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Manticore Offers A Lower Cost Alternative For Online Lead Generation

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The paper, from Manticore Technology , recommends five best practices for business marketing: (1) define a unified marketing and sales pipeline; (2) deploy an integrated marketing and sales platform; (3) measure pipeline activity; (4) automate lead nurturing; and (5) focus on the top of the funnel.

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B2B Marketing Automation Growth Slowed In First Half of 2011

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The remaining five vendors in my data (Pardot, Marketo, Eloqua, Manticore Technology, and Genius) have 69% of their clients in the small and mid-size segments. I like irony as much as anyone, but if the demand generation industry failed to generate demand for its own product, no one would be laughing. _ *As best we can tell.

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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

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So far the original list of Eloqua , Vtrenz , Marketo , Manticore Technology and Market2Lead has proven a good set of choices. After a close analysis of the alternatives, I have decided the Alexa.com traffic statistics are the best indicator of vendor market presence. Yet there are so many more vendors I could add.

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Is Salesforce.com a Player in Marketing Automation Software?

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However, there are several best-of-breed players in the market that have developed robust, feature-rich systems that can handle the most sophisticated marketing strategies. In this case, we suggest seeking out a best-of-breed vendor, such as Marketo , Eloqua , Genius , Manticore Technology , Genoo or the wide variety of other systems.

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

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Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. But they’re just that: tools. Add this to Mister Wong. Share this on FriendFeed.

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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

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Among B2B vendors, Eloqua is the poster child for this approach. It's also a partial solution at best, since no one thinks marketing can be fully automated. But it seems to be creeping upstream: LeadLife , Treehouse Interactive , and Manticore Technology apply it to larger customers. ease of use.

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Multi-Step Campaign Interfaces: A Quick Vendor Survey

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Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. If you read this blog regularly (and who doesn't?), you know that I see a lot of demand generation systems.