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Freelance Marketing Automation Consultant

LeadSloth

This week I’m finishing up my day job as Sr Marketing Manager at Backbase, and will be available full-time for Marketing Automation Consulting. June 8th I will officially start as a full-time consultant. If you have Marketing Automation challenges, I’d love to hear from you ( or toll-free 1-888-4A-SLOTH). See you then!

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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

Customer Experience Matrix

As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. But I’ve also been approached by some of the other demand generation specialists. Still, they are much larger firms and do much more marketing than Manticore or Market2Lead.

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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

Customer Experience Matrix

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. This has more to do with the degree of personal selling (and after-sale service) than anything else.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Alterian and SmartFocus are also still independent, but are sold as services via marketing agencies (Alterian) or directly (SmartFocus). Although the world has certainly changed since the late 1990’s, I see no reason to expect a different pattern among demand generation vendors. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

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LucidEra Takes a Shot at On-Demand Analytics

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s only an issue because when I think about this as a consultant, and when I listen to other consultants, the answer that comes back is that metrics should be tailored to the business situation. Campaign analysis in demand generation systems. There may be a quiz.)

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Marketing Automation Trends for 2010

LeadSloth

I have asked many of the vendors, consultants and thought leaders to give their opinion. Kevin Joyce , CMO, Market2Lead. David Raab , Raab Associates & author, Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

2) Database services – powerhouses like Dun&Bradstreet, Harte-Hanks, Acxiom, Equifax, infoUSA, and Merkle dominate this category , but B2B marketers tend to think of them more as list generators than providers of a broad spectrum of strategic data management to direct mail execution. Here’s the problem.