Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 12, 2009

On Monday, Eloqua announced a new free deployment service for its clients. It follows last month’s free deployment offer from Eloqua reseller Pedowitz Group , which generated quite a bit of comment on this blog. SmartStart involves on-site consulting and costs $3,000 to $8,000.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 27, 2009

Eloqua yesterday announced Eloqua Prospect Profiler , which makes it easier for salespeople to review prospect behaviors that are captured by the demand generation system. Back to Eloqua Prospect Profiler. These are already assembled by various vendors, so all that’s needed is a relatively simple integration.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. 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 ).

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The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vendors focused on new licenses vs. customer retention. In the last decade, three of the top four B2B solutions: Eloqua, Marketo, and Pardot, have all been acquired by larger companies. In that sense, vendors are paying a real price for their customers’ lack of maturity.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Not surprisingly, virtual event technology vendors have responded. The product offers advanced lead generation capabilities with full integration to client CRM systems and marketing automation tools like SalesForce, Marketo, Eloqua, HubSpot, Mailchimp , and others. We started VII Events to build a more efficient, cost-effective way.

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Metadata integrates with the likes of LinkedIn, Facebook, Marketo, Hubspot, Eloqua, Pardot, G2, Drift, HG Insights, the Trade Desk, Bombora, and other vendors to set them on autonomous mode. Notable entrepreneurs, such as Mark Organ (Eloqua), Ilya Volodarsky (Segment), with over a dozen customers (e.g. for 2020 by Inc.

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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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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 13, 2020

Marketing automation tools, such as Marketo , Eloqua , HubSpot , Pardot , and Act-O n, are all powerful support systems, but ultimately, choosing an automation tool comes down to what are the must-have elements for your business goals? The right vendor will ask a lot of questions to ensure a successful migration.

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Directive Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

Directories offer 2 main growth solutions: Buyer intent data subscriptions : vendors get account-level intelligence on category, product profile, and comparison views. Cost-per-click (CPC) auctions : vendors bid to rank higher in a directory category page and pay per click to their site to generate leads.

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Digital B2B Marketing

MAY 21, 2013

Led by Eloqua (now part of Oracle) and Marketo (with a very successful IPO last week), today marketing automation companies are collectively worth billions. Here are two situations where marketing automation, with its complexity, learning curve and cost, just isn’t the right solution. Your Marketing Isn’t Well Established.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2016

B22B lead generation vendor True Influence today announced a new product to help fill these gaps. This contrasts with many intent-based advertising vendors, who serve ads to qualified audiences but don't tell clients exactly whom they’re reaching. InsightBASE has standard integrations with Marketo , Oracle Eloqua , and Salesforce.com.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

When I first described Customer Data Platforms two and half years ago, all the vendors offered an application such as predictive analytics or campaign management in addition to the "pure" CDP function of building the customer database. Integrations with Oracle Eloqua , HubSpot and Salesforce Pardot are planned by end of this year.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. This will put substantial pricing pressure on vendors who, in many cases, are already struggling to reach sustainable margins. To make a free product viable, LoopFuse needed to engineer as much cost as possible out of the entire client life cycle.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2016

Mariana finds other people who match the personas, using its deep understanding of social data to accurately identify and find contact information on larger numbers of relevant people than other vendors. Mariana has prebuilt integrations with Twitter, Facebook, Salesforce.com CRM, Pardot, Eloqua, and Marketo. How many more?

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Rev

MAY 21, 2018

If you have a marketing automation platform — like Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot, or Pardot — then you are probably using intent data. Cost per click multiplied by the small percentage of people who fill out your lead form and multiplied again by the small number of people who convert into a customer. First, what is intent data?

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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

B2B marketers’ top metrics to measure marketing ROI: Cost per lead, revenue and lead volume. Eloqua | [link] Eloqua (NASDAQ: ELOQ) is the marketing system of record for modern marketers. Eloqua’s customers include AON, Dow Jones, ADP, Fidelity, Polycom, and National Instruments.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 13, 2010

Its acquisition is basically the completion of the consolidation of that space, not the start of consolidation among B2B marketing automation vendors. If there’s any connection at all, it’s that this acquisition may spur Web content management vendors to accelerate their own acquisition of marketing automation capabilities.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The main basis for my prediction is high growth that vendors reported in 2013, and in particular a trend towards higher revenue per client among the vendors who share that information with me. The two sets of answers do correlate (budget relates to cost; employee skills relates to ease of use), which is reassuring.

