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Build vs Buy Your Customer Data Platform?

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By contrast, development failures for custom software are almost the norm: industry lore is filled with high-priority projects that ran over time and over budget and still failed to meet expectations. A purchased CDP should deliver a much broader set of features from the start and within its original purchase price.

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MDC DOT Provides Marketing Automation for Direct Salespeople

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What sets MDC Dot apart is that it targets organizations where the sales people have modest skills, modest needs, and even more modest budgets. Pricing starts at $15 per month per salesperson for a database of up to 500 active contacts and reaching a still-modest $90 per month for 10,000 active contacts.

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Insights from Eloqua's IPO Registration Statement

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Eloqua doesn’t offer an explanation, but my guess is heavy competition forced them to reduce prices during this period. It reinstated most of that budget the next year, but we can wonder how much the cutbacks slowed Eloqua’s revenue growth. On the other hand, Eloqua has considerable control over pricing of its services.

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Mariana Uses Artificial Intelligence to Build Personas and Find Target Audiences

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They then choose which personas get which messages, set a budget and timeframe for each channel, and let Mariana execute the campaign. Pricing for Mariana is based on the number of campaign responses. Users create the marketing messages, helped by Mariana’s suggestions for which topics would interest each persona.

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New Workbook: Estimating the Cost of Marketing Automation

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After much thought, I came up with four cost categories: direct system costs : the actual price paid for the marketing automation software itself. Background research for the workbook suggested that automation costs are from 1% to 5% of an average marketing budget. These are the other 75% of the typical marketing budget.

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Terminus Offers Targeted Display Ads for B2B

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The system automatically monitors response and optimizes its bids to get the best results within a company’s campaign budget. Here are a few features to consider when comparing Terminus with other B2B advertising solutions: - self-service. Reports can also summarize results by device, ad format, creative version, and other variables.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

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But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets. Here are some alternatives that will come in at or below Marketo’s published starting price of $2,400 per month (or $1,500 for their “Lite” version). (To Pricing for a full-featured system was $597 per month—quite a bargain. Just kidding.or