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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

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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. The tentative list is Unica , Aprimo , Alterian , and Neolane. But I’ve also been approached by some of the other demand generation specialists.

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More Blathering About Demand Generation Software

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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 I’d guess the latter.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

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This is a bit perplexing, since those products are at the opposite ends of the spectrum: Marketo being relatively low cost / limited functionality / easier to learn, and Eloqua being higher cost / richer functionality / takes more training. Pardot : another pretty powerful product; see my blog review from December 2008.

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

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Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 Oracle does have an existing B2B marketing automation product, based on the technology it acquired from Market2Lead in 2010. per share, which comes to $871 million. The stock had been hovering around $17.50

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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

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To make a free product viable, LoopFuse needed to engineer as much cost as possible out of the entire client life cycle. This means it had to be possible for clients to purchase and configure the system, learn how to use it and resolve support issues with next to no involvement by LoopFuse staff. rather than marketing automation.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

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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. Or will they simply be crushed as giants from related industries introduce their own products?

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First Look at New Marketo Release

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release of his flagship product, scheduled for March 3. Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com. Tags: usability assessment marketing automation marketo lead management demand generation.

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