Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

Summary: Marketo continues to follow its own path. I finally caught up with Marketo for a briefing on their Enterprise Edition (announced in March) and Revenue Cycle Analytics (announced in May). Since both are somewhat old news, and Marketo describes them in detail on its Web site, I’ll just make a few comments.

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Enterprise Management Marketo Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. This requires finding ways to attract masses of new customers as they enter the market.

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Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing 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?

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 Usability requirements are roughly similar for all marketers. Yes, some features apply more to simple marketing programs and others to complex programs. Here, then, is the final usability matrix. 9 Now what?

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Sales Management Automation 100

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. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum. Among other stuff.

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Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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