Net-Results

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I stumbled upon this question over on Quora the other day: “Is marketing automation worth it for small businesses in 2020 or is it just hype from software companies and wastes more time and money? ” I’ll move the question into the coming year: is marketing automation worth it for small businesses in 2021? (

Marketing Automation Services 98

Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Work Management 98

Martech

MARCH 9, 2022

Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Are they included in pricing? Get the daily newsletter digital marketers rely on. How does the platform’s speech analytics help us score calls and feed the call data into our CRM, ESP or other martech systems? Is access included in pricing?

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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.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers. 1) Marketo.

Marketing Automation Services 100

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2013

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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Circle Studio

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Marketing automation is a powerful technology platform that provides marketers with a rich set of tools to manage the components of their online marketing programs. The usage of marketing automation software has exploded over the last decade, with no sign of slowing down. billion in 2017.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 19, 2015

The only real question about free, open source marketing automation from Mautic is what took so long. The core features of B2B marketing automation have been well understood for nearly ten years and prices have been dropping steadily for about the same time. So the opportunity seems obvious.

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Litmus

MAY 10, 2021

If you want to propel your email program to the next level, email automation is an excellent place to start. Statistics show that automated emails have a 70.5% What’s more, automated campaigns have been shown to drive 21% of marketing revenue. We even include a free template to help you evaluate vendors!

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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. Here are highlights of several vendors I’ve looked at recently.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 25, 2016

Our tour of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors has now reached Execution. Many can also push messages to other channels via marketing automation or CRM integration.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The hardest part of choosing a CRM is knowing what to look for and consider. Companies often forget about team input, review sentiment, and research the vendor’s reputation. What is a CRM? CRM tools can streamline major business processes like customer support, marketing campaigns, and lead management for sales teams.

Enterprise Management 75

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SalesIntel

JUNE 9, 2023

However, there are concerns regarding Cognism pricing versus competitors that might make you think twice before investing in the platform. When investing in a sales intelligence platform, pricing is pivotal in your final decision-making. The Issue: All B2B data vendors must be CCPA/GDPR compliant to successfully sustain operations.

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Pricing Price Planning Marketing Automation Services 52

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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Work Management 120

Webbiquity

AUGUST 4, 2020

Pricing: $79/$159/$299 per month; enterprise pricing by quote. Livestream helps manage webinars end to end, from planning, registration, and automated reminders through production and analytics. Pricing: free; $33/$104 per host per month; enterprise pricing by quote. Pricing: $34/$69/$163 per month.

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to the B2B Marketing Automation Solutions. Marketing automation solutions have become a must-have for modern B2B marketers particularly as the marketers are headed to explore new avenues alongside the dawn to the next normal. Learn More: Marketing Automation: A Good or A Bad Idea.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation 52

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 20, 2012

Indeed, with 208 data points on 22 vendors, there’s so much data that it’s a challenge to make sense of it. Since we only added one new vendor for this edition and kept all the old ones, the vendor base itself is largely stable. Items with the greatest change in average score are the ones that vendors are adapting most rapidly.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that predictive marketing vendors seem to have anticipated this. I wrote last month about Everstring ’s expansion to the world of intent data and account based marketing. The past week brought three more announcements about predictive vendors expanding beyond lead scoring.

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GreenRope

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Why Companies Don't Adopt Marketing Automation and How GreenRope Can Help. Many companies need a marketing automation tool, but oftentimes they feel like a CRM/ automation software will be too difficult to adopt. There are many barriers stopping companies from adopting automation platforms.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 25, 2016

and we wrap up our review of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors with a look at Result Analysis. Not surprisingly, most of vendors who do ABM Result Analysis also do some sort of Execution (12 out of 16, to be exact). Another two (Everstring and ZenIQ) didn't fall into the Execution group but came close.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 7, 2014

I speak with particular authority here, since Ontraport is the marketing automation system of record at Raab Associates – in part because they give me a free account, but mostly because it has the particular mix of email, Web forms, order processing, automation, and WordPress integration that suits my needs and have provided great customer support.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Management 120

LeadSquared

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In this article, we will discuss the features and benefits of marketing automation. Marketing has been integral to businesses for a long time. To stay ahead of the competition, companies invest a lot in marketing. Marketing is not only a part of the buying journey but also a complete process in itself.

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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.

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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. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. Other vendors have asked the same questions and reached the same conclusions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

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

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 12, 2011

As I mentioned yesterday, our new B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) asks vendors to estimate the number of clients in each of four size categories. I’ve described those differences in this post and go into them in our Vendor Selection Workbook (different from the VEST, and free on the Raab Guide site.)

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Marketing Automation Services Segmentation Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 18, 2011

As you might have guessed from my recent list of B2C marketing automation systems , I’ve recently been spending some time helping consumer marketers to select vendors. The CRM integration can be set up in days, if not minutes, and next to no time is spent worrying about the marketing database design or update processes.

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Last week I presented a session at Silverpop’s B2B Marketing University in Atlanta. 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. Strong Features of CRM. Products & Pricing.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Salesforce.com 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 10, 2012

I’ve revised my big list of demand generation vendors to reflect this. The main cause of my misunderstanding was Genoo’s starting price of $199 per month, which is below any small or mid-size business system. Albee also pointed to Genoo’s pricing as a reaction to customer requirements.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2013

If you’ve heard of Vocus at all, it’s probably as vendor serving public relations professionals. But since late 2011 the company has also offered a suite aimed at marketers, which now has more than 4,000 paid clients. Even in the small business sector, that count would make Vocus one of the largest marketing automation systems.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Management Social Marketing 120

Webbiquity

MAY 4, 2020

It’s the most widely used tactic, and 59% of B2B marketers say email is their most effective channel in terms of revenue generation. Easy to use, affordable online tools make it easy for marketers to segment their lists, test different messages, automate processes, and track results. Constant Contact.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 4, 2011

I recently read an article by Jeff Pedowitz about the state of marketing automation and it caused me to think back to a lunch I had with Jeff just a couple of short years ago. If so, why has that occurred and what should marketers do about it? Marketing should embrace it. This is not a problem, but an opportunity.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Planning 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

One of first marketing automation systems I ever saw – this would be during the Reagan Presidency – was a custom-built dial-up network to distribute collateral to farm equipment dealers. Some of these channel marketing systems focus on lead distribution, some on locally-customizable promotion materials, and some on campaign management.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Advertising Agencies Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2013

Infusionsoft today announced it has acquired social lead generation vendor GroSocial. Starting price is $30 per month after a 30 day free trial. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results. This conclusion may strike you as obvious.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

As my model suggests it should, ATG also encompasses online CRM and online marketing, where Oracle’s Siebel line is also a little thin. What I really care about is the implications for marketing systems. I’d say the ATG purchase lessens the odds of Oracle buying a marketing automation vendor.

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Marketing Automation Services Digital Asset Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

SmartBug Media

MARCH 16, 2023

By automating data transfer, businesses save time and reduce errors caused by human input. HubSpot is a popular customer relationship management (CRM) platform that offers a range of tools for marketing, sales, and customer service. First, choose the right third-party tool or vendor for your integration needs.

API 105

API Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Work Management 105

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My last two posts (not counting this morning’s detour into Marketo-land) described common errors marketers make when selecting marketing automation systems. I see two reasons: Marketers are like everybody else. Marketers can do a better job of system selection if they try. How did we come to this?

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. The market will probably split between enterprise-wide suites and more limited marketing automation systems. Many would no doubt be delighted to sell at such prices.

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Resource Management Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management 120