Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Webbiquity

JANUARY 27, 2011

Salesforce.com is the cloud computing darling of customer relationship management (CRM) software. They have significant control of mind share in that space, and their legacy in customer service and sales force automation software is strong. It is made up of sales, service and—wait for it—marketing! Guest post by Lauren Carlson.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

Summary: MakesBridge offers a full set of marketing automation features with some special strengths that will appeal especially to small companies. I’ve previously reviewed Genoo , which supplements the standard marketing automation features with Web hosting and built-in CRM but no shopping cart. MakesBridge is another contender.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Features Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

It's a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to more powerful marketing automation systems for companies who don't need other marketing automation features. 5Buckets isn’t actually a demand generation system, at least according to my usual definition. Now is a good time to remedy that.

Multi-Channel 120

Multi-Channel Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Channels 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? This particular constellation of features is far from random.

Active Conversion 120

Active Conversion Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead Management 120

The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

To reach end users, the company relies primarily on a network of channel partners, including satellite operators, telecom companies, and internet service providers. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management. All-hands discovery session yields important insights, priorities.

Lead Nurturing 100

Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 100

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

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. As both sets of systems expand their scope, their features will overlap more and marketers will compare them directly. One aspect of service is consulting support.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Demand Gen and Lead Management. We are using salesforce.com as our CRM — how well will it work to support our efforts? You’ll need to use a third-party tool or find someone to assist you with making these adjustments, as this is not an “out of the box” feature. Topics Demand Gen & Lead Management. News & Events.

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies 95

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

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. My first reaction was: no way, you should not want to do without any type of marketing automation system (for simplicity sake, I use this term as synonymous to demand generation and lead management ).

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services LEADSExplorer netFactor Leadlander 100

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. Aprimo is in the early stages of launching Aprimo Marketing Studio , a new Software-as-a-Service marketing automation suite that is separate from the existing Aprimo product.*

Marketing Automation Services 120

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

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com. Although I actually think that quite a few demand generation vendors share the Marketo philosophy, it’s still helpful to hear the distinction made clearly.

Marketo 120

Marketo Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz 120

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. This leaves unique features as the only viable strategy for a new firm.* Alsa has some other unusual features.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Mintigo’s conclusion across 186,500 B2B companies was that just three percent were using the most common marketing automation systems: Oracle Eloqua , Marketo, HubSpot, and Salesforce.com Pardot. Users Want Core Marketing Automation Features Both Software Advice and Pepper Global asked what features marketing automation buyers want.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Smaller firms often start off using email service providers , then implement marketing automation platforms as their prospect database grows, their segmentation becomes more complex, and they develop more granular marketing and sales content. Google Review Count: 62,200. Google Review Count: 44,200. Pricing: $1,000 to $3,000 per month.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

Low-cost, fee-based tools are generally more user-friendly, provide more features, and most importantly come bundled with support. Squarespace is a generally well-regarded tool with reasonable design functionality for building natively search-optimized websites and blogs. Pricing: $150-$600 per year ($12-$50 per month).

CMS Development 100

CMS Development Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation Services 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. To really ensure success, vendors must actively help their clients through training and, in some cases, services to do the work for them. Vendors including LeadLife , Genoo, and MakesBridge already offer low-cost service packages for their clients.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

But the system does offer a comprehensive solution for smaller firms and, at least on the CRM side, can integrate with more powerful solutions including Salesforce.com , Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Siebel CRM On Demand. The system’s features for lead scoring and routing are more impressive. But these are awkward solutions.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 4, 2012

While its feature list covers all the usual marketing automation categories, the company's real focus was always on providing the most useful information to sales people. Callidus isn’t a sales automation system like Salesforce.com , but it does provide a range of other systems that help sales departments.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 16, 2011

Of course, the jackpot here is Salesforce.com. Predictive Response has a broader range, with more advanced email features, including split tests, content templates, and branching campaigns, as well as Web visitor tracking, lead scoring, dashboards, and some data cleansing on form entries. That question has no simple answer.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 120

Only B2B

JANUARY 24, 2018

One of the great features of this content syndication tool is that it straight away promises content recommendation on some of the highest trafficked websites around the globe. Among the two main services: Engage and Reveal, engage lets you import and export all of your content anywhere. Disqus has made its name among 3.5

Digg 89

Digg Enterprise Management CAN-SPAM Network Marketing 89

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2009

With more than 200 new features, the release is the most significant since the product's initial launch in early 2008. additional profile is requested as a prospect moves through an interactive process); Native integration with Salesforce.com ; Web visitor profiling; and Automated duplicate lead removal. software suite.

