Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

Keywords alone have major limits – “price is too high” “price is a bargain” or “what’s your price” would all trigger the same reply if the system simply looks for the word “price”. One possible inference is that Infusionsoft would need a much lower-priced offering to reach that many customers.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Planning 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. Extensive pricing pressure from competing services/products at lower prices.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

One other factor clearly distinguishes SMB from Enterprise systems, and that’s pricing. Pardot’s lowest-price system, $500 per month, may be too constrained for most companies (no CRM integration, maximum of five landing pages, etc.), This pricing is low even among SMB demand generation systems.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Enterprise Management Small Business Marketing Pricing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting. Jesubi was the result, and more than doubled LeadJen’s touches per hour when it was introduced in 2007.

Efficiency 120

Efficiency Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Yet some other features are fairly advanced: Active Conversion can identify anonymous Web site visitors through reverse IP lookup, find contact names for those companies in JigSaw , and either send the data to Salesforce.com or let sales people access it withing Active Conversion itself.

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Active Conversion Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Lead Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. Look, I know online marketing is important. And, while we’re on the subject, they need REALLY TIGHT integration between marketing and sales automation, if not one shared system.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Marketo is certainly a fine product, but marketers should still look around before picking it by default. Here are some alternatives that will come in at or below Marketo’s published starting price of $2,400 per month (or $1,500 for their “Lite” version). (To Pricing for a full-featured system was $597 per month—quite a bargain.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120