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. Look here for more information or to make a purchase. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. products are pretty stable, too.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Part one: The promise The birth of marketing technology brought so much potential to the marketing department. I was a young, freshly minted MBA with a background in computer science, and a two-year stint doing software marketing at IBM. Plus, marketing was getting some extra respect in board meetings.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Here at Oktopost, we love Marketo. As always, getting to spend time with the Marketo team was awesome. As Marketo users ourselves, finding new b2b marketing tools to enhance our own experience is a win and we wanted to share that with our readers. We use it, we recommend it, we are BIG fans.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 19, 2022

Choosing the right stack of MarTech solutions can be a difficult task for B2B marketers, especially for those working in cybersecurity, who may have a more complicated sales cycle, changing regulations, and other obstacles. Lauren Patrick, VP of Marketing at Curricula. Conversational marketing platforms, such as Qualified.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Many organizations are turning to marketing automation to streamline, automate, and measure marketing tasks and workflows. 53% of B2B organizations are using marketing automation technology today, and 37% surveyed say they are planning to implement it, according to an eConsultancy report.

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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. Marketing can’t be automated.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers. 1) Marketo.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. This is always a fun project because it gives me an overview of what all the vendors have been up to for the past six months. But that’s old news.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 17, 2020

As a marketer, you probably manage different audiences, regions, and even languages to make sure prospects, clients, and partners know what to expect over the next few months. What Does “Dynamic Content” Mean in Marketo? Snippets keep information like your office address up to date across a number of email templates.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. That’s a technical step backwards but will actually make it easier for buyers to access the detailed vendor information, and in particular to screen for vendors with particular capabilities. VEST Report.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2013

Raab Associates officially released the new edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday. This is our flagship report on the industry, with nearly 200 data points on 23 vendors and separate ratings for micro-business, small to mid-size companies, and enterprise marketing departments.

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

It’s well documented that, of the companies who invest in marketing automation, many fail to achieve maximum return from that investment, or even utilize marketing automation technology to its full capacity. In our agency’s work with marketing automation users , we’ve identified 10 of the most common mistakes to avoid: 1.

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to the B2B Marketing Automation Solutions. Marketing automation solutions have become a must-have for modern B2B marketers particularly as the marketers are headed to explore new avenues alongside the dawn to the next normal. Learn More: Marketing Automation: A Good or A Bad Idea.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

One of the main reasons that marketing automation has not been adopted more quickly is that too few marketers know how to fully use it. Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. So we’ll exclude them from further analysis. Myth busted.

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The Point

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Research company TrustRadius just published their new edition of the “Buyer’s Guide to Marketing Automation Software,” and it’s a doozy. Let’s face it, most martech “guides” are written by, well, marketers, and are either sponsored by or authored by the technology vendors themselves, so the content needs to be read with a critical eye.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I’ve just finished the latest update of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), available on the raabguide.com Web site. The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. We use two methods: Vendor revenues.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 The deal makes obvious sense, in that it gives Oracle a much stronger position in the fast-growing B2B marketing automation industry*. What if you're an enterprise marketer? recently, so $23.50

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

About 15 years ago, marketing automation technology came on the scene, designed to help marketers more effectively and efficiently market across channels. It has grown in popularity, and according to SiriusDecisions , 40% of organizations will own automation by next year. So without further ado: Eloqua.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. That means even the absolute increase was down: $11.2

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2014

The other enterprise-level B2C email vendors ( ExactTarget , Responsys ) have already been bought at wondrously high prices, and every B2B marketing automation vendor I talk to tells me that potential investors are approaching them constantly. My only reaction was, What the heck took so long?

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My last two posts (not counting this morning’s detour into Marketo-land) described common errors marketers make when selecting marketing automation systems. I see two reasons: Marketers are like everybody else. Today’s marketers buy that way too. Marketers are marketers. But all is not lost.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. The new report contains a rich trove of industry information. The new report contains a rich trove of industry information.

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BenchmarkONE

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Ready for the one thing no one tells you about marketing automation? Setting it up is not exactly automated! You’re the lucky one who gets to put the brain-power behind amazing automated workflows that educate your audience, shorten your sales cycle, and ensure none of the opportunities you’re driving falls through the cracks.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 11, 2011

You know that red-hot B2B marketing automation industry? Our just-released update to the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Toolkit (VEST) shows that client counts grew just over 50% over the year ending in June, compared with nearly 100% growth for the year ending last December.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

B2B marketers have employed account-based marketing (ABM) for well over a decade, of course, but the space has evolved rapidly over the past two to three years. This shift from a reactive to proactive marketing approach is working well for many B2B companies. The vendors respond. How B2B buying has changed.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 26, 2010

This week there was a discussion about Social Media and Marketing Automation in the LinkedIn Group of the Marketing Automation Association. Around the same time I got an email announcing Marketo’s Chatter for Sales Insight , integrating sales notifications in the Facebook-like interface of Salesforce.com Chatter.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 2, 2018

In learning new skills, members of the KoMarketing team ultimately become better digital marketers, better support client programs, and the organization. Cross training provides value for broader B2B marketing professionals as well. A while back I wrote a post on how to integrate social media into everyday B2B marketing strategy.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 11, 2011

Summary: Here's a closer look at revenue per employee and marketing automation revenue in general. Some of the comments on last week’s post on the size of the B2B marketing automation industry led me to dig a bit more deeply into the question of revenue per employee. So maybe let’s credit them with $10 million.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams.

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BOP Design

MAY 15, 2018

There is a large push in marketing to automate as many tasks and workflows as possible. However, automating for its own sake isn’t the best strategy. Especially for B2B marketing , automation should only be implemented where it provides real value. and automate repetitive tasks. [1].

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Lake One

APRIL 23, 2020

One tool manufacturing companies can have in their toolbox, is marketing automation. Marketing automation helps manufacturers simplify complex b2b processes while personalizing and scaling their digital marketing and sales efforts. House of Marketing “Yearly Marketing Survey 2019” (2019).

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Launch Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Alert Logic was in fast growth mode and wanted to implement marketing automation to support the scaling of their business. They wanted a partner to lead the strategy and implementation of an Enterprise-class marketing automation solution, and with that in mind engaged Launch Marketing to lead the effort.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

About 15 years ago, marketing automation technology came on the scene, designed to help marketers more effectively and efficiently market across channels. It has grown in popularity, and according to SiriusDecisions , 40% of organizations will own automation by next year. Read the post.)

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 4, 2020

Probably the most important is content: are you giving attendees useful, actionable information—not just a thinly veiled sales pitch? Is your information unique? But social media, paid advertising, and influencer marketing can also play important roles. It also offers built-in marketing optimized for search. WebinarJam.

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