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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

This is a bit perplexing, since those products are at the opposite ends of the spectrum: Marketo being relatively low cost / limited functionality / easier to learn, and Eloqua being higher cost / richer functionality / takes more training. It shouldn't be hard to figure out which one suits you better. Click read my March 18 review.]

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. 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.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

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. When they briefed me last week, they said the main purpose of the new system is really to entice trial among companies just starting with marketing automation. LoopFuse knows that, of course.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. higher campaign response rates and conversion rates • 50% decrease in time to execute campaigns • 100% increase in number of campaigns • 85% decrease in cost per lead • 18% higher revenue • 9.3% Here's a bunch.

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Will Marketing Automation Be Free?

LeadSloth

What does this mean for companies interested in adopting Marketing Automation? They are great for small companies and small initial projects, but they’re too limited for normal projects. Companies will have to upgrade to the paid version as their initiatives grow. How Much Is Free? Genius.com. unlimited. Emails / month.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

Placing them all in the same product adds cost and complexity, which are not a software developer’s friends. Rather, it has conceded the lower tiers of business marketing to simpler systems and aimed Marketing Studio at marketers who need greater sophistication and will accept higher cost and complexity to get it. (For

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 4

Customer Experience Matrix

Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 Every company has a specific set of needs that are addressed by a specific set of features. 0 capture costs of Pay Per Click advertising programs directly from the vendor 0 0 0 0.5 Here, then, is the final usability matrix.