Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 12, 2011

As I mentioned yesterday, our new B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) asks vendors to estimate the number of clients in each of four size categories. But if you do want to consider all these vendors as one industry, the minimum adjustment to make is to account for differences in price.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. That means even the absolute increase was down: $11.2

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I’ve just finished the latest update of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), available on the raabguide.com Web site. The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. We use two methods: Vendor revenues.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 1, 2012

I’ve gotten used to thinking of the B2B marketing automation industry as entering a consolidation phase, during which a handful of dominant vendors emerge and small vendors drop away. It's only in the later stages of consolidation – after crossing Geoffrey Moore’s chasm – that the dominant vendors really take control.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. I put this at $325 million for 2011, a 50% increase from 2010. The new report contains a rich trove of industry information.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

The non-specialist vendors such as IBM Unica and SAS, are not included in these figures but also have significant revenue in this segment. As before, vendors closer to the top have the most appropriate features for this segment, and those further to the right have the most similar customer base and company resources.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

When I first wrote about ClickDimensions in a February, 2011 post , the concept was intriguing – a marketing automation add-on to Microsoft Dynamics CRM – but the product itself had been available for less than six months and claimed barely 50 clients. This is comparable to standard marketing automation products.

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Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

Martech has exploded in recent years, with over 11,000 solutions available to help marketers automate and optimize operations. However, much of this martech stack is designed to convert prospects into leads and track them through the marketing funnel. Fun times lie ahead. Verdict: No new tech needed 6.

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SpotMe Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Our virtual event platform comparison helps you pick your next virtual event solution. There has never been a wider selection of tools to create virtual events. Be strategic before starting your virtual event platform comparison. Then we will draw up a list of critical features for your next tool. Agenda tools.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2012

by Jon Miller Marketing automation is a technology that streamlines and automates marketing tasks so companies can increase operational efficiency and grow revenue faster. In other words, companies don’t buy marketing automation to automate their marketing. Measure and prove marketing ROI.

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ClickZ

APRIL 29, 2020

Unification around data analytics and the consolidation of technologies into consolidated platforms will help reduce technology redundancies, decrease the learning curve needed to leverage multiple, separate solutions and limit the total cost of ownership. marketers now spend more on marketing technology than on salaries for internal staff.

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Everything Technology Marketing

JANUARY 1, 2011

It is January and time again for the obligatory 2011 predictions. Many marketing experts have strong opinions on what they think will happen in 2011. I asked you to rank the marketing areas you think will become more important in 2011. Marketing will be expected to show how it impacts new revenue generation.

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ClickZ

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Martech’s proliferation of data and tools can be overwhelming, making it difficult to keep technology up-to-date and staff up-to-speed on how best to utilize the stack. A technical marketing landscape requires technical skills, but marketing still requires creativity, empathy, and humanity. Source: Chiefmartec.

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ViewPoint

DECEMBER 20, 2011

I appreciate the manner in which each has clearly presented B2B marketing and sales challenges, solutions (in the form of best-practice strategies and tactics), and results in areas like the following: Content marketing. Demand creation. Marketing automation. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics.

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SnapApp

JULY 26, 2018

Today we’re going to explore what it takes to be a modern demand gen marketer in this crazy new marketing world. So You Want To Be A Demand Gen Marketer? Demand generation marketers have become a hot commodity as companies are all striving to generate qualified leads at scale. Enter Google Analytics.

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markempa

DECEMBER 19, 2016

“With the rise of content marketing, a lot of businesses get stuck in the eBook rut,” saysLinda West ( @ misslindawest ), Director of Digital Marketing at Act-On Software , a rapidly growing company that makes a marketing automation Software as a Service (SaaS). And no wonder. “We

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chiefmartech

APRIL 24, 2018

I’ve kept the nickname of the Martech 5000 — it has a certain ring to it — but this year’s graphic actually charts 6,829 marketing technology solutions from 6,242 unique marketing technology vendors. We used these services to discover new companies and to triangulate our categorization.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As I discussed earlier this year in my BLOG “ Executive Insights: World-Class Demand Generation and Corporate Social Responsibility Converge at Televerde ”, I was very fortunate to work with some tremendous partners during my nearly 19 year tenure with SAP Global Marketing.

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ClearVoice

AUGUST 31, 2020

The technological advancements we have today provide a form of ‘lifesaver’ for some business owners that allow businesses to retain revenue and still provide services and/or sell products to their clients. In a way, transactions may become just that — system enabled delivery of a product or service that lacks the human element.

