Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 10, 2014

Marketo wrapped up its three day Marketing Nation conference yesterday, having once more displayed its own marketing prowess by attracting national media attention (see here and here ) with an appearance by Hillary Clinton. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Marketing automation is often a solution for companies that are growing rapidly and need to scale their efforts.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Can it support the full complexity of an automated, multi-channel, perpetual demand marketing program? Standardized, automated workflow management. billion in 2019. Complex, customizable scoring capabilities.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

When I first got started in software, it was at a company called e.piphany which specialized in what was then called Campaign Management. Campaign Management software automated the process of sending out campaigns — primarily direct mail at that time and then email. Check it out here.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 4, 2020

A quick note on the ranking methodology: These 10 tools were searched across five popular software comparison sites: Capterra, G2Crowd, TrustRadius, SoftwareAdvice, and GetApp. Livestream helps manage webinars end to end, from planning, registration, and automated reminders through production and analytics. WebinarJam. EasyWebinar.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Marketo today announced the launch of Spark , a new brand aimed at small and mid-size business. Functionally, Spark is pretty much identical to the standard Marketo system. Marketo has discontinued its $1,200 per month Small Business Edition, which lacked some features now included with Spark. That’s all fine and should work.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

In a young industry like B2B marketing automation, the primary focus is growth, and I published some figures on that yesterday (repeated below). The standout performer in all these tables is Marketo, but bear in mind that they’ve also taken much more investment than any of the others ($107.5 What about profitability?

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

final installment in my series of posts on leaders in the different B2B marketing automation sectors, as determined by the ratings in our VEST report. Most require the full set of marketing automation functions but apply these in simple ways. They have one to fifteen marketing automation users. And, no, they’re not my client.)

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 27, 2011

Salesforce.com is the cloud computing darling of customer relationship management (CRM) software. They have significant control of mind share in that space, and their legacy in customer service and sales force automation software is strong. So, where does Salesforce.com stand as a marketing automation solution?

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

There were two bits of news from Marketing Automation Land yesterday: Marketo announced it has filed a draft registration statement for an initial public offering, and Eloqua CEO Joe Payne was quoted as saying his company plans to expand into business-to-consumer marketing. The Marketo news is long-expected.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. The reason is selection bias: most surveys are answered by people who are actively engaged in marketing automation.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 13, 2020

You’re on the hunt for a marketing automation tool? Marketing automation tools, such as Marketo , Eloqua , HubSpot , Pardot , and Act-O n, are all powerful support systems, but ultimately, choosing an automation tool comes down to what are the must-have elements for your business goals? Integrations don’t stop with CRM.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. This is always a fun project because it gives me an overview of what all the vendors have been up to for the past six months. lots of new vendors.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I was a young, freshly minted MBA with a background in computer science, and a two-year stint doing software marketing at IBM. We were one of Eloqua’s first customers and that’s where my adventure with marketing automation began. A Marketing Automation Timeline Part two: The shift Water flows. Hey kid,” they said.

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Marketing AI Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Marketing 110

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.) Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation.

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Net-Results

AUGUST 6, 2019

What’s missing in most popular marketing automation software is focus. That’s the reason we ( at Net-Results , where we offer our own marketing automation platform) put out content like the Marketing Automation Buyer’s Guide. Marketing automation software has become complicated – too c omplicated.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2013

Raab Associates officially released the new edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday. This is our flagship report on the industry, with nearly 200 data points on 23 vendors and separate ratings for micro-business, small to mid-size companies, and enterprise marketing departments.

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SpotMe Blog

JULY 21, 2023

Event registration software. With so many options out there, we’ve reviewed 12 of the best event registration software platforms based on features like customization, ease of use, reporting and analytics, and more. What Is Event Registration Software and How Can It Help You? What Does Event Registration Software Do?

