Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2008

Now that I have that long post about analytical databases out of the way, I can get back to thinking about demand generation systems. But, as I think I wrote in a comment since then, I now believe the best approach is to define several applications and score the vendors in terms of their suitability for each.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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 ). To be fair, many of the vendors below charge an installation of that can be several thousand dollars or more, while Marketo doesn't. Pricing starts at $599 per month.

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Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 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. The tentative list is Unica , Aprimo , Alterian , and Neolane.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 8, 2009

I had an interesting email conversation last month with a Raab Guide buyer about the nuances of company-level data management in demand generation systems. He started from the perfectly reasonable premise that the demand generation system should give an overview of activity for all leads associated with a given company.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 24, 2009

Summary: let's not forget that most companies are still not even doing simple demand generation. He was also starting to think that maybe the company Web site could play a role in attracting leads. But then it was back to the bubble (so much more interesting than reality) with vendor meetings. And, my car hit a deer.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 25, 2008

When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. They even cited one demand generation vendor that had turned to them for help. (In

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Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. But on reflection I realized that Net-Results offers a full set of demand generation functions. Let’s run through the standard demand generation process to see how this works in practice.

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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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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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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Demand Generation Work Management 120

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.) This contrasts with generic rule building interfaces, which require users to know which field holds a particular type of data and may require complex specifications for calculations.

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Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

As the industry matures, second-generation products are designed to improve on the original products, either by adding new capabilities or by delivering the same capabilities faster, easier or cheaper. This leads to more variety as vendors experiment with different approaches to a now-defined problem.

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Demand Generation Digital Asset Management Demand Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. So I was quite curious to see what they had to offer.

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Demand Generation Enterprise Management Small Business Marketing Pricing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. It’s actually quite a long story, dating back to the company’s initial sales automation system in 1997, followed by its MarketingView demand generation product in 1999. So now the story can be told.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

Some vendors only rank leads while others build multiple models for different purposes. • Whether the vendor sells prospect lists or only enhance names provided by the client. Whether the vendor provides lists of individuals as well as companies. . • Types of predictive models available.

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Lead Ranking Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This is an enticingly huge market for marketing automation vendors, and one that seems largely untapped. The largest marketing automation vendor in the segment, Infusionsoft , has under 20,000 clients. ReachLocal has reduced its clients'' preparation to a minimum, and then left it up to them to pursue each new lead individually.

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Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Markempa

APRIL 16, 2019

But, in reality, any marketing process can be optimized from demand generation, account-based marketing and, lead generation. I’ll review the basics of reviewing your demand generation funnel. A buyer persona(s) targeted – Which ponds are you fishing in, and whom are you trying to catch?

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Sales Management Sales Qualified Leads Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Leads 97

ANNUITAS

JANUARY 19, 2022

Buyers spend nearly half their time researching independently ; another 22% is spent talking to other decision makers, and only 17% of their ‘buying’ time is spent meeting with potential vendors. If you haven’t already, start by understanding the personas you target and the buying stages that each persona will move through.

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Sales Management Lead Ranking Work Management Marketing Management 130

The Point

JUNE 23, 2020

Even if you acknowledge that change as fact, however, it’s easy to become cynical (as I have) when vendors and thought leaders are constantly proclaiming the “death” of the old ways. When Account-Based Marketing (ABM) first arrived on the scene, vendors were quick to pronounce traditional, funnel-based marketing obsolete.

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Lead Ranking Enterprise Management Marketing Qualified Leads Account Based Marketing 264

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.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

From Web Analytics to Demand Generation. Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Lead scoring configuration. Website sessions are added to the salesforce.com Lead record. Form builder.

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ActiveConversion SMB Work Management Lead Management 100

ANNUITAS

JUNE 10, 2020

In the past, Demand Marketing was focused on two elements. The first was direct sales enablement – a supporting role – and it was not necessarily called Demand Marketing. Field marketing, lead generation, demand generation, and lead management are all precursors (and components) of modern Demand Marketing.

