Our latest publication 7 Essential Vendor Strategies for Crushing Amazon Revenue can bring you up to speed. Keep Promoting with Sponsored Product Ads. Plus, you’ll gain access to an exclusive case study detailing the strategy of a top 100 shoe vendor, which increased revenue by 650% in six months with this 7 step Amazon strategy. consumers bypass the Web and immediately visit Amazon to search for products. Catching the attention of online shoppers can be difficult. MORE
A prospective client asks: “What are the best demand generation strategies for finding people who are ready to buy our product?”. The post How Do We Find People Who Are Ready to Buy Our Product? MORE
KITCHENER, Ontario – May 5, 2016 – Aragon Research today named Vidyard, the video intelligence platform for business, a Hot Vendor in Enterprise Video for 2016 for its ability to personalize unique video content for each individual viewer and track detailed viewer engagement analytics within leading marketing automation, CRM and enterprise collaboration solutions. Aragon Research, Hot Vendors in Enterprise Video, Jim Lundy, April 20 2016). MORE
What began as a whimsical “ landscape of landscapes ” led me to realize crowd-sourced review sites are the most common type of vendor directory, accounting for 15 of the 23 sources listed in my original graphic. I sampled leading marketing automation vendors for different sized companies. MORE
Just use this handy checklist of criteria, organized in three categories: the data product itself, the surrounding services that will help you get the most value from the data, and the factors that suggest the vendor candidate will be a satisfactory business partner for your company. MORE
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. MORE
The downstream impact of implementing a bad data strategy can be enormous and undermine an otherwise fantastic product, sales or marketing program. Traditional vendors are packrats when it comes to data. But don’t expect most vendors to fill you in on the details. MORE
According to a LinkedIn study reported in their Sophisticated Marketer’s Guide to Thought Leadership eBook, 88% of IT buyers said that thought leadership was important or critical in determining their short list of vendors. MORE
The latest evolution is with the advent of product ads. Both Facebook and Pinterest recently announced two new types of product ads – Dynamic Product Ads (Facebook) and Multi-Image Promoted Pins (Pinterest). Facebook Dynamic Product Ads. Product Catalog Set Up. MORE
My solution today was: Dear [First Name], A friend of mine who is building one of those "wisdom of the crowd" software review sites tells me her research shows that what buyers want most is "apples to apples" comparisons of product features. MORE
Summary: The first two posts in this series described my scoring for product fit. The third and final post describes scoring for vendor strength. And I'll give a little preview of the charts these scores produce.without product names attached. MORE
Some of pause was due to vacation, but mostly it was because I’ve been working feverishly to finish the Raab Guide to Account Based Marketing Vendors , which I’ve released today and you can purchase here. This was a huge project with the almost insanely ambitious goal of making sense of the ABM vendor landscape. What made it challenging wasn’t just gathering detailed information on 40 vendors but the variety of the vendors serving ABM needs. MORE
B2B products and services don’t generally make the same kind of emotional connection with buyers that consumer brands do, and tactics that work for b2c marketers (e.g. They rely on search and social media through the bulk of their buying process, and expect b2b vendors to be there. MORE
Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. B2B marketing automation vendors will need to rearchitect their systems on the more sophisticated platform. MORE
Finding the best marketing automation vendor for your business can be a difficult proposition. Here’s how his vendor evaluation resulted in a partnership with Act-On Software, an integrated suite of marketing automation tools and resources. MORE
Next up in this series on ABM sub-functions described in the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors : State-Based Flows. The Guide states: Vendors in this category can automatically send different messages to the same contact in response to behaviors or data changes. That was not part of many older marketing automation systems, although several vendors have now retrofitted their products to support to some degree. _ * via its Predictive Campaign integration with Eloqua. MORE
Since we do have revenue figures for the top four vendors, we can also look at their revenue per employee. The news is better for HubSpot, whose apparent productivity decrease (measured in clients-per-employee) vanishes when you measure revenue per employee instead. MORE
For B2B product marketing, though, quite often is it a buying unit made of many individuals, and therefore more complex. That said, more and more B2B buying behavior takes place “before the buyer ever gets in touch with the vendor.”. Podcasts Product Marketing MORE
Why product managers and salespeople should be friends. In most companies, the product/service managers have limited interaction with the sale’s team except for the introduction of a new offering or at an annual customer summit. Generally, the product/service manager (PM) is responsible for determining what the future offering should have from a feature/function capability. 4) Soliciting from prospects what all vendors are currently missing. (5) MORE
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. MORE
Last year, we learned a lot about the objectives of the B2B buyer and how vendors may miss opportunities to connect and provide further value through their website presence. One of those points was in the impact of social media and blogging on the vendor selection process. MORE
This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. The prospect of seamlessly integrating third party data with a company’s own sales and marketing products is intriguing, although neither Salesforce nor Oracle has done much with it. Other vendors like Nimble and HubSpot have done a better job of simplifying access to third party data about an individual or company. MORE
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. Why marketing automation, which I crudely lump together with campaign management and lead management products? 66 vendors were added. MORE
