Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. But even including that, the first year cost for most of these will be less.) : Manticore Technology : a full-featured demand generation product. Just kidding.or Maybe next week. [I

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Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 21, 2009

This makes sense to a certain degree, since a demand generation system allows vastly more activity, specified in more detail, than was possible without one. I’ve created a little poll using SurveyMonkey – if you’ve implemented a demand generation system, please click below to fill it out. Click here to take survey.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

I've been having a dandy time analyzing the results of my Demand Generation Implementation Survey. In any case, the ten deployments in the first four months of 2009 (or 12 if you count the two future dates) and 12 in 2008 highlights the newness and fast growth of the demand generation industry. Fair enough. the system itself 0.67

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Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand Marketing Automation Services 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. But I’ve also been approached by some of the other demand generation specialists. But my real concern was the Other Demand Generation group. Yet there are so many more vendors I could add.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz Demand Generation Agencies 120

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. Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 The main result of the conversations so far has been to clarify the items related to lead routing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Summary: Eloqua10 provides much-needed update to Eloqua's user interface and a new reporting infrastructure for “revenue performance management”. Eloqua is slated to officially release its long-promised Eloqua10 system on November 21. Previous versions of Eloqua were very powerful but notoriously difficult to learn and use.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. The table below presents a reasonably comprehensive list of demand generation (a.k.a. I'll be flying cross country to attend, so you could too.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. It’s irresistible to compare Sales Insight with Eloqua Prospect Profiler, launched two weeks ago (see my review ), which also gives sales people access to prospect activities gathered by the marketing system.

Marketo 120

Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

DemandBase had to build its own engines for real time bidding (RTB) and ad serving (Demand Side Platform or DSP) to support its approach. I’ll assume the Eloqua integration is most interesting to readers of this blog. Basically, it lets Bizo read audience segments created by Eloqua. Other partners will be added over time.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. At least three vendors (Eloqua, Marketo and Silverpop) introduced new features aimed at improving marketers’ ability to use social media. But enhanced reporting was the most common improvement of all. Social media.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Other vendors have similar price points for the small business market (see my list of demand generation vendors ) although I suspect their internal costs are higher. Genius.com added a new Demand Generation edition that falls between its basic Email Marketing and full-blown Marketing Automation products.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 11, 2011

The remaining five vendors in my data (Pardot, Marketo, Eloqua, Manticore Technology, and Genius) have 69% of their clients in the small and mid-size segments. I like irony as much as anyone, but if the demand generation industry failed to generate demand for its own product, no one would be laughing. _ *As best we can tell.

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Marketing Automation Services Manticore Marketing Automation ActiveConversion 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

For companies like Eloqua and its competitors, there are really two big financial questions: how fast can they grow, and how can they become profitable? We looked at those in Tuesday’s post ; I’ll repeat the caveat that figures for Eloqua and HubSpot are my own estimates based largely on client growth and (for HubSpot) changes in client mix.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

A year ago, the three largest core vendors were Eloqua, Marketo, and Genius, and Act-On was an also-ran. Today, the Marketo has more clients than Eloqua (although not more revenue), Pardot has replaced Genius in the third position, and Act-On is coming up fast. I could show you my calculations, but then I'd have to.well, you know.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Report Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Eloqua “ The Business Case for Integrated Demand Generation ” offers data from Forrester, CSO Insights and several Eloqua clients. Marketo , in its Webinar Secret Sauce for Demand Generation , generously revealed its own results comparing nurtured vs. non-nurtured leads. The data is a couple of years old but still valid.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com , Oracle Eloqua and Marketo. 6sense b2b demand generation b2b lead scoring predictive marketing predictive modeling sales prospecting web scanning web scraping' The company was founded in 2013 and released early versions of its product that same year.

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Lead Ranking Activities Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Influitive founder Mark Organ was co-founder of marketing automation pioneer Eloqua. He describes Influitive in a larger context of “social nurturing” by peers of a company’s prospects and “convergence of demand generation with customer marketing” since customers now provide the bulk of public information about a company.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

It starts with the four largest B2B specialists: Infusionsoft, HubSpot, Marketo, and Eloqua. I estimated 2012 revenues for HubSpot and Eloqua based on their client counts and revenue per client. These are actuals except for the 2012 figures for HubSpot and Eloqua, and I consider those to be educated, conservative guesses.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Report Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Integrations with Oracle Eloqua , HubSpot and Salesforce Pardot are planned by end of this year. Most pipelines execute as batch processes, either on demand or on a user-specified schedule. Openprise also integrates today with Google Apps and the Amazon Redshift database. Some can run in real time through API calls.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 13, 2010

The bottom line is probably that the upper tier B2B marketing automation vendors ( Eloqua , Silverpop , Aprimo , possibly Marketbright ) are next in line to be bought. Tags: unica marketing automation industry consolidation enteprise marketing management low cost marketing software ibm demand generation. But you already knew that.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Acquisitions Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables.

