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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 25, 2008

When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. They even cited one demand generation vendor that had turned to them for help. (In

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2008

Now that I have that long post about analytical databases out of the way, I can get back to thinking about demand generation systems. But, as I think I wrote in a comment since then, I now believe the best approach is to define several applications and score the vendors in terms of their suitability for each.

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Demand Generation Demand Marketing Management Generation 120

LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

From Web Analytics to Demand Generation. Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Lead Scoring. Lead scoring configuration. An anonymous prospect record. Form builder.

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ActiveConversion SMB Work Management Lead Management 100

LeadSloth

AUGUST 17, 2009

Earlier this year I downloaded Silverpop’s lead management workbook , and I planned to write about it. Unfortunately, not enough time… Last week I received a copy of Marketo’s Lead Nurturing workbook. Both books show how you can increase sales by nurturing all leads, from inquiry to opportunity.

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Lead Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking ROI 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

As the industry matures, second-generation products are designed to improve on the original products, either by adding new capabilities or by delivering the same capabilities faster, easier or cheaper. This leads to more variety as vendors experiment with different approaches to a now-defined problem.

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Demand Generation Digital Asset Management Demand Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. But on reflection I realized that Net-Results offers a full set of demand generation functions. Let’s run through the standard demand generation process to see how this works in practice.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services 120

ANNUITAS

JANUARY 19, 2022

It means that relying on a salesperson to guide a lead through all stages of the lifecycle is no longer effective. Buyers spend nearly half their time researching independently ; another 22% is spent talking to other decision makers, and only 17% of their ‘buying’ time is spent meeting with potential vendors.

Sales Management 130

Sales Management Lead Ranking Work Management Marketing Management 130

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 24, 2009

Summary: let's not forget that most companies are still not even doing simple demand generation. He was also starting to think that maybe the company Web site could play a role in attracting leads. Yet he also appeared to be seasoned, competent and generally successful. And, my car hit a deer. conference.

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Demand Generation Enterprise Management Marketing Management Demand 120

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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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 21, 2009

My own take is that the main factor is how well the marketers know what they want to do – that is, do they understand their data, know what marketing campaigns they want to set up, have the materials in hand and process flows defined, know what their scoring rules should be, etc. Of course, I’ll report on results when I have some.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. It’s actually quite a long story, dating back to the company’s initial sales automation system in 1997, followed by its MarketingView demand generation product in 1999. So now the story can be told.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Enterprise Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. So I was quite curious to see what they had to offer.

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Demand Generation Enterprise Management Small Business Marketing Pricing 120

ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. billion in 2019.

Enterprise Management 130

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Analysis Work Management 130

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 20, 2010

Summary: A survey of business-to-business salespeople finds they (still) consider themselves their best source of qualified leads. But marketing-generated leads are gaining increasing respect and salespeople are increasingly looking for help from outside data vendors.

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Customer Surveys Sales Qualified Leads 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

I've been having a dandy time analyzing the results of my Demand Generation Implementation Survey. 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). the system itself 0.67

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Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand Marketing Automation Services 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 3, 2009

I think one mistake many marketers make is to think of their lead management requirements too narrowly — and to be honest, quite a few demand generation vendors make this mistake as well. Lead scoring to know when to pass leads to the sales team – and when to keep them in marketing for further nurturing.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Lead Nurturing Marketing Management 48

Markempa

APRIL 16, 2019

But, in reality, any marketing process can be optimized from demand generation, account-based marketing and, lead generation. I’ll review the basics of reviewing your demand generation funnel. A buyer persona(s) targeted – Which ponds are you fishing in, and whom are you trying to catch?

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Sales Management Sales Qualified Leads Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Leads 97

Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Finally, the new 2013 B2B Lead Generation Report is available! Download it here: [link] ) The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted the 2013 lead generation survey to better understand how B2B marketers are adjusting to new challenges, and to identify new trends and best practices. The results are in.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Lead Generation Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management 100

ANNUITAS

JUNE 10, 2020

But now, business leaders expect marketing to prove its value in a more concrete way: by predictably contributing to sales and revenue lift.” ” This is the turning point, which has re-defined Demand Marketing – shifting from tactics to a strategic objective. In the past, Demand Marketing was focused on two elements.

