Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. I revisited that data today, adding a few new vendors and dropping some of the very minor ones. You can see that post here.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vendors focused on new licenses vs. customer retention. The major software players in the marketing automation space have also seen a lot of changes in the last 5 years. In the last decade, three of the top four B2B solutions: Eloqua, Marketo, and Pardot, have all been acquired by larger companies. Pipeline acceleration?

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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. This is a combination of features, usability, technology, and price.

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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.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JUNE 19, 2019

Of all the love-hate relationships out there, the one between marketers and their marketing automation platform is a classic—at least in the world of software. In a recent TrustRadius survey, 70% of marketers said that Marketing Automation software was very essential to achieving their marketing goals. What’s in the Guide?

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The global marketing automation software market was $2.4 What is marketing automation software? Any tool that helps streamline your marketing processes is considered marketing automation software. Enterprise-level marketing automation software comes with many bells and whistles. billion by 2026.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2020

Hubspot offers software solutions for sales teams, marketers and service reps. While Hubspot offers sales and service software, it is most widely reviewed for its marketing automation solution. Hubspot’s price point, features, or heavy focus on inbound marketing may not be the right fit for every team. . Oracle Eloqua.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Options range from fairly simple, moderately priced systems targeted at midmarket companies to sophisticated suites for enterprise users. Pricing: contact vendor.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. Personally, I’d argue that the really significant news out of LoopFuse is their newly tiered pricing structure. Prices at higher volumes are also much lower than competitors. Other vendors – notably Pardot – have followed a similar cost-removal strategy.

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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. But that doesn’t mean much because the selling prices are so different.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 13, 2020

Marketing automation tools, such as Marketo , Eloqua , HubSpot , Pardot , and Act-O n, are all powerful support systems, but ultimately, choosing an automation tool comes down to what are the must-have elements for your business goals? The right vendor will ask a lot of questions to ensure a successful migration.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

What hardware or software is a company using? For instance, your business might find that your biggest clients are using marketing automation software like Marketo or Eloqua. These pieces of software indicate more than just the fact that a company is using marketing automation. Identify high-potential clients.

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

Integrating the B2B marketing automation solutions with all the technology vendors. Whether they are new at their automation game or have already some experience, they must select a vendor that connects them with a variety of resources. The pricing starts at $1,195/month. The pricing starts at $2,000/month. Customer.io.

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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 ). Just kidding.or

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 5, 2011

We released two more vendor selection workbooks last week, both sponsored by Eloqua and available for free on the RaabGuide Web site. One is about estimating the cost of a marketing automation system and the other is about evaluating vendor services. The cost workbook was a particular challenge because the subject is so complex.

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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. any significant price point, non-commodity products).

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I’ve just finished the latest update of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), available on the raabguide.com Web site. The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. We use two methods: Vendor revenues. Both methods give similar results.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. Teradata announced today that is acquiring marketing automation vendor Aprimo for a very hefty $525 million – even more than the $480 million that IBM paid for somewhat larger Unica in August.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public? Significant market competition from established packaged and on-demand vendors. Extensive pricing pressure from competing services/products at lower prices. Customer needs can shift quickly.

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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

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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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

70% of marketers say marketing automation software is critical to their success. Marketing automation occurs when marketers pass the burden of monotonous tasks to software logic to complete. Integration between your CRM and marketing automation software is critical to the success of your marketing department.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2012

It’s no wonder that B2B marketing automation vendors avoided the issue by piggybacking on the Salesforce.com structure: otherwise, the cost and complexity of building a separate database would have severely limited their growth. The system has an Eloqua connector today and a Marketo connector in the works.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Placing them all in the same product adds cost and complexity, which are not a software developer’s friends. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) (For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 27, 2006

This study looked at several types of software, not just CRM. Access Markets International (AMI) Partners ( www.ami-partners.com ) published “Mid-Market CRM: Vendor Strategies for a New Frontier”, which found only 35% of mid-sized companies have an existing CRM installation. Click here for details.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

I work for a B2B software company and we do regular email blasts. If I were to look at benchmark data from MailChimp we are doing way better than their published rate of 18% for companies in the software industry. Our open rates average 30%. Is this good? OK, if you insist, here are some links to benchmarks I found online.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Software companies have a long history of partnering closely with integrators and service providers large and small, and the vast majority of successful partnerships of this sort are non-exclusive. The good news is that this competition is driving innovation and very affordable price points for customers.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

Sure, our email marketing software has some canned templates but they are very bland. Design #9 Email Sender: Eloqua Email Title: Using Social Channels What I Like: This is a really nicely designed email. Is always good to see what’s out there to give you some ideas. So I decided to create one and share with you. United States License.

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Martech

MARCH 14, 2024

The first marketing automation system (Eloqua) was launched 25 years ago. But I can’t really blame the vendors. A marketing stack should be a set of tools that build on each other but have instead become a jumble of independent, siloed software. This is simply a way for third-party software to get data out of a system.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

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. any significant price point, non-commodity products).

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2009

Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 software suite. Pricing starts at $1,500 per month and the company now has more than 150 midmarket and enterprise customers. tags: marketing automation software, Marketo Lead Management 3.0,

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Webbiquity

JUNE 14, 2011

Steve Woods , Eloqua. A common issue for B2B vendors: how do you sell “boring stuff&# online? I think there could be a huge marketing opportunity for the product in the $500-1,000 per month price range. • Here’s a recap of a few of the key sessions and conversations from the summit. Don’t be boring!

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity.

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Lead Liaison

APRIL 8, 2019

In our six years in business, we’ve seen it happen over and over again, Oracle acquiring Eloqua , Upland Software acquiring LeadLander , Adobe acquires Marketo …the number of acquisitions goes on and on. Customers will expect price increases at their next renewal. . Consolidation in the martech space is nothing new.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This is something I’ve already thought and written about quite a bit, but the discussion did advance my understanding of whether any marketing automation vendor gains a business advantage if third party applications can connect to all of them. At a minimum, the vendors will connect with the most popular systems first.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 3, 2013

On days when I have nothing else to be cranky about, I sometimes fuss at how business-to-business software vendors hijacked the term “marketing automation” despite its long and relatively honorable history describing systems for consumer marketing. One vendor taking advantage of this opening is RedPoint.

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