Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. Manticore launched its B2B marketing automation system in 2003, making it one of the older vendors in the industry. Manticore wants clients to understand that demand generation is a business process. First some background.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

Of course, there are plenty of important differences which impact which might make sense for you. Some vendors only rank leads while others build multiple models for different purposes. • Whether the vendor sells prospect lists or only enhance names provided by the client. Types of predictive models available.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2020

Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor. There’s a main stage for keynote-style presentations, expo booths where attendees can interact with vendors, breakout session areas, and one-to-one video networking. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 11, 2023

GTM leaders are experimenting by chasing ‘low hanging fruit’ in their deployments, which is the approach largely being taken by technology vendors, as well. We see three marketplace shifts that will help course-correct AI in go-to-market: The emergence of ‘strategic guardrails’ to guide AI in go-to-market AI isn’t automatic.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

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. My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. But I’ve also been approached by some of the other demand generation specialists.

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Metadata

JANUARY 25, 2023

In: demand-generation. But now, to borrow from Kaylee Edmondson’s DEMAND fireside chat, Moving From An Old-School Lead Gen Playbook to a Demand Gen Machine —“Lead generation’s just not hitting like it used to hit.” Kaylee is the VP of Revenue at Refine Labs, and former Director of Demand Generation at Chili Piper.

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Metadata

JULY 29, 2020

As we talked about in the last post , I’m proposing a new way to think about account-based marketing (ABM) and how it relates to Demand Generation for 2020. You Need Engagement AND Demand Marketers are still left with a problem. You need programs and technology focused on the demand generation side of your funnel.

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

One of the best things about working as a Demand Generation consultant is that I get to constantly learn new things. These tools all promise to have “native” integration, or “out of the box” functionality, of course. This is no slight to the technology vendors. With all my experience I should have known better. Keep innovating.

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Martech

MARCH 31, 2023

Vendor offerings Many tech vendors offer product training and certifications – especially big players like Salesforce and Adobe. Of course, this is to their advantage in developing a strong and devoted user base. Some form around specific products, which vendors sometimes explicitly support, while others form around specialties.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2020

Modern marketing demands that we thoroughly understand our audience and use targeting and segmentation for optimal demand generation. We have seen a steady rise of ABM, an approach where we align demand generation efforts against a predetermined and strategic set of accounts.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

B2B marketers have employed account-based marketing (ABM) for well over a decade, of course, but the space has evolved rapidly over the past two to three years. The vendors respond. Consolidation of ABM and demand gen. Another notable development among ABM vendors is the move to consolidate ABM with demand generation.

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B2BMarketing.net

MARCH 15, 2024

Of course, every business is different, and what works for Bidwells might not necessarily work for your business. Whatever your business, Johan claimed the six areas where you should focus your effort in using AI are: market insights; demand generation; account management; day-to-day admin; customer operations; and coaching.

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Martech

JULY 19, 2022

“It will allow our customers not to buy the monolithic, fully-integrated solution — which was historically the way DXP vendors sold — but actually allow our customers to buy modular components of our DXP stack in a way that fits how they buy and grow.” And, of course, it has an app marketplace too. Processing.Please wait.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

you know that I see a lot of demand generation systems. Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. I don't expect this news to change the minds of vendors who made the opposite decision.

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NetLine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Fortunately, there are plenty of tools and vendors in the MarTech space designed to focus on these challenges. To accomplish this, your organization looks to vendor partners to streamline the process and maximize its success rate. The next question, of course, is how to do this. The 6 C’s of Vendor Evaluation.

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Martech

MAY 8, 2023

Of course it’s exciting. Well-known vendors have been baking AI into their solutions for almost a decade. AI writing tools aim to create customized texts on demand. I’ll need to have my volumes of detective fiction appropriately tagged of course, but so far so easy. Are there AI vendors in the martech space?

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Adam Needles’ new book Balancing the Demand Equation (available here from Amazon ) closes the gap. Needles is a well-known industry leader who is Chief Strategy Officer at demand generation agency Leftbrain DGA. His book starts with a review of changes in the B2B buying process and the new demands these place on B2B marketers.

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Rollworks

MARCH 27, 2019

Before you commit to a long-term ABM strategy, ask your ABM vendor these questions. Not all account-based marketing vendors are created equal and since most B2B deals can take months (if not years) to close, it’s important to figure out exactly what you’re getting with that expensive ABM contract. ' Click To Tweet.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

If Drift can quickly roll these out and see early customer success, it could continue to gain market share and remain a perceived leader and innovator over its closer competitors and more legacy chat vendors, such as Live Person. However, companies like Gong continue to move more into an AI-powered engagement platform positioning.

