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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

Customer Experience Matrix

The classic demand generation cycle starts with an outbound email campaign, captures replies on a landing page, scores the responses, and then sends qualified leads to a sales automation system and keeps the others for more nurturing. This particular constellation of features is far from random.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user.

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Leads, Contacts, Accounts, and Prospects – Making Sense of It All When Using CRM and Marketing automation

Lead Liaison

If you look at most major CRMs like Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce.com , you’ll notice a few different objects: Leads, Contacts, and Accounts. But then look at marketing automation like Lead Liaison and you’ll see one object: Prospects. This is where Account Based Marketing (ABM) meets Inbound Marketing.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

Neolane may be the most similar, since it also straddles the business and consumer marketing worlds. Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. But consumer marketers also need inputs from transaction systems. Good stuff.

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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

ViewPoint

What is a lead? Is it the name on a list you bought from a content aggregator for $23? While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Do you report on stats such as touches per conversation, touches per lead, best conversion touches? It was designed for lead management.

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Manticore Technology Sees Expertise as Key to Success as a Demand Generation Vendor

Customer Experience Matrix

Manticore Technology today released the latest version of its marketing automation system. Changes include a drag-and-drop design tool (similar to Microsoft Powerpoint); integration of opportunities and custom objects from Salesforce.com; better reporting on Web site visitors; and, real time sales alerts on Web activity.

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Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

Customer Experience Matrix

Mintigo’s conclusion across 186,500 B2B companies was that just three percent were using the most common marketing automation systems: Oracle Eloqua , Marketo, HubSpot, and Salesforce.com Pardot. Similarly, it’s no surprise to see the biggest obstacles are budget, employee skills, data quality and content.