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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. intended to extend Google’s own business).

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The B2B marketing ironies of our time

Biznology

Hubspot preaches inbound marketing as a mantra, right? Turns out Hubspot’s own growth as a software company has been driven via cold calling through an inside sales team. Even Hubspot realizes that you can’t get all the B2B business you deserve using inbound marketing alone. Or tell me to shut up and talk about something else.

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

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How Everybody Wins with HubSpot’s Funding As everyone in the marketing industry surely knows by now, HubSpot raised $32 million in additional funding. Everyone Wins But it also means something else.

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14 Marketing Over Coffee Podcasts You Need To Hear

Marketing Insider Group

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. She hones in on the importance of psychology in marketing, and discusses the potential of merging Waze with Google Maps.

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The Secret History of the Google Logo

Hubspot

How many times have you seen the Google logo today? Google Logo History. 1996: First Google Logo. The search engine’s very first logo actually predates the name “Google.” The search engine’s very first logo actually predates the name “Google.” 1998: First (real) Google logo. 2015: A new logo for Google.

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Best Business Blogging Tips and Guides of 2010 (So Far), Part 2

Webbiquity

Find the answers to those questions and others here in more of the best guides to business blogging of 2010 so far. Google Analytics ) to the lesser-known (e.g., 4 Business Blogging Best Practices by HubSpot Blog. Post on Google Buzz. 10 SEO Tools Every Blogger Must Use by Daily SEO Tip. Share this on Bebo. Tweet This!

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Best LinkedIn Guides, Tips and Tactics of 2010

Webbiquity

Mark Walsh reports on company pages, another new feature added by LinkedIn in late 2010. The 9 Worst Ways to Use LinkedIn for Business by HubSpot Blog. Post on Google Buzz. Now you can provide links to your published works as part of your profile.&#. LinkedIn Launches ‘Company Pages’ by MediaPost Online Media Daily.

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