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Marketing Automation Vendors Are Not Delivering On Marketers’ Needs For Reporting And Analytics. Here’s Why.

InsightSquared

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. However marketers are largely dissatisfied with the reporting their MAPs offer. Shiny features sell.

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Ranking B2B Marketing Automation Vendors: Part 3

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: The first two posts in this series described my scoring for product fit. The third and final post describes scoring for vendor strength. And I'll give a little preview of the charts these scores produce.without product names attached. As with product fit, I used different weights for different types of buyers.

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Why there are 10,000 martech products that “kinda all do the same thing” (but not really)

chiefmartech

One of the perennial criticisms of the martech landscape is that “most of these products all do the same thing.” With an increasingly exasperated tone, people ask, for example, “What’s the point of hundreds of CRMs or marketing automation tools? All email marketing tools kinda do the same thing.

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Marketing Automation Trends and Strategies for Your Firm

Hinge Marketing

There’s a good amount of complexity to work through in understanding marketing automation (MA) for professional services firms— with countless products featuring a constantly-evolving array of capabilities and features. The Major Trends in Marketing Automation. Adoption of marketing automation is spreading.

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Why Are There So Many Types of Customer Data Platforms? It's Complicated.

Customer Experience Matrix

An important point is it’s hard to do a good job of delivering messages, so delivery systems are large, complex products. Like message delivery, those are complicated tasks that can easily be the sole focus of a “best of breed” product or products. It often depends on the origins of the product.

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Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

Customer Experience Matrix

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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NurtureHQ Offers "Dead Easy Marketing Automation". Is That Enough?

Customer Experience Matrix

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. But is it so much easier than the other products I just listed?