ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

As with any space that is in its early stages, the marketing automation space has had its fair share of new businesses and vendors emerge. According to some who track this space, there are over 110 technology vendors alone. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. 2. More transparency.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

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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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Lead Genius is a good example. But Lead Genius was founded in 2011 to commercialize university research into combining AI with human inputs. Let’s look at those stages, using the four step structure of the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors. Lead Genius does this too. Identify target accounts. Plan interactions.

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Marketing AI Account Based Marketing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2014

The CDP industry has been moving along nicely without my attention: new CDPs keep emerging and the existing vendors are growing. This model can score new leads and classify existing opportunities in the sales pipeline. A typical scheme would create A, B, C, and D lead classes, where A leads are best.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services Reachforce 120

Engagio

APRIL 12, 2024

This, in turn, leads to steady (and predictable) revenue and lower acquisition costs over time. Happy and satisfied customers lead to loyalty and retention. Consistent, meaningful interactions lead to a deeper understanding of your customers’ evolving business challenges and objectives. Know the customer.

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Marketing Management Allocation Lead Ranking DemandBase 62

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. The pattern is quite clear.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

Changes include a drag-and-drop design tool (similar to Microsoft Powerpoint); integration of opportunities and custom objects from Salesforce.com; better reporting on Web site visitors; and, real time sales alerts on Web activity. Tags: marketing software manticore technology marketing automation lead management demand generation.

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Manticore Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The company made the announcement at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Although the improved UI is the big change, the new version also adds integration with SalesForce.com for AdWords campaigns and improved lead generation capabilities.

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Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 29, 2016

And according to the “LinkedIn Ads Benchmark Report Q3 2015” published by Marketing Mojo, 79 percent of B2B marketers said that LinkedIn was “effective” at generating leads. Salesforce.com. From the group introduction: Salesforce.com. B2B Sales, Marketing, Social Media & Lead Generation. Salesforce app ecosystem.

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Linkedin B2B Marketing Marketing Analytics Tools Work Management 141

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 9, 2014

x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. At that time, the marketing product was missing key marketing automation features including lead scoring, multi-step workflows, and integration with Salesforce.com.

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Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Purchase Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

Infusionsoft argues that their partner network is a competitive barrier that would be hard for another software vendor to overcome. As usual at these conferences, I spent a good chunk of my time cruising the exhibition floor for interesting new vendors. Two other vendors also caught my eye. I’m pretty sure they’re right.

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Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Planning 120

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. Lead Scoring. Lead scoring configuration. It can also integrate with Salesforce Web-to-Lead forms. Salesforce.com integration. Form builder.

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ActiveConversion SMB Work Management Lead Management 100

InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The sales operations team is constantly trying to systemize sales processes to increase the sales team’s efficiency and effectiveness , and it’s the director who’s at the helm leading the charge. Most often, this means knowing the ins and outs of Salesforce.com. What are Directors of Sales Operations Responsible for?

Work Management 120

Work Management Salesforce.com Deliverability Forecasting 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 24, 2014

SalesPredict is a perfect example: a small vendor with a powerful system that just launched earlier this year. The whole process takes just a few hours from making the Salesforce.com connection to seeing scored records, with most of the time spent downloading CRM data and scanning the Web for other information.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Automation Salesforce.com 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

When this blog last left Geoff Rego in 2010 , he had just sold the assets of pioneering B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead to Oracle. Once a Hushly member has downloaded vendor content, vendors can send emails to the member via Hushly. Members can block messages from a vendor if they wish.

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Marketing Automation Services Market2Lead Salesforce.com Privacy 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The big changes started in the 1990’s when email and Web marketing provided a flood of data about customer behaviors and vendors responded with a flood of new systems to work with it. But it wasn't until the late 2000’s that the number of vendors truly exploded. And it only gets worse (from the martech vendor point of view).

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Work Management Marketing Management Salesforce.com Vendors 120

Biznology

JUNE 6, 2018

Leads with CRM data are better qualified and therefore easier to close. – No (or limited) web-to-lead forms. – No support for Facebook lead ads. Worse, information gets stuck in an air gap when a lead becomes a customer. According to Salesforce.com , 92% of customer interactions happen on the phone.

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Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Work Management 167

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

This can be time consuming and may lead to many dead ends. I had accepted this as part of the job of being a marketer, until I started using the Salesforce.com AppExchange. The Salesforce.com AppExchange is a collection of cloud computing applications, all of which are pre-integrated with Salesforce.com. Easy to install.

