Martech

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The perspective has been this: “We have this marketing automation platform. We’re going to build a few automations and then go on to something really challenging.” A Forrester WAVE matrix of leading vendors is one. Being featured in influential industry publications is another. Precise metrics.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Campaign Management software automated the process of sending out campaigns — primarily direct mail at that time and then email. Campaign Management was mostly industry-agnostic — B2C, B2B, B2B2C, it didn’t matter — which also meant that it mostly catered to the lowest common denominator, usually B2C. Check it out here.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2015

Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Updating the report gives a nice overview of recent industry developments. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Many organizations are turning to marketing automation to streamline, automate, and measure marketing tasks and workflows. 53% of B2B organizations are using marketing automation technology today, and 37% surveyed say they are planning to implement it, according to an eConsultancy report.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Demand Process delivers substantial demand marketing ROI: The ANNUITAS data science team has tracked nearly 100 enterprise transformations over the past nine years. Anatomy of a Strategic Demand Marketing Plan.

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The Point

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Research company TrustRadius just published their new edition of the “Buyer’s Guide to Marketing Automation Software,” and it’s a doozy. Let’s face it, most martech “guides” are written by, well, marketers, and are either sponsored by or authored by the technology vendors themselves, so the content needs to be read with a critical eye.

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Net-Results

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I stumbled upon this question over on Quora the other day: “Is marketing automation worth it for small businesses in 2020 or is it just hype from software companies and wastes more time and money? ” I’ll move the question into the coming year: is marketing automation worth it for small businesses in 2021? (

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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. But that’s old news.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. That’s a technical step backwards but will actually make it easier for buyers to access the detailed vendor information, and in particular to screen for vendors with particular capabilities. VEST Report.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 5, 2014

I finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday, which is always a great relief. For the January release, that’s always easy, since I have a new estimate of industry revenues and the press loves that sort of thing. But I can’t repeat that for the mid-year release.

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Marketing Craftmanship

AUGUST 18, 2017

Fast-Forward to Marketing Automation: History Repeats Itself. Most marketers understand the evolution of Marketing Automation technology. The error of many companies using Marketing Automation? Can Marketing Automation Save Itself from Extinction?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 27, 2021

It’s easy (and correct) to see these deals as efforts to assemble comprehensive marketing suites. These deals all involve CDPs with marketing automation functions (that is, segmentation, message selection, campaigns, personalization, and cross-channel orchestration).

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Penetration reached eight percent among larger firms and varied substantially by industry.

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Martech

APRIL 17, 2024

Call on vendor and tech partners to help us succeed. We are at an inflection point in our industry. The rise of data proximity Marketers like to debate whether we’re served better by the wheel-and-spoke model of technology or the unified platform model. Use incremental innovation to create change. Fast-forward to 2024.

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2019

There’s a good amount of complexity to work through in understanding marketing automation (MA) for professional services firms— with countless products featuring a constantly-evolving array of capabilities and features. The Major Trends in Marketing Automation. Adoption of marketing automation is spreading.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 24, 2014

On May 6, AOL and Google announced their respective acquisitions of attribution vendors Convertro and Adometry. Convertro and Adometry both import individual-level contacts across online and offline channels and use these with other data to estimate to incremental impact of each marketing message.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 15, 2015

As usual for me, I spent much of conference prowling the exhibit hall checking out old and new vendors. By far the most notable presence was predictive modeling vendors – Leadspace , Mintigo , Lattice Engines , Infer , Fliptop , SalesPredict , 6Sense , Everstring plus maybe some others I’m forgetting.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 18, 2012

‘Tis the season for industry predictions. But this time I was able to answer right away because I’ve just finished a white paper on the future of B2B marketing automation, sponsored by Leadformix and available here for free download. The question answered by the paper is “What will marketing automation vendors do next?”

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 19, 2015

The only real question about free, open source marketing automation from Mautic is what took so long. The core features of B2B marketing automation have been well understood for nearly ten years and prices have been dropping steadily for about the same time. So the opportunity seems obvious.

