Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. It’s not yet clear which vendors will dominate the industry or what form the successful systems will take.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 16, 2011

I’ve long believed that B2B marketing automation is just a passing phase: that, ultimately, B2B marketing automation systems will be absorbed into CRM systems instead of operating independently. But there are also a few vendors who have bet in favor of merged systems, so it wouldn’t be fair to ignore their view entirely.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. LoopFuse knows that, of course.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2015

Back then, they positioned themselves as a “marketing operating system” that provided core functions but would ultimately let users connect with third party apps. The latest incarnation describes itself as “software for multi-channel marketing” but still provides core functions and connects with third party apps.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

These companies have large marketing departments that may manage hundreds of campaigns for different products in different locations. Our scoring reflects their need for special features for automated content selection, project management, complex lead scores, and tight control over the rights granted to individual users.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Teradata today announced it plans to sell its Marketing Applications business. It’s only three weeks since Teradata expanded its marketing suite by buying a new Data Management Platform – a move I felt made great sense. Point of reference: Salesforce.com reported $505 million revenue for its B2C marketing cloud in 2015.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2012

It’s more than three years since my original post about SiteCore’s plans to transform itself from a Web content management system to a platform for cross-channel customer experience management. This vision should sound familiar: it’s the idea behind the real time decision management systems I’ve been reviewing recently.

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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!), Real-time content/offer management. Hello, all, and here’s to a promising 2017! As most of you know, I had a big change in 2016.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

Tuesday’s post on the Adobe Marketing Cloud illustrated the complexity of solutions that combine many marketing and advertising components. And Lenovo uses just only two of Adobe’s eight solutions. And Lenovo uses just only two of Adobe’s eight solutions. But such integrated solutions are rarely comprehensive.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Why Does Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Marketing Automation Integration Matter? In this article we’ll discuss why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and marketing automation integration matter to businesses with a sales and marketing team. As a user myself, I first started using Salesforce.com. Sales Insight.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

My previous posts about Journey Orchestration Engines (JOEs) have all pointed to new products. Indeed, some features the product had a decade ago are still cutting edge today – my favorite is simulation of proposed decision rules to assess their impact before deployment. But some older systems qualify as well.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

It’s just over one year since I first spoke with Lytics *, which at that time was (accurately) calling itself a Customer Data Platform but had not yet released a beta version of its product. CEO James McDermot said the label was changed because big companies thought a CDP sounded like an IT project, not something run by marketers.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. Look, I know online marketing is important. is that nobody needs a comprehensive online marketing suite. They need a comprehensive marketing suite, period, that includes both online and offline activities.

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xiQ

APRIL 12, 2016

Not that any other kind of recognition is not exciting – in our short career since we launched xiQ Market Intelligence Platform 1.0 These revenue related wins go a long way in increasing the user base, bring in new ideas for product enhancement and most importantly fund growth into the future.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 17, 2015

My first question when Marketo announced its new mobile app connector this week wasn’t, “What cool new things can marketers do?” Specifically, it hasn’t let users set up custom objects (although they’ve been able to import custom objects from Salesforce.com or Microsoft Dynamics CRM ). but “Where is the data stored?”

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LeadSloth

MAY 25, 2010

Oracle has just acquired Market2Lead , one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. There has been a lot of talk in the industry about possible consolidation, such as vendors going out of business, becoming irrelevant or being acquired. Market2Lead was one of the early Marketing Automation vendors.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

I spoke today with Genius.com , whose new nurture marketing system, Genius Enterprise, will officially launch next week. Note: in addition to the original proxy server technology, Genius also now offers a tracking solution based on inserting conventional tags into Web pages. Genius.com’s term for this is “dynamic engagement”.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 15, 2007

Our friends at Accenture have once again illustrated the point with a paper “ Surveying and Building Your CRM Future ,” whose subtitle promises “a New CRM Software Decision-Making Model”. Each combination neatly maps to a different class of CRM software. Of course, some vendors might disagree.)

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xiQ

APRIL 12, 2016

Not that any other kind of recognition is not exciting – in our short career since we launched xiQ Market Intelligence Platform 1.0 These revenue related wins go a long way in increasing the user base, bring in new ideas for product enhancement and most importantly fund growth into the future.

