ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I just received the latest issue of ABM in Action (October 2016), a monthly eMagazine dedicated to Account-Based Marketing from the publishers of Demand Gen Report, and I had to comment on the lead article. Don’t short-circuit the fundamentals of demand generation strategy when you embrace ABM. The moral of the story?

Account Based Marketing 168

Account Based Marketing Marketing Management Planning ABM 168

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 5, 2012

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Just for symmetry, it’s worth pointing out that Salesforce.com acquired its own social monitoring system, Radian6 , in March 2011.

Resource Management 120

Resource Management Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. Yet something really bothered me about yesterday’s announcement.

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Enterprise Management Hubspot Marketing Automation Services 120

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I just received the latest issue of ABM in Action (October 2016), a monthly eMagazine dedicated to Account-Based Marketing from the publishers of Demand Gen Report, and I had to comment on the lead article. Don’t short-circuit the fundamentals of demand generation strategy when you embrace ABM. The moral of the story?

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Marketing Management Planning ABM 100

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Whether it is the hyper-personalized contextual engagement approach, increasingly higher marketing ROI/ROMI, higher influence on pipeline generation/acceleration, or the increasingly better demand waterfall efficiencies, marketing analytics capabilities span across the areas of marketing execution and the key strategies.

Lead Ranking 59

Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads Demand 59

Jackie Walts

MARCH 6, 2019

Recent advances in give demand generation marketers tricks to reduce waste and gain better results. Ditto for diving into platforms like WordPress, ABM technology and some more advanced functions of Salesforce.com. But, the sheer volume of options can be overwhelming. It seems like something new is coming up all the time.

Demand 54

Demand Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Salesforce.com 54

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

The data-driven marketing approach with the ability to track demand waterfall conversion rates is a game-changer across the board and no doubt marketing analytics continues to be a top priority for the CMOs and marketing leaders across all the organizations. MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads).

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Whether it is the hyper-personalized contextual engagement approach, increasingly higher marketing ROI/ROMI, higher influence on pipeline generation/acceleration, or the increasingly better demand waterfall efficiencies, marketing analytics capabilities span across the areas of marketing execution and the key strategies.

Conversion Rate 52

Conversion Rate Lead Ranking SQO Marketing Qualified Leads 52

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

Summary: Genius.com has added a free version of its system. On Monday, Genius.com announced “the first free, instant-on demand generation solution”, a description carefully crafted to distinguish their offering from the free version announced by LoopFuse in June. But the next leap is typically to full marketing automation.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Loopfuse 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.

Active Conversion 120

Active Conversion Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

If the vendors fail, the business will go to consultants, ad agencies, and other service firms that do the clients’ marketing for them. All that’s missing to be full-blown demand generation system is outbound email and lead nurturing campaigns—which the company has announced it will add. Hubspot has accepted this challenge.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) People enter a campaign by being added to a group. You know who you are.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 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. Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com.

Marketo 120

Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 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. Naturally our friends in the business marketing space have been adding such features as well. I got details from two of them last week. I got details from two of them last week.

Act-On 120

Act-On Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Features 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Other vendors have similar price points for the small business market (see my list of demand generation vendors ) although I suspect their internal costs are higher. Salesforce.com easily dominates despite the presence of surprisingly capable free products like ZohoCRM and FreeCRM. rather than marketing automation.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

From Web Analytics to Demand Generation. Salesforce.com integration. ActiveConversion also integrates with Salesforce.com , although using Salesforce is not a requirement. Typically, new leads are assigned to sales person before they are copied to Salesforce.com: the assignment rules are flexible.

ActiveConversion 100

ActiveConversion SMB Work Management Lead Management 100

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.

Manticore 100

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

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

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. Marketo added features to capture Twitter posts and Helpstream customer support interactions within a lead’s activity history. But enhanced reporting was the most common improvement of all. Sales access.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 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

AUGUST 14, 2014

It originally returned only lead scores, although they are now adding multiple applications that create different scores for different purposes. LeadSpace scans for data on demand, rather than maintaining its own master database. . I wrote about them in August 2013. It stresses quick model building. I reviewed them in June 2014.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring 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. These include sending an email via Salesforce.com or ExactTarget, creating a Salesforce.com task, generating an output file, and sending emails to Foursquare friends.

