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7 Reasons Why Oracle's Market2Lead Acquisition Makes a Lot of Sense

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Oracle has just acquired Market2Lead , one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. This is the first transaction involving a major software vendor, so it deserves some notice. Market2Lead Probably Got A Good Deal. Market2Lead was one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. The result: not enough new customers.

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More Blathering About Demand Generation Software

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When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. adding too many features would harm the vendors own sales as well.

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 2

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As discussed in last Friday's post , I see this is one of two truly key features for making simple campaigns easy to build. Build a campaign as a list of stages Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 Build linear campaigns outside of a larger campaign structure.

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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

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Although LoopFuse and others already provide free trials, this is indeed different: while most free trials expire after 30 days and often have limited functionality, LoopFuse’s FreeView can be used for as long as you like and provides pretty much the same features as the paid version of the system.

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 4

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Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 Yes, some features apply more to simple marketing programs and others to complex programs. Every company has a specific set of needs that are addressed by a specific set of features. Here, then, is the final usability matrix.

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Demand Generation Implementation Survey - Background Results

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nbr responses vendor 8 Marketo 6 Eloqua 3 Genius.com 3 LoopFuse 3 Pardot 2 Market2Lead 2 Treehouse Interactive 1 eTrigue 1 Vtrenz (Silverpop) 7 No Response 36 Another intriguing bit of contextual information is the deployment date of the systems. last week) but showed several features as deployed in month three. the system itself 0.67

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

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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. Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables.