eTrigue DemandCenter is a marketing automation and channel marketing-as-a-service platform. Its key features include CRM integration, email marketing, real-time lead alerts, A/B email testing, and litmus email visualization testing.
$600
per month
ABM Essentials, powered by Marketo Engage
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
ABM Essentials, powered by Marketo Engage, is a layer of the Marketo platform that sits on top of the Marketing Automation piece and allows users to approach campaigns from the account perspective, as well as individual decision-makers within accounts. It includes features for account targeting and management, personalized cross-channel engagement, and revenue-based account analytics.
The platform is most scalable-- works for small and large companies alike. Key for most of our clients is the little to no IT support required to implement and run the platform. I would definitely explore this when looking at a marketing automation platform beyond the "batch and blast" solutions. We've yet to have an issue working with our clients' sales and/or marketing teams to implement. And most of our clients work in the platform independent of the programs we run; are able to set up acampaign, upload lists and/or pull for CRM, and run reports on their own in very short turn.
In highly concentrated markets where there are relatively few very large customers. Or, while there are many potential customers, there are a small number of large accounts that we want to reach. In those where there are many contacts or leads in key accounts that we must impact with our marketing since all those leads or contacts influence the decision. Where the opportunities are very large and the sales cycle is long and with multiple internal and external decision-makers. In this sense, it would not apply in markets where the company has a secure monopoly on customers, for example, pharmaceutical companies with an exclusive or unique product. since all potential leads would go to you anyway.
It is essentially open source, so you can do whatever you want with it. If you have the time and designated resources, you can make it do almost anything you want as far as marketing automation.
I like the community of users. It offers a chance to connect with Marketo experts even if you are the lone Marketo wolf in your organization.
The ability to utilize existing templates for marketing design helps a lot when you are just getting started --- especially if you don't have an email designer on staff.
I've never been too crazy about the reporting within DemandCenter. There is always a solution for any type of report I'm seeking, but it involves report designing (choosing data points dragging/dropping columns & rows) which is made difficult by the lack of descriptions & values for the data points. To their credit, they did release a new suite of simplified (and pretty) reports, dubbed "Marketing Effectiveness". Relegating the older, complicated (yet super-flexible) reports as "Business Analytics".
The UI will be a little unfamiliar at first. That is, where you think you should be clicking, you'll need to double-click or drag-and-drop. And I would say DemandCenter has always (and still does) have an issue with UI elements that are "windows within windows" or modal windows with scrolling. But, at least these UI components are consistent throughout the entire application - so once you're used to it, you can actually achieve some pretty impressive speeds.
One of DemandCenter's greatest features is being squished down to uselessness: Derived Data. As mentioned, I scrub our data on a regular basis, and this means filling/appending data, or extrapolating to fill missing data. DC released a feature called "Derived Data" that scours useful info from the prospect's IP address (mostly geographical info). Now, while you can create campaign & list conditions based on derived data, there is no easy way to simply extract that oh-so-valuable derived Country or State and have it map those values to the standard fields. Or at least let you export derived data. They have plans to fix this - but for now it's like dangling candy in front of a baby.
Didn't help us score accounts/ prospects any better. Scoring is relative, but it wasn't indicative of actual interest or need at the account level. When 2 people read the same email, usually means it's delegated rather than 2 people are interested.
Didn't help uncover more 'hot' accounts for our sales team through Salesforce. It generates a very marketing-team only view of accounts.
Segmentation doesn't enable us to target roles or personas differently. It provides department-level segmentation but not intra-departmental role segmentation
We have tried other systems and eTrigue is the easiest to use, easiest to train new people on, and most responsive support team we have ever experienced. They ask our input on new features they are developing, and have implemented some of our suggestions in their product rollouts. We get new features almost every month. We get live support without any cost, and they return our phone calls within an hour every time. They treat us like a true partner.
You will need to think about which users you want to have each role, and the features allowed in each role. You should watch the training videos before you get live training. It saved us several hours as they had already answered 90% of our questions.
Constant Contact offered now tracking, lead alerts. Marketo wasn't as flexible-- for example not easy to schedule campaigns in advance, to launch in the future. Also liked the interface and the DemandCenter lead alert format more than Marketo.
It allows you to focus on the accounts that are most important to your business and engage with them in a personalized way. Adding to a greater interaction through all possible channels, including email, Internet, advertisements, events, social and mobile; use the behaviors and interactions of our contacts to deliver highly personalized messages at the right time. The Analysis of measuring the impact (in addition to optimizing the results of your efforts) of ABM through key dimensions, such as pipeline generation and sales. Finally, we can take advantage of complementary solutions offered by ISVs and other Marketo LaunchPoint® partners with solutions such as predictive scoring and account enrichment, to expand Marketo ABM's capabilities.
We get the upper hand on follow-up with return visitors... not by reverse DNS lookup or pattern match but by direct cookie validation. Inside sales productivity is boosted by 33% easy with eTrigue.
The alerts and data are lightning fast, giving marketing immediate feedback on campaign data and prospects.
