LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Last week I presented a session at Silverpop’s B2B Marketing University in Atlanta. In addition to Marketing Automation, there were two big topics: Social Media and CRM. I will write about Social Media some other time, and focus on CRM in this post. Strong Features of CRM. Products & Pricing.

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Valasys

MARCH 13, 2023

That’s where email marketing automation comes in as a powerful tool to build strong customer relationships and drive organic revenue growth. By utilizing email marketing automation, businesses can create personalized email campaigns triggered at various touchpoints along the customer journey. (The

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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. ClickDimensions does pretty much the standard marketing automation activities: email, landing pages, Web visitor tracking, drip marketing campaigns, and lead scoring.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here are some alternatives that will come in at or below Marketo’s published starting price of $2,400 per month (or $1,500 for their “Lite” version). (To See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Pricing starts at $599 per month. Just kidding.or

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. 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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

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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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. Personally, I’d argue that the really significant news out of LoopFuse is their newly tiered pricing structure.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

Demand generation systems are in that second stage. CEO and co-founder Brian Giese had extensive experience in business sales and marketing and with existing demand generation systems when he began developing True Influence two years ago. Giese’s conclusion was that marketers’ overwhelming need is simplicity.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 10, 2012

I had an earful last week from Genoo president Kim Albee, who told me that I’ve misclassified her target customers as “micro businesses” (under $5 million revenue) for the past two years. I’ve revised my big list of demand generation vendors to reflect this. She tells me nearly all of her clients are larger than that.

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DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

Wouldn’t it be great to communicate directly with folks in the market, actively looking for solutions that your company offers? Intent data allows you to identify and target these specific folks, almost in real time. B2B intent data is a collected set of those signals. What types of intent data are there?

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. It’s actually quite a long story, dating back to the company’s initial sales automation system in 1997, followed by its MarketingView demand generation product in 1999. So now the story can be told.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 20, 2021

Here are a few different use cases: Customer Service and Support B2C Customer Acquisition B2B Demand Generation and Account-Based Marketing B2B Sales Acceleration and Buyer Enablement. Section 2: Pricing Models. Pricing models vary between vendors. Systems that talk to each other, work better together.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

But most of us still assume there is a reasonable relationship between price and value. This is why it’s hard to imagine that low-priced software can deliver similar performance to mainstream products. Now we come to Infusionsoft , which offers marketing automation, CRM and ecommerce for as little as $199 per month.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Here are a few different use cases: Customer Service and Support B2C Customer Acquisition B2B Demand Generation and Account-Based Marketing B2B Sales Acceleration and Buyer Enablement Section 2: Pricing Models Your budget is a key factor that can affect which chat platform you choose.

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Metadata

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I’m going to say this loud for everyone in the back: Slashing your marketing budget won’t save you. Here’s why: Marketers and leadership teams without strong stomachs are pausing their campaigns and demand generation efforts. Members who missed targets were: 4.5x Cutting it completely could even sink you.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 5, 2016

But Engagio's latest product, Engagio PlayMaker, actually does occupy a space in between marketing, sales development, field sales and customer success by connecting them without replacing existing marketing automation, CRM, or customer success systems. Target account lists can be built within Engagio or imported.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. But is it so much easier than the other products I just listed? I think not.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. This broader scope should become standard as marketers try to truly integrate their programs. The demand generation vendors have been much more dynamic.

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Let’s assume that you’re targeting B2B companies and you built out your account list. And if you have a heavy ABM strategy, those accounts probably represent the vast majority of your potential revenue. Transcript. So how do you go about converting that opportunity into conversations and qualified pipeline?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Could marketers finally be ready to spend on measurement? Tags: 2009 trends demand generation marketing automation raab guide sales automation. Sales access. Upgraded reporting.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years. How to Replace a Marketing Automation System? So there are lots of useful add-ons available at a nominal price.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 24, 2022

Growing small- or medium-sized businesses (SMBs) — those with a 1% increase in revenue or more in a six month period — are 59% more likely to use marketing automation. Growing SMBs are also 23% more likely to use email marketing software. or “Homepage>pricing>trial?” Use Google Analytics to optimize your website.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. Look, I know online marketing is important. But let’s not forget that offline channels still account for nearly 90% of total advertising expenditures.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 12, 2011

As I mentioned yesterday, our new B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) asks vendors to estimate the number of clients in each of four size categories. But if you do want to consider all these vendors as one industry, the minimum adjustment to make is to account for differences in price.

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The Point

MAY 6, 2010

A couple of weeks ago our firm prepared a detailed ROI analysis for a client helping them substantiate to their management the investment in a marketing automation platform. For other companies, the decision of whether or not to take the plunge into marketing automation is less of a slam-dunk.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

When I first starting thinking about Account Based Marketing, I assumed that an ABM system would let marketers replicate at scale how sales teams manage key accounts: that is, to analyze each account in depth, set goals specific to that account, and then execute against those goals. Then I saw ZenIQ.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

25+ Demand Generation Terminologies For CEOs and CMOs. Naturally, we all have been through that at least once in our life when we don’t understand the demand generation terminologies used by others. This is one of the most commonly used demand generation terminologies. CRM: Customer Relationship Management.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 24, 2009

Needless to say, Marketing Automation software is very popular today. It can be used for email campaigns, drip marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, landing page management and for brewing coffee. It is often positioned as something that will solve all your marketing problems for a couple of thousand dollars per month.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This is an enticingly huge market for marketing automation vendors, and one that seems largely untapped. The largest marketing automation vendor in the segment, Infusionsoft , has under 20,000 clients. Many small businesses do their marketing through CRM, email, and search advertising.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. The market will probably split between enterprise-wide suites and more limited marketing automation systems. Many would no doubt be delighted to sell at such prices.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 20, 2012

They illustrate the continued expansion of marketing automation to support true multi-channel marketing programs. Advanced marketing management. These are features to help manage large-scale marketing operations. As a group, these are more rare than the previous set (average score of 1.02

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 22, 2013

It then imports CRM and marketing automation data from its clients'' systems, enhances the imported records with information from its big proprietary database, and builds predictive models that score companies and individuals on their likely win rate, conversion rate, deal size, and lifetime revenue.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

The part about “supports external marketing execution” is where data extraction comes in: it means that external systems can access data within the CDP for their own use. 6Sense wouldn''t be a CDP if it merely displayed its data on a CRM screen without letting the CRM system import it. Formal release was in May 2014.

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DealSignal

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Wouldn’t it be great to communicate directly with folks in the market, actively looking for solutions that your company offers? Intent data allows you to identify and target these specific folks, almost in real-time. This is the data you directly collect across your marketing tech stack. Evaluating B2B data providers?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. Marketo is a Force.com application that works only with Salesforce.com, while Eloqua works with several CRM products.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. They go into a black hole (sometimes called CRM). Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales?

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