Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 8, 2009

The Pedowitz Group announced this morning that it was offering $15,000 in free consulting services and guaranteeing a five-day implementation to new clients who purchase Eloqua demand generation software. On the surface, this is a strength of vendors who promise free implementation and deployment within a few days.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue. Here it is.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 5, 2011

We released two more vendor selection workbooks last week, both sponsored by Eloqua and available for free on the RaabGuide Web site. One is about estimating the cost of a marketing automation system and the other is about evaluating vendor services. These are the other 75% of the typical marketing budget.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 12, 2009

On Monday, Eloqua announced a new free deployment service for its clients. It follows last month’s free deployment offer from Eloqua reseller Pedowitz Group , which generated quite a bit of comment on this blog. Clients fill out a workbook during the sessions and are the consultant leaves behind a 90 day plan for future action.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration.

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LeadSloth

APRIL 29, 2009

In my previous post I listed the Top-10 Demand Generation blog by marketers and consultants. Today I’ve put together a list of vendor blogs. Most of these vendors blogs really get ‘online marketing’, so they talk about best practices rather then just touting their products, and they post regularly.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. The market will probably split between enterprise-wide suites and more limited marketing automation systems. Many would no doubt be delighted to sell at such prices.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2020

Hubspot’s ‘human’ voice, vast collection of educational materials and networking events have solidified its place as the authority on inbound marketing — and also as one of the most popular marketing automation platforms in the field. . When buyers explore Hubspot, they most frequently compare it to these 5 tools.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. “Marketing automation&# is a misleading term. You can’t really automate marketing, of course, any more than you can automate gourmet cooking or great painting.

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Capstone Insights

JANUARY 17, 2018

Marketing automation is just a glorified (and really expensive) email delivery tool without a power user. In trying to find a solid power user to join your marketing team, it can be hard to tell the difference and often the interviewer doesn’t know what to look for. Finally, develop a scoring model.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Andrea Wildt, former product director for the marketing product at Salesforce.com, had been working with Roan Bear, an expert Salesforce consultant, on a project where a client wanted to get an accurate tracking of the marketing impact on their revenue. It was the third time they had worked on such a request.

Marketing Automation Services 100

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chiefmartech

APRIL 4, 2017

Is your marketing team having challenges in seamlessly planning and executing campaigns with the tools they use? In supporting your company’s business objectives, you may realize that your existing martech stack doesn’t meet your current marketing needs due to one or more systems: Not having the required capabilities.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

I mentioned 6Sense briefly in a recent post about vendors who help companies find prospects on the Web. The extraction features are important – at least to me – because they determine whether 6Sense qualifies as a “ customer data platform ” (CDP), a type of system I see as fundamental for future marketing.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 4, 2011

If you’re a B2B marketer and you’re not hibernating, you obviously know the concept of marketing automation. Marketo, Aprimo, Eloqua, Silverpop and all the rest are there to push this technology towards you. Marketing Automation doesn’t work unless there’s a realistic scoring model in place. Highlights: 1.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 4, 2011

If you’re a B2B marketer and you’re not hibernating, you obviously know the concept of marketing automation. Marketo, Aprimo, Eloqua, Silverpop and all the rest are there to push this technology towards you. Marketing Automation doesn’t work unless there’s a realistic scoring model in place. Highlights: 1.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ).

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 10, 2011

Steve has a proven track record in marketing communications development and execution. He has served as chief marketing executive at TOA Technologies and Eloqua, as well as at Nuance Communications. As we exited 2010, there were a lot of predictions for what’s in store for B2B Marketing in 2011.

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Hubspot

MAY 13, 2013

Not too long ago, my colleague Katie Burke wrote a great article, " The Right Way to Think About Your Marketing Software RFP ," and it got me thinking about my own experiences as a buyer of marketing technology. Particularly I realized, more often than not, I was thinking about automation the wrong way.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 21, 2009

In theory, those could be defined even before a marketing automation system is selected. Yet my impression from industry vendors and consultants is that most deployments start with a fairly extended planning stage where companies either document their existing campaigns and processes or, more likely, define a large number of new ones.

