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

Customer Experience Matrix

As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. But I’ve also been approached by some of the other demand generation specialists. But my real concern was the Other Demand Generation group.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

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. This has more to do with the degree of personal selling (and after-sale service) than anything else.

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. That's fewer functions than traditional demand generation, but if those are the functions you need, who cares? Active Conversion is offered as a service with prices based primarily on Web traffic.

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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

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

2) Database services – powerhouses like Dun&Bradstreet, Harte-Hanks, Acxiom, Equifax, infoUSA, and Merkle dominate this category , but B2B marketers tend to think of them more as list generators than providers of a broad spectrum of strategic data management to direct mail execution. Again, thanks for the dialogue.