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ICON16: How Infusionsoft Plans To Dominate Small Business Marketing (and Make Life Better For Small Businesses Everywhere)

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I spent part of last week at ICON16, Infusionsoft ’s annual combination of customer conference, revival meeting, and group therapy session for small business owners. This all makes perfect sense and is wholly consistent with Infusionsoft’s historical focus on helping small business grow. Whether it’s realistic is another question.

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Trust Me: Buyers Worry Too Much About Software Costs

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The key to that argument is that software costs are a relatively small portion of companies’ total investment in a business intelligence system. In search of that, I poked around a bit and found several references to a 2007 study from AMR Research. Looking just at what Aberdeen calls “best-in-class” companies, the figures were: 42%.software

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

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Neolane “ Making the Business Case for Enterprise Marketing Software ”. This paper contains step-by-step instructions for building a business case and even a link to a slide deck you can use as a template. Eloqua “ The Business Case for Integrated Demand Generation ” offers data from Forrester, CSO Insights and several Eloqua clients.

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Unica Strategy Stays the Course

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The one major acquisition in 2007 was Marketing Central, which provides hosted marketing resource management. Hally said Detect is now Unica’s third-best-selling product, with one to two dozen installations. This was well within Unica’s traditional scope, although the “hosted” part is a bit of a change.

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

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Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. But while this cycle is simple, the actual boundaries of business marketing are not so clearly marked. Registration is no longer required.) Leads can enter from channels other than email.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

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I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Just kidding.or Maybe next week. [I Read it here.]

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Demand Generation Systems Shift Focus to Tracking Behavior

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I originally wrote about the SAS offering, called Customer Experience Analytics, when it was launched in the UK in February 2007. I believe that marketers now recognize, perhaps only intuitively, that the amount of detailed, near-immediate information now available about individual customers substantially changes their business.