Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

But most of us still assume there is a reasonable relationship between price and value. This is why it’s hard to imagine that low-priced software can deliver similar performance to mainstream products. Now we come to Infusionsoft , which offers marketing automation, CRM and ecommerce for as little as $199 per month.

Pricing 120

Pricing Price Impressions Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Last November, after much consideration of alternatives , I settled on Alexa three-month Web traffic rankings as a reasonable way to measure the relative market presence of demand generation vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

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.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services LEADSExplorer netFactor Leadlander 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. So now the story can be told. ROI reporting.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Summary: Alsa Marketing is a late entry to small business marketing automation. It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Tags: marketing automation multi-language marketing lead management demand generation. Alsa has some other unusual features.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. The company takes a conservative approach to marketing automation, stressing the importance of process over flashy software. Manticore Technology today released the latest version of its marketing automation system.

Manticore 120

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here are some alternatives that will come in at or below Marketo’s published starting price of $2,400 per month (or $1,500 for their “Lite” version). (To See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Pricing starts at $599 per month. Just kidding.or

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

DemandBase had to build its own engines for real time bidding (RTB) and ad serving (Demand Side Platform or DSP) to support its approach. 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.

DemandBase 120

DemandBase Advertising Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

For many smaller companies, a suite like Adobe, Oracle , IBM , Salesforce.com , SAS , or Teradata isn’t an option and would be overkill if it were. The system imports lists of target accounts from a company’s CRM or marketing automation system, or lets clients build their own lists from Terminus’ own B2B company database. ad inventory.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Display Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. The table below presents a reasonably comprehensive list of demand generation (a.k.a. The systems have very low starting prices tailored to low volumes.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. When Net-Results ’ showed me their marketing automation system, the demonstration ended so quickly that I wondered what was missing. I guess that’s true, but doubt it’s important to most marketers.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services 120

Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Why Does Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Marketing Automation Integration Matter? In this article we’ll discuss why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and marketing automation integration matter to businesses with a sales and marketing team. As a user myself, I first started using Salesforce.com. Nurture prior to sales interaction.

Marketing Automation Services 48

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Lead Liaison CRM 48

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. me-too products.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

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. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It’s really nice. I think not.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. The same three vendors also added new tools to give salespeople better access to information the marketing automation system has captured about their leads. But enhanced reporting was the most common improvement of all.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. Aprimo is in the early stages of launching Aprimo Marketing Studio , a new Software-as-a-Service marketing automation suite that is separate from the existing Aprimo product.*

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Digital Asset Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Loopfuse 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

Demand generation systems are in that second stage. CEO and co-founder Brian Giese had extensive experience in business sales and marketing and with existing demand generation systems when he began developing True Influence two years ago. These are not yet standard features on most demand generation products.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Digital Asset Management Demand Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. Marketo is a Force.com application that works only with Salesforce.com, while Eloqua works with several CRM products.

Marketo 120

Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

Summary: MakesBridge offers a full set of marketing automation features with some special strengths that will appeal especially to small companies. I’ve previously reviewed Genoo , which supplements the standard marketing automation features with Web hosting and built-in CRM but no shopping cart. MakesBridge is another contender.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Features Marketing Management 120

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. But I digress.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

Summary: Right On Interactive's 5Buckets connects lists from external customer management systems with many types of output vendors (email, print, fax, text message, automated voice). It's a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to more powerful marketing automation systems for companies who don't need other marketing automation features.

Multi-Channel 120

Multi-Channel Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Channels 120

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.

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120

ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public?

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

That's fewer functions than traditional demand generation, but if those are the functions you need, who cares? These functions, plus supporting features for database management, content management, sales system synchronization, and reporting, form a basic template for measuring demand generation software.

Active Conversion 120

Active Conversion Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

Starting at the beginning, the system imports a list of each client’s customers and sales opportunities from CRM and marketing automation systems. Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com , Oracle Eloqua and Marketo. The company was founded in 2013 and released early versions of its product that same year.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Activities Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

The latest stop on my little tour of not-really-demand-generation systems is Jesubi. The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting.

Efficiency 120

Efficiency Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

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. That would greatly limit the marketing automation vendors' business. Hubspot has accepted this challenge.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Eliminate productivity bottlenecks and create more sales conversations with email and phone automation. Deliver campaigns to tailor-made audiences through Demand-Side Platforms or ZoomInfo’s network. What I like best about the product is how it is integrated into Salesforce.com. Everything can be done within Salesforce.com.

B2B Sales 73

B2B Sales Enterprise Management Zoominfo Work Management 73

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Two common business terms combined describe the an increasingly popular outreach tool: marketing automation. According to marketing research firm Raab Associates , the marketing automation system industry will reach $750 million in 2013, growing 50 percent from 2012. What is Marketing Automation? How Does it Work?

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Work Management Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Marketing automation vendors have mostly worked on making it easy to post and share messages and to capture social data. managing awards, and API-level integration to pull profile data ( LinkedIn ), record completed challenges ( Quora , Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn) and announce completed challenges ( Salesforce.com Chatter).

Work Management 120

Work Management Peer-to-peer Marketing Management Planning 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It's looking more like a conventional small-business marketing automation system every day. The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. Summary: HubSpot has continued to grow its customer base and expand its product.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2012

More specifically, the decision managers assemble a consolidated customer profile by pulling data on demand from external systems rather than storing it internally. Although I just compared SiteCore with decision management systems, its more immediate competitors are marketing automation vendors.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Most are marketing and sales operations staff supporting Salesforce.com and Marketo who use Openprise to supplement the limited data management capabilities native to those systems. Most pipelines execute as batch processes, either on demand or on a user-specified schedule. Current clients use Openprise in more modest ways, however.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking 120

Engagio

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A few ideas for folks to try: tactile marketing automation coined by our friends PFL, physical direct mail accompanying video calls like that of Demandbase’s great launch party, and video challenges like we did here internally Marvel Marketers. Marketers at Wiley got to respond to heightened demand for eLearning. Kathy Macchi.

Account Based Marketing 139

Account Based Marketing ABM Sales Management Enterprise Management 139