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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 2

Customer Experience Matrix

Build a campaign as a list of stages. Users can build a simple campaign by defining a linear sequence of stages. As discussed in last Friday's post , I see this is one of two truly key features for making simple campaigns easy to build. But embedding the rules gives a much cleaner, simpler view of the campaign flow.

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Getting Closer to My Usability Ratings

Customer Experience Matrix

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 As a reminder, I'm planning to build two usability scores, one for simple marketing programs and one for complex marketing programs.)

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

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I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz. When evaluating any technology to help manage demand, the short list of features should look something like: 1) Prospect data acquisition — helps with targeting, list building, list management, and data quality.

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 1

Customer Experience Matrix

Lacking the resources for a detailed user survey or hands-on scenario testing, I chose to build a checklist of functions that I believe correlate with usability. In working through the checklist items themselves, I quickly realized that some items apply to usability for both simple and complex campaigns.

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How Demand Generation Systems Handle Company Data: Diving into the Details

Customer Experience Matrix

But it just doesn’t work that way. Of course, this means you have to know what those details are, which in turn requires still more preliminary work. The good news here is you’ll need to lay out those programs anyway once you start using the system, so this is just a matter of time-shifting the work rather than adding it.

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LucidEra Takes a Shot at On-Demand Analytics

Customer Experience Matrix

My basic objection was that the hardest part of building a business intelligence system is integrating the source data, and being on-demand doesn’t make that any easier. The company’s long-term strategy is to expose its platform so that other people can build their own applications with it. There may be a quiz.)

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

4) “Pure play” lead management – this group is lead by Eloqua , but there are a LOT of firms throwing their hat into this ring including Vtrenz, Hubspot, Manticore, Market2Lead, Marketo, LoopFuse, einsof, iHance, Precience, among many others. They actually have their sales and marketing orgs aligned and working together.