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5 Types of Marketing Automation for Businesses to Consider

PureB2B

The birth of marketing technology happened sometime in the 80’s , when computers became powerful enough to store large volumes of customer information. a customer management company, developed the first ever database marketing software, basically a primitive CRM platform. In 1986, ACT!,

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Neolane may be the most similar, since it also straddles the business and consumer marketing worlds. But consumer marketers also need inputs from transaction systems. Good stuff.

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5 Types of Marketing Automation to Consider

PureB2B

The birth of marketing technology happened sometime in the 80's , when computers became powerful enough to store large volumes of customer information. a customer management company, developed the first ever database marketing software, basically a primitive CRM platform. In 1986, ACT!,

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Eloqua and Silverpop are the obvious candidates. One challenge faced by the smaller Web marketing companies is that their customers (Web site managers and analysts) are generally not the buyers for marketing automation. These used proprietary, non-SQL database engines.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Or disagree with the list…) On the other side, I see solutions more oriented toward marketing and enabling a “pull” model, one focused on letting prospects engage at their own pace. I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz.