Webbiquity

JANUARY 27, 2011

They have significant control of mind share in that space, and their legacy in customer service and sales force automation software is strong. So, where does Salesforce.com stand as a marketing automation solution? Marketing Automation Software Guide decided to answer this question. However, CRM is a trifecta.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 11, 2011

Summary: Here's a closer look at revenue per employee and marketing automation revenue in general. Some of the comments on last week’s post on the size of the B2B marketing automation industry led me to dig a bit more deeply into the question of revenue per employee. This leaves all the other B2B marketing automation vendors.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. I say this with the fervor of a reformed sinner, since for many years I looked at flow charts as the mark of an advanced marketing automation system.

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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. automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

If it's used widely, buyers and vendors both benefit. For business software vendors, all three are equally inevitable – and it's not clear which they dislike most. Vendors could prepare one set of answers and buyers would get faster and more reliable responses to a thorough set of questions. Death, taxes and RFPs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Usability Items for Simple Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) Build a campaign as a list of stages Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 Build linear campaigns outside of a larger campaign structure.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 4, 2009

In this post some thoughts about the program… First of all, the best thing about this event is that the speakers are marketing practitioners, not vendors. The Marketing Automation Vendors. My specialty is Marketing Automation Consulting, and many of the vendors were attending with a booth.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. But they’re just that: tools. Share this on del.icio.us. Post this on Diigo. Share this on Reddit.

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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. If you heard a loud thud late Tuesday afternoon, it was the sound of two shoes dropping.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

If you suspected that my last two blog posts were a way to avoid writing a post that ranks vendors on usability, you’re probably right. I’d already noticed that the simplicity-focused vendors ( Marketo , Infusionsoft , OfficeAutoPilot and, as of yesterday, Genius.com ) build their campaigns as a list of steps with no branching flows. (To

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

I spent a good part of yesterday talking with demand generation vendors about the usability scores I've been publishing all week. There might still be some others: two of the vendors haven't spoken with me, which could mean they agree with my ratings but, more likely, means they just haven't been paying attention. 9 Now what?

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). To be fair, many of the vendors below charge an installation of that can be several thousand dollars or more, while Marketo doesn't. I reviewed it here in March.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. So I was quite curious to see what they had to offer. What I found was intriguing.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 17, 2010

Design #15 Email Sender: Manticore Email Title: 23 Questions Marketing Automation Vendors Don’t Want You to Ask What I Like : Big attractive header graphic with compelling title and nice “hero shot&# of the buyer’s guide being offered. Like Be the first to like this post. United States License.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2009

Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 additional profile is requested as a prospect moves through an interactive process); Native integration with Salesforce.com ; Web visitor profiling; and Automated duplicate lead removal. software suite.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2009

(note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) The only exceptions were a couple of cases where it seemed most fair to give a vendor half-credit. Since the actual scores for most items were 1 or 0, I simply added up the item scores to get composite scores for each vendor.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

At that time, I posed a set of specific questions to the demand generation vendors in the Raab Guide. My original approach in the Guide had simply been to ask vendors whether they had a separate company table in their system. But let’s say that leaves you with a dozen vendors, and you use some gross criteria to select the top three.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 4, 2009

Usability Items for Complex Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) This post will complete the demand generation vendor usability scores by looking at items that contribute to usability for complex marketing programs. Multiple scores per lead.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 15, 2008

Over the past few months, I’ve had conversations with “demand generation” software vendors including Eloqua , Vtrenz and Manticore , and been on the receiving end of a drip marketing stream from yet another (Moonray Marketing, lately renamed OfficeAutoPilot ). But it no longer seems to be the focus of their presentations.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Tags: marketing software marketing automation lead management demand generation.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

And it’s not clear to me if lead management automation deserves to be a separate category or to be subsumed as part of the broader marketing platform. (I 3) Marketing automation – lead by firms like Aprimo, Unica, Oracle/Siebel and SAS, this category is at the core of what Forrester calls the Marketing Technology Backbone.

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