Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 This was a bit of a surprise, given that Eloqua just went public in August. It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. per share, which comes to $871 million.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation 120

Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2020

Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor. There’s a main stage for keynote-style presentations, expo booths where attendees can interact with vendors, breakout session areas, and one-to-one video networking. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor.

Enterprise Management 363

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Webinar Metrics 363

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 29, 2011

Summary: Eloqua's registration statement offers new and interesting details about its business. Eloqua last week filed for an initial public offering of its stock. I expected it to grow as Eloqua sold into larger accounts. So much for what Eloqua said. (Of This is where what Eloqua didn’t reveal is intriguing.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Terms and Conditions Paid Search Agency 120

InsightSquared

APRIL 12, 2018

This is what the findings were in a study done by Heinz Marketing and InsightSquared titled, Marketing Automation Platform (MAP) Satisfaction Survey 2018: Are Marketing Automation Vendors Still Meeting the Needs of Today’s Marketer? The key purpose of a MAP is to deliver personalized messaging and MAP vendors are excellent at this.

Marketing Automation Services 159

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 159

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 29, 2011

You probably saw ExactTarget ’s June 13 announcement of its strategic partnership with Marketo and Eloqua ’s June 21 announcement of its new AppCloud marketplace for connectors with other systems. But it took a little while to connect with the vendors to get the details, so I’m only now ready to write about them. So it’s all good.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

For companies like Eloqua and its competitors, there are really two big financial questions: how fast can they grow, and how can they become profitable? We looked at those in Tuesday’s post ; I’ll repeat the caveat that figures for Eloqua and HubSpot are my own estimates based largely on client growth and (for HubSpot) changes in client mix.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Vendors Comparison Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

The leaders quadrant in this sector is quite crowded, with Act-On , Eloqua , Pardot , and Marketo all jostling for position. In case you haven’t caught on to my color coding, blue type indicates that Eloqua and Neolane are leaders in the large company segment, while red type shows the others have their strongest position in this sector.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Act-On Marketing Automation Services Marketo 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

The non-specialist vendors such as IBM Unica and SAS, are not included in these figures but also have significant revenue in this segment. As before, vendors closer to the top have the most appropriate features for this segment, and those further to the right have the most similar customer base and company resources.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 120

The Point

AUGUST 24, 2010

The email below from marketing automation vendor Eloqua is part of one of those rare B2B campaigns that combines email marketing best practices with an impeccably executed creative concept. Tags: B2B Marketing Graphic Design Lead Nurturing email design email marketing eloqua Marketing Automation.

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Eloqua Creativity Marketing Automation Services Microsite 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

Naturally, the vendors showing them to me have all thought very carefully about their designs and made the best choices they could, typically based on feedback from their customers. So I thought I'd take a little scan of the demand generation systems I've looked at to see how the vendors themselves had voted.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

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's no accident.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 120

Webbiquity

AUGUST 4, 2020

Webinar features include embedded video; branding; interactive functions (polls, surveys, chat, Q&A); integration with popular CRM and marketing automation tools like HubSpot, Salesforce, Marketo, and Eloqua; and attendee analytics to help identify your most engaged sales prospects. ClickMeeting. Total reviews: 254.

Webcast 363

Webcast Webinar Metrics Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management 363

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 , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Vendors 120

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. More specifically, it’s a major acquisition by a CRM vendor, helping to fulfill everyone's favorite prophecy that marketing automation and CRM will eventually merge.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 120

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. This isn’t a new service for Radius but it’s one that only some of the other predictive modeling vendors provide.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Work Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 120

LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

To organize a user conference, a vendor needs critical mass. Of the vendors on my list of Marketing Automation vendors, only a handful have enough customers to make this happen. In May I attended Silverpop’s user conference, and the Marketo and Eloqua user conferences are coming up in October. Pardot’s Secret.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Conference Vendors 100

ANNUITAS

JULY 17, 2012

or maybe, “Why Eloqua?” Social media gives me the opportunity to be part of the conversation and share content whether it is Eloqua-branded, industry articles, or thought-leadership pieces. Various statistics state that anywhere from 30-55% of the buyer’s journey is complete before engaging with a vendor.

Eloqua 100

Eloqua Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Marketing Automation Services 100

ANNUITAS

JULY 17, 2012

or maybe, “Why Eloqua?” Social media gives me the opportunity to be part of the conversation and share content whether it is Eloqua-branded, industry articles, or thought-leadership pieces. Various statistics state that anywhere from 30-55% of the buyer’s journey is complete before engaging with a vendor.

