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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 2

Customer Experience Matrix

Build a campaign as a list of stages. Users can build a simple campaign by defining a linear sequence of stages. As discussed in last Friday's post , I see this is one of two truly key features for making simple campaigns easy to build. one campaign directly sends leads to another campaign) or implicitly (i.e.,

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Getting Closer to My Usability Ratings

Customer Experience Matrix

I’d already noticed that the simplicity-focused vendors ( Marketo , Infusionsoft , OfficeAutoPilot and, as of yesterday, Genius.com ) build their campaigns as a list of steps with no branching flows. (To As a reminder, I'm planning to build two usability scores, one for simple marketing programs and one for complex marketing programs.)

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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How Demand Generation Systems Handle Company Data: Diving into the Details

Customer Experience Matrix

More than anything else, this exercise reinforced my understanding of how hard it is to answer a seemly simple question about a software product’s capabilities. But it just doesn’t work that way. Of course, this means you have to know what those details are, which in turn requires still more preliminary work.

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 1

Customer Experience Matrix

Lacking the resources for a detailed user survey or hands-on scenario testing, I chose to build a checklist of functions that I believe correlate with usability. In working through the checklist items themselves, I quickly realized that some items apply to usability for both simple and complex campaigns.

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Top 37 B2B Marketing Posts and Hot Topics August 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Wikipedia and a handful of open-source software developers were the pioneers. Nurture The Leads In Your Sales Funnel – On Social Media - Lead Views , August 27, 2010 Today, in most B2B companies, the marketing departments engage in Lead nurturing programs. Here’s how it works. Blogging is hard work.