Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Summary: Alsa Marketing is a late entry to small business marketing automation. It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Alsa also provides prebuilt templates for standard campaign workflows.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Two common business terms combined describe the an increasingly popular outreach tool: marketing automation. According to marketing research firm Raab Associates , the marketing automation system industry will reach $750 million in 2013, growing 50 percent from 2012. What is Marketing Automation?

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 9, 2011

Summary : Act-On Software’s revised system offers a reasonable mix of features in an easy-to-use interface. At $500 per month with no annual contract, it’s priced to make it easy to get started with marketing automation. Such emails would otherwise be invisible to the marketing automation system.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let’s look at those stages, using the four step structure of the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors. Nearly every vendor who does this applies some form of natural language processing to extract information from unstructured sources. Messages through other channels would have to be executed through marketing automation or CRM.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

Summary: MakesBridge offers a full set of marketing automation features with some special strengths that will appeal especially to small companies. I’ve written quite a bit recently about marketing systems for very small businesses – a category I’ve tentatively labeled “micro-business” and pegged at under $5 million revenue.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

It shows how specialized software can be much better at one function than general purpose systems. The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

Should you look at something beyond a CMS—a web marketing system (WMS), that provides additional functions like customer relationship management (CRM) and email? There’s no shortage of options, and the decision is an important one: you’ll be “married&# to the platform you choose for as long as your current site is up.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. Look, I know online marketing is important. And, while we’re on the subject, they need REALLY TIGHT integration between marketing and sales automation, if not one shared system.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

When Net-Results ’ showed me their marketing automation system, the demonstration ended so quickly that I wondered what was missing. Prospects enter Net-Results from external Web forms (more about that later), file imports, manual data entry, or Salesforce.com synchronization.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Summary: LeadPAC lets marketers pay for email responses as easily as they pay for search responses. I can’t recall a vendor with the same business model as LeadPAC from marketing automation vendor True Influence. I’ve seen marketing agencies and direct response media that work on a cost-per-lead basis.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

The classic demand generation cycle starts with an outbound email campaign, captures replies on a landing page, scores the responses, and then sends qualified leads to a sales automation system and keeps the others for more nurturing. Adding these items to an evaluation template is not especially difficult.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

This leads to more variety as vendors experiment with different approaches to a now-defined problem. In a third stage, variety diminishes as widely successful approaches become templates for standard configurations. This means new products reflect the lessons each vendor has drawn from the industry’s history to date.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. It provides a pretty typical email builder, with a graphical editor that lets users modify HTML templates and insert personalization variables.

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ClickZ

JUNE 20, 2019

With more options to market your product or service than ever before, marketers have a wealth of possibilities at their fingertips. But at the core of any marketing strategy, email marketing when done well still has a huge bang for your buck. But what email marketing platform should you use?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 24, 2015

I’m revving up for the next edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report, which will include six first-time entries. In other words, although GreenRope describes itself as “CRM and marketing automation,” it actually extends beyond those functions to manage activities throughout the business.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 26, 2014

You may have noticed that there are many B2B marketing automation systems available. So it’s not surprising that LeadLiaison prefers to be called something else – in their case, “revenue generation software”. But they do go far enough beyond standard marketing automation to justify a different label.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Ultimately what they need to do is stand out as a trusted advisor, so when their customers or their influencers need their price and services they know to pick up the phone and call them, but they drag their friends with them. Then, in a business, contacts are separated in sales, marketing, customer service and account application.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 3, 2013

On days when I have nothing else to be cranky about, I sometimes fuss at how business-to-business software vendors hijacked the term “marketing automation” despite its long and relatively honorable history describing systems for consumer marketing. One vendor taking advantage of this opening is RedPoint.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2014

Last week’s post looked at newer marketing automation systems that focused on small businesses. The general notion is that small businesses are finding existing marketing automation products too hard to use and would be happy with something simpler, especially if it costs less. Here are a few options.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 9, 2017

Here are a dozen tools to help you create pop-ups, landing pages, and forms, and optimize your calls to action for conversion. Conversion rate optimization software with features including customized/targeted pop-ups, instant surveys, real-time analytics, A/B testing, onsite retargeting, mobile integration and more. Pricing: free.