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Oktopost

JUNE 1, 2023

Jump to Section What is marketing automation? Social media marketing What is a Lead Scoring System? What is marketing automation? In marketing, automation in the right places is now essential to realizing the full ROI of any marketing strategy, including social media. Here’s how.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. So if you’re working in the industry, don’t circulate that resume just yet. Figures for other vendors are not publicly available but I've seen hints that several have slowed as well.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 12, 2011

As I mentioned yesterday, our new B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) asks vendors to estimate the number of clients in each of four size categories. This provides an interesting overview of the industry. So I’d estimate total industry revenue at $300 million for 2011.

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Circle Studio

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Marketing automation is a powerful technology platform that provides marketers with a rich set of tools to manage the components of their online marketing programs. The usage of marketing automation software has exploded over the last decade, with no sign of slowing down. billion in 2017.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2013

Raab Associates officially released the new edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday. This is our flagship report on the industry, with nearly 200 data points on 23 vendors and separate ratings for micro-business, small to mid-size companies, and enterprise marketing departments.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I wrote last August that it’s still possible for new B2B marketing automation vendors to challenge the industry leaders. This was based on the observation that several of the smaller vendors have quickly reached the 1,000 client benchmark. That particular question came up repeatedly during Dreamforce last week.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

This particular thought emerged quite unexpectedly during a vendor briefing yesterday. But I also had in mind another system I had just seen, MDCDOT , which gives marketing automation functions to sales people. I don’t know what that means, either, but it sounds pretty deep, don’t you think?

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 4, 2012

One easily predictable trend in B2B marketing automation is that vendors will tailor their systems to specific industries. The reason may be that B2B marketing automation products have a narrower scope than B2C systems, meaning there’s less advantage in creating vertical editions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I’ve just finished the latest update of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), available on the raabguide.com Web site. The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. We use two methods: Vendor revenues.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

One of the main reasons that marketing automation has not been adopted more quickly is that too few marketers know how to fully use it. Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 4, 2013

They have been lacking large-scale email capability, which all types of sales and marketing departments require. They also get a toe-hold in B2C marketing and in marketing automation (via ExactTarget''s Pardot technology). Not so terrible for marketing automation in the short term. Adobe , where art thou?

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 15, 2013

As I mentioned in last week''s post , I’m writing a paper on stages of marketing automation deployment. The premise of the paper and Webinar is marketing automation has a problem: clients who don’t move beyond basic email functions are unhappy. The paper itself will be available to Webinar attendees.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Marketers can do a better job of picking their marketing automation vendors if they roll up their sleeves and work at it. But you also need a vendor who will support your long-term success. Here are some ways to identify a “future-safe” vendor. Financial strength: it's not enough to just survive.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 13, 2014

Last year’s biggest marketing automation acquisitions were products for consumer marketing: ExactTarget by Salesforce.com , Neolane by Adobe , and Responsys by Oracle. But it would be wrong to see these as expanding the industry to a new set of users.

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

It’s well documented that, of the companies who invest in marketing automation, many fail to achieve maximum return from that investment, or even utilize marketing automation technology to its full capacity. In our agency’s work with marketing automation users , we’ve identified 10 of the most common mistakes to avoid: 1.

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The Point

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A client asks: “We recently purchased a list of email addresses from a reputable vendor for use in a campaign targeting competitive installations. As that previous article made clear, emailing to anything but opt-in lists may be at odds with the license agreement of your marketing automation platform (MAP) or email service provider.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 7, 2014

It’s five long years since I wrote a detailed review of OfficeAutoPilot (now Ontraport ), which is a lifetime in industry terms. Ontraport already provided rich features for CRM, task management, marketing automation, order capture, and partner and membership programs. Ontraport can now send and receive SMS messages as well.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. So we’ll exclude them from further analysis. Myth busted.

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