Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

Summary: Marketo continues to follow its own path. Revenue Cycle Management blazes an important new trail for others to follow. I finally caught up with Marketo for a briefing on their Enterprise Edition (announced in March) and Revenue Cycle Analytics (announced in May). It seems that Marketo disagrees.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

Once you’ve established your goals, it becomes easier to select the tool or vendor that will best help you to achieve them. Here are three considerations to keep in mind when selecting a vendor: Feature set – Begin your selection process by analyzing the features each platform offers. Get the right people on board.

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LeadSloth

APRIL 29, 2009

Today I’ve put together a list of vendor blogs. Most of these vendors blogs really get ‘online marketing’, so they talk about best practices rather then just touting their products, and they post regularly. Market2Lead Marketing Automation and Lead Management blog. Marketo Modern B2B Marketing Blog.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The sessions were about lead management, lead nurturing, content marketing, social media and Pardot product sessions. One of the most interesting things Pardot does for their own lead management is to give a 60 second look to each and every lead that is sent to sales. Pardot’s Secret.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. So I thought I'd take a little scan of the demand generation systems I've looked at to see how the vendors themselves had voted.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Given the critical importance of MAP within an enterprise environment – and looking through the lens of strategic deployment of MAP – ANNUITAS|research conducted an extensive analysis of four of the leading, Salesforce-integrated MAP software vendors in late 2020. Please expect additional analysis beyond this ecosystem in the future.).

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ANNUITAS

MAY 24, 2011

We recently had the opportunity to connect with Jon Miller, Vice President of Marketing and Co-Founder of Marketo. Jon leads strategy and execution for all aspects of Marketo’s hyper-efficient demand center (powered by Marketo’s solution, of course). How long should it take for sales to follow up on a lead?

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The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The conclusion: most B2B companies were failing to follow even the most basic lead management best practices, even in areas that one would assume were a primary business case for purchasing marketing automation in the first place. Vendors focused on new licenses vs. customer retention.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. My original set of products was based on a general knowledge of which companies are most established, plus some consultation with vendors to learn who they felt were their main competitors. How to choose?

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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. lots of new vendors.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The main basis for my prediction is high growth that vendors reported in 2013, and in particular a trend towards higher revenue per client among the vendors who share that information with me. I''d guess this is because they are answering specifically about marketing management. Features Don''t Drive Decisions.or

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SalesIntel

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Lead Management Tools Efficient lead management is crucial for nurturing leads through the sales funnel and converting them into loyal customers. Recent trends show a 110% increase in the adoption of lead management tools, demonstrating their pivotal role in orchestrating successful sales conversions.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 10, 2011

The three things Carlos Hidalgo recommends to someone getting started with lead management include: Conducting an audit. Go though your lead management steps and determine where you are with you data, lead planning, metrics, etc. Where are you today as an organization? To learn more, watch the video below.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

Once you’ve established your goals, it becomes easier to select the tool or vendor that will best help you to achieve them. Here are three considerations to keep in mind when selecting a vendor: Feature set – Begin your selection process by analyzing the features each platform offers.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2009

Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 additional profile is requested as a prospect moves through an interactive process); Native integration with Salesforce.com ; Web visitor profiling; and Automated duplicate lead removal. software suite.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 1, 2009

A few days ago I posted a link to the new IDC Workbook: Optimizing Marketing and Sales Lead Management with Marketing Automation. Jep Castelein writes about vendors and evaluation criteria at LeadSloth on Demand Generation. Also, quite a few Marketo customers have written about their evaluations and how they selected a solution.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Once a prospect has created their short list or is ready to buy, they want to get the show on the road and don’t want to be bothered by vendor processes to route a lead. Lead Routing Based on Context. If we stick to our old ways of delivering cities with “c-a-t” in them, the buyer will move to the next vendor.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. This will put substantial pricing pressure on vendors who, in many cases, are already struggling to reach sustainable margins. Other vendors – notably Pardot – have followed a similar cost-removal strategy. Here’s where the free system comes back into play.

