (accurately) calling itself a Customer Data Platform but had not yet released a beta version of its product. CEO James McDermot said the label was changed because big companies thought a CDP sounded like an IT project, not something run by marketers.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Ideal Customer Profiles Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation 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

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. 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. million) but just 28% in the second half ($50.7

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 120

Valasys

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The digital market is one of the leading reasons for this revolution. Today’s digital world demands you to leverage the power of technology to stay ahead of the marketing curve. Automation Platforms Marketing automation platforms and softwares are widely used and trusted in the business industry.

CMS Development 40

CMS Development Paid Search Agency Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 40

TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2020

Hubspot’s ‘human’ voice, vast collection of educational materials and networking events have solidified its place as the authority on inbound marketing — and also as one of the most popular marketing automation platforms in the field. . When buyers explore Hubspot, they most frequently compare it to these 5 tools.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Hubspot Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 52

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

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. Vendors in the VEST are asked for estimates of their client counts by company size. The table below shows the results.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Report Marketing Management 120

PureB2B

JUNE 13, 2017

The traditional channels of television, radio, and print media have seen a decline in usage as more users start looking at online platforms as their primary sources of media. This is great for marketers because online channels allow for better targeting, tracking, and analytics. In 1986, ACT!, Email Marketing Software.

Marketing Automation Services 62

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Work Management Marketing Management 62

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 11, 2011

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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Marketing Automation ActiveConversion 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. I revisited that data today, adding a few new vendors and dropping some of the very minor ones. You can see that post here.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. I say this with the fervor of a reformed sinner, since for many years I looked at flow charts as the mark of an advanced marketing automation system.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Oktopost

MARCH 11, 2020

Choosing the Right Platform. This seems like a no-brainer, but with so many platform providers out there, it can be challenging to find a strong fit. Your platform provider should be able to pump advocacy data across your martech stack giving you the opportunity to measure and optimize your entire advocacy program.

Linkedin 138

Linkedin Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 138

Oktopost

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This seems like a no-brainer, but with so many platform providers out there, it can be challenging to find a strong fit. This will help make sure employee advocacy is part of the day-to-day social media management workflow without needing to use different platforms to create content or translate B2C metrics into B2B language.

Linkedin 109

Linkedin Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 109

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue. Here it is.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

While many have seen quick success implementing basic video marketing tactics and using YouTube to scale their video libraries, most don’t yet have an appreciation for how to approach this channel in a strategic manner and what the real potential is for video technology within the context of modern marketing and sales programs.

Video Marketing 167

Video Marketing Rules Marketing Automation Services Planning 167

Rev

MAY 21, 2018

If you have a marketing automation platform — like Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot, or Pardot — then you are probably using intent data. The basic idea is that if an account is more active around a topic, chances are they are in market for the solution. The Truth Intent Vendors Don’t Want to Talk About.

Intent Data 122

Intent Data Intent Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 122

Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 22, 2018

Creating content is not the difficult part of content marketing. “We We can get people to watch a video or read a blog post, but when you take a direct-response approach to content marketing, you essentially start from zero each time you attract someone new,” explains Kintigh. “We Match tools to touchpoints.

Marketing Automation Services 108

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 108

chiefmartech

APRIL 4, 2017

Is your marketing team having challenges in seamlessly planning and executing campaigns with the tools they use? Whether you need to modify your existing toolset, acquire new technologies or a combination of both, you need to ensure all the platforms are integrated optimally to maximize the effectiveness of your martech stack.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 52

The Effective Marketer

JULY 30, 2012

If you ever hired a recent college graduate for a marketing position at your company, odds are you were amazed at their lack of knowledge. Not of basic marketing concepts like the 4 P’s , advertising , or branding but their utmost ignorance of modern marketing tactics and tools like webinars, marketing automation, and even CRM software.

Education 100

Education Marketing Automation Services Work Management Planning 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Enterprise Management Hubspot Marketing Automation Services 120

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

But we’re going beyond the ability to simply broadcast your message, enabling businesses to track who’s engaged in the live stream right inside their marketing automation and CRM tools to enhance customer insight.” Live streaming is now a popular tool across enterprises.

Marketing Automation Services 50

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Video Marketing 50

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

But we’re going beyond the ability to simply broadcast your message, enabling businesses to track who’s engaged in the live stream right inside their marketing automation and CRM tools to enhance customer insight.” ” Live streaming is now a popular tool across enterprises.

Marketing Automation Services 50

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Video Marketing 50

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

New live streaming solution for businesses enables marketing and sales to see who watches their live events, automatically converts videos for on-demand use. Live streaming is now a popular tool across enterprises. Easy set-up – Vidyard Live is built around a user-friendly workflow and can be set up in just a few quick steps.

Marketing Automation Services 50

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Video Marketing 50

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). Just kidding.or

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120