Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 4, 2012

One easily predictable trend in B2B marketing automation is that vendors will tailor their systems to specific industries. The reason may be that B2B marketing automation products have a narrower scope than B2C systems, meaning there’s less advantage in creating vertical editions. MindMatrix is one of them.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. But I’m beginning to think those marketers were really saying something else.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 18, 2011

As you might have guessed from my recent list of B2C marketing automation systems , I’ve recently been spending some time helping consumer marketers to select vendors. This is more a return than a departure: although I’ve written mostly about B2B systems for the past few years, my earlier work was largely in consumer marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It's looking more like a conventional small-business marketing automation system every day. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 11, 2011

So the news here is price. In other words, this is a price cut. HubSpot and Act-On have similar pricing to Spark, while Pardot runs a bit higher. Whether Marketo actually makes any money at this price is questionable. Marketo is stressing that Spark includes services to help clients take advantage of their systems.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years.

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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. Multi-language might open a larger market, at least until competitors match it.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 9, 2014

million in cash, a premium of 48% over their stock market price. x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. Salesforce.com synch is bi-directional and works with lead and contact records.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. That’s important in itself, since those missing links are the greatest obstacle to showing the value of B2B marketing efforts through revenue attribution.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

To help the system run smoothly, Lenovo has both dedicated internal Adobe teams, as well as full-time support people on Adobe''s payroll, which means the company spends equal amounts on both products and support services. ” For B2B marketers, this has happened mostly through Demandbase and what was formerly Bizo (now part of LinkedIn).

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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

AUGUST 21, 2009

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. This broader scope should become standard as marketers try to truly integrate their programs. The official launch will be in November at the Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I meant both that predictive models guide decisions at every stage in many marketing programs, and that models are used throughout the organization by marketing, sales, and service. Results appear as lists in a CRM interface or as scores on a marketing databaset.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

company services customers (2015) revenue (2015) revenue / customer GoDaddy domain registration, Web site hosting 13.8 Keywords alone have major limits – “price is too high” “price is a bargain” or “what’s your price” would all trigger the same reply if the system simply looks for the word “price”. million $1.6

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 10, 2014

Real Time Personalization already exists, obviously, and will remain a separate product that can work with any marketing automation system. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend. Every major marketing automation vendor has tried to do the same.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2015

These include Salesforce.com for CRM, InsideView and FullContact for data enhancement, Twilio for text messaging, Lob for postcards, Segment for event tracking, and GoodData for reporting. It sees itself as filling the gap between simple email systems and enterprise marketing automation products.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

When this blog last left Geoff Rego in 2010 , he had just sold the assets of pioneering B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead to Oracle. Happily, both obstacles can be overcome through good marketing. hushly lead identification marketing automation privacy prospect databases'

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2016

The notifications can be loaded as lists into a marketing automation or CRM system, where they can trigger advertising, sales calls, or other actions. InsightBASE has standard integrations with Marketo , Oracle Eloqua , and Salesforce.com. Clients also receive contact names, email addresses, and phone numbers at those companies.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2010

But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public?

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

million funding, enrolling about 30 beta clients, releasing its initial system and a new self-service option, developing an automated process to recommend marketing programs to its clients, and abandoning the CDP label to call itself a “marketing activation platform”. So, about that self-service option.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

It's a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to more powerful marketing automation systems for companies who don't need other marketing automation features. By my definitions (see Demand Generation vs Marketing Automation on the Raab Guide Web site), this makes 5Buckets a type of marketing automation system.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The SiteCore model is pretty much the same: it creates its own customer database and supports real time connections to other systems via Web services or database queries. Although I just compared SiteCore with decision management systems, its more immediate competitors are marketing automation vendors.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

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. I would have guessed recruiting services or maybe offshore outsourcing. Just thought I’d point that out.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Yet some other features are fairly advanced: Active Conversion can identify anonymous Web site visitors through reverse IP lookup, find contact names for those companies in JigSaw , and either send the data to Salesforce.com or let sales people access it withing Active Conversion itself.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

The company takes a conservative approach to marketing automation, stressing the importance of process over flashy software. I’m not sure this will be enough to thrive as the market develops, but customers will benefit regardless. Manticore Technology today released the latest version of its marketing automation system.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

You heard that right: an all-you-can eat, fixed-price buffet for predictive models. Better still, Modern Analytics has experience connecting to APIs of common data sources such as Salesforce.com , so a new feed from a familiar source usually takes just a few hours to set up. Can free toasters* and a loyalty card be far behind?

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

This has more to do with the degree of personal selling (and after-sale service) than anything else. 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. Here it is.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 2, 2015

This was an important reminder of how complicated marketing technology infrastructures are in the real-world, as opposed to the simple diagrams drawn by people like me. - It also tracks response time to social media customer service requests. Many firms were familiar to me but others were new.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

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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. So far as I’m concerned, it should be provided by every vendor as part of their base price. bidirectional real time data synchronization with sales automation.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

“Free&# CMS options such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal have an obvious appeal (price) to small businesses, but none are cost-free. If you are just looking to get a site up on the web and already have systems in place for CRM and marketing automation, these tools are worthy of consideration. Squarespace.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 13, 2016

The treatments are usually executed through external systems such as email service providers, CRM, or Web content management. There are prebuilt API connectors for Salesforce.com CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM , and SAP Cloud for Customer. The systems also assemble the unified customer database needed to track customer journeys.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. business-to-business marketing automation. inbound marketing. 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a.

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