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Next-Generation Marketing Automation Systems Target Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

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.

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Vocus Marketing Suite: Still Mostly Social But Marketing Automation is On the Way

Customer Experience Matrix

Even in the small business sector, that count would make Vocus one of the largest marketing automation systems. But Vocus doesn’t quite match the profile of standard marketing automation products. So it''s best to treat Vocus Marketing Suite as a class unto itself. Buying Signals” draws on Twitter only.

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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

Customer Experience Matrix

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketo added features to capture Twitter posts and Helpstream customer support interactions within a lead’s activity history. Silverpop made it easier to add social media handles to lead records so these could be used to send messages. Could this lead vendors to compete on other grounds entirely? Sales access.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Expands the Scope of Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. This broader scope should become standard as marketers try to truly integrate their programs. But in fact it’s a substantially broader scope than I’ve seen in other products.

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Right On Interactive Offers Lifecycle Reporting

Customer Experience Matrix

It could supplement a traditional marketing automation system or perhaps replace one. When I reviewed Right On Interactive in a July 2009 post , the company was selling its 5Buckets marketing software as a multi-channel output generation tool that complemented conventional marketing automation systems.

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Act-On Software Stresses Ease of Use

Customer Experience Matrix

At $500 per month with no annual contract, it’s priced to make it easy to get started with marketing automation. The actual functions provided by Act-On are generally competitive with low-to-mid tier marketing automation products. Such emails would otherwise be invisible to the marketing automation system.

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