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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Of the remainder, the stronger firms will probably be purchased by companies seeking enter the demand generation space, and the weaker firms will quietly go out of business or be purchased for their client lists. Speaking of small business suppliers, Google and Intuit are long-shot contenders. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

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Vtrenz Gives a Solid Overview of Relationship Marketing

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So it came as a pleasant surprise to find that marketing automation vendor Vtrenz’ ( www.vtrenz.com ) series “Effective Relationship Marketing” presented a fairly comprehensive overview of its topic, including several points with no obvious direct relationship to Vtrenz products. A sly joke, perhaps? But a few points caught my eye.

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LucidEra Takes a Shot at On-Demand Analytics

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Back in March, I wrote a fairly dismissive post about on-demand business intelligence systems. My basic objection was that the hardest part of building a business intelligence system is integrating the source data, and being on-demand doesn’t make that any easier. This would certainly give it a more defensible business position.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Users can query this widget to find out more about these visitors and decide if they want to purchase full business contact information. I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz. Reverse IP look up appears to be the new thing here.

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Demand Generation Systems Shift Focus to Tracking Behavior

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Over the past few months, I’ve had conversations with “demand generation” software vendors including Eloqua , Vtrenz and Manticore , and been on the receiving end of a drip marketing stream from yet another (Moonray Marketing, lately renamed OfficeAutoPilot ). However, those analytics are not yet in place.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

problem: 1) Web analytics – typically the stronghold of companies like Coremetrics, Omniture, and WebTrends, the analytics area bleeds over into lead management as companies go online to generate demand. There are four primary buckets of technology solutions aimed at solving the “how do I make lead generation activities more effective?”