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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. Yet something really bothered me about yesterday’s announcement.

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Highlights from the 2010 Dreamforce Keynote: The Cloud Computing Event of the Year

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Salesforce.com consumes 90% less energy than traditional software. Marc reminded us of the great work Salesforce foundation has done with $20 million in grants, 9,500 non-profit organizations using Salesforce.com, and 225,000 hours of community service from their empoyees. 2010 product of the year from ReadWriteWeb and eWeek.

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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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How HubSpot Rocked 2011: A Year in Review

Hubspot

We recently released HubSpot's 2011 Year in Review slide deck , filled with interesting insights into HubSpot's growth and milestones as a business over the past year. We wanted to share some of the milestones we and our customers have achieved in 2011 and give you a peek at the slide presentation, too. million leads in 2011.

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‘Social’ and RPM are Closely Linked In Driving Outsized Revenue Performance

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

million, an increase of 61 percent from the same quarter of 2010. In the same time period, LinkedIn’s revenue was $121 million, an increase of 120 percent from a year ago (Source: LinkedIn August 4, 2011 second quarter earnings release , its first as a public company). Dreamforce 2011 Heralds the “Social Enterprise”™.

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B2B data decay and list rental – buyer beware!

Biznology

In 2009, we updated our original 2002 study on B2B Data Decay that has been cited by Dun & Bradstreet, Zoom, Jigsaw (now part of Salesforce.com) and others. Premier Global Services changed name to PGI in 2010, plus the location provided was a regional office and showed revenue of $66MM. The VP of Global IT was shown as Brian S.

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Turning Web Site Visitors into Paying Customers

Online Marketing Institute

Applications such as Salesforce.com already let sales staff keep track of existing customers or potential customers, but Demandbase Stream falls into a newer category of tools designed to help them find new customers in the first place. Last week, his company released a tool, called Demandbase Stream, that aims to answer this question.