Martech

JANUARY 9, 2023

What factors are driving marketing automation platform use, and what capabilities do MAPs provide for B2B marketers? Our new report, “ B2B Marketing Automation Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide ” is now available for free download. How vendors differentiate on capabilities.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 25, 2016

Our tour of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors has now reached Execution. That definition could apply to almost any system that delivers marketing messages, but the ABM Guide includes only ABM specialists. Many can also push messages to other channels via marketing automation or CRM integration.

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Martech

JANUARY 26, 2023

After you’ve determined if your company needs one , it’s time to select a vendor and schedule demos. Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Are they showing us our “must-have” features?

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Now, Steve happens to work in product marketing for Oracle Marketing Cloud , home of Eloqua, typically regarded as the most feature-rich (some would say: complex) marketing automation solution on the market. In the broader market, however, our agency’s experience tells a different story.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 12, 2014

I recently did a study of the strategies of B2B marketing automation vendors. Some approaches definitely had better track records than others, but it’s important to recognize that the market has changed over time, so past performance doesn’t necessarily indicate future success. Most vendors used more than one strategy.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2015

Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. Open source vendor Mautic has some interesting potential but it’s too soon to see any actual impact.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work?

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Martech

JANUARY 21, 2022

For starters, once you have determined that ABM software makes sense for your business, spend time researching individual vendors and their capabilities by doing the following: Make a list of all the ABM capabilities you currently have, those that you would like to have and those that you can’t live without.

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Martech

JULY 6, 2022

To be honest, many of us owe our careers and jobs to marketing technology and the results it drives for marketers. . We also owe a debt of gratitude to many martech vendors, who not only build the platforms on which we work, but who also produce a plethora of marketing education including classes, workshops, and certifications.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 17, 2024

In the B2B industry, email automation has become a transformative tool enabling you to streamline communication, offer personalized content, and cultivate leads efficiently. To enhance your email campaigns, it’s crucial to understand and implement effective strategies for B2B email marketing automation.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering many benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. What marketing automation capabilities are most critical to our business?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Have we outgrown our current marketing system? What kind of marketing automation platform do we need?

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Marketers can do a better job of picking their marketing automation vendors if they roll up their sleeves and work at it. I wrote yesterday about building a requirements document to define the features you'll look for. But you also need a vendor who will support your long-term success.

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B2BMarketing.net

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Making the right martech choice to enable account-based marketing just got an awful lot easier with the launch of B2B Marketing’s first Martech Vendor Spotlight Report , which focused on the ABM category. This report lists all those vendors who can help marketers to run an ABM strategy. The post New!

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Martech

JULY 29, 2022

Once you’ve gone through the checklist to determine if you need — and are ready for — an ABM solution, the next step is to identify and contact vendors. Your vendor shortlist. For example, if enriching your ICPs with deeper technographic data is important, be sure to ask about it during vendor interviews and demos.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 5, 2014

I finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday, which is always a great relief. What I did for my analysis was look at changes in vendor scores for the 200 items that go into the VEST data. That gives an interesting view of where vendors are improving their products.

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 22, 2020

30-second summary: We provide five examples of enterprise-level providers of marketing automation solutions including industry case studies. Each of these companies are leaders in marketing automation, with enterprise businesses (and, in some cases, SMBs) benefiting from their platforms, solutions, and technology.

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Martech

MARCH 9, 2022

Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Are they showing us our “must-have” features? Marketing automation and agent training. Does the platform feature whisper messages to announce caller sources or other valuable information to our agents before accepting the call?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Does the vendor seem to understand our business and marketing needs? Are they showing us our “must-have” features? Explore platform capabilities from vendors like Sitecore, Optimizely, Pantheon, WordPressVIP and more in the full MarTech Intelligence Report on digital experience platforms. Click here to download!

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ClickDimensions

MARCH 14, 2023

One of these technologies is Marketing Automation. Page Contents What is Marketing Automation? How can manufacturers use Marketing Automation? Here are 5 tools that you can use from your Marketing Automation solution that will help improve your customer journeys and marketing strategy.

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LeadSquared

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In this article, we will discuss the features and benefits of marketing automation. Marketing has been integral to businesses for a long time. To stay ahead of the competition, companies invest a lot in marketing. Marketing is not only a part of the buying journey but also a complete process in itself.

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Martech

JULY 15, 2021

Big martech vendors — even successful ones — routinely jettison or replace longstanding tools. Early in my career as an industry analyst, I noticed that some of the best web content and experience management (WCM) solutions came from lesser-known vendors. The myth of large-vendor stability. Yet, IBM was not alone.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. I profiled them in a February 2011 post.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Summary: Yesterday's post described the objectives of my product fit scores for B2B marketing automation vendors and how I set up the original weighting for individual elements. But the original set of scores seemed to favor more complex products, even for small business marketers. Here's how I addressed the problem.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 25, 2016

and we wrap up our review of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors with a look at Result Analysis. Not surprisingly, most of vendors who do ABM Result Analysis also do some sort of Execution (12 out of 16, to be exact). Another two (Everstring and ZenIQ) didn't fall into the Execution group but came close.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 17, 2024

In the B2B industry, email automation has become a transformative tool enabling you to streamline communication, offer personalized content, and cultivate leads efficiently. To enhance your email campaigns, it’s crucial to understand and implement effective strategies for B2B email marketing automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Last week's post took a horse race approach to data from our newly available B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST): who’s ahead, who’s behind, and who is coming on strong. But that’s more important to industry insiders than the marketers who actually use these systems. Let’s start with the basics.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 20, 2012

Indeed, with 208 data points on 22 vendors, there’s so much data that it’s a challenge to make sense of it. Since we only added one new vendor for this edition and kept all the old ones, the vendor base itself is largely stable. Items with the greatest change in average score are the ones that vendors are adapting most rapidly.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 13, 2020

You’re on the hunt for a marketing automation tool? Marketing automation tools, such as Marketo , Eloqua , HubSpot , Pardot , and Act-O n, are all powerful support systems, but ultimately, choosing an automation tool comes down to what are the must-have elements for your business goals?

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Martech

MARCH 7, 2022

Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Are they showing us our “must-have” features? Explore DAM solutions from vendors like Acquia, Widen, Cloudinary, MediaValet and more in the full MarTech Intelligence Report on digital asset management platforms. What features are included?

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Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A few years later, a couple of ex-e.pihanites, our very own Jon Miller along with Phil Fernandez, started Marketo to focus solely on B2B marketing and created what has now become the Marketing Automation space. You know the story here, Marketo, Eloqua and a few others came to quickly dominate the B2B marketing world.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

My last post looked at data from our just-released B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) to understand general industry trends and identify the greatest areas of improvement. Given the lack of demand, it’s not too surprising that many vendors don’t offer strong testing features.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The perspective has been this: “We have this marketing automation platform. We’re going to build a few automations and then go on to something really challenging.” A Forrester WAVE matrix of leading vendors is one. Being featured in influential industry publications is another. Precise metrics.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2012

And, as the two giants converge, the marketing automation industry stands between them like a mushroom, waiting to be crushed or gobbled up (if giants eat mushrooms). Web site management vendor SDL purchased Alterian last November and sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud bought LeadFormix in January.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

CRM integration is a fundamental feature of marketing automation. Sadly, most marketers pay little attention to these nuances until they've already selected a product. The workbook lays out the types of integration, types of issues to consider, how to understand your needs, and how to assess vendor capabilities.

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