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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Email marketing is another obvious adjacent space. Again, there was already one transaction: Silverpop/Vtrenz in 2007. The potential margins from marketing automation probably look relatively attractive to email vendors. On the other hand, as the consolidation proceeds, small marketing automation companies may get pretty cheap.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Or disagree with the list…) On the other side, I see solutions more oriented toward marketing and enabling a “pull” model, one focused on letting prospects engage at their own pace. I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz. Among other stuff.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

problem: 1) Web analytics – typically the stronghold of companies like Coremetrics, Omniture, and WebTrends, the analytics area bleeds over into lead management as companies go online to generate demand. There are four primary buckets of technology solutions aimed at solving the “how do I make lead generation activities more effective?”