It’s worth a brief note to record that Salesforce.com purchased artificial intelligence vendor MetaMind on Monday. You can also see this as making marketers more productive in the sense of letting them generate more individualized customer treatments per work hour. This flexibility makes it a good choice for Salesforce to use as a foundation for all sorts of AI-based enhancements to its products. MORE
There is a growing trend in the content syndication space, and among Cost Per Lead (CPL) programs in general, for media vendors to offer B2B clients the option of pre-qualified leads. No lead generation vendor will qualify and convert leads better than you will. MORE
For anyone attending—and even for those not attending but who still have an interest in predictive analytics—I thought it would be useful to revisit these five questions to ask vendors. (I’ve What if I launch a new product or go into a new market? Ask your vendor these questions. MORE
Indeed, with 208 data points on 22 vendors, there’s so much data that it’s a challenge to make sense of it. Since we only added one new vendor for this edition and kept all the old ones, the vendor base itself is largely stable. MORE
into a great empire, I’m currently interwoven into a patchwork of agencies, partners, clients, vendors, projects, goals, and even some very cool — but very geographically disparate — teams. The post 5 of my favorite productivity apps appeared first on Biznology. MORE
We looked at the results of the 2015 B2B Web Usability Survey and discovered what it would take for you as a B2B vendor to create credibility and trust. Vendors beware: Buyers judge your company’s credibility from their first impressions of your website. MORE
Specifically, they can do two things: improve the selection process itself and look beyond features to assess the vendors. This post will focus on the selection process and the next will talk about judging vendors. But don’t think you’re writing the document for vendors. MORE
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 will be scored on a separate dimension. MORE
Alinean Launches Value Expert™ Sales Training to Help Reps Engage Earlier and Sell More Effectively Today we announced the launch of Value Expert™ Sales Training, an important milestone. MORE
My last post used data from our new Guide to ABM Vendors to describe differentiators among companies that provide external data for account based marketing. As the Guide defines it: Vendors in this category use statistical techniques to select target accounts. Many scoring vendors gather external data from public or commercial sources (or both) to gain more inputs for their models. MORE
Perhaps what some didn’t realize was that 70-90% of a buyer’s journey occurs prior making contact with a vendor. But what about content with the product brand directly? MORE
As always, Dreamforce 2016 left attendees buzzing on a variety of new products, perhaps none more notable than Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Predictive Analytics. The post A Product Executive’s Perspective On Unlocking B2B Data’s Latent Potential appeared first on Radius. MORE
Yesterday’s post announced our new Guide to ABM Vendors , which helps marketers make sense of the confusing variety of ABM-related systems. I know you really want to learn which vendors do which functions, but, as I also explained yesterday, that's not a simple question to answer. Instead, let’s start with an overview of how the vendors as a group matched up against the sub-functions. The first obvious question is how many vendors deliver each sub-function. MORE
Marketers use hype and spin to sell their products. If you give them vendor-neutral content to help them start their buyer journeys, they just might take the next steps in their journeys with you. I recently gave a keynote address to the Content Strategy Applied conference in London. MORE
But out of those participants who are confident — is a single-vendor approach to marketing technology important or not important, yes or no — the answer is clearly: no. 81% have a higher tolerance level for more vendors. MORE
Summary: Yesterday's post described the objectives of my product fit scores for B2B marketing automation vendors and how I set up the original weighting for individual elements. But the original set of scores seemed to favor more complex products, even for small business marketers. MORE
Of course, there’s always been pressure to do more with less—the definition of productivity improvement—but the mantra seems to have taken on almost religious status as the anemic, drawn-out recovery from the 2008 financial crisis drags on. The personal productivity apps here can help. MORE
On May 6, AOL and Google announced their respective acquisitions of attribution vendors Convertro and Adometry. ad tech attribution vendors behavioral targeting marketing data management marketing technology technology acquisitions MORE
As always, Dreamforce 2016 left attendees buzzing on a variety of new products, perhaps none more notable than Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Predictive Analytics. The post A Product Executive’s Perspective On Unlocking B2B Data’s Latent Potential appeared first on Radius. MORE
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. In case it’s not obvious, you can move the little sliders on the “Sector Chart” tab to see how the different vendors move around depending on how you weight different categories of attributes. I might put it out as a separate product or upgrade to the base report. MORE
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.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 19, 2016
Yesterday’s post announced our new Guide to ABM Vendors , which helps marketers make sense of the confusing variety of ABM-related systems. I know you really want to learn which vendors do which functions, but, as I also explained yesterday, that's not a simple question to answer. Instead, let’s start with an overview of how the vendors as a group matched up against the sub-functions. The first obvious question is how many vendors deliver each sub-function.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 18, 2016
Some of pause was due to vacation, but mostly it was because I’ve been working feverishly to finish the Raab Guide to Account Based Marketing Vendors , which I’ve released today and you can purchase here. This was a huge project with the almost insanely ambitious goal of making sense of the ABM vendor landscape. What made it challenging wasn’t just gathering detailed information on 40 vendors but the variety of the vendors serving ABM needs.
