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
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
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
But how do you choose a personalization vendor that will help you get the impact you are planning for? We’ve put together a list of questions to ask your website personalization vendors to evaluate how well they fit with your strategy. Does this vendor specialize in my industry? Sure, every vendor wants to help you, but are they really built to? A good personalization vendor has both the data and the methodology to identify anonymous visitors. MORE
A panel with Oracle , Salesforce.com and Marketo , where incisive questions from Chief Martech Himself Scott Brinker highlighted the different philosophies underlying each vendor’s marketing cloud and how few companies really deploy any cloud in full. - There were about seventy vendors covering an extraordinary range of functions. 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
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
An army of vendors is descending upon the world’s largest software conference as they all try to impress attendees with their products. That’s why software vendors converge in San Francisco every fall. You want to know what a vendor offers when it comes to proof of concept. 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
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
The post Salesfusion Named a 2015 Cool Vendor by Gartner appeared first on Salesfusion. 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. 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
I’ve been working for months to find a way to help marketers understand the differences between Customer Data Platform vendors. The final list also includes a few features that are present in all CDPs (or, more precisely, in all systems that I consider a CDP – we can’t control what vendors say about themselves). Now that the list is set, the next step is to research which features are actually present in which vendors and publish the results. Vendor-neutral access. 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
The right vendors act as valued strategic partners and maximize the time of your marketing team. Here’s some hints on how to replace a critical vendor without losing your mind. Is it possible that if you had a frank discussion, you could work things out with your existing vendor? A vendor search is time consuming. Charging agencies and vendors to pay to be part of their database of recommended vendors.) Next, let your existing vendor know. 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
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
Knowing what your company needs from the software, what to seek in a software application, and what signifies a reputable vendor can all help you hone in on the perfect choice. 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
Other vendors like Nimble and HubSpot have done a better job of simplifying access to third party data about an individual or company. That would force other CRM and marketing automation vendors to follow suit, although it's hard to imagine them matching the depth of LinkedIn's data. Microsoft surprised pretty much everyone today by announcing a $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn. 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. Specifically: 142 vendors remained unchanged from last year. 4 vendors changed their name, focus, or ownership. MORE
Summary: Vendor scores from our new B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool offer new proof of an old truth: there's no one best system for everyone. My reluctance to contribute to this error is the main reason I’ve carefully avoided any formal ranking of vendors over the years. 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
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. I revisited that data today, adding a few new vendors and dropping some of the very minor ones. MORE
They turn to their vendors for assistance. When we asked survey respondents if they would be more likely to work with a vendor who questioned their way of doing business by, for example, highlighting an organizational pain point or weakness they weren’t aware of, 65% replied, “Yes.”. 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
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
Questions to Ask When Selecting Your Customer Data Platform helps marketers to understand what a CDP is, whether they need one, and what specific questions to ask vendors when trying to pick the right system. content marketing customer data platform marketing automation vendor selection marketing system integration marketing technology strategy predictive marketing technology evaluation vendor selection 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
TrustRadius recently published The 2018 B2B Buying Disconnect report, which provides several important insights regarding how business technology buyers research potential purchases, and how they view their vendors. MORE
In part 3, you’ll learn how to evaluate the myriad of ABM vendors in the B2B space so you end up with the best solution that meets your needs. How to evaluate and pick the right ABM vendor for you. A successful implementation of ABM relies on a great customer-vendor fit. 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
Last week’s posts introduced our new Raab Guide to ABM Vendors ( buy it here ) and introduced a framework four process ABM steps, six system functions, and six key sub-functions. But the sub-functions are still important for stack design and vendor selection. External data may seem like a commodity – after all, all vendors have access to pretty much the same sources. Yet there’s probably more variety among the vendors in this category than any other. MORE
Predictive scoring is all the rage amongst data-driven marketers, but how do you know which vendor is best? Key questions to ask when evaluating predictive 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. 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
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’ve been having way too much fun working on my new industry report. MORE
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Last week’s posts introduced our new Raab Guide to ABM Vendors ( buy it here ) and introduced a framework four process ABM steps, six system functions, and six key sub-functions. But the sub-functions are still important for stack design and vendor selection. External data may seem like a commodity – after all, all vendors have access to pretty much the same sources. Yet there’s probably more variety among the vendors in this category than any other.
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The right vendors act as valued strategic partners and maximize the time of your marketing team. Here’s some hints on how to replace a critical vendor without losing your mind. Is it possible that if you had a frank discussion, you could work things out with your existing vendor? A vendor search is time consuming. Charging agencies and vendors to pay to be part of their database of recommended vendors.) Next, let your existing vendor know.
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Bound
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But how do you choose a personalization vendor that will help you get the impact you are planning for? We’ve put together a list of questions to ask your website personalization vendors to evaluate how well they fit with your strategy. Does this vendor specialize in my industry? Sure, every vendor wants to help you, but are they really built to? A good personalization vendor has both the data and the methodology to identify anonymous visitors.
Fathom
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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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They turn to their vendors for assistance. When we asked survey respondents if they would be more likely to work with a vendor who questioned their way of doing business by, for example, highlighting an organizational pain point or weakness they weren’t aware of, 65% replied, “Yes.”.
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A panel with Oracle , Salesforce.com and Marketo , where incisive questions from Chief Martech Himself Scott Brinker highlighted the different philosophies underlying each vendor’s marketing cloud and how few companies really deploy any cloud in full. - There were about seventy vendors covering an extraordinary range of functions.
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In part 3, you’ll learn how to evaluate the myriad of ABM vendors in the B2B space so you end up with the best solution that meets your needs. How to evaluate and pick the right ABM vendor for you. A successful implementation of ABM relies on a great customer-vendor fit.
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Other vendors like Nimble and HubSpot have done a better job of simplifying access to third party data about an individual or company. That would force other CRM and marketing automation vendors to follow suit, although it's hard to imagine them matching the depth of LinkedIn's data. Microsoft surprised pretty much everyone today by announcing a $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn.
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Summary: Vendor scores from our new B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool offer new proof of an old truth: there's no one best system for everyone. My reluctance to contribute to this error is the main reason I’ve carefully avoided any formal ranking of vendors over the years.
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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.
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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’ve been having way too much fun working on my new industry report.
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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. Specifically: 142 vendors remained unchanged from last year. 4 vendors changed their name, focus, or ownership.
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