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7 Reasons Why Oracle's Market2Lead Acquisition Makes a Lot of Sense

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Oracle has just acquired Market2Lead , one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. Market2Lead Probably Got A Good Deal. Market2Lead was one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. It seems that Market2Lead is migrating their customers to other solutions, at least, Eloqua’s announcement gives that impression.

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Oracle does have an existing B2B marketing automation product, based on the technology it acquired from Market2Lead in 2010. Market2Lead was very good system, but it lacked the huge market presence that Oracle gains from Eloqua. So that’s all fine, but what industry observers really want to know is how Salesforce.com will react. (The

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Getting Closer to My Usability Ratings

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offering a white paper or promoting a Webinar) and the larger process of managing the flow of treatments. But I also knew that some of the vendors focused on complex programs ( Market2Lead , Marketbright and arguably Silverpop/Vtrenz ) embed similar-looking list-style campaigns within a larger flow logic.

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Why You Need a Lead Nurturing Strategy

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Your sales process doesn’t just stop with getting leads from various sources and calling them once. According to Market2Lead , nurtured leads experience a 23% shorter sales cycle. Hence, a proper outline of who gets involved when is also necessary to derive maximize results from this process. But, is that all?

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More Blathering About Demand Generation Software

Customer Experience Matrix

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. So, having tipped our hat to process, let’s talk about technology instead. Or do you just not add them at all?

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

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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. (For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) Good stuff.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

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These follow a standard format: use performance to classify companies as best-in-class (top 20%), average (mid 50%) and laggard (bottom 30%) companies, and then look at differences the business processes and technology. It includes five pages of properly sourced industry statistics from Aberdeen , Forrester , Gartner and SiriusDecisions.