Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

Infusionsoft argues that their partner network is a competitive barrier that would be hard for another software vendor to overcome. As usual at these conferences, I spent a good chunk of my time cruising the exhibition floor for interesting new vendors. Two other vendors also caught my eye. I’m pretty sure they’re right.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 29, 2016

From the group introduction: Search Engine Land is a must-read hub for news and information about search engine marketing, SEO, PPC, and how search engines work such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing. Salesforce.com. From the group introduction: Salesforce.com. Search Engine Land. Salesforce app ecosystem.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 24, 2014

SalesPredict is a perfect example: a small vendor with a powerful system that just launched earlier this year. It then enhances the data with business and demographic information from public Web pages, social profiles, and third party sources including Zoominfo , InsideView , and Orb Intelligence. Is SalesPredict right for you?

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The system has prebuilt connectors to import data from popular vendors including Salesforce.com , Marketo , Hubspot , SAP , SugarCRM , and Facebook. Imported data includes contacts, funnel stages, campaigns, channels, revenue, and content. Here’s a deeper look. It can connect with others through standard APIs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2014

The CDP industry has been moving along nicely without my attention: new CDPs keep emerging and the existing vendors are growing. The one objective distinction is that FlipTop is publicly listed on the Salesforce.com App Exchange, meaning it has passed the Salesforce.com security reviews.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2012

It’s more than three years since my original post about SiteCore’s plans to transform itself from a Web content management system to a platform for cross-channel customer experience management. The difference is architecture: the decision managers place decision logic at the center and see customer data and content as peripheral.

Enterprise Management 120

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. As he has the last few years, Marc Benioff focused on Salesforce.com’s social capabilities. Other vendors on display were Genius , eTrigue , HubSpot , Aprimo and ActOn to name a few.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2016

Advertising can reach large numbers of people but just a tiny fraction will click on an ad and a tiny fraction of those will provide contact information. B22B lead generation vendor True Influence today announced a new product to help fill these gaps. Intent-based email lists are obviously contactable but volumes are often quite low.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Pretty much every system can send leads to Salesforce.com , but capabilities vary significantly once you start looking for more. The workbook lays out the types of integration, types of issues to consider, how to understand your needs, and how to assess vendor capabilities. Then they learn they hard way what they should have asked.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Joe Moloney gave a more detailed answer about limits in Salesforce.com in particular, including lack of CAN-SPAM compliance and limits on mass emails. Vendors take note. Is Salesforce.com a threat to vendors of marketing automation solutions? Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate?

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The company made the announcement at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Although the improved UI is the big change, the new version also adds integration with SalesForce.com for AdWords campaigns and improved lead generation capabilities. any significant price point, non-commodity products).

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 13, 2016

As I wrote a couple of posts back , I’ve recently noticed a new set of vendors offering “journey optimization engines”*. The treatments are usually executed through external systems such as email service providers, CRM, or Web content management. The systems also assemble the unified customer database needed to track customer journeys.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 1, 2016

One analytics vendor after another is selling you on their ability to analyze and make sense of “any” data. How can we better tie buying and content/channel interactions to opportunities and closed revenue in a closed-loop fashion — to fuel our demand process optimization ? Demand generation leaders know it’s not true, though.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 4, 2012

The list of independent marketing automation systems shrank by one yesterday when Leadformix was purchased by sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud for $9 million. The price is surprisingly low for an established marketing automation vendor. interests) and sales stage from the Web contents they choose to view.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Smaller firms often start off using email service providers , then implement marketing automation platforms as their prospect database grows, their segmentation becomes more complex, and they develop more granular marketing and sales content. Pricing: contact vendor. 4: The 14 Best Content Planning and Research Tools. #5:

Marketing Automation Services 100

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Other vendors have asked the same questions and reached the same conclusions. What they found “too hard” wasn’t the software, but the planning and content creation needed for serious marketing automation. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Marketing automation vendors have mostly worked on making it easy to post and share messages and to capture social data. Marketers define “challenges”, such as sharing content, making a referral, creating case studies, or providing a reference, and the system issues points to advocates who perform them.

Work Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The main basis for my prediction is high growth that vendors reported in 2013, and in particular a trend towards higher revenue per client among the vendors who share that information with me. Similarly, it’s no surprise to see the biggest obstacles are budget, employee skills, data quality and content.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Marketing automation vendors entering this market are essentially betting that they can make their systems powerful enough to be useful and easy enough for a small business to run. If the vendors fail, the business will go to consultants, ad agencies, and other service firms that do the clients’ marketing for them.

