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Why Most Consumer Marketing Automation Systems Are Not Software-as-a-Service, And When That Will Change

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Consumer-oriented marketing automation systems have been slower to adopt the Software-as-a-Service model than business marketing (demand generation) systems. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is now the standard model for business-to-business marketing automation (a.k.a. demand generation) systems.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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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. Vtrenz is clearly a major vendor, so nothing is at stake here except bragging rights.

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Getting Closer to My Usability Ratings

Customer Experience Matrix

But I also knew that some of the vendors focused on complex programs ( Market2Lead , Marketbright and arguably Silverpop/Vtrenz ) embed similar-looking list-style campaigns within a larger flow logic. Marketbright and the new Market2Lead interface use an actual flow chart; Silverpop/Vtrenz uses non-visual rules.

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Demand Generation Implementation Survey - Background Results

Customer Experience Matrix

nbr responses vendor 8 Marketo 6 Eloqua 3 Genius.com 3 LoopFuse 3 Pardot 2 Market2Lead 2 Treehouse Interactive 1 eTrigue 1 Vtrenz (Silverpop) 7 No Response 36 Another intriguing bit of contextual information is the deployment date of the systems. better than expected about as expected worse than expected total system implementation 0.64

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). Tags: demand generation software marketing automation lead management software selection vendor evaluation crm software. I reviewed it here in March.

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How Different is Small Company CRM?

Customer Experience Matrix

This study looked at several types of software, not just CRM. In fact, I’m starting to think that the hosted firms catering to small and mid-sized businesses are really creating an entirely new category of software. If there is on-premise software with a similar mix of functions, I’m not aware of it. Click here for details.

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