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150+ Questions for Your Marketing Automation RFP

Customer Experience Matrix

If it's used widely, buyers and vendors both benefit. For business software vendors, all three are equally inevitable – and it's not clear which they dislike most. Vendors could prepare one set of answers and buyers would get faster and more reliable responses to a thorough set of questions. Death, taxes and RFPs.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. - Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year.

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Day Software Acquisition Adds Some Marketing Features to Adobe, But Gaps Remain

Customer Experience Matrix

Last month, Adobe announced their $240 million acquisition of Web content management vendor Day Software. But Day fills out its line by adding enterprise-class content management, digital asset management and social (blog, Wiki, etc.) Of course, this is a goal shared by so many vendors that it verges on cliché. publishing.

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Alterian Pushes Into Social Media Management with Techrigy Acquisition

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Alterian's purchase of Techrigy marks the first integration of serious social media management with marketing automation. Marketing automation vendor Alterian yesterday announced its acquisition of social media monitoring company Techrigy. Others are sure to follow. microblogs (Twitter, Friendfeed , etc.),

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how to use social media - lessons from ama digital conference

The Effective Marketer

Just as a sidenote, I thought ironic the fact that for a “digital marketing conference&# that focused on social media (blogs, wikis, twitter, facebook, etc.) the AMA Tampa Bay chapter didn’t have a blog, a wiki, or a discussion forum on their website where attendees could continue the conversation.

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New Marketing Automation Options for Small Business in the VEST Report

Customer Experience Matrix

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. The system also extends beyond sales and marketing functions to include customer forums, Wikis, support tickets, project schedules with tasks assigned to individuals, and coupons.

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Entiera Offers Consumer Marketing Automation Software as a Service

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Entiera is a sophisticated consumer marketing automation system, offered as a service and at a lower price than conventional competitors. Entiera Insight is a marketing automation system primarily for companies that sell to consumers. This is unusual among consumer marketing automation vendors.