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First Look at New Marketo Release

Customer Experience Matrix

Although I actually think that quite a few demand generation vendors share the Marketo philosophy, it’s still helpful to hear the distinction made clearly. Fernandez used the analogy of a cocktail party: you might have a few stories you expect to tell, but don’t know exactly when you’ll tell them or in what order.

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LucidEra Takes a Shot at On-Demand Analytics

Customer Experience Matrix

Rather, it sells preconfigured applications that use the platform for specific purposes including sales pipeline analysis, order analysis, and (just released) sales lead analysis. These are supported by standard connectors to Salesforce.com, NetSuite (where Rudin was an advisory board member) and Oracle Order Management.

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Do Small Businesses Need Marketing Automation?

Customer Experience Matrix

The most common added function is sales force automation, but some also offer different combinations of e-commerce, order processing, customer support, blogging, Web site optimization and paid search. Generally speaking, nipping the ankles of elephants is more likely to get you crushed than make you rich.

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Marketing Automation Trends for 2010

LeadSloth

In alphabetical order (click on name to scroll down): Adam Blitzer , COO & Co-founder, Pardot. Kevin Joyce , CMO, Market2Lead. David Raab , Raab Associates & author, Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep.

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The 2010 marketing technology proto-landscape did consolidate by 61%

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— having acquired Eloqua, Responsys, Market2Lead, ATG, RightNow, Maxymiser, BlueKai, NetSuite, and Endeca ( plus many more not included on my 2010 proto-landscape). But many others were absorbed more diffusely among different technology companies and service providers. An order of magnitude more.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

2) Database services – powerhouses like Dun&Bradstreet, Harte-Hanks, Acxiom, Equifax, infoUSA, and Merkle dominate this category , but B2B marketers tend to think of them more as list generators than providers of a broad spectrum of strategic data management to direct mail execution. Here’s the problem.