Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. With 45,000 registrants, the company says that Dreamforce is now the largest technology industry gathering. Their equivalent is Salesforce Chatter, the social network for company workers they see as connecting all company systems.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

Summary: MakesBridge offers a full set of marketing automation features with some special strengths that will appeal especially to small companies. This group of marketers has different needs from even slightly larger companies. The company started in 2001 as an email service provider and still offers a $29.95

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

AUGUST 27, 2021

After October 11, you will have access to hundreds of globally available products and features. First, get a slide-by-slide view of the newest features with Release In a Box , and earn a new badge with the Highlights Trail. Learn more about innovation at Salesforce and the Winter ’22 Release at salesforce.com/releases.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 27, 2023

They also feature interviews with some of our industry’s most profound experts and influencers. A great interview about what it’s like to be the marketing guy at a company selling a marketing solution to marketing people. This marketing podcast is hosted by John J. Wall and Christopher S.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately. The database can include answers to survey questions and fields imported from Salesforce.com.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

Today let's take a look at the same diagram for large businesses, which we define as companies with $500 million revenue or more. These companies have large marketing departments that may manage hundreds of campaigns for different products in different locations. This doesn’t mean that every client actually connects them to CRM system.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 25, 2010

As a Salesforce.com user group leader, I often talk to marketers who are looking to get more and/or better data out of their Salesforce.com system. Because of this, many marketers have picked up Salesforce.com admin skills that are highly valued at their companies. .

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 9, 2014

x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. At that time, the marketing product was missing key marketing automation features including lead scoring, multi-step workflows, and integration with Salesforce.com.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 5, 2013

Fresh on the heels of yesterday''s blockbuster ExactTarget / Salesforce.com deal , SAP today announced acquisition of e-commerce vendor hybris software. Since Salesforce said yesterday that other companies also wanted to buy ExactTarget, it seemed possible that SAP had lost the deal and purchased hybris as a second choice.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. The features were working, but the business wasn't getting the payoff. Q: David, why did you write this book? a yahoo email address). Average time to convert.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

The company made a few announcements, most notably a vastly improved email builder and tighter integration with online accounting software from Quickbooks Online and Xero. Some companies serving small business have indeed reached multi-million client counts (see table), but their products cost much less and are essential for basic operations.**

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Sales intelligence software/platforms help companies use data to increase sales and improve sales processes. Depending on the software/platform there are additional features and functionality you should look out for depending on the objectives of your business. Today’s post is about Sales Intelligence platforms/tools.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. I do expect vendors to converge on more standard social media features. 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. This has been sadly lacking in most B2B marketing automation systems, which supplement the Salesforce.com database with barely-extensible lead profiles and contact histories.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

To help the system run smoothly, Lenovo has both dedicated internal Adobe teams, as well as full-time support people on Adobe''s payroll, which means the company spends equal amounts on both products and support services. ” Here are a few features to consider when comparing Terminus with other B2B advertising solutions: - self-service.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

It gives Microsoft access to a rich trove of personal and company information, something it didn’t have before (although Microsoft probably collected more personal and company data than most of us realize). LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company is in the business of assembling B2B marketing lists – an industry dating back centuries to city directories and beyond. Like many data gatherers, Lead Genius uses a combination of Web and other sources to build company and contact lists. Lead Genius is a good example. Lead Genius does this too. Plan interactions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Summary: Right On Interactive has added great life stage reporting to the data integration and output generation features of its earlier 5Buckets product. This is more powerful than many marketing automation products, which are largely limited to a company, contact and activity history files. They can also load data to the system API.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation. Options range from fairly simple, moderately priced systems targeted at midmarket companies to sophisticated suites for enterprise users. 1) Marketo. Google Review Count: 93,900. 3) OpenEMM. 6) InTouch. 8) dotmailer.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. It only recently added standard B2B marketing automation features including a customer-level marketing database, outbound email, landing pages, lead scoring, Web behavior tracking, reporting, and Salesforce.com integration.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 22, 2024

How we’ve created oversight around generative AI in content marketing Trust has been a core value around here since the company was founded in 1999. Many generative AI tools include a feature that checks sources and gives credit to the original sources. Feel free to email me at cwarsham@salesforce.com. Check for plagiarism.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

The Customer Decision Hub from Pega (formerly PegaSystems) is certainly mature: the product can trace its roots back well over a decade, to a pioneering company called KiQ Limited, which was purchased in 2004 by Chordiant, which Pega purchased in 2010. I won't go into details of other Decision Hub components, but they’re equally advanced.

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Strong Features of CRM. For CRM, I focused on Salesforce.com. So in short, those are the features that individual sales people will benefit from. Marketing Automation also has some features for sales people, but those tend to be focused on lead prioritization, email, and prospect activity notifications. Case Management.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 8, 2010

This morning we saw a demo of Salesforce.com Chatter , a collaboration tools integrated with Salesforce.com. Think Facebook built into Salesforce.com: it looks just like the Facebook timeline, but it is built around your sales processes. Salesforce.com Chatter Screenshot. The company newsletter was just sent out?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2013

But since late 2011 the company has also offered a suite aimed at marketers, which now has more than 4,000 paid clients. It lacks the Salesforce.com integration of B2B systems (due early next year), the lightweight CRM of micro-business systems, and the lead scoring and distribution of both.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 10, 2014

The product changes were quite modest: new search engine optimization features for entry level users; a global marketing calendar; and relabeling of InsightEra, which Marketo purchased in December, as Marketo Real Time Personalization. The SEO and calendar features are still in beta and will be rolled out this spring and summer.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 4, 2013

I''ve been in meetings all day and just emerged to hear that Salesforce.com purchased ExactTarget. Frankly, of the two, entry into B2C marketing seems more important because it''s such a large business and Salesforce.com needs to know where its next several billion dollars in revenue will come from. - Adobe , where art thou?

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years. However, when I started looking into Salesforce.com and the wide variety of add-ons, I was less convinced.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You have to admire a company that defines a clear strategy and methodically executes it. The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. Choices will be based on individual features and supporting services.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

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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LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

ActiveConversion first became known for its sales-focused Web Analytics, such as identifying companies that visit your website (similar to Leadlander ). Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Our own “How I Work” series was inspired by one of my favorite recurring features in Inc Magazine as well as via Lifehacker’s This Is How I Work Series. We regularly feature a new B2B sales, marketing or business leader on Thursdays. This week we are pleased to feature Patrick Welch , President & CMO at Bigtincan.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 12, 2019

The Company. The Company was founded in 2016, though our roots go back earlier. Funding rounds: We have primarily been internally funded by our team and a small group of investors including Gary Flake (former CTO at Salesforce.com), Brian Cohen (former CMO at Farmers Insurance), and Gary Rubens (founder of ATG Stores).

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

These functions, plus supporting features for database management, content management, sales system synchronization, and reporting, form a basic template for measuring demand generation software. But it only recently added even simple landing pages and Web forms, and still has limited lead scoring, email and nurturing features.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

It's a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to more powerful marketing automation systems for companies who don't need other marketing automation features. The company plans to expand some of these database-related features by the end of this year. Additional selection capabilities are also planned by year-end.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com. Features include: - a ranked prospect list, based on measures of interaction intensity (represented by one, two or three flames) and prospect value (up to three stars).

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

This includes detailed research into keyword rankings for the client and competitors, analysis of Web pages for features that improve search ranks, an inbound link manager, and a Twitter client to publish posts and embed trackable URLs that measure campaign results. CRM integration is currently limited to sending data to Salesforce.com.

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