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Customer Experience Matrix
NOVEMBER 19, 2008
As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. Yet there are so many more vendors I could add.
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.
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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. The pattern will likely repeat itself.
Customer Experience Matrix
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
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. I’d already noticed that the simplicity-focused vendors ( Marketo , Infusionsoft , OfficeAutoPilot and, as of yesterday, Genius.com ) build their campaigns as a list of steps with no branching flows. (To
Customer Experience Matrix
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
This is a bit perplexing, since those products are at the opposite ends of the spectrum: Marketo being relatively low cost / limited functionality / easier to learn, and Eloqua being higher cost / richer functionality / takes more training. Pardot : another pretty powerful product; see my blog review from December 2008.
Customer Experience Matrix
JULY 25, 2009
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.
Customer Experience Matrix
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
release of his flagship product, scheduled for March 3. 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.
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