LeadSloth

APRIL 29, 2009

In my previous post I listed the Top-10 Demand Generation blog by marketers and consultants. Most of these vendors blogs really get ‘online marketing’, so they talk about best practices rather then just touting their products, and they post regularly. In alphabetical order: ActiveConversion B2B Marketing Blog.

Demand Generation 100

Demand Generation Marketing Management ReadyContacts Marketing Automation Services 100

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

As my model suggests it should, ATG also encompasses online CRM and online marketing, where Oracle’s Siebel line is also a little thin. What I really care about is the implications for marketing systems. I’d say the ATG purchase lessens the odds of Oracle buying a marketing automation vendor. Just ask Oedipus.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Digital Asset Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. When I wrote about Aprimo Marketing Studio in a post last August , I was impressed by the scope of the product but reserved judgment because it hadn’t yet been launched. You know who you are.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

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. This requires finding ways to attract masses of new customers as they enter the market. LoopFuse knows that, of course.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

(As a reminder, I'm planning to build two usability scores, one for simple marketing programs and one for complex marketing programs.) (Yes, Marketbright and the new Market2Lead interface use an actual flow chart; Silverpop/Vtrenz uses non-visual rules. Yes, there are far too many parenthetical comments in this post.

Vtrenz 120

Vtrenz Market2Lead Work Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Summary: Marketing automation and CRM systems may eventually converge, but for now marketers need help explaining why they need a system of their own. I hugely enjoyed yesterday’s Boston session of the Silverpop -sponsored B2B Marketing University. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate? Vendors take note.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

LeadSloth

AUGUST 10, 2010

Today Genius.com announced a free version of their Marketing Automation system. Only about a month ago, Loopfuse also started offering a free version of their Marketing Automation system. What does this mean for companies interested in adopting Marketing Automation? But the overall impact on the market will be limited.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Loopfuse Marketing Automation LeadGenesys 100

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. Neolane “ Making the Business Case for Enterprise Marketing Software ”. Here's a bunch. Statistics include: • 16.5%

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Marketing Qualified Leads 120

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 will likely repeat itself.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

LeadSquared

AUGUST 28, 2019

According to Market2Lead , nurtured leads experience a 23% shorter sales cycle. 1) Customized Content: On the face of it, this might seem obvious but there are countless marketers who’ve still not grasped the essence of customized content. What makes this tricky is that there is a need for prior analysis. But, that is so not true.

Lead Nurturing 52

Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 52

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

I say this with the fervor of a reformed sinner, since for many years I looked at flow charts as the mark of an advanced marketing automation system. Such specialists are fairly common at big consumer marketers such as banks and retailers. Such specialists are fairly common at big consumer marketers such as banks and retailers.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 25, 2008

When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. The latter would work for advanced buyers, but, at this stage in the market, those are few in number.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 Usability requirements are roughly similar for all marketers. Yes, some features apply more to simple marketing programs and others to complex programs. Here, then, is the final usability matrix. 9 Now what? 0 0 0 0 0.5

Lead Scoring 120

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Demand Generation Work Management 120

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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

Executive Edition shows what Marketo believes is needed to service large marketing organizations. This is critical in large organizations, where regional and product groups may be responsible for different market segments and where users will have different functional specialties and approval authorities.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketo Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 25, 2010

Oracle tersely announced today that it had purchased the intellectual assets of demand generation vendor Market2Lead. This is an excellent fit for Oracle in that Market2Lead is a sophisticated product that is best suited to large, demanding marketing operations. Those are presumably the firms in Oracle's target market.

Market2Lead 120

Market2Lead Buy Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2010

When you think of lead nurturing platforms you typically think of firms like Eloqua, Marketo, Aprimo, LeadLife, Market2Lead, Silverpop, even Salesforce.com is getting into the lead nurturing space. Social Media Lead flow in B2B Marketing Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly. But Facebook?

Lead Nurturing 100

Lead Nurturing Facebook Market2Lead Leads 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

I woke up this morning to these three tweets relating to @nivenor1 's recent market2lead blog post titled: The SCOTSMAN vs. BANT for Effective Lead Management nivenor1 : New post about BANT vs. The SCOTSMAN on our blog [link] , now its off to Guatemala for 10 days! This CMO is in an emerging technology market marketing to b2b audience.

Lead Scoring 100

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Market2Lead Leads 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

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

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand Marketing Automation Services 120

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 9, 2009

I woke up this morning to these three tweets relating to @nivenor1 's recent market2lead blog post titled: The SCOTSMAN vs. BANT for Effective Lead Management. This CMO is in an emerging technology market marketing to b2b audience. Many times their targets don't even know they have a Need, let alone a Budget.

Lead Scoring 100

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Market2Lead Leads 100

Tomorrow People

MARCH 5, 2012

Behavioural Marketing 101. Behavioral marketing collects information about what the visitor does while on the site, and intuitively engages the visitor before he or she clicks away. Behavioral marketing uses your visitors behavior, both on and off the website, to select just the right message, at just the right time.

