KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 25, 2013

Last October, KoMarketing Associates announced the launch of research consultancy Software Advice’s B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Survey. In a poll of 155 primarily C-level marketing experts, social media received the largest percentage of votes for demand generation channels that marketers will spend more on in 2013.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 This was a bit of a surprise, given that Eloqua just went public in August. It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. per share, which comes to $871 million.

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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

MARCH 3, 2009

Usability Items for Simple Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) 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.

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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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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. This gives prospects a generally positive feeling towards the company even if no personal relationships are created.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

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? We looked at those in Tuesday’s post ; I’ll repeat the caveat that figures for Eloqua and HubSpot are my own estimates based largely on client growth and (for HubSpot) changes in client mix.

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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

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

APRIL 21, 2009

Yet my impression from industry vendors and consultants is that most deployments start with a fairly extended planning stage where companies either document their existing campaigns and processes or, more likely, define a large number of new ones. The obvious answer is “it depends”, but that just begs the question, “Depends on what?”

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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. And that’s a good thing. It views design as a strategic component of CX.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Given the critical importance of MAP within an enterprise environment – and looking through the lens of strategic deployment of MAP – ANNUITAS|research conducted an extensive analysis of four of the leading, Salesforce-integrated MAP software vendors in late 2020. And overall Eloqua sits in a strong second place among enterprise MAPs.

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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

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

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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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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. Is the target now a naïve Sales Enablement buyer? Complexity is the culprit of missed opportunities.

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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

JUNE 9, 2009

It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. Marketo is a Force.com application that works only with Salesforce.com, while Eloqua works with several CRM products.

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Leadspace

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

For anyone attending—and even for those not attending but who still have an interest in predictive analytics—I thought it would be useful to revisit these five questions to ask vendors. (I’ve ” As with the evolution of any new technology space, vendors have started to stake their claim on these terms to carve out their niche.

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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. Even though this is limited to the vendors in the Guide, it's a pretty representative sample of the industry as a whole. The vendors also charged additional per-user fees for these modules.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

When I first starting thinking about Account Based Marketing, I assumed that an ABM system would let marketers replicate at scale how sales teams manage key accounts: that is, to analyze each account in depth, set goals specific to that account, and then execute against those goals. Now things start get interesting.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. This will put substantial pricing pressure on vendors who, in many cases, are already struggling to reach sustainable margins. Other vendors – notably Pardot – have followed a similar cost-removal strategy. Here’s where the free system comes back into play.

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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. more micro-business vendors.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 11, 2011

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. You might think the slower rate is expected because each period starts from a larger base. Not necessarily.

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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Eloqua | [link] Eloqua (NASDAQ: ELOQ) is the marketing system of record for modern marketers. More than 100,000 global users from companies both large and small, rely on the marketing automation power of Eloqua to improve demand generation and lead management while driving more qualified leads.

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Leadspace

OCTOBER 5, 2016

As I said today in Demand Gen Report , data is AI’s Achilles’ heel. No matter how good the algorithms, AI will not produce usable insights and information to drive demand generation if you cripple it with the static data in your CRM or purchased from traditional data vendors.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

I mentioned 6Sense briefly in a recent post about vendors who help companies find prospects on the Web. Since then, I’ve had a more detailed briefing, which clarified that their scope extends well beyond prospect lists to predictive models applied across all stages of the purchase cycle. Formal release was in May 2014.

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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. Subscribe to the comments for this post?

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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. For those of us who don’t get out much, that’s downright exciting. Myth busted.

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Directive Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

In general, if your buyers turn to online search, directories will be a strong channel for your software or tech company because they dominate search for commercial intent search terms. Cost-per-click (CPC) auctions : vendors bid to rank higher in a directory category page and pay per click to their site to generate leads.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 13, 2010

Its acquisition is basically the completion of the consolidation of that space, not the start of consolidation among B2B marketing automation vendors. If there’s any connection at all, it’s that this acquisition may spur Web content management vendors to accelerate their own acquisition of marketing automation capabilities.

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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. Vendors in the VEST are asked for estimates of their client counts by company size. For a couple of vendors, I’ve used my own estimate based on past data.

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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. “Demand generation&# is a better term, though still not precise. It aligns vendor messages with buyer needs, saving money and corporate reputations.

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Digital B2B Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Marketing Automation’s Baby Steps Last week we saw the first meaningful step in this direction with the announcement of Eloqua’s AdFocus offering, extending marketing automation’s segmentation and messaging to online display programs with Demandbase and Bizo. Disclosure: Demandbase is a client of my employer.]

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

I only mention this because I’ve recently been looking at a lot of new (to me) vendors and haven’t been able to write about many of them. This makes it a system for both small business and service vendors: two of my four themes. Distributed marketing also has its own pricing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Summary: I've posted a list of nearly 200 RFP questions that I hope many people will adopt to their own needs. If it's used widely, buyers and vendors both benefit. For business software vendors, all three are equally inevitable – and it's not clear which they dislike most. I do have a minor ulterior motive in posting this list.

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