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PowerViews with Andrew Gaffney: Tipping Points & Differentiators

ViewPoint

Asked about whether Salesforce.com may make an acquisition, he notes they do play nicely with several marketing automation providers, and an argument could be made that they are purposely staying out. Widespread Use of Outbound Marketing Among Software Providers. Lead Evaluation Metrics: A Leaning Curve to Relevance in Reporting.

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How to Compare Demand Generation Vendors: Choosing Summary Measures

Customer Experience Matrix

Categories for the self-evaluation seem pretty obvious: they would be the standard demand generation functions (outbound email, landing pages and forms, nurturing campaigns, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration), maybe a menu for less standard functions (e.g. price range, and willingness to consider less established vendors.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

There are at least 4 amorphous groups of solution providers also setting their sights on this space: 1) Lead generation services or tools – Because this category contains both service providers (that look more like agencies or telesales outsourcers) and software as a service vendors, there are probably more than I could possibly name.