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Joe Moloney gave a more detailed answer about limits in Salesforce.com in particular, including lack of CAN-SPAM compliance and limits on mass emails. Is Salesforce.com a threat to vendors of marketing automation solutions? Technology may impede Software-as-a-Service sales automation vendors from adding marketing automation.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Engagio

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We’ve all heard the analogy that in Account-Based Marketing we are fishing with a spear rather than a net. Our goal is to target the right buyers rather than scooping up distractions and expenses along the way. Marketers at Wiley got to respond to heightened demand for eLearning. This means we need the right tech and strategies.

Account Based Marketing 139

Account Based Marketing ABM Sales Management Enterprise Management 139

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

Finally, Optify has expanded into conventional marketing automation over the past 18 months and most recently added basic contact management and distribution of lead information, scores, and alerts to sales people. Users can create lists and segments based on all contact properties, activities, email history, and custom fields.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com. Although I actually think that quite a few demand generation vendors share the Marketo philosophy, it’s still helpful to hear the distinction made clearly.

Marketo 120

Marketo Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

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. Three of the five core demand generation functions are clearly there: outbound email, Web forms, and lead nurturing campaigns.

Pricing 120

Pricing Price Impressions Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

The new offering is designed to support all stages of interactive marketing, starting with traffic generation from paid search, Web banner ads and blogging, and continuing with visitor behavior tracking, landing pages and forms, interactive dialogs, multi-step email campaigns, lead scoring and CRM integration.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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

Vidyard

JULY 21, 2014

Adding a video layer to the Salesforce experience, Vidyard gives organizations a simple interface to upload and share videos with internal teams, contacts and leads. Individual viewing history can be tracked right within Salesforce, making targeted sales conversations easier than ever. Now we’ve enabled the sales organization.

Salesforce.com 50

Salesforce.com Video Marketing Leads Lead 50

Vidyard

JULY 21, 2014

Adding a video layer to the Salesforce experience, Vidyard gives organizations a simple interface to upload and share videos with internal teams, contacts and leads. Individual viewing history can be tracked right within Salesforce, making targeted sales conversations easier than ever. Now we’ve enabled the sales organization.

Salesforce.com 50

Salesforce.com Video Marketing Leads Lead 50

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

Marketo and Oracle (specifically, Oracle CRM On Demand Marketing ) are considerably further back in the leader quadrant. Both are general purpose marketing automation systems that serve large numbers of B2C as well as B2B clients. The chart shows Neolane and Aprimo (owned by Teradata) as the clear leaders, with Eloqua also very strong.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Although the world has certainly changed since the late 1990’s, I see no reason to expect a different pattern among demand generation vendors. Salesforce.com is the big question and no one would be surprised to see them make an acquisition. A few might survive as independents serving the most sophisticated clients.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

The Point

JANUARY 30, 2018

In “ The Startup’s Guide to Demand Generation: From Your First 10 Customers to Your Next 1,000 ,” the two authors cover everything from when to make the first marketing hire, to what marketing technologies to buy first, to how best to leverage marketing data. Branding Doesn’t Matter. Good Content is Your Secret Weapon.

Demand Generation Agencies 168

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation 168

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

But the system does offer a comprehensive solution for smaller firms and, at least on the CRM side, can integrate with more powerful solutions including Salesforce.com , Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Siebel CRM On Demand. Reporting includes prebuilt dashboards and an ad hoc report writer that lets users query system tables directly.

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. Ok, some of the underlying database preparation and matching is actually pretty demanding. Of the remainder, 10-20% fall within the target company sizes, industries or regions.

DemandBase 120

DemandBase Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Jigsaw 120

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 6, 2009

milesaustin : Mark WIlson, Sybase (from ad) "your risk esposure changes by the second. damphoux : Brett Queener, salesforce.com - Sales 2.0 damphoux : Brett Queener, salesforce.com - Sales 2.0 damphoux : Tom Barrieau, IDC demand generation / lead qualification largest segment of budgets right now #sales20.

Conference 100

Conference Top of Funnel InsideView Web 2.0 100

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. One distinct disadvantage is that most small business marketing automation systems offer their own low-cost alternative to Salesforce.com, while HubSpot does not.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120