Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2014

When it gets a new client, it loads that company’s own customer list and sales from its CRM system, finds those companies and individuals in the Fliptop database, enhances their records with Fliptop data, and uses the combined information to build a predictive model that identifies the likelihood of someone making a purchase.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2016

B22B lead generation vendor True Influence today announced a new product to help fill these gaps. 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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I suppose that’s become increasingly important as marketing automation moves beyond its original role in lead management to help attract new leads at the top of the funnel. (Do This may be because the previous mid-market leaders, Marketo and Pardot in particular, have been focusing more on enterprise sales.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management Top of Funnel 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. At least three vendors (Eloqua, Marketo and Silverpop) introduced new features aimed at improving marketers’ ability to use social media. Sales access. Could marketers finally be ready to spend on measurement?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Mintigo’s conclusion across 186,500 B2B companies was that just three percent were using the most common marketing automation systems: Oracle Eloqua , Marketo, HubSpot, and Salesforce.com Pardot. There’s still a bit of selection bias – it won’t work if a company isn’t on the Internet – but the impact is obviously much less.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

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. Because it knows what to expect, the system can easily load customer data and sales results from those systems. The final differentiator is flexibility.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

Still, the vendor comparison in our VEST report shows that RightWave’s core functionality – for lead generation, campaign management, scoring and distribution, and reporting – is on par with mid-tier leaders Pardot and Marketo. The company is now starting to ramp up its sales efforts, so the true scope of its appeal will soon be clear.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Management Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

Reachforce’s core business is assembling data on marketing prospects, which it then sells for as many uses as possible: appending to Web leads, enhancing existing databases, and buying as lists. There’s an obvious peanut butter-meets-jelly type of logic to this match.

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Reachforce Buy Marketing Management B2B Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 29, 2009

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 30, 2015

This lead to enough questions about the data that it now seems worth a blog post on the topic. The point of the original TechCrunch article was the growth of open, predictive-based platforms that unify sales and marketing, a direction I agree the industry will take. The short answer is no.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 29, 2011

You probably saw ExactTarget ’s June 13 announcement of its strategic partnership with Marketo and Eloqua ’s June 21 announcement of its new AppCloud marketplace for connectors with other systems. In fact, the real head scratcher was why ExactTarget would deal with Marketo if it had ambitions to occupy the same central turf.

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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. I guess I should send them a t-shirt or something.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Build a campaign as a list of stages Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 Build linear campaigns outside of a larger campaign structure. The flow of leads among these independent campaigns may be managed either through explicit routing (i.e.,

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It only recently added standard B2B marketing automation features including a customer-level marketing database, outbound email, landing pages, lead scoring, Web behavior tracking, reporting, and Salesforce.com integration. B2B marketing automation systems are built for lead nurturing and provide a foundation adequate for that purpose.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% Statistics include: • 16.5% But lots of people do anyway.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. The leaders among demand generation systems are still Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo. The only vendor with a really major drop in ranking was Lead Genesys , another long-time industry participant. Pardot and (perhaps) Genius.com look particularly strong.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 14, 2013

This week it announced a new platform , InterestBase, that gives clients an interface to define target groups, analyze group members’ interests, push prospect lists to marketing automation and CRM systems, and enhance individual lead records. This enhanced data can be used in lead scoring or to help guide salespeople.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Social Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Marketo now calls itself a “the revenue cycle management company”, giving equal public weight to lead management, sales insight and analytics. But Marketo will also find itself competing with established marketing automation vendors like Aprimo , Neolane and Unica. who are entering this market from a different direction.

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Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. Marketo is certainly a fine product, but marketers should still look around before picking it by default. Pricing starts at $599 per month. I reviewed it here in March.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

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. This has been sadly lacking in most B2B marketing automation systems, which supplement the Salesforce.com database with barely-extensible lead profiles and contact histories.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Lead Ranking Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My last two posts (not counting this morning’s detour into Marketo-land) described common errors marketers make when selecting marketing automation systems. Remember all that yammering about how today’s buyers do their own research, don’t talk to sales until late in the process, and get their information from social media rather than experts?

