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B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Strategies: What's Worked and What's Next

Customer Experience Matrix

I recently did a study of the strategies of B2B marketing automation vendors. Of the two dozen or so companies in the sample, six were clearly successful (defined as achieving major share within their segment), seven had failed to survive as independent companies and sold for a low price, and the rest fell somewhere in between.

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B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Comparisons: New Report Next Week and The Coolest Sample Yet

Customer Experience Matrix

I suspect you may be getting tired of reading about the features in my new report comparing B2B marketing automation vendors, and want some actual information. It lets you do what I think most buyers really want, which is to compare selected vendors side by side on their specific features.

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ReachLocal Provides Turn-Key Lead Management for Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

This is an enticingly huge market for marketing automation vendors, and one that seems largely untapped. The largest marketing automation vendor in the segment, Infusionsoft , has under 20,000 clients. Many small businesses do their marketing through CRM, email, and search advertising. according to Manta.

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ABM Vendor Guide: What to Look for in External Data Sources

Customer Experience Matrix

Last week’s posts introduced our new Raab Guide to ABM Vendors ( buy it here ) and introduced a framework four process ABM steps, six system functions, and six key sub-functions. But the sub-functions are still important for stack design and vendor selection. Let’s start with the first sub-function, External Data.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

The only real question about free, open source marketing automation from Mautic is what took so long. The core features of B2B marketing automation have been well understood for nearly ten years and prices have been dropping steadily for about the same time. Small businesses constantly cite cost as a major roadblock to adoption.

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Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

Customer Experience Matrix

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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CRM Software Selection Guide?

TrustRadius Marketing

Companies often forget about team input, review sentiment, and research the vendor’s reputation. Customer relationship management ( CRM ) software solution provides small businesses and major enterprises with services to improve workflows. Could you use task automation? What is a CRM?