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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. This is a natural result of a maturing market, as technology-oriented pioneers are replaced by buyers less likely to research their options in depth. Email marketing is another obvious adjacent space.

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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

Customer Experience Matrix

My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. My original set of products was based on a general knowledge of which companies are most established, plus some consultation with vendors to learn who they felt were their main competitors. How to choose?

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Why Most Consumer Marketing Automation Systems Are Not Software-as-a-Service, And When That Will Change

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Consumer-oriented marketing automation systems have been slower to adopt the Software-as-a-Service model than business marketing (demand generation) systems. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is now the standard model for business-to-business marketing automation (a.k.a. demand generation) systems.

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How Different is Small Company CRM?

Customer Experience Matrix

- Access Markets International (AMI) Partners ( www.ami-partners.com ) published “Mid-Market CRM: Vendor Strategies for a New Frontier”, which found only 35% of mid-sized companies have an existing CRM installation. The study looked at both hosted and on-premise products. Click here for more information.

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Demand Generation Vendor Traffic Rankings

Customer Experience Matrix

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.

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Demand Generation Implementation Survey - Background Results

Customer Experience Matrix

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

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First Look at New Marketo Release

Customer Experience Matrix

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.

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