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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Or will they simply be crushed as giants from related industries introduce their own products? Let’s look at a similar consolidation about ten years ago, among the original marketing automation vendors.* Email marketing is another obvious adjacent space. Again, there was already one transaction: Silverpop/Vtrenz in 2007.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. We too are seeing new entrants jump into this market.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

While honored, I also find reviewing these solutions confusing because there is a lot of variation in the product presentations and overlap between categories. And it’s not clear to me if lead management automation deserves to be a separate category or to be subsumed as part of the broader marketing platform. Thanks again.