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

For example, LoopFuse found that nearly twice as many used email and web landing pages as lead scoring. This is by far the most popular strategy among vendors, presumably because it increases sales by placing the fewest demands on buyers. It's applied by Marketo , Pardot , Act-On Software , Genius , Net-Results , and many others.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

I had figured to start off with my industry growth figures, but this led naturally to a question about long-term potential, which in turn leads to thoughts of market penetration rates. There’s some evidence that B2B marketing automation vendors are moving their sales and marketing in this direction.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

This has more to do with the degree of personal selling (and after-sale service) than anything else. Similarly, functionality is generally comparable although they may be less sophisticated at some tasks such as dynamic content generation (automatically altering an email or Web page based on lead characteristics) and branching campaign flows.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

There’s still time to sign up for my October 7 Webinar on stage-based marketing measurement (sponsored by Marketo and hosted by the American Marketing Association ). Quick review: stage-based measurement tracks the ability of marketing programs to move leads through stages in the purchase process. valueless) leads drop out.

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Budget Programs ROI Forecasting Statistics 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 23, 2011

In fact, the company’s research has found that nearly half its clients do almost no email, using the system instead primarily for sales automation and service. Rather, Infusionsoft clients have valued labor savings they gain from having one integrated system for marketing, sales, e-commerce, and service.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing & Strategy 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

The main result of the conversations so far has been to clarify the items related to lead routing. Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 Tags: software usability measurement demand generation marketing automation lead management software selection. 9 Now what?

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Demand Generation Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

For example, its approach to revenue reporting is no better than average: the system imports revenue from the sales automation opportunity records, and then assigns it to the first campaign of the associated lead. But I didn’t check Pardot against my full list of possible features, so don’t get the impression that it does everything.

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Demand Generation Enterprise Management Small Business Marketing Pricing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 10, 2008

One company that has made a concerted effort is newcomer Marketo. Marketo has a one-word elevator speech: simplicity. That’s not to say Marketo is a simple product. The system can also add the lead to a Salesforce.com database, assign or change the owner in Salesforce.com, and create a Salesforce.com task.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketo Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2015

The simplest is just connecting marketing leads to closed sales, which is an issue because the data in sales systems is often incomplete. A higher level ties specific marketing programs to individual leads, and through them to accounts and deals. Since Salesforce.com can also capture lead source (i.e.,

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Allocation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Looking over the published materials and listening to the investor relations conference call, it seems that ExactTarget’s motive was gaining access to Pardot’s lead nurturing and scoring capabilities. ExactTarget also said their relationship with Marketo , announced June 2011 and now ended, had produced little business.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Marketo 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 19, 2015

Today, at least a dozen vendors are offering predictive models for B2B lead scoring, sales intelligence, and customer success management. The late start has let it adopt a broader scope from the beginning, offering both lead scoring and new prospect identification. Lead scoring usually runs from $60,000 to $100,000 per year.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking B2B Sales Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2017

CaliberMind ingests data from Salesforce Sales cloud and Marketo , Oracle Eloqua , Salesforce Pardo t, and HubSpot marketing automation systems. It also uses those vendors to find identifiers belonging to the same person (such as multiple email addresses or alternative company names) and to link contact and lead records to accounts.

Marketing Analytics Tools 120

Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Automation Services Classified Ads Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2010

This is no different from the “sales funnel” that sales managers have long measured, nor from the AIDA model (awareness, interest, desire, action) that structures traditional brand marketing. Although this is pretty standard among business intelligence systems, few if any of Marketo's competitors offer anything similar.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Allocation Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2012

Primary marketing interests are group emails, landing pages, and simple lead nurturing through email auto-responders. Before marketing automation, they typically use an email system (which also provides landing pages and simple nurture campaigns) or sales automation product for their marketing.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Marketing Report Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 30, 2009

My personal definition of demand generations systems (see Introduction to Demand Generation Systems from the Raab Guide site) explicitly states that they do not incorporate sales automation. The division makes sense in most organizations, since marketing and sales are separate. for whether this will change.) See my Infusionsoft review.)

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Cost Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 4, 2009

Explicitly direct leads from one campaign to another. Users can directly send leads from one stage in a campaign to a different campaign. Marketo gets a half point because it can direct leads to lists, which in turn feed campaigns, but not to campaigns directly. Multiple scores per lead.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Manticore 120