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Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 18, 2007

Somehow I received a copy of “ Increasing Revenue Through Automated Demand Generation ” (registration required), the kind of title that sends chills up my spine. The company positions itself directly against Eloqua , and indeed is quite similar. Both products integrate with salesforce.com (and Eloqua with several others).

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Manticore Online Lead Generation Lead Generation Vtrenz 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

This means that integration has largely meant sharing audiences defined in a marketing automation system with demand side platforms (DSPs), so the DSPs can bid on audience members when they appear on ad networks. For B2B marketers, this has happened mostly through Demandbase and what was formerly Bizo (now part of LinkedIn). (The

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Display Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

This one isn’t so common yet, although Oracle Eloqua , Marketo , HubSpot and some others have announced some ad retargeting partnerships. b2b marketing automation demand generation software marketing technology Raab VEST report' (Okay, not zero: some companies surely do it better than others.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Report Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

you know that I see a lot of demand generation systems. But the vast majority of demand generation systems are installed in much smaller marketing departments, where setting up campaigns is just a fraction of the user's job. If you read this blog regularly (and who doesn't?), I'm in favor of that approach.

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Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Among B2B vendors, Eloqua is the poster child for this approach. This is by far the most popular strategy among vendors, presumably because it increases sales by placing the fewest demands on buyers. This is a much less common strategy, in part because it's technically demanding and expensive to execute. ease of use.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

marketing services marketing automation small business marketing demand generation industry trends sales enablement marketing automation trends distributed marketing' By contrast, the fourth trend seems to be driven by recognition that small business presents a huge opportunity. Distributed marketing also has its own pricing.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Those of you familiar with the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems know it already contains very detailed information on major vendors ( Aprimo , Eloqua , Genius.com , Manticore Technology , Marketbright , Marketo , Neolane and Silverpop ). I do have a minor ulterior motive in posting this list.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

But, as Eloqua ’s Joe Payne points out in his own comment on the Aprimo deal , the remaining vendors are all much smaller: while Unica and Aprimo each had around $100 million revenue, Eloqua and Alterian are around $50 million, Neolane and SmartFocus are around $20 million, and Marketo said recently it expects around $15 million in 2010.

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Resource Management Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 1, 2012

That’s why I was a bit surprised when yesterday’s blog post showed that the “big four” industry vendors (Infusionsoft, HubSpot, Marketo, and Eloqua) are actually growing slower than the “next four” largest (Pardot, Act-On Software, Net-Results, and SalesFusion).

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation B2B Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

In case you're wondering about other vendors I track, Eloqua , Neolane and Manticore Technology all set up flow charts without embedding the small list-style campaigns. Tags: software usability measurement marketing automation lead management demand generation.

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Vtrenz Market2Lead Work Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The most notable is Eloqua, which as a public company has to report its results. Last year, the top four industry vendors (Eloqua, Marketo, HubSpot, and Infusionsoft) added 49% more employees, compared with just 21% for the rest of the industry. So if you’re working in the industry, don’t circulate that resume just yet. million vs. 39.6

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

typically include a CRM option for clients who don’t want to pay for a separate Salesforce.com or other license - firms aimed at larger installations ( Marketo , Eloqua , Pardot , Genius.com ) are providing widgets that give sales people direct access to marketing automation information.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Although the world has certainly changed since the late 1990’s, I see no reason to expect a different pattern among demand generation vendors. Eloqua and Silverpop are the obvious candidates. A few might survive as independents serving the most sophisticated clients.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Grouping vendors with similar percentages of small clients yielded the following sets: - small business (60% or more small business clients): Infusionsoft, OfficeAutoPilot, TrueInfluence - mixed (33-66% small business clients): Pardot, Marketo, Eloqua, Manticore Technology, Silverpop, Genius - specialists (15%-33% small business) : LeadFormix, TreeHouse (..)

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Vendors 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. There’s still a bit of selection bias – it won’t work if a company isn’t on the Internet – but the impact is obviously much less.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I can only say this makes me doubly appreciate the vendors who do provide firm data. Anyway, back to the estimates.

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