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 18, 2012

With its usual fanfare, Marketo today announced the acquisition of social marketing campaign company Crowd Factory. Crowd Factory is a certified cool product, which is probably reason enough for Marketo to buy them. Marketo is primarily focused on business marketing, and in particular lead generation, nurturing and analytics.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. That’s a technical step backwards but will actually make it easier for buyers to access the detailed vendor information, and in particular to screen for vendors with particular capabilities. more micro-business vendors.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Vendors 120

TrustRadius Marketing

JUNE 19, 2019

Of all the love-hate relationships out there, the one between marketers and their marketing automation platform is a classic—at least in the world of software. In a recent TrustRadius survey, 70% of marketers said that Marketing Automation software was very essential to achieving their marketing goals.

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Net-Results

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Note, I took these from the Marketing Automation’s Buyer’s Guide I wrote a while back (still 100% relevant!). Uhh, yeah, management said so” or “we want to automate emails”. Marketing automation has become a “table stakes” kind of purchase. But lots of major MAP vendors assume you will buy without trying.

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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. Specifically, they can do two things: improve the selection process itself and look beyond features to assess the vendors. How did we come to this?

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chiefmartech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The deal was announced yesterday afternoon: Adobe is acquiring Marketo for $4.75 As TechCrunch noted in their coverage of the news, “[This acquisition] was a pretty nice return for Vista Equity partners, which purchased Marketo in May 2016 for $1.8 It’s just that your Marketo choice will now have an Adobe logo.

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Enterprise Management Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services 82

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. I revisited that data today, adding a few new vendors and dropping some of the very minor ones. Pardot and (perhaps) Genius.com look particularly strong.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2023

What is now ‘generally available’ in the platform amounts mainly to productivity improvements for go-to-market professionals, with embedded AI prompts that can automate or remove common steps in common GTM workflows — a tactical improvement to the platform. To move beyond core productivity gains (i.e.,

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Marketing AI Marketing Analytics Tools Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 130

SalesIntel

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sales tools are software and technology solutions that help sales teams automate and streamline various tasks and processes, such as lead generation, customer relationship management, and sales forecasting. Examples of popular sales tools include CRM software, marketing automation software, and sales forecasting tools.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 10, 2020

You may also consider using event-specific planning software like the ones offered by Aventri and Bizzabo. You can also use the tools to assign items to vendors and designate team members to oversee specific line items. Examples of MAPs that you may consider include: Marketo. Event Budget Management. ActiveCampaign.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

About 15 years ago, marketing automation technology came on the scene, designed to help marketers more effectively and efficiently market across channels. It has grown in popularity, and according to SiriusDecisions , 40% of organizations will own automation by next year. So without further ado: Eloqua. Read the post.).

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 4, 2013

They also get a toe-hold in B2C marketing and in marketing automation (via ExactTarget''s Pardot technology). Not so terrible for marketing automation in the short term. Not so terrible for marketing automation in the short term. But I doubt Salesforce will suddenly stop integrating with other marketing automation vendors.

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Valasys

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Adobe will be acquiring privately-held cloud marketing software group Marketo from Vista Equity Partners for a whopping $4.75bn (£3.6bn)! The common and unwavering belief in the power of content and data to drive business results has brought these two magnets together according to Steve Lucas the CEO of Marketo.

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Marketo Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

One of the main reasons that marketing automation has not been adopted more quickly is that too few marketers know how to fully use it. Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them.

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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. The marketers using B2B automation solutions tend to outperform those who don’t.

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The Point

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Research company TrustRadius just published their new edition of the “Buyer’s Guide to Marketing Automation Software,” and it’s a doozy. Let’s face it, most martech “guides” are written by, well, marketers, and are either sponsored by or authored by the technology vendors themselves, so the content needs to be read with a critical eye.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Planning 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2014

The other enterprise-level B2C email vendors ( ExactTarget , Responsys ) have already been bought at wondrously high prices, and every B2B marketing automation vendor I talk to tells me that potential investors are approaching them constantly. My only reaction was, What the heck took so long? This makes Silverpop a perfect fit.

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