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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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B2B prospecting data just keeps getting better

Biznology

B2B marketers typically select targets from prospecting lists based on such traditional variables as industry, company size, and job role/title. Seven vendors participated, giving us a nice range of data sources, including both compiled lists and response lists. Self-identifying keywords used on the company website (ALC).

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

Customer Experience Matrix

Real Time Personalization already exists, obviously, and will remain a separate product that can work with any marketing automation system. Marketo has described itself as a platform for at least a year now (see this press release , for example) and I’ve been talking about marketing systems as platforms for even longer.

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Where is B2B data-driven marketing headed?

Biznology

Real-time marketing gets real. We are fast approaching the holy grail of proactive database marketing, built on always-on, in-the-moment customer interactions. Real-time marketing will be real for business marketers, says Russell Kern of the Kern Agency. The post Where is B2B data-driven marketing headed?

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

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 more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.)

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. Demand Streamâ„¢ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time.

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Customer Data Platforms Revisited: The Future of Marketing Data

Customer Experience Matrix

Established vendors have grown quickly and attracted funding; new vendors have joined the mix, also often with substantial funding. A look at the entire CDP ecosystem uncovers important patterns that are hidden when you look at individual vendors or vendor categories. But things aren’t quite so simple.