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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

Customer Experience Matrix

My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. My original set of products was based on a general knowledge of which companies are most established, plus some consultation with vendors to learn who they felt were their main competitors. How to choose?

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

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.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Consumer-oriented marketing automation systems have been slower to adopt the Software-as-a-Service model than business marketing (demand generation) systems. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is now the standard model for business-to-business marketing automation (a.k.a. Any vendor who didn’t sell that way would be an oddity.

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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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How Different is Small Company CRM?

Customer Experience Matrix

Access Markets International (AMI) Partners ( www.ami-partners.com ) published “Mid-Market CRM: Vendor Strategies for a New Frontier”, which found only 35% of mid-sized companies have an existing CRM installation. They are certainly not conventional CRM since they integrate with other sales and service products.

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Marketo Releases Marketo Lead Management 3.0

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Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 Marketo competes with products such as Eloqua , Silverpop Engage B2B (formerly Vtrenz), Marketbright and Manticore in the marketing automation / demand generation space. software suite.

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Vtrenz Gives a Solid Overview of Relationship Marketing

Customer Experience Matrix

The question with vendor white papers is not whether they are self-serving—that’s inevitable—but whether they are useful as well. The Vtrenz series is long for this sort of thing: three 16-page papers, one each on nurturing, growing and retaining customers. The more common phrase is “sales, service and marketing.” Fair enough.

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