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Infusionsoft Gains $54 Million for Small Business Marketing Automation, Spends a Bunch on GroSocial

Customer Experience Matrix

That third theory – let’s call it the “ease of use” school – has been the dominant approach of the B2B marketing automation industry for the past few years. So the jury is still out on which approach will prevail -- but I do think that "ease of use" by itself is no longer in contention. But I’m pretty sure there are others.

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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

Customer Experience Matrix

For example, LoopFuse found that nearly twice as many used email and web landing pages as lead scoring. This is the traditional strategy for B2C marketing automation and at B2B firms large enough to afford substantial pre-deployment investments. Among B2B vendors, Eloqua is the poster child for this approach. ease of use.

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A Primer on Website Visitor ID and Smart Form Technology for Lead Generation

NuSpark Consulting

Here’s an example of Loopfuse Marketing Automation. Identify the types of firms visiting your websites, landing pages, and blogs via search marketing and social media, and focus on the industries or company sizes most engaged with your site and content. Sales people can be alerted immediately when activity occurs.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

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. Open source has been successful in related applications including analytics (R, Jaspersoft, Pentaho), CRM (SugarCRM, vTiger) and Web content management (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal).

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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

Customer Experience Matrix

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. B2b marketing automation) vendors, with links to my reviews where I've written one. I'll be flying cross country to attend, so you could too.)

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How to Excel With the Most Underused Marketing Automation Features

Hubspot

From the results of its Marketing Automation Survey last year, Loopfuse released some interesting data about the adoption of advanced marketing automation features. To prevent yourself from running into these problems, focus first on content creation.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. I think the idea of an iTunes™ -like interface — and pay-as-you-go pricing structure — for viewing, sorting, and selecting B2B contacts is intriguing. Just makes it easier to manage all the stuff.