Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Options range from fairly simple, moderately priced systems targeted at midmarket companies to sophisticated suites for enterprise users. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: $200 to $2,400 per month, plus option add-ons; the $800 per month “Pro” option is most popular with midmarket companies. Pricing: free.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

The biggest obvious difference (if you ignore HubSpot’s $100 million or so in venture capital funding) is that HubSpot offers its own blogging and Web content management, while Optify provides WordPress and Drupal plug-ins for visitor tracking and landing pages. Users can send the contact a system email or add it to a list.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

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

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

On Monday, Genius.com announced “the first free, instant-on demand generation solution”, a description carefully crafted to distinguish their offering from the free version announced by LoopFuse in June. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Loopfuse 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

In particular, they want a highly-integrated combination of standard marketing automation (email, landing pages and individual-level Website behavior tracking) with customer relationship management (tracking personal and telephone contacts with individuals). See my List of Demand Generation Vendors for other options.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Features Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. That's fewer functions than traditional demand generation, but if those are the functions you need, who cares? Registration is no longer required.)

Active Conversion 120

Active Conversion Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead Management 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. This changed over time: now the focus has shifted to pro-active outreach to a handful of executives, instead of targeting thousands of software developers. The Salesforce.com database has some big issues (e.g.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services LEADSExplorer netFactor Leadlander 100

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Of the three classic competitive strategies – low price, great service and innovative products – there are plenty of low price options and leading vendors work aggressively to help their clients succeed. Tags: marketing automation multi-language marketing lead management demand generation.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

Last Wednesday’s revised ranking of demand generation vendors by Web traffic reminded me that I never published notes from a conversation I had several months ago with Right On Interactive , developer of the 5Buckets marketing automation software. Now is a good time to remedy that. The system can also execute SQL queries.

Multi-Channel 120

Multi-Channel Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Channels 120

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.

Manticore 100

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Although Hubspot positions itself as an “inbound marketing system,” it actually does more than the search engine optimization, blogging, social media interactions and related analytics needed to generate Web traffic. Leads can be captured on landing pages, imported from lists or added through Salesforce.com synchronization.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

For CRM, I focused on Salesforce.com. This was the list with strong points for a CRM system (compared to Marketing Automation): SFDC. Products & Pricing. Landing Page Builder. Luckily, all Marketing Automation systems can be connected to Salesforce.com and often also to other CRM systems. Forecasting.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Salesforce.com 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

.* The new offering is designed to support all stages of interactive marketing, starting with traffic generation from paid search, Web banner ads and blogging, and continuing with visitor behavior tracking, landing pages and forms, interactive dialogs, multi-step email campaigns, lead scoring and CRM integration.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Digital Asset Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Salespeole working with Salesforce.com can see a list of their leads with priority ratings.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. One distinct disadvantage is that most small business marketing automation systems offer their own low-cost alternative to Salesforce.com, while HubSpot does not.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 9, 2011

At $500 per month with no annual contract, it’s priced to make it easy to get started with marketing automation. The home page all but screams as much, with a huge central panel of “quick start” links to different types of projects. This lets users manage the database as if it were a set of separate lists. (In

Act-On 120

Act-On Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

This means vendors are increasingly competing on other dimensions including their own marketing and sales skills, cost structures, supporting services, pricing, and financial resources. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. But there’s my problem: “that sort of product” is widely available already.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

ClickDimensions does pretty much the standard marketing automation activities: email, landing pages, Web visitor tracking, drip marketing campaigns, and lead scoring. What’s missing from the list is CRM integration. ClickDimensions pricing ranges from $4,000 to $12,000 per year based on email volume.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Summary: LoopFuse offers attractive but limited demand generation functions at an easy-to-swallow price. It’s been nearly a year since I took my first close look at the LoopFuse OneView demand generation system. In addition to Salesforce.com, the vendor has a standard integration for SugarCRM.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 30, 2009

My personal definition of demand generations systems (see Introduction to Demand Generation Systems from the Raab Guide site) explicitly states that they do not incorporate sales automation. See Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems? for whether this will change.)

