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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

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And the current frogs are all small enough that a powerful newcomer could displace them, especially if it had a natural entry point such as, oh, Google AdWords or Salesforce.com’s CRM system. It’s not yet clear which vendors will dominate the industry or what form the successful systems will take.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

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It merged in 2007 with online forms vendor AxiomFire and assumed its current name in January 2009. online chat and - telemarketing support through the CRM component. The first version of SalesFusion was released in 2003, when the company was named FirstReef. SalesFusion is now expanding its direct sales efforts.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

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The one major missing inbound marketing feature is paid search management, such as Google AdWords integration. Hubspot Marketing VP Mike Volpe said that paid search can be tracked as a source, and that clients have not requested deeper integration – apparently because they’re already happy with the AdWords interface.