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Is Salesforce.com a Player in Marketing Automation Software?

Webbiquity

Salesforce.com is the cloud computing darling of customer relationship management (CRM) software. They have significant control of mind share in that space, and their legacy in customer service and sales force automation software is strong. However, CRM is a trifecta. Guest post by Lauren Carlson.

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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

Customer Experience Matrix

But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration. Act-On Software recently reported that 40% of marketers are dissatisfied with their campaign management program. But even then, one size won’t fit everyone.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. Marketo is certainly a fine product, but marketers should still look around before picking it by default. They focus on email nurturing campaigns and marketing measurement.

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

Customer Experience Matrix

In fact, Pardot in particular provides advanced capabilities including progressive profiling (automatically changing the questions on forms as customer answer them) and dynamic content (rule-driven selection of content blocks within emails and Web pages). One other factor clearly distinguishes SMB from Enterprise systems, and that’s pricing.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

The vendors are divided into four categories based on my understanding of their target customers. Most offer a CRM option (typically priced at $10 to $20 per seat per month) for companies who don't want to pay for Salesforce.com. Tags: demand generation marketing automation software selection demand generation.

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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Both Unica and Aprimo were long-established vendors with fundamentally stable products sold primarily to large enterprises: although their new owners may market them more broadly, they’ll be selling pretty much what IBM and Teradata always sold (big systems) to pretty much the same customers (big companies).

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz. But getting back to our category, we are often compared against Eloqua and Manticore.