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Biznology

AUGUST 8, 2019

Martin: Twenty years ago, we would buy databases from trade publications and data vendors, and use them to cold call, trying to reach senior executives. Sellers—even smaller brands—are using marketing automation like InfusionSoft, Marketo and a local provider called Doppler emBlue to conduct event-triggered campaigns.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

If you’re grappling with how to make the right choice, or just looking to make a business case for marketing automation at your company, here’s a new resource from the smart analysts at IDC’s CMO Advisory Practice : a new workbook titled “ Optimizing Marketing and Sales Lead Management with Marketing Automation.”.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 8, 2009

The firm also works with Marketo , Silverpop Engage B2B and MarketingGenius depending on client needs. ) On the surface, this is a strength of vendors who promise free implementation and deployment within a few days. That's one reason Pedowitz works with several vendors. Certainly that’s how I’d spin it if I were a competitor.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

1) Marketo. An enterprise-grade marketing automation and analytics platform with solutions for lead management, email marketing, consumer marketing, customer base marketing, and mobile marketing. Pricing: contact vendor. Best suited (like Marketo) for large enterprises. Google Review Count: 93,900. 2) HubSpot.

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MLT Creative

MAY 19, 2010

Once you've grasped the whole marketing automation concept, you're going to need a vendor to help you follow through. Over my next two blogs, I'll highlight different marketing automation vendors, and what they do that sets them apart. Marketo Marketo is made up of two sections: Marketo Lead Management and Marketo Sales Insight.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

Your prospects are bombarded with pitches from different vendors. Here at Socedo , getting our leads to engage with our emails is an ongoing challenge. Since we adopted Marketo in 2015, we’ve been nurturing our leads with weekly emails that provide educational content. However, the top reason why U.S.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 4, 2009

In this post some thoughts about the program… First of all, the best thing about this event is that the speakers are marketing practitioners, not vendors. Having seen many of the presentations in San Francisco, I found it useful to classify them in three main categories: Lead Generation. Lead Management.

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The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

When so many technology vendors claim to be an “ABM solution,” what are the smartest investments? In the giddy, early days when solutions like Marketo first arrived on the scene, the reigning view was that the technology was all a company needed to solve their lead management and email marketing woes.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 3, 2009

I think one mistake many marketers make is to think of their lead management requirements too narrowly — and to be honest, quite a few demand generation vendors make this mistake as well. However, achieving the full benefit of lead management requires much more than just nurturing and scoring.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Last week Focus.com’s Mastering Lead Management Virtual Event brought some of the leaders of B2B Demand Generation and Sales 2.0 cjablonski : Over 70% of purchases are restricted to established vendors or are heavily dependent on WOM recos. Map the buyer journey to your lead mgmt & content mktg strategy.

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The Point

MAY 18, 2010

I was reminded today of just how successful the marketing automation vendors have been (to their credit, it must be said) in defining their solutions as the answer to today’s marketing problems. And here’s my response: “There are plenty of good software options there for lead nurturing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Usability Items for Simple Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) Build a campaign as a list of stages Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 Build linear campaigns outside of a larger campaign structure.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. 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 ).

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

If you suspected that my last two blog posts were a way to avoid writing a post that ranks vendors on usability, you’re probably right. offering a white paper or promoting a Webinar) and the larger process of managing the flow of treatments. You must also consider how a system moves leads from one campaign to another.

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Martech

JANUARY 13, 2022

Marketo is perhaps one of the best-known marketing automation platforms for marketers. This guide will walk you through some of the key capabilities of Marketo. Explore marketing automation solutions from vendors like Marketo, HubSpot, Salesforce and more in the full MarTech Intelligence Report on marketing automation platforms.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. Despite the assertions (by a select few mind you) that marketing automation is past its prime, you would not have known it by the show of force from the automation vendors in the exhibit hall. Instead of asking “What do we need to do?”,

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 29, 2009

This will discuss preparing for your new demand generation system, including requirements definition, vendor selection, and the initial deployment. Sponsored by Marketo. Tags: david raab whitepaper demand generation marketing automation david raab webinar lead management sales best practices. Click here to register.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Integrations vary per vendor and so does the quality. Lead management & CRM. Win new business by generating leads from social and capturing existing contacts’ social interactions. Q: How do you currently manage incoming leads from social media? an easy set up so you start seeing results fast).

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

A well-planned, well-designed lead scoring schema ensures that sales reps are spending time with the leads that most merit the investment. Unfortunately, when that basic schema fails to score leads appropriately, reps will very quickly lose confidence in the system, and start to ignore lead scores altogether.

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