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

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Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). I’d say that reflects a lack of enterprise systems available for Adobe to purchase, more than any particular desire to target the mid-market.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

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Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. Aberdeen Group has published many studies related to marketing automation. Here's a bunch.

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

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Here’s a piece from 2009.) Sharma’s reaches a similar conclusion although he puts it in a larger context of social media (people expect to interact with a company Web site like they interact on social media), cloud, and mobile computing (marketers need content that can be presented on all types of devices).

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

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The same three vendors also added new tools to give salespeople better access to information the marketing automation system has captured about their leads. They illustrate how the role of marketing has changed from simply gathering leads and handing them to sales, to building and managing prospect relationships. Sales access.

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Demandbase Buys Web Data Collector Springbook to Expand Its Account Based Marketing Footprint Yet Again

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I’ve been writing about Demandbase since 2009, when they had already begun their climb from compiling company profiles to enhancing Web site visitor records to personalizing Web content to targeting Web display ads. Now you know better…and hopefully won’t make the same assumption about other marketing automation systems.

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B2B Email Benchmarks: Answers Vary Widely

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I found five relevant studies dating back to 2009. Taking the oldest first: Silverpop International Email Marketing Benchmark Study, 2009 This one doesn’t break out results by mailer type, so it’s probably dominated by business-to- consumer marketers. market, but the 2009 Silverpop study showed similar figures for both.

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More on Marketo Financials: Despite Past Losses, Prospects Are Bright

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million for 2009 and "triple that" ($13.5 Data I've collected over the years shows that Marketo had about 120 clients at the start of 2009, 325 at the start of 2010, and should end 2010 with about 800. My records suggest that the headcount at the start of the 2009 was around 35, so the average headcount for that year was about 52.

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