Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Summary: Alsa Marketing is a late entry to small business marketing automation. It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Multi-language might open a larger market, at least until competitors match it. Alsa has some other unusual features.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Yet some other features are fairly advanced: Active Conversion can identify anonymous Web site visitors through reverse IP lookup, find contact names for those companies in JigSaw , and either send the data to Salesforce.com or let sales people access it withing Active Conversion itself.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com. An average Salesforce.com seat is around $100 per month these days.

Marketo 120

Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 1, 2009

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. But they don’t intend to become a lead management system.

DemandBase 120

DemandBase Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Jigsaw 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

I think the idea of an iTunes™ -like interface — and pay-as-you-go pricing structure — for viewing, sorting, and selecting B2B contacts is intriguing. I worry that this tool only ends up helping sales pick out cold calls to make, and is not used by marketers enough to segment, collect, and improve their prospecting databases.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 18, 2010

It combines this with standard B2B marketing automation features to provide better-qualified leads to sales people. The B2B marketing automation industry has reached the stage where product features are similar and companies compete primarily on business and marketing savvy. Such is my take on LeadForce1.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Jigsaw 120