Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. The current version also hosts landing pages and Web sites, manages a lead database with profiles and Web activity history, generates lead scores, sends alerts to sales people, and synchronizes data with Salesforce.com.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. But on reflection I realized that Net-Results offers a full set of demand generation functions. The demonstration was short because the system uses only a few features to deliver them.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. The company takes a conservative approach to marketing automation, stressing the importance of process over flashy software. Manticore wants clients to understand that demand generation is a business process.

Manticore 120

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management 120

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.]

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

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.)

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Sales intelligence software/platforms help companies use data to increase sales and improve sales processes. Depending on the software/platform there are additional features and functionality you should look out for depending on the objectives of your business. Features/functionality: Unearth ideal prospects.

B2B Sales 70

B2B Sales Enterprise Management Zoominfo Work Management 70

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.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Enterprise Management Small Business Marketing Pricing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The most recent, “On-Demand Versus On-Premise CRM: Are There Performance Differences?” Amid the contradictory and self-interested vendor claims of success for their products, CSC Insights’ surveys of over 2,500 companies found a clear winner: on-demand systems (a.k.a, lives up to expectations. Margins on other measures are similar.

Demand 120

Demand CRM Salesforce.com Studies 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.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Digital Asset Management Demand Marketing Management 120

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.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management 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

Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Sample review: “The software, analytics, and support are amazing. Integrates with popular platforms like Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce.com. 6) InTouch.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 9, 2011

Summary : Act-On Software’s revised system offers a reasonable mix of features in an easy-to-use interface. I started last week to write a review of Act-On Software’s latest release but got distracted by the larger and sexier question of Act-On’s business strategy. The same lead can belong to multiple lists.)

Act-On 120

Act-On Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 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

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Summary: Right On Interactive has added great life stage reporting to the data integration and output generation features of its earlier 5Buckets product. These features let Right On support multi-step campaigns although complex designs would be a challenge. It can also pull file segments and Salesforce.com campaign members as lists.

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

That's fewer functions than traditional demand generation, but if those are the functions you need, who cares? These functions, plus supporting features for database management, content management, sales system synchronization, and reporting, form a basic template for measuring demand generation software.

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

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. You know who you are. I took a look at the actual product last week.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Other than Raab Associates’ own VEST report , we’ve seen surveys of active buyers from Software Advice , usage figures based on direct observation from Mintigo and Venture Beat (using Datanyze) , and another broad-based survey from Pepper Global and Holger Shulze. Features Don''t Drive Decisions.or

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 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

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

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This is why it’s hard to imagine that low-priced software can deliver similar performance to mainstream products. The company’s marketing is tightly targeted at very small businesses (under 25 employees) but its marketing features are competitive with demand generation products aimed at much larger firms.

Pricing 120

Pricing Price Impressions Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2012

More specifically, the decision managers assemble a consolidated customer profile by pulling data on demand from external systems rather than storing it internally. SiteCore does offer the key B2B marketing automation capability to synchronize with CRM products including Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

Our scoring reflects their need for special features for automated content selection, project management, complex lead scores, and tight control over the rights granted to individual users. Marketo and Oracle (specifically, Oracle CRM On Demand Marketing ) are considerably further back in the leader quadrant.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 120

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

ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. This needs to be addressed if marketing is going to meet the demand of today’s business. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. 2. More transparency. Talk about transparency!)

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. This needs to be addressed if marketing is going to meet the demand of today’s business. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. 2. More transparency. Talk about transparency!)

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 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.

Marketo 120

Marketo Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz 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

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. Next, iDirect sought out a partner to provide strategic counsel and advice on best practices.

Lead Nurturing 100

Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 100

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. Nurture prior to sales interaction.

Marketing Automation Services 48

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Lead Liaison CRM 48

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. Marketing Expertise.

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies 95

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

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. What they found “too hard” wasn’t the software, but the planning and content creation needed for serious marketing automation. That’s not a software problem. What does this mean for the software vendors themselves?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

LeadSloth

AUGUST 26, 2010

Around the same time I got an email announcing Marketo’s Chatter for Sales Insight , integrating sales notifications in the Facebook-like interface of Salesforce.com Chatter. Then I remembered that Pardot also recently announced new social features, called Pardot Social Insight. How useful is this? Social Media ROI.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Social Media Marketing Automation Social Marketing 100

LeadSloth

OCTOBER 16, 2009

According to Forrester, only 2-5% of B2B firms have invested in full-featured Marketing Automation. Increasingly, B2B companies realize that Marketing Automation software requires skilled operators. These are common job requirements: Experience with: Marketing Automation software. But that percentage is rapidly growing.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 100

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