LeadSloth

APRIL 29, 2009

Genius publishes some good best practices posts, combined with some company-related news. Hubspot Internet Marketing Blog. It is about Internet marketing: very interesting posts about SEO, PPC and Social Media. Market2Lead Marketing Automation and Lead Management blog. Marketo Modern B2B Marketing Blog.

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Demand Generation Marketing Management ReadyContacts Marketing Automation Services 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Build a campaign as a list of stages Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 Build linear campaigns outside of a larger campaign structure. Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 1 1 1 1 0.5

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

Enterprise Edition also adds a “sandbox” environment for training, testing and development – the sort of things that small companies might do on a live system, but large organizations cannot safely allow. The other major big-company need that Enterprise addresses is more sophisticated integration with other corporate systems.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketo Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Neolane may be the most similar, since it also straddles the business and consumer marketing worlds. But consumer marketers also need inputs from transaction systems.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

The only important exception is LoopFuse , which I have deferred at the company's request. Tags: vendor rankings demand generation marketing automation lead management. As the entries in the first column indicate, I've reviewed nearly all these vendors in either this blog or the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

B2b marketing automation) vendors, with links to my reviews where I've written one. Most offer a CRM option (typically priced at $10 to $20 per seat per month) for companies who don't want to pay for Salesforce.com. Small/Mid Size: these firms sell to small and mid-size companies, and occasionally to divisions of the giants.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

nbr responses vendor 8 Marketo 6 Eloqua 3 Genius.com 3 LoopFuse 3 Pardot 2 Market2Lead 2 Treehouse Interactive 1 eTrigue 1 Vtrenz (Silverpop) 7 No Response 36 Another intriguing bit of contextual information is the deployment date of the systems. There was actually another dated 6/01/2208, which I treated as 2008. the system itself 0.67

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 25, 2008

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. The latter would work for advanced buyers, but, at this stage in the market, those are few in number.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The company also reworked the user interface--of more than 200 total changes in this upgrade, about 75 were tied to usability--although it still takes the same basic approach of building campaigns as lists of steps, rather than branching flow charts. The changes that Fernandez described seemed good but subtle.

Marketo 120

Marketo Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 So once you decide whether your focus is simple or complex marketing programs, the scores for those categories are a pretty good indicator of which systems you'll find most usable. Here, then, is the final usability matrix.

Lead Scoring 120

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Demand Generation Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Treehouse Interactive : another company I spoke with recently, and another one I’m not writing about yet because they showed me some features that won’t be released for a while (early March). The company has a low profile but has been selling its demand generation product for nearly ten years. Click read my March 18 review.]

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 18, 2008

Market2Lead offers the usual list of demand generation functions: outbound email, Web forms and landing pages, automated lead nurturing, integration with sales, and campaign return on investment analysis. This is not to say that Market2Lead is especially hard to use. But Market2Lead does not provide its own email services.

Market2Lead 120

Market2Lead Enterprise Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Summary: Vendors who target small businesses include provide functions beyond traditional marketing automation. But larger firms need to be efficient too: so expect all marketing automation systems to eventually expand in similar ways. This helps business owners who need to generate revenue as efficiently as possible.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Sales Management Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Back in early January I posted a discussion on treatment of Company-Level Data in Demand Generation Systems. My original approach in the Guide had simply been to ask vendors whether they had a separate company table in their system. Ok, now for the company-level data itself. Yesterday the final answer trickled in.

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Demand Generation Work Management Market2Lead Marketing Automation Services 120

Hubspot

JANUARY 7, 2013

If you look at one of our HTML cheat sheet blog posts , you can easily learn what the most common HTML tags mean. That way, when you need to slightly modify a color, font size, or add a block of text, you can avoid outsourcing it to another company or department (autonomy for the win!). How real marketers did it.

Top of Funnel 28

Top of Funnel Work Management Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Management 28

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time. Or disagree with the list…) On the other side, I see solutions more oriented toward marketing and enabling a “pull” model, one focused on letting prospects engage at their own pace.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 4, 2009

Explicitly direct leads from one campaign to another Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 1 1 1 1 0.5 Marketers can define a large campaign flow that links the small, linear campaigns. 1 1 Linear campaigns embedded in larger campaign flows. Multiple scores per lead.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

HP, P&G) to the channel… The Difference Between B2B Leads and Personas - Marketing Interactions , April 17, 2010 B2B marketers have relied on lead definitions to define their marketing programs for years. That’s individuals moving, not companies. LinkedIn Adds the Ability to Follow Companies , April 30, 2010.

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Forecasting Social Media B2B Marketing Social Marketing 40