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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

Customer Experience Matrix

So far the original list of Eloqua , Vtrenz , Marketo , Manticore Technology and Market2Lead has proven a good set of choices. One wrinkle is that Vtrenz is owned by Silverpop , so Silverpop.com presumably siphons off a great deal of traffic from Vtrenz.com. Yet there are so many more vendors I could add. How to choose?

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Why Most Consumer Marketing Automation Systems Are Not Software-as-a-Service, And When That Will Change

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Consumer-oriented marketing automation systems have been slower to adopt the Software-as-a-Service model than business marketing (demand generation) systems. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is now the standard model for business-to-business marketing automation (a.k.a. demand generation) systems.

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Getting Closer to My Usability Ratings

Customer Experience Matrix

But I also knew that some of the vendors focused on complex programs ( Market2Lead , Marketbright and arguably Silverpop/Vtrenz ) embed similar-looking list-style campaigns within a larger flow logic. You must also consider how a system moves leads from one campaign to another. Complexity-focused products route leads explicitly.

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Demand Generation Vendor Traffic Rankings

Customer Experience Matrix

The only vendor with a really major drop in ranking was Lead Genesys , another long-time industry participant. Tags: vendor rankings demand generation marketing automation lead management. Judging from the press releases on their Web site, this may be due to a new release last October that added Salesforce.com integration.

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Demand Generation Implementation Survey - Background Results

Customer Experience Matrix

nbr responses vendor 8 Marketo 6 Eloqua 3 Genius.com 3 LoopFuse 3 Pardot 2 Market2Lead 2 Treehouse Interactive 1 eTrigue 1 Vtrenz (Silverpop) 7 No Response 36 Another intriguing bit of contextual information is the deployment date of the systems. better than expected about as expected worse than expected total system implementation 0.64

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Decision Software has remained a small company while Aprimo is most successful in B2B marketing resource management.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

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 ). Tags: demand generation software marketing automation lead management software selection vendor evaluation crm software.