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. How about it guys?

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2013

The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results. The investment can be read as validation of Infusionsoft’s strategy of offering unified marketing automation, CRM, and ecommerce exclusively for very small businesses. It will continue to operate independently.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Small Business Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation 120

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. It boils down to providing an easy transition between basic email systems and full-scale marketing automation. The interesting question is why Act-On made the purchase.

Act-On 120

Act-On Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation Services 120

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

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. This leaves all the other B2B marketing automation vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation ActiveConversion 120

LeadSloth

AUGUST 2, 2010

This Wednesday I’m presenting a webinar called “Search and Rescue&# for your lead database , hosted by Loopfuse. Tags: marketing automation. It presents a 7-step process to generate revenue from existing leads, who were previously assumed “lost&#. Part of this process is assessing the value of your existing leads.

Lead Scoring 100

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Loopfuse Leads 100

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. But pricing will remain well below standard marketing automation products.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Work Management Automation 120

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. ease of use.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 4, 2011

Summary: Is stressing the need for process change making marketing automation too complicated, or a recognition of what it really takes for success? I’m not sure that whoever speaks for “conventional wisdom” would agree that marketing automation solutions must be expensive and complex. There are vendors on both sides of the argument.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Loopfuse 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ).

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Social Media 120

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. What really got me thinking about this was prepping for a Webinar I’ll be giving next Wednesday on the future of marketing automation ( register here ). companies with $5 million or more revenue.**

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation 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

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. 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.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

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. Such specialists are fairly common at big consumer marketers such as banks and retailers. Such specialists are fairly common at big consumer marketers such as banks and retailers.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. Ones I know about include Pardot , LoopFuse , TrueInfluence , Salesforce.com and ACT! No one seems to be executing meaningful dialogs through social media, even though that is marketers’ truly pressing need because doing it manually is so expensive.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 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

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

nbr responses vendor 8 Marketo 6 Eloqua 3 Genius.com 3 LoopFuse 3 Pardot 2 Market2Lead 2 Treehouse Interactive 1 eTrigue 1 Vtrenz (Silverpop) 7 No Response 36 Another intriguing bit of contextual information is the deployment date of the systems. . better than expected about as expected worse than expected total system implementation 0.64

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

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

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

But there are plenty of other options, particularly for marketers with limited budgets. Marketo is certainly a fine product, but marketers should still look around before picking it by default. They focus on email nurturing campaigns and marketing measurement. I did publish a real review in July 2009.]

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

My original plan had been to add several marketing automation vendors with significant presence in this market. After a close analysis of the alternatives, I have decided the Alexa.com traffic statistics are the best indicator of vendor market presence. What’s more interesting is the figures for the Marketing Automation group.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz Demand Generation Agencies 120

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. This raises the question: Why are the more advanced marketing automation features tripping marketers up, and how can you prevent yourself from getting snagged?

Top of Funnel 28

Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Features 28

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JANUARY 4, 2011

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010. Marketing Genius Blog , May 25, 2010. How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI - Paul Gillin , June 24, 2010. Vital statistics for every B2B marketer - Earnest about B2B , March 16, 2010. What’s Up, Blog?

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Work Management Paid Search Agency 40

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

So, here are the Best of B2B Marketing for August 2010 based on on social signals. Ten social media and technology mega-trends to watch - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , August 10, 2010 I just read a fascinating (and lengthy!) Facebook Marketing Tips and Tactics. What Goal is Your Marketing Content Achieving?

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Work Management Advertising Agencies 40

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. Among other stuff.

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. Here's how to do it right.

Top of Funnel 28

Top of Funnel Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 28

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