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Manticore Technology Sees Expertise as Key to Success as a Demand Generation Vendor

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. The company takes a conservative approach to marketing automation, stressing the importance of process over flashy software. Manticore Technology today released the latest version of its marketing automation system.

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Ranking B2B Marketing Automation Vendors: How I Built My Scores (part 1)

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. The heaviest weight goes to lead generation and nurturing campaigns – a combined 40% across all buyer types.

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Getting Closer to My Usability Ratings

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

Customer Experience Matrix

For example, LoopFuse found that nearly twice as many used email and web landing pages as lead scoring. But it seems to be creeping upstream: LeadLife , Treehouse Interactive , and Manticore Technology apply it to larger customers. Marketing automation vendors are painfully aware of these issues. full service.

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

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Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Here the author outlines the crucial preparatory steps to a successful lead nurturing strategy. But they’re just that: tools.

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B2B Email Design – Gallery 2 « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

This post is another installment of the “gallery” concept so that you have more designs to review and use in your own creative process. Big blue lead in. Compelling lead in. Is good to see what’s out there, what is working and what is not. What I Don’t Like: Three different font sizes in the header graphic.

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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

Customer Experience Matrix

I'm sure some of the vendors will tell me they're in the wrong place -- and since this ranking is based on their own perception of their target markets, I'll make adjustments when they do. The vendors are divided into four categories based on my understanding of their target customers.