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Salesforce.com Announces Site.com Web Site Management: Will Marketing Automation Features Follow?

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced the launch of Site.com , an enterprise-class Web site management system. The news didn’t seem to get much attention, perhaps because Salesforce.com itself pretty much buried it. Here’s a piece from 2009.) That’s the first Salesforce.com reference I can find to a “digital marketing platform”.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot.

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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

Customer Experience Matrix

It reinforces suspicions that Adobe was the mystery bidder for ExactTarget mentioned last month by Salesforce.com. That frankly didn’t take much insight, but I’ll brag a bit more about having pegged Adobe as needing to add marketing automation as far back as this post in 2009 and again in 2010.

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Dreamforce 2009: Engaging Effectively with Social Networks using Salesforce.com

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At this Dreamforce 2009 session led by Fernando Obregon Almazan, salesforce.com; Lorena Vales, salesforce.com; and Jonathan Hersh, salesforce.com, marketers learned about how and why companies should participate in social networking to generate brand awareness and create a viral effect when clients or prospects recommend their products.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. This breadth isn’t accompanied by tremendous depth: SalesFusion’s campaign management and built-in CRM tools are a bit limited. online chat and - telemarketing support through the CRM component.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Sales Leads Via RSS via Salesforce.com

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« Give Lead Generation Some Respect | Main | Podcast: How Trigger Events improve Lead Generation » Sales Leads Via RSS via Salesforce.com Otter Group CEO, Kathleen Gilroy , pointed me Charlie Woods, Moonwatcher Blog , and his intriguing post on the subject of distributing sales leads via RSS. " Here is his original concept.

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Genoo and Act-On Software Add Social Marketing Features

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It has made several important enhancements since my review in March 2009 , notably multi-step campaign sequences and bi-directional integration with Salesforce.com. Providing a library of standard replies to Twitter messages is not unique (see my December 2009 review of Spredfast for something similar).

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