The Point

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

For many B2B Marketers, advertising on LinkedIn is becoming a demand generation staple. The ad below from CRM giant Salesforce.com is an exception. The result is fewer unqualified leads from people who would never buy your product. Here are the two key reasons why I think that is: 1.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. So now the story can be told. ROI reporting.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. Yet something really bothered me about yesterday’s announcement.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

But even including that, the first year cost for most of these will be less.) : Manticore Technology : a full-featured demand generation product. See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Just kidding.or Pricing starts at $599 per month.

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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. These are not yet standard features on most demand generation products.

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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. Many attendees were confused by CRM vendors claiming to offer full marketing functionality. Strong Features of CRM. Strong Features of CRM.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. This pricing is low even among SMB demand generation systems.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Summary: Marketing automation and CRM systems may eventually converge, but for now marketers need help explaining why they need a system of their own. People still don’t understand the difference between marketing automation vs. CRM. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate? Vendors take note.

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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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DealSignal

AUGUST 28, 2019

DealSignal Introduces CRM Data Health for Salesforce. New module provides on-demand, scheduled and automated CRM data refresh and enrichment so revenue teams always have fresh and accurate lead, contact and account data in Salesforce. Gain increased CRM adoption and improve sales and marketing performance.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 25, 2010

As a Salesforce.com user group leader, I often talk to marketers who are looking to get more and/or better data out of their Salesforce.com system. Because of this, many marketers have picked up Salesforce.com admin skills that are highly valued at their companies. . Salesforce.com Certification: it’s for Marketers, too!

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

When I first wrote about ClickDimensions in a February, 2011 post , the concept was intriguing – a marketing automation add-on to Microsoft Dynamics CRM – but the product itself had been available for less than six months and claimed barely 50 clients. It can also check for whether a contact has opened an email or clicked on a link.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 16, 2011

I’ve long believed that B2B marketing automation is just a passing phase: that, ultimately, B2B marketing automation systems will be absorbed into CRM systems instead of operating independently. Vendors have made the bet by building marketing automation add-ons to a CRM system instead of building a stand-alone marketing automation product.*

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The Point

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I just returned from a few days at Dreamforce in San Francisco, the annual circus-slash-conference hosted by CRM leader Salesforce.com, and was struck by the wave of technologies on display that centered on analytics. Just when did demand generation get this complicated?

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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. But let’s not forget that offline channels still account for nearly 90% of total advertising expenditures. online chat and - telemarketing support through the CRM component. Look, I know online marketing is important.

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

How can Sales identify and tag appropriately in a CRM? Most CRMs allow you to track these people as a group within an “Opportunity”; however, that record is lost once the Opportunity is closed. Can you provide an example of an “account engagement score”? How do we decide which to target?

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The Mx Group

OCTOBER 18, 2017

So what’s the deal — is account-based marketing totally new? Marketers have been using elements of account-based marketing, also known as key account marketing or target account marketing, for decades. That makes me wonder: Are CRM platforms, like the Salesforce.com, set up to handle ABM?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

It shows how specialized software can be much better at one function than general purpose systems. You may not want to replace your CRM system with Jesubi, but dedicated prospecting teams should take a close look. The latest stop on my little tour of not-really-demand-generation systems is Jesubi.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

What’s missing from the list is CRM integration. That's no accident: ClickDimensions doesn’t integrate with CRM in the regular sense of synchronizing data. Rather, it works directly from Microsoft Dynamics CRM files. In other words, ClickDimensions is a Microsoft CRM add-on. But I digress.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Other vendors have similar price points for the small business market (see my list of demand generation vendors ) although I suspect their internal costs are higher. For evidence that a free entry-level product does not automatically drive out higher priced systems, consider the hosted CRM market.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

I’ve previously reviewed Genoo , which supplements the standard marketing automation features with Web hosting and built-in CRM but no shopping cart. See my List of Demand Generation Vendors for other options. Canterris and mKubed also host Web forms and landing pages but NurtureHQ apparently does not.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

6Sense wouldn''t be a CDP if it merely displayed its data on a CRM screen without letting the CRM system import it. Starting at the beginning, the system imports a list of each client’s customers and sales opportunities from CRM and marketing automation systems. Formal release was in May 2014.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

Last Wednesday’s revised ranking of demand generation vendors by Web traffic reminded me that I never published notes from a conversation I had several months ago with Right On Interactive , developer of the 5Buckets marketing automation software. Now is a good time to remedy that. Now is a good time to remedy that.

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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. Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 4, 2010

Summary: Two low-cost demand generation systems, Genoo and Act-On Software, have added unusually advanced social marketing features. Genoo , which offers a solid demand generation system for a rock-bottom $199/month, has placed a particular focus on capturing contact information from social interactions.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. This changed over time: now the focus has shifted to pro-active outreach to a handful of executives, instead of targeting thousands of software developers. The Salesforce.com database has some big issues (e.g.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

You can also think of Optify as having worked its way down from the top of the funnel (SEO) to the middle (marketing automation) and towards the bottom (CRM). Landing pages can be attached to an auto-responder email, while standard fields on forms are automatically mapped to Salesforce.com. Emails are delivered through ExactTarget.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In 2011, she became President and CEO of Full Circle CRM , a company dedicated to helping VPs of Marketing use Salesforce.com to get accurate and useful performance data about marketing campaigns. HS: Does having Full Circle CRM data affect how Sales and Marketing departments communicate with each other? HS: Thanks Bonnie!

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

The current version also hosts landing pages and Web sites, manages a lead database with profiles and Web activity history, generates lead scores, sends alerts to sales people, and synchronizes data with Salesforce.com. Leads can be captured on landing pages, imported from lists or added through Salesforce.com synchronization.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 8, 2010

This morning we saw a demo of Salesforce.com Chatter , a collaboration tools integrated with Salesforce.com. Think Facebook built into Salesforce.com: it looks just like the Facebook timeline, but it is built around your sales processes. Salesforce.com Chatter Screenshot. is all about. Chatter and Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

So that’s all fine, but what industry observers really want to know is how Salesforce.com will react. A marketing automation platform can't do this because it bumps up against the competing platform of CRM. Okay, now we can talk about Salesforce.com. Wouldn’t that be nice? We’ll see how they handle it.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

These include sending an email via Salesforce.com or ExactTarget, creating a Salesforce.com task, generating an output file, and sending emails to Foursquare friends. This covers the basic needs, although most other products also offer options such as changing data and adding a contact to a list or campaign.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 18, 2014

I was sitting in some client meetings recently going over their Demand Generation Strategy, and something struck me as out of the ordinary…but in a good way. Moving from tactics-based marketing to strategic Demand Generation will most likely require the development of a new skill set within your team. Step One: People.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. However, there was quite a buzz as many tried to discover which marketing automation platform Salesforce.com decided to purchase for their own use. Observation 4: Salesforce.com Needs Better Content .

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Options range from fairly simple, moderately priced systems targeted at midmarket companies to sophisticated suites for enterprise users. Sample review: “OpenEMM is first and foremost an email marketing package, with contacts database, subscriber list management, email targeting, and event-triggering. 1) Marketo.

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