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

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. The Chatter group that Salesforce set up for Dreamforce itself struck me as a perfect example: it was filled with largely irrelevant noise that made it nearly impossible to see the useful information.

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Marketo Files for IPO: Will High Growth Outweigh High Losses?

Customer Experience Matrix

The S-1 registration statement gives considerable new information about Marketo’s business. million, an impressive 80% growth rate vs. 2011 although not quite the doubling that the company had forecast earlier. Congratulations to them for reaching this step. It’s a major accomplishment. Revenue for 2012 is reported at $58.4

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Lead Genius Adds a Dash of Artificial Intelligence to Account Based Marketing

Customer Experience Matrix

But Lead Genius was founded in 2011 to commercialize university research into combining AI with human inputs. Nearly every vendor who does this applies some form of natural language processing to extract information from unstructured sources. Lead Genius is a good example. Lead Genius does this too.

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Measuring the True Impact of Marketing Campaigns: A Conversation with Bonnie Crater

The Point

In 2011, she became President and CEO of Full Circle CRM , a company dedicated to helping VPs of Marketing use Salesforce.com to get accurate and useful performance data about marketing campaigns. That’s often because marketing and sales are using two different methods and two different databases of information.

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CallidusCloud Buys LeadFormix Marketing Automation for $9 Million Cash

Customer Experience Matrix

While its feature list covers all the usual marketing automation categories, the company's real focus was always on providing the most useful information to sales people. Callidus isn’t a sales automation system like Salesforce.com , but it does provide a range of other systems that help sales departments.

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Mintigo InterestBase Harvests Web and Social Data for Marketing and Sales

Customer Experience Matrix

Every marketer recognizes that the Web and social media could be rich sources of information about customers and prospects. Doing it yourself takes multiple tools to gather different kinds of information, and then patching the result together into personal profiles. But harvesting that data has been frustratingly difficult.

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Social Media Marketing Tools For B2B Marketers

Tomorrow People

This is the problem that we set out to solve in mid 2011. As such, social media platforms should provide you with the same level of information about your leads as Google Adwords. Most B2B companies are already using CRM applications like Salesforce.com that cover the entire sales pipeline. CRM Integration.