Martech

JANUARY 9, 2023

What factors are driving marketing automation platform use, and what capabilities do MAPs provide for B2B marketers? Our new report, “ B2B Marketing Automation Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide ” is now available for free download. How vendors differentiate on capabilities.

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Martech

JANUARY 26, 2023

After you’ve determined if your company needs one , it’s time to select a vendor and schedule demos. Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Are they showing us our “must-have” features?

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B2BMarketing.net

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Making the right martech choice to enable account-based marketing just got an awful lot easier with the launch of B2B Marketing’s first Martech Vendor Spotlight Report , which focused on the ABM category. This report lists all those vendors who can help marketers to run an ABM strategy. The post New!

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Martech

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Campaign management software helps marketers automate the manual tasks of planning, launching and measuring the impact of their campaigns. That’s important because there are a number of moving pieces to many modern marketing campaigns. creative, media, brand, legal, etc.) creative, media, brand, legal, etc.)

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Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering many benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. What marketing automation capabilities are most critical to our business?

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Martech

JULY 16, 2021

Real Story on MarTech: Big vendor stability? . Real Story Group’s founder, Tony Byrne, tends to think the vast majority of the reported 8,000 martech vendors will survive, but fears will persist about individual vendors’ viability. Software vendors are no different, and who wants to get stuck with an unsupported product?

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TrustRadius Marketing

APRIL 17, 2022

Marketing automation allows for a marketing team or individual to amplify their work to thousands of people. First, we cover the hottest marketing statistics in the following categories: Market Scope Marketing Automation Success Why Use Marketing Automation? Market Scope.

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Martech

JANUARY 21, 2022

ABM enables marketers to focus their efforts on accounts with the greatest ROI potential through insightful and personalized marketing programs. For example, if enriching your ICPs with deeper technographic data is important, be sure to ask about it during vendor interviews and demos. Does the tool measure account engagement?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Have we outgrown our current marketing system? Do your sales reps need real-time access to marketing data?

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Biznology

JUNE 6, 2018

If you’re a small or medium size business selling to consumers, you probably want to both automate and personalize your marketing campaigns. The solution, of course, is marketing automation linked to your customer relationship management (CRM) software. Fortunately for SMB marketers, CRM is becoming main stream.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

It’s time to wrap up this series of posts on marketing automation vendor selection, which were based on my November 10 Webinar with Neolane (replay available here ). Marketers have been doing such a bad job of selecting systems that they should forget their old approach and start from scratch. Forget the Past.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. Other vendors like Nimble and HubSpot have done a better job of simplifying access to third party data about an individual or company. billion acquisition of LinkedIn.

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Martech

JULY 29, 2022

Once you’ve gone through the checklist to determine if you need — and are ready for — an ABM solution, the next step is to identify and contact vendors. Your vendor shortlist. For example, if enriching your ICPs with deeper technographic data is important, be sure to ask about it during vendor interviews and demos.

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 22, 2020

30-second summary: We provide five examples of enterprise-level providers of marketing automation solutions including industry case studies. Each of these companies are leaders in marketing automation, with enterprise businesses (and, in some cases, SMBs) benefiting from their platforms, solutions, and technology.

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Martech

JULY 15, 2021

Big martech vendors — even successful ones — routinely jettison or replace longstanding tools. Early in my career as an industry analyst, I noticed that some of the best web content and experience management (WCM) solutions came from lesser-known vendors. The myth of large-vendor stability. Yet, IBM was not alone.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Does the vendor seem to understand our business and marketing needs? Explore platform capabilities from vendors like Sitecore, Optimizely, Pantheon, WordPressVIP and more in the full MarTech Intelligence Report on digital experience platforms. On-premise software installation? What new features are the vendor considering?

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chiefmartech

APRIL 25, 2017

tl;dr — From 2016 to 2017, the marketing automation category of the marketing technology landscape grew yet again, by 36% , from 156 vendors to 212. Marketing automation remains a bellwether of martech. To me, it’s quintessential marketing software. 66 vendors were added.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is significant on several levels.

