Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 25, 2010

As a Salesforce.com user group leader, I often talk to marketers who are looking to get more and/or better data out of their Salesforce.com system. Because of this, many marketers have picked up Salesforce.com admin skills that are highly valued at their companies. . Salesforce.com Certification: it’s for Marketers, too!

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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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markempa

MARCH 27, 2005

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. These showed up as wild sales forecasts, leads being dropped, crummy conversion rates, and very poor visibility. Number of converted leads per rep per month.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Full Circle Insights today announced the Report Extender for its Response Management application on Salesforce AppExchange. The company offers multi-touch attribution, comprehensive funnel metrics and lead management technology. SAN MATEO, Calif. , Feb.

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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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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

JULY 28, 2010

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. Changes include a drag-and-drop design tool (similar to Microsoft Powerpoint); integration of opportunities and custom objects from Salesforce.com; better reporting on Web site visitors; and, real time sales alerts on Web activity.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. So now the story can be told. ROI reporting.

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Lead Liaison

JULY 9, 2021

Check out the powerful new enhancements on Lead Liaison’s Sales & Marketing Lead Management platform. Game experiences integrate natively with the Captello app, taking full advantage of all of Captello’s robust lead management solutions. SALES: NEW FEATURES & IMPROVEMENTS. BUTLRR [details].

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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. [I Read it here.]

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Although Hubspot positions itself as an “inbound marketing system,” it actually does more than the search engine optimization, blogging, social media interactions and related analytics needed to generate Web traffic.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. However, there was quite a buzz as many tried to discover which marketing automation platform Salesforce.com decided to purchase for their own use. Observation 4: Salesforce.com Needs Better Content .

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Other vendors have similar price points for the small business market (see my list of demand generation vendors ) although I suspect their internal costs are higher. Salesforce.com easily dominates despite the presence of surprisingly capable free products like ZohoCRM and FreeCRM.

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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. 5Buckets isn’t actually a demand generation system, at least according to my usual definition.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

The latest stop on my little tour of not-really-demand-generation systems is Jesubi. The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting.

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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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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. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. In addition, they support wait periods and can send leads and alerts to the sales system.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. My first reaction was: no way, you should not want to do without any type of marketing automation system (for simplicity sake, I use this term as synonymous to demand generation and lead management ).

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

An enterprise-grade marketing automation and analytics platform with solutions for lead management, email marketing, consumer marketing, customer base marketing, and mobile marketing. Marketing automation tool combining email marketing, lead management, and reporting with sales alignment. 1) Marketo. 2) HubSpot.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

The amount of content and messaging being generated by solution providers and consultants seems overwhelming (Note of full disclosure: The Annuitas Group is one of the consultants in this space vying for customers). The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. They are leading buyers astray.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 18, 2012

The amount of content and messaging being generated by solution providers and consultants seems overwhelming (Note of full disclosure: The Annuitas Group is one of the consultants in this space vying for customers). The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. They are leading buyers astray.

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markempa

APRIL 13, 2015

Tweet The management of sales leads is critical to generating marketing ROI. Sadly, sales leads often land on the scrap heap because marketers throw leads over the wall and then expect salespeople to catch them. I was recently asked by someone how to utilize lead distribution to gain the best results.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Instead, links embedded in a Genius-generated email point to a proxy server that relays the visitor to company Web pages but keeps a record of the interactions as they pass through. This allows it to track all site visits, not only those routed to the proxy server by a Genius-generated link.) Probably not.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. Telesales lead generation supports both field and inside sales. The sales cycle may grow longer as larger companies are targeted.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

Radius finds small business prospects that resemble current customers and deploys them to Salesforce.com, along with key profile information and lead scores. demand generation lead management lead prospecting prospect databases sales intelligence sales prospecting web scanning web scraping'

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LeadSloth

APRIL 15, 2009

On this blog I primarily write about integrated Lead Management systems , rather than small tools. However, in a previous post I wrote about a project in which I’m replacing a full-blown Marketing Automation system with tools that add on to Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com integration complexity. a list of industries).

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management. First, the company invested in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform that integrated well with the company’s CRM system, Salesforce.com. All-hands discovery session yields important insights, priorities.

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The Mx Group

OCTOBER 18, 2017

That makes me wonder: Are CRM platforms, like the Salesforce.com, set up to handle ABM? Salesforce.com and other CRM systems were developed to track individual leads. They can be, but not “out of the box.” For example, there is currently no way to get a pipeline view on an account basis with most standard configurations.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 27, 2013

Lead Generation. . Keyword target examples: manage contacts, new CRM, Salesforce.com, lead management, sales tools, sales management. Generate leads from your unique landing page. . . Business: CRM.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Users can import lists, compose and send emails, build landing pages, execute multi-step event-triggered campaigns, monitor Web behaviors, score leads, exchange data with SugarCRM or (soon) Salesforce.com , and run reports. Tags: marketing automation multi-language marketing lead management demand generation.

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The Point

APRIL 1, 2014

Here’s just one example: Last year, we implemented an automated lead follow-up program on behalf of a small client. The campaign is initiated when a contact is “added” to the campaign via a simple command within the client’s CRM, Salesforce.com. Once initiated, the steps are as follows: 1. Marketo sends first follow-up email.

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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. The categories don’t make much sense to me because they overlap: products like Salesforce.com are both CRM systems and SaaS.

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Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Lead Scoring 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com. Although I actually think that quite a few demand generation vendors share the Marketo philosophy, it’s still helpful to hear the distinction made clearly.

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