The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. DT: Well, the biggest misconception about Salesforce is that it’s something Sales reps like and Marketing folks don’t.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Last November, after much consideration of alternatives , I settled on Alexa three-month Web traffic rankings as a reasonable way to measure the relative market presence of demand generation vendors.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Built on the Salesforce Platform, Response Management from Full Circle Insights for Tracking Lead Lifecycles is currently available on AppExchange. Full Circle Insights provides a native application that gives users visibility into funnel metrics, processing data in the Salesforce platform. Additional Resources.

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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. 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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LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Salesforce.com integration. ActiveConversion also integrates with Salesforce.com , although using Salesforce is not a requirement.

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Full Circle Insights

APRIL 5, 2022

With Full Circle’s integration of Microsoft Advertising into DST, B2B digital marketers can now report on their digital ad costs for Microsoft Search Network, including Bing and partner sites. This offers a richer perspective and clearer view of digital ad spending across multiple ad platforms. Media Contact: Jacquelyn Brazzale.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

These functions, plus supporting features for database management, content management, sales system synchronization, and reporting, form a basic template for measuring demand generation software. Outbound email campaigns are largely irrelevant to this, so ActiveConversion doesn’t even offer email services.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Why Does Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Marketing Automation Integration Matter? In this article we’ll discuss why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and marketing automation integration matter to businesses with a sales and marketing team. As a user myself, I first started using Salesforce.com. Prioritize leads.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

Summary: Right On Interactive's 5Buckets connects lists from external customer management systems with many types of output vendors (email, print, fax, text message, automated voice). Now is a good time to remedy that. 5Buckets isn’t actually a demand generation system, at least according to my usual definition.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This was my fourth Dreamforce, and I’d like to offer some observations from the perspective of someone who lives in the B2B marketing & sales space. Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. Observation 2: Marketing Automation is Alive & Well.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Marketers frequently need to review and choose new tools to help improve or streamline their marketing programs. This can be time consuming and may lead to many dead ends. Because of this, some marketers make the wrong choice because they just pick software based on a salesperson’s promise or friend’s suggestion.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

It shows how specialized software can be much better at one function than general purpose systems. The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 1, 2016

One analytics vendor after another is selling you on their ability to analyze and make sense of “any” data. And most marketing and sales data is just that — garbage. Connect account-level outcomes to contact-level activity : CRM platforms such as Salesforce.com are largely organized around account and opportunity objects.

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Lead Liaison

JULY 9, 2021

Check out the powerful new enhancements on Lead Liaison’s Sales & Marketing Lead Management platform. Game experiences integrate natively with the Captello app, taking full advantage of all of Captello’s robust lead management solutions. See the details on these important enhancements below.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 2, 2013

The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. The B2B Marketing Advantage of LinkedIn. For B2B Marketing, Email Should be Personalized and Targeted. Marketing Automation Software That Delivers the Most Data Wins.

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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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

When Net-Results ’ showed me their marketing automation system, the demonstration ended so quickly that I wondered what was missing. This process has five functions: send emails to prospects; capture responses on landing pages; score leads; send qualified leads to sales; and nurture non-qualified leads with multi-step campaigns.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 8, 2009

The conversation has sharpened my own thinking on the subject and prompted a couple of conversations with vendors. Typically this is the company they work for, although there might be another relationship such as consultant or services vendor. This is a topic we do cover in the Guide, but not in the detail he needed.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Marketing Expertise. B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Demand Gen and Lead Management. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. Do you have any economical suggestions for managing offline data and IP targeting?

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The Mx Group

OCTOBER 18, 2017

As an experienced marketing practitioner, I figured if I had questions about how to get started with account-based marketing, so might you! I snagged a few minutes of time from our very busy, very knowledgeable Director of Client Services, Tim Cook, to get his perspective. It really isn’t. Why do you think that is?

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If you look at most major CRMs like Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce.com , you’ll notice a few different objects: Leads, Contacts, and Accounts. But then look at marketing automation like Lead Liaison and you’ll see one object: Prospects. This is where Account Based Marketing (ABM) meets Inbound Marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com. In Fernandez’ view, this reflects a fundamental philosophical difference from his competitors: Marketo sees marketing as reacting to prospect-initiated behaviors, not executing company-driven interaction paths.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

To reach end users, the company relies primarily on a network of channel partners, including satellite operators, telecom companies, and internet service providers. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management. All-hands discovery session yields important insights, priorities.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

That is what we as marketers try to do with marketing automation—make the process of marketing more efficient, long-lasting, and available. Most of us, like Edison, are dabbling in the great unknown with trials and errors when it comes to marketing automation. Along the way it can get frustrating.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Placing them all in the same product adds cost and complexity, which are not a software developer’s friends. Rather, it has conceded the lower tiers of business marketing to simpler systems and aimed Marketing Studio at marketers who need greater sophistication and will accept higher cost and complexity to get it.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Summary: LeadPAC lets marketers pay for email responses as easily as they pay for search responses. It’s a major improvement over traditional lead generation. I can’t recall a vendor with the same business model as LeadPAC from marketing automation vendor True Influence. That's worth some excitement.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets. It shouldn't be hard to figure out which one suits you better.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yes, we have an Interactive Content Connector service that supports seamless integration with CRM and lead management / marketing automation solutions such as salesforce.com, Marketo, Eloqua, SilverPop and more.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing Thought Leader interview series is with David Taber. David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. Number of converted leads per rep per month.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 25, 2009

Rather, salespeople must focus on what only they can do – provide nuanced, personal service – and delegate other tasks to resources that can handle them more cheaply and often more quickly. In many cases, those resources will be automated systems that are run by marketing.

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LeadSloth

APRIL 15, 2009

On this blog I primarily write about integrated Lead Management systems , rather than small tools. However, in a previous post I wrote about a project in which I’m replacing a full-blown Marketing Automation system with tools that add on to Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com integration complexity.

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