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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Vendors Comparison Marketing Automation 120

LeadSloth

APRIL 29, 2009

In my previous post I listed the Top-10 Demand Generation blog by marketers and consultants. Today I’ve put together a list of vendor blogs. Most of these vendors blogs really get ‘online marketing’, so they talk about best practices rather then just touting their products, and they post regularly.

Demand Generation 100

Demand Generation Marketing Management ReadyContacts Marketing Automation Services 100

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

This group had about 1,400 clients in mid-2012, generating an estimated $85 million in revenue. The non-specialist vendors such as IBM Unica and SAS, are not included in these figures but also have significant revenue in this segment. This is 5% of industry installations and 25% of industry revenue.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 12, 2009

On Monday, Eloqua announced a new free deployment service for its clients. It follows last month’s free deployment offer from Eloqua reseller Pedowitz Group , which generated quite a bit of comment on this blog. The reality is that a complete demand generation program is something you develop and expand over time.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 8, 2009

The Pedowitz Group announced this morning that it was offering $15,000 in free consulting services and guaranteeing a five-day implementation to new clients who purchase Eloqua demand generation software. On the surface, this is a strength of vendors who promise free implementation and deployment within a few days.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 27, 2009

Eloqua yesterday announced Eloqua Prospect Profiler , which makes it easier for salespeople to review prospect behaviors that are captured by the demand generation system. Replacing the relationship-building is more difficult, but demand generation systems can help somewhat by responding appropriately to prospect behaviors.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Paper Profiling Marketing Automation Services 120

ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Is it simple to set up for an experienced team and intuitive enough for non-technical marketers to create and monitor programs and generate reports? This evaluation looked at the four market leading platforms today—Oracle Eloqua, Marketo, Salesforce Pardot and Hubspot—analyzing 112 requirements that are critical for enterprise environments.

Enterprise Management 130

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Analysis Work Management 130

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. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 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. My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. But I’ve also been approached by some of the other demand generation specialists.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz Demand Generation Agencies 120

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

And what does this mean for our ANNUITAS Perpetual Demand Generation ® (PDG) investments? Marketo COULD HAVE been acquired by one of several enterprise application vendors that simply don’t get marketing. Adobe GETS marketing. And that’s a good thing. – Adobe has a strong focus on Customer Experience (CX).

Marketo 193

Marketo Acquisitions Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management 193

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Vendors 120

Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Finally, the new 2013 B2B Lead Generation Report is available! Download it here: [link] ) The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted the 2013 lead generation survey to better understand how B2B marketers are adjusting to new challenges, and to identify new trends and best practices. The results are in.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Lead Generation Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

you know that I see a lot of demand generation systems. Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. I don't expect this news to change the minds of vendors who made the opposite decision.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

PathFactory

MAY 2, 2022

Toronto, ON – May 2, 2022 – PathFactory announces its next-generation PathFactory for Revenue Enablement, further closing the gap between marketing and sales by empowering sellers to deliver bespoke buying experiences at scale, built from marketing-curated content. Match the best performing content journeys to your targeted accounts.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Marketing Management Marketing Qualified Leads Buy 52

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Usability Items for Simple Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) Build a campaign as a list of stages Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 Build linear campaigns outside of a larger campaign structure.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Manticore 120

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Not surprisingly, virtual event technology vendors have responded. 2) Business and lead generation. The platform’s primary benefit is to create business value for customers, to produce ROI by generating qualified leads and driving attendees toward meaningful interaction during the event and afterwards. The Company.

Marketing Automation Services 136

Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Eloqua Sales Qualified Leads 136

ANNUITAS

JUNE 28, 2012

In our last post , we introduced a list of 9 things marketers need from marketing automation vendors and consultants. We came up with this list to help make sense of “the noise” being generated by software vendors and service providers in the space (yes, we are one of those providers). I applaud them for that.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

ANNUITAS

JUNE 28, 2012

In our last post , we introduced a list of 9 things marketers need from marketing automation vendors and consultants. We came up with this list to help make sense of “the noise” being generated by software vendors and service providers in the space (yes, we are one of those providers). I applaud them for that.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vendors focused on new licenses vs. customer retention. In the last decade, three of the top four B2B solutions: Eloqua, Marketo, and Pardot, have all been acquired by larger companies. In that sense, vendors are paying a real price for their customers’ lack of maturity. Photo by John T on Unsplash.

