Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Last November, after much consideration of alternatives , I settled on Alexa three-month Web traffic rankings as a reasonable way to measure the relative market presence of demand generation vendors.

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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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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 9, 2023

Contact targeting is a way to reach people who have already done business with your company, but haven’t yet bought from you in the last few months or are part of your target account list. This will help you target them again with relevant ads that can persuade them to engage with your organization. Introduction.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 10, 2010

How will demand generation evolve? " Maria Pergolino works as Director of Marketing at Marketo , leading their efforts in adoption of social media channels for brand awareness and demand generation html. This will be enhanced by the use of inbound marketing as part of the demand generation process.

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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. Performance tracking: assess the value of different marketing programs, including those managed outside the demand generation system.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 9, 2008

I noticed a visitor to the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems site from a new source the other day, which turned out to be a mention on blog by Jason Stewart of Demandbase. Pergolino’s blog also has an entry with a long list of “ Marketing Automation People on Twitter ”, which has already wasted several hours of my precious time.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

I've been having a dandy time analyzing the results of my Demand Generation Implementation Survey. In any case, the ten deployments in the first four months of 2009 (or 12 if you count the two future dates) and 12 in 2008 highlights the newness and fast growth of the demand generation industry. the system itself 0.67

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 21, 2009

This makes sense to a certain degree, since a demand generation system allows vastly more activity, specified in more detail, than was possible without one. I’ve created a little poll using SurveyMonkey – if you’ve implemented a demand generation system, please click below to fill it out. Click here to take survey.

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PathFactory

OCTOBER 9, 2019

And, of course, part of this includes defining or streamlining your content tags—those little keyword meta tags that relate one asset with other assets. You book 30 minutes with the team thinking that this will be a quick sync to nail down these tag lists. Avoid duplication and holes in your content mix.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

InsideView is already integrated with major CRM vendors and with the Marketbright demand generation system. It can also search other Web sites for email addresses containing the targeted domain. This will surely be a standard CRM feature before long, and will probably migrate to demand generation systems soon after.

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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. See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Just kidding.or Pricing starts at $599 per month.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 20, 2008

One of the first people I told about the new Guide to Demand Generation Systems -- an experienced database marketing consultant, no less -- was receptive to the Guide but asked whether there was any real difference between "demand generation" and "marketing automation" in general.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Tags: B2B Marketing direct marketing b2b demand generation b2b lead generation Demand Generation. This is the 5th edition of the handbook, a compilation of 65+ tips and techniques on direct marketing strategy, creative, offers, media, and just about everything in between. [.].

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 24, 2009

Summary: let's not forget that most companies are still not even doing simple demand generation. That is, most marketers understand their job as generating leads and are just starting to implement systems to do this better. And, my car hit a deer. I hit a deer last Thursday while driving to Boston for the Sales 2.0 conference.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 31, 2008

The fourth and final item I had planned to add to the Demand Generation Guide Web site was posted yesterday. This is a spreadsheet on calculating the business value of a demand generation system. Tags: marketing automation lead management software selection raab guide demand generation.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 25, 2009

Today, this is accomplished by synchronizing data between demand generation and sales automation systems. In fact, the division between demand generation and sales automation today is probably more a reflection of organizational divisions than technical imperatives. But that is inherently complex.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 5, 2009

Summary: My survey of demand generation deployments found that some companies deploy many features immediately, while others take two or three months to reach the same stage. A fast start depends on ample preparation. What's really interesting is the details themselves - go ahead and dig into the paper and see what you find.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 28, 2010

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. According to Doran, the company has found that the real key to success is guiding clients through successful execution of demand generation programs. Manticore doesn’t see it this way.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2009

Last week’s post on Web traffic rankings of demand generation vendors generated a couple of private responses from vendors, pointing out that the Alexa statistics include traffic to operational subdomains for client landing pages and user log-in. Client subdomains would presumably not be captured in the Alexa statistics.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 29, 2008

I’ve been pondering recently how to classify demand generation systems. Right--classifying demand generation systems. As to channels: any demand generation system will generate outbound emails and Web landing pages, and send leads them to a sales automation system. Now I feel better.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

This contrasts with generic rule building interfaces, which require users to know which field holds a particular type of data and may require complex specifications for calculations. Every system scored here meets this requirement in one way or another, but some other demand generation products do not. Simple 2 4 4 6 6 2.5

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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. Tags: software usability measurement demand generation marketing automation lead management software selection.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 25, 2008

My understanding of competitive products was that they had similar capabilities, at least hypothetically, so I choose not to list that as a Market2Lead specialty. But I recently spoke with on-demand business intelligence vendor LucidEra , who also said they had found that demand generation systems could not integrate such information.

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LeadSloth

APRIL 29, 2009

In my previous post I listed the Top-10 Demand Generation blog by marketers and consultants. Today I’ve put together a list of vendor blogs. Tags: Demand Generation activeconversion eloqua genius.com hubspot market2lead marketbright marketo pardot reachforce readycontacts silverpop.

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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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The Point

AUGUST 24, 2009

Tags: B2B Marketing Demand Generation Lead Management Lead Nurturing lead generation telemarketing appointment setting b2b demand generation b2b lead generation Cold Calling.

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The Point

JULY 30, 2020

Even as demand generation activity begins to pick up, most marketing budgets right now remain tight, and so B2B companies are looking for creative, low-cost ways to drive demand. Tip: tagging blog posts consistently, even after the fact, can also contribute to improved search results.). Include links to gated content.

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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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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. This pricing is low even among SMB demand generation systems.

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Thinkers360

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Tal Edgars M.Inst.D, Tal Edgars M.Inst.D, How can I get on the Thinkers360 list in the future? You can add personally authored content, awards and recognition and tag each content item with up to 3 relevant keywords that count towards the leaderboards. How can I recommend others who should be on the list?

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

Summary : a small survey of demand generation users shows that more than half deployed basic demand generation features within one week , and about 75% within one month. More complicated features take longer, but in general, 80% of the features ever deployed are in place by the end of two months. So far so good.

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Inbox Insight

MARCH 20, 2023

The emergence of AI in B2B demand generation has only facilitated this further. This is our webinar: 4 Ways AI is Revolutionizing Demand Generation. (00:12) How is AI changing B2B demand generation? (00:22) Who is your brand trying to target, and who could you bring into the fold?

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Let’s assume that you’re targeting B2B companies and you built out your account list. And if you have a heavy ABM strategy, those accounts probably represent the vast majority of your potential revenue. That is the value in today based on all of the events and the intent that that account is shown.

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