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

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. The moments are set up as real time triggers within Marketo.

Marketo 120

Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 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