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Salesforce.com Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Resources 48

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2016

B22B lead generation vendor True Influence today announced a new product to help fill these gaps. This contrasts with many intent-based advertising vendors, who serve ads to qualified audiences but don't tell clients exactly whom they’re reaching. The main difference is that users get the company and contact lists.

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Intent Data Intent Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The system has prebuilt connectors to import data from popular vendors including Salesforce.com , Marketo , Hubspot , SAP , SugarCRM , and Facebook. It also uses matches created elsewhere such as lead IDs used to synchronize CRM and marketing automation data or cookie IDs imported from Google Analytics. Here’s a deeper look.

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Analysis Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com 120

ViewPoint

DECEMBER 17, 2013

To get an understanding of the depth of data available to B2B marketers for prospecting, we invited a set of reputable vendors to open their vaults and share details about the nature and quantity of the fields they offer. Seven vendors participated, giving us a nice range of data sources, including both compiled lists and response lists.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Management Lead Scoring Salesforce.com 120

The Point

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In 2011, she became President and CEO of Full Circle CRM , a company dedicated to helping VPs of Marketing use Salesforce.com to get accurate and useful performance data about marketing campaigns. HS: How are you different from marketing automation vendors like Eloqua or Marketo at addressing this issue?

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Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Campaigns Budget Programs 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve been gearing up for the next edition of our VEST report on B2B marketing automation systems, which involves catching up with established vendors and chasing down some new ones. nurture campaigns), and share leads with a CRM system like Salesforce.com. Here are highlights of several vendors I’ve looked at recently.

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Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. This has been sadly lacking in most B2B marketing automation systems, which supplement the Salesforce.com database with barely-extensible lead profiles and contact histories.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Lead Ranking Marketing Management 120

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. As he has the last few years, Marc Benioff focused on Salesforce.com’s social capabilities. Other vendors on display were Genius , eTrigue , HubSpot , Aprimo and ActOn to name a few.

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Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

I only mention this because I’ve recently been looking at a lot of new (to me) vendors and haven’t been able to write about many of them. This makes it a system for both small business and service vendors: two of my four themes. That''s theme number three. This is enough sales enablement to complete its sweep of the four themes.

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

ViewPoint

AUGUST 28, 2013

Companies must take the lead and make sure their sales people are familiar with the new paradigm, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Nick Stein, senior director of marketing and communications at Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud software heavyweight. Consumers are Better Equipped. Twitter: @stein_nick. Stay Tuned.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Salesforce.com Marketing Management 120

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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Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. In the early days it was used to sift through hundreds of new B2B leads per day to identify the valuable leads. The Salesforce.com database has some big issues (e.g. Smart or foolish? Background.

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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?

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

When I first described Customer Data Platforms two and half years ago, all the vendors offered an application such as predictive analytics or campaign management in addition to the "pure" CDP function of building the customer database. It’s primarily used to set up data processing flows for data cleaning, matching, and lead routing.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking 120

Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

After creating, building, and leading the Oracle Marketing Cloud from obscurity to industry leadership for the last 3 years, which was a beyond-amazing career experience (thank you Oracle!), — See how real time data enrichment makes lead generation easier and more effective. Hello, all, and here’s to a promising 2017!

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Enterprise Management Paid Content Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 116

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

There are plenty of other vendors serving micro-businesses. Canterris , NurtureHQ , and mKubed all provide email, Web visitor tracking, nurture campaigns, lead scoring, and CRM integration ((Salesforce.com for Canterris and NurtureHQ; its own CRM for mKubed) for under $500 per month. MakesBridge is another contender.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Features Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Pretty much every system can send leads to Salesforce.com , but capabilities vary significantly once you start looking for more. The workbook lays out the types of integration, types of issues to consider, how to understand your needs, and how to assess vendor capabilities.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM Features 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

B2B marketing data vendor ReachForce today announced its purchase of SetLogik , which provides technology to build cloud-based marketing databases and do predictive modeling against them. See my post from last October for more on SetLogik.) There’s an obvious peanut butter-meets-jelly type of logic to this match.

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Reachforce Buy Marketing Management B2B Marketing 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 8, 2010

This morning we saw a demo of Salesforce.com Chatter , a collaboration tools integrated with Salesforce.com. Think Facebook built into Salesforce.com: it looks just like the Facebook timeline, but it is built around your sales processes. Salesforce.com Chatter Screenshot. is all about. Chatter and Marketing Automation.

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