Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. So far the original list of Eloqua , Vtrenz , Marketo , Manticore Technology and Market2Lead has proven a good set of choices. What’s more interesting is the figures for the Marketing Automation group. How to choose?

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

Tomorrow People

MARCH 5, 2012

Lead Nurturing 101. Lead nurturing starts by collecting contact information in exchange for something the visitor deems of value, but with little risk. If a lead should mention a competitor in a tweet on Twitter, for example, or use specific keywords, you can automatically send that lead a Direct Tweet.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Build a campaign as a list of stages Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 Build linear campaigns outside of a larger campaign structure. The flow of leads among these independent campaigns may be managed either through explicit routing (i.e.,

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

LeadSloth

APRIL 29, 2009

Market2Lead Marketing Automation and Lead Management blog. The Market2Lead blog got a boost when Kevin Joyce joined the company. He writes in-depth posts on Marketing Automation best practices. Reachforce: The B2B Lead. Reachforce publishes almost daily Lead Generation tips. Marketbright blog.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

But I also knew that some of the vendors focused on complex programs ( Market2Lead , Marketbright and arguably Silverpop/Vtrenz ) embed similar-looking list-style campaigns within a larger flow logic. You must also consider how a system moves leads from one campaign to another. Complexity-focused products route leads explicitly.

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Vtrenz Market2Lead Work Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. But consumer marketers also need inputs from transaction systems.

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Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

Enterprise Edition supports these by adding user roles, “lead partitions” to control access to database segments and “workspaces” to make Marketo objects (contents, campaigns, lists, etc.) User roles (but not lead partitions or workspaces) are now available in Marketo’s Professional Edition as well. available to different user groups.

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Enterprise Management Marketo Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

I say this with the fervor of a reformed sinner, since for many years I looked at flow charts as the mark of an advanced marketing automation system. They do perfectly well with flow chart interfaces, which indeed are standard on enterprise marketing automation products (e.g. I'm in favor of that approach.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 25, 2008

When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. In fact, LucidEra is releasing a new module for lead conversion analysis today to address this very need.

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Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

The only vendor with a really major drop in ranking was Lead Genesys , another long-time industry participant. Tags: vendor rankings demand generation marketing automation lead management. Judging from the press releases on their Web site, this may be due to a new release last October that added Salesforce.com integration.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

The main result of the conversations so far has been to clarify the items related to lead routing. Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 Tags: software usability measurement demand generation marketing automation lead management software selection.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Not yet doing email nurturing of your leads? Lead nurturing allows you to develop a relationship with your leads in a timely and effective way, all with an email series you can set up once to run automatically! 9 Reasons to Use Lead Nurturing. Lead nurturing is an opportunity to show that you are an expert in your field.

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Lead Nurturing Market2Lead Sales Qualified Leads Leads 28

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

nbr responses vendor 8 Marketo 6 Eloqua 3 Genius.com 3 LoopFuse 3 Pardot 2 Market2Lead 2 Treehouse Interactive 1 eTrigue 1 Vtrenz (Silverpop) 7 No Response 36 Another intriguing bit of contextual information is the deployment date of the systems. better than expected about as expected worse than expected total system implementation 0.64

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Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

B2b marketing automation) vendors, with links to my reviews where I've written one. Similarly, functionality is generally comparable although they may be less sophisticated at some tasks such as dynamic content generation (automatically altering an email or Web page based on lead characteristics) and branching campaign flows.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Products including Silverpop Engage B2B (formerly Vtrenz), Market2Lead and Marketbright also let marketers set up small, sequential campaigns and embed them in selection framework. Tags: usability assessment marketing automation marketo lead management demand generation.

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Marketo Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

On the other hand, pricing starts at $199 per month for a 2 user system with pretty much all of their marketing features, and you’d be hard-pressed to spend more than $500 per month unless you want lots of users for non-marketing functions such as sales automation or order entry. I reviewed it here in March.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.) The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Hubspot

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Lead nurturing is a crucial part of any effective marketing strategy. Because if you’re not managing your leads properly, you're wasting your time, marketing resources, and money. Workflows take lead nurturing to the next level. Workflows go way beyond simple marketing automation , though. What Are Workflows, Exactly?

