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. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

These firms scan company Web sites, social media, news sites, directories, and other sources to identify companies, extract attributes like revenue, growth rates, and technologies used, and flag events that might indicate a sales opportunity, such as opening a new office, launching a new product, or hiring new management.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2013

Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). It reinforces suspicions that Adobe was the mystery bidder for ExactTarget mentioned last month by Salesforce.com.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. If the big question on the mind of the marketing automation industry has been whether Salesforce would launch its own product, the show provided what I consider to be a definitive answer: No (at least for now; never say never). Peer pressure worked, and there I was.

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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. But there are also a few vendors who have bet in favor of merged systems, so it wouldn’t be fair to ignore their view entirely.

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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. The product has matured as well. Sounds like the idea has legs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

CRM integration is a fundamental feature of marketing automation. Pretty much every system can send leads to Salesforce.com , but capabilities vary significantly once you start looking for more. Sadly, most marketers pay little attention to these nuances until they've already selected a product.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. The pattern will likely repeat itself.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 24, 2014

SalesPredict is a perfect example: a small vendor with a powerful system that just launched earlier this year. Back in, say, 2008, a product like this would be big news. Results appear as lists in a CRM interface or as scores on a marketing databaset. User interface is a second differentiator.

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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. 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. But I digress.

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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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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

That means they need to develop key performance metrics to measure the activities that have the most significant impact on sales productivity, pull the necessary reports to track those KPIs over time, and compile dashboards that sales leaders can use to keep tabs on their team. What Skills Should Directors of Sales Operations Possess?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. - These can be loaded into sales and CRM systems to make them easily accessible. Ones I know about include Pardot , LoopFuse , TrueInfluence , Salesforce.com and ACT!

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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 20, 2012

Oracle does have an existing B2B marketing automation product, based on the technology it acquired from Market2Lead in 2010. Oracle may also be gaining a more sophisticated “cloud native” platform, since other Oracle products grew largely from on-premise roots.** The jury on that is very much still out.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

Some companies serving small business have indeed reached multi-million client counts (see table), but their products cost much less and are essential for basic operations.** Infusionsoft’s challenge is to convince a large fraction* small business owners that their product is also essential. Two other vendors also caught my eye.

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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: Where did the idea for Full Circle CRM’s product come from? It was the third time they had worked on such a request.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 4, 2013

I''ve been in meetings all day and just emerged to hear that Salesforce.com purchased ExactTarget. So this fills a gap in their core product offerings. But I doubt Salesforce will suddenly stop integrating with other marketing automation vendors. I''d guess those were bonuses rather than primary drivers of the deal.

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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. This breadth isn’t accompanied by tremendous depth: SalesFusion’s campaign management and built-in CRM tools are a bit limited. online chat and - telemarketing support through the CRM component.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

To help the system run smoothly, Lenovo has both dedicated internal Adobe teams, as well as full-time support people on Adobe''s payroll, which means the company spends equal amounts on both products and support services. ” Some vendors do this better than others. And Lenovo uses just only two of Adobe’s eight solutions. ad inventory.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2014

The CDP industry has been moving along nicely without my attention: new CDPs keep emerging and the existing vendors are growing. Fliptop wasn’t on my original list of CDPs, having launched its relevant product just after the initial CDP report was published. So what makes Fliptop different from its competitors?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 11, 2015

The July release will supplement this with opportunity information from Salesforce.com CRM, allowing correlation of content usage with funnel stage conversions and revenue. Users can set up collections (called “spots”) of materials for a particular product, sales team, funnel stage, region, or any other purpose.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

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. Members can block messages from a vendor if they wish.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

These companies have large marketing departments that may manage hundreds of campaigns for different products in different locations. The non-specialist vendors such as IBM Unica and SAS, are not included in these figures but also have significant revenue in this segment.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2016

Mariana finds other people who match the personas, using its deep understanding of social data to accurately identify and find contact information on larger numbers of relevant people than other vendors. It currently offers two products: Prospect IQ to find new prospects and Conversion IQ to market to names already in the client's database.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. This will put substantial pricing pressure on vendors who, in many cases, are already struggling to reach sustainable margins. To make a free product viable, LoopFuse needed to engineer as much cost as possible out of the entire client life cycle.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2016

But while the promise of intent data is irresistible – “reach prospects with demonstrated interest in your product!” – the reality is less appealing. B22B lead generation vendor True Influence today announced a new product to help fill these gaps. So, what distinguishes InsightBASE from other intent-based products?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 15, 2007

Our friends at Accenture have once again illustrated the point with a paper “ Surveying and Building Your CRM Future ,” whose subtitle promises “a New CRM Software Decision-Making Model”. Each combination neatly maps to a different class of CRM software. Of course, some vendors might disagree.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2015

These include Salesforce.com for CRM, InsideView and FullContact for data enhancement, Twilio for text messaging, Lob for postcards, Segment for event tracking, and GoodData for reporting. It sees itself as filling the gap between simple email systems and enterprise marketing automation products.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

I only mention this because I’ve recently been looking at a lot of new (to me) vendors and haven’t been able to write about many of them. Optify was founded in 2008 and launched its original product, a search engine optimization (SEO) tool, about a year later. Its primary clients were then, and still remain, digital marketing agencies.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

I mentioned 6Sense briefly in a recent post about vendors who help companies find prospects on the Web. 6Sense wouldn''t be a CDP if it merely displayed its data on a CRM screen without letting the CRM system import it. Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com , Oracle Eloqua and Marketo.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

There are plenty of other vendors serving micro-businesses. 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. per month email product.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

B2B marketing data vendor ReachForce today announced its purchase of SetLogik , which provides technology to build cloud-based marketing databases and do predictive modeling against them. The two products will be combined in what ReachForce calls the “Connected Marketing Data Hub”. See my post from last October for more on SetLogik.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The most recent, “On-Demand Versus On-Premise CRM: Are There Performance Differences?” Amid the contradictory and self-interested vendor claims of success for their products, CSC Insights’ surveys of over 2,500 companies found a clear winner: on-demand systems (a.k.a, nature of his reports on sales methods and technologies.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

The real-time CRM and Marketing Automation data vendors (including Leadspace) should have another big year based on the growing acknowledgement that this type of service dramatically enhances the performance of these massive CRM and MA investments companies have made. Real-time content/offer management.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 13, 2016

As I wrote a couple of posts back , I’ve recently noticed a new set of vendors offering “journey optimization engines”*. The treatments are usually executed through external systems such as email service providers, CRM, or Web content management. The systems also assemble the unified customer database needed to track customer journeys.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com. I had a personal demonstration last week (are you impressed?),

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