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Demand Generation Vendor Traffic Rankings

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Last November, after much consideration of alternatives , I settled on Alexa three-month Web traffic rankings as a reasonable way to measure the relative market presence of demand generation vendors.

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

Customer Experience Matrix

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. This pricing is low even among SMB demand generation systems.

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Genius.com Offers Free Edition: How Much Does It Lower True Cost of Entry?

Customer Experience Matrix

On Monday, Genius.com announced “the first free, instant-on demand generation solution”, a description carefully crafted to distinguish their offering from the free version announced by LoopFuse in June. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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Salespeople: One Question Matters Most

Customer Experience Matrix

Note that none of listed categories included behavioral information such as email clickthroughs or Web page visits, which demand generation vendors make so much of. The categories don’t make much sense to me because they overlap: products like Salesforce.com are both CRM systems and SaaS.

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CallidusCloud Buys LeadFormix Marketing Automation for $9 Million Cash

Customer Experience Matrix

Or maybe these comparisons are irrelevant because LeadFormix was never a standard marketing automation system to begin with. While its feature list covers all the usual marketing automation categories, the company's real focus was always on providing the most useful information to sales people. This is why Callidus is a good buyer.

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Review: Six Small Business CMS and Web Marketing Systems

Webbiquity

Solution Toolbox provides their own comparison of their system to Squarespace and LightCMS , but take it with a grain of salt; it’s biased in their favor of course and some of the specifics are out of date (for example, Squarespace now includes a forms-builder). The site is a bit cheesy, but the functionality of the tool is solid.

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A Modest Proposal for Demand Generation Usability Measurement

Customer Experience Matrix

To provide a meaningful and consistent comparison of usability across demand generation vendors, you could: 1. Develop a specific package for each scenario, with both a task list and standard materials such as a list of users to set up, data elements to capture, email contents to produce, campaign logic, etc.