LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Forrester recently released a vendor evaluation for midmarket CRM vendors. If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. Should you look at Marketing Automation options first? That is relatively easy for Marketing Automation systems to support.

Salesforce.com 100

Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation CRM 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. It’s selling to small and mid-size companies and business-to-business marketers, who are just dipping their toes into marketing automation.

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Enterprise Management Hubspot Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. Other vendors like Nimble and HubSpot have done a better job of simplifying access to third party data about an individual or company.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vendors Linkedin 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. But I did notice about two years ago that pretty much everyone in the B2B marketing automation space was more or less assuming I’d attend. All of which brings us back to B2B marketing automation. Peer pressure worked, and there I was.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Work Management 120

ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 2, 2015

I spent last Tuesday and Wednesday at the MarTech Conference in San Francisco, where close to 1,000 marketing technologists heard sage advice, shared experiences, and otherwise frolicked with their peers. Several presenters diagrammed the actual marketing systems in place at their companies.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

Some vendors only rank leads while others build multiple models for different purposes. • Whether the vendor sells prospect lists or only enhance names provided by the client. Whether the vendor provides lists of individuals as well as companies. Here are brief profiles of the vendors I’ve identified in or near this space.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Last November, after much consideration of alternatives , I settled on Alexa three-month Web traffic rankings as a reasonable way to measure the relative market presence of demand generation vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 29, 2016

It is no secret that LinkedIn is a valuable social media platform for B2B marketers. And according to the “LinkedIn Ads Benchmark Report Q3 2015” published by Marketing Mojo, 79 percent of B2B marketers said that LinkedIn was “effective” at generating leads. Inbound Marketers – For Marketing Professionals.

Linkedin 141

Linkedin B2B Marketing Marketing Analytics Tools Work Management 141

Engagio

APRIL 12, 2024

” – Philip Kotler, American marketing author, consultant, and professor emeritus. Account managers must communicate regularly with each of their customers, adapting and offering solutions that evolve as the market changes. Customer retention: the ability of a business to keep its existing customers. Here are a few (10) ways.

Marketing Management 62

Marketing Management Allocation Lead Ranking DemandBase 62

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

The real focus of the conference was introducing the latest version of Infusionsoft’s Small Business Success Method, an approach to helping small businesses plan their marketing programs. I still think Infusionsoft could be displaced by an aggressive, well-funded competitor, especially as marketing technologies and methods continue to change.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Planning 120

Biznology

JUNE 6, 2018

If you’re a small or medium size business selling to consumers, you probably want to both automate and personalize your marketing campaigns. The solution, of course, is marketing automation linked to your customer relationship management (CRM) software. Fortunately for SMB marketers, CRM is becoming main stream. The Disconnect.

Marketing Automation Services 167

Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Work Management 167

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. - InsideView is already integrated with major CRM vendors and with the Marketbright demand generation system. Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 The deal makes obvious sense, in that it gives Oracle a much stronger position in the fast-growing B2B marketing automation industry*. What if you're an enterprise marketer? per share, which comes to $871 million.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 5, 2013

Fresh on the heels of yesterday''s blockbuster ExactTarget / Salesforce.com deal , SAP today announced acquisition of e-commerce vendor hybris software. During their call, the SAP and hybris managers unfairly implied that ExactTarget does nothing but email (without mentioning Salesforce.com or ExactTarget by name).

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com 120

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. Once a Hushly member has downloaded vendor content, vendors can send emails to the member via Hushly. Members can block messages from a vendor if they wish.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Market2Lead Salesforce.com Privacy 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Most of the work in any marketing analytics project is integrating data from multiple systems. The system has prebuilt connectors to import data from popular vendors including Salesforce.com , Marketo , Hubspot , SAP , SugarCRM , and Facebook. Here’s a deeper look. It can connect with others through standard APIs.

Analysis 120

Analysis Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com 120

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.

Manticore 120

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Marketers frequently need to review and choose new tools to help improve or streamline their marketing programs. Because of this, some marketers make the wrong choice because they just pick software based on a salesperson’s promise or friend’s suggestion. Reviews by other marketers. Plus, over 70 of them are free. .

Salesforce.com 48

Salesforce.com Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Resources 48

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.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Lead Ranking Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company is in the business of assembling B2B marketing lists – an industry dating back centuries to city directories and beyond. It has since expanded from list gathering to all stages in the Account Based Marketing process, sprinkling in dashes of artificial intelligence at every step along the way. Identify target accounts.

Marketing AI 120

Marketing AI Account Based Marketing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2015

Back then, they positioned themselves as a “marketing operating system” that provided core functions but would ultimately let users connect with third party apps. The latest incarnation describes itself as “software for multi-channel marketing” but still provides core functions and connects with third party apps. So what has changed?

Multi-Channel 120

Multi-Channel Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 4, 2013

I''ve been in meetings all day and just emerged to hear that Salesforce.com purchased ExactTarget. They have been lacking large-scale email capability, which all types of sales and marketing departments require. They also get a toe-hold in B2C marketing and in marketing automation (via ExactTarget''s Pardot technology).

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Purchase Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve been gearing up for the next edition of our VEST report on B2B marketing automation systems, which involves catching up with established vendors and chasing down some new ones. nurture campaigns), and share leads with a CRM system like Salesforce.com. Here are highlights of several vendors I’ve looked at recently.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

The Point

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Bonnie Crater is a five-time Vice President of Marketing, a former colleague of this blogger from our days at Oracle in the late 80s, and in 2000 was named one of the “Top 20 Female Executives in Silicon Valley” by San Jose Magazine. HS: How are you different from marketing automation vendors like Eloqua or Marketo at addressing this issue?

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Campaigns Budget Programs 100

Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

After creating, building, and leading the Oracle Marketing Cloud from obscurity to industry leadership for the last 3 years, which was a beyond-amazing career experience (thank you Oracle!), Only 10% of the marketers out there are even doing this as common practice right now, and we should see a lot more adoption this year.

Enterprise Management 116

Enterprise Management Paid Content Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 116

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 24, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that “predictive everywhere” is one of major trends in data-driven marketing. 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. Is SalesPredict right for you?

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Automation Salesforce.com 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 11, 2015

Highspot has staked out the corner of this world occupied by systems that help sales people find the right marketing materials. The July release will supplement this with opportunity information from Salesforce.com CRM, allowing correlation of content usage with funnel stage conversions and revenue.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel Salesforce.com Advertising Funnels Advertising Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I’ll be giving a speech next week on the evolution of marketing technology, which doesn't follow the path you might think. Similarly, marketers up that time worked with the same data – audience counts and customer lists – they had since Ben Franklin and before. But every action has a reaction.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Salesforce.com Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Summary: Marketing automation and CRM systems may eventually converge, but for now marketers need help explaining why they need a system of their own. I hugely enjoyed yesterday’s Boston session of the Silverpop -sponsored B2B Marketing University. Vendors take note. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 13, 2014

Last year’s biggest marketing automation acquisitions were products for consumer marketing: ExactTarget by Salesforce.com , Neolane by Adobe , and Responsys by Oracle. Consumer marketers have had their own, highly sophisticated marketing automation systems for years.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Resource Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2014

The other enterprise-level B2C email vendors ( ExactTarget , Responsys ) have already been bought at wondrously high prices, and every B2B marketing automation vendor I talk to tells me that potential investors are approaching them constantly. My only reaction was, What the heck took so long? This makes Silverpop a perfect fit.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120