article thumbnail

First Look at New Marketo Release

Customer Experience Matrix

Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com. Fernandez used the analogy of a cocktail party: you might have a few stories you expect to tell, but don’t know exactly when you’ll tell them or in what order.

Marketo 120
article thumbnail

Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

On the other hand, pricing starts at $199 per month for a 2 user system with pretty much all of their marketing features, and you’d be hard-pressed to spend more than $500 per month unless you want lots of users for non-marketing functions such as sales automation or order entry. I reviewed it here in March.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Do Small Businesses Need Marketing Automation?

Customer Experience Matrix

The most common added function is sales force automation, but some also offer different combinations of e-commerce, order processing, customer support, blogging, Web site optimization and paid search. On one level, this broader scope makes perfect sense.

article thumbnail

LucidEra Takes a Shot at On-Demand Analytics

Customer Experience Matrix

Rudin, who has plenty of experience with both on-demand and analytics from working at Salesforce.com , Siebel , and Oracle , saw not one but two obstacles to business intelligence: integration and customization. The question here is whether most demand generation systems ( Eloqua , Vtrenz , Marketo , Market2Lead , Manticore , etc.)

article thumbnail

B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

4) “Pure play” lead management – this group is lead by Eloqua , but there are a LOT of firms throwing their hat into this ring including Vtrenz, Hubspot, Manticore, Market2Lead, Marketo, LoopFuse, einsof, iHance, Precience, among many others. It's all about people, process and technology, in that order. Here’s the problem.

article thumbnail

Top 32 B2B Marketing Posts and Hot Topics of Social Media Forecast

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

To help readers who missed the series, I pulled all the posts together in order. The biggest disconnect for companies is that a marketer’s definition of a lead can often be quite different than how sales defines what they need to accept a lead as qualified for follow-up. But Facebook?