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accelerate agency

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The SaaS business model How SaaS differs from traditional software Types of SaaS companies: B2B & B2C Why businesses use SaaS Stages of a SaaS company Top 20 SaaS companies of 2022 Top 6 SaaS companies to work for FAQ about SaaS Getting started with a SaaS company What is a SaaS company? billion by 2024. What is SaaS?

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accelerate agency

OCTOBER 14, 2021

How SaaS differs from traditional software. As a subset within cloud computing, ‘Software as a Service’ or SaaS has transformed how we work and interact online. Essentially, Software as a Service (SaaS) is a solution model that provides users with externally managed, owned, and delivered software.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 5, 2012

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Oracle followed suit this morning with an acquisition of social media monitoring and semantic analysis vendor Collective Intellect. In a word, no.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 17, 2010

We are pleased that we were able to catch-up with Andrew Gaffney, Editor-In-Chief of DemandGen Report, an on-line publication that covers B2B marketing and the marketing automation space. In this role, Andrew is continually speaking with vendors, analysts and end-users.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 20, 2014

The head of marketing operations is typically the de facto owner of the technology stack today @chiefmartec #marketingopssummit. RT @bkardon What happens to >1000 marketing software companies? Marketing needs to own their tech strategy. An MAS platform. Are 1000+ marketing technology vendors sustainable?

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 10, 2011

Happy 2011! Steve has nearly 20 years of experience in brand building, demand generation and corporate marketing. Steve has a proven track record in marketing communications development and execution. As we exited 2010, there were a lot of predictions for what’s in store for B2B Marketing in 2011.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 10, 2011

The continuing growth of B2B marketing and marketing automation is indeed good news for those of us in the B2B marketplace. Despite the claim by some that automation is “floundering”, marketing automation is clearly gaining steam and poised for even more growth in 2011.

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Circle Studio

JANUARY 10, 2020

While there are certainly historical reasons for that viewpoint, marketers who stay inside the B2B bubble are hindering innovation and keeping their firm’s marketing behind the eight ball of consumer trends that will inevitably find their way into B2B. Myth 3: Marketing technology is a magic wand.

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Circle Studio

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Over the last decade, marketing has become increasingly dependent on technology—requiring new skills and processes and creating new challenges. As A/E/C marketers look to empower their efforts with technology solutions, the challenge of keeping up with all the available tools—and deciding which ones to use—can be overwhelming.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Bonnie Crater is a five-time Vice President of Marketing, a former colleague of this blogger from our days at Oracle in the late 80s, and in 2000 was named one of the “Top 20 Female Executives in Silicon Valley” by San Jose Magazine. HS: How are you different from marketing automation vendors like Eloqua or Marketo at addressing this issue?

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 5, 2010

  The year 2011 will shape up to be a transformative one for sales and there will be significant rethinking on how sales functions are integrated into B2B organizations. Sales will require development of meeting buyer demands for an experiential interaction with sales that is more than just a focus on relationships alone.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot.

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Aberdeen

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

In 2011, IBM Watson had just beat champion Ken Jennings on Jeopardy! and Paul Roetzer decided to apply that same technology to marketing. By 2016, marketing automation tools had hit the market and were being deployed with gusto, but they weren’t truly smart, and frankly, were barely automated.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

by Jason Miller Are you looking for a new software solution to meet your team’s needs, but you’ve had it on the back burner all year? If you’ve been contemplating a software purchase, and you have budget that’s almost past its sell by date, then now is a great time to act. Let’s make a deal! Unfortunately, this evaporates in January.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Carlos is a recognized thought leader in B2B marketing and known for his keen insights on the development and implementation of lead management processes, as well as marketing automation. He is a frequent speaker, blogger and contributor to many B2B marketing publications. And I think marketers recognize it.”.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Demand for Interactive White Papers, Diagnostic Assessments, ROI Calculators and TCO Comparison Tools Drives Growth. For 2011 Q3, we are delighted to announce the addition of six important new customers , two major partnership s, and several significant awards during the third quarter of 2011.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 7, 2011

USA Financial recognized by DemandGen Report in 2011 Sales & Marketing Alignment Awards. USA Financial was one of 10 companies recognized for deploying marketing automation tools and re-engineering internal processes in order to drive new revenue growth, produce quality leads and improve campaign results. “We

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