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7 Reasons Why Oracle's Market2Lead Acquisition Makes a Lot of Sense

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Oracle has just acquired Market2Lead , one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. There has been a lot of talk in the industry about possible consolidation, such as vendors going out of business, becoming irrelevant or being acquired. Market2Lead Probably Got A Good Deal. Small Installed Base / Few Customers Affected.

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

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Oracle does have an existing B2B marketing automation product, based on the technology it acquired from Market2Lead in 2010. Market2Lead was very good system, but it lacked the huge market presence that Oracle gains from Eloqua. Small businesses in particular can expect little love from an Oracle-ized Eloqua.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

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Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. Like Aprimo itself, Marketing Studio is a bit of an oddity because it serves both business and consumer marketers. Other business marketing systems generally cannot.) You know who you are.

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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

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In practice, this means that only very small companies will actually be able to use the free system as their primary long-term marketing system. Other vendors have similar price points for the small business market (see my list of demand generation vendors ) although I suspect their internal costs are higher.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

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Will they specialize in particular industries to establish a small but profitable niche? Decision Software has remained a small company while Aprimo is most successful in B2B marketing resource management. Of course, Oracle has already made its move by purchasing Market2Lead's intellectual assets.

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B2B Marketing University: For Now, Marketing Automation and CRM Are Still Separate

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by Market2Lead CMO Kevin Joyce for a good statement of the separatist position.) This isn’t an inherent problem with Software-as-a-Service itself: remember, the B2B marketing automation vendors themselves all operate on a SaaS model, and there is a growing number of SaaS business intelligence systems too.

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

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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. Prices are a little lower than for products in the Small/Mid Size category, but the difference isn't usually that large.