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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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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

You’ve probably heard by now how intelligent lead routing — an automated system of processing leads — can help sales teams improve their speed to lead and ensure nothing falls through the cracks. Are you able to route any object? Can you create sophisticated lead assignment rules with an easy drag-and-drop interface?

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Martech

MARCH 9, 2022

Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Marketing automation and agent training. Does the platform enable other marketing automation capabilities, such as automatically generating online display or email nurturing campaigns? Are they showing us our “must-have” features?

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2022

It’s surprisingly easy to go through the whole selection process and buy the wrong software (many reviewers have said as much). Companies often forget about team input, review sentiment, and research the vendor’s reputation. What are the Benefits of Using CRM Software? Guide for How to Pick the Best CRM Software.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

When I first got started in software, it was at a company called e.piphany which specialized in what was then called Campaign Management. Campaign Management software automated the process of sending out campaigns — primarily direct mail at that time and then email. But, we’ve started to notice some changes in the market.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 21, 2015

I'm making a presentation on marketing technology selection at B2BLeadsCon in New York next week, and had thought to start with the usual Oh-My-God-There-Are-So-Many-Vendors slide to get everybody's attention. I did look at every vendor shown in the graphic and each includes at least some marketing systems.

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TrustRadius Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

If you want to transform your platform and workflow all at once, you might consider digital experience software. What Is Digital Experience Software? A DX software’s goal is to manipulate and change the experience provided to the consumer. . Click here to explore all Digital Experience software.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 25, 2016

and we wrap up our review of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors with a look at Result Analysis. Not surprisingly, most of vendors who do ABM Result Analysis also do some sort of Execution (12 out of 16, to be exact). Another two (Everstring and ZenIQ) didn't fall into the Execution group but came close.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In our post on Customer Engagement Software for Small Businesses , we went over the main benefits you can expect from these platforms. These are key features for enterprises to look for in their customer engagement software. Native CRM tools are frequently included in customer engagement software. Enterprise Knowledge Bases.

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ClickZ

JUNE 2, 2020

30-second summary: Right now, companies have a critical opportunity to re-evaluate if their marketing automation stacks can keep up with their unique needs while keeping business growth in focus. Knowing when it’s time to switch your marketing automation stack. What to consider in a new platform.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

In a young industry like B2B marketing automation, the primary focus is growth, and I published some figures on that yesterday (repeated below). Since we do have revenue figures for the top four vendors, we can also look at their revenue per employee. Here's that data, along with revenue per client.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2017

“I used to hate POCs (Proof of Concepts) but now I love them,” a Customer Data Platform vendor told me recently. “We But, as the first vendor indicated, POCs have traditionally been something vendors really disliked. A similar definition applies to software development. Two comments could be a coincidence.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 17, 2011

set their own weights for the different scoring categories and do detailed, side-by-side comparisons of vendors they select. Vendor names have been replaced with football teams and the specific details are excluded. The final report will show directly how much each category contributes to each vendor’s score. The Chosen?)

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 13, 2020

You’re on the hunt for a marketing automation tool? Marketing automation tools, such as Marketo , Eloqua , HubSpot , Pardot , and Act-O n, are all powerful support systems, but ultimately, choosing an automation tool comes down to what are the must-have elements for your business goals?

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LeanData

APRIL 11, 2023

Make the wrong software decision, and your professional reputation is on the line. Like the good friend who told you not to buy that boat, we’ve identified some pitfalls to avoid as you evaluate different vendors. Here are the six red flags to watch for when investigating lead management software.

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Martech

MARCH 7, 2022

Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Explore DAM solutions from vendors like Acquia, Widen, Cloudinary, MediaValet and more in the full MarTech Intelligence Report on digital asset management platforms. Are they showing us our “must-have” features? Integrations. If so, which ones?

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. The importance of MAP to the Demand Technology Stack is also reflected in the significant size and ongoing growth of the global market for MAP software – valued at $4.06 billion in 2019.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 27, 2011

Salesforce.com is the cloud computing darling of customer relationship management (CRM) software. They have significant control of mind share in that space, and their legacy in customer service and sales force automation software is strong. It is made up of sales, service and—wait for it—marketing! Share this on Bebo.

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