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. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

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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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. CRM systems are designed and optimized for a very different purpose, which is what creates the whitespace for marketing automation vendors (like Marketo). Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2014

Last week’s post looked at newer marketing automation systems that focused on small businesses. The general notion is that small businesses are finding existing marketing automation products too hard to use and would be happy with something simpler, especially if it costs less.

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Webbiquity

JULY 10, 2018

Technology changes: Even five years ago, not having a mobile-friendly website wasn’t that big of a problem for most B2B vendors. One of the key reasons for the popularity of WordPress is the incredible array of plugins available, which automate tasks or add functionality. As markets mature, websites need to evolve. SEO reporting.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 6, 2010

Genoo offers a small-business-oriented Web marketing system at a small-business-friendly price of $199 per month. I’m somewhat grandly labeling it a “Web marketing system” rather than “demand generation” because its microsite could replace a small company’s primary Web site. Let’s start with the microsites.

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