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

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. Note: after I posted this, it was pointed out to me that the bulk of traffic on several sites relates to customer log-ins rather than marketing prospects.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets. They focus on email nurturing campaigns and marketing measurement.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

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. . the system itself 0.67 How would you rate your experience with.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand 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?

Lead Scoring 120

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Demand Generation Work 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

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.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

More than anything else, this exercise reinforced my understanding of how hard it is to answer a seemly simple question about a software product’s capabilities. Market2Lead and Marketbright also use the company data and links imported from Salesforce.com. Results are summarized in the table at the end of this post.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Work Management Market2Lead Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 4, 2009

Usability Items for Complex Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) This post will complete the demand generation vendor usability scores by looking at items that contribute to usability for complex marketing programs.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2009

They relate primarily to creation of marketing assets such as emails and landing pages, and to execution of lead scoring. Select marketing assets from shared libraries. Users can draw on existing libraries of marketing assets when setting up a campaign, rather than creating them from scratch.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Tags: marketing software marketing automation lead management demand generation.

Vtrenz 120

Vtrenz Manticore Marketing Automation Services Market2Lead 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40