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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

Customer Experience Matrix

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. This has more to do with the degree of personal selling (and after-sale service) than anything else.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Alterian and SmartFocus are also still independent, but are sold as services via marketing agencies (Alterian) or directly (SmartFocus). Although the world has certainly changed since the late 1990’s, I see no reason to expect a different pattern among demand generation vendors. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

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B2B Marketing University: For Now, Marketing Automation and CRM Are Still Separate

Customer Experience Matrix

by Market2Lead CMO Kevin Joyce for a good statement of the separatist position.) Technology may impede Software-as-a-Service sales automation vendors from adding marketing automation. Yesterday also triggered another set of thoughts regarding the importance of marketing content. See Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?

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Marketo's Enterprise Edition and Revenue Cycle Management: Looking Under the Hood

Customer Experience Matrix

Executive Edition shows what Marketo believes is needed to service large marketing organizations. Enterprise Edition supports these by adding user roles, “lead partitions” to control access to database segments and “workspaces” to make Marketo objects (contents, campaigns, lists, etc.) available to different user groups.

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B2B Social Media Strategy - Best of B2B Marketing Zone

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Top 10 Lessons Small Businesses Can Takeaway from Smart Content Marketers - Content Marketing Today , October 23, 2009. Is Social Media Wasted on PR Agencies? Lead generation metrics should emphasize opportunities not just leads - B2B Lead Generation Blog , October 27, 2009. Is Content Marketing the New PR?

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Market2Lead Offers Enterprise-Strength Demand Generation System

Customer Experience Matrix

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.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)