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HubSpot Files for IPO: Solid Financials for a Young Company

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A comparison with the S-1 figures of Eloqua and Marketo, plus Marketo’s most recent six months, shows: - loss equal to 35% of revenue, compared with 11% for Eloqua (which was run very conservatively) and 55% for Marketo (which was highly aggressive). Marketo has made great strides in bringing it down since their S-1.

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From a Challenging Marketing Past to the Most Promising Marketing Future: Top Takeaways from the 2011 B2B Roundtable Webinars

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In February , Paul Teshima, SVP of Product Management at Eloqua, set the tone for the webinar year. Find out how: Clarifying value proposition helped one company decrease cost-per-acquisition by 66% and multiplied monthly profit four times over. This year’s B2B Lead Roundtable webinars are testament to that.

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B2B Email Benchmarks: Answers Vary Widely

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MailerMailer Email Marketing Metrics Report, 2011 I just discovered this one, and I’m impressed: it goes beyond simple reporting to analyze the impact of delivery day and time, number of links, subject line length, and personalization (some surprises here). Here is the U.S. data from the Silverpop report.

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Marketo Raises Another $50 Million: Where Does the Money Go?

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In accompanying commentary, the company also revealed its 2010 revenue was $14 million, that it expects 140% revenue growth in 2011 (meaning about $34 million), and that it has about $70 million remaining of its total $107 million raised to date. But Marketo has said that it earns back the acquisition cost in less than one year.

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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

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Price was $600 million, which is roughly in line with the 8x revenue paid for ExactTarget and Eloqua recently. Adobe was on everyone’s list of potential buyers, and Neolane was ripe for acquisition or an initial public offering. The deal is not particularly surprising.

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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

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Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. I profiled them in a February 2011 post.) The acquisition is significant on several levels. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce.com Will Leave Marketing Automation Alone. But Revenue Performance Management Might Be Another Story.

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I discussed RPM with both Eloqua and Marketo during Dreamforce. Perhaps RPM is a way for marketing automation vendors to attract Salesforce's attention as a potential strategic acquisition. There’s an element of that in Revenue Performance Management, which stakes a claim to a much larger territory than marketing automation by itself.