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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 ). I gave my own ideas about what the future might hold in Marketing Vendor Selection: Trends You'll Need to Support. MORE
Bionic today unveiled the advertising industry’s most comprehensive Advertising Vendor Database, which gives you unprecedented insight into advertising vendors, their audiences, and their advertising programs. The World’s Biggest Ad Vendor Database. Advertising Vendor Overview. 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
Fortunately, there are plenty of tools and vendors in the MarTech space designed to focus on these challenges. To accomplish this, your organization looks to vendor partners to streamline the process and maximize its success rate. The 6 C’s of Vendor Evaluation. MORE
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that predictive marketing vendors seem to have anticipated this. The past week brought three more announcements about predictive vendors expanding beyond lead scoring. MORE
The third and final post describes scoring for vendor strength. Beyond assessing a vendor's current product, buyers also want to understand the current and future market position of the vendor itself. The charts below show the results, without revealing specific vendor names. MORE
Self-serve is an effective, cost-saving strategy for software vendors. Both customers and vendors benefit from self-serve because it places the concept of customer value front and center. Let’s get it out there right away. 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
Also be sure to check out Dianna Huff’s latest post, “ Survey Says: Testimonials Give B2B Vendors Credibility ” as she looks at another interesting finding from our 2014 B2B Web Usability Report. MORE
Moving along with our series on sub-functions described in the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors , let’s take a look at Customized Messages. The Guide lists just a half-dozen vendors in this category. So the customization vendors in the Guide either provide customization to support a different ABM function such as display advertising (Demandbase, Kwanzoo, Vendemore) or have a broadly-usable customization tool they have targeted at ABM applications (Evergage, SnapApp, Triblio). MORE
Yet another front opened up last week with an announcement from a consortium of adtech vendors , including AppNexus , LiveRamp , MediaMath , Index Exchange , LiveIntent , OpenX , and Rocket Fuel , that they had created a standard identity framework to support personal targeting of programmatic ads. MORE
There is, so far, no b2b version of Yelp , and its unlikely there will be anytime soon, as many companies worry about the legal liability entailed in either endorsing or disparaging a specific vendor. 85% of B2B buyers say they want B2B vendors to engage and interact with them online. • MORE
If Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is in the plan for 2020, then you’ve probably done your research and maybe even started talking to a few technology vendors. That’s why I’ve put together 5 questions to ask during your next vendor call. Not all vendors fit all initiatives. MORE
Selecting the proper vendor can be daunting, especially with the exponentially growing number of software providers on the market today. As a business development rep (BDR) at Evergage, I’ve watched a lot of companies go through the software solution evaluation process. MORE
Since we do have revenue figures for the top four vendors, we can also look at their revenue per employee. But other marketers should also find them helpful as they try to understand each vendor's business situation and determine how well it matches the marketer's own needs. MORE
Many physicians are frustrated by their Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors. In fact, a February 2013 study by Black Book rankings found 17% of physician practices are looking to switch EHR vendors by the end of 2013. 44% felt their EHR vendor was unresponsive to their needs. MORE
I recently did a study of the strategies of B2B marketing automation vendors. What I found most intriguing was the sheer diversity of the approaches, showing that vendors continue to explore new paths to success. Most vendors used more than one strategy. MORE
Participants in the study reported which capabilities they would like martech vendors to improve in order to better optimize marketing. Are you listening, my fellow martech vendor friends? Okay, martech vendors: the market has spoken. MORE
There’s plenty of mediocrity in lead generation—both in-house and outsourced. However, there are a lot of things good insourced operations and lead generation companies do well. While lead generation (or teleprospecting) is not rocket science, there are a lot of moving parts in a well-run lead generation machine. Failure to execute and coordinate all of the moving parts leads to poor results. 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
But the fact that all three vendors are addressing the topic raises some interesting questions. But CDPs have been developed by relatively small specialist vendors, which many enterprise buyers are reluctant to consider. It's taken a while but all three vendors now acknowledge that a CDP must store its own data. Cynics might say it also confirms that software vendors define user requirements based on what their systems currently do, not what users actually need. 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
Before you start thinking about program design and setting up demos with vendors, establish what exactly you want from your loyalty program from a business perspective. Vendor evaluation. Choose a vendor that has a client list that includes well-known brands. MORE
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). It's important to recognize that many of the Execution vendors will report only results of their own messages. 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
Our tour of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors has now reached Execution. abm systems abm technology abm vendor guide abm vendor reviews account based marketing marketing execution marketing technology martech raab guide 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
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
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. I decided I could base this on the features each set of vendors provided. 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
Marketing automation reports can be a great source of info when looking for the right vendor. Consider these 3 types of vendor reports when researching. Marketing Automation Reports & Analytics analyst report crowd sourced report marketing automation reports research MORE
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Modern Marketing
APRIL 1, 2020
Before you start thinking about program design and setting up demos with vendors, establish what exactly you want from your loyalty program from a business perspective. Vendor evaluation. Choose a vendor that has a client list that includes well-known brands.
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.
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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
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But the fact that all three vendors are addressing the topic raises some interesting questions. But CDPs have been developed by relatively small specialist vendors, which many enterprise buyers are reluctant to consider. It's taken a while but all three vendors now acknowledge that a CDP must store its own data. Cynics might say it also confirms that software vendors define user requirements based on what their systems currently do, not what users actually need.
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Act-On
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Marketing automation reports can be a great source of info when looking for the right vendor. Consider these 3 types of vendor reports when researching. Marketing Automation Reports & Analytics analyst report crowd sourced report marketing automation reports research
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Customer Experience Matrix
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that predictive marketing vendors seem to have anticipated this. The past week brought three more announcements about predictive vendors expanding beyond lead scoring.