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Market2Lead 28

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 18, 2008

Market2Lead offers the usual list of demand generation functions: outbound email, Web forms and landing pages, automated lead nurturing, integration with sales, and campaign return on investment analysis. This is not to say that Market2Lead is especially hard to use.

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Market2Lead Enterprise Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 5, 2009

Summary: Market2Lead's revised user interface has plenty of refined details. I saw a demonstration of Market2Lead ’s new user interface last December, and they released it in February. It’s a good thing that Market2Lead moved more quickly than I did, because the new interface is a huge improvement. Time flies.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2009

Lessons on Using LinkedIn for Lead Generation - B2B Lead Generation Blog , July 29, 2009. Definitions for marketing leads for use in lead generation - Market2Lead , July 14, 2009. Integrated Social Media Tracking Using Marketing Automation - Modern B2B Marketing , July 28, 2009. July 23, 2009.

Social Media 40

Social Media B2B Sales Twitter Market2Lead 40

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 9, 2009

5 steps for using LinkedIn as lead generation tool - B2B Lead Generation Blog , April 21, 2009. How to use social media for lead generation - B2B Lead Generation Blog , December 30, 2008. Can a social media strategy boost your lead generation efforts? - B2B Lead Generation Blog , December 16, 2008.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Summary: Vendors who target small businesses include provide functions beyond traditional marketing automation. But larger firms need to be efficient too: so expect all marketing automation systems to eventually expand in similar ways. But the case may be different for marketing automation vendors.

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Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2011

Summary: Oracle has integrated marketing automation with its on-demand CRM product. If I were more on the ball, I would have noticed that May 25 marked a full year since Oracle bought the intellectual property* of high-end B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead. Will competitors do the same?

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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. The Contributors.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 7, 2013

Is your sales team upset with your marketing team for sending them subpar leads? There’s no doubt about it, SEO is hugely important in attracting leads. Studies show that these types of bells and whistles distract consumers from your main offering and will lead visitors off your site. Lead nurturing doesn’t have to be difficult.

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Top of Funnel Work Management Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Management 28

SnapApp

JUNE 5, 2018

A well-oiled inbound sales machine means reps spend less time working low quality leads, and more time closing sales. More leads in, more revenue out. In fact, almost half of B2B sales reps list lead quantity and quality as their top challenge: ( Source ). This lead qualification is a major problem for many B2B organizations.

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Lead Qualification Lead Ranking Sales Management Lead Scoring 81

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

In theory, this would imply that company data is stored once and applied to all the associated individuals, and that the demand generation system could aggregate data by company, use that data to calculate company-level lead scores, and change which company an individual is linked to. This turns out not to be the case.

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Demand Generation Work Management Market2Lead Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 4, 2009

Explicitly direct leads from one campaign to another. Users can directly send leads from one stage in a campaign to a different campaign. Marketo gets a half point because it can direct leads to lists, which in turn feed campaigns, but not to campaigns directly. Multiple scores per lead.

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Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2009

In both cases, I see the basic flow as an outbound email, landing page, multi-step nurturing campaign, lead scoring, and transfer to a CRM system for sales followup. They relate primarily to creation of marketing assets such as emails and landing pages, and to execution of lead scoring. Trigger lead scoring outside a campaign step.

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Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

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.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Tags: marketing software marketing automation lead management demand generation.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Essentially these campaigns are a series of emails aimed at keeping you top of mind while building trust and moving your lead further along in the buyer's journey. Get the lead to contact you to inquire more about your services/product or make the purchase online. 2) Lead Nurturing Workflows. 3) Hot Leads Workflows.

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Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Companies Market2Lead 28

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

HP, P&G) to the channel… The Difference Between B2B Leads and Personas - Marketing Interactions , April 17, 2010 B2B marketers have relied on lead definitions to define their marketing programs for years. I wrote an eight part series on building an effective lead generation program a while back. I like numbers.

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