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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. LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising. billion acquisition of LinkedIn.

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Social Media Marketing Strategies for 2010

Webbiquity

Marketing Sherpa last week released its 2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark report. Among the key findings from the report: Despite the lingering economic malaise, companies across virtually all industries plan to increase budgets for social media marketing in 2010. The lessons?

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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 possible that some solutions will be based on automated customer service agents already used for other interactions. business-to-business marketing automation.

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

Webbiquity

Differentiating professional services is hard. Take an IT services business for example. And yet—each professional services business, in IT, digital marketing , accounting, or any other function, is unique. The best service providers are those that can tackle the challenging, messy, thorny projects. The Service.

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Choosing an Email Marketing Software « 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 Choosing an Email Marketing Software Who’s the best email marketing company/software? This entry was posted on Monday, January 11th, 2010 at 12:29 pm and is filed under Email Marketing.

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Activate Acquires Green Leads

Smashmouth Marketing

Someone nudged me and said, “That’s Mike Farrell, he was on our board and he’s now a co-op student and has a great job in the software industry. He tells me he’s hired her now at three companies, CIC, PC Connection and now BAO, and that she’s the best client service leader he’s ever worked with. What the hell, a tie? His lieutenant.

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The Entrepreneur Interview Series #18: Alex Wise, Netpeak Software

Webbiquity

Search engine optimization (SEO) software is a tough business segment. One such SEO tool provider, Netpeak Software, has established itself in the market by starting with simple yet highly capable tools then expanding their functionality. Here is the story of Netpeak Software and founder Alex Wise. The Company. And we did.