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. But “segmented prospect email followup sequence design and automation,” while a more accurate label for the category, certainly isn’t as catchy.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Sales intelligence software/platforms help companies use data to increase sales and improve sales processes. Depending on the software/platform there are additional features and functionality you should look out for depending on the objectives of your business. Remove “Hi <insert email>” from the equation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2014

Before jumping into the new systems, it helps to define a set of standard features to measure them against. nurture campaigns), and share leads with a CRM system like Salesforce.com. nurture campaigns), and share leads with a CRM system like Salesforce.com.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2015

The latest incarnation describes itself as “software for multi-channel marketing” but still provides core functions and connects with third party apps. These include Salesforce.com for CRM, InsideView and FullContact for data enhancement, Twilio for text messaging, Lob for postcards, Segment for event tracking, and GoodData for reporting.

Multi-Channel 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 9, 2011

Summary : Act-On Software’s revised system offers a reasonable mix of features in an easy-to-use interface. I started last week to write a review of Act-On Software’s latest release but got distracted by the larger and sexier question of Act-On’s business strategy. tracking within Act-On emails sent through Microsoft Outlook.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 13, 2014

Last year’s biggest marketing automation acquisitions were products for consumer marketing: ExactTarget by Salesforce.com , Neolane by Adobe , and Responsys by Oracle. The three products overlapped significantly, especially in campaign management, and it took Teradata a while to sort things out.

Enterprise Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It only recently added standard B2B marketing automation features including a customer-level marketing database, outbound email, landing pages, lead scoring, Web behavior tracking, reporting, and Salesforce.com integration. I still doubt Salesforce.com will get the message any time soon, but maybe they'll start to reconsider.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Those evolved slowly – personalized printing and modern campaign managers appeared in the 1980’s. The big changes started in the 1990’s when email and Web marketing provided a flood of data about customer behaviors and vendors responded with a flood of new systems to work with it.

Work Management 120

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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.

Enterprise Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. I do expect vendors to converge on more standard social media features. 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Summary: Right On Interactive has added great life stage reporting to the data integration and output generation features of its earlier 5Buckets product. campaign design: users can define campaigns with multiple “tactics”. These features let Right On support multi-step campaigns although complex designs would be a challenge.

Salesforce.com 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2013

It lacks the Salesforce.com integration of B2B systems (due early next year), the lightweight CRM of micro-business systems, and the lead scoring and distribution of both. On the other hand, it does offer email and landing pages, two marketing automation basics, as well as several features borrowed from Vocus PR software.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Other than Raab Associates’ own VEST report , we’ve seen surveys of active buyers from Software Advice , usage figures based on direct observation from Mintigo and Venture Beat (using Datanyze) , and another broad-based survey from Pepper Global and Holger Shulze. Features Don''t Drive Decisions.or

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

Summary: Right On Interactive's 5Buckets connects lists from external customer management systems with many types of output vendors (email, print, fax, text message, automated voice). It's a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to more powerful marketing automation systems for companies who don't need other marketing automation features.

Multi-Channel 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Both approaches have their merits: central storage makes coordination easier but requires continued extension of system features to handle new formats; touchpoint storage makes it harder to know what content is actually available and appropriate. In other words, SiteCore has been steadily executing on the strategy they described in 2009.

Enterprise Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

The classic demand generation cycle starts with an outbound email campaign, captures replies on a landing page, scores the responses, and then sends qualified leads to a sales automation system and keeps the others for more nurturing. Leads can enter from channels other than email. Registration is no longer required.)

Active Conversion 120

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. This changed over time: now the focus has shifted to pro-active outreach to a handful of executives, instead of targeting thousands of software developers. Smart or foolish? Background.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. This means that a system for both will include several features needed by only one group or the other. Paid search campaigns are supported through integration with Omniture SearchCenter.

Paid Search Agency 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them. It’s a little hard to review software that isn’t used by its buyers. In other words, RightWave has the features to support pretty much any program marketers might want.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology. add a tracking tag) to the Web site itself.

