Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. But they’re just that: tools.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

They look good in demonstrations and can lay out simple processes quite nicely. 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. My own opinion is quite firm: flow charts don't work. I'm in favor of that approach.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

offering a white paper or promoting a Webinar) and the larger process of managing the flow of treatments. In case you're wondering about other vendors I track, Eloqua , Neolane and Manticore Technology all set up flow charts without embedding the small list-style campaigns. Sorry about the parentheses.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

B2b marketing automation) vendors, with links to my reviews where I've written one. These vendors have geared their sales process to selling to large firms, with the in-person demonstrations, technical reviews, formal proposals and contract negotiations that implies. I'll be flying cross country to attend, so you could too.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

But even including that, the first year cost for most of these will be less.) : Manticore Technology : a full-featured demand generation product. There are free papers on the Raab Guide site that can help you organize this process and of course I do consult in this area for a living. I reviewed it here in March.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 17, 2010

This post is another installment of the “gallery” concept so that you have more designs to review and use in your own creative process. Is good to see what’s out there, what is working and what is not. The emails in these galleries are mostly B2B marketing in nature, but the design principles can be applied to B2C as well.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate. The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy. I believe this is a key capability.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2009

Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 additional profile is requested as a prospect moves through an interactive process); Native integration with Salesforce.com ; Web visitor profiling; and Automated duplicate lead removal. software suite.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

If it turns out once you drill into details that two are missing some small-but-critical feature, you have to either go with the one remaining or start the process again with another set of candidates. So, the bottom line is that you really do need to look at product details early in the selection process.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

And it’s not clear to me if lead management automation deserves to be a separate category or to be subsumed as part of the broader marketing platform. (I 3) Marketing automation – lead by firms like Aprimo, Unica, Oracle/Siebel and SAS, this category is at the core of what Forrester calls the Marketing Technology Backbone.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Lead nurturing in fact becomes an integral part of the Lead Management process for those companies which use Marketing Automation solutions. 0160; That’s why I jumped at the chance to write a chapter in Manticore ’s new ebook, “The Quintessential Marketing Automation Guide. 8217; On Linkedin.

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