Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2012

Salesforce.com yesterday announced the launch of Site.com , an enterprise-class Web site management system. The news didn’t seem to get much attention, perhaps because Salesforce.com itself pretty much buried it. Here’s a piece from 2009.) That’s the first Salesforce.com reference I can find to a “digital marketing platform”.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It could supplement a traditional marketing automation system or perhaps replace one. When I reviewed Right On Interactive in a July 2009 post , the company was selling its 5Buckets marketing software as a multi-channel output generation tool that complemented conventional marketing automation systems.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2012

It’s more than three years since my original post about SiteCore’s plans to transform itself from a Web content management system to a platform for cross-channel customer experience management. In other words, SiteCore has been steadily executing on the strategy they described in 2009.

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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. But let’s not forget that offline channels still account for nearly 90% of total advertising expenditures.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Summary: Treehouse Interactive has been slowly enhancing its marketing automation system with features that appeal to experienced users. Its new clients are larger firms and half are switching from another marketing automation product that they found inadequate. This might foreshadow attrition problems at other vendors.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Many of the marketing automation companies have added some fairly sophisticated analytics to monitor prospect’s online behavior and help marketers qualify and score them based on Web site visits, registrations, and downloads. My point: B2B marketers are looking elsewhere for help generating demand.

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