The Point

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The impact that Oracle’s acquisition of Eloqua will have on that company’s ability to compete effectively in the marketing automation space is fodder for debate. What is more clear, based on the Webcast invitation I received this week (below), is that it hasn’t done much for Eloqua’s own email marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

These companies have large marketing departments that may manage hundreds of campaigns for different products in different locations. Our scoring reflects their need for special features for automated content selection, project management, complex lead scores, and tight control over the rights granted to individual users.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. The leaders among demand generation systems are still Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo. You can see that post here.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

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? – This is an opportunity for marketing automation and Web CMS to better integrate around CX.

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Marketo Acquisitions Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management 193

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. Yes, some products really are easier to use than others, especially for simple programs.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 4, 2009

Usability Items for Complex Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) This post will complete the demand generation vendor usability scores by looking at items that contribute to usability for complex marketing programs. Multiple scores per lead.

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Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2009

To start back at the beginning, the objective has been to find a practical, objective way to evaluate the usability of different demand generation systems. A simple campaign would do this for a single product, offer, customer segment and region, while a complex campaign could involve several of each.

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Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Build a campaign as a list of stages Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 Build linear campaigns outside of a larger campaign structure. Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 1 1 1 1 0.5

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Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

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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Demand Generation Marketing Management ReadyContacts Marketing Automation Services 100

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. But what really concerns me is that these people are apparently limiting their consideration to just those two products. Just kidding.or Pricing starts at $599 per month.

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Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

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

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Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

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. In any event, I’ve listed both sites in the table.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Back in early January I posted a discussion on treatment of Company-Level Data in Demand Generation Systems. At that time, I posed a set of specific questions to the demand generation vendors in the Raab Guide. So, the bottom line is that you really do need to look at product details early in the selection process.

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Demand Generation Work Management Market2Lead Marketing Automation Services 120

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. Not necessarily.

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Marketing Automation Services Manticore Marketing Automation ActiveConversion 120

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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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software enables marketers to build microsites and use content marketing to capture leads and nurture them through the buying process. For a truly custom design, the company will convert a layered PhotoShop file into a Genoo template for $500. Post this on Diigo.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Microsite Salesforce.com 100

markempa

JANUARY 23, 2018

Large companies often have multiple buyer personas that span multiple industries, demographics, and product offerings. Whereas smaller companies often have fewer, less targeted buyer personas. The best buyer personas are highly targeted and require a significant amount of analysis, research, and time.

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Buyer Personas Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management 323

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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Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

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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Marketing Automation Services Vendors Comparison Marketing Automation 120

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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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

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. Although the VEST is primarily intended to help people who are buying a marketing automation system, its database also provides a statistical portrait of the industry.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Report Marketing Automation Automation 120

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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Acquisitions Marketing Management 120

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. You can’t really automate marketing, of course, any more than you can automate gourmet cooking or great painting.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 100

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. The most notable is Eloqua, which as a public company has to report its results. We’ve recently been seeing surveys that suggest something close to 50% adoption of marketing automation.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 120

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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Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Software 50

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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Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Software 50

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2009

Summary: Pedowitz Group’s Sweet Suite captures social media comments and forwards them to a company’s primary marketing automation system. It’s a small but critical step towards integrating social media with other marketing programs. Many demand generation vendors now offer something along those lines.

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Marketing Automation Services Social Media Work Management Marketing Management 120

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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Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Software 50

Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Earlier this month I left my newborn and poor wife at home for an unforgettable week at Eloqua Experience in San Francisco. This sold out event brought together some of smartest marketers from all over the world. To better understand, how Eloqua pulled this off, see: Social Media Buzz at a Live Event. I have added a few though.

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Eloqua Twitter Sales Management Lead Ranking 100

The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams.

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Work Management 100

Vidyard

AUGUST 2, 2016

For a growing number of modern marketers, the road to revenue is paved with video marketing. In fact, more than 100 brands are now using Vidyard’s integration with Oracle Eloqua to connect with more buyers and turn viewers into customers. Learn more about their video marketing journey in their recent post on the OMC blog.

Eloqua 50

Eloqua Bulldog Solutions Demand Generation Agencies Video Marketing 50

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. I estimate the non-B2B specialists and other marketing automation vendors (IBM, SAS, SAP, etc.)

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Report Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 15, 2008

Over the past few months, I’ve had conversations with “demand generation” software vendors including Eloqua , Vtrenz and Manticore , and been on the receiving end of a drip marketing stream from yet another (Moonray Marketing, lately renamed OfficeAutoPilot ). It is now being offered elsewhere.)

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Demand Generation Demand Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

Leadspace

MARCH 22, 2023

As marketers, we aim to confidently and repeatedly deliver effective campaigns to the best opportunities within our target market – at the lowest possible cost. Applies scoring that indicates a company and/or person’s likelihood to be a good target buyer. and the higher the score the more engaged the buyer.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Eloqua 62

PathFactory

JULY 8, 2021

PathFactory helps marketers deliver relevant content experiences at scale, while tapping into a wealth of engagement data through AI-powered content intelligence. Removing friction is what we do, and we’re so proud to see this translate beyond our product. Christopher M , Demand Generation Manager.

Peer-to-peer 105

Peer-to-peer Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 105

ANNUITAS

MARCH 10, 2016

However, even as amazing as email is for demand generation, used outside the context of a solid demand generation strategy, it can have a negative effect on productivity, communications, brand, revenue and growth. Since then, every marketer is now a potential buyer of this technology.

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Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Eloqua Paid Search Agency 100