Biznology
AUGUST 24, 2016
Just use this handy checklist of criteria, organized in three categories: the data product itself, the surrounding services that will help you get the most value from the data, and the factors that suggest the vendor candidate will be a satisfactory business partner for your company.
Customer Experience Matrix
MAY 24, 2014
On May 6, AOL and Google announced their respective acquisitions of attribution vendors Convertro and Adometry. ad tech attribution vendors behavioral targeting marketing data management marketing technology technology acquisitions
Webbiquity
MARCH 28, 2011
B2B products and services don’t generally make the same kind of emotional connection with buyers that consumer brands do, and tactics that work for b2c marketers (e.g. They rely on search and social media through the bulk of their buying process, and expect b2b vendors to be there.
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. Why marketing automation, which I crudely lump together with campaign management and lead management products? 66 vendors were added.
KoMarketing Associates
MARCH 31, 2015
Last year, we learned a lot about the objectives of the B2B buyer and how vendors may miss opportunities to connect and provide further value through their website presence. One of those points was in the impact of social media and blogging on the vendor selection process.
chiefmartech
APRIL 24, 2016
But out of those participants who are confident — is a single-vendor approach to marketing technology important or not important, yes or no — the answer is clearly: no. 81% have a higher tolerance level for more vendors.
Customer Experience Matrix
APRIL 6, 2016
It’s worth a brief note to record that Salesforce.com purchased artificial intelligence vendor MetaMind on Monday. You can also see this as making marketers more productive in the sense of letting them generate more individualized customer treatments per work hour. This flexibility makes it a good choice for Salesforce to use as a foundation for all sorts of AI-based enhancements to its products.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 20, 2012
Indeed, with 208 data points on 22 vendors, there’s so much data that it’s a challenge to make sense of it. Since we only added one new vendor for this edition and kept all the old ones, the vendor base itself is largely stable.
Hubspot
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
We looked at the results of the 2015 B2B Web Usability Survey and discovered what it would take for you as a B2B vendor to create credibility and trust. Vendors beware: Buyers judge your company’s credibility from their first impressions of your website.
Your Sales Management Guru
MAY 31, 2016
Why product managers and salespeople should be friends. In most companies, the product/service managers have limited interaction with the sale’s team except for the introduction of a new offering or at an annual customer summit. Generally, the product/service manager (PM) is responsible for determining what the future offering should have from a feature/function capability. 4) Soliciting from prospects what all vendors are currently missing. (5)
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. B2B marketing automation vendors will need to rearchitect their systems on the more sophisticated platform.
HG Data
APRIL 26, 2017
The downstream impact of implementing a bad data strategy can be enormous and undermine an otherwise fantastic product, sales or marketing program. Traditional vendors are packrats when it comes to data. But don’t expect most vendors to fill you in on the details.
Biznology
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
into a great empire, I’m currently interwoven into a patchwork of agencies, partners, clients, vendors, projects, goals, and even some very cool — but very geographically disparate — teams. The post 5 of my favorite productivity apps appeared first on Biznology.
Customer Experience Matrix
NOVEMBER 16, 2011
Specifically, they can do two things: improve the selection process itself and look beyond features to assess the vendors. This post will focus on the selection process and the next will talk about judging vendors. But don’t think you’re writing the document for vendors.
The Point
MAY 23, 2017
There is a growing trend in the content syndication space, and among Cost Per Lead (CPL) programs in general, for media vendors to offer B2B clients the option of pre-qualified leads. No lead generation vendor will qualify and convert leads better than you will.
KoMarketing Associates
MARCH 5, 2015
The latest evolution is with the advent of product ads. Both Facebook and Pinterest recently announced two new types of product ads – Dynamic Product Ads (Facebook) and Multi-Image Promoted Pins (Pinterest). Facebook Dynamic Product Ads. Product Catalog Set Up.
The Point
JULY 27, 2016
A prospective client asks: “What are the best demand generation strategies for finding people who are ready to buy our product?”. The post How Do We Find People Who Are Ready to Buy Our Product?
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.
Biznology
DECEMBER 14, 2016
According to a LinkedIn study reported in their Sophisticated Marketer’s Guide to Thought Leadership eBook, 88% of IT buyers said that thought leadership was important or critical in determining their short list of vendors.
