ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

For those of you with Marketo in your Demand Process technology stacks, your next question is probably what does this mean for me ? And what does this mean for our ANNUITAS Perpetual Demand Generation ® (PDG) investments? Adobe GETS marketing. – This could also take marketing automation more into e-commerce.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to part II of How to do ABM Without an ABM Tool! In this installment, I’ll dive into each of the Need-to-Have Tools/Channels I listed in part I. Need-to-Have Tools (and their Channels): CRM and Marketing Automation. Need-to-Have Tools (and their Channels): CRM and Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. That’s a technical step backwards but will actually make it easier for buyers to access the detailed vendor information, and in particular to screen for vendors with particular capabilities. VEST Report.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

This week I attended the Atlanta Eloqua User Group at Oracle’s Atlanta offices. It was a great meetup, as we had Thamina Christenson with the Eloqua Product Marketing team presenting Eloqua’s latest features and future roadmap. Author: Leah Brenner @LeahRBrenner is Lead Eloqua Architect, Technology at ANNUITIES.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

I’ve been creeping in that direction with the previous two posts about revenues, growth rates, and market share. For companies like Eloqua and its competitors, there are really two big financial questions: how fast can they grow, and how can they become profitable? Now let’s plunge in with some more substantial analysis.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. Yet there are so many more vendors I could add.

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LeadSloth

APRIL 29, 2009

In my previous post I listed the Top-10 Demand Generation blog by marketers and consultants. Today I’ve put together a list of vendor blogs. In alphabetical order: ActiveConversion B2B Marketing Blog. Eloqua Marketing Insights and Digital Body Language. This is my new discovery.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 27, 2011

Salesforce.com is the cloud computing darling of customer relationship management (CRM) software. They have significant control of mind share in that space, and their legacy in customer service and sales force automation software is strong. It is made up of sales, service and—wait for it—marketing!

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

The non-specialist vendors such as IBM Unica and SAS, are not included in these figures but also have significant revenue in this segment. As before, vendors closer to the top have the most appropriate features for this segment, and those further to the right have the most similar customer base and company resources.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 8, 2009

The Pedowitz Group announced this morning that it was offering $15,000 in free consulting services and guaranteeing a five-day implementation to new clients who purchase Eloqua demand generation software. On the surface, this is a strength of vendors who promise free implementation and deployment within a few days.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 12, 2009

On Monday, Eloqua announced a new free deployment service for its clients. It follows last month’s free deployment offer from Eloqua reseller Pedowitz Group , which generated quite a bit of comment on this blog. The reality is that a complete demand generation program is something you develop and expand over time.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

About 15 years ago, marketing automation technology came on the scene, designed to help marketers more effectively and efficiently market across channels. It has grown in popularity, and according to SiriusDecisions , 40% of organizations will own automation by next year. So without further ado: Eloqua.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 27, 2009

Eloqua yesterday announced Eloqua Prospect Profiler , which makes it easier for salespeople to review prospect behaviors that are captured by the demand generation system. Back to Eloqua Prospect Profiler. There’s nothing new about demand generation systems making prospect behavior available to sales people.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Usability Items for Simple Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) Yesterday's post described the background of this usability scoring project and gave scores for several items that apply to both simple and complex marketing programs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). Maybe next week.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality.

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Vidyard

MARCH 30, 2015

KITCHENER, Ontario – March 31, 2015 – The world’s leading modern marketers are realizing the power of video to engage their online audiences, and they are increasingly converting those viewers into customers by integrating video engagement data with their Eloqua marketing automation platform.

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Vidyard

MARCH 30, 2015

KITCHENER, Ontario – March 31, 2015 – The world’s leading modern marketers are realizing the power of video to engage their online audiences, and they are increasingly converting those viewers into customers by integrating video engagement data with their Eloqua marketing automation platform.

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Vidyard

MARCH 30, 2015

KITCHENER, Ontario – March 31, 2015 – The world’s leading modern marketers are realizing the power of video to engage their online audiences, and they are increasingly converting those viewers into customers by integrating video engagement data with their Eloqua marketing automation platform.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

I've been having a dandy time analyzing the results of my Demand Generation Implementation Survey. As of April 29, I've received 40 responses, of which I've discarded two as incomplete and two because they related to vendors I considered irrelevant ( Zoho and Ad Giants PitchRocket). the system itself 0.67

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So marketing automation vendors are understandably eager to support it in their systems. I recently took a quick tour of vendor sites to see what social features they’re offering. I need to stress that I’ve only credited vendors for features they list on their site.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. LoopFuse knows that, of course.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. “Marketing automation&# is a misleading term. “Demand generation&# is a better term, though still not precise.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

About 15 years ago, marketing automation technology came on the scene, designed to help marketers more effectively and efficiently market across channels. It has grown in popularity, and according to SiriusDecisions , 40% of organizations will own automation by next year. Read the post.)

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PathFactory

JULY 8, 2021

PathFactory kicked off July with eight new awards from G2, the peer-to-peer user review site focused exclusively on business software. PathFactory helps marketers deliver relevant content experiences at scale, while tapping into a wealth of engagement data through AI-powered content intelligence. Nora H , Digital Marketing Associate.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 11, 2011

You know that red-hot B2B marketing automation industry? Our just-released update to the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Toolkit (VEST) shows that client counts grew just over 50% over the year ending in June, compared with nearly 100% growth for the year ending last December.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. So we’ll exclude them from further analysis. Myth busted.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

I spent a good part of yesterday talking with demand generation vendors about the usability scores I've been publishing all week. There might still be some others: two of the vendors haven't spoken with me, which could mean they agree with my ratings but, more likely, means they just haven't been paying attention.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 13, 2010

IBM announced this morning that it was purchasing enterprise marketing automation leader Unica for $480 million, more than double the company’s current stock market valuation. As I discussed in my own post on industry consolidation , Unica belongs to the class of marketing systems that serve consumer marketers.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. million) but just 28% in the second half ($50.7

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

you know that I see a lot of demand generation systems. Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. I don't expect this news to change the minds of vendors who made the opposite decision.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Could marketers finally be ready to spend on measurement? Even though this is limited to the vendors in the Guide, it's a pretty representative sample of the industry as a whole. Social media.

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