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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion: Get Ready for Software Vendors as Data Owners

Customer Experience Matrix

This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. Done correctly, integration of LinkedIn with Dynamics CRM could provide a major boost to that product’s utility while creating a new barrier to competition.

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Welcome to Lauren Carlson from Software Advice

Tomorrow People

She joined Software Advice in 2010, where she heads up the CRM technology blog, focusing on topics related to CRM software, with particular interest in social media and the changing virtual landscape of how we communicate. Lauren Carlson is a writer and online marketing professional in Austin, TX.

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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. What will 2010 bring? It's just a matter of time before CRM vendors (yes, I mean Salesforce.com ) and Web content management vendors decide to compete seriously for marketing automation business.

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Tech layoffs? Great companies are actively hiring marketing technology talent

chiefmartech

15 years ago, when I started this blog, most marketing roles and most technology roles — IT, software engineering — were on opposite ends of the career spectrum. A Dilbert cartoon from 2010 quipped that marketing was “just liquor and guessing.” They didn’t really understand or appreciate what the other did.

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The Entrepreneur Interview Series #22: Dustin Bruzenak, Modern Logic

Webbiquity

Year founded: 2010. My other bit of advice would be to get to know and love LinkedIn and your CRM of choice (mine is Hubspot). The Entrepreneur Interview Series #18: Alex Wise, Netpeak Software. This post is sponsored by Better Proposals. Funding rounds: Bootstrapped. Current size: 12 FTEs and growing quickly. The Inspiration.

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ClickDimensions Offers Marketing Automation as a Microsoft CRM Add-on

Customer Experience Matrix

What’s missing from the list is CRM integration. That's no accident: ClickDimensions doesn’t integrate with CRM in the regular sense of synchronizing data. Rather, it works directly from Microsoft Dynamics CRM files. In other words, ClickDimensions is a Microsoft CRM add-on. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Closed Loop Marketing Isnt Software

markempa

« Off topic: Response to meme - 8 Random Things About Me | Main | B2B Marketing and lead generation via Social networking » Closed Loop Marketing Isnt Software I recently spoke with a reader who was struggling with his closed loop marketing process. They dont update the CRM so I cant get the reports I need."