Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

Demand generation systems are in that second stage. CEO and co-founder Brian Giese had extensive experience in business sales and marketing and with existing demand generation systems when he began developing True Influence two years ago. These are not yet standard features on most demand generation products.

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Demand Generation Digital Asset Management Demand Marketing Management 120

Rev

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Need help building the perfect sales tech stack so you can easily hit your revenue targets? A sales tech stack (also known as a sales stack or sales technology stack) refers to the set of tools and software solutions your sales team uses to do everything from lead generation to closing deals. We understand!

Enterprise Management 78

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Budget Programs 78

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. That's fewer functions than traditional demand generation, but if those are the functions you need, who cares? Registration is no longer required.)

Active Conversion 120

Active Conversion Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Lead Management 120

ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

The importance of MAP to the Demand Technology Stack is also reflected in the significant size and ongoing growth of the global market for MAP software – valued at $4.06 Why take this strategic Demand Process approach to go-to-market in an enterprise environment? Standardized, automated workflow management. Ease of use.

Enterprise Management 130

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Analysis Work Management 130

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 12, 2011

by Phil Fernandez Today, the role of demand generation as a discrete and increasingly vital part of the marketing function is well accepted amongst corporations (especially B2B companies). The demand side of the business value equation has lagged in the reinvention department, but that is now starting to change, and rapidly so.

Demand Generation Agencies 48

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Enterprise Management 48

Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Marketing automation is all about using software to automate activities which allows your teams more time to focus on strategy and the leads showing real promise. Pros: The User Interface is simple, clean, and streamlined for the demand generation marketers. Reviews/rating: G2 Rating: 4.1 / 5. ActiveCampaign.

Marketing Automation Services 129

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Work Management 129

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

On Monday, Genius.com announced “the first free, instant-on demand generation solution”, a description carefully crafted to distinguish their offering from the free version announced by LoopFuse in June. That is, it captures and tracks leads but doesn’t do sophisticated lead nurturing.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Loopfuse 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Personally, I’d argue that the really significant news out of LoopFuse is their newly tiered pricing structure. The entry point of $350 per month (for up to 10,000 prospects with unlimited emails and page views) is much lower than the $1,000 to $2,000 starting price of most full-function marketing automation systems.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Options range from fairly simple, moderately priced systems targeted at midmarket companies to sophisticated suites for enterprise users. Pricing: free.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 13, 2013

Corporate marketers can build campaigns with multiple events, create landing pages, capture revenues and costs, distribute leads with complex routing rules, score leads on behaviors and salesperson ratings, and measure performance. The system can also integrate with event management software and Google AdWords.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Advertising Agencies Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

It shows how specialized software can be much better at one function than general purpose systems. The latest stop on my little tour of not-really-demand-generation systems is Jesubi. Building these links is difficult in most CRM software and virtually impossible in marketing automation systems.

Efficiency 120

Efficiency Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Rev

MARCH 22, 2023

These activities include managing pipelines, optimizing revenue generation strategies based on real-time data insights and tracking revenue performance metrics. Revenue: The total revenue generated by the sales team. It can also help manage revenue-generating projects, such as marketing campaigns or product launches.

Ideal Customer Profiles 78

Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Automation Services Work Management Budget Programs 78

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

Last Wednesday’s revised ranking of demand generation vendors by Web traffic reminded me that I never published notes from a conversation I had several months ago with Right On Interactive , developer of the 5Buckets marketing automation software. Pricing is also intended to make things simple.

Multi-Channel 120

Multi-Channel Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Channels 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. All that’s missing to be full-blown demand generation system is outbound email and lead nurturing campaigns—which the company has announced it will add. But I consider that optional.)

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 19, 2010

Pricing for ABR is set at $2,500 per month for unlimited use. ABR further expands the company’s footprint by using its data to enhance other systems, moving it beyond the business of selling stand-alone software. Similarly, client data such as customers and sales people must currently be loaded by DemandBase staff. Clever folks.

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DemandBase Leadlander Jigsaw Marketing Automation Services 120

The Point

MAY 6, 2010

Using even the most conservative assumptions, we were able to project a return – in the form of increased revenue – that far outweighed the price of the software under consideration, even allowing for related services and staff time. Where in the current sales and marketing process will the software make a difference?

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Management Automation 100

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. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) In addition, they support wait periods and can send leads and alerts to the sales system.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Genius Enterprise expands the company’s beachhead in marketing by adding automated lead nurturing and lead scoring. This makes it more of a competitor to traditional demand generation systems, although Genius Enterprise still lacks landing pages and surveys. The two products are now offered in combination as Genius Pro.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 4, 2012

The list of independent marketing automation systems shrank by one yesterday when Leadformix was purchased by sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud for $9 million. The price is surprisingly low for an established marketing automation vendor.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2009

Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 software suite. additional profile is requested as a prospect moves through an interactive process); Native integration with Salesforce.com ; Web visitor profiling; and Automated duplicate lead removal.

