Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead? intended to extend Google’s own business).

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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.

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The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. DT: Well, the biggest misconception about Salesforce is that it’s something Sales reps like and Marketing folks don’t.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality. any significant price point, non-commodity products).

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system. I still doubt Salesforce.com will get the message any time soon, but maybe they'll start to reconsider.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

One of the main reasons that marketing automation has not been adopted more quickly is that too few marketers know how to fully use it. Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Marketing automation, Web analytics, and Web content management systems can all access this data via API calls for analytics and as inputs to their own selection and treatment rules. This is a major extension beyond traditional marketing automation, which works mostly through email to known prospects.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 15, 2013

As I mentioned in last week''s post , I’m writing a paper on stages of marketing automation deployment. The premise of the paper and Webinar is marketing automation has a problem: clients who don’t move beyond basic email functions are unhappy. The paper itself will be available to Webinar attendees.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2014

This model can score new leads and classify existing opportunities in the sales pipeline. The one objective distinction is that FlipTop is publicly listed on the Salesforce.com App Exchange, meaning it has passed the Salesforce.com security reviews. Bottom line: Fliptop does a very good job with predictive lead scoring.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 4, 2012

One easily predictable trend in B2B marketing automation is that vendors will tailor their systems to specific industries. The reason may be that B2B marketing automation products have a narrower scope than B2C systems, meaning there’s less advantage in creating vertical editions. Integrations with ACT!

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

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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LeadSloth

MARCH 8, 2010

I write about Marketing Automation, so why am I at a sales conference? I’m here because I believe Sales & Marketing should be on the same team. Marketing Automation can help both Marketing and Sales, but it requires intense collaboration: that’s what Sales 2.0 Today I’m at the Sales 2.0

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2013

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.

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Last week I presented a session at Silverpop’s B2B Marketing University in Atlanta. In addition to Marketing Automation, there were two big topics: Social Media and CRM. Many attendees were confused by CRM vendors claiming to offer full marketing functionality. For CRM, I focused on Salesforce.com.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 4, 2012

The list of independent marketing automation systems shrank by one yesterday when Leadformix was purchased by sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud for $9 million. The price is surprisingly low for an established marketing automation vendor. In particular, LeadFormix infers visitors' “intent” (i.e.,

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. This is a great example for the marketing automation market.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. This is a great example for the marketing automation market.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 27, 2023

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

CRM integration is a fundamental feature of marketing automation. Pretty much every system can send leads to Salesforce.com , but capabilities vary significantly once you start looking for more. Sadly, most marketers pay little attention to these nuances until they've already selected a product.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. rather than marketing automation. LoopFuse knows that, of course.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Lead Genius is a good example. The company is in the business of assembling B2B marketing lists – an industry dating back centuries to city directories and beyond. But Lead Genius was founded in 2011 to commercialize university research into combining AI with human inputs. Lead Genius does this too. Plan interactions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 16, 2011

I’ve long believed that B2B marketing automation is just a passing phase: that, ultimately, B2B marketing automation systems will be absorbed into CRM systems instead of operating independently. Of course, the jackpot here is Salesforce.com. It also provides real-time alerts and landing pages.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams. Step 5: Scoring Model.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Why Does Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Marketing Automation Integration Matter? In this article we’ll discuss why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and marketing automation integration matter to businesses with a sales and marketing team. As a user myself, I first started using Salesforce.com. Sales Insight.

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Launch Marketing

JANUARY 11, 2019

RealMassive is an Austin-based tech startup that connects tenants, investors, owners, properties and brokers in a modern, global commercial real estate (CRE) marketplace that is fueled by big data to provide an intuitive property list and search tools, digital marketing capabilities and real-time performance analytics. The Details.

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The Point

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I just returned from a few days at Dreamforce in San Francisco, the annual circus-slash-conference hosted by CRM leader Salesforce.com, and was struck by the wave of technologies on display that centered on analytics. The simple act of generating leads – primarily through online means – has never been easier.

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Markempa

MAY 30, 2017

Learn how to improve the quality and accuracy of your B2B persona and contact data in to get better lead generation results and drive demand When was the last time you looked at the quality and accuracy of your B2B persona and contact data? From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target, which Salesforce.com then acquired.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

When I first wrote about ClickDimensions in a February, 2011 post , the concept was intriguing – a marketing automation add-on to Microsoft Dynamics CRM – but the product itself had been available for less than six months and claimed barely 50 clients. This is comparable to standard marketing automation products.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If you look at most major CRMs like Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce.com , you’ll notice a few different objects: Leads, Contacts, and Accounts. But then look at marketing automation like Lead Liaison and you’ll see one object: Prospects. This is where Account Based Marketing (ABM) meets Inbound Marketing.

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Almost 30 people showed up for the first two Marketing Automation Monday meetups in San Francisco and Palo Alto. The topics for these meetings was drip campaigns and lead nurturing. Segmentation on Lead Source and Search Keywords. Also, lead source can give valuable clues to the desired length of the nurturing process.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. But I’m beginning to think those marketers were really saying something else.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

These companies have large marketing departments that may manage hundreds of campaigns for different products in different locations. Our scoring reflects their need for special features for automated content selection, project management, complex lead scores, and tight control over the rights granted to individual users.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Summary: Alsa Marketing is a late entry to small business marketing automation. It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Multi-language might open a larger market, at least until competitors match it. Alsa has some other unusual features.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 26, 2010

This week there was a discussion about Social Media and Marketing Automation in the LinkedIn Group of the Marketing Automation Association. Around the same time I got an email announcing Marketo’s Chatter for Sales Insight , integrating sales notifications in the Facebook-like interface of Salesforce.com Chatter.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 9, 2014

million in cash, a premium of 48% over their stock market price. 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. Salesforce.com synch is bi-directional and works with lead and contact records.

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