The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The conclusion: most B2B companies were failing to follow even the most basic lead management best practices, even in areas that one would assume were a primary business case for purchasing marketing automation in the first place. Vendors focused on new licenses vs. customer retention. Lead to sale conversion rates?

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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.

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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.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Not surprisingly, virtual event technology vendors have responded. This is driven partly by disappointment in tools purchased early in the lockdown, and partly by the demand from attendees for richer, more engaging online event experiences. 2) Business and lead generation. The Company. Year founded: January 2020. The Lessons.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. My original set of products was based on a general knowledge of which companies are most established, plus some consultation with vendors to learn who they felt were their main competitors. How to choose?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2014

The CDP industry has been moving along nicely without my attention: new CDPs keep emerging and the existing vendors are growing. This model can score new leads and classify existing opportunities in the sales pipeline. A typical scheme would create A, B, C, and D lead classes, where A leads are best.

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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.”

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Although the improved UI is the big change, the new version also adds integration with SalesForce.com for AdWords campaigns and improved lead generation capabilities. It competes with vendors such as Marketo , Eloqua , Marketbright and Genoo. The company’s original focus was on web analytics.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2016

Intent data is one of hottest topics in marketing today – see, for example, Oracle’s recent purchase of AddThis. B22B lead generation vendor True Influence today announced a new product to help fill these gaps. InsightBASE has standard integrations with Marketo , Oracle Eloqua , and Salesforce.com.

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Rev

MAY 21, 2018

If you have a marketing automation platform — like Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot, or Pardot — then you are probably using intent data. Ideally, you are using this intent data, among other things, as an input to your lead scoring model. . The Truth Intent Vendors Don’t Want to Talk About. First, what is intent data?

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

I mentioned 6Sense briefly in a recent post about vendors who help companies find prospects on the Web. Since then, I’ve had a more detailed briefing, which clarified that their scope extends well beyond prospect lists to predictive models applied across all stages of the purchase cycle. Formal release was in May 2014.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JUNE 19, 2019

Which vendors offer high quality pre-sale AND post-sale support? What type of learning & training resources does the vendor offer? Here’s the list of the Marketing Automation products featured in the guide: Adobe Campaign Oracle Eloqua Marketo Pardot Act-On HubSpot SharpSpring. Which products are within your price range?

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

B2B marketing data vendor ReachForce today announced its purchase of SetLogik , which provides technology to build cloud-based marketing databases and do predictive modeling against them. See my post from last October for more on SetLogik.) There’s an obvious peanut butter-meets-jelly type of logic to this match.

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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. Eloqua focused on making it easier to embed sharable links within conventional marketing assets.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. This will put substantial pricing pressure on vendors who, in many cases, are already struggling to reach sustainable margins. Other vendors – notably Pardot – have followed a similar cost-removal strategy. Here’s where the free system comes back into play.

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PathFactory

MAY 2, 2022

Using actual, near real-time content engagement signals, AI-driven targeting, and personalization, Go To Market teams can easily provide a relevant, seamless experience where the buyer can find all the information they need to make a purchase decision. “A Visit PathFactory.com to learn more.

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Leadspace

OCTOBER 5, 2016

No matter how good the algorithms, AI will not produce usable insights and information to drive demand generation if you cripple it with the static data in your CRM or purchased from traditional data vendors. They only care about good leads that can be contacted. Solving that problem is fundamental to the success of AI.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. The most notable is Eloqua, which as a public company has to report its results. Figures for other vendors are not publicly available but I've seen hints that several have slowed as well.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 12, 2012

In the foreword to Revenue Engine: Why Revenue Performance Management is the Next Frontier of Competitive Advantage by Steve Woods and Alex Shootman, Eloqua CEO Joe Payne writes that “This is not a book about marketing. It’s not about sales. This is a book about the only thing that matters: revenue.”

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

One can choose many goals such as: Generating more leads by increasing traffic to the website. Integrating the B2B marketing automation solutions with all the technology vendors. m) Lead and customer lifecycle management. b) Assistance With Lead Nurturing. 2) Select the Marketing Automation Solutions of Your Choice.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The main basis for my prediction is high growth that vendors reported in 2013, and in particular a trend towards higher revenue per client among the vendors who share that information with me. There’s still a bit of selection bias – it won’t work if a company isn’t on the Internet – but the impact is obviously much less.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

And it likely won’t slow down: according to Aberdeen Group, companies that utilize marketing automation have a 107% better lead conversion rate and 40% greater average deal size. That’s probably why more than 100 vendors have swelled the ranks of those offering automation tools. So without further ado: Eloqua. Read the post.).

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 14, 2013

Predictive models can show how different attributes correlate with targeted behaviors such as purchasing a product. Vendors are another matter: there’s inherent scale economy to scanning the Web and social media once and applying the results to many different clients.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Here the author outlines the crucial preparatory steps to a successful lead nurturing strategy. But they’re just that: tools.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 4, 2011

Marketo, Aprimo, Eloqua, Silverpop and all the rest are there to push this technology towards you. As they should… because without a sound lead nurturing process your firm suffers and those leads you worked so hard to generate will likely do business with competitors. Remember, not all leads are created equal.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 4, 2011

Marketo, Aprimo, Eloqua, Silverpop and all the rest are there to push this technology towards you. As they should… because without a sound lead nurturing process your firm suffers and those leads you worked so hard to generate will likely do business with competitors. Remember, not all leads are created equal.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. However, there was quite a buzz as many tried to discover which marketing automation platform Salesforce.com decided to purchase for their own use. I believe this will continue to be the focus of the company in the foreseeable future.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

And it likely won’t slow down: according to Aberdeen Group, companies that utilize marketing automation have a 107% better lead conversion rate and 40% greater average deal size. That’s probably why more than 100 vendors have swelled the ranks of those offering automation tools. Read the post.) Get reading, learn, and enjoy!

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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 ).

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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?

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams. So here’s a quick “getting started” guide that looks at the marketing automation implementation process from a 10,000 foot view and gets you ready to used what will become your most important lead generation engine.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

Both Unica and Aprimo were long-established vendors with fundamentally stable products sold primarily to large enterprises: although their new owners may market them more broadly, they’ll be selling pretty much what IBM and Teradata always sold (big systems) to pretty much the same customers (big companies).

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Common automation themes include outbound and inbound lead generation, campaign management, workflows, email sequences, reporting, and analytics. Tools like landing pages and segmentation can help you to build leads and drive interest to new visitors. The goal is to convert leads into long term satisfied customers.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 10, 2011

This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. For Eloqua, at least, they say there’s no need to worry since HubSpot is serving a very different market.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

After creating, building, and leading the Oracle Marketing Cloud from obscurity to industry leadership for the last 3 years, which was a beyond-amazing career experience (thank you Oracle!), — See how real time data enrichment makes lead generation easier and more effective. Hello, all, and here’s to a promising 2017!

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chiefmartech

APRIL 4, 2017

Many martec vendors promote that they have built-in integrations to one or more systems. We have consulted with clients that use Salesforce.com (SFDC) for their CRM, and we were tasked with integrating their newly-purchased marketing automation platform (MAP) with it. Out-of-the-box integration: caveat emptor. REST versus SOAP API.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. This has been sadly lacking in most B2B marketing automation systems, which supplement the Salesforce.com database with barely-extensible lead profiles and contact histories.

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