Enterprise Management 20

Enterprise Management Marketo Marketing Management LEADSExplorer 20

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

LeadSloth

AUGUST 24, 2009

Needless to say, Marketing Automation software is very popular today. It can be used for email campaigns, drip marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, landing page management and for brewing coffee. Part of a good lead management process is knowing exactly who are involved in the sale.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Engagio

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ll never forget talking to the top Sales guy at a software company where I was leading demand generation. I was asking him why despite bringing him huge volumes of seemingly quality leads he never followed up. I worked at another company where we were selling price intelligence to retailers.

Account Based Marketing 88

Account Based Marketing Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 88

LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

In the early days it was used to sift through hundreds of new B2B leads per day to identify the valuable leads. This changed over time: now the focus has shifted to pro-active outreach to a handful of executives, instead of targeting thousands of software developers. How to Replace a Marketing Automation System?

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services LEADSExplorer netFactor Leadlander 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 25, 2009

If you look at the Web site of Act-On Software , you’ll see a typical set of demand generation features: email marketing, demand generation (equated with landing pages and forms), lead nurturing, Website visitor tracking, channel (partner) marketing, and lead scoring. Pricing on this starts at $14.95

Act-On 120

Act-On Demand Generation Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 30, 2009

My personal definition of demand generations systems (see Introduction to Demand Generation Systems from the Raab Guide site) explicitly states that they do not incorporate sales automation. See Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems? for whether this will change.)

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Cost Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I had a preliminary conversation last week with Mike Pilcher of Marketbright , one of the vendors I’ll probably end up adding to the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. We didn’t look at the software itself, so I can’t comment on it in any detail. Do I get credit for resisting the temptation to link to Playboy.com?)

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation User-Generated Content Work Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 17, 2009

Summary: Marqui started as a Web content management system and then added basic demand generation. Marqui is one of the oldest demand generation vendors, founded in 2000. But that date is a bit misleading because the company’s original product was a Web content management system (CMS).

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Marketing Management Demand Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

I have mostly been focused this week on formats for the new Demand Generation Guide. As of last week’s post , I had decided to build a list of applications plus some common issues such as vendor background, technology and pricing. The HTML that Excel generates automatically won’t work at all.)

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Work Management Marketing Management 120

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads.

Marketing Automation Services 60

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation 60

thePoint

MAY 25, 2018

Here are my top tips to help you get started in this area: Don’t launch initiatives, do lead generation, or even place ads unless you know who you are targeting and have specific messaging that engages that audience. Lead Generation, Lead Management & Lead Nurturing.

Paid Search Agency 40

Paid Search Agency Work Management Sales Management Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2010

It does require extensive preparation, but Eloqua leads you through that too. Let's face it, folks: putting a good demand generation program in place is real work. The price of SmartStart varies from $4,000 to $19,000 depending on the version of Eloqua and type of CRM integration.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I've been distracted this week by an unrelated client deadline, but the new Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems is indeed complete. Tags: marketing software marketing automation lead management demand generation.

Vtrenz 120

Vtrenz Manticore Marketing Automation Services Market2Lead 120

Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2023

These 10 marketing software solutions help to streamline marketing campaigns through automation and advanced functionality. Based on extensive research, here is a list of some of the best tools to help support your marketing activities and achieve your objectives of increasing your brand awareness and generating high-quality leads.

Marketing Automation Services 292

Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Enterprise Management Work Management 292

The Point

MARCH 26, 2010

Published by the folks at marketing automation software company Genius.com , and authored by respected consultant, author, and blogger Ardath Albee , this is a valuable primer that would serve as a useful resource to anyone just getting started with a marketing automation system. And you can’t beat the price. First: a quibble.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Lead Ranking 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 14, 2009

I have my little checklist of features to define whether a demand generation system is suited for simple or complex marketing programs. You'll find most of the list in our report on Vendor Usability Scores on the Raab Guide site.) Revenue is attached to the earliest event associated with a lead linked to the opportunity.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Features Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Circle Studio

OCTOBER 12, 2017

testing two versions of a landing page or email and choosing the version that leads to more conversions. Account-Based Marketing (ABM) – A B2B marketing strategy focused on fewer, specific targets, as opposed to marketing to the masses. It coordinates personalized marketing and sales efforts targeted at specific, named accounts.

Paid Content 60

Paid Content Top of Funnel Advertising Agencies Demand Generation Agencies 60