Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

When I first described Customer Data Platforms two and half years ago, all the vendors offered an application such as predictive analytics or campaign management in addition to the "pure" CDP function of building the customer database. It’s primarily used to set up data processing flows for data cleaning, matching, and lead routing.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

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. These companies have large marketing departments that may manage hundreds of campaigns for different products in different locations.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 4, 2010

Summary: Two low-cost demand generation systems, Genoo and Act-On Software, have added unusually advanced social marketing features. A few weeks back, I wrote about social marketing features from consumer marketing automation vendors. Naturally our friends in the business marketing space have been adding such features as well.

Act-On 120

Act-On Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Features 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

I mentioned 6Sense briefly in a recent post about vendors who help companies find prospects on the Web. and key activities (Web site visits, topics researched) and scores at both company and individual levels. and key activities (Web site visits, topics researched) and scores at both company and individual levels.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Activities Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

These changes were evolutionary at best, but company leaders made clear this was on purpose: their current strategy is to make small improvements to ease of use, not add major new or deeper features. Infusionsoft argues that their partner network is a competitive barrier that would be hard for another software vendor to overcome.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Planning 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

I only mention this because I’ve recently been looking at a lot of new (to me) vendors and haven’t been able to write about many of them. This makes it a system for both small business and service vendors: two of my four themes. That''s theme number three. This is enough sales enablement to complete its sweep of the four themes.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

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. That’s important in itself, since those missing links are the greatest obstacle to showing the value of B2B marketing efforts through revenue attribution.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Lead Ranking Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve been gearing up for the next edition of our VEST report on B2B marketing automation systems, which involves catching up with established vendors and chasing down some new ones. Before jumping into the new systems, it helps to define a set of standard features to measure them against.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Automation 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Lead Scoring. Lead scoring configuration. It can also integrate with Salesforce Web-to-Lead forms. Salesforce.com integration.

ActiveConversion 100

ActiveConversion SMB Work Management Lead Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The main basis for my prediction is high growth that vendors reported in 2013, and in particular a trend towards higher revenue per client among the vendors who share that information with me. Users Want Core Marketing Automation Features Both Software Advice and Pepper Global asked what features marketing automation buyers want.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

Changes include a drag-and-drop design tool (similar to Microsoft Powerpoint); integration of opportunities and custom objects from Salesforce.com; better reporting on Web site visitors; and, real time sales alerts on Web activity. Nor will it expand into marketing resource management features for planning and budgeting.

Manticore 120

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management 120

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Over 95% of B2B buyers demand proof that you’ll deliver value, demanding financial justification / ROI quantification prior to purchase approval. Yet, only 7% of buyers say your content and sales reps as value-focused. There is a decided Value Gap between the approach buyers want you to have, and what most B2B vendors are delivering.

Lead Scoring 40

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Gartner Salesforce.com 40

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. Users can drill into the details of each account, including Web activities, emails and score history. - There are some subtle differences.

Marketo 120

Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

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. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.)

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

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. Perhaps most important, many potential buyers still don’t understand the value provided by these systems—although vendors are working very hard to educate them.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 4, 2012

One easily predictable trend in B2B marketing automation is that vendors will tailor their systems to specific industries. I wrote in February about one set of these vendors: Balihoo and others that specialize in helping central marketing organizations work with channel partners such as dealers and franchisees. Integrations with ACT!

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Marketing Automation Advertising Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

Marketing automation vendors have adopted different strategies to deal with their problem, including making their systems easier to use, offering extensive training, and providing services to run the systems for their clients. In other words, RightWave has the features to support pretty much any program marketers might want.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Management Automation 120

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

Multi-Channel Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Channels 120

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. In the early days it was used to sift through hundreds of new B2B leads per day to identify the valuable leads. The Salesforce.com database has some big issues (e.g. Smart or foolish? Background.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services LEADSExplorer netFactor Leadlander 100

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. Pricing: contact vendor. Marketing automation tool combining email marketing, lead management, and reporting with sales alignment. 1) Marketo. 2) HubSpot.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2013

If you’ve heard of Vocus at all, it’s probably as vendor serving public relations professionals. 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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Management Social Marketing 120

LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Many attendees were confused by CRM vendors claiming to offer full marketing functionality. Strong Features of CRM. For CRM, I focused on Salesforce.com. So in short, those are the features that individual sales people will benefit from. Strong Features of Marketing Automation. Profile-based Lead Scoring.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Salesforce.com 100

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. As both sets of systems expand their scope, their features will overlap more and marketers will compare them directly.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services Hubspot Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 14, 2013

Vendors are another matter: there’s inherent scale economy to scanning the Web and social media once and applying the results to many different clients. Infer starts with your own customer data, enhances it with information mined from the Web, and generates predictive scores.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Social Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. 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

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Web behavior tracking, lead scoring, and social discovery (searching for and importing public data on LinkedIn ) are also available. ClickDimensions isn’t the only vendor to take this approach. That gives the add-on vendors efficient access to a huge market.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. They’ll make their money when users see the value they gain and pay for higher volumes and add-on features. This will put substantial pricing pressure on vendors who, in many cases, are already struggling to reach sustainable margins.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

B2B marketing data vendor ReachForce today announced its purchase of SetLogik , which provides technology to build cloud-based marketing databases and do predictive modeling against them. SetLogik’s predictive modeling features make it even easier for marketers to get a return on their investment once the database is in place.

Reachforce 120

Reachforce Buy Marketing Management B2B Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Of the three classic competitive strategies – low price, great service and innovative products – there are plenty of low price options and leading vendors work aggressively to help their clients succeed. This leaves unique features as the only viable strategy for a new firm.* Alsa has some other unusual features.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Salesforce recently rebranded their social marketing application as the Marketing Cloud, and their website says you can use their solutions to “optimize campaigns from lead to close, on every channel”. Common features of a CRM system.

Marketing Automation Services 48

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 48

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. The system is a little above-average in that emails can contain if/then rules to display different images based on differences in lead data.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

But most of us still assume there is a reasonable relationship between price and value. 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.

Pricing 120

Pricing Price Impressions Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 16, 2011

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. Vendors have made the bet by building marketing automation add-ons to a CRM system instead of building a stand-alone marketing automation product.* Of course, the jackpot here is Salesforce.com.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 120

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. Each lead is assigned to the first "child" action whose entry conditions it meets.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

But the system does offer a comprehensive solution for smaller firms and, at least on the CRM side, can integrate with more powerful solutions including Salesforce.com , Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Siebel CRM On Demand. The system’s features for lead scoring and routing are more impressive. But these are awkward solutions.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Now that I’m more or less finished launching the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) , I can start catching up on the other topics. ClickDimensions does pretty much the standard marketing automation activities: email, landing pages, Web visitor tracking, drip marketing campaigns, and lead scoring.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Work Management 120