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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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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

Customer Experience Matrix

Most offer a CRM option (typically priced at $10 to $20 per seat per month) for companies who don't want to pay for Salesforce.com. - Entrepreneurs: these products are aimed at companies where the owner does their own marketing, or perhaps one employee who does marketing along with other functions.

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

Customer Experience Matrix

Pardot’s lowest-price system, $500 per month, may be too constrained for most companies (no CRM integration, maximum of five landing pages, etc.), Note: other SMB-oriented vendors including ActiveConversion and OfficeAutoPilot also have entry pricing in the $500 per month range, although neither publishes the details.)

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Posted by: C Jeffers | August 27, 2008 at 11:02 AM Hi Laura, Thank you for mentioning ActiveConversion in your post. This wouldn't be possible without target audience scoring, multiple data partnerships, and CRM integration. It is great to have so much insight on our suspects -- and how long it takes for them to convert.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

They need a platform that fits together with their CRM/SFA systems but separately helps them to identify and sort the best leads from the rest and to nurture those not yet ready to buy. I decided to turn to the CRM folks - consultants, vendors, even the guy who wrote the Dummies guide on a CRM program, and even they seemed unsure.