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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

Customer Experience Matrix

As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. But I’ve also been approached by some of the other demand generation specialists. The general rule is pretty obvious: pick the vendors that people are most interested in.

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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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First Look at New Marketo Release

Customer Experience Matrix

I’m going to diverge just slightly from my current obsession with usability to talk about a conversation I had today with Marketo President and CEO Phil Fernandez, who previewed the 3.0 Although I actually think that quite a few demand generation vendors share the Marketo philosophy, it’s still helpful to hear the distinction made clearly.

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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. Related features include LDAP integration with enterprise security systems and a Web services API to call Marketo functions and access its data. Market2Lead had something similar but is no longer sold.)

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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.)

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LucidEra Takes a Shot at On-Demand Analytics

Customer Experience Matrix

My basic objection was that the hardest part of building a business intelligence system is integrating the source data, and being on-demand doesn’t make that any easier. I still think that’s the case, but did revisit the topic recently in a conversation with Ken Rudin, CEO of on-demand business analytics vendor Lucid Era.

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Marketing Automation Trends for 2010

LeadSloth

Kevin Joyce , CMO, Market2Lead. David Raab , Raab Associates & author, Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep. Demand Generation? Malcolm Friedberg , Principal, Left Brain Marketing.