Enterprise Management 48

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. So I was quite curious to see what they had to offer. What I found was intriguing.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

How can you drive fast growth with marketing? I first met Fowler when he was co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). After you sold Jigsaw to Salesforce.com why didn’t you decide to ride off into the sunset? . Transcript.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 30, 2012

My guest today is Craig Rosenberg, Vice President, Sales and Marketing and Co-Founder at Focus. He is also author of a popular sales and marketing blog, Funnelholic , where he shares B2B content with an edge. Craig specializes in lead generation, lead qualification, and B2B marketing and sales. Their ideology is pervasive.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. Where marketing is going. We believe that marketing is undergoing a deep transformation driven by large-scale trends such as the rise of self-directed consumers and broad and instant availability of information online.

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Engagio

DECEMBER 28, 2020

But to succeed in B2B Sales and Marketing, we must keep up with the trends despite the unpredictability. We engaged the top minds in B2B Sales and Marketing for their prescient understanding of two powerful questions: What are your predictions for ABM in 2021? CEO at Marvel Marketers | LinkedIn. The truth is vision isn’t easy.

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chiefmartech

APRIL 4, 2017

Is your marketing team having challenges in seamlessly planning and executing campaigns with the tools they use? In supporting your company’s business objectives, you may realize that your existing martech stack doesn’t meet your current marketing needs due to one or more systems: Not having the required capabilities.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. It’s actually quite a long story, dating back to the company’s initial sales automation system in 1997, followed by its MarketingView demand generation product in 1999.

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LeanData

APRIL 8, 2015

Solution Includes Account-Based Nurturing for Marketo. experts in lead management solutions, announced that its customer base has increased to over 85 customers, a 400% increase compared to a year ago. Account-based marketing initiatives continue to pick up steam. Sunnyvale, Calif., April 8, 2015 — LeanData, Inc.

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LeanData

MARCH 25, 2014

LeanData simplifies the B2B sales process, enables sales and marketing to close deals faster. a startup focused on lead management software announced today that it has secured $5.1 Ravi Mohan, Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, joined the company’s board of directors. Sunnyvale, CA, March 25, 2014 : LeanData, Inc.

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LeanData

MARCH 25, 2014

LeanData simplifies the B2B sales process, enables sales and marketing to close deals faster. a startup focused on lead management software announced today that it has secured $5.1 Ravi Mohan, Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, joined the company’s board of directors. Sunnyvale, CA, March 25, 2014 : LeanData, Inc.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Applications such as Salesforce.com already let sales staff keep track of existing customers or potential customers, but Demandbase Stream falls into a newer category of tools designed to help them find new customers in the first place. It can also filter out traffic that originates from outside a given geographical area of interest.

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LeanData

APRIL 8, 2015

Solution Includes Account-Based Nurturing for Marketo. experts in lead management solutions, announced that its customer base has increased to over 85 customers, a 400% increase compared to a year ago. Account-based marketing initiatives continue to pick up steam. Sunnyvale, Calif., April 8, 2015 — LeanData, Inc.

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

LeanData

APRIL 8, 2015

Solution Includes Account-Based Nurturing for Marketo. experts in lead management solutions, announced that its customer base has increased to over 85 customers, a 400% increase compared to a year ago. Account-based marketing initiatives continue to pick up steam. Sunnyvale, Calif., April 8, 2015 — LeanData, Inc.

Account Based Marketing 40

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – September 23, 2014 – As word continues to spread about the effectiveness of video marketing, organizations are flocking to Vidyard to help them optimize the performance of video assets and identify and convert online video viewers. “Simply having a presence on YouTube is no longer enough.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – September 23, 2014 – As word continues to spread about the effectiveness of video marketing, organizations are flocking to Vidyard to help them optimize the performance of video assets and identify and convert online video viewers. “Simply having a presence on YouTube is no longer enough.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – September 23, 2014 – As word continues to spread about the effectiveness of video marketing, organizations are flocking to Vidyard to help them optimize the performance of video assets and identify and convert online video viewers. Simply having a presence on YouTube is no longer enough.

Enterprise Management 50

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