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Hubspot

APRIL 21, 2014

Michael Freeman wasn’t psyched about having to migrate from one marketing automation system to another. Last year Freeman’s employer, a telecom company called ShoreTel , moved from Eloqua to HubSpot, and it fell to Freeman, the head of demand generation at ShoreTel, to oversee the project. But it had to be done.

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Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Several tools for prospect intelligence: Lead scoring provides real-time insights. Sales rep feedback from the streets must be collected and factored into marketing programs. Customer service insights can help you learn what’s working and what’s not, as well as what may be of increasing importance in the future.

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Vidyard

JULY 7, 2016

ChiefMartech’s famous “Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic” featured a hefty 947 companies in 2014 , and now struggles to contain 3,500 companies in its 2016 iteration. To discover how companies are using marketing tech — especially marketing automation — we turned to the experts at Heinz Marketing.

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DivvyHQ

AUGUST 7, 2018

Recent analysis of Facebook’s engagement data indicated a 24% drop in time spent on the platform since December (2017). Consumers have a plethora of tools (and now plenty of subscription options ) to pick and choose when, where and how they will engage with brands. Step 2: Choose Your Capture & Storage Tools.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. Marketing automation" is a misleading term. You can't really automate marketing, of course, any more than you can automate gourmet cooking or great painting.

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thePoint

MAY 25, 2018

a customer service rep, salesperson, or a savvy engineer that goes to a lot of conferences), so cast a wide net. The last external source I will name is market/marketing consultants, but I want to be specific here, because when you look at the B2B Marketing “Agency” landscape, very few of them fit into this category.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Business-to-business marketers are underutilizing social media and its potential, according to new data from Eloqua , a marketing automation company. Of 548 b-to-b marketers surveyed by Eloqua, about 40 percent say they are not yet using social media marketing. Multi-Platform. By TJ Raphael.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 3, 2013

On days when I have nothing else to be cranky about, I sometimes fuss at how business-to-business software vendors hijacked the term “marketing automation” despite its long and relatively honorable history describing systems for consumer marketing. One vendor taking advantage of this opening is RedPoint.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

We are republishing this blog by Ruth Stevens (originally run January 29, 2014) because she hits the nail on the head about marketing automation. In the opening paragraph she states: “Marketers sometimes see automation as a silver bullet. But it’s only a tool. Marketers sometimes see automation as a silver bullet.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 14, 2011

Steve Woods , Eloqua. Steve is one of the most brilliant marketing strategists I know, and co-author of a new book, Revenue Engine. The trick in using social media monitoring tools is not to automate “fast, shi**y answers&# as Steve put it, but rather to find the right person to respond. BeeTag is her favorite.

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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. Sales & marketing alignment. The Contributors.

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DealSignal

MAY 31, 2023

Third-party intent data, particularly from an aggregator, will give you the most comprehensive view of who’s in the market to buy your product or service. If you can’t get internal support for content creation, consider working with a content consultant who can plan and create the pieces you need to engage with prospects.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Marilyn: Yeah, I would say, I’m one of those fortunate marketers that really came into the space and practice at a time where marketing was really making a shift. So, as I tell people, I remember one of the first projects I worked on was deploying this thing called Marketing Automation, and it was a long time ago.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 20, 2009

Vendors who replace conventional decision rules with automated statistical methods may gain a key competitive advantage because the automated methods produce substantially and measurably better results. This means independent consulting firms can more easily learn to work with multiple systems.

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DealSignal

JANUARY 19, 2021

Third-party intent data, particularly from an aggregator, will give you the most comprehensive view of who’s in the market to buy your product or service. Once you have the right tools, you’ve optimized the process, and identified who your ideal buyers are, now it’s time to put it on steroids and scale up the volume.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 25, 2019

Other digital platforms, like video is one, and is soon emerging, and I believe is the next wave, artificial intelligence and machine learning, are all digital data points. Remember, you’re using these tools for research, for account planning, for account engagement, for account qualification and disqualification.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

And it’s not clear to me if lead management automation deserves to be a separate category or to be subsumed as part of the broader marketing platform. (I I know Suresh Vittal includes lead management as a component of his enterprise marketing platform. But does the B2B need the same platform components as B2C?)

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