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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

Customer Experience Matrix

For example, LoopFuse found that nearly twice as many used email and web landing pages as lead scoring. Among B2B vendors, Eloqua is the poster child for this approach. Marketing automation vendors are painfully aware of these issues. They've taken a range of approaches to addressing them. I've seen four distinct strategies: training.

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Multi-Step Campaign Interfaces: A Quick Vendor Survey

Customer Experience Matrix

They look good in demonstrations and can lay out simple processes quite nicely. There are two basic approaches to this: use a flow chart, or present a list of steps. My own opinion is quite firm: flow charts don't work. But they get impossibly convoluted once you try to do something complex.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

Customer Experience Matrix

. - Facebook forms: use forms within Facebook pages and apps to gather customer permissions - social sign-in: use social media sign-in services to replace marketing automation forms - personalized Facebook ads : display different ad versions on a Facebook page based on the user’s profile, including both Facebook and non-Facebook data Marketo - sharing: (..)

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Ranking B2B Marketing Automation Vendors: How I Built My Scores (part 1)

Customer Experience Matrix

Recognizing that buyers will use the chart to select products no matter what I tell them, I settled on dimensions that are directly related to the purchase process: - product fit , which assesses how well a product matches buyer needs. On the other hand, such charts are immensely popular.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

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. There are free papers on the Raab Guide site that can help you organize this process and of course I do consult in this area for a living.

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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

Customer Experience Matrix

These vendors have geared their sales process to selling to large firms, with the in-person demonstrations, technical reviews, formal proposals and contract negotiations that implies. They also tend to have a broader range of supplemental capabilities, such as support for telephone call centers.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy. I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz. All thoughts are welcome!