Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality.

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Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. So now the story can be told.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Summary: Marketing automation and CRM systems may eventually converge, but for now marketers need help explaining why they need a system of their own. I hugely enjoyed yesterday’s Boston session of the Silverpop -sponsored B2B Marketing University. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

As the industry matures, second-generation products are designed to improve on the original products, either by adding new capabilities or by delivering the same capabilities faster, easier or cheaper. Demand generation systems are in that second stage. But if Giese is right, they will be.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Digital Asset Management Demand Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Could marketers finally be ready to spend on measurement? Eloqua focused on making it easier to embed sharable links within conventional marketing assets. Sales access. Upgraded reporting.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. So I was quite curious to see what they had to offer.

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Demand Generation Enterprise Management Small Business Marketing Pricing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. This broader scope should become standard as marketers try to truly integrate their programs. The demand generation vendors have been much more dynamic.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Digital Asset Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 120

The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams.

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Work Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

Both are general purpose marketing automation systems that serve large numbers of B2C as well as B2B clients. See my 2011 MarketingPilot review for more details, bearing in mind that they’ve added capabilities since then. It’s important to recognize that Neolane and Aprimo are fundamentally different from the others.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Now that I’m more or less finished launching the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) , I can start catching up on the other topics. ClickDimensions does pretty much the standard marketing automation activities: email, landing pages, Web visitor tracking, drip marketing campaigns, and lead scoring.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

Summary: Genius.com has added a free version of its system. But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. A marketing automation system is a highly considered purchase.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Loopfuse 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. If the vendors fail, the business will go to consultants, ad agencies, and other service firms that do the clients’ marketing for them.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Summary: Right On Interactive has added great life stage reporting to the data integration and output generation features of its earlier 5Buckets product. It could supplement a traditional marketing automation system or perhaps replace one. We'll start with the standard marketing automation functions.

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Salesforce.com Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. Marketo is a Force.com application that works only with Salesforce.com, while Eloqua works with several CRM products.

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Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Rather, it has conceded the lower tiers of business marketing to simpler systems and aimed Marketing Studio at marketers who need greater sophistication and will accept higher cost and complexity to get it. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.)

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

Starting at the beginning, the system imports a list of each client’s customers and sales opportunities from CRM and marketing automation systems. Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com , Oracle Eloqua and Marketo. The company was founded in 2013 and released early versions of its product that same year.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Activities Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 4, 2010

Summary: Two low-cost demand generation systems, Genoo and Act-On Software, have added unusually advanced social marketing features. A few weeks back, I wrote about social marketing features from consumer marketing automation vendors. I got details from two of them last week.

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Act-On Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Features 120

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. That's fewer functions than traditional demand generation, but if those are the functions you need, who cares? Adding these items to an evaluation template is not especially difficult.

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Active Conversion Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

From Web Analytics to Demand Generation. Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Salesforce.com integration. Website sessions are added to the salesforce.com Lead record.

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ActiveConversion SMB Work Management Lead Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com. In Fernandez’ view, this reflects a fundamental philosophical difference from his competitors: Marketo sees marketing as reacting to prospect-initiated behaviors, not executing company-driven interaction paths.

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Marketo Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz 120

Jackie Walts

MARCH 6, 2019

Recent advances in give demand generation marketers tricks to reduce waste and gain better results. So, I thought I’d share what I’m finding most useful right now: First – if you have marketing automation or CRM, there are probably new tools just waiting in the platforms you already own. Or your competitors.)

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Demand Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Salesforce.com 54

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Now we come to Infusionsoft , which offers marketing automation, CRM and ecommerce for as little as $199 per month. The company’s marketing is tightly targeted at very small businesses (under 25 employees) but its marketing features are competitive with demand generation products aimed at much larger firms.

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Pricing Price Impressions Marketing Management 120

Engagio

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A few ideas for folks to try: tactile marketing automation coined by our friends PFL, physical direct mail accompanying video calls like that of Demandbase’s great launch party, and video challenges like we did here internally Marvel Marketers. This means strategic alignment around objectives, target account criteria, etc.

Account Based Marketing 139

Account Based Marketing ABM Sales Management Enterprise Management 139

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It's looking more like a conventional small-business marketing automation system every day. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs. In general, though, HubSpot’s growth strategy seems to rely more on expanding services than features.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. Look, I know online marketing is important. But let’s not forget that offline channels still account for nearly 90% of total advertising expenditures. SalesFusion is now expanding its direct sales efforts.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 1, 2009

It can also import a client’s list of target accounts from Salesforce.com and issuing alerts when those companies visit. According to the company, it typically finds that 50-60% of the Web site visitors come through a generic Internet Service Provider connection and thus can’t be traced to a particular company.

DemandBase 120

DemandBase Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Jigsaw 120

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders. Apart from the time dimension, various other dimensions like region, account segment, lead source are added to this first data set. The division of these 2 metrics gives the “Lead to MQL” conversion number.

Lead Ranking 59

Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads Demand 59

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality.

Manticore 20

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation 20

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders. Apart from the time dimension, various other dimensions like region, account segment, lead source are added to this first data set. The division of these 2 metrics gives the “Lead to MQL” conversion number.

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

CEOs/finance/sales leaders are all in this exciting transition led by the forward-looking marketing leaders. Apart from the time dimension, various other dimensions like region, account segment, lead source are added to this first data set. The division of these 2 metrics gives the “Lead to MQL” conversion number.

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

expertise on staff, and 3) want to be able to maintain their own web content (adding new pages, text and images) over time, without needing to learn web coding skills. If you are just looking to get a site up on the web and already have systems in place for CRM and marketing automation, these tools are worthy of consideration.

CMS Development 100

CMS Development Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

. @ Hubspot – HubSpot – Hubspot in all-in-one marketing software that brings your whole marketing world together in one powerful, integrated system. Marketo – Marketo.com – Marketing software. Marketing automation, social campaigns, inbound marketing, sales apps, ROI reporting – all in one place.

Twitter 100

Twitter Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency B2B Marketing 100

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Summary: LoopFuse offers attractive but limited demand generation functions at an easy-to-swallow price. It’s been nearly a year since I took my first close look at the LoopFuse OneView demand generation system. Unlike most demand generation vendors, LoopFuse does not host landing pages or Web forms for its clients.

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Loopfuse Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

We are excited to have Jep Castelein of popular lead management and marketing automation blog, Lead Sloth , contribute a guest blog post. Read below to find out the best ways to optimize your conversion rates using lead nurturing: A lot of early adopters of Marketing Automation systems are in the technology industry.

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Conversion Rate Lead Nurturing Conversion Optimization 48

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Back in early January I posted a discussion on treatment of Company-Level Data in Demand Generation Systems. At that time, I posed a set of specific questions to the demand generation vendors in the Raab Guide. SFDC" stands for Salesforce.com.) Yesterday the final answer trickled in.

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Demand Generation Work Management Market2Lead Marketing Automation Services 120