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Ranking B2B Marketing Automation Vendors: How I Built My Scores (part 1)

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. This happens no matter how loudly analysts warn buyers not to make that mistake.

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. “Demand generation&# is a better term, though still not precise. Buyers no longer rely on sales people for basic information or exploratory “consultation.&#

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

Webbiquity

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.

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Marketing Automation: Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

WebMarketCentral

Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. Demand generation" is a better term, though still not precise. Buyers no longer rely on sales people for basic information or exploratory "consultation."

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B2B Category Creators Episode 5 Transcript

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But at the same time, it’s like, yeah, but we’re more about demand generation. We need categories, so that we know how to compete. But there’s a lot of vendors are like, “Okay, tell me again, what you do, because that didn’t make any sense.” He founded Eloqua. Jason Widup: Yeah.