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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation.

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True Influence Opens a Window into Future Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

This leads to more variety as vendors experiment with different approaches to a now-defined problem. Demand generation systems are in that second stage. This means new products reflect the lessons each vendor has drawn from the industry’s history to date. But if Giese is right, they will be.

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Genius.com Offers Free Edition: How Much Does It Lower True Cost of Entry?

Customer Experience Matrix

On Monday, Genius.com announced “the first free, instant-on demand generation solution”, a description carefully crafted to distinguish their offering from the free version announced by LoopFuse in June. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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B2B Marketing University: For Now, Marketing Automation and CRM Are Still Separate

Customer Experience Matrix

Joe Moloney gave a more detailed answer about limits in Salesforce.com in particular, including lack of CAN-SPAM compliance and limits on mass emails. The immediate take-away here is that the industry still needs to educate prospective buyers on why marketers need a separate system. Vendors take note.

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B2B Marketing University: What Do You Want to Learn About?

LeadSloth

In addition to this general trend, a whole array of software tools is now available to help the savvy marketer. 5 years ago Salesforce.com was tiny compared to Siebel. Continuing Education for B2B Marketers. Considering these trends, now is a great time to to invest in some continuing education. Enter Silverpop.

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Infusionsoft: Impressive Marketing Power for a Very Low Price

Customer Experience Matrix

The company’s marketing is tightly targeted at very small businesses (under 25 employees) but its marketing features are competitive with demand generation products aimed at much larger firms. Three of the five core demand generation functions are clearly there: outbound email, Web forms, and lead nurturing campaigns.

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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

Options range from fairly simple, moderately priced systems targeted at midmarket companies to sophisticated suites for enterprise users. Pricing: contact vendor. Sample review: “OpenEMM is first and foremost an email marketing package, with contacts database, subscriber list management, email targeting, and event-triggering.