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Rollworks

MARCH 27, 2019

Before you commit to a long-term ABM strategy, ask your ABM vendor these questions. Not all account-based marketing vendors are created equal and since most B2B deals can take months (if not years) to close, it’s important to figure out exactly what you’re getting with that expensive ABM contract. ' Click To Tweet.

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unfortunately, 57% of those same buyers say vendors have failed to meet their expectations. Takes the best of ABM (personalized attention) and the best of Demand Marketing (ability to scale) and marries the two together. Brings a strategic lens to both customer engagement and demand. Implement a Conversation Track Architecture.

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Vision Edge Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Like the North Star or Southern Cross, it leads businesses to prioritize their efforts, allocate resources strategically, and chart a course toward sustainable growth and profit as found in a Bain & Company study , 81 percent of executives say market segmentation is a critical element for increasing profits.

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LeadSloth

JULY 10, 2009

In the spirit of Twitter’s Follow Friday I’d like to finally publish the remaining Demand Generation blogs that I enjoy reading. Earlier I published the Top 10 Demand Generation vendor blogs and the Top 10 Marketing Automation Blogs. This blog provides a strategic perspective on the demand generation process.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

As with any space that is in its early stages, the marketing automation space has had its fair share of new businesses and vendors emerge. According to some who track this space, there are over 110 technology vendors alone. Of course, all these new providers are vying for the same customers. 2. More transparency.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

As with any space that is in its early stages, the marketing automation space has had its fair share of new businesses and vendors emerge. According to some who track this space, there are over 110 technology vendors alone. Of course, all these new providers are vying for the same customers. 2. More transparency.

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Martech

AUGUST 10, 2021

As a journalist covering marketing and technology, I often have cause to look up a vendor or product I’ve not heard of before. One of our contributors filed a story this week containing one brief reference to a vendor with an unusual name. GTM is not demand generation. My Chrome browser activity triggered Instagram ads.

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LeanData

MAY 6, 2022

On the Summit’s opening day, LeanData co-founder & CEO Evan Liang sat down with Liz Arndt ; Senior Director, Global Inside Sales, Siemens Digital Industries Software, for the case study session, “Your Cheat Sheet for Demand Unit Transformation.” . Below, find her hints to create your very own cheat sheet for demand unit transformation.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In channel sales, companies (here we’ll call them vendors) sell through intermediaries. Partners for delivery and implementation: Are you expecting accelerated growth or an uptick in demand? Of course, you still have to get them recruited, trained, and certified, which doesn’t happen overnight.

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Seismic

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In short, this critical technology is growing in demand because it helps managers of all customer-facing roles coach more effectively and more efficiently — upskilling teams better and faster. Aragon Research conducted a rigorous evaluation of 15 vendors across a variety of criteria, including strategy, performance, and reach.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 28, 2012

In our last post , we introduced a list of 9 things marketers need from marketing automation vendors and consultants. We came up with this list to help make sense of “the noise” being generated by software vendors and service providers in the space (yes, we are one of those providers). Focus – You can’t be all things to all people.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 28, 2012

In our last post , we introduced a list of 9 things marketers need from marketing automation vendors and consultants. We came up with this list to help make sense of “the noise” being generated by software vendors and service providers in the space (yes, we are one of those providers). Focus – You can’t be all things to all people.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 2, 2018

As marketing technology continues to evolve, the demand for resources supporting both problem awareness and vendor validation increases dramatically. The good news is that more martech vendors appear to be up to the challenge in providing resources for new users and more experienced marketers. Obtain Certifications.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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 ). To be fair, many of the vendors below charge an installation of that can be several thousand dollars or more, while Marketo doesn't. Pricing starts at $599 per month.

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Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

Early course correction: Track metrics against written benchmarks to pinpoint strengths/weaknesses, minimizing wasted effort. Seamless partnerships: Streamline onboarding and set expectations for industrial marketing agencies or external vendors with clear guidelines. in-person events made a strong comeback in 2023).

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 8, 2009

I had an interesting email conversation last month with a Raab Guide buyer about the nuances of company-level data management in demand generation systems. He started from the perfectly reasonable premise that the demand generation system should give an overview of activity for all leads associated with a given company.

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Optinmonster

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The platform has all the right tools in place to help you: List new products Add images to a gallery Optimize your product pages for search Add vendors Track inventory Shopify’s ease of use in building a new eCommerce site is what has enabled more than 1 million businesses to use Shopify as their choice of eCommerce platform across 175 countries.

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