Enterprise Management 20

Enterprise Management Marketo Marketing Management LEADSExplorer 20

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Overcomes Marketing Information Overload, Transforming Traditional White Papers into Dynamic, Personalized Engagement Tools Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today launched a new demand generation tool for B2B marketers – Alinean Interactive White Papers.

Paper 40

Paper Enterprise Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

However, some Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products are so easy to use that trials may attract both technical and business users. They can do this via the Web Services Interface. Most products offer such an interface, including Marketo and Salesforce.com. Product trials often appeal to a very specific group of people.

Conversion Rate 48

Conversion Rate Lead Nurturing Conversion Optimization 48

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. Nearly all demand management systems have built-in email engines and Web servers for forms and microsites.

Market2Lead 120

Market2Lead Enterprise Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Summary: Treehouse Interactive has been slowly enhancing its marketing automation system with features that appeal to experienced users. Treehouse has been quietly but steadily growing its business (up 30% this year), improving its product, and attracting more demanding clients. It has since added a connector for Oracle CRM On Demand.

Features 120

Features Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2014

They shared a similar approach of offering limited features in exchange for lower cost: messaging was largely limited to emails (except in Salesformics ) and campaign flows were basically linear. Agencies can create their own branded version of the system and have full control over what they charge their customers.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Digital Asset Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 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

Directive Agency

MARCH 7, 2019

She is an expert in infographic marketing and is well versed in lead generation, SEO and content marketing. Nadya has been featured in Entrepreneur, The Huffington Post, The Next Web, Forbes, MarketingProfs, Social Media Examiner and more for her notable success in the marketing field. Michelle Killebrew.

Demand Generation Agencies 111

Demand Generation Agencies Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 111

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The vendors we work with for demand generation and the technologies we have invested in have yet to grow and evolve to accommodate the account-based approach, forcing us to work within the confines of their systems and continue to make decisions based on demographics, and not firmographics. And don’t even try to specify B2B vs. B2C!

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2011

With mature features and a $1,000 per month starting price, the system is worth a look. Now, if all DemandCenter features were easier than the competition, that might change things. 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

ANNUITAS

JUNE 12, 2014

The vendors we work with for demand generation and the technologies we have invested in have yet to grow and evolve to accommodate the account-based approach, forcing us to work within the confines of their systems and continue to make decisions based on demographics, and not firmographics. And don’t even try to specify B2B vs. B2C!

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Sales Qualified Leads 100

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The replies are rolling in from the survey of vendor features that I mentioned last week. In addition, most small firms have pretty basic needs, so even the “light” editions of full-featured products like Salesforce.com can be overkill. Their buyers need more than traditional marketing automation features.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 14, 2009

Summary: SiteCore has added extensive analytical and marketing features to its Web content management system. I commented last month that more Web content management system (CMS) vendors are adding marketing automation features. SiteCore organizes these features around the individual Web pages.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Analytics 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 24, 2008

This same notion of considering which users do which work has permiated my ideas of usability measurement for demand generation systems and usability in general. ADVIZOR features an in-memory database and some data manipulation, but its primary strength is visualization. This brings us to ADVIZOR from ADVIZOR Solutions.

Work Management 120

Work Management Salesforce.com Demand Generation Agencies Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The previous release, announced last May , also featured a number of small steps, including better tagging of marketing content, more precise control over data synchronization, and a plugin to capture Gmail messages within the Pardot database. This doesn’t mean that Pardot lacks some interesting features.

Ideal Customer Profiles 120

Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Automation Services Eloqua Paid Search Agency 120