Lead Nurturing 120

Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

In Fernandez’ view, this reflects a fundamental philosophical difference from his competitors: Marketo sees marketing as reacting to prospect-initiated behaviors, not executing company-driven interaction paths. My own experience over the years has been that flow charts quickly become too complicated for most marketers to deal with.

Marketo 120

Marketo Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz 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

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets. Marketo is certainly a fine product, but marketers should still look around before picking it by default. They focus on email nurturing campaigns and marketing measurement. I did publish a real review in July 2009.]

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 18, 2008

Market2Lead offers the usual list of demand generation functions: outbound email, Web forms and landing pages, automated lead nurturing, integration with sales, and campaign return on investment analysis. This is not to say that Market2Lead is especially hard to use. But Market2Lead does not provide its own email services.

Market2Lead 120

Market2Lead Enterprise Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Best of B2B Marketing. Twitter Analytics: Five Practical, Lesser Known Free Tools for B2B Professionals - B2B Marketing Savvy , August 31, 2009. How B2Bs can Improve SEO by Avoiding Duplicate Content - Modern B2B Marketing , August 18, 2009. 20 Formats to Consider - Savvy B2B Marketing , August 26, 2009. August 2009.

Lead Nurturing 40

Lead Nurturing Twitter B2B Marketing Lead Ranking 40

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 5, 2009

Summary: Market2Lead's revised user interface has plenty of refined details. I saw a demonstration of Market2Lead ’s new user interface last December, and they released it in February. It’s a good thing that Market2Lead moved more quickly than I did, because the new interface is a huge improvement. Time flies.

Market2Lead 120

Market2Lead Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2009

Best of B2B Marketing. Clarity - B2B Marketing Savvy , July 28, 2009. Buzz Marketing for Technology , July 23, 2009. Genius is Bringing GURLs to the Social Party - Marketing Interactions , July 28, 2009. BtoB Content Marketing: Six Places to Find Hidden Content Gems - Savvy B2B Marketing , July 27, 2009.

Social Media 40

Social Media B2B Sales Twitter Market2Lead 40

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Best of B2B Marketing. A B2B social media success story - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , October 18, 2009. Top 10 Lessons Small Businesses Can Takeaway from Smart Content Marketers - Content Marketing Today , October 23, 2009. grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , October 27, 2009. October 2009.

Social Media 40

Social Media Demand Generation Agencies B2B Marketing Social Marketing 40

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Best of B2B Marketing. Deconstructing Twitter: Analytics for Reach and Impressions - B2B Marketing Savvy , September 10, 2009. Six Steps to a Successful Small Business Content Marketing Strategy - Content Marketing Today , September 4, 2009. Tools for Business Teams Doing Twitter - B2B Marketing Savvy , September 7, 2009.

Social Media 40

Social Media B2B Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles Market2Lead 40

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Maintain Consistent Communication - 66% of buyers indicate that "consistent and relevant communication provided by both sales and marketing organizations" is a key influence in choosing a solution provider, according to a Genius.com study. Online Marketing & Lead Nurturing in the Era of Social CRM. View this on-demand webinar now!

Lead Nurturing 28

Lead Nurturing Market2Lead Sales Qualified Leads Leads 28

Hubspot

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Lead nurturing is a crucial part of any effective marketing strategy. Because if you’re not managing your leads properly, you're wasting your time, marketing resources, and money. Workflows go way beyond simple marketing automation , though. Workflows are one of the most powerful tools available to the modern marketer.

Marketing Automation Services 28

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Market2Lead 28

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 9, 2009

It’s always fun at this time of the year to look back at what’s happened in the world of B2B Marketing. This technique was also used to generate the Hot Trends in B2B Marketing for 2009. 10 Tips for Using Twitter And Email Marketing for B2B - Anything Goes Marketing , December 21, 2008.

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership De-duplication B2B 40

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Tony Karrer and I launched the B2B Marketing Zone (aka, The BMZ) on July 1 (see New Hub Site Focuses on B2B Marketing Intelligence ). The site has also been gradually adding the very best sources of content on B2B Marketing. Since that time, it's been steadily growing in traffic and subscribers.

B2B Marketing 20

B2B Marketing Market2Lead B2B Blogger 20

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2011

Summary: Oracle has integrated marketing automation with its on-demand CRM product. If I were more on the ball, I would have noticed that May 25 marked a full year since Oracle bought the intellectual property* of high-end B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead. Will competitors do the same? I wonder if they had cake?

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Market2Lead 120

Hubspot

JANUARY 7, 2013

That’s why we’re going to suggest a new year's resolution for you: fix one of these 4 damaged relationships in your marketing strategy. Is your sales team upset with your marketing team for sending them subpar leads? It’s tough being a marketer when you have to manage so many relationships internally, externally, online, and offline.

Top of Funnel 28

Top of Funnel Work Management Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Management 28

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum. Among other stuff.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40