Eloqua 100

Eloqua Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Marketing Automation Services 100

The Point

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Now, Steve happens to work in product marketing for Oracle Marketing Cloud , home of Eloqua, typically regarded as the most feature-rich (some would say: complex) marketing automation solution on the market. Here are just a few thoughts: * Vendors need to focus as much on customer success as they do on new business.

Marketing Automation Services 179

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 179

ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Marketo COULD HAVE been acquired by one of several enterprise application vendors that simply don’t get marketing. Moreover, Adobe’s product quality is world class — something that cannot be said for every software vendor that has acquired marketing automation. Adobe GETS marketing. And that’s a good thing.

Marketo 193

Marketo Acquisitions Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management 193

Webbiquity

JUNE 14, 2011

Steve Woods , Eloqua. A common issue for B2B vendors: how do you sell “boring stuff&# online? Though both Genoo and Eloqua provide marketing automation software, they fit at opposite ends of the market in terms of company size, so they rarely compete. Don’t be boring! For example, gaskets are boring. . •

DemandBase 100

DemandBase Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Work Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. It’s irresistible to compare Sales Insight with Eloqua Prospect Profiler, launched two weeks ago (see my review ), which also gives sales people access to prospect activities gathered by the marketing system. Marketo includes the anonymous visitor tracking.

Marketo 120

Marketo Work Management Eloqua Marketing Automation Services 120

ANNUITAS

JUNE 28, 2012

In our last post , we introduced a list of 9 things marketers need from marketing automation vendors and consultants. We came up with this list to help make sense of “the noise” being generated by software vendors and service providers in the space (yes, we are one of those providers). Focus – You can’t be all things to all people.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

ANNUITAS

JUNE 28, 2012

In our last post , we introduced a list of 9 things marketers need from marketing automation vendors and consultants. We came up with this list to help make sense of “the noise” being generated by software vendors and service providers in the space (yes, we are one of those providers). Focus – You can’t be all things to all people.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. For those of us who don’t get out much, that’s downright exciting. Myth busted.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Report Marketing Automation Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Even though this is limited to the vendors in the Guide, it's a pretty representative sample of the industry as a whole. Eloqua focused on making it easier to embed sharable links within conventional marketing assets.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 120

Act-On

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

eBook Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Matrix Independent analysis of top marketing automation platforms Learn More Today’s marketers crave a more complete solution. In the 2024 rankings, Act-On beats out marketing automation stalwarts including Eloqua , Marketo , and Hubspot. A further 27.8% Finally, 11.5%

Marketing Automation Services 130

Marketing Automation Services Act-On Work Management Lead Ranking 130

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 11, 2011

Our just-released update to the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Toolkit (VEST) shows that client counts grew just over 50% over the year ending in June, compared with nearly 100% growth for the year ending last December. You might think the slower rate is expected because each period starts from a larger base. Not necessarily.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Marketing Automation ActiveConversion 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Summary: A close look at which vendors have the least common features finds some are widely distributed, while others are concentrated among products for big companies. The main point, at least as I saw it, was that no single vendor dominates everything. Green cells indicate at least one vendor in the group supports an item.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. This will put substantial pricing pressure on vendors who, in many cases, are already struggling to reach sustainable margins. Other vendors – notably Pardot – have followed a similar cost-removal strategy. Here’s where the free system comes back into play.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. Vendors in the VEST are asked for estimates of their client counts by company size. For a couple of vendors, I’ve used my own estimate based on past data.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Marketing Report Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 25, 2010

Oracle tersely announced today that it had purchased the intellectual assets of demand generation vendor Market2Lead. However, a blog post by Eloqua's Joe Payne confirms that existing Market2Lead customers will remain clients of Market2Lead, while Oracle itself will be purchasing the technology itself.

Market2Lead 120

Market2Lead Buy Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2013

Raab Associates officially released the new edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday. This is our flagship report on the industry, with nearly 200 data points on 23 vendors and separate ratings for micro-business, small to mid-size companies, and enterprise marketing departments.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management Acquisitions 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

At that time, I posed a set of specific questions to the demand generation vendors in the Raab Guide. My original approach in the Guide had simply been to ask vendors whether they had a separate company table in their system. But let’s say that leaves you with a dozen vendors, and you use some gross criteria to select the top three.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Work Management Market2Lead Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. Teradata announced today that is acquiring marketing automation vendor Aprimo for a very hefty $525 million – even more than the $480 million that IBM paid for somewhat larger Unica in August.

Resource Management 120

Resource Management Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management 120