Work Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

This gave salespeople a desktop “Tracker” that instantly alerted them when prospects responded to their emails, and showed which pages the prospects visited on their company Web site. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

Enterprise Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. The demonstration was short because the system uses only a few features to deliver them. They’re assigned to campaigns by defining entry conditions for campaign steps, which the system calls “actions”.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. Since my July 2009 review , HubSpot has further extended the system to include social media monitoring and sharing, limited list segmentation and simple drip marketing campaigns.

Small Business Marketing 120

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

So, the last five months of the year, I’ve published, blogged, tweeted, posted, emailed, key-noted, panel spoken, commented, and so forth a lot on this exciting new transition. And that’s before you get to the Google, FB, Amazon, MSFT, Verizon, … IDs.

Enterprise Management 116

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. Many said they never progressed beyond email because the next step was too hard. What they found “too hard” wasn’t the software, but the planning and content creation needed for serious marketing automation. That’s not a software problem.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This is why it’s hard to imagine that low-priced software can deliver similar performance to mainstream products. The company’s marketing is tightly targeted at very small businesses (under 25 employees) but its marketing features are competitive with demand generation products aimed at much larger firms.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This breadth isn’t accompanied by tremendous depth: SalesFusion’s campaign management and built-in CRM tools are a bit limited. Results from all these channels are managed through a unified campaign structure, which creates a hierarchy of campaigns and subcampaigns to allow channel-level rollups. But these are awkward solutions.

Enterprise Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 16, 2011

I wrote in February about ClickDimensions , which adds advanced email campaigns and Web tracking to Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Of course, the jackpot here is Salesforce.com. Neither matches the scope of even a mid-tier marketing automation product, but many of the “missing” features would be available in other Salesforce add-ons.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The most important addition is a flow builder that supports branching campaigns. This is a bit limited – each node can only have yes/no branches – but it includes a reasonable set of actions including send an email, wait, notify user, add or remove from list, and run CRM workflow.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2009

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. Aprimo is in the early stages of launching Aprimo Marketing Studio , a new Software-as-a-Service marketing automation suite that is separate from the existing Aprimo product.*

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Pardot and other SMB systems don’t just offer a few simple features. In fact, Pardot in particular provides advanced capabilities including progressive profiling (automatically changing the questions on forms as customer answer them) and dynamic content (rule-driven selection of content blocks within emails and Web pages).

Demand Generation 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

ClickDimensions does pretty much the standard marketing automation activities: email, landing pages, Web visitor tracking, drip marketing campaigns, and lead scoring. After all, separate systems must synchronize databases, campaigns, users, content libraries, activity histories, and other things, adding cost and complexity.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

First, the company invested in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform that integrated well with the company’s CRM system, Salesforce.com. Many companies implementing marketing automation software let the technology drive strategy,” says Howard Sewell, Spear President. “We

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Most offer a CRM option (typically priced at $10 to $20 per seat per month) for companies who don't want to pay for Salesforce.com. The feature/function lists of these products are often comparable to systems aimed at larger companies, although there are certainly differences when you look at the details.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

But even including that, the first year cost for most of these will be less.) : Manticore Technology : a full-featured demand generation product. Pricing for a full-featured system was $597 per month—quite a bargain. It offers a pretty complete set of features, with shortfalls in some areas balanced by strengths in others.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

In fact, he said he has actually removed features from the system because customers weren’t using them. But he also decided that marketers want Webinar integration, digital asset management, APIs to capture data from external Web forms, and a dedicated IP address for email. But if Giese is right, they will be.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 16, 2009

According to Forrester, only 2-5% of B2B firms have invested in full-featured Marketing Automation. Increasingly, B2B companies realize that Marketing Automation software requires skilled operators. Bronto, Marketing Campaign Manager ( PDF ), Durham NC. Tableau, Marketing Campaign Manager ( PDF ), Seattle WA.

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