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B2B Marketing Automation Growth Slowed In First Half of 2011

Customer Experience Matrix

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. Don’t look now, but growth is already slowing.

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Another Estimate of B2B Marketing Automation Revenue

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Here's a closer look at revenue per employee and marketing automation revenue in general. Some of the comments on last week’s post on the size of the B2B marketing automation industry led me to dig a bit more deeply into the question of revenue per employee. This leaves all the other B2B marketing automation vendors.

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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

Customer Experience Matrix

My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. So far the original list of Eloqua , Vtrenz , Marketo , Manticore Technology and Market2Lead has proven a good set of choices. What’s more interesting is the figures for the Marketing Automation group. How to choose?

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Marketing automation and CRM systems may eventually converge, but for now marketers need help explaining why they need a system of their own. People still don’t understand the difference between marketing automation vs. CRM. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate? Vendors take note.

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Top-10 Demand Generation Vendor Blogs

LeadSloth

In alphabetical order: ActiveConversion B2B Marketing Blog. Market2Lead Marketing Automation and Lead Management blog. He writes in-depth posts on Marketing Automation best practices. Marketo Modern B2B Marketing Blog. This is my new discovery. Recently, they are writing more posts, and some good ones too!

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Demand Generation Vendor Traffic Rankings

Customer Experience Matrix

But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. The leaders among demand generation systems are still Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo. ActiveConversion is not new but also has a low price point. Tags: vendor rankings demand generation marketing automation lead management. David) There are no huge surprises.

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Multi-Step Campaign Interfaces: A Quick Vendor Survey

Customer Experience Matrix

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. They do perfectly well with flow chart interfaces, which indeed are standard on enterprise marketing automation products (e.g. I'm in favor of that approach.