Vidyard
MAY 5, 2016
KITCHENER, Ontario – May 5, 2016 – Aragon Research today named Vidyard, the video intelligence platform for business, a Hot Vendor in Enterprise Video for 2016 for its ability to personalize unique video content for each individual viewer and track detailed viewer engagement analytics within leading marketing automation, CRM and enterprise collaboration solutions. Aragon Research, Hot Vendors in Enterprise Video, Jim Lundy, April 20 2016).
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. In case it’s not obvious, you can move the little sliders on the “Sector Chart” tab to see how the different vendors move around depending on how you weight different categories of attributes. I might put it out as a separate product or upgrade to the base report.
Webbiquity
FEBRUARY 28, 2017
Of course, there’s always been pressure to do more with less—the definition of productivity improvement—but the mantra seems to have taken on almost religious status as the anemic, drawn-out recovery from the 2008 financial crisis drags on. The personal productivity apps here can help.
The ROI Guy
OCTOBER 7, 2014
Alinean Launches Value Expert™ Sales Training to Help Reps Engage Earlier and Sell More Effectively Today we announced the launch of Value Expert™ Sales Training, an important milestone.
Customer Experience Matrix
JANUARY 5, 2016
What began as a whimsical “ landscape of landscapes ” led me to realize crowd-sourced review sites are the most common type of vendor directory, accounting for 15 of the 23 sources listed in my original graphic. I sampled leading marketing automation vendors for different sized companies.
Fathom
JUNE 1, 2016
Our latest publication 7 Essential Vendor Strategies for Crushing Amazon Revenue can bring you up to speed. Keep Promoting with Sponsored Product Ads. Plus, you’ll gain access to an exclusive case study detailing the strategy of a top 100 shoe vendor, which increased revenue by 650% in six months with this 7 step Amazon strategy. consumers bypass the Web and immediately visit Amazon to search for products. Catching the attention of online shoppers can be difficult.
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. The prospect of seamlessly integrating third party data with a company’s own sales and marketing products is intriguing, although neither Salesforce nor Oracle has done much with it. Other vendors like Nimble and HubSpot have done a better job of simplifying access to third party data about an individual or company.
Radius
OCTOBER 20, 2016
As always, Dreamforce 2016 left attendees buzzing on a variety of new products, perhaps none more notable than Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Predictive Analytics. The post A Product Executive’s Perspective On Unlocking B2B Data’s Latent Potential appeared first on Radius.
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 will be scored on a separate dimension.
Leadspace
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
For anyone attending—and even for those not attending but who still have an interest in predictive analytics—I thought it would be useful to revisit these five questions to ask vendors. (I’ve What if I launch a new product or go into a new market? Ask your vendor these questions.
Crimson Marketing
OCTOBER 23, 2014
For B2B product marketing, though, quite often is it a buying unit made of many individuals, and therefore more complex. That said, more and more B2B buying behavior takes place “before the buyer ever gets in touch with the vendor.”. Podcasts Product Marketing
Marketing Action
APRIL 2, 2015
Finding the best marketing automation vendor for your business can be a difficult proposition. Here’s how his vendor evaluation resulted in a partnership with Act-On Software, an integrated suite of marketing automation tools and resources.
Biznology
MAY 29, 2017
Perhaps what some didn’t realize was that 70-90% of a buyer’s journey occurs prior making contact with a vendor. But what about content with the product brand directly?
Biznology
MARCH 20, 2017
Marketers use hype and spin to sell their products. If you give them vendor-neutral content to help them start their buyer journeys, they just might take the next steps in their journeys with you. I recently gave a keynote address to the Content Strategy Applied conference in London.
Customer Experience Matrix
DECEMBER 29, 2010
Summary: The first two posts in this series described my scoring for product fit. The third and final post describes scoring for vendor strength. And I'll give a little preview of the charts these scores produce.without product names attached.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 25, 2016
Next up in this series on ABM sub-functions described in the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors : State-Based Flows. The Guide states: Vendors in this category can automatically send different messages to the same contact in response to behaviors or data changes. That was not part of many older marketing automation systems, although several vendors have now retrofitted their products to support to some degree. _ * via its Predictive Campaign integration with Eloqua.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 6, 2014
My solution today was: Dear [First Name], A friend of mine who is building one of those "wisdom of the crowd" software review sites tells me her research shows that what buyers want most is "apples to apples" comparisons of product features.
Radius
OCTOBER 20, 2016
As always, Dreamforce 2016 left attendees buzzing on a variety of new products, perhaps none more notable than Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Predictive Analytics. The post A Product Executive’s Perspective On Unlocking B2B Data’s Latent Potential appeared first on Radius.
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