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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Manticore Technology Sees Expertise as Key to Success as a Demand Generation Vendor

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. The company takes a conservative approach to marketing automation, stressing the importance of process over flashy software. The firm has grown steadily but slowly, reaching just under 125 active clients.

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Behavioral analytics is critical to your marketing campaign

PureB2B

At its core, behavioral analytics is concerned with understanding customer action and marketing behavior, which leads to better decision-making and business planning. Using behavioral data is not an esoteric process that can only be deciphered by tech-geeks and computer science graduates.

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The Mx Group Named One of Illinois’ Best Places to Work for Fourth Straight Year Digital and Demand Generation Agency Recognized as Leading Medium-sized Employer

The Mx Group

CHICAGO (May 19, 2017) — The Mx Group, a B2B marketing agency in Chicago, has been named one of 2017’s Best Places to Work in Illinois for the fourth consecutive year. Qualification for this prestigious list is heavily based on employee feedback. B2B agency by B2B Marketing, and a top 50 B2B agency by Ad Age and Chief Marketer.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. When I wrote about Aprimo Marketing Studio in a post last August , I was impressed by the scope of the product but reserved judgment because it hadn’t yet been launched.

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Marketing Automation User Satisfaction: Clearly, There's Room for Improvement (and maybe a little vodka)

Customer Experience Matrix

Last week’s post on marketing automation and its discontents prompted several questions about whether the level of dissatisfaction is any higher with marketing automation than other systems. According to the G2 figures, marketing automation users are in fact more enthusiastic about their choices than almost anyone else.

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Driving Webinar Success with Your Internal Teams — The Road to Webinar Success (3 of 8)

Heinz Marketing

By Joshua Baez , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing. In order to implement a scalable, repeatable process for planning, promoting, and executing your webinar activities, you must ensure that all relevant parties within your organization know their roles and responsibilities. Webinar Console Management.