Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 16, 2011

I’ve long believed that B2B marketing automation is just a passing phase: that, ultimately, B2B marketing automation systems will be absorbed into CRM systems instead of operating independently. I wrote in February about ClickDimensions , which adds advanced email campaigns and Web tracking to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 30, 2015

A recent piece in TechCrunch quoted me as saying that “almost 70 percent of marketers are either unhappy or only marginally happy with their marketing automation software.” This lead to enough questions about the data that it now seems worth a blog post on the topic. Answers came from 159 marketing automation users.

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In addition to Marketing Automation, there were two big topics: Social Media and CRM. I will write about Social Media some other time, and focus on CRM in this post. Many attendees were confused by CRM vendors claiming to offer full marketing functionality. Strong Features of CRM. Automated Campaigns Flows.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve been gearing up for the next edition of our VEST report on B2B marketing automation systems, which involves catching up with established vendors and chasing down some new ones. nurture campaigns), and share leads with a CRM system like Salesforce.com. continuously updated) as well as static.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

When I first wrote about ClickDimensions in a February, 2011 post , the concept was intriguing – a marketing automation add-on to Microsoft Dynamics CRM – but the product itself had been available for less than six months and claimed barely 50 clients. This is comparable to standard marketing automation products.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation.

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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. This will remind marketing automation aficionados of HubSpot, which has made a similar journey.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. 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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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

Our scoring reflects their need for special features for automated content selection, project management, complex lead scores, and tight control over the rights granted to individual users. Marketo and Oracle (specifically, Oracle CRM On Demand Marketing ) are considerably further back in the leader quadrant.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. It’s selling to small and mid-size companies and business-to-business marketers, who are just dipping their toes into marketing automation.

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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.

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The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. Actually, it’s much easier for Marketing and lead cultivation people to get instant value out of Salesforce.com (SFDC) than it is for reps.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

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. The reason is selection bias: most surveys are answered by people who are actively engaged in marketing automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Lead Genius is a good example. But Lead Genius was founded in 2011 to commercialize university research into combining AI with human inputs. Like many data gatherers, Lead Genius uses a combination of Web and other sources to build company and contact lists. Lead Genius does this too. Plan interactions.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect , a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Marketing automation, Web analytics, and Web content management systems can all access this data via API calls for analytics and as inputs to their own selection and treatment rules. This is a major extension beyond traditional marketing automation, which works mostly through email to known prospects. So much for the mechanics.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 4, 2012

One easily predictable trend in B2B marketing automation is that vendors will tailor their systems to specific industries. The reason may be that B2B marketing automation products have a narrower scope than B2C systems, meaning there’s less advantage in creating vertical editions. Mindmatrix does a good job with these features.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tweet Customer relationship management (CRM) is defined a number of different ways. At the same time, the real engine driving CRM and keeping prospects moving through the sales funnel is technology. The first technology that comes to mind is CRM software, such as Salesforce.com or Microsoft Dynamics.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

and key activities (Web site visits, topics researched) and scores at both company and individual levels. 6Sense wouldn''t be a CDP if it merely displayed its data on a CRM screen without letting the CRM system import it. If 6Sense exposed model scores but no other data, it would qualify as a CDP by the thinnest margin possible.

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Lead Liaison

JULY 9, 2021

Check out the powerful new enhancements on Lead Liaison’s Sales & Marketing Lead Management platform. As always, please feel free to contact your Lead Liaison Representative with any questions about the enhancements below. Skips the Waypoint score screen or effect and redirects according to your settings.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. That’s important in itself, since those missing links are the greatest obstacle to showing the value of B2B marketing efforts through revenue attribution.

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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. Getting Started with Marketing Automation.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years.

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The Point

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I just returned from a few days at Dreamforce in San Francisco, the annual circus-slash-conference hosted by CRM leader Salesforce.com, and was struck by the wave of technologies on display that centered on analytics. The simple act of generating leads – primarily through online means – has never been easier.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

” Convergence: Technology, CRM & Social Media. Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Christopher notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

” Convergence: Technology, CRM & Social Media. Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Chris notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. And, while we’re on the subject, they need REALLY TIGHT integration between marketing and sales automation, if not one shared system. online chat and - telemarketing support through the CRM component.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2013

Even in the small business sector, that count would make Vocus one of the largest marketing automation systems. But Vocus doesn’t quite match the profile of standard marketing automation products. Other traditional marketing automation features will be added as well.

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The Point

APRIL 1, 2014

Recent studies tell us while the adoption of marketing automation technology continues to gain momentum, fewer than 20 percent of marketing executives say that they are fully integrating the technology into their current sales and marketing initiatives.

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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. They’ll make their money when users see the value they gain and pay for higher volumes and add-on features.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. NurtureHQ hopes to differentiate itself as “dead easy marketing automation”, which it arguably is. It’s really nice. I think not. Naturally, NurtureHQ disagrees.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. We'd discovered over years of consulting to Sales and Marketing VPs that most firm's CRM systems were not really functional.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Other data collection specialists include Segment.com , Aginity , Umbel , Lytics , NGData , and Woopra , although some of these do supplement database building with predictive model scores, segmentation, and/or event-based triggers. It’s primarily used to set up data processing flows for data cleaning, matching, and lead routing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2016

B22B lead generation vendor True Influence today announced a new product to help fill these gaps. The notifications can be loaded as lists into a marketing automation or CRM system, where they can trigger advertising, sales calls, or other actions. That's possible but I haven’t done the research to confirm it.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. 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. Hubspot has accepted this challenge.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It could supplement a traditional marketing automation system or perhaps replace one. When I reviewed Right On Interactive in a July 2009 post , the company was selling its 5Buckets marketing software as a multi-channel output generation tool that complemented conventional marketing automation systems.

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