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Getting Closer to My Usability Ratings

Customer Experience Matrix

If you suspected that my last two blog posts were a way to avoid writing a post that ranks vendors on usability, you’re probably right. offering a white paper or promoting a Webinar) and the larger process of managing the flow of treatments. The simplicty-oriented vendors don’t have explicit campaign-to-campaign routing.

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Why Most Consumer Marketing Automation Systems Are Not Software-as-a-Service, And When That Will Change

Customer Experience Matrix

Any vendor who didn’t sell that way would be an oddity. But consumer-oriented marketing automation products from vendors like Unica , SAS and Teradata are still commonly sold as traditional on-premise software. Many of the consumer-oriented vendors do offer “hosted” versions of their systems. demand generation) systems.

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First Look at New Marketo Release

Customer Experience Matrix

Although I actually think that quite a few demand generation vendors share the Marketo philosophy, it’s still helpful to hear the distinction made clearly. Here is where it’s worth considering the approaches of other vendors. That last point morphed into a discussion of the increased integration between marketing and sales.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). To be fair, many of the vendors below charge an installation of that can be several thousand dollars or more, while Marketo doesn't. I reviewed it here in March.

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Marketo Releases Marketo Lead Management 3.0

WebMarketCentral

Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 additional profile is requested as a prospect moves through an interactive process); Native integration with Salesforce.com ; Web visitor profiling; and Automated duplicate lead removal. software suite.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy. All thoughts are welcome!

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How Demand Generation Systems Handle Company Data: Diving into the Details

Customer Experience Matrix

At that time, I posed a set of specific questions to the demand generation vendors in the Raab Guide. My original approach in the Guide had simply been to ask vendors whether they had a separate company table in their system. But let’s say that leaves you with a dozen vendors, and you use some gross criteria to select the top three.