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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

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. In that case, this might well be a good thing. What if you're an enterprise marketer?

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 2

Customer Experience Matrix

In case you're wondering, the practical difference between a list and a flow chart is that stages in a flow chart are linked by separate decision icons, while stages in a list are connected directly. Many list interfaces allow decision rules within each stage, so there's not necessarily a functional difference.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Although LoopFuse and others already provide free trials, this is indeed different: while most free trials expire after 30 days and often have limited functionality, LoopFuse’s FreeView can be used for as long as you like and provides pretty much the same features as the paid version of the system.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

Neolane “ Making the Business Case for Enterprise Marketing Software ”. This paper contains step-by-step instructions for building a business case and even a link to a slide deck you can use as a template. Eloqua “ The Business Case for Integrated Demand Generation ” offers data from Forrester, CSO Insights and several Eloqua clients.

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Demand Generation Implementation Survey - Background Results

Customer Experience Matrix

This distribution actually pleases me, since it means we have results from users of many different systems. In any case, the ten deployments in the first four months of 2009 (or 12 if you count the two future dates) and 12 in 2008 highlights the newness and fast growth of the demand generation industry. Fair enough.

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First Look at New Marketo Release

Customer Experience Matrix

In Fernandez’ view, this reflects a fundamental philosophical difference from his competitors: Marketo sees marketing as reacting to prospect-initiated behaviors, not executing company-driven interaction paths. In Marketo’s case, though, it’s less a matter of adding sales-type functions than tightening its integration with Salesforce.com.

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9 Benefits of Lead Nurturing

Hubspot

By presenting different questions or types of content and seeing who responds to what, you can qualify your leads and set yourself up for warmer sales conversations. Automate Nurturing Through the Sales Cycle - Market2Lead found that nurtured leads have a 23% shorter sales cycle. What features or products are they interested in?