InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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Work Management 120

Work Management Salesforce.com Deliverability Forecasting 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

KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 29, 2016

Salesforce.com. From the group introduction: Salesforce.com. Admin Stephen Cummins runs the Salesforce.com group like a high quality magazine , carefully vetting submissions so engagement, dialogue, and value for members can be better realized. B2B Sales, Marketing, Social Media & Lead Generation. Future trends.

Linkedin 141

Linkedin B2B Marketing Marketing Analytics Tools Work Management 141

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

billion $420 - $520 Infusionsoft small business integrated sales and marketing software 35,000 $100 million $2,857 HubSpot integrated marketing and CRM software 18,100 $181 million $10,000 Infusionsoft managers recognize that expanding the customer base requires making marketing easier. Two other vendors also caught my eye.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Planning 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. SalesPredict is a perfect example: a small vendor with a powerful system that just launched earlier this year.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Automation Salesforce.com 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

Biznology

JUNE 6, 2018

Marketing automation combined with CRM is a real benefit to sales organizations. Here’s why: Your sales conversations are more familiar and personal when your inbound sales team can reference notes of previous interactions. You can remarket ads more intelligently based on specific interests or positions in the sales funnel.

Marketing Automation Services 167

Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Work Management 167

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. More specifically, it’s a major acquisition by a CRM vendor, helping to fulfill everyone's favorite prophecy that marketing automation and CRM will eventually merge.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2014

The CDP industry has been moving along nicely without my attention: new CDPs keep emerging and the existing vendors are growing. This model can score new leads and classify existing opportunities in the sales pipeline. This model can score new leads and classify existing opportunities in the sales pipeline.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services Reachforce 120

The Point

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In 2011, she became President and CEO of Full Circle CRM , a company dedicated to helping VPs of Marketing use Salesforce.com to get accurate and useful performance data about marketing campaigns. 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

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 11, 2015

“Sales enablement” is something of a catch-all term for a wide range of solutions that help sales people do their jobs better. Highspot has staked out the corner of this world occupied by systems that help sales people find the right marketing materials. But the firm soon learned that this wasn’t enough.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel Salesforce.com Advertising Funnels Advertising Agencies 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. But I doubt Salesforce will suddenly stop integrating with other marketing automation vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

ViewPoint

DECEMBER 17, 2013

To get an understanding of the depth of data available to B2B marketers for prospecting, we invited a set of reputable vendors to open their vaults and share details about the nature and quantity of the fields they offer. Seven vendors participated, giving us a nice range of data sources, including both compiled lists and response lists.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Marketing Management Lead Scoring Salesforce.com 120

Lattice

JUNE 23, 2016

Amazon, Rackspace, Salesforce.com and others are all great choices for hosting company applications and resources, as they all provide a secure foundation. And we’ve seen some vendors who claim their compliant, but are in fact just running their solution on a compliant cloud platform.

Salesforce.com 113

Salesforce.com Vendors Guidelines Amazon 113

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.

Intent Data 120

Intent Data Intent Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 120

ViewPoint

AUGUST 28, 2013

Companies must take the lead and make sure their sales people are familiar with the new paradigm, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Nick Stein, senior director of marketing and communications at Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud software heavyweight. Youth Meets Experience in Sales Force. That has pros and cons, Nick said.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Salesforce.com Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

For many smaller companies, a suite like Adobe, Oracle , IBM , Salesforce.com , SAS , or Teradata isn’t an option and would be overkill if it were. Some vendors do this better than others. sales stages. And Lenovo uses just only two of Adobe’s eight solutions. But such integrated solutions are rarely comprehensive. ad inventory.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Display Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2015

These include Salesforce.com for CRM, InsideView and FullContact for data enhancement, Twilio for text messaging, Lob for postcards, Segment for event tracking, and GoodData for reporting. The vendor expects to survive at such low prices by minimizing sales and support costs, allowing almost total self-service in both areas.

Multi-Channel 120

Multi-Channel Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 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. I guess I should send them a t-shirt or something.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

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

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This was my fourth Dreamforce, and I’d like to offer some observations from the perspective of someone who lives in the B2B marketing & sales space. Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. Observation 4: Salesforce.com Needs Better Content .

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 100

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

Few people would suggest you learn salesmanship from the play Glengarry Glen Ross ,* but its central message rings true: good leads are the lifeblood of a sales organization.** Some vendors only rank leads while others build multiple models for different purposes. • Whether the vendor provides lists of individuals as well as companies.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring 120

ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Selling subscriptions via a direct sales force.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 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

APRIL 10, 2014

More important, the value of platforms has been widely recognized through the tech industry for decades: classic examples include Salesforce.com ’s own AppExchange, Apple ’s iPhone AppStore, Microsoft ’s operating system software, and, going way back, the original IBM System 360. Let me be clear. I’d say this approach is debatable.

Marketo 120

Marketo Marketing Automation Services Conference Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Joe Moloney gave a more detailed answer about limits in Salesforce.com in particular, including lack of CAN-SPAM compliance and limits on mass emails. Vendors take note. I still suspect they will, driven by the need for ever-closer cooperation between marketing and sales teams in managing prospect relationships.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 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

APRIL 26, 2011

There are plenty of other vendors serving micro-businesses. Canterris , NurtureHQ , and mKubed all provide email, Web visitor tracking, nurture campaigns, lead scoring, and CRM integration ((Salesforce.com for Canterris and NurtureHQ; its own CRM for mKubed) for under $500 per month. MakesBridge is another contender.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Features Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves.

Marketo 120

Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 25, 2014

The Oracle announcement provided unintentional symmetry with Bizo: as LinkedIn was leaving the customer data sales business, Oracle was expanding its offerings. Among other things, the Oracle product will set a benchmark for pricing of similar services by other vendors.

Marketing Management 120

Marketing Management Linkedin Buy Privacy Policies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. This will put substantial pricing pressure on vendors who, in many cases, are already struggling to reach sustainable margins. Other vendors – notably Pardot – have followed a similar cost-removal strategy. Here’s where the free system comes back into play.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 8, 2010

Today I’m at the Sales 2.0 I write about Marketing Automation, so why am I at a sales conference? I’m here because I believe Sales & Marketing should be on the same team. Marketing Automation can help both Marketing and Sales, but it requires intense collaboration: that’s what Sales 2.0

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Salesforce.com Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

B2B marketing data vendor ReachForce today announced its purchase of SetLogik , which provides technology to build cloud-based marketing databases and do predictive modeling against them. See my post from last October for more on SetLogik.) There’s an obvious peanut butter-meets-jelly type of logic to this match.

Reachforce 120

Reachforce Buy Marketing Management B2B Marketing 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The company made the announcement at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Although the improved UI is the big change, the new version also adds integration with SalesForce.com for AdWords campaigns and improved lead generation capabilities.

Manticore 100

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

Marketing automation vendors have adopted different strategies to deal with their problem, including making their systems easier to use, offering extensive training, and providing services to run the systems for their clients. 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

OCTOBER 29, 2015

When I first described Customer Data Platforms two and half years ago, all the vendors offered an application such as predictive analytics or campaign management in addition to the "pure" CDP function of building the customer database. Current clients use Openprise in more modest ways, however.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Pega positions Customer Decision Hub as part of its core platform, which supports applications for marketing, sales automation, customer service, and operations. It competes with the usual enterprise suspects: Adobe , Oracle , Salesforce.com , IBM , and SAS.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. However, when I started looking into Salesforce.com and the wide variety of add-ons, I was less convinced. The Salesforce.com database has some big issues (e.g. Smart or foolish? Background.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services LEADSExplorer netFactor Leadlander 100