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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% First, they compare Best-in-Class to all other companies, rather than Average performers. First, they compare Best-in-Class to all other companies, rather than Average performers.

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More Blathering About Demand Generation Software

Customer Experience Matrix

When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. Or do you add them and hide them during the sales process? Or do you just not add them at all?

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Of course, Oracle has already made its move by purchasing Market2Lead's intellectual assets. Actually, there was a previous class of “database marketing” systems including Customer Insight Company, OKRA Marketing, Harte-Hanks P/CIS, Max$ell and RTMS. The more interesting question is who will be the buyers.

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The 2010 marketing technology proto-landscape did consolidate by 61%

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The Martech Class of 2010 — where are they now? having acquired Eloqua, Responsys, Market2Lead, ATG, RightNow, Maxymiser, BlueKai, NetSuite, and Endeca ( plus many more not included on my 2010 proto-landscape). (If you add in the private equity deals, it’s 64-65%.).

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Marketing Automation Trends for 2010

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Kevin Joyce , CMO, Market2Lead. Best in class marketing teams successfully implement social media programs as part of their marketing mix, while others struggle to understand how social media fits in the puzzle: Is it sales enablement? Kevin Joyce, CMO, Market2Lead ( @nivenor1 ). Megan Heuer , Research Director, SiriusDecisions.