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7 Reasons Why Oracle's Market2Lead Acquisition Makes a Lot of Sense

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Oracle has just acquired Market2Lead , one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. Market2Lead Probably Got A Good Deal. Market2Lead was one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. But since then too little progress was made: the product was good, but their marketing was lagging behind. Enterprise-Ready Product.

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

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Oracle does have an existing B2B marketing automation product, based on the technology it acquired from Market2Lead in 2010. Market2Lead was very good system, but it lacked the huge market presence that Oracle gains from Eloqua. The impact on customer service is likely to be even more negative.

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Hushly Helps Marketers Connect With Anonymous Web Site Visitors

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When this blog last left Geoff Rego in 2010 , he had just sold the assets of pioneering B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead to Oracle. The new product is Hushly , which addresses the reluctance of prospects to provide their email address even in return for valuable content. All told, I think Hushly is a pretty clever idea.

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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

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To make a free product viable, LoopFuse needed to engineer as much cost as possible out of the entire client life cycle. The free product should increase the number of companies that try LoopFuse first, which will gain it paying customers down the road. Here’s where the free system comes back into play.

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Oracle Buys ATG: Bad News for Marketing Automation?

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ATG is a specialist in e-commerce (the ERM doughnut in the online operations pizza slice), an area where Oracle’s traditional ERM products are weak. As my model suggests it should, ATG also encompasses online CRM and online marketing, where Oracle’s Siebel line is also a little thin.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

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Or will they simply be crushed as giants from related industries introduce their own products? Although Unica, Alterian and SmartFocus have purchased complementary products, these were extensions around the campaign management core. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors. Other, less successful vendors simply vanished.

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

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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. The systems have very low starting prices tailored to low volumes.