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Other important features include (but aren’t limited to) ease of use/usability, security including role-based access to the platform, and vendor support. increase in sales, while saving them $11 million in marketing costs. #3 It’s also reduced the cost to acquire a new customer by 65% and increased online sales by 92% in three months.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 24, 2018

You’ve invested in interactive content and marketing tools for your website, helping prospects and customers assess their needs, size and price the right solution, and understand the business value and differentiating cost advantages of recommended solutions.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 25, 2013

Lowest Cost Per Lead Channels. The reason for this increase in spend and focus on social media appears to be the the fact that this channel potentially offers the lowest cost per lead, according to those polled. Eloqua and CMO.com helped coordinate survey information. Spending Changes by Channel in 2013.

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

Integrating the B2B marketing automation solutions with all the technology vendors. Whether they are new at their automation game or have already some experience, they must select a vendor that connects them with a variety of resources. Eloqua helps customers get the most out of its products by teaching and instructing them constantly.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

Some vendors do this better than others. Integration is currently available for Salesforce.com CRM, Marketo , and HubSpot , with plans to add Salesforce.com Pardot and Oracle Eloqua shortly. - Like most real time bidding systems, it typically aims to optimize click through rate or cost per click. ad inventory. sales stages.

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Televerde

JUNE 12, 2018

It’s important to know there are a number of vendors that actually provide tools to help that will help you audit the different places where you store data, and an audit will help you understand and chart both the locations and actual types of personal data that you stored. It’s not just a waste of time, but can cost you money.

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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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chiefmartech

APRIL 4, 2017

Many martec vendors promote that they have built-in integrations to one or more systems. via Marketo sync filter or Eloqua program) to meet their requirements. However, customers are limited to the capabilities offered by each vendor. Out-of-the-box integration: caveat emptor. REST versus SOAP API.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public? Continuing expansion of sales efforts means it will continue to be the largest cost. Significant market competition from established packaged and on-demand vendors. Target market challenges.

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Vidyard

MAY 10, 2018

With more than 700 sales tech vendors and countless tools, it’s enough to make any sales leader’s head spin. The sales tech landscape is overwhelming. How do you decide which tools are worth your while and which ones are just bright shiny objects that will distract—or worse, detract—from your selling goals?

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

As of April 29, I've received 40 responses, of which I've discarded two as incomplete and two because they related to vendors I considered irrelevant ( Zoho and Ad Giants PitchRocket). One measure of this is the distribution of vendors reported by the respondents, which clearly doesn't reflect the installed base of the industry.

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Anyword

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Here’s why: 1) It offsets costs. While newsletters are relatively inexpensive to send, they’re not without time, effort and platform costs. Direct monetization can generate at least enough revenue to cover those costs, so that your emails basically pay for themselves…and then some, with the right strategy. 2) It’s simple.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 10, 2011

This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. For Eloqua, at least, they say there’s no need to worry since HubSpot is serving a very different market.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Placing them all in the same product adds cost and complexity, which are not a software developer’s friends. Rather, it has conceded the lower tiers of business marketing to simpler systems and aimed Marketing Studio at marketers who need greater sophistication and will accept higher cost and complexity to get it.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2012

It’s no wonder that B2B marketing automation vendors avoided the issue by piggybacking on the Salesforce.com structure: otherwise, the cost and complexity of building a separate database would have severely limited their growth. The system has an Eloqua connector today and a Marketo connector in the works.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 4, 2011

Marketo, Aprimo, Eloqua, Silverpop and all the rest are there to push this technology towards you. In today’s world, buyers are making decisions on vendors due to the quality of educational and informative content they receive. If you’re a B2B marketer and you’re not hibernating, you obviously know the concept of marketing automation.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 4, 2011

Marketo, Aprimo, Eloqua, Silverpop and all the rest are there to push this technology towards you. In today’s world, buyers are making decisions on vendors due to the quality of educational and informative content they receive. If you’re a B2B marketer and you’re not hibernating, you obviously know the concept of marketing automation.

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LeadSloth

JUNE 23, 2009

Those are definitely useful, but the number of leads is low and the cost per lead is high. Search Engine Optimization may be a more cost-effective alternative. Marketing Automation vendors have done very little to automate Inbound Marketing activities. Message for Marketing Automation Vendors. Conclusion.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 23, 2011

And true branching campaigns – as opposed to sequential campaigns with splits inside each step – still aren’t found in most marketing automation systems (although those vendors argue they’re not needed. I don’t want to make too much of this, since many vendors – and surely all the good ones – care deeply about their customers’ success.

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