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Demand Work Management Marketing Management Peer-to-peer 162

LeadSloth

AUGUST 17, 2009

Earlier this year I downloaded Silverpop’s lead management workbook , and I planned to write about it. Unfortunately, not enough time… Last week I received a copy of Marketo’s Lead Nurturing workbook. Both books show how you can increase sales by nurturing all leads, from inquiry to opportunity.

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Lead Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking ROI 100

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. And that’s a good thing. Cheers, Adam Needles.

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Marketo Acquisitions Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management 193

The Point

JUNE 5, 2018

for lead management to 3.35 However, when you consider that, in our model, a 5 represents the most advanced state of practice from a business theory perspective, and a 1 represents basic control and management of a process, you recognize how difficult the transition from 1 to 5 really is. for organization. LDW: Yes and no.

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Lead Ranking Forrester Lead Scoring Paid Search Agency 194

Biznology

AUGUST 8, 2019

Martin: Twenty years ago, we would buy databases from trade publications and data vendors, and use them to cold call, trying to reach senior executives. Martin: A shared vision between sales and marketing about the entire demand generation and sales process. They’re not using content, marketing automation and lead management.

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Demand Generation Agencies Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services B2B Marketing 106

Rev

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Need help building the perfect sales tech stack so you can easily hit your revenue targets? A sales tech stack (also known as a sales stack or sales technology stack) refers to the set of tools and software solutions your sales team uses to do everything from lead generation to closing deals. We understand!

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Budget Programs 78

Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Finally, the new 2013 B2B Lead Generation Report is available! Download it here: [link] ) The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted the 2013 lead generation survey to better understand how B2B marketers are adjusting to new challenges, and to identify new trends and best practices. The results are in.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Lead Generation Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 9, 2009

LeadSloth on Demand Generation: Smart Tools for Lazy Marketers. Tell us a little bit about how you got into demand generation , and what you like most about it. What I like most about Demand Generation is that it makes the customer's buying process so much more efficient.

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Thought Leadership Demand Generation Work Management Demand 48

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. This is always a fun project because it gives me an overview of what all the vendors have been up to for the past six months. lots of new vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management Top of Funnel 120

The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

How can ABM best coexist with a more traditional funnel-based demand generation model? When so many technology vendors claim to be an “ABM solution,” what are the smartest investments? ABM technologies lend efficiency, accountability, and scalability to the process. But they are only part of the total investment.

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Account Based Marketing ABM Ideal Customer Profiles Enterprise Management 157

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? of companies polled in the 2016 ANNUITAS B2B Demand Generation Survey. of B2B marketers continue to send all leads directly to their Sales teams as soon as a form is filled out according to the 2016 ANNUITAS Survey.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Campaigns Work Management 100

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? of companies polled in the 2016 ANNUITAS B2B Demand Generation Survey. of B2B marketers continue to send all leads directly to their Sales teams as soon as a form is filled out according to the 2016 ANNUITAS Survey.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Campaigns Work Management 100

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? of companies polled in the 2016 ANNUITAS B2B Demand Generation Survey. of B2B marketers continue to send all leads directly to their Sales teams as soon as a form is filled out according to the 2016 ANNUITAS Survey.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Campaigns Work Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 13, 2013

These products address several interrelated challenges: distributing leads to partners without losing track of performance; distributing partner-customized versions of company-created content; and helping partners run their own marketing campaigns. Marketing Advocate is designed to help technology resellers who lack in-house marketing skills.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Advertising Agencies Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Televerde

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

With rapid advances in technology forcing every organization into an uncertain future, many companies benefit from choosing to outsource their lead generation. The reasons for outsourcing lead generation are aplenty – and they may differ depending on your business or vertical. Make the most out of your martech.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 49

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2009

Yesterday’s BtoB Leading Edge, Demand Generation in the Digital Age was a great way to make sure your organization’s demand generation programs are best-in-class. LinkedIn gave an impressive demonstration on how they handled demand generation without a robust marketing budget or unlimited marketing staff members.

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Demand Generation Agencies BtoB Demand Generation Demand 48

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Online lead generation is one of the best ways to identify customers early in the journey and produce a solid and predictable return on investment. Step 3: Negotiate with top partners. Step 5: Optimize.

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