LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

ActiveConversion first became known for its sales-focused Web Analytics, such as identifying companies that visit your website (similar to Leadlander ). Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies.

ActiveConversion 100

ActiveConversion SMB Work Management Lead Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. But while this cycle is simple, the actual boundaries of business marketing are not so clearly marked. Leads can enter from channels other than email. Registration is no longer required.)

Active Conversion 120

Active Conversion Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. The table below shows the Alexa rankings and share statistics for the current Guide entries, the four marketing automation vendors already mentioned, and a dozen or so contenders.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz Demand Generation Agencies 120

LeadSloth

APRIL 29, 2009

Most of these vendors blogs really get ‘online marketing’, so they talk about best practices rather then just touting their products, and they post regularly. In alphabetical order: ActiveConversion B2B Marketing Blog. It is about Internet marketing: very interesting posts about SEO, PPC and Social Media.

Demand Generation 100

Demand Generation Marketing Management ReadyContacts Marketing Automation Services 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

ActiveConversion is not new but also has a low price point. The only vendor with a really major drop in ranking was Lead Genesys , another long-time industry participant. Tags: vendor rankings demand generation marketing automation lead management. I'll explore further when time permits.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

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. These organizations have marketing operations staff members whose entire job is to set up campaigns. But they get impossibly convoluted once you try to do something complex.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. 4) Lead scoring — in a prior post , I make the case for quantitative scoring.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40