Marketing Automation (MA) Vendors That Are “Small Business Friendly” Periodically, we release a report called MarketingAutomation.com’s Top 20 List of “Small-Business-Friendly Vendors”. What is a Small-Business-Friendly Marketing Automation Vendor? Number one… Small-Business-Friendly ...

  I ran across this nice infographic on marketing automation vendors. Enjoy… © 2011 Capterra, Inc.

Many people, if given the chance to do something over again, would take it. It is almost certain that with more insight, you could have made a better, more informed decision. Using this as my premise, I decided to survey users of marketing automation software to find out what they would have changed ...

Prophet Mobile Web helps companies close more sales while on the go, regardless of mobile device operating system REDMOND, Wash. – June 28, 2011 – Avidian Technologies today announced the launch of Prophet Mobile Web, the newest extension of the company’s leading line of Microsoft Outlook-based ...

When you are looking to make a purchase – let’s say a new laptop – what do you do? Do you hop on the phone and call up Apple to get product specs and pricing information? In 1990, yes. In 2011, absolutely not. The buyer no longer relies on vendors entirely. They surf the Internet, going ...

Lead scoring is crucial step in demand generation and can greatly improve the number and quality of leads that marketing passes on to sales. But how do you go about scoring leads? Mac McConnell over at BlueBird Strategies came into the Software Advice offices to host a whiteboard session on lead scoring. ...

A 30 Day Small Business Marketing Automation Review I’m doing a review of my transition from no real marketing automation to the use of Prophet by Avidian Software. Disclaimers: I recently interviewed the CEO of Avidian and they were kind enough to donate one license to me for my review. I will ...

I’m going to give myself one month to do each/any of these reviews at which point, I’ll either stay using it or move to another. I want to make MarketingAutomation.com a place where people can see many reviews, but I also run a regular business so I face the same challenges that any company ...

We interviewed James Wong, the CEO of Avidian Technologies. Avidian has a singular focus on “Prophet”, CRM software that tightly integrates into your Outlook software. It expands the capabilities of Outlook and adds several CRM functions that are not built into the boxed software. I’ve ...

Case Study Avidian Technologies’ Prophet CRM helped the company achieve 42 percent annual revenue growth in 2010 Speck Design is a product design and development firm. It is focused on providing full turn-key service to its clients beginning with the product design phase all the way through to the ...