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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

Customer Experience Matrix

The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration. automation.

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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

Customer Experience Matrix

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. The general rule is pretty obvious: pick the vendors that people are most interested in.

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 2

Customer Experience Matrix

Many list interfaces allow decision rules within each stage, so there's not necessarily a functional difference. But embedding the rules gives a much cleaner, simpler view of the campaign flow. Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 1 1 1 1 0.5

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Getting Closer to My Usability Ratings

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketbright and the new Market2Lead interface use an actual flow chart; Silverpop/Vtrenz uses non-visual rules. 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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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 4

Customer Experience Matrix

Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 0 1 0 rule-based form customization (display different content blocks in an email or Web page based on user-defined rules) Marketing Administration 0 0 0 0.5 Here, then, is the final usability matrix. 9 Now what? 0 0 0 0 0.5

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

Customer Experience Matrix

In fact, Pardot in particular provides advanced capabilities including progressive profiling (automatically changing the questions on forms as customer answer them) and dynamic content (rule-driven selection of content blocks within emails and Web pages). This is a common approach, but quite simplistic. It recently signed its 100th client.

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Annual Content Marketing Retreat 2012

Ambal's Amusings

but there are others that people are less familiar with, such as Marketing Automation (i.e. Manticore Technology, Marketo, Eloqua, to name a few). Russell Sparkman: Blogs: Content Marketing Institute & Marketing Profs Books: Return on Engagement , Content Rules , Managing Content Marketing.