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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. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

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How Everybody Wins with HubSpot's Funding « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. For Eloqua, at least, they say there’s no need to worry since HubSpot is serving a very different market.

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Email Design Review Gallery « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

Design #1 Email Sender: Marketo Email Title: Social Best Practices for Marketing in the Cloud What I Like: Clean design; date and time of the webinar on top easy to find; orange “Free Webinar&# button calls attention to the important action (register now!) Big but concise lead-in. Big lead-in helps keep users reading.

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Marketing Automation Trends for 2010

LeadSloth

In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010. Manager, Inbound Marketing, Marketo. Steve Woods , CTO, Eloqua. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep. In 2010 you’ll start to hear about marketing methods. predictions.

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts October 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) , October 5, 2010 While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. How do you PROVE the value of Twitter? in the 1960s. Don’t spam!

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Marketing Automation Catching On Fire

The Effective Marketer

That points to the evolving nature of the market, and the key functions of lead nurturing, scoring, and automated triggers becoming part of email marketing and other marketing solutions. Note: I used publicly available data and wasn’t able to find Eloqua’s Series A, so I deducted based on valuation of their second round.

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Video Email Marketing: How to Use Embedded Video to Boost Sends

Vidyard

Marketo Increased Click-Throughs 144% with Personalized Videos in Email 8.2 Video is a complement to email, a value-add add-on that viewers love. You can use that data to personalize future emails , score the lead, or alert a sales rep. 10 Video in Email Best Practices 7.1 Use the Word ‘Video’ in the Subject Line 7.2