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

Customer Experience Matrix

So marketing automation vendors are understandably eager to support it in their systems. I recently took a quick tour of vendor sites to see what social features they’re offering. I need to stress that I’ve only credited vendors for features they list on their site. Results are summarized in the table below.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. This lets people easily send a Tweet, post to a Facebook wall or create a LinkedIn article that points to the original content.

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New White Paper and Eloqua Prospect Profiler

Customer Experience Matrix

The behavior data captured by marketing automation systems restores the balance by providing an alternate source of insights into prospect interests and intentions. These are already assembled by various vendors, so all that’s needed is a relatively simple integration. It would be done by system administrators instead.

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Genius.com Adds Short URLs to Capture Social Media Replies

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s a small but important step towards making social media a standard business tool. It generates short URLs that directly connect social media responses with Genius.com’s standard marketing and sales support features. These links are typically placed in an email created by a salesperson or marketer. That’s a very small step.

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Inbound Marketing and Outbound Marketing, by Tony Soprano

Smashmouth Marketing

Many companies also operate inside sales departments, and there has been an industry built around supporting these efforts and providing superior service to clients. Services such as appointment setting, lead generation and list development are pervasive and a very common tool in the demand gen arsenal.

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Inbound Marketing and Outbound Marketing, by Tony Soprano

Smashmouth Marketing

Many companies also operate inside sales departments, and there has been an industry built around supporting these efforts and providing superior service to clients. Services such as appointment setting, lead generation and list development are pervasive and a very common tool in the demand gen arsenal.

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DemandBase Creeps Up the Value Chain

Customer Experience Matrix

That is, they take business data from several including sources Hoovers, D&B , LexisNexis , AccuData , BusinessWatch Network , Jigsaw ) and merge it into one big contact list that people can use for outbound promotions or to enhance their own files. It’s a perfectly reasonable business, but not one I find especially exciting.