Small Business Marketing 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 18, 2011

As you might have guessed from my recent list of B2C marketing automation systems , I’ve recently been spending some time helping consumer marketers to select vendors. Only a few B2B vendors can add custom tables to systems and I doubt any could accommodate a fundamental departure from the core CRM data structure.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Now that I’m more or less finished launching the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) , I can start catching up on the other topics. After all, separate systems must synchronize databases, campaigns, users, content libraries, activity histories, and other things, adding cost and complexity. But I digress.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. Perhaps most important, many potential buyers still don’t understand the value provided by these systems—although vendors are working very hard to educate them.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Prospects enter Net-Results from external Web forms (more about that later), file imports, manual data entry, or Salesforce.com synchronization. The actions themselves can send an email, adjust a lead score, or send the lead to Salesforce.com. They can also take actions including sending the lead to Salesforce.com and issuing an alert.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Some companies were actively capturing more information on prospects (e.g. Another company was pulling revenue information from their billing system into the CRM system. Several people mentioned they were feeding product usage information to their Marketing Automation system to tailor the drip campaigns. Pipeline Nurturing.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

LeadSloth

AUGUST 27, 2009

Prospects now have instant access to much more information, so marketing’s involvement reaches much further down the sales cycle: they need to nurture prospects with relevant content until they are sales-ready. 5 years ago Salesforce.com was tiny compared to Siebel. 5 years ago Salesforce.com was tiny compared to Siebel.

Marketing Automation Services 100

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

Problem is, sometimes the rush to get the software installed and running ends up trampling the creation of processes, content planning, and other key ingredients that are necessary for a successful marketing automation implementation. The personas will help drive your content marketing efforts and your lead nurturing programs.

Marketing Automation Services 100

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

of the Navy, Office of Information at U.S. Manager Citrix Ready Program at Citrix Systems. • Peter Parkes – Social Media Communications Lead at Skype. • Betsy Aoki – Sr. . • Peter Parkes – Social Media Communications Lead at Skype. • Betsy Aoki – Sr.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

What’s the best web content management system (CMS) for your small business? Content management systems are valuable tools for small businesses that 1) don’t want to make a big investment in IT infrastructure, 2) don’t have web development (HTML, CSS etc.)

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? CRM systems are designed and optimized for a very different purpose, which is what creates the whitespace for marketing automation vendors (like Marketo). Track opportunities and pipeline, manage contact and account information. Business Goal.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

It digs up information on Web visitors in real time, helping salespeople follow up on a visit with a cold call and a pitch. Detailed information is vital for spotting potential customers. “How do you leverage otherwise anonymous traffic?&# asks Martin Longo, chief technology officer of startup Demandbase , based in San Francisco.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 40

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 4, 2006

From its beginnings, Salesforce.com has emphasized its online delivery model with its "No Software" positioning, even snagging 1-800-NO SOFTWARE as its toll-free line. Here are several more examples of software vendors who don't offer (Heaven forbid!)

Enterprise Management 20

Enterprise Management Salesforce.com Marketing Management Software 20

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Overcomes Marketing Information Overload, Transforming Traditional White Papers into Dynamic, Personalized Engagement Tools Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today launched a new demand generation tool for B2B marketers – Alinean Interactive White Papers.

Paper 40

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The company made the announcement at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Although the improved UI is the big change, the new version also adds integration with SalesForce.com for AdWords campaigns and improved lead generation capabilities. It competes with vendors such as Marketo , Eloqua , Marketbright and Genoo.

Manticore 20

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation 20

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 26, 2014

In particular, LeadLiaison helps marketers create content, a critical bottleneck that is not addressed by most marketing automation systems. But prices are either reasonable (if you’re a buyer) or ridiculously low (if, like me, you''re a sometime content creator), starting around $50 for a blog post.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

I’m here at the Dreamforce event in San Francisco to learn about some of the new tools and techniques Salesforce.com and other vendors are promoting to businesses like yours. Some of the information I’ve collected is about cutting-edge tools like Heroku, Radian6, and Chatter.

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Auto Responder Email Marketing Practices Generation 28

Webbiquity

JULY 10, 2018

Your B2B website and blog are the core of your content marketing efforts. Even when you publish content elsewhere—updates on Facebook, videos on YouTube or Vimeo , presentations on SlideShare—the goal is usually to drive visitors back to your website, to consume content and take action. why you the best at it.

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