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). It's important to recognize that many of the Execution vendors will report only results of their own messages.
Customer Experience Matrix
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The third and final post describes scoring for vendor strength. Beyond assessing a vendor's current product, buyers also want to understand the current and future market position of the vendor itself. The charts below show the results, without revealing specific vendor names.
Modern Marketing
JUNE 22, 2018
Self-serve is an effective, cost-saving strategy for software vendors. Both customers and vendors benefit from self-serve because it places the concept of customer value front and center. Let’s get it out there right away.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
As frustrating as contact and account data management can be, this is still your database – a massive asset to your organization, even if it is rife with holes and inaccurate information. Entrusting a vendor to help maintain its accuracy and completeness is no ordinary engagement. Download ZoomInfo’s latest data-driven eBook aimed to help marketing leaders understand the best practices around choosing a B2B contact data provider.
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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
ViewPoint
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
There’s plenty of mediocrity in lead generation—both in-house and outsourced. However, there are a lot of things good insourced operations and lead generation companies do well. While lead generation (or teleprospecting) is not rocket science, there are a lot of moving parts in a well-run lead generation machine. Failure to execute and coordinate all of the moving parts leads to poor results.
chiefmartech
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Participants in the study reported which capabilities they would like martech vendors to improve in order to better optimize marketing. Are you listening, my fellow martech vendor friends? Okay, martech vendors: the market has spoken.
Customer Experience Matrix
DECEMBER 28, 2010
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. I decided I could base this on the features each set of vendors provided.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
As organizations chase new revenue targets, B2B sales leaders must examine cutting edge prospecting solutions that proactively help reps identify, connect with, and close qualified buyers faster. This eBook aims to help B2B sales leaders better understand the five essential features your prospecting solution must include.
Customer Experience Matrix
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I recently did a study of the strategies of B2B marketing automation vendors. What I found most intriguing was the sheer diversity of the approaches, showing that vendors continue to explore new paths to success. Most vendors used more than one strategy.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 24, 2016
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.
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.
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.
Speaker: Howard J. Sewell, President, Spear Marketing Group, and Anne Angele, Senior Marketing Automation Specialist, Spear Marketing Group
As you likely know, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect May 25. Surveys show that most US-based B2B marketers are still woefully unprepared, even though the regulation affects not only any company actively doing business in Europe, but anyone even communicating with European contacts in his/her marketing database. The penalties for non-compliance with GDPR can be severe – in the millions of dollars. Fortunately, there are a few basic steps that B2B marketers can and should make that will get them closer to full compliance.
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 ). I gave my own ideas about what the future might hold in Marketing Vendor Selection: Trends You'll Need to Support.
DemandBase
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
If Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is in the plan for 2020, then you’ve probably done your research and maybe even started talking to a few technology vendors. That’s why I’ve put together 5 questions to ask during your next vendor call. Not all vendors fit all initiatives.
NetLine
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Fortunately, there are plenty of tools and vendors in the MarTech space designed to focus on these challenges. To accomplish this, your organization looks to vendor partners to streamline the process and maximize its success rate. The 6 C’s of Vendor Evaluation.
KoMarketing Associates
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
Also be sure to check out Dianna Huff’s latest post, “ Survey Says: Testimonials Give B2B Vendors Credibility ” as she looks at another interesting finding from our 2014 B2B Web Usability Report.
Speaker: David Crane, Head of Content & Thought Leadership, Integrate
Much of what we’ve seen in B2B marketing publications, martech vendor blogs and from word-of-mouth borders on fear-mongering.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 24, 2016
Moving along with our series on sub-functions described in the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors , let’s take a look at Customized Messages. The Guide lists just a half-dozen vendors in this category. So the customization vendors in the Guide either provide customization to support a different ABM function such as display advertising (Demandbase, Kwanzoo, Vendemore) or have a broadly-usable customization tool they have targeted at ABM applications (Evergage, SnapApp, Triblio).
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.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 25, 2016
Our tour of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors has now reached Execution. abm systems abm technology abm vendor guide abm vendor reviews account based marketing marketing execution marketing technology martech raab guide
Evergage
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Selecting the proper vendor can be daunting, especially with the exponentially growing number of software providers on the market today. As a business development rep (BDR) at Evergage, I’ve watched a lot of companies go through the software solution evaluation process.
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Many physicians are frustrated by their Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors. In fact, a February 2013 study by Black Book rankings found 17% of physician practices are looking to switch EHR vendors by the end of 2013. 44% felt their EHR vendor was unresponsive to their needs.
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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.
Customer Experience Matrix
MAY 6, 2017
Yet another front opened up last week with an announcement from a consortium of adtech vendors , including AppNexus , LiveRamp , MediaMath , Index Exchange , LiveIntent , OpenX , and Rocket Fuel , that they had created a standard identity framework to support personal targeting of programmatic ads.
Webbiquity
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There is, so far, no b2b version of Yelp , and its unlikely there will be anytime soon, as many companies worry about the legal liability entailed in either endorsing or disparaging a specific vendor. 85% of B2B buyers say they want B2B vendors to engage and interact with them online. •
Speaker: Jamie Shanks, CEO, Sales for Life
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Customer Experience Matrix
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Since we do have revenue figures for the top four vendors, we can also look at their revenue per employee. But other marketers should also find them helpful as they try to understand each vendor's business situation and determine how well it matches the marketer's own needs.
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