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Activate Acquires Green Leads

Smashmouth Marketing

2008 The two of us get married. 2009 Closed our first billion-dollar company (at higher than industry price). 2013 Moved 100% of the company to a virtual, cloud based company. Here’s the fifteen year timeline: 2007 Formed Green Leads, providing SQLs (appointments). 2011 Acquired Target 250 in London to enter the EMEA market.

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Insights from Eloqua's IPO Registration Statement

Customer Experience Matrix

Revenue increased roughly $10 million per year from 2006 through 2010, which is nothing to sneeze at although the higher base meant the percentage rate slumped significantly in 2009 and 2010, to about 25%. Client counts are reported only for 2008 through mid 2011. Operating expenses grew sharply through 2008, nearly outpacing revenue.

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2010s to now: Email design trends that survived the test of time

Litmus

Here’s a brief history of email marketing milestones over the past decade: 2009 – Responsive emails are introduced. 2013 – Google introduces tabs within Gmail. Let’s take a look at the first email she designed and developed for Experian in 2009: Source: Lily Worth. 2016 – Personalization takes over.

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

Customer Experience Matrix

Probably the most comprehensive study along these lines was Global Faces and Networked Places , released by Neilsen in March 2009. This showed that as of December 2008, search was still the most common Internet activity (used by 85.9% Zenith Optimedia pretty much agrees: its October 2008 report shows U.S. for TV and 10.2%

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How Much Money Has Been Invested In Content Marketing Technology

Marketing Insider Group

In 2014, CBinsights noted that $292M had been invested in content marketing platforms (including ours) from Q2 2013 to Q1 2014, noting that there was a 125% increase in investment money as well as a 47% bump in deal activity from the prior year. Oracle, IBM, NewsCred, Optimizely, Outbrain, Skyword, and Taboola all acquired smaller companies.

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Pleased to Beat You: The Stories Behind 5 Epic Brand Rivalries

Hubspot

Pepsi Halloween (2013). Back in 2008, the competition between these two soup companies was just heating up. The brand beef all started with the "Get a Mac" campaign from Apple that ran from 2006 to 2009 that went on to be declared the best advertising campaign of the first decade of the new century by Adweek. Source: Coloribus.

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10 User Generated Content Campaigns That Actually Worked

Hubspot

The company launched The Art of the Trench website in 2009 , where users could upload and comment on pictures of people wearing Burberry products. In 2013, Belkin and Lego collectively developed a line of customizable iPhone cases. increase in revenue between 2009 and 2010. 4) Tourism Queensland. 8) Pepsi MAX.