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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 1

Customer Experience Matrix

To start back at the beginning, the objective has been to find a practical, objective way to evaluate the usability of different demand generation systems. In both cases, I see the basic flow as an outbound email, landing page, multi-step nurturing campaign, lead scoring, and transfer to a CRM system for sales followup.

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How Demand Generation Systems Handle Company Data: Diving into the Details

Customer Experience Matrix

Back in early January I posted a discussion on treatment of Company-Level Data in Demand Generation Systems. At that time, I posed a set of specific questions to the demand generation vendors in the Raab Guide. Yesterday the final answer trickled in. Results are summarized in the table at the end of this post.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. This contrasts with traditional demand generation pricing on database size and/or activity volume, but is the way sales automation systems like Salesforce.com are usually sold. Upgraded reporting. New user interfaces.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

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. [I

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

Customer Experience Matrix

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. The table below presents a reasonably comprehensive list of demand generation (a.k.a. I'll be flying cross country to attend, so you could too.)

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Is Salesforce.com a Player in Marketing Automation Software?

Webbiquity

Salesforce.com is the cloud computing darling of customer relationship management (CRM) software. However, CRM is a trifecta. In this case, we suggest seeking out a best-of-breed vendor, such as Marketo , Eloqua , Genius , Manticore Technology , Genoo or the wide variety of other systems. Guest post by Lauren Carlson.