Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

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. Sections two and three, Customer Consensus and Natural Nurturing , begin getting into the meat of the strategy. Add this to Mister Wong.

Emarketing 100

Emarketing Marketing Automation Services Manticore Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Act-On Software recently reported that 40% of marketers are dissatisfied with their campaign management program. It's applied by Marketo , Pardot , Act-On Software , Genius , Net-Results , and many others. But it seems to be creeping upstream: LeadLife , Treehouse Interactive , and Manticore Technology apply it to larger customers.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

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. Tags: software usability measurement marketing automation lead management software selection demand generation. I'm in favor of that approach.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 0 1 0 rule-based form customization (display different content blocks in an email or Web page based on user-defined rules) Marketing Administration 0 0 0 0.5 Here, then, is the final usability matrix. 12 11 simple 8 10 10 10 12 8.5

Lead Scoring 120

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Demand Generation Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Note: after I posted this, it was pointed out to me that the bulk of traffic on several sites relates to customer log-ins rather than marketing prospects. I revisited that data today, adding a few new vendors and dropping some of the very minor ones. Results are in the following table. For example, Alexa says that 89.4%

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 11, 2011

The survey for my up-coming report has employee counts, client counts and minimum prices for quite a few: OfficeAutoPilot, True Influence, Pardot, LoopFuse, Net Results, Manticore, Silverpop, Genius, LeadFormix,TreeHouse Interactive, SalesFUSION, and Marketbright. This leaves all the other B2B marketing automation vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation ActiveConversion 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For business software vendors, all three are equally inevitable – and it's not clear which they dislike most. Tags: marketing automation request for proposal system requirements software selection raab guide demand generation. Summary: I've posted a list of nearly 200 RFP questions that I hope many people will adopt to their own needs.

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RFP Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

In case you're wondering about other vendors I track, Eloqua , Neolane and Manticore Technology all set up flow charts without embedding the small list-style campaigns. Tags: software usability measurement marketing automation lead management demand generation. Sorry about the parentheses.)

Vtrenz 120

Vtrenz Market2Lead Work Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The vendors are divided into four categories based on my understanding of their target customers. Tags: demand generation marketing automation software selection demand generation. B2b marketing automation) vendors, with links to my reviews where I've written one.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

In fact, Pardot in particular provides advanced capabilities including progressive profiling (automatically changing the questions on forms as customer answer them) and dynamic content (rule-driven selection of content blocks within emails and Web pages). This pricing is low even among SMB demand generation systems.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Enterprise Management Small Business Marketing Pricing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

Both Unica and Aprimo were long-established vendors with fundamentally stable products sold primarily to large enterprises: although their new owners may market them more broadly, they’ll be selling pretty much what IBM and Teradata always sold (big systems) to pretty much the same customers (big companies).

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Enterprise Management Hubspot Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

But even including that, the first year cost for most of these will be less.) : Manticore Technology : a full-featured demand generation product. Tags: demand generation software marketing automation lead management software selection vendor evaluation crm software.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Grouping vendors with similar percentages of small clients yielded the following sets: - small business (60% or more small business clients): Infusionsoft, OfficeAutoPilot, TrueInfluence - mixed (33-66% small business clients): Pardot, Marketo, Eloqua, Manticore Technology, Silverpop, Genius - specialists (15%-33% small business) : LeadFormix, TreeHouse (..)

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Vendors 120

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2009

Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 software suite. Pricing starts at $1,500 per month and the company now has more than 150 midmarket and enterprise customers. tags: marketing automation software, Marketo Lead Management 3.0,

Enterprise Management 20

Enterprise Management Marketo Marketing Management LEADSExplorer 20

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz. But getting back to our category, we are often compared against Eloqua and Manticore.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 4, 2009

Explicitly direct leads from one campaign to another Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 1 1 1 1 0.5 Linear campaigns embedded in larger campaign flows Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 Integrated a/b testing.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2009

A simple campaign would do this for a single product, offer, customer segment and region, while a complex campaign could involve several of each. Select marketing assets from shared libraries Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Text search for assets.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

More than anything else, this exercise reinforced my understanding of how hard it is to answer a seemly simple question about a software product’s capabilities. Question Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2 Lead Marketo Vtrenz Market bright Neolane Is there a distinct company table linked in a one-to-many relationship with individual records?

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Work Management Market2Lead Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 3, 2008

Rudin, who has plenty of experience with both on-demand and analytics from working at Salesforce.com , Siebel , and Oracle , saw not one but two obstacles to business intelligence: integration and customization. Standard applications meet customer needs without custom development (at least initially). Problem(s) solved, eh?

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Demand Market2Lead 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Tags: marketing software marketing automation lead management demand generation.

Vtrenz 120

Vtrenz Manticore Marketing Automation Services Market2Lead 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 15, 2008

Over the past few months, I’ve had conversations with “demand generation” software vendors including Eloqua , Vtrenz and Manticore , and been on the receiving end of a drip marketing stream from yet another (Moonray Marketing, lately renamed OfficeAutoPilot ). But I suspect the shift reflects something more fundamental.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Demand Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

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. That I’m sure to hear about them since I know I’ve missed adding many to this list.)

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 23, 2007

I’ve written about pretty much every variety of online marketing software here or elsewhere and have reviewed dozens of products in depth. If you’re familiar with these systems, you’ll immediately notice that search engine optimization is a world of $150 PC software, while all the other categories are dominated by large service providers.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Management Vtrenz Online Marketing 120

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Wikipedia and a handful of open-source software developers were the pioneers. 6 Rules for Content Marketing - Modern B2B Marketing , August 27, 2010 Marketers are working hard to create great content that can be used to create sales leads , drive website traffic, promote brand, and educate customers and prospects. 0160; Enough said.

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Work Management Advertising Agencies 40