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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

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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B2B Marketers Are Buying Customer Data Platforms. Here's Why.

Customer Experience Matrix

I’m currently drafting a paper on use of Customer Data Platforms by B2B SaaS marketers. This means they’ve always had customer data available and thus been able to build extensive customer databases without a CDP. To build some suspense, let’s first review who else has been buying CDPs. We can skip over the first 3.8

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Sales Tool Investment

SalesIntel

Maybe your company has decided on new sales tools for the year to improve sales performance. At SalesIntel, we have years of experience connecting clients to the right sales tools to help them take their B2B sales to the next level. But first, let’s go back to the basics: What are sales tools? . What Are Sales Tools?

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Can Old Database Marketers Learn Digital Tricks?

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Database marketing and digital marketing are more different than it seems. It’s self-evident that digital marketing (mostly on the Internet, but also mobile, in-game, and eventually interactive TV) is a major change from both traditional mass media and more recent database marketing (mail, email, telemarketing, CRM).

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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

The connection is that these both support my feeling that many members of the old-line database marketing community have failed to adapt to the new world of digital marketing. Both Unica and Alterian have been exceptionally forward-thinking among marketing automation vendors in preparing for this transition.

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

Customer Experience Matrix

Real Time Personalization already exists, obviously, and will remain a separate product that can work with any marketing automation system. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend. The trick to winning these benefits is becoming a platform in the first place.

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BlueVenn Bundles Omnichannel Journey Management, Personalization, and Single Customer View

Customer Experience Matrix

market only since March 2016, although many U.S. marketers will recall its previous incarnation as SmartFocus.* The company offers what it calls an omnichannel marketing platform that builds a unified customer database, manages marketing campaigns, and generates personalized Web and email messages.