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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. me-too products.

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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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14 Marketing Over Coffee Podcasts You Need To Hear

Marketing Insider Group

They also feature interviews with some of our industry’s most profound experts and influencers. 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. This marketing podcast is hosted by John J. Wall and Christopher S.

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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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Eloqua Experience 2010

LeadSloth

One of the time-saving features that is the type-ahead search: see the video tour of Eloqua 10 for details. Eloqua is also taking a lesson from Salesforce.com’s playbook by making it easier to extend Eloqua with 3rd party applications. Another new product is Eloqua Discover for Salesforce.com. That was very intuitive.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. It's also one foundation of the MadTech vision I offered last year.

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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.