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B2B Marketing University: For Now, Marketing Automation and CRM Are Still Separate

Customer Experience Matrix

The movement is coming mostly from the marketing automation side, presumably because there is more money to gain by moving into sales from marketing systems than vice versa: - marketing automation systems for small businesses ( Infusionsoft , Office Autopilot , Net-Results , ActiveConversion , etc.)

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. 3) Online activity analytics — rather than examine overall site traffic and usage patterns like Omniture and WebTrends, these tools focus more on tracking what one individual or opportunity is doing. Among other stuff.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

problem: 1) Web analytics – typically the stronghold of companies like Coremetrics, Omniture, and WebTrends, the analytics area bleeds over into lead management as companies go online to generate demand. There are four primary buckets of technology solutions aimed at solving the “how do I make lead generation activities more effective?”