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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

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. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

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.

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ICON16: How Infusionsoft Plans To Dominate Small Business Marketing (and Make Life Better For Small Businesses Everywhere)

Customer Experience Matrix

. ** To put this in perspective: five million clients at $3,000 per client would give Infusionsoft $15 billion revenue, ranking it just behind SAP as the worlds fifth-largest software company and nearly three times Salesforce.com's 2016 revenue of $6.67 In other words, Infusionsoft is growing much more slowly than Salesforce.com.

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Jesubi Doubles Sales Prospecting Efficiency

Customer Experience Matrix

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.

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

Customer Experience Matrix

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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An 8-Step Plan for Migrating to a New Marketing Automation Program

Hubspot

Michael Freeman wasn’t psyched about having to migrate from one marketing automation system to another. ” Migrations are becoming more common in the marketing automation space. The field was so new that when most companies installed marketing automation programs they were starting with a clean slate.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

Customer Experience Matrix

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.