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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% The data is a couple of years old but still valid.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

The obvious candidates are CRM vendors. Of course, Oracle has already made its move by purchasing Market2Lead's intellectual assets. Microsoft is another possibility, although its Dynamics CRM is sold mostly to smaller businesses than the typical marketing automation system.

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More Blathering About Demand Generation Software

Customer Experience Matrix

When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. In fact, LucidEra is releasing a new module for lead conversion analysis today to address this very need.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

Active Conversion : I had a chat with president Fred Yee last August although I didn’t publish a detailed review. [I My own consideration set also includes Marketbright , Market2Lead , MarketingGenius , LeadLife , LoopFuse , LeadGenesys , , eTrigue and SalesFusion360 , although I haven't looked at all of those in detail.

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Oracle Buys Market2Lead Intellectual Assets

Customer Experience Matrix

Oracle tersely announced today that it had purchased the intellectual assets of demand generation vendor Market2Lead. This is an excellent fit for Oracle in that Market2Lead is a sophisticated product that is best suited to large, demanding marketing operations. Tags: demand generation marketing automation market2lead oracle.

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9 Benefits of Lead Nurturing

Hubspot

By presenting different questions or types of content and seeing who responds to what, you can qualify your leads and set yourself up for warmer sales conversations. Automate Nurturing Through the Sales Cycle - Market2Lead found that nurtured leads have a 23% shorter sales cycle. What features or products are they interested in?

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

I would put Demandbase here along with firms like Active Conversion, Hubspot, iHance, Leadlander, Sales Genius, and Zoominfo. I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz. I’m sure I forgot a few. Feel free to chime in if I did.