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Lead Liaison

MAY 1, 2018

Most of our growth marketing needs have manifested themselves as software that we’ve created to address a specific need in the overall growth marketing strategy. In addition to our own software, we’ve been using solutions from other providers to build what we feel is the ideal growth marketing software stack.

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Lead Liaison

MAY 1, 2018

Growth marketing software has commonly been referred to as a strategy that focuses on the entire funnel, as opposed to the top, middle, or bottom. Small to mid-sized businesses and startups need to think out of the box and not expend precious cycles trying to mimic traditional sales and marketing methods. CRM : OneFocus™ ™.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software enables marketers to build microsites and use content marketing to capture leads and nurture them through the buying process. Pricing starts at $199 per month for a single user and microsite, with no limit on the number of leads in the account, plus $8.50

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Microsite Salesforce.com 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 25, 2009

If you look at the Web site of Act-On Software , you’ll see a typical set of demand generation features: email marketing, demand generation (equated with landing pages and forms), lead nurturing, Website visitor tracking, channel (partner) marketing, and lead scoring. They can also import lists and execute email campaigns.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2017

All of the panelists were seasoned marketers with extensive marketing automation experience. I only really had time to ask the panel a single question, “What are the biggest challenges you’ve faced with marketing automation when it comes to your data?” ” Everyone had a lot to say. Check out this blog.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 10, 2008

As I wrote last week , demand generation vendors have a hard time differentiating their systems from each other. Functionally, it covers all the demand generation bases: outbound email, landing pages, Web site monitoring, lead scoring, multi-step nurturing programs, prospect database, analytics, Salesforce.com integration.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

I’ve more or less decided to offer a free summary of the demand generation vendor information in the Raab Guide. This might cost me a few sales, but it will enable many more people to benefit from the Guide’s contents and will make the Guide more valuable to the sponsoring vendors. Simple enough.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 14, 2009

The integrated analytics should save considerable effort for marketers. Channel-specific marketing automation is less appealing but should help to keep marketing automation vendors on their toes. He suggested that marketers will use separate systems for each channel.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 17, 2009

It’s a good choice for organizations that need both and don’t have very sophisticated marketing requirements. Marqui is one of the oldest demand generation vendors, founded in 2000. Among conventional demand generation systems, Pardot is a spin-off from CMS vendor Hannon Hill and Marketbright includes extensive CMS features.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 6, 2010

Genoo offers a small-business-oriented Web marketing system at a small-business-friendly price of $199 per month. I’m somewhat grandly labeling it a “Web marketing system” rather than “demand generation” because its microsite could replace a small company’s primary Web site. (For Let’s start with the microsites.

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Webbiquity

MAY 9, 2017

But in top-performing organizations, sales and marketing are closely aligned. A CRM system is usually the starting point, but the technology available to support sales+marketing alignment go well beyond a common platform for customer and prospect contact information. Sales Tools. Pricing: $12/$25/$55 per user per month.

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Lead Liaison

MARCH 14, 2018

We also compare and contrast sales enablement vs. marketing automation and break down how these two technologies complement one another. Bucket number one would be your company might be using email marketing. of email marketing. Definitely sales can benefit from using marketing automation. Transcription.

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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. But Market2Lead does not provide its own email services.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 14, 2009

I have my little checklist of features to define whether a demand generation system is suited for simple or complex marketing programs. You'll find most of the list in our report on Vendor Usability Scores on the Raab Guide site.) Sadly, some vendors didn't get the memo and have built products that straddle my categories.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Marketing automation / demand generation software enables marketers to build microsites and use content marketing to capture leads and nurture them through the buying process. Pricing starts at $199 per month for a single user and microsite, with no limit on the number of leads in the account, plus $8.50

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