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Cost Demand 120

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

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.

Manticore 20

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation 20

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 10, 2008

As I wrote last week , demand generation vendors have a hard time differentiating their systems from each other. Functionally, it covers all the demand generation bases: outbound email, landing pages, Web site monitoring, lead scoring, multi-step nurturing programs, prospect database, analytics, Salesforce.com integration.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketo Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 17, 2009

Summary: Marqui started as a Web content management system and then added basic demand generation. Marqui is one of the oldest demand generation vendors, founded in 2000. It added demand generation features later in response to client requests. This poses a serious sales challenge.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Marketing Management Demand Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 25, 2009

If you look at the Web site of Act-On Software , you’ll see a typical set of demand generation features: email marketing, demand generation (equated with landing pages and forms), lead nurturing, Website visitor tracking, channel (partner) marketing, and lead scoring. I’ll come back to the database later.

Act-On 120

Act-On Demand Generation Work Management Marketing Management 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. Pricing starts at $199 per month for a single user and microsite, with no limit on the number of leads in the account, plus $8.50

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Microsite Salesforce.com 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 18, 2008

Market2Lead offers the usual list of demand generation functions: outbound email, Web forms and landing pages, automated lead nurturing, integration with sales, and campaign return on investment analysis. The system show which campaigns use a given list or Web form, but not (yet) which campaigns use a given offer.

Market2Lead 120

Market2Lead Enterprise Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2014

It also provides the rest of the standard marketing automation functions, including landing pages and microsites, Web behavior tracking, lead scoring, and integration with Salesforce.com. It doesn’t currently provide email or landing page builders, since its graphics arts clients typically had such tools already.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Digital Asset Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

I’ve more or less decided to offer a free summary of the demand generation vendor information in the Raab Guide. This raises the issue of exactly what should be in the summary listings. price range, and willingness to consider less established vendors. Is there a better way to do this?

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Summary: Vendors who target small businesses include provide functions beyond traditional marketing automation. This helps business owners who need to generate revenue as efficiently as possible. Vendors like NetSuite do offer such products, but they’re not targeted at very small businesses.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Digital B2B Marketing

JUNE 7, 2012

In the US, research generally considers businesses with less than 100 employees to be small businesses and those with 100 to 1,000 employees to be medium buisnesses. Other Fortune list abbreviations like F50 and F2000 are also used. Most frequently used to indicate the general size of target companies versus the specific list.

Paid Content 100

Paid Content Lead Ranking Cost Per Click Cost per Lead 100

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Its marketing automation system offers the usual range of functions: email, Web analytics, landing pages, multi-step campaigns, lead scoring, CRM integration, ROI reporting. The system also has an “instant polling” feature to embed surveys within any Web page. It has since added a connector for Oracle CRM On Demand.

Features 120

Features Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2011

With mature features and a $1,000 per month starting price, the system is worth a look. That's a richer feature set than most marketing automation systems targeted towards the small and mid-size business. That's a richer feature set than most marketing automation systems targeted towards the small and mid-size business.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Features 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 18, 2010

The company’s product touches the standard marketing automation bases: outbound email, landing pages and forms, lead nurturing, scoring and integration with Salesforce.com. Pricing is based on the modules purchased, number of users and number of leads. Such is my take on LeadForce1.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Jigsaw 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 14, 2009

I have my little checklist of features to define whether a demand generation system is suited for simple or complex marketing programs. You'll find most of the list in our report on Vendor Usability Scores on the Raab Guide site.) Pricing is based on primarily on email volume. Consider LeadLife. My point exactly.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Features Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Marketing automation / demand generation software enables marketers to build microsites and use content marketing to capture leads and nurture them through the buying process. Pricing starts at $199 per month for a single user and microsite, with no limit on the number of leads in the account, plus $8.50

Marketing Automation Services 20

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Microsite Salesforce.com 20