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Alsa Marketing Adds Multi-Language Capabilities to Low-Cost Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

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. The vendor argues that this removes a critical roadblock for many marketers, who have trouble building such workflows on their own.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. - Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Could marketers finally be ready to spend on measurement? Even though this is limited to the vendors in the Guide, it's a pretty representative sample of the industry as a whole. Social media. Sales access.

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

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. business-to-business marketing automation. I do expect vendors to converge on more standard social media features. inbound marketing.

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ActiveConversion Review - SMB Lead Management

LeadSloth

Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. It integrates with Jigsaw to show company details like revenue, and available contacts for a specific company: contacts can be bought for $1 each directly at Jigsaw.

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New White Paper and Eloqua Prospect Profiler

Customer Experience Matrix

The behavior data captured by marketing automation systems restores the balance by providing an alternate source of insights into prospect interests and intentions. These are already assembled by various vendors, so all that’s needed is a relatively simple integration. It would be done by system administrators instead.

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DemandBase Adds Real-Time Access to Web Visitor Identities

Customer Experience Matrix

DemandBase built its database by monitoring which IP addresses most often visit its 2,000-plus clients, parsing multiple external IP directories for the owners and geo-locations of the servers at those addresses, and adding attributes from business directories including D&B, Hoovers and JigSaw. The first connectors are due shortly.