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Oracle Buys ATG: Bad News for Marketing Automation?

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But if you look back at my “doughnuts and pizza slices” post on software acquisitions , it does make perfect sense. Nor have I forgotten that Oracle already bought marketing automation vendor Market2Lead, plugging a different set of holes. So… Oracle bought ATG today for $6.00 Just ask Oedipus. Not that that turned out so well.

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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

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Personally, I’d argue that the really significant news out of LoopFuse is their newly tiered pricing structure. The entry point of $350 per month (for up to 10,000 prospects with unlimited emails and page views) is much lower than the $1,000 to $2,000 starting price of most full-function marketing automation systems.

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Demand Generation Vendor Traffic Rankings

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Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Vendors showing significant growth ( highlighted in green ) are mostly new entrants with below-average prices: Pardot , OfficeAutoPilot and LoopFuse. ActiveConversion is not new but also has a low price point.

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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

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The systems have very low starting prices tailored to low volumes. Most offer a CRM option (typically priced at $10 to $20 per seat per month) for companies who don't want to pay for Salesforce.com. Note: I've put Genoo and NurtureHQ into this category based on their price and what I can tell from the Web sites.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

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Here are some alternatives that will come in at or below Marketo’s published starting price of $2,400 per month (or $1,500 for their “Lite” version). (To Pricing on their Web site is quite close to Marketo’s: $1,000 a month for a limited edition and $2,400 per month for all the bells and whistles, and no extra charge for installation.

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 4

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Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 What remains are scores for functionality, pricing and vendor background. Tags: software usability measurement demand generation marketing automation lead management software selection. 12 11 simple 8 10 10 10 12 8.5

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

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Placing them all in the same product adds cost and complexity, which are not a software developer’s friends. In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables.