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Bizo and DemandBase Lead B2B Marketing Automation to Web Advertising and Beyond

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That could serve as a pretty complete summary of the state of the art for B2B marketing today, especially if you consider “content marketing” as implicitly included. This is a major extension beyond traditional marketing automation, which works mostly through email to known prospects.

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VEST Report: Competition in B2B Marketing Automation Isn't About Features

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Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. Even B2C marketing automation is showing some interesting new life.

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VEST Report: Latest Trends in Marketing Automation, and Where's My Hoverboard?

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I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. All six of the vendors new to this report sell primarily to small businesses, and most are “all-in-one” systems that combine marketing automation with integrated CRM. VEST Report. Here’s what struck me. social data.

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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

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MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system.

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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

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Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). Price was $600 million, which is roughly in line with the 8x revenue paid for ExactTarget and Eloqua recently.

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New Workbook: Estimating the Cost of Marketing Automation

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We released two more vendor selection workbooks last week, both sponsored by Eloqua and available for free on the RaabGuide Web site. One is about estimating the cost of a marketing automation system and the other is about evaluating vendor services. These are the other 75% of the typical marketing budget. of revenue.

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Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

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The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.