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A Structured Approach to Demand Generation Analytics

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Demand generation leaders know it’s not true, though. So what is the key to better demand generation analytics? How can we better tie buying and content/channel interactions to opportunities and closed revenue in a closed-loop fashion — to fuel our demand process optimization ? Garbage in; garbage out.

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Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems?

Customer Experience Matrix

Today, this is accomplished by synchronizing data between demand generation and sales automation systems. In fact, the division between demand generation and sales automation today is probably more a reflection of organizational divisions than technical imperatives. But that is inherently complex.

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Company-Level Data in Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

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 Vendor Traffic Rankings

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Last November, after much consideration of alternatives , I settled on Alexa three-month Web traffic rankings as a reasonable way to measure the relative market presence of demand generation vendors.

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Net-Results Simplifies Demand Generation for Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Treehouse Interactive just introduced a “talk it up” feature that embeds “share this” buttons in Treehouse-generated Web pages and emails. InsideView is already integrated with major CRM vendors and with the Marketbright demand generation system. All told, I'm rather disappointed at what I see in this list.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

But even including that, the first year cost for most of these will be less.) : Manticore Technology : a full-featured demand generation product. See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Just kidding.or Pricing starts at $599 per month.