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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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Some companies serving small business have indeed reached multi-million client counts (see table), but their products cost much less and are essential for basic operations.** Infusionsoft’s challenge is to convince a large fraction* small business owners that their product is also essential. million $1.6 So it's worth a look.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

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Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. Extensive pricing pressure from competing services/products at lower prices. Customer needs can shift quickly.

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Jesubi Doubles Sales Prospecting Efficiency

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The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting. Indeed, what impressed me about Jesubi was its very tight focus on prospecting productivity.

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

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Yet some other features are fairly advanced: Active Conversion can identify anonymous Web site visitors through reverse IP lookup, find contact names for those companies in JigSaw , and either send the data to Salesforce.com or let sales people access it withing Active Conversion itself.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

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Or will they simply be crushed as giants from related industries introduce their own products? Although Unica, Alterian and SmartFocus have purchased complementary products, these were extensions around the campaign management core. Salesforce.com is the big question and no one would be surprised to see them make an acquisition.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

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But the system does offer a comprehensive solution for smaller firms and, at least on the CRM side, can integrate with more powerful solutions including Salesforce.com , Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Siebel CRM On Demand. Users can build separate scoring rules for different marketing campaigns, regions, products or other entities.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

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This is a bit perplexing, since those products are at the opposite ends of the spectrum: Marketo being relatively low cost / limited functionality / easier to learn, and Eloqua being higher cost / richer functionality / takes more training. Pardot : another pretty powerful product; see my blog review from December 2008.