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David Raab
David Raab is a consultant specializing in marketing technology and analysis. Clients have included major firms in financial services, retail, communications, and other industries. His B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool provides detailed information and guidance to buyers of marketing systems. Mr. Raab has written hundreds of articles for DM Review, DM News and other industry publications. Many of these are available without charge at www.archive.raabassociatesinc.com.

Doughnuts and Pizza Slices: Analyzing Consolidation and Competition Among Software Vendors

Summary: One way to understand consolidation and competitive trends affecting marketing software is to look at systems across several dimensions: how closely they...

Do Small Businesses Need Marketing Automation?

Summary: Vendors who target small businesses include provide functions beyond traditional marketing automation. This helps business owners who need to generate revenue...

150+ Questions for Your Marketing Automation RFP

Summary: I've posted a list of nearly 200 RFP questions that I hope many people will adopt to their own needs. If it's...

True Influence’s LeadPAC Offers Pay-Per-Click Email. Think About It.

Summary: LeadPAC lets marketers pay for email responses as easily as they pay for search responses. It’s a major improvement over traditional lead...

DataMentors Offers Low-Cost Marketing Database

Summary: DataMentors has launched a low-cost marketing database product with limited functionality. It's an interesting test of what marketers really want. Marketing database software...

LeadForce1 Adds Mind Reading to Marketing Automation

Summary: LeadForce1 infers Web visitors' intent and sales stage from the contents they read. It combines this with standard B2B marketing automation features...

IBM Buys Unica: Will Acquisitions Now Shift to B2B Marketing Automation?

IBM announced this morning that it was purchasing enterprise marketing automation leader Unica for $480 million, more than double the company’s current stock market...

Genius.com Offers Free Edition: How Much Does It Lower True Cost of Entry?

Summary: Genius.com has added a free version of its system. But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing...

Day Software Acquisition Adds Some Marketing Features to Adobe, But Gaps Remain

Summary: Adobe added Web content management, digital asset management and social media features to its arsenal when it purchased Day Software last month. ...

Don’t Fix Your Marketing Process

Summary: In a constantly changing world, flexibility is more important than optimization. Marketers need people, processes and technology that allow them to react...

Marketo’s Enterprise Edition and Revenue Cycle Management: Looking Under the Hood

Summary: Marketo continues to follow its own path. Enterprise Edition adds the complex security needed by large organizations but sticks to simple campaign...

Manticore Technology Sees Expertise as Key to Success as a Demand Generation Vendor

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. The company takes a conservative approach to marketing automation, stressing...

Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

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...

HiveFire Curata Cuts the Work in Content Aggregation

Summary: HiveFire Curata makes it easy to assemble and republish content on specialized topics, attracting visitors to your company’s Web site. Here’s an irony...

LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. It's one example of how vendors are now competing to...

Privacy: Does Anybody Care?

To paraphrase HL Mencken, no one ever went broke underestimating the American public's commitment to privacy. "Quit Facebook Day" reportedly generated 31,000 account...

Using a Purchase Funnel to Measure Marketing Effectiveness: Better than Last-Click Attribution But Far From Perfect

Summary: Many vendors are now proposing to move beyond "last click" attribution to measure the impact of advertising on movement of customers through a...

Customer Worthy (The Book) Offers Methodology for Customer Experience Management

My friend and former business partner Michael Hoffman of ClientXClient recently sent a copy of his new book Customer Worthy, which explores use...

Oracle Buys Market2Lead

Oracle tersely announced today that it had purchased the intellectual assets of demand generation vendor Market2Lead. This is an excellent fit for Oracle...

Omniture Study Suggests Marketers Doubt Value of Analytics Investment

Not to beat a dead horse, but Wednesday’s eMarketer reported on yet another survey that touched on the question of why marketers don’t measure....

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