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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. But HubSpot plays in a different pond, where the frogs are more numerous and much livelier.

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B2B Marketing Automation Growth Slowed In First Half of 2011

Customer Experience Matrix

We now ask vendors to estimate their client counts based on four segments: - micro-businesses, under $5 million in revenue; - small businesses, $5 to $20 million revenue; - mid-size business, $20 to $500 million revenue, and - large business, $500 million or more revenue.

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Ranking B2B Marketing Automation Vendors: How I Built My Scores (part 1)

Customer Experience Matrix

vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position. In the interest of simplicity, my three charts will address marketers at small, medium and big companies. In practice, we all know that some small companies are very sophisticated marketers and some big companies are not.

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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

Customer Experience Matrix

HubSpot is following this approach most aggressively although others are also applying it in places. It also gives access to more expertise than a small marketing department could ever build internally. But it seems to be creeping upstream: LeadLife , Treehouse Interactive , and Manticore Technology apply it to larger customers.

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Another Estimate of B2B Marketing Automation Revenue

Customer Experience Matrix

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. That yields $56 million.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

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. One challenge many of us have is that we're poor buyers of business software.