Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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 Click here to read the review, published in April.]

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Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

Demand generation systems are in that second stage. CEO and co-founder Brian Giese had extensive experience in business sales and marketing and with existing demand generation systems when he began developing True Influence two years ago. These are not yet standard features on most demand generation products.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. Pardot and other SMB systems don’t just offer a few simple features.

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Demand Generation Enterprise Management Small Business Marketing Pricing 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. The features were working, but the business wasn't getting the payoff. Number of converted leads per rep per month. Average time to convert.

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Salesforce.com Lead Ranking Thought Leadership Lead Scoring 48

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Although LoopFuse and others already provide free trials, this is indeed different: while most free trials expire after 30 days and often have limited functionality, LoopFuse’s FreeView can be used for as long as you like and provides pretty much the same features as the paid version of the system. rather than marketing automation.

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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

JUNE 9, 2009

It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com.

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Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 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. This means that a system for both will include several features needed by only one group or the other. Project management is especially powerful. You know who you are.

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Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

LeadSpace scans for data on demand, rather than maintaining its own master database. Radius finds small business prospects that resemble current customers and deploys them to Salesforce.com, along with key profile information and lead scores. . • Fliptop returns scores and some summary data on names provided by the client.

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Lead Ranking Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring 120

Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

An enterprise-grade marketing automation and analytics platform with solutions for lead management, email marketing, consumer marketing, customer base marketing, and mobile marketing. Marketing automation tool combining email marketing, lead management, and reporting with sales alignment. 1) Marketo. 2) HubSpot.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 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.

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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 ).

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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.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 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.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

While the automation vendors do a great job of educating users on how to use the features of their solutions, there is a gaping hole that exists in users knowing the process, strategy or tactics the tool is actually automating. This needs to be addressed if marketing is going to meet the demand of today’s business.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

While the automation vendors do a great job of educating users on how to use the features of their solutions, there is a gaping hole that exists in users knowing the process, strategy or tactics the tool is actually automating. This needs to be addressed if marketing is going to meet the demand of today’s business.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

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.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management. First, the company invested in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform that integrated well with the company’s CRM system, Salesforce.com. All-hands discovery session yields important insights, priorities.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 100

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.

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Marketo Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz 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 also need to do some work to produce reports that provide an accounts-based pipeline view instead of a leads / opportunities view. Topics Demand Gen & Lead Management.

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies 95

Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 12, 2017

As a user myself, I first started using Salesforce.com. Whether you’re using enterprise-level CRMs such as Salesforce.com or Microsoft Dynamics, or something with the essentials such as OneFocus™ or Pipedrive, having a marketing automation system coupled with your CRM is vital these days.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Lead Liaison CRM 48

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.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Salesforce recently rebranded their social marketing application as the Marketing Cloud, and their website says you can use their solutions to “optimize campaigns from lead to close, on every channel”. Common features of a CRM system.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 48

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2009

Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 With more than 200 new features, the release is the most significant since the product's initial launch in early 2008. But with an established platform and 200 enhancements in its new release, Marketo Lead Management 3.0

Enterprise Management 20

Enterprise Management Marketo Marketing Management LEADSExplorer 20

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

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

We are excited to have Jep Castelein of popular lead management and marketing automation blog, Lead Sloth , contribute a guest blog post. Read below to find out the best ways to optimize your conversion rates using lead nurturing: A lot of early adopters of Marketing Automation systems are in the technology industry.

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Conversion Rate Lead Nurturing Conversion Optimization 48

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.

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Features Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com 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? The only other demand generation system I’ve seen use it is Marketo.

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Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Cost Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Back in early January I posted a discussion on treatment of Company-Level Data in Demand Generation Systems. At that time, I posed a set of specific questions to the demand generation vendors in the Raab Guide. SFDC" stands for Salesforce.com.) Yesterday the final answer trickled in. This turns out not to be the case.

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Demand Generation Work Management Market2Lead 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. But that date is a bit misleading because the company’s original product was a Web content management system (CMS).

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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.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 6, 2010

Summary: Genoo provides a simple Web site, demand generation and social marketing for $199 per month. I’m somewhat grandly labeling it a “Web marketing system” rather than “demand generation” because its microsite could replace a small company’s primary Web site. Of course, users can ignore these features if they wish.

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Small Business Marketing Marketing Management Planning Paid Search Agency 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. One way to explain this particular mix of features is to note that LeadLife’s founders previously sold sales automation software. and execute actions when leads meet status and score thresholds.

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Enterprise Management Features Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 18, 2010

It combines this with standard B2B marketing automation features to provide better-qualified leads to sales people. The B2B marketing automation industry has reached the stage where product features are similar and companies compete primarily on business and marketing savvy.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Jigsaw 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2008

To provide a meaningful and consistent comparison of usability across demand generation vendors, you could: 1. You also need a standard Salesforce.com installation and perhaps company Web site to integrate during testing. As Tuesday’s post suggested, my thoughts on usability measurement have now crystallized. per year?

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