Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2013

Infusionsoft today announced it has acquired social lead generation vendor GroSocial. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results. Implementation services go beyond training to actually setting up initial marketing programs.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 11, 2011

Summary: Here's a closer look at revenue per employee and marketing automation revenue in general. Some of the comments on last week’s post on the size of the B2B marketing automation industry led me to dig a bit more deeply into the question of revenue per employee. So maybe let’s credit them with $10 million.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation ActiveConversion 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Vendors 120

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

MARCH 26, 2009

Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. I say this with the fervor of a reformed sinner, since for many years I looked at flow charts as the mark of an advanced marketing automation system.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 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. Here it is.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

SugarCRM

JANUARY 30, 2014

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Loopfuse 50

Loopfuse Advertising Agencies Gartner Forrester 50

SugarCRM

JANUARY 30, 2014

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Loopfuse 50

Loopfuse Advertising Agencies Blogger Gartner 50

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. My original set of products was based on a general knowledge of which companies are most established, plus some consultation with vendors to learn who they felt were their main competitors. How to choose?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz Demand Generation Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. - Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Loopfuse 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

As of April 29, I've received 40 responses, of which I've discarded two as incomplete and two because they related to vendors I considered irrelevant ( Zoho and Ad Giants PitchRocket). One measure of this is the distribution of vendors reported by the respondents, which clearly doesn't reflect the installed base of the industry.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Customer Surveys Demand Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets. It shouldn't be hard to figure out which one suits you better.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Long available within marketing automation, these programs complement sales and lead scoring efforts, by allowing you to capture intelligence and follow-up with firms visiting your digital destinations. Here’s an example of Loopfuse Marketing Automation. Sales people can be alerted immediately when activity occurs.

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Reachforce Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Hubspot

MARCH 13, 2012

From the results of its Marketing Automation Survey last year, Loopfuse released some interesting data about the adoption of advanced marketing automation features. So if it's so effective and easy to maintain, then why are only 49% of marketers utilizing this wonderful tool? The Challenges.

Top of Funnel 28

Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Features 28

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Summary: LoopFuse offers attractive but limited demand generation functions at an easy-to-swallow price. It’s been nearly a year since I took my first close look at the LoopFuse OneView demand generation system. The process to set up multi-step campaigns (which the vendor calls “lead flows”) is now quite straightforward.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has extended its system to capture more Web traffic data, which lays the foundation for future analytics. LoopFuse recently released its latest enhancements, which it somewhat grandiosely labels as making it “ the First and Only Marketing Automation Solution with Inbound Marketing ”.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Traffic Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

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. Sales & marketing alignment. The Contributors.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Sales Management Automation 100

NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

This same concept can be applied to marketing automation for small and mid-size business. I’ve been hired my firms past and current with the challenge to generate quality leads and manage marketing automation drip campaigns. Leads don’t happen overnight, especially if your marketing budget is moderate.

SMB 100

SMB Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Budget 100

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2011

Act-On Software announced last week that they had purchased the assets of Marketbright , a pioneering marketing automation vendor that has struggled in recent years. He made clear that the actual Marketbright software will not be merged into Act-On because they are built with different technologies.

Act-On 120

Act-On Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Reverse IP look up appears to be the new thing here.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Hubspot

MARCH 14, 2012

If this is the case, then why are only 49% of marketers taking advantage of lead nurturing tools , as evident by Loopfuse's Marketing Automation Study ? One of the main reasons marketers fail to adopt lead nurturing as part of their marketing mix is a lack of content. What do they value most?

Top of Funnel 28

Top of Funnel Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 28

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

And it’s not clear to me if lead management automation deserves to be a separate category or to be subsumed as part of the broader marketing platform. (I I know Suresh Vittal includes lead management as a component of his enterprise marketing platform. But does the B2B need the same platform components as B2C?)

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JANUARY 4, 2011

50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) - Webbiquity , October 5, 2010. Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010. A fascinating “hardcore” B2B social media success - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , June 20, 2010.

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Work Management Paid Search Agency 40

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Wikipedia and a handful of open-source software developers were the pioneers. 35 (of the) Best Guides to Facebook Marketing, Advertising, Search and More of 2010 (So Far) - Webbiquity , August 26, 2010 Facebook is an extraordinary phenomenon. year later there were an estimated 150,000 people using the service. 8217; On Linkedin.

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Work Management Advertising Agencies 40