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Demand Work Management Marketing Management Peer-to-peer 162

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

For those of you with Marketo in your Demand Process technology stacks, your next question is probably what does this mean for me ? And what does this mean for our ANNUITAS Perpetual Demand Generation ® (PDG) investments? Adobe GETS marketing. And that’s a good thing. And that’s a good thing. Cheers, Adam Needles.

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Marketo Acquisitions Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management 193

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. Users Want Core Marketing Automation Features Both Software Advice and Pepper Global asked what features marketing automation buyers want.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. This is always a fun project because it gives me an overview of what all the vendors have been up to for the past six months. lots of new vendors.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management Top of Funnel 120

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? of companies polled in the 2016 ANNUITAS B2B Demand Generation Survey. of B2B marketers continue to send all leads directly to their Sales teams as soon as a form is filled out according to the 2016 ANNUITAS Survey.

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Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Campaigns Work Management 100

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? of companies polled in the 2016 ANNUITAS B2B Demand Generation Survey. of B2B marketers continue to send all leads directly to their Sales teams as soon as a form is filled out according to the 2016 ANNUITAS Survey.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Campaigns Work Management 100

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? of companies polled in the 2016 ANNUITAS B2B Demand Generation Survey. of B2B marketers continue to send all leads directly to their Sales teams as soon as a form is filled out according to the 2016 ANNUITAS Survey.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Campaigns Work Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 13, 2013

These products address several interrelated challenges: distributing leads to partners without losing track of performance; distributing partner-customized versions of company-created content; and helping partners run their own marketing campaigns. did they eventually buy? is there someone else at their company to talk to?

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Marketing Automation Services Advertising Agencies Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Marketing automation vendors entering this market are essentially betting that they can make their systems powerful enough to be useful and easy enough for a small business to run.

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Bundling Small Business Marketing Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Biznology

AUGUST 8, 2019

Martin: Twenty years ago, we would buy databases from trade publications and data vendors, and use them to cold call, trying to reach senior executives. Third, a larger role for marketing, as active members of inside sales and lead qualification teams. They’re not using content, marketing automation and lead management.

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Demand Generation Agencies Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services B2B Marketing 106

ANNUITAS

MARCH 17, 2015

You’ve vetted the vendors, selected your features, sized your database and scheduled your implementation; you are now ready to deploy your marketing automation platform, right? With multiple years of experience, this user has every certification available from the marketing automation vendor. The Power User. This user knows it all.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Work Management Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves.

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Marketo Marketing Automation Services Work Management Lead Ranking 120

ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2014

According to Sirius Decisions, 75 percent of those that own marketing automation state they are not getting the full value from it. A recent Forrester study showed that of 25 different tactics listed, B2B organizations are using on average 15 different tactics in their demand generation mix. So where is the disconnect?

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Paid Search Agency Enterprise Management Marketing Management Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2009

Back in December, the Sales Lead Management Association and LEADTRACK published a survey on lead management practices that I haven’t previously had time to write about. I doubt they would have ranked highly had they been included. The survey is still available on the SLMA Web site.)

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Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Lead Scoring 120

Televerde

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

With rapid advances in technology forcing every organization into an uncertain future, many companies benefit from choosing to outsource their lead generation. The reasons for outsourcing lead generation are aplenty – and they may differ depending on your business or vertical. Make the most out of your martech.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 49

Attendify

MAY 14, 2019

Because when time is money, quickly getting event leads into the hands of your sales team, marketing function or sponsors is directly linked to long-term ROI. You can’t afford not to have a speed-to-lead event data strategy. Tip 1: Get smart about event lead scanning. Instead, start categorizing your leads when you scan them.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services Work Management 49

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.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Peer-to-peer Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 8, 2009

The Pedowitz Group announced this morning that it was offering $15,000 in free consulting services and guaranteeing a five-day implementation to new clients who purchase Eloqua demand generation software. On the surface, this is a strength of vendors who promise free implementation and deployment within a few days.

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