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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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This past year has been especially illuminating thanks to the brilliance of smart marketers who are expanding and perfecting the lead-generation concepts I wrote about years ago. This year’s B2B Lead Roundtable webinars are testament to that. He defined the tenets of the new world of marketing in Revenue Performance Management.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

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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ExactTarget Acquires Pardot: Great Exit for Pardot, Questionable Future for ExactTarget

Customer Experience Matrix

ExactTarget announced its acquisition today of mid-tier marketing automation vendor Pardot , for just under $100 million ($95.5 Looking over the published materials and listening to the investor relations conference call, it seems that ExactTarget’s motive was gaining access to Pardot’s lead nurturing and scoring capabilities.

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Marketing Automation Catching On Fire

The Effective Marketer

With time, a shake out is likely (in fact, the recent acquisition of Unica and Aprimo may point to consolidation ) and the evolution of solutions will ensure marketing automation has a place in most marketing organizations, much like CRM is now standard for sales departments. I’d be happy to fix the infographics for benefit of everyone.

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16 marketing automation platforms your organization should consider

Martech

Lead capture, nurturing and scoring models deliver high-quality leads while decreasing customer acquisition costs. Acquia made three acquisitions in 2019: Mautic (May), Cohesion (September) and AgilOne (December). Toronto-based Maropost was founded in 2011 and has more than 270 Employees. Oracle Eloqua.