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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation.

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14 Marketing Over Coffee Podcasts You Need To Hear

Marketing Insider Group

According to their site, Marketing Over Coffee is “audio on demand” that covers both classic and new marketing. So John pulled a stunt that caught his attention and set up an interview with him in 2010 and has been able to talk with him about each of his books since then. What is Marketing Over Coffee?

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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. This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. It’s selling to small and mid-size companies and business-to-business marketers, who are just dipping their toes into marketing automation.

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 The deal makes obvious sense, in that it gives Oracle a much stronger position in the fast-growing B2B marketing automation industry*. per share, which comes to $871 million. The stock had been hovering around $17.50

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. The same three vendors also added new tools to give salespeople better access to information the marketing automation system has captured about their leads. But enhanced reporting was the most common improvement of all.

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MakesBridge Offers Powerful Features to Small Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: MakesBridge offers a full set of marketing automation features with some special strengths that will appeal especially to small companies. I’ve previously reviewed Genoo , which supplements the standard marketing automation features with Web hosting and built-in CRM but no shopping cart. MakesBridge is another contender.

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ClickDimensions Offers Marketing Automation as a Microsoft CRM Add-on

Customer Experience Matrix

Now that I’m more or less finished launching the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) , I can start catching up on the other topics. ClickDimensions does pretty much the standard marketing automation activities: email, landing pages, Web visitor tracking, drip marketing campaigns, and lead scoring. But I digress.