The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams. Getting Started with Marketing Automation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Once again Salesforce.com has delivered a great set of new features for Marketers in the Winter 10 release. In addition, you can now run campaign member workflows, triggers, and validation rules upon import of a campaign using the campaign member import and update wizards. Join Marketo at Dreamforce with a free keynote and expo pass.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Now that I’m more or less finished launching the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) , I can start catching up on the other topics. ClickDimensions does pretty much the standard marketing automation activities: email, landing pages, Web visitor tracking, drip marketing campaigns, and lead scoring. But I digress.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2016

Although such work is in early stages at Infusionsoft, the product is being engineered to allow insertion of automated marketing features as these become available. Note also that Salesforce.com is just two years older than Infusionsoft; by the time it had reached Infusionsoft's current age, its revenue was already $4 billion.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. Nail down things like lead qualification criteria, sales stage trigger events, and probability-of-close percentages. Average time to convert.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Pega positions Customer Decision Hub as part of its core platform, which supports applications for marketing, sales automation, customer service, and operations. It competes with the usual enterprise suspects: Adobe , Oracle , Salesforce.com , IBM , and SAS.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

Summary: MakesBridge offers a full set of marketing automation features with some special strengths that will appeal especially to small companies. I’ve previously reviewed Genoo , which supplements the standard marketing automation features with Web hosting and built-in CRM but no shopping cart.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If you look at most major CRMs like Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce.com , you’ll notice a few different objects: Leads, Contacts, and Accounts. But then look at marketing automation like Lead Liaison and you’ll see one object: Prospects. Heck, we can even trigger automations based on a prospect being upgraded from a Lead to a Contact.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2009

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. Aprimo is in the early stages of launching Aprimo Marketing Studio , a new Software-as-a-Service marketing automation suite that is separate from the existing Aprimo product.*

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2016

The notifications can be loaded as lists into a marketing automation or CRM system, where they can trigger advertising, sales calls, or other actions. InsightBASE has standard integrations with Marketo , Oracle Eloqua , and Salesforce.com. Clients also receive contact names, email addresses, and phone numbers at those companies.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com. The moments are set up as real time triggers within Marketo.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

(Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables. Email campaigns can execute as batch projects or trigger dialogs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

Summary: Right On Interactive's 5Buckets connects lists from external customer management systems with many types of output vendors (email, print, fax, text message, automated voice). It's a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to more powerful marketing automation systems for companies who don't need other marketing automation features.

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markempa

DECEMBER 12, 2016

To keep valuable field salespeople productive, many of the more innovative sales and marketing departments build “sales development” teams including Oracle, Marketo, HubSpot, HP, and Salesforce.com. I see sales and marketing people trying too hard to automate and template-ize their actions, focusing on quantity and not quality.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Eliminate productivity bottlenecks and create more sales conversations with email and phone automation. Trigger actions based on key business changes at companies within your entire total addressable market. What I like best about the product is how it is integrated into Salesforce.com.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

The real-time CRM and Marketing Automation data vendors (including Leadspace) should have another big year based on the growing acknowledgement that this type of service dramatically enhances the performance of these massive CRM and MA investments companies have made. Real-time content/offer management.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. ActiveConversion supports both one-time emails to a segment of the database, as well as drip emails that are triggered after a prospect registers. Lead Scoring.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. That would greatly limit the marketing automation vendors' business. Hubspot has accepted this challenge.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Other data collection specialists include Segment.com , Aginity , Umbel , Lytics , NGData , and Woopra , although some of these do supplement database building with predictive model scores, segmentation, and/or event-based triggers. Openprise falls roughly into this second category. Current clients use Openprise in more modest ways, however.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. CRM systems are designed and optimized for a very different purpose, which is what creates the whitespace for marketing automation vendors (like Marketo). Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2011

Such APIs are available to varying degrees for other marketing automation products too, so an app marketplace isn’t quite as huge a leap as it may seem. Events can also trigger multi-step campaigns that send an email or call an external URL. the Web site they came from) for visitors who reach each event.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. It’s actually quite a long story, dating back to the company’s initial sales automation system in 1997, followed by its MarketingView demand generation product in 1999.

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ViewPoint

MAY 30, 2012

Merger & Acquisition Activity in CRM & Marketing Automation Expected to Increase. While some of these spaces are still being defined where marketing automation plays with CRM, he believes we’ll see M&A activity in 2012. Prioritizing New Media: Start with What the Buyer Needs, Wants & Looks Like.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

First, the company invested in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform that integrated well with the company’s CRM system, Salesforce.com. Many companies implementing marketing automation software let the technology drive strategy,” says Howard Sewell, Spear President. “We

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com. In Marketo, each campaign is a relatively small, self-contained sequence of steps that is triggered by a particular prospect need. The changes that Fernandez described seemed good but subtle.

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

When I ran the Salesforce.com User Group in San Francisco, for example, I loved to hear how the non-profit organizations were creating innovative solutions on very tight budgets. Only this time, it is about the entire Oracle Marketing Cloud and not just marketing automation. Whatever happened to the Eloqua Experience?

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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. And, while we’re on the subject, they need REALLY TIGHT integration between marketing and sales automation, if not one shared system. for each score, and can set up routing rules triggered by entry into each range.

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Vidyard

JULY 21, 2014

Vidyard, a global leader in video marketing solutions, today announced a new integration that enables Salesforce Pardot customers to identify online video viewers and track their viewing histories as part of lead scoring, qualification and automated nurture programs.

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Vidyard

JULY 21, 2014

Vidyard, a global leader in video marketing solutions, today announced a new integration that enables Salesforce Pardot customers to identify online video viewers and track their viewing histories as part of lead scoring, qualification and automated nurture programs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

When Net-Results ’ showed me their marketing automation system, the demonstration ended so quickly that I wondered what was missing. Prospects enter Net-Results from external Web forms (more about that later), file imports, manual data entry, or Salesforce.com synchronization. An incremental user costs just $25 per month.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

Campaigns can also add a lead to a list (which might in turn trigger another campaign), update the lead score, convert a prospect to a lead and send it to the CRM system, send an email alert to a salesperson or sales manager, and publish a landing page or Web form. However, event-based triggers are limited to submission of a Web form.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2011

Through its use, we are able to automate and simplify the event process, which drives higher attendance and ultimately converts more Dreamforce leads to actual sales. Having Marketo automate these processes ensures timely follow-up that enables us to enhance our post-Dreamforce lead nurturing and increase conversion rates.

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chiefmartech

APRIL 4, 2017

We have consulted with clients that use Salesforce.com (SFDC) for their CRM, and we were tasked with integrating their newly-purchased marketing automation platform (MAP) with it. Manual versus automated integration. Automated integration replaces the human factor, enabling the ability to schedule data syncs.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate. The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy. I believe this is a key capability.

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