Marketing Automation Services 147

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 147

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Not to be obsessive or anything, but I do want to respond a bit more to the anonymous comment on last Thursday’s post, which said (the comment, that is) “Eloqua is definitely a marketing automation and campaign management tool. MRM is not something Eloqua does now, but I would expect them to in the future.”

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Resource Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality. The company’s original focus was on web analytics.

Manticore 100

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 25, 2013

Last October, KoMarketing Associates announced the launch of research consultancy Software Advice’s B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Survey. In a poll of 155 primarily C-level marketing experts, social media received the largest percentage of votes for demand generation channels that marketers will spend more on in 2013.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Advertising Benchmark Customer Surveys Demand 120

Leadspace

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Predictive analytics is a hot topic for B2B lead generation professionals, prominent on the event agenda and well represented by the sponsors in attendance. For anyone attending—and even for those not attending but who still have an interest in predictive analytics—I thought it would be useful to revisit these five questions to ask vendors.

Work Management 48

Work Management Marketing Management Vendors Lead Ranking 48

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. I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). Read it here.]

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 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. There might still be some others: two of the vendors haven't spoken with me, which could mean they agree with my ratings but, more likely, means they just haven't been paying attention. 9 Now what?

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Demand Generation Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

I've been having a dandy time analyzing the results of my Demand Generation Implementation Survey. As of April 29, I've received 40 responses, of which I've discarded two as incomplete and two because they related to vendors I considered irrelevant ( Zoho and Ad Giants PitchRocket). the system itself 0.67

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand Marketing Automation Services 120

Oktopost

MARCH 11, 2020

As Andrew Davies, Head of Global Digital Marketing at Capco, put it : “ When our employee advocates share content through social media, it always resonates much further and generates many more engagements than our corporate feeds. Today, people are far more likely to interact with content when it’s shared by someone they know.

Linkedin 138

Linkedin Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 138

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 21, 2009

Yet my impression from industry vendors and consultants is that most deployments start with a fairly extended planning stage where companies either document their existing campaigns and processes or, more likely, define a large number of new ones. Tags: system implementation demand generation marketing automation lead management.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand Generation 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. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. Marketo is a Force.com application that works only with Salesforce.com, while Eloqua works with several CRM products.

Marketo 120

Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. For those of us who don’t get out much, that’s downright exciting. Myth busted.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Report Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 11, 2011

Our just-released update to the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Toolkit (VEST) shows that client counts grew just over 50% over the year ending in June, compared with nearly 100% growth for the year ending last December. You might think the slower rate is expected because each period starts from a larger base. Not necessarily.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Marketing Automation ActiveConversion 120

Directive Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

Directories offer 2 main growth solutions: Buyer intent data subscriptions : vendors get account-level intelligence on category, product profile, and comparison views. Cost-per-click (CPC) auctions : vendors bid to rank higher in a directory category page and pay per click to their site to generate leads.

Peer-to-peer 59

Peer-to-peer Work Management Marketing Management Cost Per Click 59

ANNUITAS

MARCH 10, 2016

However, even as amazing as email is for demand generation, used outside the context of a solid demand generation strategy, it can have a negative effect on productivity, communications, brand, revenue and growth. It’s been nearly two decades since marketing automation pushed into the B2B scene with the introduction of Eloqua in 1999.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Eloqua Paid Search Agency 100

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. Even though this is limited to the vendors in the Guide, it's a pretty representative sample of the industry as a whole. The vendors also charged additional per-user fees for these modules. Social media.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. Vendors in the VEST are asked for estimates of their client counts by company size. For a couple of vendors, I’ve used my own estimate based on past data.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Report Marketing Management 120

markempa

AUGUST 4, 2014

Tweet “I think at its core, lead generation is really about relationships,” said Brain Carroll, Executive Director of Revenue Optimization, MECLABS. Steve: So 10 years ago, you published Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. Brian Carroll: Yeah, we are coming up on 10 years. Steve: That’s crazy! So much time has passed!

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation Demand Generation Agencies 120