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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

If you suspected that my last two blog posts were a way to avoid writing a post that ranks vendors on usability, you’re probably right. As a reminder, I'm planning to build two usability scores, one for simple marketing programs and one for complex marketing programs.) (Yes, Sorry about the parentheses.)

Vtrenz 120

Vtrenz Market2Lead Work Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

When this blog last left Geoff Rego in 2010 , he had just sold the assets of pioneering B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead to Oracle. Happily, both obstacles can be overcome through good marketing. hushly lead identification marketing automation privacy prospect databases'

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Market2Lead Salesforce.com Privacy 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. When I wrote about Aprimo Marketing Studio in a post last August , I was impressed by the scope of the product but reserved judgment because it hadn’t yet been launched. You know who you are.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 25, 2008

When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. In fact, LucidEra is releasing a new module for lead conversion analysis today to address this very need.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. They’ll make their money when users see the value they gain and pay for higher volumes and add-on features.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. Neolane “ Making the Business Case for Enterprise Marketing Software ”. Here's a bunch. Statistics include: • 16.5%

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Marketing Qualified Leads 120

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

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

Obviously any survey based on 36 net responses (and self-selected at that) has little statistical value, but I still think the broad results are extremely interesting. Tags: marketing automation software deployment low cost marketing software lead management demand generation implementation demand generation.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand Marketing Automation Services 120

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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. The pattern will likely repeat itself.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

SnapApp

JUNE 5, 2018

A well-oiled inbound sales machine means reps spend less time working low quality leads, and more time closing sales. More leads in, more revenue out. In fact, almost half of B2B sales reps list lead quantity and quality as their top challenge: ( Source ). This lead qualification is a major problem for many B2B organizations.

Lead Qualification 81

Lead Qualification Lead Ranking Sales Management Lead Scoring 81

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2009

Best of B2B Marketing. Clarity - B2B Marketing Savvy , July 28, 2009. Lessons on Using LinkedIn for Lead Generation - B2B Lead Generation Blog , July 29, 2009. Buzz Marketing for Technology , July 23, 2009. Genius is Bringing GURLs to the Social Party - Marketing Interactions , July 28, 2009.

Social Media 40

Social Media B2B Sales Twitter Market2Lead 40

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 18, 2008

Market2Lead offers the usual list of demand generation functions: outbound email, Web forms and landing pages, automated lead nurturing, integration with sales, and campaign return on investment analysis. This is not to say that Market2Lead is especially hard to use. But Market2Lead does not provide its own email services.

Market2Lead 120

Market2Lead Enterprise Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

Hubspot

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Lead nurturing is a crucial part of any effective marketing strategy. Because if you’re not managing your leads properly, you're wasting your time, marketing resources, and money. Workflows take lead nurturing to the next level. Workflows go way beyond simple marketing automation , though.

Marketing Automation Services 28

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Market2Lead 28

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 5, 2009

Summary: Market2Lead's revised user interface has plenty of refined details. I saw a demonstration of Market2Lead ’s new user interface last December, and they released it in February. It’s a good thing that Market2Lead moved more quickly than I did, because the new interface is a huge improvement. Time flies.

Market2Lead 120

Market2Lead Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 9, 2009

It’s always fun at this time of the year to look back at what’s happened in the world of B2B Marketing. This technique was also used to generate the Hot Trends in B2B Marketing for 2009. 10 Tips for Using Twitter And Email Marketing for B2B - Anything Goes Marketing , December 21, 2008.

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership De-duplication B2B 40

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2009

For better or worse, I've taken my usability scoring project as far as I can. Because usability includes both ease-of-use and the suitability for a given task, a single usability score would be misleading because it must either favor construction of simple campaigns or of complex campaigns. So it seemed best not to bother.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 4, 2009

Usability Items for Complex Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) This post will complete the demand generation vendor usability scores by looking at items that contribute to usability for complex marketing programs.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Hubspot

JANUARY 7, 2013

That’s why we’re going to suggest a new year's resolution for you: fix one of these 4 damaged relationships in your marketing strategy. Is your sales team upset with your marketing team for sending them subpar leads? on marketing spend! Slimming down on marketing spend. How real marketers did it.

Top of Funnel 28

Top of Funnel Work Management Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Management 28

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

In theory, this would imply that company data is stored once and applied to all the associated individuals, and that the demand generation system could aggregate data by company, use that data to calculate company-level lead scores, and change which company an individual is linked to. This turns out not to be the case.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Work Management Market2Lead Marketing Automation Services 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Sales Management Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Summary: Vendors who target small businesses include provide functions beyond traditional marketing automation. But larger firms need to be efficient too: so expect all marketing automation systems to eventually expand in similar ways. Marketing among very small businesses is often limited to a bit of local advertising and a Web site.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 3, 2008

Rather, it sells preconfigured applications that use the platform for specific purposes including sales pipeline analysis, order analysis, and (just released) sales lead analysis. Add the quick deployment and scalability inherent in the on-demand approach, and, presto, instant business value. Problem(s) solved, eh?

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Demand Market2Lead 120

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. Great stuff this month in the world of B2B Marketing. Five Big Shifts in Social Media Marketing - Webbiquity , April 19, 2010 Social media reflects a larger trend toward buyer empowerment that has changed not only the practice but the underlying philosophies of marketing over the past several years.

Forecasting 40

Forecasting Social Media B2B Marketing Social Marketing 40

Hubspot

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Essentially these campaigns are a series of emails aimed at keeping you top of mind while building trust and moving your lead further along in the buyer's journey. Get the lead to contact you to inquire more about your services/product or make the purchase online. 2) Lead Nurturing Workflows. 3) Hot Leads Workflows.

Top of Funnel 28

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Companies Market2Lead 28