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Social Media & Marketing Automation

LeadSloth

This week there was a discussion about Social Media and Marketing Automation in the LinkedIn Group of the Marketing Automation Association. Then I remembered that Pardot also recently announced new social features, called Pardot Social Insight. Is it easy for the vendors to implement?

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Next-Generation Marketing Automation Systems Target Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve been gearing up for the next edition of our VEST report on B2B marketing automation systems, which involves catching up with established vendors and chasing down some new ones. nurture campaigns), and share leads with a CRM system like Salesforce.com. Here are highlights of several vendors I’ve looked at recently.

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Vocus Marketing Suite: Still Mostly Social But Marketing Automation is On the Way

Customer Experience Matrix

If you’ve heard of Vocus at all, it’s probably as vendor serving public relations professionals. Its core offerings include a huge database of media contacts; media monitoring and social listening; and press release distribution. But Vocus doesn’t quite match the profile of standard marketing automation products.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year. They provide three basic functions: - send messages via social media.

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Lytics Adds Marketing Recommendations to a Customer Data Platform

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s just over one year since I first spoke with Lytics *, which at that time was (accurately) calling itself a Customer Data Platform but had not yet released a beta version of its product. CEO James McDermot said the label was changed because big companies thought a CDP sounded like an IT project, not something run by marketers.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Expands the Scope of Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. This broader scope should become standard as marketers try to truly integrate their programs. Of course, I’m generalizing about sets of vendors so there will be individual exceptions.

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Genoo and Act-On Software Add Social Marketing Features

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Two low-cost demand generation systems, Genoo and Act-On Software, have added unusually advanced social marketing features. A few weeks back, I wrote about social marketing features from consumer marketing automation vendors. I got details from two of them last week.

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