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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Although the world has certainly changed since the late 1990’s, I see no reason to expect a different pattern among demand generation vendors. Email marketing is another obvious adjacent space. Again, there was already one transaction: Silverpop/Vtrenz in 2007. These used proprietary, non-SQL database engines.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. I’m sure this post will generate its fair share of comments, outrage, and controversy.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.